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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Mostly GeekA few years back I was working in Credit Control. One day a customer calls up to dispute an invoice, after explaining that as per the T&Cs of the contract the charges were correct he had to pay. He retaliated with "I've been trying to resolve this for 3 weeks" in a word I said "tough shit, pay up". However, all through the conversation I was thinking the customer's name was familiar, obviously I will not state it here. Anyhow, I get him off the line, he's going to pay but is pissed off.
I google his name and low and behold the name of the customer is the same as that of a computer programmer from the 80's. So I call him back on the grounds that I had had a word with my boss (lie)re the poor customer service and we would like to offer him a 50% credit to the invoice, to which he said thanks and excepted. As the call was winding to an end I asked
"Err, did you write XXXX" to which he replied "Yes" you could then here the tumble weed as neither of us had anything else to say. I then ended the call. Geek? Yes because it was not Mathew Smith or Jeff Minter.
I would like to state now I am sorry for not buying your game back in the 80's, but a friend copied it for me so with interest the 50% credit makes up for my theft.
PS: Lenslok was shite.
(, Sat 8 Mar 2008, 19:12, 1 reply)
David Braben or Ian BellI assume?
(, Sat 8 Mar 2008, 20:32, closed)
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