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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The recipe for nerds.My recipe for being a nerd is as follows:
Take a child with at least one parent who worked in the dawn of the computer age, and simmer gently for 10 years. Add a multitude of 8 bit machines, including the obligatory ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and Amstrad CPC464, but also a dash of MSX, Oric and Dragon 32. Mash in a healthy dollop of computer magazines like Crash and Your Sinclair, and leave to simmer for another 5 years. Take the resulting mixture and transfer it to computer college to add flavour and texture to the mix, but also adding a smattering of physics, before taking the distilled result and putting it into a computer electronics course. Sieve gently through a large assortment of languages like C and Forth, then sieve again through a finer mesh of assembly languages. The final product can be used as a good diet for fruit machine programming, but has been substantial for a chip vending machine. Although the recipe can be old and stale, it really is only appetising for PCs now, although the occasional gem of taste is found in the form of games written in Blitz 3D with an after taste of the 8 bit era.
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