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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A geek from the old school hereWhen I was young watched 'Pages From Ceefax' and really enjoyed it and liked the music.
Went on to buy two CDs of testcard music.
Enjoyed creating dummy loaders on the Spectrum just to annoying the kids and shop assistants at Boots, WH Smiths etc.
I buy lots of game music CDs (mainly Sega as I love their stuff) and my faves are S.S.T. Band Live!, A Clockwork Knight and anything by Yoko Kanno, especially the Napple Tale CD.
Have a large collection of computer programmes ranging from The Computer Office and Micro Live to Database and 4 Computer Buffs.
My taste in music on the whole is from the forgotten early 80s with my favourite bands being The Pinkees, Dekka Danse, Music For Pleasure and Mezzofore.
Have a Pac-man pillowcase, watch, mugs, tea tray and the complete cartoon series.
Once spent a month converting and editing C64 music into MP3s just so I could listen to them on my MP3 player every time I went out somewhere.
Watch programs download as I enoy seeing the percentage bar go to 100%.
Carried on using both BBSs and the Internet until the phone bills become too expensive.
Length? about 111 inches.
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Pac-man rocks!I still have a Pac-man coloring book from my childhood days. And I refuse to let my kids touch it.....they might actually color in it!
really don't like these new versions of Pac-man though.....I'll stick with the orig Pac_man, Mrs Pac-man, and, of course, Baby Pac-man.
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flirting with badgers What? It sounded good at the time., Sat 8 Mar 2008, 4:04,
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Pacman does indeed rockI can actually be arsed to play old-school arcade type games.
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idonthaveafunnynickname Drink-Aware? Sure. I'm aware I want another drink., Sat 8 Mar 2008, 4:10,
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Pac-manHe's tattooed on my ankle. Eating dots. Wooo. Glad I got that off my chest.
I also like game music but I've been stuck on the soundtrack for Kingdom Hearts. Ooooh. Does anyone know what soundtracks for video games Danny Elfman has done? I know there is at least one...
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Forgot to mention that I also havethe Pac-Man Fever album by Buckner and Garcia, both the old and the new versions.
The old version is far better.
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!Personaly love Pai's theme from Virtua Fighter 2, I'm sure you're familiar with that tune. Also I don't really remember the Clockwork Knight music but the game was a bit pap :P
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whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Mon 10 Mar 2008, 12:46,
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