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12:40 / 27.10.06

I just got a childish giggle from remembering the time the White Dwarf editorial team wrote an acrostic with the contents page which read "SOD OFF BRYAN ANSELL".

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

15:17 / 27.10.06

Hah, you fucks, I wrote the dissertation for my English Lit degree on the works of Storm Constantine. Fuck you all, wannabe geeks!

(Did I just say that out loud?)

15:20 / 27.10.06

I love it. It's a geek-off. You people are adorable.

ONLY NICE THINGS

15:25 / 27.10.06

And, on rare occasions, self-aware.

15:58 / 27.10.06

Storm Constantine? Try Alan Moore and Dave McKean for the Eng Lit MA and Joe Sacco and Ted Rall for a journalism Msc. Ha! Selfawheria?

ONLY NICE THINGS

16:02 / 27.10.06

You know, back in my day you actually did have to read proper books to get a degree.

In my case, the Star Trek Academy novels of Peter David.

That's real academia for you.

18:08 / 27.10.06

Damn you Haus, always pulling your classical training out to win the day.

18:55 / 27.10.06

The classic geek, as opposed to the newfangled NeoGeeks. So, Good Intentions, you're among friends- what's the next revelation?

19:14 / 27.10.06

In my case, the Star Trek Academy novels of Peter David

I never read those books, but I heard it's like the Beverly Hills 90210 of the 24th century. Is this true?

For those of you too young to remember, Beverly Hills 90210 was the O.C. of the 1990s.

Anyway, welcome Good Intentions, I had given up on you a long time ago.

unheimlich manoeuvre

19:29 / 27.10.06

Welcome Good Intentions and all the other new people.

I play WH40k.

Geekiest. I used to buy White Dwarf for the Call of Cthulhu published adventures.
Good news, they're bringing out a Warhamer 40k Rpg. Due next year. My treasured copy of Rogue Trader is in a ring binder. And... and.

MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!

19:37 / 27.10.06

Blood Bowl, suckas. I still own five teams. And Chaos Dwarves rule.

20:19 / 27.10.06

And, on rare occasions, self-aware
Oh, yes, I know. Seriously, I mean it when I say I love it. I'm jealous, really. Most of what you all are talking about is utter gibberish to me, and it makes me sad for what I missed out on when I was younger and probably could have used it. I was the type so insular that I didn't even have any geek friends. But I'm smiling when I read this stuff.
Anyway- sorry to intrude again.

Mon Oncle Ignatius

22:24 / 27.10.06

Real novels? Meh. It was The Professionals all the way on the MA course in Humanities at Middlesex University!

So, now we're playing geek trumps, what do I get for a BA dissertation on Jerry Cornelius, three self-written, produced and played SF RPGs (because the commercial ones were unsatisfactory), rule-less LARPing all over the place in hand-knitted chainmail (made of wool and shiny thread. Not by me), and a short career designing and manufacturing miniature figures for, among other things, rip-off TMNT and a long-disappeared game titled, erm, Class War?

I was a very sad teenager. The "Sod Off Brian Ansell" acrostic was a moment of great joy for me. I never did like Warhammer*, or D&D, though. Far too commercial - Tunnels & Trolls, Aftermath and RuneQuest all the way, with occasional forays into Paranoia.

*The turn-based Space Marine game on the Amiga was a winner though - there were a fair few all-night sessions in a hallucinatory mood of that game

NB one of the statements above is a complete lie.

ONLY NICE THINGS

22:30 / 27.10.06

I never read those books, but I heard it's like the Beverly Hills 90210 of the 24th century. Is this true?

You're in luck, young shaver. I have just completed my latest academic book - The Hand of Frakes - into a book, coming out next year from Hemionos Press. Enjoy!

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

22:42 / 27.10.06

I've just had a go on the new WH40k PC expansion pack demo. It was ace. It's Friday night.

00:18 / 28.10.06

I have no idea what any of you are talking about, and yet somehow I feel that because of this I win.

00:22 / 28.10.06

You know what? I was just at a Scratch Perverts gig (drunk) and would rather have been playing WH40K, or Adeptus Titanicus (drunk).
Old geeks now, looking back from the twilight of our lives at the great blood bowl teams we used to have. (Dark Elves, totally- Dwarves are too slow). Drunk.

00:27 / 28.10.06

Tango, you ARE Paul Mason (or possibly James Wallis) and I claim my 1D6+50 Sword of Overkill. I feel a zine thread coming on. Sleep first, though.

Mon Oncle Ignatius

07:44 / 28.10.06

Tsuga: I was the type so insular that I didn't even have any geek friends. But I'm smiling when I read this stuff.

I had one friend outside my family, who I only ever saw if ze came to visit me to complain about life outside in the world. I doubt, assuming there were any non-relative geeks around in the vicinity, that I would have liked them anyway. I can only imagine what it would have been like if there was such a thing as easy 'net access then.

