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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Well nowI met my lovely girlfriend after butting into her conversation on the relative merits of Schrodinger's advancements in the field of quantum mechanics with my observation that Big JCM laid the groundwork for the entire field (plus special relativity) with his Distributions and Equations. I was 17 at the time.
I have spent over 800 hours on Elder Scrolls games over the last 3 years, and easily 600 on the Baldur's Gate series. I now have RSI in my right arm, however I feel this is a small price to pay for what were the formative experiences of my (ongoing) youth.
I enjoy experimental cinema, especially foreign. Tarkovsky is my favourite director by a country mile; this explains why I can play through the entireity of STALKER and most of Solyaris in my head.
I own 600Gb of music on two USB harddrives, much of it stupidly obscure and foreign. One recently corrupted and I wept over it like a dead child before spending around 10 hours nursing my data back to life.
I dual boot XP Pro with Gentoo, and the only non-open source programs I own are games. I have also been using 'puters since age 7 when my mother attempted to teach me basic FORTRAN to keep me out of her hair.
I think I'm the only person in the world who actually enjoys learning organic chemistry (oooh, phenol) and quantum physics (although I'm crap at the maths involved :()
I know my Heechee from my Xeelee and my Starks from my Farseers, and spend hours discussing the relative merits of such things with the aforementioned lovely girlfriend and on various forums.
I plan meticulously for every eventuality, occasionally using ooBase to correlate everything. Ask me to make a decision and you'll be instructed to wait 2-4 hours while I work at it.
Everyone I have ever met (almost without exception) has used the word 'eccentric' to describe me at some point, including my parents.
Flipping the coin, I have a vibrant social life, have had carnal knowledge of the opposite sex, supposedly have a 'decent' fashion sense and I enjoy few things more than going out on the weekend, imbibing various mood enhancers and having a right old laugh with my mates.
Am I or aren't I?
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TARKOVSKY!!!A genius. Utter genius.
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chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Wed 12 Mar 2008, 14:24,
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