• SlimeKnight@lemm.eeEnglish
    108·
    1 month ago

    Girls are nerds too. They won’t admit it if you make it dangerous to do so. Like say, gatekeeping, calling them not true fans, pretending they don’t exist and leaving passive aggressive remarks when someone shares a story involving one.

  • magnetosphere@fedia.io
    71·
    1 month ago

    I’ll go along with it because, as a former middle schooler myself, I know that middle schoolers are insane and capable of anything.

    Add hormones to the mix, and forget it. I don’t know how any of us survived.

    • flicker@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      1 month ago

      I’m convinced half the reason school exists is to isolate the poor monsters for the better part of the day, so society can try and function.

    • flicker@lemmy.worldEnglish
      20·
      1 month ago

      I 100% believe it could happen.

      You see, I, too, was once an awkward nerdy middle school girl and the go-to move for showing a guy you liked him was to get way into one of his hobbies.

      • Bread@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        10·
        1 month ago

        Agreed. My ex learned how write software for the ti-84 calculator because I was REALLY into it. Girl found her way in. Smart lady, I miss her sometimes.

        • toynbee@lemmy.worldEnglish
          15·
          1 month ago

          I heard this story from a third party, so I can’t prove it’s true, but supposedly the head of IT security at a previous job met his wife when she compromised his home network to get his attention.

  • confusedbytheBasics@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    1 month ago

    When I was in highschool I had a girl go on and on about how much she loved Star Wars. I was into Star Trek and thought she was trying to annoy me. After graduation I he friends told me she was into me and wanted to hang out.

    I had a different girl ask me to teach her D&D. I invited her and one of my friendliest players over and proceeded to run a simple session. She didn’t seem to want to learn the rules but kept asking me questions and listening to me intently. She basically ignored the other player. I finished that session super confused. Later she asked me to come to her house to see her new bikini top and it all clicked.

  • xan1242@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    9·
    1 month ago

    If it’s true, that’s pretty sweet.

    I’ve seen girls at locals too so it’s not entirely impossible.

    It’s just uncommon, much like anything else. Especially so for Yu-Gi-Oh because it’s simply not as popular as it used to be (especially when compared to Pokemon or Magic).

    • Starayo@lemm.eeEnglish
      9·
      1 month ago

      I’ve known plenty of girls that play pokemon TCG and MTG, yugioh not as popular in my area. They’re just not as visible about it because guys get fucking weird about it.

      I’m thankful I had younger sisters so I (apart from a bit of the usual teenage awkwardness) didn’t get creepy about the opposite sex.

    • theangryseal@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 month ago

      And just to throw this out here, for fun.

      My ex and I had so much shit in common it was unreal. We were both miserable and living in hell.

      My wife and I have very little in common and we get along swimmingly. It’s actually crazy how much we get along.

      She laughs at my nerdy interests and can’t relate to them at all, but she admires the things about me that she can’t relate to and I am the same with her.

      Our egos don’t get in the way of anything between us. We don’t bump heads about common interests because we don’t have a pile of them. We’ve actually been able to show each other things we wouldn’t have encountered without each other over this last decade (roughly).

      We aren’t exactly opposites because we share political and religious (or lack thereof rather) views. We don’t have many common interests though.

      Sometimes I wish I could make her understand this or that about me, and she feels the same way. We make it though.

      Based on my experience with my ex, if I found myself single and I met a woman with too many of my interests, I’d run.

    • Stamets@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      33·
      1 month ago

      They still added more content and something more interesting than a pessimistic dismissive comment.

      I do not understand this type of shit. Just… get on with your life. Is it so empty that you need to focus on negative things and complain about them?

      Edit: For the clarification needed, @seeyouatthepartyrichter initially said the typical “this 100% happened” thing.

      Then they doubled down and said anyone who believed this type of stuff was a fool expecting ‘reality to match their delusion’. They then insisted they weren’t going to read anything posted and kept shrieking at the top of their lungs like a 5 year old child.

        • Stamets@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          19·
          1 month ago

          Well, there’s a couple of flaws with your conclusion.

          The first is that I didn’t say whether or not I believed it. That is irrelevant to the situation which is your own behavior.

          The second point is that being entertained by something does not mean inherently believing it. Someone can enjoy something without thinking it’s pure truth. If you want to argue that fact then I really suggest you never watch a scary movie because you could end up being mistakenly beliving it’s true and them becoming a serial killer!

          Your comment is valid in the sense that it’s allowed to be made. It’s invalid in the sense that it, well, doesn’t make any. It’s a self centered view on the world that acts like you are the be-all and end-all of what gets to be judged. Moreover, you don’t seem to be able to grasp the concept of false entertainment for fun. Seems like a really sad world honestly. Only ever able to watch documentaries. You know. Because reality matches it so you’re not being ‘deluded’.

          Clown.