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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I liked Barrett......although he was a bit weird, even for me.
But one very interesting thing came to light when he died- it turns out that Gilmour had been supporting him for all these years, making sure that his needs were taken care of. And, typical of Gilmour, he never said anything about it.
As for Wright... somewhere along the line I read an interview with Gilmour where he said that Waters had been ragging Wright so badly for so long that he thought he was a lousy musician, and it took Gilmour a long time to help him get his confidence back. As Pink Floyd's sound has always been heavily dependent on Gilmour's guitar and Wright's piano, I found it especially galling that the bassist- whose most noteworthy and award-winning pieces of music were actually played by the guitarist, not him- would be slagging off the organist whose work set them apart even in the Barrett years. So yes, Wright was canned by Waters, but I feel that it was Waters who caused the problems in the first place...
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The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Fri 7 Mar 2008, 16:54,
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