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Psiga · Posts: 3990

DeusJester wrote:

Psiga wrote:

DJ hangs with two nearly-deaf WoW'ers? I bet Jyot holds her liquor better, though!

Better than me? No.

Better than the other semi-deaf girl, dummy.

thatbox · Posts: 816

Psiga and DJ in 2008 on the having drunken orgies with handicapped MMORPGers, detailing on the internet ticket.

Psiga · Posts: 3990

James wrote:

I can relate: some absolute maniac piece of shit just admitted to bulking up at the gym then beating the shit out out of an elderly woman with a telephone and now I'm trying to work out how to use the voodoo power of chaos theory to have a seemingly unrelated object hit him in the nuts with sufficient upswing to render him sterile. He'll never see it coming.

Matt, your new forum title should be 'absolute maniac piece of shit'. ^_^

But yeah, so, James... Sour grapes. While I won't deny that dhex is intellectually self-aggrandizing and DJ borders on being distressingly nonchalant in his heavy-handedness, I do have to point out that you're not really a peach yourself.

thatbox wrote:

Psiga and DJ in 2008 on the having drunken orgies with handicapped MMORPGers, detailing on the internet ticket.

I was telling DJ about my idea to make a chess board where every piece is a shotglass, and whenever you take an opponent piece, you have to take a shot. Lesser pieces have less alcohol and greater pieces have more. It's sort-of an automatic handicap, since the better you do at the game, the more wasted you become.

I'm sure that somebody's done this already, but I haven't seen it.

But yeah, I don't drink, I don't play WoW, and I don't bother with girls. So voting for a drunken orgy with MMORPG girls is a vote for communism!

taidan · Posts: 493

[quote="PsigaI was telling DJ about my idea to make a chess board where every piece is a shotglass, and whenever you take an opponent piece, you have to take a shot. Lesser pieces have less alcohol and greater pieces have more. It's sort-of an automatic handicap, since the better you do at the game, the more wasted you become.

I'm sure that somebody's done this already, but I haven't seen it.
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Oh have they ever....
http://www.digitalvisual.net/demo_chesshot/images/board_big.jpg

dhex · Posts: 2963

LW Joestar · Posts: 1358

James wrote:

By the way Joestar, it doesn't sound like you're asexual, just that you're so depressed it's leaning on your sex drive. I can relate at times.

It's possible. I mean, I'm attratcted to women aesthetically, and I have had the occasional attraction to a specific one, but I basically have no desire to explore the finer points of the Horizontal Arts with either women or men.

laXgrrl5 · Posts: 4

dmauro wrote:

omg laxxxgrrrl we can trade pictures of our parrotlets! And then have them fight! (Rocco is a total badass though)

Also, I can't tell if it's fake or not as it might be a response to my last joke bio post.

It's LaX. Lacrosse. ^_~ *snerk*

WTH, sure.

Here's how he looks NOW:

Here's how he USED to look:

He's the one on the left. That was just after I got him years ago, and before I had to separate him and his bro and put them into separate cages, like this:

He and his brother attacked my mini macaw a few times. So she jumped him from six feet away--and this is a bird that couldn't fly at the time, never fledged properly-- and nearly crushed him. Nothing physically wrong with him, either, so it's psychological. Dude, I'd fear for your parrotlet, because Pepsi had no problem attacking Mickey, the Scarlet.

Psiga wrote:

DJ hangs with two nearly-deaf WoW'ers? I bet Jyot holds her liquor better, though!

Probably. I'm not a drinker. Haven't really had any since I was maybe 7? Then it was total abstainance for god knows why. Probably because a few of my friends were injured by a drunken driver when I was 8. However, I'm also bigger than Jyot is, so that might tip the scales in my favour. :)

extralife wrote:

I blame WoW.

Works for me. There was at least four of us at one point with a hearing impairment in the same group of guilds. I was the only one not in DJ's old guild. -_-

James · Posts: 1735

LW Joestar wrote:

James wrote:

By the way Joestar, it doesn't sound like you're asexual, just that you're so depressed it's leaning on your sex drive. I can relate at times.

It's possible. I mean, I'm attratcted to women aesthetically, and I have had the occasional attraction to a specific one, but I basically have no desire to explore the finer points of the Horizontal Arts with either women or men.

