
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.
( , Thu 6 Mar 2008, 10:32)
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A breakout nerd is a nerd who uses said nerdiness to score popularity points, resulting in friends that you can talk to even if your internet goes down.
I am invited to pretty much every quiz that exists in the local town, and the paper is simply passed to me if a round comes up on films, or books.
I knew that I truly loved my girlfriend when I made a joke about Metachlorians and she completely understood it, and I knew I wanted to spend the rest of my life with her when she did a spot-on impression of R2-D2.
I totally get the chaos theory idea that the gunner on the Death Star that DOESN'T shoot the pod the bots are in is the sole reason the 3 films exist.
The joke 'With binary, there are 10 kinds of people. Those who understand it, and those who don't' makes me laugh, a lot, every time....after I explain it.
Most of my jokes need a lenghtly explanation for anyone who didnt watch a cult show, 4 episodes long, aired in another country, at 2am, on a small TV channel.
MST3K is the best thing in the world.
I have a Dalek suit designed for a 9yr old that i squeeze into for every fancy dress party I go to.
I spend more money on DVDs than I do on everything else combined.
I BURN OUR my DVD players after about 6 months, and HAVE to buy multi-region ones, coz most of my favourite films and shows have never graced these Isles.
The Commodore 64 is God.
When I die, I want to go out on rollers, to the wail of bagpipes.
Also, if i remember rightly, in Manic Miner, Moonlight Sonata plays at the intro screen. If anyone wants to code it, the code, off the top of my head is DEFB &51,&3C,&33,&51,&3C,&33,&51,&3C,&33,&51,&3C,&33
DEFB &51,&3C,&33,&51,&3C,&33,&51,&3C,&33,&51,&3C,&33
DEFB &4C,&3C,&33,&4C,&3C,&33,&4C,&39,&2D,&4C,&39,&2D
DEFB &51,&40,&2D,&51,&3C,&33,&51,&3C,&36,&5B,&40,&36
DEFB &66,&51,&3C,&51,&3C,&33,&51,&3C,&33,&28,&3C,&28
DEFB &28,&36,&2D,&51,&36,&2D,&51,&36,&2D,&28,&36,&28
DEFB &28,&3C,&33,&51,&3C,&33,&26,&3C,&2D,&4C,&3C,&2D
DEFB &28,&40,&33,&51,&40,&33,&2D,&40,&36,&20,&40,&36
DEFB &3D,&79,&3D,&FF
Every game I ever made had Moonlight Sonata in it somewhere, lol
( , Fri 7 Mar 2008, 12:17, 6 replies)

Oh god. I noticed that you spelled midichlorians incorrectly. This makes me sad for myself.
( , Fri 7 Mar 2008, 12:24, closed)

I thought I had spelt it right the way you did, but on Google, it was spelt meta, so I changed it
( , Fri 7 Mar 2008, 12:27, closed)

You squeeze into a 9 year old at every fancy dress party you go to?
That's out of order.
( , Fri 7 Mar 2008, 12:36, closed)

I don't even remember an opportunity for a Death Star gunner to shoot a pod with bots in.
( , Fri 7 Mar 2008, 13:14, closed)

i do remember a Star Destroyer gunner who could have shot an escape pod, but not a death star gunner... ;)
( , Fri 7 Mar 2008, 13:40, closed)
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