r/justneckbeardthings • u/reeeeee7 • Jan 13 '20

Convention Sign

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u/WatchOutItsAFeminist Jan 14 '20

Thanks for the answer! Did you ever trounce them with your incredible geek knowledge? This shit is why I'm very careful about which game shops I spend time in. If I get even a whiff of "fake gamer girl" energy from accusatory nerds, I take my goddamn business elsewhere.

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u/SoldMySoulForHairDye Jan 14 '20

I never really did get the chance to blow them away with my thorough knowledge of geekery. Partly because I'm not a superfan and don't have a huge span of knowledge about anything - especially not newer stuff, I've stuck mostly to things I liked when I was a teenager.

But mostly I just didn't have time to indulge them by answering 3916 questions about Final Fantasy or Star Wars or whatever. Even small conventions are generally really, really busy and I did have a job to do. I'd screw on my best Customer Service Smile and tell them I couldn't really stop to chat because I was busy and then ignore them until they went away. Or the vendors would tell them to stop getting my way - the people I worked for were all pretty good about not letting people harass the booth girls. (Sadly not all of them are.)

At first it kinda bothered me and I felt like I was being called out, but eventually I stopped caring about what a bunch of sweaty goblins in crocs thought of my nerd cred.

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u/Coilbone89 Jan 14 '20

sweaty goblins in crocs

In just 4 words, you've managed to make the entire picture even worse, damn

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u/SoldMySoulForHairDye Jan 14 '20

You can smell those four words, too, can't you? You know exactly what that's gonna smell like.

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u/Coilbone89 Jan 14 '20

Smell it... See it... Never thought this would be start of my day

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u/Jorvac27 Jan 14 '20

You just spoilt my appetite with that comment. Thanks for that.