The Evolution of Geek

As I spend time with my fellow clgamer staff members, I always learn something new about them. This past week I learned that several of them play YuGiOh: Duel Monsters, or as we like to call it “The Yugs”. Watching them play reminded me of when I first started watching the YuGiOh anime which eventually lead into my many days of making decks and playing the trading card game. I could easily say this game was probably a big stepping stone into my later years of being a geek.

Eventually this lead into an even deeper world outside the normal games I woudl usually play, like console games and hand-held video games. I learned of a world where people would play against each other or along side each other in real table top games. Through my years on this planet and being absorbed into the geek culture I noticed that table top games have literally went from a very low subculture of the geek social ladder to a point where you are not even considered a geek if you don’t even play a table top game of some sort.

Though isn’t that the situation with geek culture in a whole? Or rather is that the pure definition of the Geek culture is? What was originally considered uncool and a total social faux pas is now one of the biggest cultural phenomenons of the new age. Before conventions were on small scale, but now they are now considered some of the biggest yearly gatherings. Comic conventions headline well known writers, Star Trek conventions draw in the biggest crowds and even celebrities from all over just to embrace this culture. Tournaments of table top games, concerts featuring bands who play and make music with the Geek culture in mind are making headliner appearances and sold out shows. This no longer some small time thing but its now a huge glorious beast with 5d20 tentacles that are reaching into every social outlet and every form of media.

In this writer’s opinion the culture that is Geek is only in its prime. It is still growing and changing each day into something bigger and better. As long as we as the geeks of the world continue to come up with new ways to celebrate it and to make our own impacts and changes within it, the big wheel of Geekdom will never stop rolling. So do your part readers, help us to grow, tell others of Chocolate Lemon and the mission it has and they will spread the word to others. The word that geek culture is not something to be afraid of and to turn away from. It is something to embrace and to accept as a norm. Don’t be ashamed of what you are dear reader, enjoy it and still live your life as you want.