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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nerd obsessive or potential psychoI work as a creative 'flicks imaginary foppish hair (it's actually short) and flounces'. most people seem to imagine creative types are the antithesis of nerds - or developers as we call them in my line. but i think i am actually quite nerdy in many ways. i'm not a tidy person - quite the opposite but i actually took the time to place all 200 or so of my dvds in alphabetical order then - heres the sad bit, create a catalogue in Word, meticuously typing every title, so that the next time someone in the office offered to lend me a movie we had been discussing i could offer them a choice from my complete library. now thats quite sad.
I also have a huge capacity for pointless triva and obscure facts. i had an argument over trivial pursuit a few years back and was actually accused of having memorised all 5000 or so questions. i've also seen 'Back to the Future' so many times 100+ easily. mrs spimf wont watch it with me now - even though she loves the movie because i blurt out lines before the actors get to deliver them.
obsessive - my little boy has building blocks that fit inside each other like russian dolls. if one of the set is missing one somewhere i simply cant hadle it and have to look for it.
potential psycho - i have a recurring dream i have a dead body rolled up in a carpet in my loft. ive woke a few times up having to get mrs spimf assure me i havent killed someone ages ago and 'forgotten' about it.
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spimf ™ is whoever you want him to be, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 11:10,
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I havethe same DVD system!
Although mine also include details such as "last viewed" and also a link to the IMDB page so i can read the synopsis if i forget what the movie is about.
I also have small OCD thing whereby i cannot stand uncompleted trilogy's or series. I MUST own all dvd's in a series, or i can't sleep.
Obsessive much?
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