#15

Stay tuned to see what happens when the Nerd rage is unleashed.

There is something about the nerd rage that "normal" people can't begin to comprehend. Nerd rage isn't about being a nerd, not entirely. It's about standards and accuracy, too. Knowing the specifics of a fictional characters powers (or in this case, lack thereof) is very much like knowing the difference between good and well. Or lay and lie. Or effect and affect. This is one reason so many nerds are often grammar Nazis. For some nerds this is merely a way to feel smugly superior to an audience who views them as merely uppity. For others, it's valuable practice. After all, it pays for doctors and engineers to be both thorough and precise, and insist that those around them are too.

Of course, there is always an element of mind-blindness to the nerd rage to consider. Nerd's often have a hard time comprehending that others don't share their passion. It's a bit like devoting your life to dogs, and having someone tell you in a conversation about dogs that they think parakeets are overrated, but that they once had a very nice slipper, without ever realizing that they were no longer talking about dogs. It's doubly enraging when an explanation to the offending party explaining their mistake is dismissed as too technical or not especially important. This may or may not be true, but from inside the nerdzone, it looks an awful lot like willful ignorance regardless. And no one like willful ignorance.*

*Some groups tolerate willful ignorance. But I'm choosing to act as though they don't exist.