Forgot the stars. This octopus an I go way back, although I didn't know much about them until now.

Zombies were ruined long before nerds got ahold of em.

Lovecraft ruined himself.

"Indie" rock in general (Sub Pop, Merge et al.)
Dr. Who
Banjos
Pinball

San Francisco - too real for me right now.

(on apropos - i always think of the terminal command)

FML

I love SF. I'd move there in a heartbeat if I could afford it. I can't even afford oakland compared to Portland. Oh yeah add Portland to the list

Most of the things you listed would not exist without nerds, or at the very least, not in anything like the form we know them today. Star Wars, cartoons, superheroes, Monty Python, robots, arguably even Lovecraft, who was the early 20th century equivalent of a nerd. How can you blame nerds for ruining things that would not exist without them?

The only thing in your list which nerds definitely did ruin is pirates, who had a proud tradition until nerds started misappropriating their culture. And San Fransisco was ruined by hippies long before the nerds showed up; nerds are the only reason that place is halfway tolerable.

wrestling

bacon

Yeah you really can't blame nerds, I point to the whole "culture" that seems to have been marketed beyond nerds.

YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE NERDS ARE RUINING?

THIS FUCKING COMMENTS SECTION

TALK ABOUT THE MOTHERFUCKING CUTE OCTOPUS OR SHUT THE FUCK UP, NERDS

OH shit, add fucking LEGO to the list.

I shall call mine Benny Fish-owl.