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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Im brian, and so's my dadI am the son of an engineer, grandson of an engineer, and have two engineer uncles. pretty much every man in my family has some sort of engineering/science background. As such we all feel the need to accumulate tools.
regardless of how often we need them we will go out and acquire obscure tools and gadgets. a family of hoarders. Never are plumbers/builders/electricians called out in our family, to eschew DIY is a slight on the family way. We are a people of technical skills its in our blood.
I am no exception, I have the need for cool computer gadgets and unlimited freewere. My tool collection takes up an entire wardrobe. My car is a old clunker, I take pride in the ability of the mighty gaffa tape to hold it together. I could rewire a plug from age 7, and to this day would rather build furniture than buy it.
despite being 21, my new fan heater is a source of pride to me as it has more features than my housemates one. I brag about the technical spec of it and any other of my possessions. I still love my sega megadrive, and believe it to be the pinnacle of gaming technology. Weird al is on my MP3 player, that is also held together with gaffa tape.
Is this madness? No this is nerdcore!
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willenium Fist bump for verification, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 15:59,
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