How Do Nerds Really Spend Friday Night?

What Do Nerds Do On Friday Night?

Me, watching #StrangerThings2:

“Bob, you idiot, you know BASIC coding but you don’t know not to walk off and leave the gun behind when you’re being chased by a hungry demagorgon from the Upside Down?

“Run, Bob, run!

“Don’t just stand there and stare at each other, there’s a fucking demagorgon after you, RUN!

“Someone shoot the fucker already!

“Is that the best shotgun they made in 1985? That sucks. Where are the guns from The Matrix? Whoops, wrong era.

“OMFG phones that were attached to walls and you couldn’t put them on SILENT and no caller ID, how did people live like that?

“Why is it that Max’s absentee parents are the only ones to notice their kid’s been gone for three days or something?

“Is the old, gray-haired doctor the dude from Seinfeld or the guy from Mad About You, because I know he was on one of those shows before he went gray.”

How Nerds Spend Saturday Night Watching Stranger Things

Then CBS All Access emailed me that my last payment didn’t go through, probably because Citibank sent me a new card with a totally different number for no apparent reason (I didn’t lose my old one, it wasn’t compromised). Unfortunately that was the credit card I used for Amazon, Paypal, and everything else online, so it’s been a real pain in the ass going in and adding the new card number to everything. Thought I got them all, then CBS sends me this message:

We are having trouble processing your credit card. We don’t want you to miss out on your favorite CBS shows and live TV, so please update your payment information as soon as possible to avoid any interruptions.

So I Google, “When does Star Trek: Discovery return?”
January 7.

Okay, I think I’ll remember to add my new card number in January so I don’t have to pay for December for no reason. HAHAHA, screw you, CBS. Guess the new card thing worked out okay after all.

#StrangerThings2 #HowNerdsSpendSaturdayNight #ArmchairMonsterHunter

V. R. Craft is the author of Stupid Humans, the first in a #scifi series that asks the question, “What if all the intelligent humans ran away from Earth—and we’re what’s left?”

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Random Thoughts I Have While Watching Stranger Things Season 2

So I’m only on the first episode of Stranger Things Season 2 right now….

• Imagine a time when you could scrape together a few coins and buy something, or spend two hours in an arcade.
• The scene in the drug store has me questioning my own reality.
  
  Bob walks in and asks if they have any trick-or-treat pumpkins in colors besides orange. This is a ruse to get Joyce in the back room so they can make out. It initially also struck me as funny because trick-or-treat pumpkins were all only orange until at least the late nineties/early 2000’s, judging by my own memory of being a kid in the nineties. But as Bob leaves the store room, he points at a green trick-or-treat pumpkin and says, “There’s a green one.” So, are they in some alternate universe 1984 where some trick-or-treat pumpkins are green? Or am I remembering a childhood in an alternate universe where trick-or-treat pumpkin design progressed more slowly (and possibly also coinciding with the Berenstain vs. Berenstein Bears alternate universe, or maybe it’s the other way around)?
• That drug store scene in Stranger Things season 2 also had me marveling that back in the eighties, a single person could apparently work one minimum wage cashier job, support two kids, have money for cigarettes and a VCR, and not have to get a second, third, or fourth job like many people only trying to support themselves do today.
• Mad Max is awesome.
• When is Nancy going to dump that douchebag Steve?
• Arcades! They were cool but so is a PS4 and not having to put on pants and leave your house to play video games.
• When is Stranger Things season 3 coming out?

V. R. Craft is the author of Stupid Humans, the first in a #scifi series that asks the question, “What if all the intelligent humans ran away from Earth—and we’re what’s left?”