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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^ Wee WitchI know exactly what you mean. I'm a big fan of Christopher Brookmyre's stuff (haven't got round to his latest yet, but got all the others). So I was well looking forward to the TV version of Quite Ugly One Morning. Until I found out that playing the Scottish-as-kilts-and-haggis lead character Jack Parlabane would be... James Fucking Nesbitt. (Actually, technically kilts aren't of Scottish origin, but...)
Jesus Christ. He played the part as he plays every other - as that insufferable cheeky Irish chappie with the mischevious glint in the eye. Listening to him spout words like 'keech' was squirm inducing. It was just wrong and probably the most monumentally bad casting ever.
Oh, and can heartily recommend Mr Brookmyre's stuff, Ms Swipe, if you feel that tales of Scottish crime, violence and comedy would be up your street.
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Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Sun 9 Mar 2008, 12:42,
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