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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BBC Model BI love BBC Model B's. Best computer ever. I found one a while back, in about 1998 and wrote a Millenium Countdown Clock and we left in on in the office for nearly 2 years.
As we had to work that night, (huge overtime bonuses) we gathered round and watched it countdown (well count-up actually) whilst quaffing some cheap beer. I was a bit miffed when it went:
23:59:58
23:59:59
23:59:60
23:59:61 etc.
(Not to mention in reality it was about 1045pm in the evening and had been running fast all along).
Happy days though, happy days.
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I have run out of coke is a little sweaty, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 13:06,
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.I wrote a short adventure game in BASIC. It even had a voice synthesiser saying things like "well done, you have found the gold" or whatever.
My dad to this day tells people I "work in computers", on the basis that I use one on my desk.
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browser still relating boring anecdotes into a void on, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 13:39,
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Nerdiness confirmedMy colleague and I both laughed out loud to this one. It's confirmed, we are nerd.
*clicks*
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Thanks for thatI've been laughing for a full five minutes over what is, essentially, a story about a shit clock. Thanks for that, you made my day.
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Gleeballs is mostly made out of chocolate and hate., Fri 7 Mar 2008, 12:51,
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