The Energon Pub

upther wrote:The yutes of today have no understanding of classic films.

sorry i heard that movie before but didn't really watch it... i was born with the starwars, predator,aliens terminator stuff...

Hey, "loser" in the traditional sense took "nerd..geek...all those old labels associated with us" and turned into something of a more... uh cool status.
I collected transformers and other action figures (mostly transformers though) throughout high school, college, and six years of Marine corps infantry only to end up with a badass job, beautiful wife, and a wonderful little girl who all share the same love and enthusiasm for the same things that used to qualify people like us for loneliness and ridicule.
So, why worry about it, look at the numbers, even if it was a bad thing to love what we do, we are the majority now anyway.

sparesoul wrote:Hey, "loser" in the traditional sense took "nerd..geek...all those old labels associated with us" and turned into something of a more... uh cool status.
I collected transformers and other action figures (mostly transformers though) throughout high school, college, and six years of Marine corps infantry only to end up with a badass job, beautiful wife, and a wonderful little girl who all share the same love and enthusiasm for the same things that used to qualify people like us for loneliness and ridicule.
So, why worry about it, look at the numbers, even if it was a bad thing to love what we do, we are the majority now anyway.

yeah... being in the marine corps does make you a tough guy if ever i'll be called a geek or nerd for the first time i might laugh i donnt know... lol! i just don't want them asking me what am i going to do with "them" with a sarcastic accent on the word "them"...

Hey, what's worse than a girl geek into Star Wars and Transformers...and worse


TOYS!!

I'm a senior in high school too.

So.

I'm fine with what I do and what my interests are. I love toys, and I'm gonna make my future family love 'em too.

I consider myself a geek, but a geek in disguise.

DJDrew&ScoobyDoo wrote:

GetterDragun wrote:Just make sure this guy isn't on line behind you when buying TFs:

Hee Hee Hee

Didn' the get turned into a nerd in Revenge of the Nerds III: Nerds in paradise?

Oh, how the mighty have fallen...

NERDS! NERDS! NERDS!

Yeah that's Ogre. He did turn into a nerd at the end of II, cause his jock buddies left him marooned with all the 'nerds' who ended up being more loyal to him.

I believe everyone has nerdish and geekish tendencies, and some cool tendencies too. It's all about your attitude, and confidence. Nerds and geeks tend to be thought of as those who are weak, and meek, with no guts, and no confidence, who let others prey on them for whatever reasons.

Well I think they're just jealous they aren't connected to their inner child. Me, I feel like I'm freekin' 12 again! LOL!

tigertracks 24 says,

I believe everyone has nerdish and geekish tendencies, and some cool tendencies too. It's all about your attitude, and confidence. Nerds and geeks tend to be thought of as those who are weak, and meek, with no guts, and no confidence, who let others prey on them for whatever reasons.

Very true. One just has to stand up for one's self.

the main reason i collect movie themed action figure is because when i was a kid i never really had a chance to get decent toys except for vintage g.i. joe shadowstorm... and i mostly collect toys from movies that i really love and fortunately transformers is one of them yup! i am one of the pro-tf movie guys i find the movie great... and i am not blaming bay for doing it...

softimus_prime wrote:vintage g.i. joe shadowstorm...

Stormshadow, but you you were close!

tigertracks 24 wrote:

DJDrew&ScoobyDoo wrote:

GetterDragun wrote:Just make sure this guy isn't on line behind you when buying TFs:

Hee Hee Hee

Didn' the get turned into a nerd in Revenge of the Nerds III: Nerds in paradise?

Oh, how the mighty have fallen...

NERDS! NERDS! NERDS!

Yeah that's Ogre. He did turn into a nerd at the end of II, cause his jock buddies left him marooned with all the 'nerds' who ended up being more loyal to him.

I believe everyone has nerdish and geekish tendencies, and some cool tendencies too. It's all about your attitude, and confidence. Nerds and geeks tend to be thought of as those who are weak, and meek, with no guts, and no confidence, who let others prey on them for whatever reasons.

