Nerd Test

[that_punk_guy]

7.142857142857143% nerd blood flows through your veins.

But only because I'm incredibly mentally challenged. Dammit, I can't even excell at being a freaking nerd.

:-(

[Xand]

45.23809523809524% nerd blood flows through your veins.

40-49%:  What's this, a well balanced nerd? Impressive.  

If they had asked more technical questions, I would have done better.

[Speelgoedmannetje]

Xand wrote:
45.23809523809524% nerd blood flows through your veins.

40-49%:  What's this, a well balanced nerd? Impressive.  

If they had asked more technical questions, I would have done better.

Yup, me too.

I've abandoned that fantasy stuff some 7 years ago now I think

[Xand]

It would appear that in order to be a good nerd, one must watch too many movies, watch too much TV, read a lot of science fiction, and play fantasy games...

The CMOS, overclocking, number base, and Badger, Badger, Badger ones were easy though.

[T_Bone]

40ish.

I guessed alot.

[Speelgoedmannetje]

odin wrote:
In l337 h4x0r speak.

I still try to decode this....

l337:

el-three-three-seven

(I thought that one was elite, but how the HECK did they come up with that?)

h4x0r
age-four-ex-or (x0r = exclusive or?)

[Cymric]

l337:

1 ('one') or l ('el') = L
3 = E
7 = T

So you get 'LEET', which is the shortcut for 'ELITE'. The first 'E' is barely audible, hence the abbreviation.

h4x0r

h = H
4 = A
x = I think classical Dutch/German 'ch', which is pronounced as KH (think 'Christ')
0 = O ('oh')
r = R

leading to 'HAKHOR', which sounds close enough to 'hacker' if you swallow and twist the final syllable a bit. For a really good puzzle on what '1337' looks like, read this and the following installments of GPF. Which is a really cool online comic, although I think Sluggy Freelance and Kevin & Kell are better. But now I'm digressing.

[Speelgoedmannetje]

@Cymric

tnx :-)

[mikeymike]

I thought part of being a nerd was being able to remember virtually all of the puzzle solutions in Monkey Island 2, no matter how many years it's been since you played it :-)

[Speelgoedmannetje]

Guybrush...
Guybrush Nosehair!




(or a good nerd test is: what is the maximum unit count of Dune 2?)

[mikeymike]

I know the maximum unit count in Starcraft, is that as nerdy as?
:-)

[Speelgoedmannetje]

Close :-)

but tis also about that ppl know about all games from all times.

like the rather unknown game 'Fade to Black'

and a question about it like: what is the graphic techniques used in this game?

(answer: the environment is made up of textured polygons, the character and the foes are made of gauraud shaded non-textured polygons, and some objects, are bitmaps)

now, is THAT nerdy enough?

[mikeymike]

like the rather unknown game 'Fade to Black'

The one along the lines of Another World (as in the same outfit produced it)?  FtB was a cool game.  Pity it would run about 16 billion times faster than it ought to a current PC :-)

[Speelgoedmannetje]

First there was Another World (also know as Out of this World) Then there was Flashback and then there was Fade to Black. All used the smooth animation technique alike the one used in Prince of Persia.

And FtB ran quite smooth on a low end system back then.

Now another question: what was the other name of the game Blackhawk (made by Blizzard)?

And there's another question: did this game came out on the Amiga?
And did the following games came out on the Amiga?:
Prince of Persia 2
Test Drive 3
Green Beret/Rush 'n Attack

[Cyberus]

28.6% to 1dp
Sheesh, and I hate Star Wars, have never read Hitchikers Guide (but saw the series as a kid), don't play PC games, haven't played AD&D for years....
How'd I do so well? Lucky guesses?

When I'm on my deathbed, I'll be wishing I had less sex, smoked less weed, drank less beer, read less and instead played more computer games, did more role-playing and watched more dodgy sci-fi :-P

Sarcasm aside, I really enjoyed role-playing when I was younger, even though the campaigns we always started were soon abandoned....perhaps on my deathbed I *will* be wishing I'd done more roleplaying....hmm, perhaps there's a way of combining the roleplaying and the sex ;-)

[Speelgoedmannetje]

Cyberus wrote:
When I'm on my deathbed, I'll be wishing I had less sex, smoked less weed, drank less beer, read less and instead played more computer games, did more role-playing and watched more dodgy sci-fi :-P

hmmmm, I wish, I wish I had drank less beer? Nononono, memorable were those times in the 'Biergarten', I wish I smoked less weed? No, or, yes, or, maybe, but I never smoked really much weed, or yet I did, but I dunno, I dunno anymore, was fifteen or so, had a bad period, so I think that smoking weed was inevitable.
Read less? NO! I wish I had some more rest, some more ease and patience to pick up some more books, I still have a bookshelf to read. :lol: play more games that'd be my death, I think. Watched more dodgy sci-fi? Well, yes, maybe, but at home, I didn't have cable telly, still Star Trek was on it every week :-)
Did more Role Playing games? Hm, yes I'd like to play that a bit more I think, I actually never played it.