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 still proud that:My first experience of the WWW was on a 486, via telnet, in 1994.
I completed Dune 1 within 100 game days, without bothering to explore the southern seitches.
I caned a mate at Red Altert, within five minutes of kicking off the game, by using Orcas*, then did exactly the same thing again.
[ninja edit - yip, helicopters - I was thinking of C&C]
I sometimes stay up to 4AM playing Team Fortress or browsing.
I have over 350 hours of music on my PC, which I built, like all but my first one.
I was deemed an "Uber-geek" by a book called "Are You a Nerd" or something of the like.
So yes - I'm a bit nerdy.
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Parmesan Quality b4 Quantity, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 20:48,
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Orcas? In Red Alert?You mean Orcas in CNC, surely?
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uberdeity Wondered why Owen Lars knew of the term "hell" on, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 20:53,
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i have that book...I'm 4 points off being a geek, my boyfriend is 8 points off being a geek, but a good friend of ours was "nerdmeister general" - the highest
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