alt Hacker NewsBut Nerd-dom was always merged with fantasy and sci-fi?
Star Trek, Star Wars, Dune, LOTR, Asimov, Clarke, Hobbes, are all nerd-dom mainstays, like D&D.
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m_fayer • yesterday at 1:03 PM
Fandom-as-identity was a niche thing even within nerddom until quite recently.
Also a lot of those properties had a lot of substance there decades ago and have since been watered down and turned into memeable cliches.
Back in those times we made a distinction between nerds and geeks, with geeks really being a sort of subset of nerds that was just interested in the technicals.