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[wombat]

I thought this was the sort of company in which the term "nerd" would be taken in the spirit it was meant.  

I think it was.  I think the point was, you are actually, like, surprised that this has turned into a nerd contest?  Then you must be new around here.

[AugustWest]

The entire board is a nerd contest.  Duh.

By the way, Va, if I haven't told you yet... You..Are..Rad.

[jough]

Hey!  I could get the UAC logo!

Been playing a little Doom 3, August?

[Bozack]

Ha, as I said before, a bunch of English majors in a Red Dwarf convention. Also, if anyone gets a Day of the Tentacle, Sam and Max, or Grim Fandago tattoo, they and myself will henceforth be married in the sight of God. Yes, Slink, even you.

[Va]

I thought this was the sort of company in which the term "nerd" would be taken in the spirit it was meant.  

I think it was.  I think the point was, you are actually, like, surprised that this has turned into a nerd contest?  Then you must be new around here.

Man, and here I was all worried I might have hurt somebody's feelings.  I should be banned just for that.  I've obviously been spending too much time interacting with people who are not sarcastic bastards.  It's not by choice, believe me.

[wombat]

Va, although we seem very civilized (in a sarcastic way), if the pack was ganging up and trying to drive you away, it would be a lot less subtle.  Don't worry.

[AugustWest]

Hey!  I could get the UAC logo!

Been playing a little Doom 3, August?

Naw, not yet.  But I've spent countless (don't even try to count 'em) hours playing Doom II and all it's permutations, add-ons, levels, WADs, MegaWads, et al.

[slink]

Yes, Slink, even you.

Eeeek. Well maybe I can just not mention it...

And, I prefer to be referred to as a geek. I still think of nerds as mouth breathers. Hence I got round to getting the <GEEK> </GEEK> tee from thinkgeek.

[arkabee]

Hey!  I could get the UAC logo!

Been playing a little Doom 3, August?

Naw, not yet.  But I've spent countless (don't even try to count 'em) hours playing Doom II and all it's permutations, add-ons, levels, WADs, MegaWads, et al.

have you played the Marathon games?  Besides M1, M2, and Minfinity, there are countless robust add-on scenarios.

plus, as opposed to DoomII, it has a delightful story.  see http://marathon.bungie.org/story/ for backstory, faqs, spoilers, and reams and reams of speculation as to what is really going on in the game.

and, just so's ya know, the engine linked in the first link is OpenSourced and allowed by bungie, and the 1st game's scenario is fully avaliable and allowed by bungie.  you can buy the 2nd & third, and use the opensource engine with their scenarios, if'n you liked the first enough.

just keep in mind it's from 94 or whatnot.  you can't jump without using a grenade launcher, etc.

but, you CAN see all the way around an enemy, as opposed to them swivelling as you go around them, etc, etc.

[AugustWest]

Eternal was my all-time favorite TC.  It was impressive how they managed to do so much with so little.

I mainly used ZDoom.

I don't know why I like Doom II so much.  Obviously it's a dinosaur of FPS's.  But there's something about it that keeps bringing me back.  I like the simplicity of the controls.  I can kick ass with the keyboard controls when not distracted by that pesky third dimension.

Also, I have thousands of levels from the sublime to the absurd.  I like the way level creating got the players involved in game design.

[St_Zartan]

have you played the Marathon games?  Besides M1, M2, and Minfinity, there are countless robust add-on scenarios.

I just this past week discovered / downloaded / managed to fuck*ng configure just like I like it Aleph One, and I'm presently punching my way through Marathon.

Let me second the recommendation for this series. I am a sucker for a good story: I would probably play Pong for hours if there was an engaging text crawl along the bottom of the screen. Marathon has the story and the gameplay is hella old school. It is hard and good. (Feel free to quote that last line right the fuck out of context.)

[side_show]

Regarding side_show's story, I'm mostly just trying to stop myself from making the Donnie Darko reference it immediately evoked.

That was, indeed, what I thought of when I saw the zipper tatoo:  "why are you wearing that stupid human suit?"  I really want to steal this idea, but it just seems to be ultra-dumb to copy someone elses idea for a tatoo, when really originality is what one is supposedly aiming for when they get a tatoo in the first place.  Then again, there is a hella' looney toons tat's out there that prove me wrong and make me wonder about people's intentions in general.

[arkabee]

Let me second the recommendation for this series. I am a sucker for a good story: I would probably play Pong for hours if there was an engaging text crawl along the bottom of the screen. Marathon has the story and the gameplay is hella old school. It is hard and good. (Feel free to quote that last line right the fuck out of context.)

apparently jason jone's (bungie's) first game was a pong clone.

also, if you dig into the other site i linked to, there's all kinds of super awesome geekiness in twixt the "linkings" of pathways into darkness, marathon trilogy, and the halo universe.

i've been telling my friend about marathon for ever now, and i always say something like "it was the first that let you jump.  no, wait, no, you can't jump" etc.

i _finally_ remembered what it was, it was you could look/aim up down.

however, to alleviate penis-o-phobes, it's ENTIRELY keyboardable, in fact the dev team apparently made fun of people trying to use thepenis and set the cap lock to run etc.

[wombat]

Speaking of tattoos and comics (this was at one point a thread about tattoos on a messageboard about a comic, wasn't it?):

http://www.dumbrella.com//ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=12;t=002568

[V-Adore]

Man, J-Ro is awesome. (And also awesome to have it looking that good that quickly -- I was under the impression that fresh tats were basically just like a big swollen scabby bruise for the first few days.)