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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This old chestnut againThe 'threat from the East' has been interpreted, IIRC, as having echoes of the rise of fascism in the 1930s across Europe (quite popular in Britain in the 30's), that Hitler chap, and the workers paradise of the Soviet Union.
It's an accident of history and geography, folks. The bad guys have to come from somewhere: if it had been an invasion from the South then you'd have the Septics claiming it was based upon the 'Merkin Civil War (personally I prefer the term 'War of Northern Aggression' as it has a nicer ring to it but hey) and then tweed-wearing types would be identifying the various, and I point this out FICTIONAL, ethnicities within LOTR with another bunch in reality.
It's a book. The author wrote it during a particularly turbulent time in history. He may have been affected by current events at the time, but it's a frigging book. I quite like it, in it's place, but I have no desire to dress up as an elf. The movie was okay too...
Oh fuckit. BURN HIM. BURN THE APOSTATE, THE SCOFFER AT ALMIGHTY TOLKIEN.
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