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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No t sure if this countsIn my time I've owned a few systems including (at various times)
A Dragon 32
An Amstrad 6128
A Megadrive ( i miss theat console)
A PC
A playstation
A GameCube
An Xbox
And currently own a 360 and DS.
I also have an unhealthy obsession of looking for emulators for old systems and games as well as bootleg or live copies of music from bands I like!
I'm also a massive fan of the original star wars movies and can quote most of the lines from it, much so that I decided to work my Xbox live gamertag into a star wars sounding name. I'm in the process of building up a collection of the DVD series' of X-files and own all the Monty Python films
While I've never played Warhammer or the like I do read the books and am fascinated by the mythology of 40K.
I'm also a massive Terry Pratchett and star wars novels fan!
I attempt ot keep a level of normality by going out getting drunk with mates, talking to girls and doing Jujitsu (also a bit spoddy I suppose, especially when I talk about it with mates about how different techniques fit together)
I also felt that i was quite geeky that when I was younger I recognised the Ariston advert (the on which said aristonm goes on and on and on ad infinitum) for washing machines used the music from the robocop videogame on the Amstrad!
One thing that gives me comfort is what my mates step dad said:
'Every person with a hobby is a trainspotter really'
Which I kind of liked
(, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 11:59, 5 replies)
Ariston advertused "Da Da Da" by German New Wave legends Trio.
/Music geek blog
(, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 12:04, closed)
Really?I thought it was from the robocop music on the amstrad 6128?
(, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 12:11, closed)
Me too!I thought it was the music from Robocop on the ZX Spectrum! I remember pointing it out to my mates.
(, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 12:23, closed)
that robocop story is doing the rounds but:uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070521092240AAf0w9e&show=7
(, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 7:44, closed)
butit was used in the robocop game as well, I am right with that tho?
(, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 10:49, closed)
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