One of the major complaints presented in Oswalt’s essay is that certain materials ingrained in “nerd culture” have become too readily available. Unlike in Oswalt’s childhood, where the subjects of his otakus were scarcer, technology was opened the doorway to many new mediums of entertainment. On the internet, people now have the ability to download another John Woo movies in minutes, when Oswalt and others had to wait months for a new one to be bootlegged. People also have the technological capabilities to edit and make their own creations. People are able to take aspects from other forms of entertainment and create new products, thus giving a person more to digest. The ability of people to edit materials also takes away the longing for something to be better, which was experienced a great deal during Oswalt’s adolescence. Certain idiosyncrasies, which may have made something unique, can be fixed very quickly as a result of new materials. The large quantities of material available also keep a person from focusing strongly on a select few materials. While growing up, Oswalt and his friends had a large amount of time to digest a certain material while waiting for the next edition to come out. Now, people will move on to a new subject after focusing on one subject for a brief amount of time. Oswalt also describes his friends as having a specific otaku that they focused a great deal on and they would be the person with the expertise on that topic. However, the necessity of such people is gone as anyone can go on the Internet and discover the newest fad in music, movies, television, etc.
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