In response to my little brother's post about things that make him go "what the hell are they doing???", I have the following things to say.
- "I rolled a natural 20!" is not frequently used in tabletop gaming (eg Warhammer 40K). It is more frequently used in "Pen and Paper roleplaying" (usually just referred to as an RPG), specifically ones using the d20 system. The most famous of these is Dungeons and Dragons (duh), but there's also d20-Modern and a few others sneaking around out there. The significance of "rolling a natural 20" is as follows;
- D20s, or twenty-sided die, are used to determine the level of success of any given action (usually combat based, but sometimes things like bluffing). If you roll a two, you just succeed. Like, you scratched them on the head with your broad-sword. Not real impressive. However, if you roll a 20 (natural 20 means "I didn't fudge it, I promise!"), then not only do you succeed good, you get extra bonuses for being spiffy. Like, you hack their head off with a nail file bonus.
- LARPing is kinda fun. It's like acting, only you're not working from a script. You make it up as you go along. Plus, you get to annoy people by running around in a costume. I'm trying to convince my friends that we need to LARP our Vampire game, especially as it's set in Adelaide (where we conveniently live). It's not working at the moment - we got distracted as to how one would LARP sucking blood from someone. I refused to have someone lick tomato sauce off my neck. It went downhill from there. By the way, LARPing refers to Pen-and-paper games again - you need to sort out your different breeds of RPGs.
- Star Trek is Cool. I have a six foot poster of The Original Series main cast on the back of the toilet door. Spock and Kirk staring at you when you're on the can is a bit disconcerting at first, though.
- Yes. Hentai is very, very wrong. Don't ever think otherwise. Not all anime is bad though. Watch Hellsing sometime. Most awesome.
This has been a public service announcement on behalf of geeks everywhere. Don't hate me for it.
5 comments:
Just when i thought i had sorted out our family geek quota, you blow the top off it. Thanks. Now i can't decide which of us is worst.
I'm not a geek. I don't love AMD, if an intel processor was cheaper I'd buy it. As for your quotes
My dad was the one who "installed linux", but I bought the CD home from O week and figured it entitled me to installation rights. Now I've been found out. Oh dear.
Yes, my computer does need more RAM. How does knowing my computer needs more of something make me a nerd? It's like saying someone who buys a new computer because it has a faster processor is a nerd.
Tabbed browsing and RSS feeds aren't nerdy, they're mainstream features of web browsing.
I read news sites when bored. Am I supposed to forget there are going to be 6 Vista releases?
IE is a piece of crap. I don't know how that disproves your nerd accusation, but I don't care. It's crap.
The IE7 beta (which i found out about through a news site, and not some geeky communication method) also sucks.
So, you can see I'm not really a nerd. If I had no social life outside my computer and avoided the outdoors you might have something there. Anyway, I don't know why you're pointing the finger. Your MSN personal message is "As if you'd use C++. How embarrasing Grass"
Tee Hee. C++.
It's a programming language, evolution of the language C. The really funny thing is, C++ means something in C.
It's a sad programming joke. Which I find amusing.
go anime
I don't know anything about computers. As long they work, I don't care how they work... and if they don't work... well I still don't care.
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