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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But I'm a *retro* geek so it's OK....right?Ok..I've owned (and only had to sell due to lack of space :( )A Spectrum ZX+, Commodore VIC-20, Commodore 64, Amiga 1200, NES, Super NES, Master System, Megadrive, Game Gear, Gameboy (all), many, many Game and Watch (sold those for £££!), Nintendo 64, Neo Geo, Wonderswan, PONG, Atari 2600, BBC Micro, Acorn, Apple Macintosh IIi and a PSION 3c.
The ringtone for my phone is the Monkey Island 1 theme tune (go on, hum it, if you're a geek, you know it).
I have a Mario 3 Game Watch which plays the NES Mario 3 tune as the alarm. Best watch ever.
I am looking for a house, and I want a basement I can turn into an arcade with proper stand-up arcade machines (and a MAME one too..again, if you don't have to Google MAME, welcome to the club)
I play emulated games (only) on my MacBook, mobile and PDA. I have SCUMMVM on my Nintendo DS.
The only programming languages I know are BASIC and HTML and I just don't understand why better graphics = better gameplay.
I am 25 and female. I just got engaged to my lovely partner of 5 years, and luckily, he's a Stargate-watching computer-programming telecoms manager!
(, Sat 8 Mar 2008, 11:11, 2 replies)
girl geekshe's one lucky man, clicky
(, Sat 8 Mar 2008, 11:19, closed)
apart from my girlfriendyou're probably the best girl alive in the world
(, Sat 8 Mar 2008, 13:51, closed)
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