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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Video Games over A-levelsI used to play an FPS (First person shooter) called TFC; I used to play it on a national level (this alone should be geeky enough, but there is more).
In order to be one of the top EU players I had to train every day for a minimum of 3 hours, which actually wasn't a lot compared to the Swedish team which would often sack players for not training enough (they would require you to train for 5+ hours per day minimum, geeks…).
Anyway, once during an important match I got a phone call from college; my dad picked it up as I was busy playing of course. It turned out that I forgot to turn up for my math’s A level exam as well as some other one I cannot remember. My father was too puzzled to shout at me, plus as we are not from the UK he didn’t know how important those “A levels” were and thought they were just some small pointless exam (which they are of course, merely a 'good-boy' gold star on your cv).
I rushed to school once I was done with the match only to find an upset head teacher shaking his head in disappointment. He reminded me how much of a loser (not his words) I was for not turning up to my final exams. I tried to explain that I genuily forgot about it as I was too busy getting my fragging skillz up and didn't wish to take it again as "I couldn't see the use of it for my future" (actual quote). Needless to say he didn't care about my online prowess and hinted that I would most likely grow up to be a bum as my only strong points were: Art and .... Gaming.
I'm now a Games Designer for a top UK company - and I love my job - Geek all the way
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Wooo2Fort FTW !!
or Well i suppose
I miss HWGays, and conc jumping
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samjuk, Tue 11 Mar 2008, 12:32,
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