I recommend rethinking the two most important components of nerd culture, namely: money and fandoms. If you consume your favourite properties and titles in isolation (video games, movies, TV shows, comics, novels, etc), break that habit. Or maybe you hated a video game, and everyone keeps telling you how unsophisticated you are because you somehow failed to perceive the genius of the writing? Buy that video game. Throwing $60 at a PS5 video game or spending that money in a brothel?