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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Some people seem to have missedthe word 'story', in the whole Question of the Week business. As much fun as it is to read endless, repetitive lists of things people do/TV shows people watch which they think makes them 'nerdy', I believe the intention was for you to share *stories*, which we might actually be arsed reading.
Also, why do people have this obsession with the fact that they watch certain genres of television/film, read graphic novels, play computer games etc making them qualify as nerds? As far as I'm concerned, it's just a form of entertainment that you happen to like. Lots of people watch Star Trek. They just don't all go to conventions.
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St3cks, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 10:20,
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the thing isnerds like lists
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andthey like to compare their lists to other peoples' lists
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flirting with badgers What? It sounded good at the time., Sat 8 Mar 2008, 4:13,
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yep...Just what I was thinking, it does get boring just reading lists of things people think are geeky, somehow getting to read a list of all the computers someone has bought over the years just isn't that interesting to anyone buy them...
Last weeks QOTW, while pretty depressing overall, had some fantastic stories about the people involved and what they got up to, depressing but so much more interesting to read, and at some points almost crying with laughter from some of the tales (from the people whop chose to celebrate the life, rather than the death of someone)
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