Reduced sex drive can be very, very comon as a symptom. Most don't like to talk about it because running down the street yelling HEY GUYS I GOT IMPOTENCE is a drag. However, if you feel lousy, Mr Winky feels pretty lousy too. You sound like you'd benefit from a good therapist and a solid psych assessment before medication is prescribed. Good luck, y'know, generally.

LegatoB · Posts: 1546

LW Joestar wrote:

Answer 2: Watch "Welcome to the NHK"

I am now picturing you as Satou. I think this will result in me laughing at every last one of your serious posts from now on.

dmauro · Posts: 933

Oh, you've got blues. They're really nice, but no match for a green parrotlet!

That is Rocco after just having defeated my roommate in mortal combat.

And this is one of my parents' blue parrotlets that I got to see when I was home for christmas:

the vinculum gate · Posts: 2868

does everyone on IC own a pair of those glasses?

dmauro · Posts: 933

the vinculum gate wrote:

does everyone on IC own a pair of those glasses?

No, I lost mine. But now I have a nice pair of Chanels that someone else lost and never claimed.

laXgrrl5 · Posts: 4

the vinculum gate wrote:

does everyone on IC own a pair of those glasses?

No. Mine are rimless.

Dmauro: Yeah, mine is(/are) a Blue(s)!

And they most certainly are a match for a green. Yours isn't a true green, either, there's some blend in the colours on that bad boy. But he's a gorgeous parrotlet.

And he has all his feathers. -_- Oh well. Pepsi will get his back! Pluck No More from Kings' Cages will hopefully do the trick.

dmauro · Posts: 933

Some blend? I thought the blue over the eyes and under the wings was natural for the greens?

dmauro · Posts: 933

I didn't want to post a long and boring bio, so I just thought I'd post a link to myspace account instead.

Monthenor · Posts: 455

the vinculum gate wrote:

does everyone on IC own a pair of those glasses?

I own (the equivalent of) three.

stotelheim · Posts: 414

Psiga wrote:

I was telling DJ about my idea to make a chess board where every piece is a shotglass, and whenever you take an opponent piece, you have to take a shot. Lesser pieces have less alcohol and greater pieces have more. It's sort-of an automatic handicap, since the better you do at the game, the more wasted you become.

I'm sure that somebody's done this already, but I haven't seen it.

I actually have one of those! It's pretty neat, though I haven't tried it out yet.

LW Joestar · Posts: 1358

LegatoB wrote:

LW Joestar wrote:

Answer 2: Watch "Welcome to the NHK"

I am now picturing you as Satou. I think this will result in me laughing at every last one of your serious posts from now on.

It's really not too far from the truth, honestly.

Except, I don't think it's a conspiracy. Also, I don't assume locking myself in a room for three years will give me super strength.

dmauro · Posts: 933

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TOLLMASTER · Posts: 1977

LW Joestar wrote:

DeusJester wrote:

The concept of social anxiety I see so much on these boards stikes me as completely inscrutable. I've never understood the whole anxiety thing, and people's long meandering posts about the minute details of social interaction and all the little foibles therein strike me as either just excusemaking or pure navel-gazing -- which is fine (this is the internets!) but call it what it is, yeah? Deep, meaningful relationships with other humans are intricate, complicated things. Talking to the guy manning the register at Blockbuster is not. If you can't get that down, see a specialist about it! Because that shouldn't be hard! Unless it's a legitimate brain chemical thing? If so, eh, sorry. I know that can't be helped. I'm just unclear on how that stuff works.

Answer 1: We don't understand it either. That's sorta the nature of it.

Answer 2: Watch "Welcome to the NHK"

it's kind of like how people get creeped out when watching horror flicks in theaters, or seeing other people's blood

you know intellectually that you're completely safe, but there are still automatic behavioral responses that for the large part are not under your control

it's just that some people have their "getting attacking by a bear holy shit" and "walking around in a supermarket" signals crossed for one reason or another

it takes a while to get used to feeling like you're getting attacked by a bear whenever you go outside and though usually i can control it for a while by the second hour of constantly being in that HOLY SHIT RUN OR PUNCH thought process i am totally exhausted beyond any kind of rational thought

also i'm usually coated in layers of sweat and probably could have puked

Ging · Posts: 841

I developed the ability to get horrible stomach cramps whenever I desperately wanted to avoid a situation.

