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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personally...I always took it that a geek is someone with knowedge of something 'non mainstream' - so knowledge of how to programme a computer rather than just look at the internet, can tell you lots of technical details about guitars rather than playing them, reads lots of books, has a huge dvd collection and home cinema, etc... fairly normal things, just taken to slightly obsessive levels that most people don't care about
A nerd I would say is a slightly more specialised version of a geek - the more obscure hobbies like trainspotting or stamp collecting (to pick the obvious choices) and more of a lack of social skills and 'style', whereas a geek can quite happily coexist alongside the general public (and is often in demand through knowledge that can be put to use fixing friends computers or helping setup the surround sound) the nerd tends to prefer his own company or that of similar nerds
There is always the gray area, some people are just socially awkward but not really 'nerdy' as such, and there are some 'nerds' who can be perfectly normal people.
Thats just my take on it at least.
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