By: Heidi MacDonald,
on 4/13/2016
Andrew Hussie’s Homestuck has been one of the most successful webcomics of the last decade, with thousands of ardent readers, cosplayers and fanatics, and, oh yeah, a $2.4 million Kickstarter for a companion game. The game, called Hivewarp, has been in development since then, however, and has yet to appear. The webcomic, which is highly […]
By: Heidi MacDonald,
on 7/30/2012
§ You’re going to find this hard to believe, but last week there was a bit of a kerfuffle about gender issues and nerdworld. Inconceivable!
It began with an ill-advised essay on GeekOut called Booth babes need not apply which really wasn’t about booth babes so much as general disapproval of attractive women being genre fans.
What I’m talking about is the girls who have no interest or history in gaming taking nearly naked photos of themselves with game controllers draped all over their body just to play at being a “model.” I get sick of wannabes who couldn’t make it as car show eye candy slapping on a Batman shirt and strutting around comic book conventions instead. I’m talking about an attention addict trying to satisfy her ego and feel pretty by infiltrating a community to seek the attention of guys she wouldn’t give the time of day on the street.
Editor’s note: When he’s not teaching the Internet how to fist-fight, why being weird is awesome or how to self-publish your own books, Joe Peacock tours the world, showing his extensive “Akira” art collection. He also cosplays as a six-foot-two-inch, 310lb Powerpuff Girl to fill the hollow pit that is his need for the wrong kinds of attention.
And no, you can’t object (well, you can, but you’ll be summarily overruled). You made the decision based on your life experience as a geek that you could tell other people who is welcome as a geek and who is not. Based on my life experience as a geek, I have made the decision that I am qualified to tell you to suck eggs. You want to slap down people who you don’t feel qualify for geekdom? Then I get to slap you down for being wrong, on the basis of being higher up in the geek hierarchy. You don’t like it? Then you shouldn’t have played this game to begin with. You played your cards, and I now I’ve played mine. This round goes to me. I have the conch. And now I will speak.
Lamarr wanted to join the National Inventors Council, but was reportedly told by NIC member Charles F. Kettering and others that she could better help the war effort by using her celebrity status to sell War Bonds.
§ Speaking of unlikely nerds and webisodes,
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Hiveswap, not Hivewarp.
I’m kind of surprised at the assertion that this is not something that “grown ups” can get into. I know there’s a pretty big (and vocal) teen fanbase, but most of the fans that I regularly interact with in real life or online are in the 20-30 age range (I’m 25 myself), the subject matter of the comic deals with plenty of adult themes, and most of the references are based on adventure games and early 90’s nostalgia that most teens would have been born too late for. It’s fine if you weren’t able to get into it, but don’t turn it into a condescending age thing.
Also, the game is called “Hiveswap”.
MV – I think you read more condescension into Heidi’s comment, then intended. It’s not about not getting into Homestuck – it’s about literally not understanding it. I’m 33 and that’s the way I feel about it. Homestuck is one of those things that makes me feel old. And though there may be plenty of 35 year old Homestuck fans, that doesn’t change the fact the the Homestuck phenomena makes me feel old.