It was kinda stupid.

Captain EO · Posts: 371

you should've developed the ability to pretend that you had horrible stomach cramps, that would have made much more sense

laXgrrl5 · Posts: 4

dmauro wrote:

Some blend? I thought the blue over the eyes and under the wings was natural for the greens?

Parrotlets are sexually dimorphic. The females won't have that blue behind the eye (I think they keep it beneath the wings. I think. I'm not certain), that the males do.

I'm used to seeing a solid colouring, but after observing a number of pictures I was looking up for evidence to my point/contracting it, I may be wrong.

I didn't mean it in any way to be rude or insulting to your Rocco. ^^

Therefore, comment about being a blend withdrawn.

DeusJester · Posts: 1388

Psiga wrote:

James wrote:

I can relate: some absolute maniac piece of shit just admitted to bulking up at the gym then beating the shit out out of an elderly woman with a telephone and now I'm trying to work out how to use the voodoo power of chaos theory to have a seemingly unrelated object hit him in the nuts with sufficient upswing to render him sterile. He'll never see it coming.

Matt, your new forum title should be 'absolute maniac piece of shit'. ^_^

I'm not really all that manic, though. "Nonchalantly heavy-handed piece of shit" would work.

(>^_^(>o_O)>

Faithless · Posts: 370

I am Faithless. I write for the Gamer's Quarter, Freelance for Next-Gen. biz, and am an editor at Play magazine, and soon to be the executive editor of Rocket.

I have played video games my entire life. My first quarters of allowance were spent at Donkey Kong and Ms. Pac-Man. My first system was Master. You would know this about me if you read GQ.

I am also a comedian. I toured Europe for three years. I've been on MadTV for an episode, and am auditioning for the cast of it and or SNL soon.

I speak a bit of Japanese, and wish I lived in Akihabara. I am too frightened to walk away from my 'normal' life and head into the otaku void forever. But I write surrounded by action figures, and talk to them often.

I am not a self-important gamer Grrl. I am not looking for attention, nor affection. I am not teh hotness. I will not lick a portable for money. This is why G4 doesn't want me on any of their shows.

I went to Northwestern University, after going to a pretty shitty high school in Chicago. When I graduated High School, I had the highest ACT score that the school had ever seen, and was accused of cheating by the dean. I wasn't the valedictorian; I was bored and didn't pay attention in class, so I spent a fair amount of time in the hallway.

A guy beat the shit out of me in High School, for out-pitching him in a baseball game.

I lived in the same house with my parents from birth to 18. I have a good, healthy relationship with both of them, and they are both still together.

A guy hung himself in my house in 2005.
The house was destroyed this year.

When I was 18, I woke up one morning very angry at frivolity and judgement. I had lost my religion, and was sour at the meaninglessness of everything.

For the next year, I wore a tuxedo and top-hat every where I went.
I had seven tuxedos. It sorted out people around me; those who were suddenly unable to speak to me were unconscious. Those who didn't care were immediately, obviously, my real friends.

I can't have children. I don't have a period. I don't have ovaries; they were taken out of me when I was 17. I've fallen in love with one boy, and lots of women. I greatly prefer the latter.

Those are some of my anecdotes.

Psiga · Posts: 3990

Faithless wrote:

I am not a self-important gamer Grrl. I am not looking for attention, nor affection. ~~I am not teh hotness.~~ I will not lick a portable for money. This is why G4 doesn't want me on any of their shows.

Big parts of why I like you. And, I've said it before but it bears repeating, your FFXI article in TGQ was excellent.

I admire the femme game-industry writers who are most memorable for their writing instead of their sex. Woefully few of them out there, and then of course the ones that get close tend to like girls as much as I do.

Faithless wrote:

I can't have children. I don't have a period. I don't have ovaries...

My mother had premature ovarian failure a handful of years after I was born, and had to have the same procedure done. One of the most resounding benefits to it is the way that anything resembling PMS essentially disappears.

Faithless · Posts: 370

Psiga wrote:

Faithless wrote:

I can't have children. I don't have a period. I don't have ovaries...

