... okay, my life isn't really all that bad

[jazzfish]

A commenter over at Scalzi's place: "As an overweight, thirty-something geek I wouldn’t be caught dead at the new TRON because I like having a girlfriend."

My immediate thought: "Seriously, dude? Both of mine are pretty excited about it."

Comments

[darkfyre-muse.livejournal.com]

This is why I married a geek. He complements my geek behavior well and is amused rather than appalled when I fail to meet social norms.

[darkfyre-muse.livejournal.com]

Oh yea and geeks are sexy.

[jazzfish]

+1 for using "complement" properly.

And, yeah, pretty much. :)

[merseine0613.livejournal.com]

That was so sad - if you can't be yourself - your true self - around your girlfriend, then why be around her at all?

[jazzfish]

That was kinda my thought too. Then I remembered that I took a look through the "Women In Gaming" forums on BoardGameGeek last night, and, yeah, not just some but an awful lot of people are troglodytes about things like this, and assume that women are these aliens that you have to pretend to be "Normal" if you want to be around them.

Feh.

[jadelennox]

I made my boy get a copy of old TRON for me last night, and he laughed at me. But he did it anyway.

Although I will admit I don't have a girlfriend!

[jazzfish]

All this discussion has seized me with a strong urge to sit down and watch TRON again, for the first time in a few years. And possibly the two hours of "making of" as well. I doubt I'll be able to fend that off for more than a few nights.

Although I will admit I don't have a girlfriend!

Pseudonymous Commenter even tried to warn you about that, but did you listen?

[mikailborg.livejournal.com]

Same here. Starr is insisting we make the pilgrimage to an IMAX 3D theater to see it, and after we showed Celia the original TRON last night, she signed right up for the trip.

[jazzfish]

Excellent.

I'm quite happy to hear that someone who'd never seen the original before liked it. I think I've said before that it's something I don't think I can judge at all as to whether anyone else will like: it's part of my history, and I can't tell whether it's got any aesthetic merit or not.

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

Someone is stuck in the nineties, it seems, not the eighties.

[jazzfish]

Possibly the seventies. The EIGHTEEN-seventies.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

I'm also an overweight thirty-something geek, and I also like having a girlfriend, and a wife.

I haven't talked about this with the girlfriend, but the wife is far more interested in TRON than I am. She may drag me there.

[jazzfish]

Thing is, I doubt I'd be all this psyched about it, except for how I watched it OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN on VHS. Except for the first five minutes or so, because when Dad set up the VCR to tape it off the Disney Channel (on a whim; I don't think he had any idea what he was going to be in for) the clock was a little slow.

[kdsorceress.livejournal.com]

And as an attractive, androphilic¹, twenty-something female geek, I wouldn't be caught dead talking to someone who's so obsessed with how he appears to the world that he refuses to acknowledge that there is such a thing as girls who like geeks.

Blarg. Unhappy Sor is unhappy. (And I haven't even seen the original Tron yet, yes I know, I'm awful)

~Sor

1: Androphile, person who likes men. Compare to Gynophile. May be spelled slightly wrong.

[merseine0613.livejournal.com]

Not awful, just ignorant. Ignorance can be cured. Stupidity can't - and you are NOT stupid! (as proved by the above statement of what you wouldn't be caught dead talking to)

[jazzfish]

I /knew/ I liked you. (He seems like such a Nice Guy, too...)

The original is something that I can't really recommend to people: not because it's bad, but just because I literally can't tell whether it's good or not. I've known other people to be this way about, say, the Disney Robin Hood. I think it's fantastic; I also think that I may not be capable of seeing its flaws.

(An excellent word. And your spelling seems fine to me.)

[sorcyress]

Disney Robin Hood is seriously like the Best Disney Movie Ever. I love that one!

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't be caught dead talking, myself.

I think that would just be creepy. I mean, shambling around looking for brains dead is creepy enough. Talking would be worse.

[jpenamelist.livejournal.com]

wow- us geek girls are out there....i'm all excited because i may get to go see the new tron a couple times- with the husband, the boyfriend, and the girlfriend :) poly geek-ness ftw!

[jazzfish]

Awesome. That's pretty much the definition of "win," right there.