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There are behaviors that I've only seen at all within geek culture. I used to encounter one in particular in the comic shop before the rent hike forced it to close, when watching the customers relating the events dramatized in fiction. I'd recently encountered it again as a bystander to a conversation between two co-workers, one of whom is a big fat diabetic geek. They talk about fiction as if gossiping about real events. It's embarrassing. The way I talk about fiction is with relation to themes and structure, and lines of dialogue, purpose of elements within a scene.

Still, I'm calling this tendency to discuss character motivations as if gossiping about friends a symptom of horrendous geekery. Maybe I am that other thing, a nerd, after all, but it could be I'm a nerd about narrative.

For an encapsulation of what separates a geek out from a nerd, I refer you to Van Houten (2002) "Nerds are smart".

Takes different strokes I suppose. I guess one difference is that I can't remember what happened in anything I ever read, saw, heard or wrote.

Important Progress in the Story of the Anomalous Pacific Northwest Feet

They've identified two feet. Only a bare minimum of five people's worth of feet left to account for!