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Re: The New Nerd Test
« Reply #15 on: February 05, 2006, 10:47:26 pm »
They have a fairly useful guide to being funny, actually, that has this poorly worded but good advice:

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If you spent ten seconds writing it, perhaps ten people will like it. If you spent ten minutes, you might have hundreds.

Reassuring to anyone who ever spent ten minutes rewriting one sentence.
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Re: The New Nerd Test
« Reply #16 on: February 06, 2006, 02:05:47 am »
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Re: The New Nerd Test
« Reply #17 on: February 06, 2006, 02:12:12 am »
I need a translator, stat
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Re: The New Nerd Test
« Reply #18 on: February 06, 2006, 02:17:47 am »
Dvorak Simplified Keyboard. If you translate the text on that page, it works out to something like this-

Dvorak is a keybaord used to type faster. It is well known for its ultimate performance and the eas of learning it. Dvorak isn't widely used, but the number of fans is increasink. The problem with Dvorak is that it doesn't have forent letters. That doesn't cause severe problems thoukh, sinje the "microsoft keyboard layout creator" is very easy to use.
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Re: The New Nerd Test
« Reply #19 on: February 06, 2006, 03:01:15 am »
Note to Dvorak fans: let it go. The web explosion in '96 pretty much blew any chance you had and it's time to move on. Maybe you can hook up with the "hackers are good, crackers are bad" crowd and cos-play or something.
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Re: The New Nerd Test
« Reply #20 on: February 06, 2006, 05:23:29 am »
Quote from: CortJstr on February 06, 2006, 03:01:15 am
Maybe you can hook up with the "hackers are good, crackers are bad" crowd and cos-play or something.

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Lost cause for sure, but I'd deffinitely cosplay Guy Piccioto. All no shirt and anguished expression.
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« Reply #21 on: February 06, 2006, 06:53:54 pm »
I'd cosplay Guybrush Threepwood.
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Re: The New Nerd Test
« Reply #22 on: February 06, 2006, 07:13:37 pm »
Quote from: V-Adore on February 05, 2006, 07:35:49 pm
Yeah, I sort of agree. The concept of a Wikipedia parody: extremely hilarious. This actual Wikipedia parody: enhhh. Realizing how much time went into this lukewarm Wikipedia parody: extreme embarrassment-by-proxy.

(I'm gonna lose a tiny can for this, I know it.)

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Re: The New Nerd Test
« Reply #23 on: February 15, 2006, 05:41:30 pm »
Quote from: antioch on February 05, 2006, 01:52:51 am
OH MAN. The Mortal Kombat entry
 had me doing laugh sounds. That I find it funny 12 years after the fact is probably that Nerd Test thing.

The best part is "(bekause of that feature, it was one of the first applikations to bekome part of KDE)" I'm not even a linux nerd, but I've used KDE before and it was pretty much exactly like reading the uncyclopedia article about it.
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