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’m glad I left this until the end of the day......because I keep thinking of more things.
Also I generally prefer ‘geeky’ to ‘nerdy’ but whatever turns you on (as a mate of mine once said to his German teacher…).
1. All the usual alphabetical and chronological ordering in my CD collection.
2. Despite the fact that there is an Xbox and a Wii in my household (and my PC is about 2000 times more powerful), I prefer messing around with my Amiga 500+. I still find the ‘Say’ program in Workbench funny. Also I won’t play Monkey Island II on my PC instead of the Amiga (where it has 11 discs…) because the music and sound effects are crap.
3. Red Dwarf: fully paid-up, card-carrying member of the fan club. Haven’t been to a convention (yet). I even like series VII and VIII (although not as much as the rest, obviously… *waits for shitstorm*). I felt especially geeky when I found the easter egg on the series V DVD by remembering the code from the Inquisitor’s glove (“Gamma! Delta! 1,4 5!”).
4. I have the Lord of the Rings extended DVD boxset… but have probably (‘definitely’) watched the extras more than I’ve watched the films themselves.
5. My Facebook status is a Douglas Adams quote.
6. Me and my housemate are obsessed with trying to bring the word ‘guff’ back into general usage (tenuous maybe…)
7. I spent too much money and dressed as Hellboy at a party recently… and now have a Mr Potato Head Spiderman for my troubles.
I also thoroughly enjoy a good bit of progressive death metal. Although that’s more muso-ey than geeky (I play in a metal band), there’s probably a bit of a crossover somewhere.
Am I sorry? Hell, no! I couldn’t give a toss.
*edit* and having just read Sheehan's post below, I've realised that I too have a collection of Star Wars lego (I'm 25). I also have stored somewhere on my PC instructions for building a Super Star Destroyer, that will get built if I ever have enough cash to buy two Star Destroyer sets... (£500)
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