King of the Nerds

[Tev]

Didn't we have an NPF member that was in the running to be part of this show? I remember a thread about it up in General Discussion a few months back, but I forgot if anything ever came of it.

Anyway, it drops tonight around 10pm EST (http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/annette-bourdeau/king-of-the-nerds-review-_b_2497004.html?utm_hp_ref=tv&ir=TV) for those who were wondering how Reality TV can treat Nerd kind.

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[Aerozord]

I dont care if this show is by some miracle the greatest thing ever put on television after sitting through a looping advertisement for it hours on end at work I feel like slapping everyone involved in its inception.

[Tev]

Is your work TV locked on TBS all day or is there some other reason you've been watching the trailer non-stop?

[Locke cole]

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[Tev]

WatNo, this is actually a thing that we've talked about on this forum before. I'm almost 90% positive that one of our members is in the cast. I mean, the thread was in General Discussion and went on for like ten or more pages....

[Aerozord]

Is your work TV locked on TBS all day or is there some other reason you've been watching the trailer non-stop?

electronics department and instead of new releases on the TV wall now they just loop commercials 24/7 and right now thats the most common one

[synkr0nized]

different show and network, as I recall, if it even went through

[Tev]

different show and network, as I recall, if it even went throughDo you remember what the original was? The thread is long since gone.

[synkr0nized]

http://www.fandomcasting.com/

Based on the wording in the thread / few facts about the show given, this was the conclusion drawn. It doesn't appear to have ever been green-lighted and filmed.

Though I suspect we are better off without it. Or the show this thread is about, but unfortunately it's too late to stop that.

[POS Industries]

I dont care if this show is by some miracle the greatest thing ever put on television after sitting through a looping advertisement for it hours on end at work I feel like slapping everyone involved in its inception.
It's about to get real technical... up in here.

[Aerozord]

It's about to get real technical... up in here.

its hurting my brain

[Professor Smarmiarty]

I'm the girl with the enormous internet following.

[pochercoaster]

Those girls are clearly faking their nerdiness for attention. When will the plague of fake geeks girls stop? Ugh. ::V:

[Sithdarth]

Man that is the sorriest group of supposed nerds I've ever seen. Seriously, Alana supposedly had the most chess experience. I kind of hope someone will put together a log of that game because I don't think either of them played very well. I think this might just be terrible enough to watch and make fun of.

[Aerozord]

Nerd is such a broad term, I personally suck at chess. Now if it was a game of go then I'd mop the floor with them.

Though am I the only one that thinks these people weren't selected based skills or "nerdiness" but on if they look nerdy? I'd say the same for acting nerdy but I assume they edit things to give that impression regardless.

[Sithdarth]

Nerd is such a broad term, I personally suck at chess. Now if it was a game of go then I'd mop the floor with them.

Go is a nice game to play as well though I don't get as much chance to play that. However, in a group of 11 of the supposedly nerdiest people they could find in the United States I'd expect more than two to be more the passingly familiar with chess.

[Lumenskir]

Those girls are clearly faking their nerdiness for attention. When will the plague of fake geeks girls stop? Ugh.
So the whole fake geek girl thing finally bubbled up on one of the sites I read. Is the basic gist that attractive girls will fake nerdy interests so that they can date nerds, solely for the purpose of eventually breaking the nerd's heart? It sounded like the most bizarre inverse-Manic Pixie Dream Girl/reverse-ladder theory I've ever heard.
I kind of hope someone will put together a log of that game because I don't think either of them played very well.
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[CABAL49]

I'm not a nerd or a geek. I wear corrected lenses cause I can't see shit.

[Aerozord]

I'm not a nerd or a geek. I wear corrected lenses cause I can't see shit.

yea posting on a webcomic forum about game shows is the most mainstream thing ever

[Kim]

So the whole fake geek girl thing finally bubbled up on one of the sites I read. Is the basic gist that attractive girls will fake nerdy interests so that they can date nerds, solely for the purpose of eventually breaking the nerd's heart? It sounded like the most bizarre inverse-Manic Pixie Dream Girl/reverse-ladder theory I've ever heard.

The gist of it is that nerds are raging misogynists.

[pochercoaster]

The gist of it is that nerds are raging misogynists.

^this^

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[Lumenskir]

Yeah, that much has been obvious ever since forever. But egotistical misogynistic nerds?? I want out of 2013, right now. This is a horrible sign. These should be illegal. I'm installing parental controls on my Internet. Everything is horrible.

[Aerozord]

Nerds want to exclude others from their inner circle just as much as any other social group. Sadly excluding women still passes in much of society.

As for egotistical, well now that nerds are the ones on top of society not only controlling a large chunk of the economy but driving most industries, easy to see where that comes from.

[Tev]

So the whole fake geek girl thing finally bubbled up on one of the sites I read. Is the basic gist that attractive girls will fake nerdy interests so that they can date nerds, solely for the purpose of eventually breaking the nerd's heart? It sounded like the most bizarre inverse-Manic Pixie Dream Girl/reverse-ladder theory I've ever heard.
I was telling a friend about King of the Nerds last night and he told me that there was some made for TV movie in production for SyFy about a girl who dresses up as a "Gamer Girl" with a pair of glasses, a geeky shirt, and a DC comic book in her arms, trolls conventions and comic shops for boys, then takes them home, makes out with them, and then murders them.

I'm starting to get worried about things that show up on our TV....

[Lumenskir]

Are you sure it wasn't just this fake SyFy quality trailer?

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[Tev]

It might have been. I've not had any time to verify a random story told to me by a very excitable friend.

