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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And cannonballs, for real pec-grippingVirtually any movie or TV prog, from that piece of inane drivel The Patriot to the Last of the Mohicans, that involves cannon being used, causes me to get all shouty and grumpy and my dear lady wife adopts the "la-la-la-I'm-not-listening" mode.
Cannonballs (roundshot) do NOT explode on impact. Because they are a BFO iron ball, and nothing more. They fly through the ranks of Johnny Foreigner causing much hurtiness and eventually roll to a stop or get embedded in something. The damage to the unfortunate buggers who you are firing said BFO ball at is caused by 4-24 pounds of very hot iron passing through, or close to you at a fair old speed. They can also kick up splinters, chunks of masonry etc and cause more damage, but they do not explode. Bloody SFX types.
(Before anyone chips in, I'm not even going into Shrapnel,Case,Spherical Case, Canister, Explosive Shell, Chain, Bar, Langridge etc. I just don't like roundshot exploding with a 'whumpf' and sixteen Frenchmen swooning to the ground)
(NB loading a cannon with cowpats is fun)
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