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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Telling the TV repairman how to do his jobBack in the days when people rented TVs my parents called in the repairman to fix it. At the age of 11 I was dabbling with very basic electronics after being given a Tandy set for Christmas. The repairman having the back off the TV was a great opportunity to see some real electronic gubbins. I made him give a commentary as he fathomed out what was wrong and eventually what to fix. After announcing that he needed a 330k resistor (or whatever) he dug through his collection of components and presented me with a resistor. I instantly told him it was not what he said it was and he was drastically out with his selection. Being told he was wrong by a spotty 11 year old clearly pissed him off and that was the end of the demostration for me. That didn't stop my smugness.
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