[Magus]

I was telling a friend about King of the Nerds last night and he told me that there was some made for TV movie in production for SyFy about a girl who dresses up as a "Gamer Girl" with a pair of glasses, a geeky shirt, and a DC comic book in her arms, trolls conventions and comic shops for boys, then takes them home, makes out with them, and then murders them...

I'm pretty much okay with this happening to me, honestly.

EDIT: Though I expect to at least get to third base.

[Aldurin]

and he told me that there was some made for TV movie in production for SyFy about a girl who dresses up as a "Gamer Girl" with a pair of glasses, a geeky shirt, and a DC comic book in her arms, trolls conventions and comic shops for boys, then takes them home, makes out with them, and then murders them.

I'm pretty much okay with this happening to me, honestly.

EDIT: Though I expect to at least get to third base.

Ok, that's actually pretty sig-worthy.

[Tev]

So I finally got around to watching this show on my DVR yesterday. It's not terrible.

The nerds they chose for the show are sufficiently stereotype-ish without being too offensive. The hosts make the challenges pretty fun to watch. Having the players pick teams playground-dodgeball style with an uneven number of contestants and then declaring the player not picked at the end the winner for being the ultimate nerd was kind of cute. I am a little bit sad that Hendrik, the contestant I felt embodied the spirit of the show the best, basically chose to fall on his own sword by volunteering himself for the first elimination challenge and then losing it due to following bad advice from the girl who was arguably the worst contestant on his team.

I think I'll give this show a chance. It's not terrible and shows, at times, to be heart-warmingly nerdy.

[POS Industries]

Ok, that's actually pretty sig-worthy.
Perhaps, but if you could make your sig a little less stupidly huge, it would be appreciated. Remove the image, don't use quote boxes, whatever you gotta do to get that monster you currently have under control. Thanks!

[Ryong]

Nerds want to exclude others from their inner circle just as much as any other social group. Sadly excluding women still passes in much of society.

As for egotistical, well now that nerds are the ones on top of society not only controlling a large chunk of the economy but driving most industries, easy to see where that comes from.

Man, my RPG group is always looking for new members except the bookstore we go to has a bunch of people who played D&D and learnt that the DM is always fucking with its players and vice-versa.

[Locke cole]

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Still haven't seen the show myself, mind.

[Tev]

So I caught episode two this week. Quick thoughts:
-Blue team is hemorrhaging quality members like a severed carotid artery.
-That hacker kid on Blue Team is such a dick. He spends too much time trolling his own team.
-The Blue Team girl who has no real talents other than being a "Batman Brain-Trust" simply refuses to get kicked off the show. Neither team wanted her in the first place and that bought her immunity last week. This week a lucky bad-bounce on a giant d20 keeps her from getting kicked out again.
-Orange Team seem to be getting along perfectly. They are like the Seal Team 6 of Nerds.
-When it comes to cosplay, Orange Team seems to have gotten the bulk of the talent.

[Magus]

Being a Batman Brain-Trust is talent enough!

...yeah I haven't seen this.

EDIT: This is on TBS? I dunno, that seems like another blow for its quality...I guess I will maybe watch one episode just to see how ridiculous it is.

[Tev]

Being a Batman Brain-Trust is talent enough!Not when it's sandwiched in between non-stop self depreciation and crying because she's outclassed by every other contestant and then is punctuated by indigent profanity when she ends up on the bottom every week but miraculously manages to not get kicked off.

[Tev]

So, in a stunning act of production scripting going horribly wrong; blue team pulls of a ridiculously improbable come-from-behind victory in the Nerd War to force the best group of nerds ever assembled to vote against one another to fill an elimination challenge.

Sadly, the "Jack of all trades" nerd, Joshua, pulled a sneaky lie against the furious pink-haired gaming blogger, Danielle, sending her to the challenge and leaving her feeling betrayed and royally pissed off. (Previews for the next episode shows her slapping him in the face.)

Brandon, the neuroscientist, got the axe in the remote control golf cart challenge, leaving orange team to deal with a lot of drama and hurt feelings in their ranks. While this loss was a major blow to orange team, they are still head over heels more qualified in just about everything than blue team is.

Next episode looks to have a superhero game show showdown. This is the one area that dead-weight nerd, Alana, actually has an edge. My hope to see her finally getting kicked off like she should have been in the beginning seem pretty bleak this week.

[PCD]

I thought Josh and Danielle's drunken makeup after last week's disaster was pretty cute, and I truly do hope that this means Orange Team is back to working as a unit. Alana could have learned a thing or two about not keeping grudges too long; her nasty attitude was far more what kept her out of the loop than her 'lack of usefulness,' if you ask me. Either way, it was a relief to finally see her out, especially since her cockiness in her realm of specialty led to her downfall.

[Tev]

Yeah, I'm glad to see SFO back on track to being the best crack-team of nerds ever gathered in one house on television. What we learned that night was that alcohol plus violence mends all broken things (except maybe the side of Josh's face).

As much as I'm glad that Alana is finally gone, it's true that her leaving strengthens Blue Team's (their team name is dumb) core and makes them more of a challenge. I don't want to see any of SFO losing to that trio, but I'm willing to bet that if things go bad for them, Josh will be up for the chopping block.

Also, Alana lost at the challenge featuring her only marketable skill (comics). How sad is that? Then, she spent her time after losing complaining because the comic questions weren't ones she felt she should have known.

As an aside, I'm not sure how I feel about Kevin Smith making Genevieve cry. On the one hand, Blue Team did not do as well at the debate. But on the other hand, Smith basically handed SFO the win as his vote was the deciding vote all three times and he was all "I like what you've got to say Blue Team person, but I'm just gunna hand it to SFO." If he'd at least given Genevieve her credit for correcting Josh's blatant screw-up and given Blue Team at least a glimmer of a chance, I think it would have been okay. We all know Virgil would have lost it for them anyway.