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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Amateur, then professionalI played a lot of computer/video games growing up, and after school I kind of fell into programming at college/uni, got good at it, hell, I even considered it as a possible career. So, the natural progression was, of course, programming games professionally.
So what I've effectively done, is take one of the most nerdy, male dominated professions (programmer), and combined it with one of the most nerdy, male dominated industries (video games).
It's pretty much generally assumed that because of my job I'm obsessed with star wars & star trek et al., have an overwhelming porn collection and have difficulty conversing with the fairer sex. It is an uphill battle to change this view and even if I were to ride a motorbike off a cliff and parachute to the bottom, I wouldn't shake the nerdy aura.
I did lie about my job for a great deal of time, particularly to female strangers(natch), binman and pilot being quite common alternative careers.
Quite randomly, I did however, discover that my actual job is believed to be more interesting and exciting than it actually is; 9 hours a day, sat on my arse, at a keyboard, doing things ranging from complex maths to making a PSP stop crashing. God knows what people are actually expecting it to be like.
So thats when I started to revel in my nerdiness, and never, ever, reveal the truth about my job, well, except here..
(, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 16:29, Reply)
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