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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Planet of the ApesMy guilty pleasure. I love them all, although the reimagining (not a remake) by Tim Burton is a bit iffy.
I can tell the whole story (Planet of the Apes, Beneath The Planet of the Apes, Escape From The Planet of the Apes, Battle For The Planet of the Apes and Conquest Of The Planet of the Apes) and take great pleasure in how the whole story can begin with any episode and still come full circle. I'll admit to a few minor inconsitancies but they can all follow in logical sequence from any episode as long as they are continued in sequence.
I never liked the TV series much with speaking humans although this would fit in nicely with the years after 'Battle For...' when ape civilisation is in its infancy and humans still have the power of speech.
The Tim Burton version fits in a way as it is not set on Earth. This particular version isn't far of the story line set out in the book by Pierre Boulle, which is much more detailed and depicts the apes living in what appears to be the same stage of humans in the late 17th or early 18th century, with a few advancements such as motorcars and early experimentation into space travel (they already had early forms of aircraft). Towards the end of the book the apes had evolved to such a stage that they were able to use solar winds to travel through space using spacecraft with a 'sail' to take advantage of solar winds to increase velocity, and shrinking the craft to a smaller size whilst still allowing room for the occupants to relax (the book is based on the writings of the human astronauts account of live on the ape planet which is in turn found by an ape couple on 1 of their journeys through space).
I love Planet of the Apes.
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SpikeyPickle wishes he was mabazaritchie, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 15:53,
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