The problem with going TOO old school…
So…the past few years, it’s hard not to notice that the whole “geek” thing is in.
Well…at least more accepted.
Back in my day (yes…I feel old dammit) we never openly advertised that we were geeks. Hell…the concept of “geek” was different then. Nowadays, being a geek is a source of pride. But…it seems ANYONE who uses a computer and plays Grand Theft Auto is a geek…. But really…a true geek doesn’t fail science class or math class. Sure a geek played alot of video games but he also programmed and memorized countless tables for D&D and did other things man. We were keeping it real!
*ahem*
But now, just look at the t-shirts. Geek this and video game that. Why is it that I see more original Nintedo shirts NOW than I ever did before? Well…simply because if I ever wore a Metroid shirt or a Zelda shirt to HS, I would have been a laughing stock… Ahh…youth.
But anyway, I’m just rambling here.
I just couldn’t bring myself to wear any of those shirts. Sure I enjoyed Metroid and Zelda and Ninja Gaiden and Mario 1, 2, & 3 along with Castlevania and such. But really….does that make me cool? No. And as you may have noticed by now…for some reason, I just can’t bring myself to embrace this geek culture thing.
However, when I saw a particular shirt, it drew me in. “This,” I said to myself, “is a geek shirt that I can wear!!! Screw these kids thinking Nintendo is ‘old school’. THIS is fucking OLD SCHOOL!!!”.
Behold, the “Nethack shirt”.
http://www.nonzerochance.com/index.php?p=buypage&design=nethackroom&style=kshirt
Now, at this point, some of you may be going, “What the hell is a Nethack??”
And that is my point.
I think I went TOO old school…
Alas, I wore it to work and sure enough, I saw a Metroid shirt and a Pacman shirt, and even one that said something like “Leave me alone or I will replace you with a very small shell script”…though I’m not sure if the wearer really knew what a “shell script” was…..but NONE of them knew what the hell I was wearing.
I work at a computer company.
I work with geeks.
But only TWO guys really knew what my shirt was about. Only TWO. *sigh*… The rest of the kiddies just went “huh…yeah….but….isn’t it like Diablo??”
NO DAMMIT. Diablo was like THIS!!
I went too far back I think.
If I wore a Karateka or an original Escape from Castle Wolfenstein shirt I might have gotten some respect. But instead they just looked at it like “huh…an @ sign huh?”
*sigh*
PLEASE tell me some of you readers have heard of Nethack??? Please??? (other than the few that I know already know…)