You're so cool.

If we ever get up to Michagan in the next year or two, we're definately taking you and your wife out to dinner.

upther wrote:

lanzajr26 wrote:

craggy wrote:

lanzajr26 wrote:Were you a geek or a nerd before you started collecting action figures? Have a collection doesn't automatically make you a geek. Besides, from what I've seen lately it's cool to be a geek. Who did Megan Fox end up with at the end of the movie, hmmm?

how much did Megan Fox get paid for that?

Dude you're putting way too much thought into this. But Megan is a big comic book fan, she is quite fond of Michael Turner's work. That's pretty hot and geeky in my book.

Well, guess we know now that Ms. Fox doesn't have a foot fetish.

LOL nice! I take it you're familiar with the Newsarama boards then

tigertracks 24 wrote:

softimus_prime wrote:vintage g.i. joe shadowstorm...

Stormshadow, but you you were close!

really?! you got to be kidding me!!! i mean wow im really not good in names all i know is it is a ninja guy... lol!!

softimus_prime wrote:

GetterDragun wrote:Just make sure this guy isn't on line behind you when buying TFs:

lol!! who the heck isn that guy?!!

His real name is Donald Gibb. Also in Bloodsport with Jean Claude Van Damme. He was pretty much the #1 meat head in many 80's movies. Some of you youngins probably never saw "The Goonies" either.

He's not in that movie, but still ... boy am I getting old.

AlienQuiksilver wrote:

softimus_prime wrote:

GetterDragun wrote:Just make sure this guy isn't on line behind you when buying TFs:

lol!! who the heck isn that guy?!!

His real name is Donald Gibb. Also in Bloodsport with Jean Claude Van Damme. He was pretty much the #1 meat head in many 80's movies. Some of you youngins probably never saw "The Goonies" either.

He's not in that movie, but still ... boy am I getting old.

oh i know him now the guy who got beat up by chong-li!!!

and i also saw goonies too but i started it on the middle part only...

Counterpunch wrote:You're so cool.

If we ever get up to Michagan in the next year or two, we're definately taking you and your wife out to dinner.

Case in point, Counterpunch, collects toys, but has this aura that everyone just thinks he is so cool, and bad@$$...

That'd be awesome!

softimus_prime wrote:

AlienQuiksilver wrote:

softimus_prime wrote:

GetterDragun wrote:Just make sure this guy isn't on line behind you when buying TFs:

lol!! who the heck isn that guy?!!

His real name is Donald Gibb. Also in Bloodsport with Jean Claude Van Damme. He was pretty much the #1 meat head in many 80's movies. Some of you youngins probably never saw "The Goonies" either.

He's not in that movie, but still ... boy am I getting old.

oh i know him now the guy who got beat up by chong-li!!!

Yup, good old Ray Jackson!

lanzajr26 wrote:

upther wrote:

lanzajr26 wrote:

craggy wrote:

lanzajr26 wrote:Were you a geek or a nerd before you started collecting action figures? Have a collection doesn't automatically make you a geek. Besides, from what I've seen lately it's cool to be a geek. Who did Megan Fox end up with at the end of the movie, hmmm?

how much did Megan Fox get paid for that?

Dude you're putting way too much thought into this. But Megan is a big comic book fan, she is quite fond of Michael Turner's work. That's pretty hot and geeky in my book.

Well, guess we know now that Ms. Fox doesn't have a foot fetish.

LOL nice! I take it you're familiar with the Newsarama boards then

I know of them but don't post on them because I find most of the people there annoying. I stick to IGN Comics. I am definately familiar with Turners inability to draw feet though.

AlienQuiksilver wrote:

softimus_prime wrote:

AlienQuiksilver wrote:

softimus_prime wrote:

GetterDragun wrote:Just make sure this guy isn't on line behind you when buying TFs:

lol!! who the heck isn that guy?!!

His real name is Donald Gibb. Also in Bloodsport with Jean Claude Van Damme. He was pretty much the #1 meat head in many 80's movies. Some of you youngins probably never saw "The Goonies" either.

