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Re: Your nerdy bragging rights
« Reply #75 on: October 04, 2011, 06:51:37 pm »
About all of this DnD stuff; I am personally a huge fan of the D6 system that only uses supermarket grade D6s. Oh, and it doesn't cost out the ass to be able to play since the company that made it shut down and the books are available for free in pdf format. One more testament to my nerdiness: My cat's name is Zelda. Yes, named after one of my favorite game series ever.
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« Reply #76 on: October 04, 2011, 07:17:09 pm »
I used to play an online MMO, I took up the job of building units for other people.

I constructed a build-calculator in microsoft spreadsheet to calculate the cost and tax on all of my sales. (I visited a year after quitting the game, one of my faction-mates still used it)

I also used my graphing calculator's spreadsheet to make a limit finder for my calculus class. (Now I'm using it to find tangent lines)
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Re: Your nerdy bragging rights
« Reply #77 on: October 04, 2011, 07:34:50 pm »
I'm john carmack and I invented Doom.
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« Reply #78 on: October 04, 2011, 07:36:15 pm »
Lies, John Romero's hair invented Doom.
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Re: Your nerdy bragging rights
« Reply #79 on: October 04, 2011, 08:49:28 pm »
Quote from: jc6036 on October 04, 2011, 06:51:37 pm
About all of this DnD stuff; I am personally a huge fan of the D6 system that only uses supermarket grade D6s. Oh, and it doesn't cost out the ass to be able to play since the company that made it shut down and the books are available for free in pdf format. One more testament to my nerdiness: My cat's name is Zelda. Yes, named after one of my favorite game series ever.

You're referring to West End Games, right?  I thought it was a tragedy when they went bankrupt.  I liked their Star Wars D6 game so much better than the D20 version.  In general I detest the D20 system.

The only advantage it has is its simplicity, which makes it more accessible to players.  I like to have more flexibility, darn it.  GURPS is perfect for this.  I can have a wizard wearing plate armor with a SMG if I really want to (and have the character points for it).
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« Reply #80 on: October 04, 2011, 08:52:08 pm »
My dad took me to his workplace during the holidays when no one was actually working so we could play Doom over the network.  This was when I was like 12, and businesses didn't really understand the whole technology thing yet.

I also made these.

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I showed those off in a thread on zbrushcentral and the original creator of several of the physical maquettes that were used to produce the stop motion animation in Doom complimented my work.
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« Reply #81 on: October 04, 2011, 08:53:44 pm »
Quote from: SalmonGod on October 04, 2011, 08:52:08 pm
and businesses didn't really understand the whole technology thing yet.

I miss those times..
..And those Doom demons looks nice. Thumbs up!  :D
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« Reply #82 on: October 04, 2011, 09:08:55 pm »
Yeah, west end games. I did always think it was weird how they released three different rule books for D6 under different genres that had like one extra section each. I also use the D6 system to introduce fellow students to role playing. Most don't even know what it is and any mention of DnD is equal to Super uber mega nerd. Then I get them to play, and tell them that this is what DnD is like. Their mind=blown.
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« Reply #83 on: October 04, 2011, 09:18:15 pm »
I don't really have alot of nerdy stuff to brag about really. But me and my friends at Lunch would always play an improv RTD every day, it usually ended up to be extremely hilarious. Although all of the teachers and the other students looked at us funny :/
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« Reply #84 on: October 04, 2011, 09:21:23 pm »
Gah, I can't get my friends to role play in public. I wish I could. But they will play chess in public :D
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« Reply #85 on: October 04, 2011, 09:23:12 pm »
Quote from: jc6036 on October 04, 2011, 09:21:23 pm
Gah, I can't get my friends to role play in public. I wish I could. But they will play chess in public :D


People want to act like intellectuals in public.
People don't want to act like nerds in public.
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« Reply #86 on: October 04, 2011, 09:24:05 pm »
Quote from: Ultimuh on October 04, 2011, 09:23:12 pm
Quote from: jc6036 on October 04, 2011, 09:21:23 pm
Gah, I can't get my friends to role play in public. I wish I could. But they will play chess in public :D

People don't want to act like nerds in public.
People want to act like intellectuals in public.
You don't know how untrue this was for me and my group of friends, we were all really really stupid and we wanted to act like Nerds in public.
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Re: Your nerdy bragging rights
« Reply #87 on: October 04, 2011, 09:25:06 pm »
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Quote from: jc6036 on October 04, 2011, 09:21:23 pm
Gah, I can't get my friends to role play in public. I wish I could. But they will play chess in public :D

People don't want to act like nerds in public.
People want to act like intellectuals in public.
You don't know how untrue this was for me and my group of friends, we were all really really stupid and we wanted to act like Nerds in public.

SOME people then.
I guess it's 50/50.
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« Reply #88 on: October 04, 2011, 09:28:27 pm »
I actually have no idea what a nerd is, at this point, though that may be the best way to tell that I am one =/
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Re: Your nerdy bragging rights
« Reply #89 on: October 04, 2011, 09:31:31 pm »
Do you like learning things, regardless of their utility?
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