It was in the trunk.

Way back in Japan I was a nerd. My cohorts and I played D&D quite often. In fact, before Japan, I was at a lunch time party at Natalie's and had to bail because I had a D&D session later that I couldn't miss. Slaying dragons trumps a pool party (depending on how many big breasted bikini clad girls there are, of course). One day Chris and I got to watch a 50 minute film called 'The Gamers', which involved a group of champions forgoing study and playing an adventure, with a story-within-a-story theme going, so we could actually see the elves and barbarians walking around forests and fighting. Low-budget but still kinda funny. Especially good is the character who isn't there that night and is occasionally forgotten about by the DM. As such, when the party is attacked, he is just standing there being ignored by everyone in the melee.

I watched that again on youtube last night.

A few years ago the team made a sequel, 'The Gamers: Dorkness Rising'. It's 100 minutes long, far better production qualities and sound, and quite simply: brilliant. Why? Because all the characters are sneaky and trying to get around the DM. They also introduce a moment of genius - they get a girl to play (gasp!). And, she plays the fighter, with no hit points and a different objective in combat, but still saves the day. And the sorcorer casts 'raise-dead' on their roast turkey dinner. They also quickly play a ninja pizza delivery agent. The girl asks about the ninjas, which she understands, but then asks why there are pirates. The DM leans forward and says: "everything's better with pirates." It's true. From theatresports to roleplaying, EVERYTHING is better with pirates. She didn't understand, so it must be a guy thing. Natalie would understand, but that's because we've warped her mind through years of practice.

I also watched that on youtube last night (not the warping of Natalie, as funny as that would be).

And then for good measure I put on Count Duckula, Visionaries and Thundercats. Incidentally, there is a brilliant fanmade Thundercats trailer with Brad Pitt as Liono, Vin Diseal as Panthro, Hugh Jackman as Tigro and the chick from Farscape as Cheetara. It. was. awesome.

The point is: I'm on holidays!
So what is nerdy? Is it playing D&D and getting shunned by the pizza delivery girl (that happened once and still haunts Harry), or is it going through the internet trying to find a film about nerds and getting all the jokes? Hmmmm, losing the point here.