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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Apparently a geek...I am apparently a geek. Yet I've never seen a full episode of Star Trek, only watched the 6 Star Wars films and not explored the other stuff in there, as well as never having watched any of the major sci-fi programs on TV apart from Farscape. But Farscape's ace. (Which, coincidentally, my ex got me into, even though she claimed she wasn't a geek.)
However, I have been known to toy around with computers and rebuild them from scratch, have been known to have almost every single games console released in the UK, with the exception of the PS3, have been a WoW addict (I've been clean... 1 month now!), can quote about half of Metal Gear Solid 1, have been known to roleplay through almost all of the original Resident Evil dialogue with friends helping me out by being other characters, and actually recreating Resident Evil scenes a lot (i.e. the Super Leon-esque scenes from RE4, with the lasers and the throwing oneself out of the window from great heights and rolling and then leaping up and killing others. Or at least airsofting others.)
I have a small fascination with coats too, to the degree where if I don't think the coat will go with anything I own, I won't get it. I'm also saving up the pennies to order a custom-made Peacekeeper trenchcoat off the internet in April. Which will go nicely with my trousers, and if I'm really lucky, will be able to get the PK vest too and actually dress up as John Crichton, just without the cantaloupe melons being smuggled in my arms. Cookie to anyone who gets the reference.
I've also learnt to speak the Old Tongue from the Wheel of Time series, as well as all the languages used in the Memory Sorrow and Thorn trilogy, although thats mainly from a combination of boredom and loving languages. And lastly, I play D'n'D. Not so much nowadays. I want to start again though with all my mates and try and do stuff properly. So yeah, I guess I am a geek.
(, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 16:13, 3 replies)
farscape is ACE*envies pretty jacket*
i highly recommend the new Battlestar Galactica
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Raudulfr, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 0:00,
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CoolI'll have to check it out over Easter at some point.
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Ditto for quoting MGS :DI've been obsessed with the whole series since the first one came out. I got the limited edition box set with the shirt and Konami dog tags :D I've still got the postcards in mint condition.
Can't wait for Guns of the Patriots... I saw footage of the Konami conference where they showed off 15 minutes of actual gameplay, best graphics I've ever seen.
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