Scientists need feedback, too!

Japanese study finds that praise is as good as cash to the brain

Or they could have just asked fandom.

It's funny 'cuz it's true

A comment from one of the many, many, many threads about the OSBP:

Dude, men at a con are notorious for it, because it's the only place the smelly, unwashed desperate, skanky hornballs might get some random action from a drunk girl.

Seeing as most of them don't get out of their mom's basement and away from their anime girls long enough to go to a bar. (It should be noted that people used to mock Star Wars fanboys, but I find SW fanboys generally well-adjusted and tend to live in their wife's basement making props all the time.)

We used to joke about having to explain to ishyko's future children that "Daddy's been locked in the basement, inhaling paint fumes. Since 1998."