For this assignment, I bummed around the SLC, waiting for the midnight movie to start, and just decided to take advantage of my situation and check out the attire of the patrons there that night. A lot of the people there were wearing novelty, one-liner T-shirts, which is a staple of the gamer/nerd/geek community. Although this type of dress is not unique, it is most common among them, and it would not be wrong to guess that if you were surrounded by that type of dress, you were surrounded by gamers, geeks, and nerds.
How do I know this? Well, I am one. I have about 3 one-liners in my closet, and I enjoy wearing them on Friday nights for the midnight movie at the SLC. Also, a lot of the people who show up for Friday midnight movies at the SLC are hardcore SLC patrons, and anybody can tell you that people who hang out there a lot are definitely gamers/nerds/geeks, and they probably play HvZ too.
As far as signaling membership goes, there is no application for joining this community. It takes in the fanboys and the fangirls, the foreign kids, the losers and the rejects, the cool people and the jocks, and all of the average people in between. It is easily the most diverse and non-judgmental group out there, and it is always growing, and whether you want to admit it or not, as soon as you hang out with a group of them…you are one of them!
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