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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Nerdy? Maybe,geeky? Yes.
I read and collect comics, have attended several conventions ( full-on freak goldmines ) and keep mine bagged and boarded.
I used to play paper and pencil RPGs- Call of Cthulhu, Runequest, Paranoia, Warhammer ( long before 40K ), Car Wars, Bushido and that's just the ones I can remember.
I have a completist streak, which had me searching for a copy of The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner twenty years after I first read The Shockwave Rider, and which compels me to search out every work by a given author or album by a band even if they aren't much cop compared to the one I really liked.
Despite this, I am 15 years into a very happy relationship with my Significant Other; she reads some of the comics, listens to some of the music, but flat out refuses to read the SF because of the cheesy covers. Can't win 'em all.
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uncle bastard is twanging a dan moi, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 14:37,
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Ialso do that! one song then aI get as much as possible, hence a load of BNL albums, Goo Goo Dolls and Jack Johnson!
Still, it's worth it sometimes! YOu can find some real gems once in a while
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