He's not in that movie, but still ... boy am I getting old.

oh i know him now the guy who got beat up by chong-li!!!

Yup, good old Ray Jackson!

wow you're eally good at name i just happen to remember chong-li and mr.ducks i mean dukes lol!!

I know what you mean. I'm an artist/musician, play in a rock/metal band, have lots of tattoos, etc. But if I bring someone new to my house they're usually really surprised I have 'toys' on display i.e. TF's. I've found when people go, "do you really PLAY with them?" I just go, "they're kind of more like really cool looking puzzle boxes."

If you've got an expendable one that you don't really care about, (the new DreadWing one is a great example, he's awful) I'll give it to em to play with, and about 7 out of 10 times the person will actually end up 'playing' with them for about 20-30 minutes themselves, lol.

I think some of it is moderation though. If you're a 30 year old man with Transformer bedsheets and pillowcases and a collection of 3000 Transformers that's taken over your house, even I would kind of think that was a little bizarre.

But to each thier own. They're cool, fun to transform, and who cares what other people think anyway.

Insomniac_Malik wrote:I know what you mean. I'm an artist/musician, play in a rock/metal band, have lots of tattoos, etc. But if I bring someone new to my house they're usually really surprised I have 'toys' on display i.e. TF's. I've found when people go, "do you really PLAY with them?" I just go, "they're kind of more like really cool looking puzzle boxes."

If you've got an expendable one that you don't really care about, (the new DreadWing one is a great example, he's awful) I'll give it to em to play with, and about 7 out of 10 times the person will actually end up 'playing' with them for about 20-30 minutes themselves, lol.

I think some of it is moderation though. If you're a 30 year old man with Transformer bedsheets and pillowcases and a collection of 3000 Transformers that's taken over your house, even I would kind of think that was a little bizarre.

But to each thier own. They're cool, fun to transform, and who cares what other people think anyway.

we're almost exactly the same... but i dont have tatoos and cant play any instruments wish i can but i do love rock music! lol!

I am a geek, gotta problem with that?

Who cares of what other people think of who you are? One should be proud of what they collect.

PorQPine wrote:I am a geek, gotta problem with that?

lol! nice smiley there..

Anyone who claims to have a "Label" is a complete retard.

I'm a guy who hates Emos, even the ones who don't shut the hell up about being emo.

I also hate people who say they're otakus... "LMAO, OMFG im so otaku, i watch naruto, heres mi gaia avatar, mcr are soooooo the best band evar!!!"

Not only are they not Otaku (requirements to be Otaku: Male, Japanese, Virgin, never showers, collect perverse figurines, manga, and anime.)
These kids aren't Otakus, they're Weeaboos...

There's also people who CLAIM to be nerds, like its a social status you want to be, They claim to be Spider-man freaks yet do no know who Red Venom and Black Carnage are, think the Spider-man movies are too the very comic books, and think that Peter Parker doing emo-jazz stuff is awesome.

The Time Traveller wrote:Anyone who claims to have a "Label" is a complete retard.

I'm a guy who hates Emos, even the ones who don't shut the hell up about being emo.

I also hate people who say they're otakus... "LMAO, OMFG im so otaku, i watch naruto, heres mi gaia avatar, mcr are soooooo the best band evar!!!"

Not only are they not Otaku (requirements to be Otaku: Male, Japanese, Virgin, never showers, collect perverse figurines, manga, and anime.)
These kids aren't Otakus, they're Weeaboos...

There's also people who CLAIM to be nerds, like its a social status you want to be, They claim to be Spider-man freaks yet do no know who Red Venom and Black Carnage are, think the Spider-man movies are too the very comic books, and think that Peter Parker doing emo-jazz stuff is awesome.

oh... i dont know about the otaku thing but i think every human in the world is geek or nerd in a way that each individual have an expertise or fully wide knowledge on a certain thing... that my friend is a natural way of being a geek or nerd i guess...