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 have been told i am a geek....I strongly protest in the way that only and alpha male geek can. with facts and figures.
I am pedantic and have some areas of knowledge i probably shouldn't. I was in my mates Dr who club when i was 10, and made to study the Dr and the books. I still have a huge knowledge and usually can object to Dr Who pub quiz questions - favourite is "how many Dr Who's have there been?". McGann is always a spanner in the works. sometimes they even just some up with 6!!!!
I have a degree in Applied Maths and stats. (only offset in geekiness by the 3 year hedonism of being at Uni in the 90's - Rave on).
I have a huge huge memory for kids TV shows from 15-20 years ago. i scored 97 out of 100 on the recognise the kids tv show excel quiz that went round a year or so back. my mate thought she was good, nay excellent, with 95. I couldn't hold back my smug glee.
I wrote some software for my acorn electron as a Darts practice simulator to train my real darts playing up. (it did the scores and had "players" to "play" against).
I just sold my transformers collection - 150 actual transformers and the first 150 issues of the comic from 1983 onwards. And can still name them and think the movie - although excellent - is simply not the same story.
Shit. I am a geek. Probably in the same way you get a functioning alcoholic i am a functioning geek. I will always be a geek on the inside, but sometimes i can hold it all in.
And yes. i was bullied at school for a bit. That was mainly coz i was a chunky monkey.
And i just edited my spelling mistakes out of this after i posted this. arsecheeks
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bazza van der trance , ooh baby baby, baby baby. Get up on this., Thu 6 Mar 2008, 14:57,
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*clicks*for "alpha male geek" - have to remember that one
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Check it again..Bwahahahahah! 'sometimes they even just some up with 6!!!! '
Sorry. My own internal geekiness forced me to point that out.
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