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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Ya know, the last two Harry Potter films really weren't that bad.For that matter, the first one was pretty good, when you come down to it... but by the third film, Ron had been reduced to Shaggy without Scooby, Draco Malfoy went from swaggering and sneering to whimpering and pissing himself in less time than it took Emma Watson's eyebrows to fly off her head, and the less said about the CGI centaur the better.
But in the last two movies they've given the characters some depth again. Yes, they cut out about two thirds of each book- but christ, if they didn't they'd be nine hour epics! Considering the sheer volume of the source material, I thought they did fairly well with the movies.
That said, yes, the books were better.
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The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Wed 12 Mar 2008, 18:01,
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