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 agree, in generalBut to be fair, most books go into much more detail, partly due to having to describe in words the visual and aural elements of the plot, so a film that followed the book verbatim would either not make sense or go on for ages. Writing a screenplay requires a great deal of skill to turn a good book into a good film.
Sometimes it works. Sometimes (Northern Lights/Golden Compass being a prime example) it doesn't. Finishing a film a chapter early is a bit naughty, to say the least.
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K2k6 has a proper job these days, Wed 12 Mar 2008, 13:23,
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