“And I grew up in an age where being a giant nerd was not a point of pride. It is astonishing and wonderful to me that nerd culture means something different than it used to.” LOL. Me too. I’m still amazed GOT and Marvel stuff keeps getting produced (with no end in sight). I keep waiting for it all to get dismissed and criticized as “immature, childish and worthless”, like it used to be. 😀 I still feel weird when a Muggle brings up the subject of some nerd media in my non-nerd circles, and I never broach the subject of RPGs even if they start talking nerd to me. I’ll wait for them to bring it up… the nerd-shame runs deep to my core…