How nerdy are you?This week Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons, died. A whole generation of pasty dice-obsessed nerds owes him big time. Me included.
So, in his honour, how nerdy were you? Are you still sunlight-averse? What are the sad little things you do that nobody else understands?
As an example, a B3ta regular who shall remain nameless told us, "I spent an entire school summer holiday getting my BBC Model B computer to produce filthy stories from an extensive database of names, nouns, adjectives, stock phrases and deviant sexual practices. It revolutionised the porn magazine dirty letter writing industry for ever.
Revel in your own nerdiness.
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chthonic, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 10:32)
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I'm quite geeky.I can program in VBA, C++, PHP, and (this is the one I'm particularly proud of) ASM.
I got my first computer when I was 6 - it was an Amstrad PCW with BASIC on it and I spent every spare waking minute writing programs for it.
I love Red Dwarf and Star Trek.
I once wrote my own operating system - it was crap though. I think I was about 14 at the time. rumbler.sourceforge.net
I have built a hard-drive based MP3 player that used Linux for my car - that was also crap, and unreliable, so I just bought a generic 1Gb solid-state thing instead. It works much better.
I've completed Final Fantasy 8. Twice.
I work with computers all day, including maintaining legacy Quickbasic applications.
I use Linux at home.
I have my own server, just for running BitTorrent so I don't have to leave my PC on.
But then I also love camping, motorbikes, beer, girls and music, so I suppose I'm not THAT bad...
(, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 11:30, 1 reply)
only twiceI didn't like 8 much, but completed 7 4 times, 10 3 times, 12 twice. all of which was then scuppered by my useless cd scratching siblings.
(, Tue 11 Mar 2008, 13:39, closed)
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