Is Nerd Culture Even A Thing Anymore Scenes From C2E2 2015

• Ryan Smith
• Dressing like a Stormtrooper is basically socially acceptable at this point.

One of the costume-clad conventioneers who’d packed into a room at the McCormick Center for a Q&A with actor Jason Momoa stood at a microphone to ask a probing, Inside the Actors Studio-style question. He wanted to know about the psychological impact his now-deceased Khal Drogo character had on the Queen of Dragons on HBO’s Game of Thrones.

The terms “geek” and “nerd” have become all but meaningless. When everyone in the country freaks out about the new Star Wars trailer and hangs out in bars for The Walking Dead viewing parties, you can’t claim to be part of some kind of underrepresented or marginalized subculture. You are the culture.