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I loved Nakamura's essay, but wondered whether her reading of Aisha Tyler's hosting gig at E3 de facto rendered her gender and race as "queer" challenges to the de facto lowest difficulty setting of white geek masculinity. This article made me realize that gamers are not inherently a part of the increasingly visible black nerd culture: http://weblog.liberatormagazine.com/2008/07/black-nerds.html. I guess there is a difference between geeks and nerds after all, though I would have been tempted to put Ms. yoer in the nerd camp of things prior to reading Nakamura's essay. I wonder what she would say the relative level of difficulty would be for Asian American males in the context of gaming, given her AAST expertise.