What Nerds Do When No One Is Looking

It's exactly what you think. Comic books and philosophy, weird virtual reality characters and lots of talking about sex, but little actual you know.... Flame wars are fun--Jeff Goldstein is the prime political satire Nerdicus extraordinaire. But then there are uber Nerds like Joss Whedon and Warren Ellis going at it in a comments thread and ending in a loving, intimate embrace. Witness this flamewar and take a peak into a virtual reality I just don't have enough time to inhabit. Pity, that.