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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yayi have started a good debate!
there are exceptions, funnily enough i was going to say "shawshank" but my team meeting was about to start.
also i agree with the spenny (frank) on the conrad thing.
cocktail is another example where both are very good (if by good you mean cheesy and romantic, which sometimes i do!) but really different. the film is a light romcom; the book is very dark and depressing indeed.
sleeping with the enemy - the book is much much cleverer than the film but it was still pretty good.
but in general, film versions suck. i am the gimp at the front whispering "this didn't happen in the book" and "he should have said this" and "whatever happened to her"...
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rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 12 Mar 2008, 15:32,
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