Introduce yourselves! (A friendly topic for new members)

[Blu]

So... Might as well post something since I are new and all. Well, sort of anyways. Lurker turned poster here, so, um, yeah!

Call me Blu or Em, I don't care either way. I live in BFE Michigan, but have plans to move out to Canada because the USA is scaring me right now. I'm going to be 19 in less than a month, I'm a huge fucking nerd/outcast/oddball and I am not ashamed! I am also le femme, if you couldn't tell by the speech patterns. Err.. I don't have any interesting life stories, since not too much goes on in my bittersweet existance, but my LJ link is in my sig if you care.

I'll pull a podcast, and tell you all that I'm playing the Final Fantasy series. Not in any particular order, but I'm playing through FFIII, FFIV, FFVII, FFVIII, & FFXII. Aside from an ass-ton of roman numerals, I'm also playing Oblivion, Lost Planet, Sims2, GTA: San Andreas, and a little bit of WoW on the side.

I use windows XP on my main computer, upgraded only a few years ago from windows 97. Yes, my desktop is ancient. It doesn't even have a brand name on the cover. I also use windows 7 on my netbook, but I kind of want to change the OS to Mac. I know someone though my aunt who's son converted his netbook to support the Mac system, and I wanna figure out how, because I like learning how both work (and because then I can watch LRR videos with quicktime without having 100 pop-ups telling me to update it all the time) and because I'm not really biased towards any one operating system.

I found the LRR group after a friend sent me a Zero Punctuation video and I ended up watching them all. Including the crossover one. And that's how I found out about Unskippable. Which, in turn, lead me to here, the fabulous Commodore64-style website with hilarious videos, podcasts, and of course, epic t-shirts. Of which I have bought 3.

Um... I think I've said enough? Too much maybe? We'll see. I'll just keep it cool listening to Paul's epic rap song.

[Danzama]

Hi Emma, I'm Dan. It seems like you'll fit in fine. Welcome.

[Blu]

LOL totally not Emma. Sorry, always hated that nickname. Emily's my full name, but we'll just stick with Blu.

Well, nice to meet you too, Dan. C:

[JustAName]

Dammit, Dan! I wanted to welcome her! Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan! *shakes fist*

[Blu]

You can both welcome me! I like cookies?

[xdeathknightx]

Well you can't have any

[Blu]

How wude!

Either way, thanks for the greetings all.

[Ald3rp]

Hello, my name is Albert, I'm 28 years young, and I like snakes. I'm terrible at formal introductions, so I'll try my best to share a bit of info about myself.

I go by Al, sometimes Albee, which my sisters gave me that nickname because when I was in elementary school, I used to catch honey bees with my hands and show my sisters. Granted that the stinging was more an annoyance than painful, it didn't stop me from trying to catch a fuzzy bumblebee. Bad idea! From that point on, I have a slight phobia of buzzing insects.

But, even though they kinda buzz with their wings, I still find beetles pretty awesome!

So...besides that fun fact about myself, I live in Southern California, USA, employed by a major telecommunications company, and I play a moderate amount of video games. Although, I must admit that for a majority of my time, WoW has preoccupied my game time. When I'm not playing WoW, I sit back on my PS3 and indulge in MvC3 and a few interesting downloadable games I discovered on PSN.

Lastly, I was introduced to the awesomeness of LRR by my awesome friend, Juliamon. So, at least I won't be alone when together we'll be geeking out at PAX East!

Thats it for me, delighted to make your acquaintance!

[Deedles]

Hello and welcome Al .... I'm horrible at welcomes and generally tend to pop out of the blue to say something random so ....

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Here's your cookie!! *runs for the hills*


AARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH

[deathofroland]

Hi!

I'm Christopher. I'm 24 and I live in Morgantown, WV.

I play guitar a lot.

