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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Confused Pedant reminds me......my start in programming came from a ZX81. It was promised to me for ages, but the folks never quite got around to digging it out from 'one of the boxes in the loft somewhere'. They did, after literally months of nagging, manage to look for long enough to find an accompanying 'learn to program the ZX81' book. Whoot! I learned my first programming language from a book, without the computer to test things out on. The ZX81 never did surface, but by the time I got my first computer (a spectrum+2 that christmas), I already knew enough to start pissing around writing crappy text adventures the day it came out of the box.
I did the same thing with PHP about 10/15 years later - took a book on holiday with no computer access and came back knowing enough to get stuck in.
More impatient than nerdy, but nerdy enough to warrant a mention.
(, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 1:31, Reply)
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