So, Wednesday’s comic about “freaking the Mundanes” has sparked a discussion in the forums - namely, does it give geeks a bad name? (Or, you know, a worse one…) Check it out here!
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Danielle Says:
We need some people to push the norms a bit so that the rest of us don’t seem so wierd. “Hey, we’re the normal geeks!” Lol!
kelsadelphi Says:
I think you totally get bonus points for playing Ice Towers! I was introduced to all those loverly pyramids by way of “Zendo” although most people aren’t up to that intellectual challenge, but I love to see it when people pull out the old “Ice House” pieces (although they are now officially “Tree House” pieces, but whatever).
nupanick Says:
This may get points for being the first webcomic to reference icehouse (that wasn’t made by the inventor of the pyramids, Andy Looney, who actually did a short comic called Iceland where most of the main characters were pyramids).
I like icetowers and zendo, have you heard about Andy’s invention Zarc City? He says that Zarc City is to Zarcana what Icetowers is to Icehouse: a simplification that’s easier to learn and faster to play.
I have my own games bag (an old skychiefs lunchbox, although I don’t see their games much) and I usually carry at least one stash of pyramids. I don’t often chance to run into people who’ve played Icehouse before, so I usually call them “the pyramids.” It bugs me when people call them “triangles” because I care too much about math and geometry.
Verbosity aside, I got here because I was linked from the Icehouse mailing list, so dibs to whoever thought it was worth mentioning in the same context as D&D.
Mathias Says:
Well, there really isn’t a way to not freak norms out. Anything we do is seen as……. weird (I guess).
Love the comic!
Wes Says:
Freaking the mundanes is going to happen. We’re geeks, a socially abnormal group by definition. Do what you will, accept that some people will freak, and laugh at them when it happens.
LordKnyght Says:
Freakin the Muns is part of our heritage as geeks. We are not “normal”, whatever that is in this world. So anything we do that they don’t understand is going to make them whimper. Want a perfect example? Take the most normal person you know, take them to a convention and go to the bathroom for a few minutes. See how fast they either break down or leave.
FatesMerrySister Says:
I just discovered and caught up on your comic last week. Brava!
The boy-geeks are mostly harmless. Most of my boys are big manimals and I’ve noticed people shy away from them more for their size than for their [endearing] quirks.
This picnic would be a lot more fun in real life if I weren’t the only girl-geek, as such I’m far scarier to mundanes than my pet boys. Which is funny because I’m far better behaved.
Now, dear comic-creator, where do I find girl-geeks for my pet boys? And more importantly, for myself so that I’m not the only scary one in my preferred crowd?
Sourceress Says:
You’re not the only one. Unfortunately for your boys, I’m already taken
(by a fellow geek, of course - we met gaming at his house with a group of people). However, despair not! There are plenty of other female geeks out there. Go to a sf con sometime and you’ll see what I mean.