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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let your geek flag flyDone it all and still doing it today. I've been an obssessive comic fan since childhood, have to follow everything, Wednesday is the most important day of the week simply because it's comic day. I love to chat about how characters are doing and how storyline's are developing to people who quite honestly couldn't give a fuck. Love games, started programming in Basic with my spectrum 48k and got sucked in, owned every console and computer up to the ps2, none of the new fangled shite interests me mind, except maybe rock band. Can't just be happy with the actual consoles and got into the emulation scene pretty heavily. I married a girl who was into d20 modern and she got me to the point where I was thinking about rolling a dice to get through my day. Tea or coffee? lets roll and see? epic sad. I love making lists and following lists. I bought the rather amazing protoculture book, Anime: 1958 - 1988 but was so disappointed that it only went to that year I added my own sections. Now I think I have the most comprehensive list of Anime ever compiled and I'm the only one who ever reads it. Ah and sci-fi, I'll watch most everything but love Doctor Who, Trek and BSG. I believe no minute of my day is wasted, I'm never bored because there's way too much to get through, while I'm at work, every moment is spent thinking about what I'm going to do later, whether it's meet friends and play games or roll some 20 sided dice, catch up on comics, discuss the good and bad of Harry Potter with my wife (who right this moment is sobbing over some draco/snape fan fiction) or simply spend it online, finding a new obsession. You say nerd and geek like it's a bad thing!
*oh yeah, Lord of the Rings too, books mainly, but the movies are top, to the point where I got the Tree of Gondor tattooed on my arm.
Next tattoos I'll be having will be a StarBrand on the bottom of my arm (+100 geek points if you know not only what I'm talking about but the importance of the placing) a Green Lantern insignia on my shoulder and of course, when I can get around to it, the whole "one ring to rule them all" around my bicep, in the black speech or Mordor of course.
(, Wed 12 Mar 2008, 20:34, 2 replies)
You......should write a book. Use this useless knowledge!
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LoTR tattoosabsolutely rule. I have elvish tattooed all the way down my back in UV ink and although it advertises the extent of my geekdom like a neon sign ( a warning to others perhaps?) I think it looks awesome...
Tree of Gondor sounds awesome...
Clicks for you!
(, Thu 13 Mar 2008, 1:15, closed)
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