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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My whole life revolved around the Commodore 64Okay, so that's a lie. I did have friends... whose lives also revolved around the Commodore 64 and who I used to trade games with. I had the whole caboodle, including the floppy disc drive that cost twice as much as the computer. And Dolphin Dos, which actually made the floppy drive run at floppy drive speeds, rather than a bit faster than the cassette should have done.
I participated in all of the rivalry between the C64 and the Spectrum. "Only 38K free for BASIC" they'd taunt. "Who the hell programs in BASIC?" we'd reply.
And then Compunet came along: It was like Prestel/Micronet but fun. A bit like a baby Internet, run out of a cupboard somewhere in Perivale*. Fogg's Spot was probably the b3ta of its day. Well it had a similar balance of humour and filth anyway. Compunet also got me into the 'demo writing' thing, though my stuff was never of notable quality. My crowning achievement was a 16 line parallax sideways-scroller that gave you a blinding headache if you watched it for more than two and a half minutes.
*Now I'm waiting for the real geeks to come along and correct me.
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Horatio P Lemming, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 18:15,
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