My mother had premature ovarian failure a handful of years after I was born, and had to have the same procedure done. One of the most resounding benefits to it is the way that anything resembling PMS essentially disappears.

Yes. I can agree. Women are bitches.

extralife · Posts: 3316

Psiga wrote:

Woefully few of them out there, and then of course the ones that get close tend to like girls as much as I do.

But I thought Faithless actually liked girls? (lololollolololol)

FortNinety · Posts: 4591

Excuse the going over old territory...

My name is Matt as well. I currently reside in Brooklyn, NY. I've been living in parts of NYC, and NJ, for the past ten years.

I originally grew up in Washington State, and my childhood was much like other everyone else's in the US, meaning it wasn't that bad. I got picked up a lot for being a nerd and a runt, like others here I gather, but it seriously didn't bother me then (seriously), and it sorta made me a better person as a result.

I didn't have many friends (at least early on), but being an only child as well meant that I had no problems entertaining myself. I grew up on heavy doses of movies, television, comics, and video games. My parents trusted me, so I got free reign in terms of whatever I took in, but they were mostly too busy arguing with each other to really give a shit. Speaking of, I never had the best of relationship with my father, but he never raped me, so all things considered, it was never truly that bad.

In school, primarily middle and high school, I learned that the key to avoid getting picked up was to develop a sharp sense of humor. When all was said and done, I was even able to win over the folks who otherwise would have wanted to punch me in the back of the head (though my tongue would get me in other hairy situations that otherwise would have never happened). It also helped that I made myself seem look crazy, so those left who still hated my guts didn't want me to bite them on the neck.

It should be mentioned that I grew up near an insane asylum, and they let out the more docile residents out during the day. So I'm pretty used to crazy people. I've got tons of fond memories from those days, mostly waiting in line at a McDonald's and hearing some worman scream because a guy jerked off onto the back of her head while standing on the seat directly behind, along with the manager going "Oh Jesus... not this again."

Two two things worth mentioning from high school specifically: first, I was in a death metal band, called Dysentery. It was only formed to piss off the kids who were in a straight edge band called Botch (which I heard went off to receive a certain degree after h.s.). The grudge didn't last long since I eventually became friends with most of that band's members.

The other memorable thing is that I only got into one real fight, and that was when I beat the shit out of some kid with bow-leggism. On the surface, beating the crap out of some gimp may seem bully-ish, but I assure, the whole story is pretty amusing, and he totally had it coming to him.

Anyway, aside from jokes and screaming a lot, I was mostly an arty-farty kid, hence why I went to art school. I chose New York because it was far, far away from my folks, and it was where my favorite show, Night Court, took place. I went to School of Visual Arts and majored in cartooning, but along the way got really heavily involved into film. By the end of my four years, I hadn't made a comic book like most in my major (I was more interested in children's book illustration), but I made or was directly involved in about half a dozen movies.

I have tons of awesome stories from my college days, but my favorite might be the time some Russian chick bit one of my nipples off during sex.

About a year after graduating and doing nothing with my cartooning diploma, but making a living by mooching off the dot com economy, I was hired by Ubi Soft and became their lead game designer for their NY studio. So, without any previous experience in the industry, I was designing PlayStation games and doing research into burgeoning future game platforms, all for one of the industry's largest and most recognized names in the field, and by the time I was 23. I'm still sorta proud of that.

Two major things happened outside of work during this time. The first is that I got e. coli poisoning and lost about 36 pounds in a little over 24 hours. I was shooting diarrhea and vomit at the same time. I almost died. But I lost a lot of college fat real quick! The other thing is this crazy girl that I dated for nine months, and as a result, I have been dubbed my multiple sources as being the king of the crazy ex-grilfriends stories.

Anyway, back to video games: my time at Ubi there was short (the studio only existed for a year), but I learned a lot, and decided to make video games a full-time gig. Shortly afterwards I created a game independently, with a friend. It was about a guy who cleans up the spunk left behind in jerk off booths. It was a hit sensation across the net, and is something else I'm also fiercely proud of. Too bad we could make money off of it, but it was the start of something. Over the course of the next few years, I would design a number of other titles, and at least one or two eventually made it to completion.

