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'm selectively geekyIn that my only major source of geekiness is Doctor Who. I like other sci-fi shows but I couldn't set pub quizzes on them (as I have done for Doctor Who. Twice). As a result of this my friend, who is curating an arts festival (sort of, it's been done very much at the last minute in a state of blind panic) asked me to write a play that combined Doctor Who and the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice.
This took me about 4 hours.
The geekiest part is not that I'm knowledgeable to include constant references to Doctor Who which no-one else will get, but that I read that in one version of the Orpheus and Eurydice story, they start the tale 'on the run from the son of Appollo'.
So the very first line of the play is a reference to an alternate version of a Greek Myth, in a Doctor Who story, and also contains a reference to Battlestar Galactica.
Click if you're geeky enough to get this.
(, Wed 12 Mar 2008, 16:19, Reply)
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