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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you tell mei love star trek, star wars (not the prequels mind), star gate and other assorted sci-fi sometimes quoting them in conversation
my ring tone used to be the 2nd kroykah which you may remember from the star trek episode "amok time" (my housemate made me change it because it annoyed the hell out of him)
i practically get an erection every time nvidia release a new graphics card which i then drool/cry over because i want it but cant afford it
i own a "polar love" poster, a shirt with teh fear on it as well as a couple of shirts from webcomics
i read webcomics
on occasion i have said lol and rofl while talking to people face to face
i wanted a joypad for my pc, but didnt want to spend much money so i got an old xbox controller and soldered an old usb cable to it
i play a lot of fps and have played some games ot the point where i have dreampt i wqas either playing them or actually in them, i have 3 versions of unreal tournament installed on my pc (cant figure out why but i cant bear to uninstall any one of them) and i have come to the realization that i cant play rpgs because i just get obsessed with leveling up and getting the best equipment rather than following the story
when ever i sit down at a pc (it doent matter where) my left hand instinctively goes for wasd (with my little finger on left shift and my thumb on space)
i no longer watch tv, if there is a show on i want to watch i get it from bittorrent
i used to play warhammer 40k (one of my friends started a club for it at school) but i preferred painting the miniatures to playing the game and i hve been to the games workshop museum in nottingham several times
i used to race radio control kit cars at a club every weekend
for some reason i think things like environmental scanning electron microscopy and stable isotope mass spectrometry are cool (possibly the most worrying)
this list will probably get longer over the course of the week...
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Reme Philips laid an epic dump on, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 20:25,
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CSCS: Source got far too real for me at one point. I would at oner point, for example, constantly hear in-game noises instead or real ones and i would think of RL situations and layouts as i would in-game and work out the best way to get everywhere without getting shot!
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MadAdamUk was last alive on, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 22:43,
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