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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My boyfriend is a geek too (we'd spoil another couple)I've mentioned my worrying tendency to cry at cartoons and meeting Terry Pratchett further down, but I reckon Mr Claireyfairy (*waves to eddieheadache*) probably takes the nerd biscuit over me (a Gold Bar perhaps?).
Case for the prosecution:
He's a microbiologist. He likes bacteria. He talks about it quite a bit, like the Yakult man (the fit Tarquin one, thankfully). Actually, he's quite cross with Yakult at the moment because they published a paper saying it was OK to give the spunky drink to recovering alcoholics, but he says the bacteria growth from Yakult would do more harm than good. I'm paraphrasing, because I didn't understand half of it and phrases like "opportunistic pathogens" were used.
Don't get him started on MRSA.
He has played Magic: The Gathering and D&D and Cthulu and seems quite proud of the fact. Oh and Atmosfear.
He loves his FIFA games and is still playing the 08 version on a nightly basis, 18 months after he got it. He's taking Rochdale all the way to the top at the moment, having already done so with Sheffield United. He does his own commentary on the matches sometimes. That's probably just a male thing though.
28 Days Later scares the crap out of him because "it could happen" (the microbiology thing again).
He knows all the songs from all the episodes from The Simpsons, has a selection of the albums and series 1-10 on DVD. His favourite Simpsons episode is the one where Homer thinks Bart is gay :)
He has all the Red Dwarf VHS tapes and owns a Davy Crockett hat.
Our DVD rental list has things like "Garth Marenghi's Dark Place", "Man To Man With Dean Learner", "Muse - Hullabaloo - Live At The Zenith Paris", "Troll 2", "Horror Of The Blood Monsters", "Brain of Blood" and "Brewster's Millions" on it.
Right now, he's carefully selecting the Miis that look the most like Plato to vote for in the Mii contest on his Wii (wireless internet, obviously). He keeps asking me if I think they look enough like Plato. They all look the same to me!
He's a geek and I love him :)
(, Sat 8 Mar 2008, 0:45, 2 replies)
Oh wowI love troll 2!!!
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Troll 2Never seen it myself but I'm sure I'll soon have the pleasure as it's on the rental list. Woo.
(, Wed 12 Mar 2008, 21:15, closed)
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