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 wouldn't count myself as too badBut the word "how" has inspired me to answer.
I'm pretty into my computer games, it used to be the old RTSs like Total Annihilation, Red Alert and the like.
Now I find myself spending stupid amounts of time playing RPGs, like (the Star Wars-based) Knights of The Old Republic, Oblivion, Mass Effect, Fallout and so on.
I realised the other day that I've played through some of those games five or six times, at 30-odd hours a time.
Maybe that does count as nerdiness. *shrugs*
On the subject of gaming, I hate "online gaming", as I'd much rather play with myself *ahem*...
I don't like the idea of being beaten by some 13-year-old web-footed inbred from America.
I own a pretty substantial collection of DVDs and books, because (I wonder if anyone out there has the same problem as me?) I have a pretty good memory for plots and dialogue.
That sounds a useful thing, but it's rubbish, as I don't get any "replay value" out of these things.
I can watch a film once, and be able to quote most of it, and remember the full plot, shot for shot, for years, which really ruins seeing it again.
Same thing with books.
Appologies for unfocused rambling, length, and lack of humour.
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Cawl, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 12:30,
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That'svery true,
I have the same problem, although not to the same degree as you.
Although ask me anythign work related and I know sod all, so perhaps it's some kind of Karmic balance thing.
ALso love the RPGS but not massive on online gaming, will play with friends (fnarr fnarr) tho
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FALLOUT!!!!!one!!!eleven!!1!1!!11!!!!!!!!11!!1onehundredandeleven!Ok, as you can tell from the title I like fallout quite a lot. And fallout 2, but not fallout tactics that was terrible. I'd have to say it's my favourite game of all time ever, closely beating baldur's gate. There's constant talk about a third one being made but it's a kind of Duke Nukem forever scenario (i.e. never going to happen).
I could talk about my favourite parts of the two games here but that might be slightly too far. I'll just say that dogmeat is my favourite character from a computer game ever, the best NPC dog a player could have.
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As far as I knowFallout 3 is coming out this Autumn.
So... April = GTA 4
Summer = Star Wars: The Force Unleased
Autumn = Fallout!
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Cawl, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 14:05,
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