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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To be honestI think the question is a little flawed, which is where run into the seemingly petty semantics of 'nerd' and 'geek'.
You sir, are a nerd, and a pretty nerdy nerd at that (I use it as a form of praise...or description, depending on your self esteem). Most of the B3tans are more maths/SciFi/computing oriented, and are therefore geeks. I really think there should be a distinction, not so much because I'm anal but because we have different words because they're useful and have subtly different connotations which help us define the world around us!
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Hampster Squared has stuff at www.tilla.co.uk, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 15:07,
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