Is this a nerd game?

Kaocraft

Kaocraft
verminstar said:
My daughter disagrees...shes just discovered the joys of getting used to landing and taking off again as we speak on the ps4. Lets just say the language coming from her room this morning was...most unladylike :eek:

Shes at the painful stage of intitially. loving the idea in theory, and realizing the reality aint all its cracked upto be...fun times. I cant wait till she gets ganked fer the first time...only another father will understand why Im really really looking forward to her future frustration and anger. Teenage karma...make my life a living hell and Ill get her addicted to a game that will test her patience...happy days ^
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Cool.
 

kaivalagi

kaivalagi
wrmiller said:
Take that back another 20 years. Design 8 and 16 bit microcontroller-based circuits for early storage devices you help invent, then write all of the code in assembly because the C compilers of the day were not able to write small enough or efficient enough code when everything had to fit in 32K of PROM space. Or convert mathematical algorithms used to track objects in space to Octal micro-code for early 8-bit main frames and input your programs using the front panel switches. Then single-handedly design a deterministic, preemptive RTOS and complete 6 DOF system and hire a team to write the millions of lines of code in C for this DARPA project you probably still can't talk about.

I like to think many aspects of this game are nerdy, outside of the pew-pew. Sounds like I'm just a older version of you. We're not related are we? :)
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Hahaha, you're showing off now :)

I wrote assembler for my uni project some 20 yrs or so ago now, and integrated the microprocessor with analog circuitry, I loved that shizzle....C cross assemblers were for cheats back then! Just like using a docking computer in ED today :)
 

wizzpig

wizzpig
I suppose in some ways it is. However, if accused, just remember this retort...

"I'm not a nerd... I just know more than you!"
:)
 

wrmiller

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kaivalagi said:
Hahaha, you're showing off now :)

I wrote assembler for my uni project some 20 yrs or so ago now, and integrated the microprocessor with analog circuitry, I loved that shizzle....C cross assemblers were for cheats back then! Just like using a docking computer in ED today :)
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Yea, probably. Just a bit. :D

I'm out of rep, so here's a virtual +1 :)
 

Sir.Tj

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Sir.Tj
Well i'm 45 with teenage kids, shaven head and covered in tattoos (some are even spelt correctly)

So yeah I'm fine with the Nerd Dad title...
 

wrmiller

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Sir T.j said:
Well i'm 45 with teenage kids, shaven head and covered in tattoos (some are even spelt correctly)

So yeah I'm fine with the Nerd Dad title...
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My daughter just turned 40 recently, and my son 37. Both are married and have two children each. I'm a grandpa times four.

I managed to spend over 9 years in Uncle Sams Misguided Children (USMC) and escaped with narry a tat. I do vaguely remember one drunken night in Saigon seriously looking at them though. Must have passed out before I said yes.

EDIT: forgot which city I was in.
 
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MarkAusten

MarkAusten
Kneejo said:
Oh gosh.. I guess I'm a nerd then.. except for the sports part. I dabbled in martial arts a bit.. but I guess that could be considered a nerd sport as it is not mainstream :)
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Martial Arts are in the Olympics so I'd say that qualified it as mainstream.

wrmiller said:
Take that back another 20 years. Design 8 and 16 bit microcontroller-based circuits for early storage devices you help invent, then write all of the code in assembly because the C compilers of the day were not able to write small enough or efficient enough code when everything had to fit in 32K of PROM space. Or convert mathematical algorithms used to track objects in space to Octal micro-code for early 8-bit main frames and input your programs using the front panel switches. Then single-handedly design a deterministic, preemptive RTOS and complete 6 DOF system and hire a team to write the millions of lines of code in C for this DARPA project I probably still can't talk about.

I like to think many aspects of this game are nerdy, outside of the pew-pew. Sounds like I'm just a older version of you. We're not related are we? :)
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Oj yes, I remember those days. I thought assembler was so good as I'd been programming in machine code up until then.
 

Stigbob

Stigbob
wrmiller said:
My daughter just turned 40 recently, and my son 37. Both are married and have two children each. I'm a grandpa times four.

I managed to spend over 9 years in Uncle Sams Misguided Children (USMC) and escaped with narry a tat. I do vaguely remember one drunken night in Saigon seriously looking at them though. Must have passed out before I said yes.

EDIT: forgot which city I was in.
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You may have been so drunk they saved the ink by pretending and charged you double.
 

starman

starman
Stonn Mrogg said:
A friend came over and saw ED on my roomates computer. He asked what it was and got "Ahhh, it's like a space game... flying around, trading, but like, the whole, real galaxy. It's a nerd game."

Is it? I never thought so but maybe being a nerd has blinded me.
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I supposed they stick to COD? If it wasn't was the NERD there wouldn't be a fricking computers. The NASDAQ was built by nerds the code crackers moon landing solving the works problems..
 
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Vin58

Vin58
Ha! a nerd game don't think so. When I told a colleague at work I wasn't looking forward to my days off, cos I had about 12 hours of real time gameplay just to return to civilisation we both laughed. Well he laughed I was genuinely worried.
 

starman

starman
wrmiller said:
My daughter just turned 40 recently, and my son 37. Both are married and have two children each. I'm a grandpa times four.

I managed to spend over 9 years in Uncle Sams Misguided Children (USMC) and escaped with narry a tat. I do vaguely remember one drunken night in Saigon seriously looking at them though. Must have passed out before I said yes.

EDIT: forgot which city I was in.
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You have my respects sir. But basically this [video=youtube;bKSWlXb-4cg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKSWlXb-4cg[/video]
 
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DaggerSnake

DaggerSnake
Good question. Let me ask my wife....be right back..

"Yea, I guess it is."



"HEY LOVE! WHAT ABOUT BRIDGE CREW?"

"Yes that one for sure, with eye roll"
 

wrmiller

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starman said:
You have my respects sir. But basically this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKSWlXb-4cg
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ROFLMAO... [up]

OMG, I actually just remembered one time where someone in my unit woke up screaming and screaming. We were jumping under our racks (with our rifles of course) and when we figured out it was safe we came out and confronted the guy. Seems he was upset that he had gotten a tat the night before. On something rather private. We started laughing so hard most of us ended up on the floor.

Poor guy...
 
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