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 sometimes lose my grip on real life.My phone and computer are synchronised with matching 24 themes. Both backgrounds are from CTU computers, my login screen is the same as on the show and my screen saver is the spinning CTU logo. I'll have to take a photo, it looks very techy when it goes simultaneously on my two screens. Ring and message tones are the external and internal call tones from the show, respectively.
"Division have vetoed that course of action" tended to mean the ex wanted to stay in and watch a movie, and I've really lost track of how inappropriate it is to always yell "Now" after ordering something in a shop.
After too much GTA I may or may not have stolen an abandoned bicycle because I didn't want to walk all the way across town. I could almost see the * over my head.
Any time I have a Fallout binge I start to think like the game, EXAMINING things and USING them when I figure it out.
The most damning evidence however is hoarding every odd bit of tat I can find and keeping it in the boot of my car (or on my person if I'm feeling retro) and instinctively knowing roughly how many bottle caps its worth if I can find the right trader.
Click "I Like This" if you understood any of that.
(, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 12:51, 2 replies)
see my other reply...for how much I worship fallout. It was all about having maxed out 10 luck and getting really good random encounters. The alien blaster with Fast Shot was amazing, you could vaporise four mutants a turn if you had enough agility. Although targeted eye shots with the sniper rifle were cool too...
I just paused while writing this to go and look up fallout 3, i'm unsure of whether it's going to be any good or not but I'm hopeful. It had better have dogmeat though.
(, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 14:16, closed)
Hippo,You leave far too much to chance.
I played so much that I figured out that you have a high chance of a good random encounter when crossing certain 'trigger' squares on the map.
Just keep crossing the same squares and you'll rack them up in no time!
(, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 7:53, closed)
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