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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I could've been a contenderI could have been a computer nerd. I once wrote a program on my Acorn Electron that made the screen turn red if 30 greater than 10. Goto 10. Run. Woo! But my career in programming was cut short when I saved up my 35p-a-week pocket money for months - my siblings spent theirs on frivolous things like edible paper, chocolate shells. Losers. Oh I'd show them. Oh yes, I would. - bought a book and copied a 1,000 line program - I forget what it did, probably turned the screen magenta - only to get to the end, press "run" and have the dreaded "error at line..." message appear.
Thus a ten-year-old's dream of watching two pixels bounce around a crappy monitor were Shot Down In Flames, I developed an apathy that remains with me to this day, and there ended my interest in computers.
One nerdiness morphed into another, though, and later I developed a love of the music of AC/DC. Watching their old videos on YouTube still brings me joy. I prefer the Bon Scott era.
I have all the tapes they ever released, stored, of course, in chronological order.
I still have the Electron, though. Chuckie Egg was, and is, the best. I played it on the Amiga once, but it was too fancy, the graphics "too advanced".
Ah, the joy of spending an afternoon watching 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 1A, 1B...and so on and so forth.
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nightbuffalo needs more duct tape, Sat 8 Mar 2008, 16:53,
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Chuckie EggI completely agree-it's one of the BEST games I've ever played. I had it on an old BBC and it was ace. I also had some sort of educational game that made you guess whether certain materials were denser than others i.e does ice float on water...that sort of thing. But mostly I just used to play Chuckie Egg.
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Bum Eyes pretending to be a Jedi since, Sat 8 Mar 2008, 17:34,
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You get a clickFor the subtle AC/DC reference.
Well, for capitalizing Shot Down In Flames.
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