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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Top Trumpsturned me into Saddy McSad, Sad Towers, Sad Street. There used to be a "Supercars" set, and whereas most sets had a picture and the facts on the front, these had the picture on the front and the facts on the back. This meant that there was room for loads of really obscure and thoroughly useless bits of info. Most had speed, acceleration, engine size, power and number of cylinders and that was pretty much it. These had all that and tons more.... price, weight, turning circle, fuel tank capacity, oil tank capacity (why on earth would you EVER need that in the real world) and I loved them. I knew every stat inside out and I'm sure I even corrected someone when they misquoted one. Just by knowing which car it was I knew if I had won or lost without even having to turning it over.
Umpteen years down the line and on one of the sky channels there was a Classic Car type prog, and in the titles they showed various tantalising close up of details and I recognized both the featured cars on that show.
From close ups.
Of the headlights.
Admittedly they were a bit give-awayey (an Alfa Montreal and a Citroen SM) but I have never before or since felt quite so simultaneously proud and ashamed at exactly the same time.
I can't believe how excited I am to confess to being such a twat.
(, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 22:29, 3 replies)
don't worry, we've all been therei'm female, yet i blew off lunch and a shopping trip with my friends to sit at home and watch top gear, purely because they were featuring the bugatti veyron.
it was worth it.
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Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 23:09,
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Yes, butHave you memorized the tyre sizes, pressures, steering wheel diameter and assorted other bollocks and found out whether they would beat either a Lamborghini Countach LP400S or a Ferrari 365 GTB/4.
Oh, more shame! More shame!
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errm no, i haven't gone that far.my geekery tends to be more film-related than anything. i'm always getting phone calls along the lines of "who was that fella in the one with the psychic kids? was he the same one who was in the one where all his family had been killed and he went to siberia to train polar bears?"
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Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 16:46,
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