gizmodo.com / found 627 days ago
My Brief OkCupid Affair With a World Champion Magic: The Gathering Player
This story sounds mean. It's about a girl judging a boy because he's a nerd (like so many of us!) that she met on OkCupid. But that's the point: Judging people on shallow stuff is human nature, and the magic and absurdity of online dating is how immediately and directly it throws that into relief. One person's Magic is another person's fingernail biting, and no profile in the world is deep enough to account for that.
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Jokinee This made me rage. Is it that all the people outside internet's darkest corners are immature and judgemental? |
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nuvan When a bitch bashes a famous Nerd online the internets goes "oh no you didn't": The bitch: |
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pwanderi Lesson: :Make a point of Googling your next online date |
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BGFCentral Christ, what an asshole. (for clarity, she's the asshole.) |
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Hoodie_Weather This woman does sound like a lousy bitch. Since when is being nerdy a "strikeout" offense? @jephjacques @alyssabereznak |
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emilysuied Doesn't this girl know not to diss a WORLD CHAMPION MAGIC nerd ONLINE. BAD IDEA LADY |
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NextGreatGen This @gizmodo article is getting a lot of press today -- thoughts? Judgmental or appropriate? |
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maro254 Here's the link to the original Finkel story: |
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JCB cool gadget review on this gadget review site |
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ABCDawg We here at Dawg|Net congratulate @alyssabereznak on alienating the entirety of geekdom in one fell swoop. Kudos! |
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JulianDeMar In case anyone was wondering, the #NotRightForAlyssa hashtag is from a @Gizmodo story, highly recommend reading: |
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JonathanTerMeer This Jon Finkel and Alyssa Bereznak reddit drama is pretty funny. Personally, Jon sounds like a cool guy. bkgrnd -> |
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4mandastevenson Ugh. This just makes me angry. |
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atheistanarchy Having played MTG often at one point I found this amusing. |
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markusbutticus Ugh, no wonder people can be hesistant about the fact they play Magic. This is pretty sad, if you ask me: |
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markschaffer Gawker media intern goes on OKCupid date w/the world champion of Magic The Gathering, writes smug douchey article. |
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JessLMorales The Internet: Letting women be shitty to nice guys since inception. #shallow #rude (h/t @AngelicaLivMo) |
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emmastory I think the real story here is that Jon fucking Finkel accidentally went on a date with a Gawker Media intern. |
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DutchUnkle wow @alyssabereznak gettin hated for ur tasteless article even major news outlets callin u out..hope u stub ur toe 2day |
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RevEnFuego Wonder what @wilw has to say about the chick who has decided to mock #mtg players she dates: |
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sparsor Worthless journalism. What's the point? #sigh |
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LauraGDiemer I am utterly appalled. So pro #MTG player Jon Finkel was a complete gentleman, and this is the thanks he got? |
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oldmonkMGM This article and it's writer is now the subject of internet wrath like i have never seen before. |
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AmeliaMangan I Mistakenly Dated a Geek & All I Got Was This Sense of Unearned Superiority (via @truffle & @finalgrrl) |
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helloroleplayer this is bizarre on so many levels @alyssabereznak attempts self-loathing and glorifies jon finkel. but not. |
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lutrov Why you need to "Google the s**t out of your next online date", before you meet them: #li |
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zoonazi_ shit like this is why good people can't have nice things (by nice things i don't mean the editorial writer) |
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nickandhisvoice This @alyssabereznak thing over at Gizmodo has been fun today. Way to piss off a bunch of nerds. |
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IlGreven Ladies, if you react like this to our hobbies, it ain't us dorks that look bad: |
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HUDBot In case, for some reason, you haven't read this: |
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edmundtadros This is pretty mean. Gizmodo: My Brief OkCupid Affair With a World Champion Magic: The Gathering Player |
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djeterg19 I have tried to form words about how much this pisses me off. I have been unable to so far. |
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Trinagins Can someone explain why gizmodo would post this? #WTF |
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PreposteChris People have been tweeting about this all day, but man it really is the worst: Shallow, hypocritical... alarming to me |
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jeremyrsaunders Wow. Make sure you never go on a date with a Gizmodo intern. |
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cumbersuffix This woman is, I believe, The Worst Person. |
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georgianalee Wow. I wouldn't date this woman under any circumstances. |
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MTGCube Our fun #MTG cube clan that blogs and tweets about the game is definitely #NotRightForAlyssa. |
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littlestcabbage This article makes me so mad I could spit. Reasons to come. |
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ifilmtheclouds Skim through this terrible Gizmodo article (if you dare), then read this hilarious summation of it |
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raidswindmills I've had some online dating horror stories but "he's a giant nerd who plays Magic" has not made the list. WTF is this: |
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austing909 Just so everyone knows, @Gizmodo published a horrible article today. |
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MikeDuquette This Gizmodo article's been making the rounds as being anti-geek. The problem is deeper; it's anti-good writing. |
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jdhowa2 While I'll agree this should have been addressed in dude's OKC profile, this chick really is a total bitch. |
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jwie86 Debate of the day - Blogger rants about her date with a Magic player. A snobby overreaction or just a observation? |
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caprickah And this was on Gizmodo??? My Brief OkCupid Affair With a World Champion Magic: The Gathering Player - @Gizmodo |
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SeanDFrancis I'll think positive thoughts about this: Girl shuns a guy who otherwise she found acceptable because he plays Magic. |
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theonetruebix If you have to (non-transparently) go add a new "disclaimer", @gizmodo, maybe @alyssabereznak isn't a very good writer. |
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RexR Be careful on OKcupid; you might end up on a date with a vapid idiot girl. Hope the guy writes a response. |
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gleboff Gizmodo tech blogger goes on date with CHAMPION Magic: The Gathering player, writes a stuck-up bitchy article about him |
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perpetualgeek Wow, @Gawker and @Gizmodo really are the shit stains of the internet. |