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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AmigasWhen I was about 17, and my peers were busily involved with drink, women, and other such things, I started a Commodore Amiga User Group. This would have been 1997-98, by which time the Amiga was pretty much dead as a platform. Despite that, we got a few people meeting up regularly (in fact, three of them still meet up weekly in the pub to talk about computers and sci-fi).
My main computer was an Amiga 1200 hacked into a tower case, which I used until 2001 when I switched to a Linux PC. But I still have all my old Amigas.
*counts up in head*
At least 6-7 of them - 3 A1200s, 1 A600, and a bunch of A500s. Plus loads of disks, peripherals, etc. And my Commodore 64 - can't bear to part with that either. Probably worth something, if I could ever be persuaded to sell them.
Oh yes, I played Warhammer and the other Games Workshop games as well, and still have all that stuff somewhere at my parents' house too.
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Hunter - An amazing Amiga game from 1991, still blows me away.Here's a great website if you don't know it already.
hol.abime.net/
(It's an Amiga game database)
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Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 12:44,
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