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 used to be a Nerd (but I'm alright(ish) now) ...First computer was good old ZX81 (was about 10/11), what was the first thing I did, read the manual end-to-end, and started writing my own games, never actually getting around to playing them!!!
Progressed to ZX Spectrum, (age around 12/13) swapped this for an Acorn Electron, (friend i swapped with didnt care about value difference, only cared about it having more games),me however,learnt 6502 Assembler .. couldnt afford Zeus Dis-assembler, so wrote my own in BBC Basic!!!
File from said project above, got screwed on fucking C60 tape ....
... discovered alcohol, girls, drugs, rock n rolls ...
never looked back ... until now (approaching 40!!)
THANKS QOTW!! Bastards! ;)
Edit: Just for old times sake I looked up 6502 on the old google and found this ...
ask.metafilter.com/65818/I-want-to-learn-6502-assembly
... date Jun 28th 2007!!!! Somebody get this guy some alcohol!
Edit: For the record, as someone just posted a now deleted message, this is not meant to be a complaining, insulting post, satrical ... yes! and having a laugh at ourselves.
(, Mon 10 Mar 2008, 15:58, 1 reply)
*Beats that guy at 6502 geekery*I built this:
It's a 1MHz NMOS 6502 as well, the lowest-spec kind.
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idonthaveafunnynickname Drink-Aware? Sure. I'm aware I want another drink., Mon 10 Mar 2008, 16:39,
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