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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Refute what?I'm saying, you're reading too much into things, and if you see things like that when you analyse what is essentially a story book designed for entertainment, then you're thinking about it too much.
The concept of goodies and baddies is well established in literature, and the idea of a gentle farming folk being the loveable race who gets caught up in the middle of a war they don't understand is by no means a reference to anything. It's just a story, which I enjoy reading. And playing the MMO of :P
EDIT: Also, you can't really say you didn't expect flaming, if you posted something mildly outrageous and anti- something which is generally regarded as well-loved among geeks, on a QOTW which is about geeks, and is therefore likely to attract a geeky readership.
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St3cks, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 10:40,
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