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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Glazed eyes all roundAt last a topic more up my street (the rest have been too exciting or normal I'm afraid). I'm 40, live alone with 3 cats and have more computers under this roof than women I've slept with...
I shan't post too much cos I could be here all night, highlights? I bought a ZX-81 in 1981 with my summer holiday money then spent the next year pulling it apart and learning assembler. Next years money got me a Jupiter Ace and parts to hand build a 16KB rampack (ah the joys of using Forth). My parents got me a BBC B as they decided I had some sort of talent and the prescience to think it might make me a career. I still remember 17 at Uni: a mate and me would take the bus into town then go from shop to shop ripping off their EPROMs to floppy and putting the C64s into infinite loops spewing juvenile filth 8) The bastard had dress sense though and got all the birds.
At 20 I discovered Unix via Tannenbaums Minix, finished my motorbike license and saved enough cash to buy a hard disk. A scant few years later I was a System Admin at a Uni, wrote a MUD and contributed bits to the burgeoning Linux project.
I can't watch a lot of films, I end up shouting at the screen and having to turn it off. Too illogical, too stupid and too wrong - Hollywood, computers do NOT fucking beep constantly or make chugging noises. Arrrgh!
Time to stop, your eyes are going and the smile is starting to crack - after so many years I can actually see the signs now (and know I'm not scoring again). Another drink and flash up a game - Neverwinter Nights 2 - in honour of GG.
/lurk on
(, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 22:06, Reply)
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