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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GeekdomHmmm, I go through phases of geekieness from time to time. I definitely poses the compulsive attitude geeks seem to find towards anything, you know how we find a new hobby and spend a fortune / dedicate way too much time to it? Then we get bored and forget about it.
This has happened with a few things, M:tg (This resulted in probably 20 thousand cards including a number of full play sets (4 of every card in the set). In my defense though, I did become a judge, so I got boxes and boxes of free product. (All sold off years and years ago)
Gaming: At home in Working order I have a number of gameboys, a psp, an xbox 360, an xbox, a nes, a snes and an atari 2600.
AD&D: I had quite an extensive collection spanning multiple editions. All long gone now though.
War gaming: A few hundred miniatures spanning a couple of different systems. Mostly our home made future setting (Cause Games Workshop makes shit rules)
Computers: Been programming since I was a child. I currently have 4 computers in active use (6 total, but 2 are in storage). Two run Windows, two run Linux. I have shelves and shelves of computer related books, everything from programming to networking.
My most recent obsession is magic (As in sleight of hand), I have been doing this for about two years now, and in true geekieness this means that I spend too much money on it (Shelves of books and dvds (And I go through at least two decks of cards a week)). I also feel completely comfortable walking up to a stranger in the street and saying "Hi, would you mind holding my little red ball for a minute"
I would say I wish I had all the money back I have spent on all this crap over the years, but I really don't. I think that all these hobbies and pass times I lovingly obsessed about before dumping in the river like a dead hooker really helped to shape my life. Without them would I be the bitter cynical asshole that I am today?
(, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 9:47, Reply)
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