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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Despite possessing The Nerd Gene......I have - somehow - managed to breed.
This weekend, I took the boy Scaryduck Jr to Games Workshop for the first time ever to buy loads and loads of over-priced Warhammer 40K gear.
I could feel - Dwayne Dibley style - the braces re-appearing on my teeth, and a lime-green tanktop appearing under my anorak.
From father to son. It is done.
My daughter took one look at the flower of England's spotty youth sitting round tables and rolling dice and decided to wait outside for fear of "being contaminated by geek germs". I don't blame her.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Mon 10 Mar 2008, 10:49,
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It mutates too...I played D&D a few times when a teenager (I soooo wanted to be a dungeon master because of the planning involved along with the drawing of small maps, ingenious devices for killing people and just the sheer potential for my imagination) and this has mutated into a Warhammer 40k obsession in one of my twin sons. He's 10 years old. His other current obsession is either Populous played on an Amiga emulator or else Civilisation, oh, and Jurassic Park. In fact we went to the Science Museum during half term and saw Dino 3D in the IMAX - I thought it was as dull as ditchwater - he was almost wetting himself with excitement as the palaeontologists explained all about some site in Arizona. He knew all about it from playing Jurassic Park on the PC - who says computer games don't teach you anything?
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chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Mon 10 Mar 2008, 10:59,
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They Fuck You UpYour Mum and Dad.
Seems apt.
Cheers
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Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Mon 10 Mar 2008, 11:30,
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