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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There was a time...When I cared more about megahertz than tits.
When I thought playing Unreal Tournament or chatting on mIRC was socialising.
When exercise was something stupid people did to fill their time.
When having a crush on a girl meant ignoring her and dealing with the despair of knowing you'll never have the courage to ask her out, while comforting yourself with marathon insta-gib sessions on UT, fuelled by laughing cow sandwiches at 3 in the morning.
When programming was fun and exciting.
I was certainly intelligent at school with a lot of potential.
Of course the bullies saw this as a perfect opportunity to make themselves feel better about their diminutive brains so took it upon themselves to make me feel like scum, purely because I voluntarily read books, understood physics and didn't have to write French phonetically.
Over the years this had a conditioning effect and my grades slowly but surely fell, though the bullying continued.
Now, several years on, things haven't changed completely, but they are certainly different. I'm not so much of a gamer, I still eat sandwiches at rediculous times, I'm more confident (often helped by alcohol), would never take shit from any "bully" and I exercise by way of gymnastics every sunday. I also use a mac (shoot me, but know that I'd rather use linux).
I'm not immensely successful with the women but I've had my experiences.
Bare in mind, I still turn on my computer first thing in the morning and off last thing at night, have spent a lot of time/money on computer games (not a vastly unhealthy amount though) and am currently making a small robot for my final year university project.
I also often spend free time working on formant synthesis.
I have a strong inner geek, but he is very much kept inside.
(, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 1:03, 2 replies)
You turn it off at night?Mine is turned off if a reboot hasn't cleared a problem. That's it. Seriously :(
(, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 1:15, closed)
I'm a studentand thus am more energy conscious than I was. It used to be on constantly in halls. But now that we're going through a few quid a day in electricity, we turn off anything unecessary (computers are often necessary), though not all of us adhere to these rules.
(, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 1:23, closed)
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