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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oh dearAs age creeps on, you're supposed to mature somewhat past the mental age of 14.
Not so in my case. With my grown-up wages I now collect all the things I ever wanted while I was a teenager, including:
- An arcade machine
- Amiga 500 / 1200
- Atari ST
- Archimedes
- Just about every popular console ever built between 1987 and the present day (incl. NeoGeo)
- huge games collection
- A plethora of Unix equipment of varying ages and flavours
This has died down somewhat since being posted overseas, but I still spunk money away on buying hugely technical niche equipment and tools ("Hrmm, might need that one day" - out comes the credit card), so much so that now I use a flight case to carry my equipment from country to country. Tool shops are hazardous to my bank balance.
I am also the WORST person in the world to let loose at a flea market. I will come back with armfuls of dead / obsolete tech and refurbish / resurrect it.
Computer junk yard? Wow, look, an old VAX! (Into the car)
Oddly this doesn't drive my wife mad, which is good.
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You have an Archimedes?!!*swoons with delight*
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Droog is too orangey for crows, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 12:26,
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Don't worry, I still buy games from my Amiga off ebay.You're not alone.
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Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 12:31,
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.Thats funny when I started to read your list I thought "I bet you haven't got a neogeo", and you have!!
They used to cost grown up money. How much do they cost now?
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browser still relating boring anecdotes into a void on, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 13:54,
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.As it happens they still cost grown-up money, although in relative terms probably not that much - I think 250 quid is an average price these days? I picked mine up for 50 quid (it's in the arcade cabinet with the original Metal Slug cart)
god what a fucking geek
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Your wife"Oddly this doesn't drive my wife mad, which is good"
Does she have a sister?
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