• antonim@lemmy.worldOP
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    3 days ago

    I’m kind of repeating myself, but the comic is pretty old (before 2014), and I think the culture and words’ meanings have shifted a bit in the meantime.

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      3 days ago

      No, i don’t think so. That use of the word nerd was as out of place 15 years ago as it is today.

      Source: I was a nerd 15 years ago too.

      • antonim@lemmy.worldOP
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        2 days ago

        It’s not my work, I don’t want to (and don’t have much of a right to) meddle with it. If I even thought of updating it to my tastes, I’d do everything differently, far from changing just one word. Art can’t be updated.

        The interesting part is, to me, how a few details do seem not at all outdated, despite many others being grating.

        I must admit, now I understand even more clearly why the author deleted all of her work off the internet…