That first game was a result of the fact that both my friend and I had tons of time on our hands; I lost my job in August of 2001, and figured that I would get another one relatively quick. Then 9/11 happened, and everyone across the country, but primarily NYC, had it hard job-wise. But things could have been much worse, and I spent the rest of the year trying to raise money/attract investors for various game related initiatives. And the rest of the time was spend playing video games, watching digital cable, eating fried chicken, and flirting with girls online.

Around this time, I also became involved in video game journalism. A friend worked at Nick Mag, and I was always that guy they asked for verification for assorted game related tid-bits, till they finally went "fuck it... let's pay the guy." My first job was interviewing Miyamoto, and since then I've done assorted humor oriented video game pieces, and other interviews. But the money wasn't consistent enough, and by 2002 I ran our of unemployment. Was homeless for a while, but having many friends meant plenty of couches to surf. Eventually got a job being the assistant manager of the Time Square box office for Medieval Times. Once I realized that selling swords was not my life's calling, I parted ways, but soon got a job at SVA's Computer Art Department as an office manager. One thing led to another, and I eventually began teaching game design.

I still mostly write about games. Since Nick Mag, I've written for GMR, Gamastura, GameSetWatch, even the front-page of this site. Things got a bit slow in the game dev department until recently; I'm not at liberty to say, but I'm designing games for a new client, one that's very major, and I'm quite excited about that. Oh, and I'm currently writing a text book, one that's centered on game design.

I currently have a girlfriend (I used to be the king of internet dating... one summer I went out with literally 25+ different girls, all from Friendster and MakeOutClub... but the current one I met in real life, which in the end, is the way it should be) who makes comics, hence why I'm sorta getting back into it. I'm relying on my huge stockpile of anecdotes as material, and those interested can learn more at my site.

Anyway, I consider myself, overall, a very nice guy. A loyal friend to the very end type person. But I am easily annoyed by the world at large. I especially find certain sets of nerds annoying, maybe because I know what its like but I've since out grown it, but also some folks are just sad and pathetic, with no real desire to look at themselves in the mirror and boot-up for the challenge of actually doing something. Like furries for example.

Psiga · Posts: 3990

extralife wrote:

Psiga wrote:

Woefully few of them out there, and then of course the ones that get close tend to like girls as much as I do.

But I thought Faithless actually liked girls? (lololollolololol)

I love girls on principle; not so much in practice.

FortNinety wrote:

I didn't have many friends (at least early on), but being an only child as well meant that I had no problems entertaining myself. I grew up on heavy doses of movies, television, comics, and video games. My parents trusted me, so I got free reign in terms of whatever I took in, but they were mostly too busy arguing with each other to really give a shit. Speaking of, I never had the best of relationship with my father, but he never raped me, so all things considered, it was never truly that bad.

There's a page from my book, as well.

Actually, in my earlier years I had a lot of "friends," but it didn't take more than a couple of grades to figure out the difference between the real ones who stick with you and the false ones who just like being invited to your parties.

Napoli · Posts: 236

I've been coming to this website for years but I really only started posting on it recently. I generally use the forums as a resource and I find the posts interesting but I figured I might as well introduce myself if I'll be showing up here more frequently.

I'm from the Jersey Shore. I've lived here all my life except for when I went to college out in PA (Lehigh University). I started out working in business sales for Gateway until they started firing everyone so I decided to get a job in the financial industry. Now I am a Financial Advisor and I work with a team at Merrill Lynch that manages the money of some ultra high net worth clients which is obviously a big change for me. It can be a very difficult job so far but I really like what I do because it is all about building and maintaining relationships which really wasn't too different from what I was doing at Gateway.

I started playing games when I was very young. I grew up down the street from a boardwalk that had a lot of arcades so my father and I used to go down there on the weekends and play games all the time. Just like everyone else I grew up with, I had an NES that I spent a lot of time in front of. I then got a Turbografx and then an SNES some time after that. For Christmas one year I got a Turbo CD, some PC Engine games, and a convertor. I think that was pretty much when I started throwing every single dollar I had into my video game collection. I have probably a good 700 games or so but it seems like there are just always more and more games that I need to buy.

