Since when has playing WoW become a statement parallel to "NERDIEST NERD OF ALL NERDY NERDS EVER" ?
There are so many different facets to being what our society deems 'nerdy,' I fail to see how playing one simple MMORPG with millions of others gives one the right to say they're nerdier than, say, a theoretical physicist who holds in their collection every issue of The Flash and can recite all Lord of the Rings movies in Elvish, or Star Trek movies in Klingon.
To toot my own horn, I'm not the nerdiest nerd of all nerdy nerds ever, but I'm well-rounded in my nerd-knowledge, if you will. From liberal/performing/visual arts to comic books, from studying string theory to Warhammer 40K, I am a nerd. It never came from this determination to be the weirdest, nor the smartest (though intellectual pursuits are a major hobby of mine), merely eclecticism at its finest.
However, I scarcely feel the need to turn my nose up at others and puff my chest out, proclaiming how I'm more fantastic than they, how they could never possible attain MY level of awesome because I'm the end all of nerds. It's arrogant, overcompensation, childish, and, frankly, annoying as hell. Maybe it's simply a form of overcompensation for their own insecurities and shortcomings, or they actually believe they're that fantastic for having a small chink in the nerd world.
I dunno. It just seems like there's so much more to nerdiness, and to life, than WoW. It's not even that fun.
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