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Nah, don't think I was nerdy enough to be called a nerd. The definition sorts of eludes me and I'm not even sure what that means. Yes, my favorite past time in grades 8-12 and a bit into the military was playing a MUD (Multi User Dungeons & Dragons) game called Moongate or Materia Magic, which was only text and the first half year of playing it I connected to it via Telnet (not openly available on windows system after XP) - that was before I found there were clients that could save triggers and info for you while playing (ah Mushclient, how I miss thee). My most played character had over 10k hours played when I quit the game (Ogre Barba

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Share  |  Archive By techgnotic (https://www.deviantart.com/techgnotic) I am haunted in this holiday season by the opening lines of Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities, his novel about a society 250 years ago coming apart in its seemingly irreconcilable divisions. Could it be these lines define where we have come to find ourselves today? “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, in the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair…” ur own epoch is one of the tec

Share |Archive   “Some use Ink, I confide in Silver”   — Lauren E. Simonutti    lauren-rabbit (https://www.deviantart.com/lauren-rabbit)   Quote by Lauren E. Simonutti “ The misfirings of my beloved/despised mind that conspire to convince me to destroy all have rendered me housebound and led to a solitary life. A creature of past, proof, memory and imaginary friends, I am aware enough to know the things I see and hear are not real, but that does not mean I do not still see and hear them.”   Forewordby techgnotic (https://www.deviantart.com/techgnotic) For a very long time Lauren Simonutti's haunting photographs were a spectral presence amongst the deviantART community, as emulato

    “Sometimes we lay aside our own troubles when we wipe away another's tears.”    —Seneca By techgnotic (https://www.deviantart.com/techgnotic)   Apart...   Is no longer alone T his life is not easy; a winding, sometimes whimsical, sometimes tragic journey that ultimately finds terminus in the same common destination for each of us. No matter the brave, fierce constructs we build and serve that would have us believe we are each one of us all alone as we make this journey, we make our way toward the end of all things side-by-side in our community of the living each day defying death.  Our paths may be wildly divergent—the way of the hungry and impov

  Watch depthRADIUS      Slenderman      by IGzlz (https://www.deviantart.com/igzlz)      The Slender Man      by Ekuneshiel (https://www.deviantart.com/ekuneshiel)      Slenderman      by astridmatsuoka (https://www.deviantart.com/astridmatsuoka) By techgnotic (https://www.deviantart.com/techgnotic)    In this season of deceits deceptions & witcheries I am wary of my following message not being received with the full gravity it deserves. It is not my intention to unduly alarm the deviantART community, but... TheLaurenVerse (https://www.deviantart.com/thelaurenverse) is at this time unaccounted for. All attempts on our part to contact her have failed. It is my hope that she has simply taken a much deserved unscheduled pre-Halloween “vacation” and will be back in online communication soon. Before going dark, @