Some girls merely throw on a tank top and shorts and try to sell themselves as Lara Croft. But the days of horny nerds being satisfied by a hot woman who vaguely resembles a video game character are over. Now, the slightest inaccuracy will murder their boners. "Honestly, most of the time a set is rejected for accuracy, it's because of really obvious stuff -- usually bad wigs, shoes, missing key pieces like accessories, or locations that don't match the source material," Shodan says. "The classic mistake is Harley Quinn's diamonds -- there are three of them, but sometimes people put four."
Hey, if you can still climax from a four-diamond Harley, more power to you. But some of us have standards.
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What's next, nine diamonds? Where does the madness end?
"A lot of the time, the nitpicky comments are the typical pissing contest of them trying to out-nerd everyone," Shodan says. "A couple people commented on my use of a banjo instead of a bass in my Marceline photoset, and I got to school them by pointing out the specific episode I was doing. Who's the fake nerd now?!"
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"BUT SHE PLAYS LEFTY!" -- some nerd, probably
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