A few days ago, my roommate and I were making fried chicken for dinner. We cook a lot. Anyway, so... we let the skillet get too hot, I guess, and the oil burst into flames. Being without a fire extinguisher or any knowledge beyond "don't put water on it," I grabbed the thing and ran it outside. Now I have second-degree burns on my hands. Then I contracted the flu. A real winning week.

Needless to say, I... will not be playing guitar for a few days.

Anyway, pleased to meet everyone!

[Serisothikos]

At the LRR fan meet-up on Saturday at PAX East, I was deeply ashamed of never having registered on the LRR forums. My feeble attempt at an introduction with a Twitter handle just seemed so bland and hollow, so in an attempt to rectify that, hello!

My name is Patrick; I'm 31 and I live about 20 miles outside of Boston, MA - feel free to call me that or abbreviate my far-too-long handle to "Seris". I have a pretty typical white-collar job, except for the part where I'm really bad at hiding that I'm a giant nerd and have this on a shelf in my cubicle.

In addition to gaming and collecting ridiculously detailed Persona figurines, I enjoy cooking and spent a few years of my life in Ireland studying medieval Irish history. I live with my fiancee, Erika (who got me interested in LRR at the first place), and a cat named Irving.

PAX East was awesome, and I look forward to hanging out here!

[Deedles]

... Good evening ... and welcome ....

*runs away while cackling madly*

[3 4AG's]

Howdy, Greg here.

I've met with the guys behind LRR at PAX East for the past two events and until now have never once thought "They're pretty cool guys, maybe I should join their forum"

So here I am!

I'm 22, live in the Greater Toronto Area, and have a furious fascination with cars. My idea of a fun weekend is flipping a rusty car onto it's side to yank everything out from underneath it, and then putting it all into the body of a not-so-rusty shell, all in order to make one decent car out of two.

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Despite my largely un-geeky interests, I am still very much a geek at heart. I play video games, watch anime, laugh at funny internet videos whenever I have the time and whenever any one of my old Toyota's isn't broken.

I look forward to hanging out with you guys on the forums!

[JustAName]

Wow, deathofroland. That really sucks. Get better soon? And welcome to both of you! We like having new people around.

[GreigKM]

Two of the new members are Christopher and Greg... *looks at name*... Well, anyway. Welcome all!

[JustAName]

Ah! New post between my reading and posting! That should be welcome to all three of you!

[TUN]

Hello! I'm in the same boat as the other two new guys. I was playing Magic on sunday with you guys and realized I should register. So...I did. I'm Dylan, I seem to be younger then most of you at the age of 18. I was the longer haired blonde kid who brought up the idea to play pentagram format MtG. Besides that other random info about me is I live in the "great" state of New Hampshire among the trees and play Magic and League of Legends and watch anime and LRR to keep me sane. That's about it.

[Elomin Sha]

Welcome to LRR! Bend over and accept the gift of Toast.

[TUN]

Is it buttered?

[Elomin Sha]

Buttered side up and a delicious golden brown.

[KingOfDoma]

*peeks in*

So... this is the LoadingReadyRun forum.

... I like it.

Name's Charles (omg real name on internetz!!!1), and I've been watching the videos on the Escapist for the longest damn time, plus I watched as much of Desert Bus as I possibly could (to help kids... and see Kathleen do the Caramelldansen). PAX East made me feel inadequate for not knowing about Iron Stomach and commodoreHUSTLE, so... here I am.

I DARE YOU TO INTERVIEW ME!

[Elomin Sha]

I DARE YOU TO INTERVIEW ME!

MR KingofDoma: How would you feel about being cocking one off the splice in the gully to have it gathered by a fielder?

[KingOfDoma]

I... would feel indifferent cuz I don't understand most of the nouns in that sentence? ^^;

[Elomin Sha]

Oh dear boy you simply have not had the proper upbringing to learn some fundamentals of cricket.

[KingOfDoma]

All I know is that the Fifth Doctor thinks it's awesome, my parent's home country (Barbados, if you must ask) is terrible at it, and my fifth-grade self weeps at the prospect of ever trying to figure out the rules for a school paper ever again.