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You feel super alienated, but you find somewhere
out there something that is--that you
can connect with and that you have this sense
of "One of these days, I'm gonna shake the dust
from my heels and go to the big city
and find my people." You know, so much
of video games, so much of comic books,
are based on this sense of a kind of, you know,
wish fulfillment and power fantasies or the sense of, you know,
in playing something very hard or going through and mastering
the secret knowledge, this shared hardship
and discipline that you have gone through
and mastered
out there something that is--that you
can connect with and that you have this sense
of "One of these days, I'm gonna shake the dust
from my heels and go to the big city
and find my people." You know, so much
of video games, so much of comic books,
are based on this sense of a kind of, you know,
wish fulfillment and power fantasies or the sense of, you know,
in playing something very hard or going through and mastering
the secret knowledge, this shared hardship
and discipline that you have gone through
and mastered
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You feel super alienated,
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but you find somewhere
out there something
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that is--that you
can connect with
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and that you have this sense
of "One of these days,
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I'm gonna shake the dust
from my heels
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and go to the big city
and find my people."
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You know, so much
of video games,
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so much of comic books,
are based on this sense of
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a kind of, you know,
wish fulfillment
00:00:23.898 --> 00:00:25.065
and power fantasies
00:00:25.065 --> 00:00:29.946
or the sense of, you know,
in playing something very hard
00:00:29.946 --> 00:00:32.448
or going through and mastering
the secret knowledge,
00:00:32.448 --> 00:00:36.411
this shared hardship
and discipline
00:00:36.411 --> 00:00:39.033
that you have gone through
and mastered.
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Movie Summary
A Personal Journey Into The Uncharted Depths Of Nerd Culture, A Realm Full Of Dangers, Creatures And More Or Less Precarious Working Conditions...