I'm both smiling with nostalgia, and grimacing with regret. It is better to regret something you have done than something you haven't...? Oh, fuck.

But yay, it's all better now I'm an old geek. Geekiness is wasted on the young.

cube: you ARE Paul Mason (or possibly James Wallis)

But not James Mason.

Kirin? Who the heck?

21:14 / 30.10.06

Hello, Barbelith! Thank-you to the applications people for making my day – coming home to a 'welcome' email has made all the difference to a day in which, if I'm entirely honest, I didn't get much done.

So, yeah. I'm Kirin. They don't call me that in real life, it's a name I sort of self-selected for online use a few years ago and has now stuck. The origin? Who knows? Is it the Japanese beer? The Japanese for 'giraffe'? Some strange acronym (Kirin is a really interesting name)? I'm also fairly youthful, at seventeen, and currently muddling my way through those A-level thingies.

As for true geekiness, I'm not really in the RPGing kind of group. I do have a Magic: The Gathering deck somewhere, I think, plus some Sandman comics. Do they count?

I like text adventures.

21:15 / 30.10.06

Hello, all. Just wanted to introduce myself. I was a member of the board at some point in the past (two, three years ago), but I didn't post much then and haven't been by in a while. I'll try to be more active now, but I'm easily distracted. My name is Dustin Long. I live in Indiana at the moment, but I'm from California, and next year I'll probably be in New York (my wife is there now). I'm a writer. My first novel, Icelander, came out last summer through McSweeney's Books. I first discovered Barbelith through my love of The Invisibles, but I've been drawn back by the interesting philosophical and literary discussions. And that's about all I can think to say about myself.

ONLY NICE THINGS

21:16 / 30.10.06

Text adventures! There's a whole new avenue right the
Hell there...

Welcome aboard, kirin.

21:35 / 30.10.06

Text adventures? Like the Legend of Zagor? Welcome Kirin! And hello to you too, Dusto.

Kirin? Who the heck?

21:57 / 30.10.06

The choose-your-own-adventures books like The Legend of Zagor are more like proto-text adventures, though fun and the closest anyone's going to get in a handy, battery-free device. The ones I play are the kind on computers, where the game gives you a description and you type 'smash vase on ogre's head', to give a (so far as I know) fictional example. And thanks for the welcomes!

23:14 / 30.10.06

Pshaw! Legend of Zagor, indeed. That was just a rehash of the far superior Citadel of Chaos. Worst. Gamebook. Evar.
Anyway, hi all, pull up a French Fancy, make yourselves comfy.

02:56 / 31.10.06

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07:36 / 31.10.06

...for which, the ungeeking service can be deployed.

08:12 / 31.10.06

Hello everybody.
Colour me happy at being allowed to join the forum
(*does a special happy dance)

I am artist

In my spare time (which i seem to have a lot of) I produce down-tempo electronic music
with enough technology to take-over a small country (i also like to overuse brackets)

Peace

Good Intentions

09:24 / 01.11.06

I see that I have wandered into a circle of worthy adversaries (I had a variety of self-made RPGs, including one in grade school which used 6-sided die, ie pencils with a number drawn on each side). So instead of dribbling out my geek credentials, I'll go for a left-right.

I also play Warhammer Historical Wargames. I have for my own use translated military history journals to not only know how to properly paint my 12th century Flemish liberi and milites, but also how to compose my armies, name my characters (it was hard to decide whether going for real figures or believable ones would be more historically accurate) and determine my tactics.

Good Intentions

09:25 / 01.11.06

Hey flook, how do you feel about analogue vs digital for home music creation? Me, I love analogue synthesisers like few things on earth.

20:14 / 02.11.06

wow two welcome threads, you peeps really are friendly!
I much prefered Tunnels and Trolls probably because there were solo games (pre computer) and I was too cool to find a DM.
I'm an old school punk, goth, hippy, pagan, scientist with pornographic leanings and a masters in S&M. I've been working as a drug councillor for the last 4-5 years before which I ran my own business as a masseuse before which i spent about 20 years drug and alcohol fucked (i try and keep my hand in on bankholidays)
I have been collecting comics since I was about 12... 2000 ad #9 Xmen round about the time arcade caught them and spidey and have drifted in and out since.
I was blessed to meet my wife who likes comics, dr who and all but the cheesiest bad sci-fi and is gradually coming round to black and white film classics.

I'm interested in Shamanism, brain chemistry, hypnosis and beer, though not in that order and i need some new stimulation of a non educational nature.

pleased to meetcha

20:39 / 02.11.06

GI,
I came to the whole synth thing too late..
..all i can do is push the "fake analoguge warmth" button on my digital whatyamaycallit

21:49 / 02.11.06

yours is digital!

wow mines betamax

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