Ack. The bitter taste of a revelation. You know, I actually thought I was cool and different, being an anime fan and a gamer. But then I realized something. We are just like all those "preps" and "jocks". We are all the same.
We watch the same damn shows. We read the same damn books. We like the same art-and almost all of us are aspiring artists. We play the same games. We like all the same things. A lot of us like fantasy/sci-fi, alot of like Lolita, alot of us are Japanophiles. Quite a few of us are seriously into computers. A lot of us are straight A students. A lot us just aren't straight. We usually have the same basic political views.
We might make minor differences. This person plays RPGs, this person plays shooters. This person wants to be a writer/poet, not an artist (although most of us dabble in it all). Some of us are het fans, others yaoi and yuri.
But what it basically comes down to is, yeah, we're different than most of the kids we go to school with. But we've turned the internet into highschool. We have little cliques and categories, but basically, yeah, we are just flocking to the people that are just like us.
Is that bad? Not necessarily. It certainly means I was wrong about humans, and nerds in particular. I thought we were different.