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from the sign-me-up-for-the-next-hermit-convention dept.
The nation's nerds woke up in a utopia this morning, one where everyone stays inside, sporting events are being canceled, and all social interaction is forbidden.
All types of nerds, from social introverts to hardcore PC gamers, welcomed the dawn of this new era, privately from their own homes.
"I have been waiting my whole life for this moment," said Ned Pendleton, 32 -- via text message, of course -- as he fired up League of Legends on his beefy gaming PC. "They told me to take up a sport and that the kids playing basketball and stuff were gonna be way more successful than us nerds who played Counter-Strike at LAN parties every weekend."
Always look on the bright side of life.
[Certainly an element of gallows humor, but it does offer a different perspective from the incessant drumbeat of gloom and doom surrounding the current SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. What "positives" have you seen? --martyb]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 15 2020, @03:05AM (4 children)
Perhaps the bug will do what Pelosi failed to?
(Score: 3, Funny) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday March 15 2020, @03:25AM (3 children)
It already has. Have you been to WalMart lately? Plenty of empty shelves just like in socialist utopia.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 15 2020, @08:39AM (2 children)
Socialist utopia: you've got the money but can't but anything with it.
Capitalist utopia: you can get a portable fusion reactor in your local mart, but you've got no money.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday March 15 2020, @10:29AM
TMB utopia: Meh, the important shit's paid for. Ima go fishing.
Livin the dream, bitches!
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 3, Touché) by maxwell demon on Sunday March 15 2020, @03:48PM
Well, then I opt for socialist utopia in the first half of the day, and capitalist utopia in the second half. In the first half I get the money, in the second half I can spend it. :-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.