I tried, but I can't make it through Bobby's article because being so broken up about the fact you have splintered off from "the geeks" that you have to righteously proclaim it (and then link it constantly, apparently) is such a nauseating concept. Who thinks like this? It can only possibly be conceived by someone who's head is far up their own ass. Like, "wow, this is such a big moment from me, I can't relate to fellow star wars fans, I will no longer call them my brothers" or some shit.
There's a small sub-class of moral busybodies who are overly concerned with this "geek community", which even they understand doesn't really exist, and they become hostile and resentful if their idealism gets rejected for the "status quo" of shamelessly indulgent consumerism. They are the kind of geek that thinks GamerGate was the beginning of Trump. Meanwhile, almost no one knows what GamerGate is, no one truly gave a fuck except a few political opportunists of any shade and trolls and even they don't care anymore. Geeks just want to watch and play cool shit. Some of them fall out of it, due to life, but they don't write articles about it, they don't even think about it.
I think it was here where I saw a tweet by him that said something along the lines of "Stars Wars is politically relevant again with Trump in office", which is a moronic idea, because Star Wars was never more politically relevant than any other saturday morning cartoon. Star Wars is not "literature", even children understand it's deepest message on good and bad. Call the Empire nazis all you want, come Halloween kids are going to be dressed as stormtroppers. Reeks of outgrowing your interests, but being unable to escape them.