I spent a semester out in Osaka during my junior year, which was one of the best times of my life (wow I bought a lot of games). The family that I lived with was amazing and best of all, the father was an alcoholic! So he kept me drunk pretty much the entire semester I spent there. Osaka was very different than Tokyo, the people seemed much friendlier and much more humble. I had a great time out there and I can't recommend studying abroad enough. If anyone is considering it, go for it, you have nothing to lose.

I'm almost 26 and I feel that I have grown tremendously over the past year and learned a lot about myself. I ended relationships that I had with people that didn't add anything positive to my life and now I only have a few close friends that I spend a lot of time with. It has been hard at times, but surrounding myself with people that love and care about me has put me in a much better place now than 18 months ago.

I haven't seriously dated anyone in a while. I was in two fucked up long term relationships that have token a huge toll on me mentally. And it doesn't help that I still get calls from one of them. I've spent the last year dating/fucking around thinking that it would help me get over things but I think that it only leads towards a very depressing existence and it definitely isn't for me. Very rarely do any of those relationships end in both people coming out unscathed; someone's feelings always seem to end up getting hurt. So now I'm trying to quit drinking, have a long term relationship with a girl that isn't insane, and get the rest of my life in order.

I started playing Halo 2 online again. My gamertag is Napoli80 if anyone ever wants to play.

Wilkes · Posts: 1603

dude, we should hang out at mitsuwa sometime or something.

really!!

Psiga · Posts: 3990

I used to love going to the Costa Mesa ~~Yaohan~~ Mitsuwa, but then the Kinokuniya moved, and I lost interest in Tamiya cars, and the market got under new management which didn't take meticulous care of the seafood...

Silverswordfish · Posts: 64

born 26/08/84

Play a lot of Nintendo games. Like other cultures and traveling.

Waffen · Posts: 1638

I AM THE POONMAN.

Waffen · Posts: 1638

OH YEAH AND YOU GUYS ARE ENTIRELY TOO SELF ABSORBED.

Decinoge · Posts: 129

Waffen wrote:

OH YEAH AND YOU GUYS ARE ENTIRELY TOO SELF ABSORBED.

who summoned me?

haircute · Posts: 928

I know a lot about tollmaster now so this is a good thread.

extralife · Posts: 3316

Posting in a thread that was made better by haircutes presence.

emonaghan · Posts: 48

I'm the new and improved Baron Patsy!

GrimSweeper · Posts: 530

I don't really get this whole name change = IMPROVED! business.

Jeff Garneau aka General Sherman is still the hipster he was, probably even more so.

internisus aka Guardian FINAL still makes long posts deep-analysing game mechanics.

In short, I liked your old user name. :/

internisus · Posts: 961

It's not really meant to be a change in interest so much as, you know, a change in username.

Jeff Garneau · Posts: 1622

also now we have titles which is the best part.

emonaghan · Posts: 48

GrimSweeper wrote:

I don't really get this whole name change = IMPROVED! business.

Jeff Garneau aka General Sherman is still the hipster he was, probably even more so.

internisus aka Guardian FINAL still makes long posts deep-analysing game mechanics.

In short, I liked your old user name. :/

Don't worry Grim baby, I'm thinking of something other than Emo Naghan.

FortNinety · Posts: 4591

I thought about asking to have my name changed to fort90, but eh, I'm used to how it is now, and so are others. Plus when people actually do use numbers instead of words, it makes me a little extra happy, I don't know why.

dessgeega · Posts: 3317

internisus wrote:

It's not really meant to be a change in interest so much as, you know, a change in username.

i wanted your title to be "the guardian legend" but i didn't think of it until aderack's suggestion had already been approved.

kthorjensen · Posts: 104

My name is K. Thor Jensen and I am thirty and I live in Queens with my wife, our dog and our cat. Sometimes we babysit our nephew, too, and then I usually can't sleep. I wrote and drew this book and have an essay in this book and this is my band and this is me, a 14 year old girl. Oh, and I also run Portal of Evil and Lord I hope these links work. Also I like fuckin' (with people).

bort · Posts: 319

k thor forgive me for forgetting (ITS ME BORT) but are you the big guy or the little guy with the outfit

FortNinety · Posts: 4591

K Thor also drew a story for one of my comics. He depicted me getting it on in college, and my nipple getting bitten off!

kthorjensen · Posts: 104

Bort I am the big guy if by big you mean fat.

And how did I forget to mention this.