Introduce Yourself!

[PrettzL]

Let's introduce ourselves! Remember this is viewable by the general public and unregistered users, so only share what you feel comfortable sharing!

I'll start.

Hey everybody, I'm Sam Holmes. I was born in '84 the year of our Big Brother. I'm male, sired a son and am recently divorced. I play games to have fun exclusively. I have lived in Portland, OR for 30 years I despise it here- but nowhere else rains quite like it does here so until I can move to Scotland I'm stuck here.

I've been involved in video games since the age of 3, started on a commodore 64 and a 486 later on. Was mostly a console gamer at 9 until 1998 when Starcraft came out and PC won me back. I built my first PC at 10 which was a Pentium 2 and upgraded to a Pentium III the following year. I haven't been without a PC desktop since 1999 and keep building my own rigs not only to save on money but to keep up with the tech.

I record music, track occasionally, do rudimentary photo editing and write fiction with PC's when not gaming. The only peripheral I have worth noting is my mouse which is a Corsair m95- it goes with me everywhere. I cannot use any other mouse but it anymore, it's just too good. It works on any surface and I would highly recommend it to anyone who does precision tracking and drawing on PC and cant seem to get tablets to work in their head for screen transferral. (Plus it's fucking amazing for games.)

I mostly play First Person games, though at my core I'm still a JRPG, Side Scroller Beat Em Up, and Puzzle Fanatic. I dabble in RTS games and have been since Dune II, currently playing Heroes of the Storm, Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm/Legacy of the Void whenever it tickles me. I play a lot of Tribes: Ascend, around 20-30 hours a week. I've recently become pretty fanatical about Bullet-Hell games, like Ikaruga, DoDanPachi, Jamestown, Really Big Sky, Bleed, and FPS Bullet Hells like Lovely Planet, Drunken Robot Pornography, and Tower of Guns.

While I was attending college my room mate at the time was the president of the university gaming club and got me really involved in fighting games. I've been playing at around tournament level off the radar since 2009 for Guilty Gear XX, BlazBlue and P4a. I always play MVC2Chaos when I go to arcades and I'm not terrible but I play better with controllers over propads. I still remember Cinder's Ultra from the original Killer Instinct. >->-L->->L->->-X Shit was CRAZY~ ULTRA~~~~~~~~~

I play a lot of rogue-likes too, they're incredibly fun judgement/reaction time games.

Steam is my primary platform for games these days. Feel free to add me to your friends list- 'PrettzL'- I'm always game for any kind of multiplayer. (Borderlands 2, is kind of a guilty pleasure of mine.)

I also run a Minecraft server out of Texas that is currently hosting a modded server for Resonant Rise: Timelines and I'm on there in the mornings usually. If you play Modded Minecraft do feel free to contact me either here or through steam/facebook to get involved!

It's nice to make your acquaintances, let's make something good together.

Additional: My Nickname PrettzL comes from when I was a wee tyke (10) and my older sisters used to curl me up in to pretzels and I didn't know how to spell.

[JustinPierce]

I've recently become pretty fanatical about Bullet-Hell games

Coincidentally, I helped make a bullet hell shmup in college (back then I couldn't code -- I did the art). It was called ShitStorm heh. It was for a class so it's pretty primitive and only has one level.

[PrettzL]

ShitStorm

Brilliant name for a bullet hell!

[Cozy]

Heyo all, Cozy here aka Tyler Johnson. I'm a 19 year old college dropout kid who lives in Iowa and have been for a good 10 years now. I really don't like it here, and am pretty anxious to move out somewhere, but it's kinda hard with no degree and no people you know to live with. I'm hoping to move within a couple years, but I guess we'll see what happens.

Hobbies include:
1. Watching le epik animes. http://myanimelist.net/animelist/Tylzy Compilation of shows/movies I've watched.
2. Programming (been learning C#, php, html, and css recently)
3. Streaming/playing video games
4. Playing piano (although the piano we have atm is broken)
5. Lifting weights

Well @PrettzL, your post makes me feel like I need to write more, but I'll still keep it brief-ish. Here we go:

My 1st real experience with computer games started with RuneScape around the year 2003 (as I'm sure it did with many people). I played that for a good few years until 2006 rolled around and my brother showed me another MMO called "MapleStory". At this point, my computer gaming really takes off, and I start spending more and more time on the computer as opposed to console gaming. As I aged, I looked around for more games, different forums, etc. And I don't think it was until SC2, that I really found another game that got my attention as much as MapleStory did.

Starcraft 2 was my 1st experience with competitive games aside from hearing my brother scream at his computer on LoL. It was new, interesting, and completely different to most everything I had ever seen in games. Sure, I'd played a bit of AoE2, but that didn't come even close to the professionalism that I saw in SC2 play. AoE2 was just a game, and here I saw SC2 with people who are called "professionals". I don't think before that point it had ever occurred to me that someone could be professional at a video game. Maybe it had, I don't really remember that well, but all that I know is that SC2 definitely opened my mind up more to the competitive scene of games.

After that comes Tribes:Ascend which I introduced to ACD's @ChoiSeunghyun (aka Ricky), where we both played together on a team called NovusUnion (shoutouts to pixel5 and crittaC ). I played that for a while then dropped it because of very high amounts of seniority complexes in the PUG scene. And after that ended in like 2010, I just kinda have been drifting around from game to game, playing with friends, studying, watching shows/streams etc. Been keeping up with the SSBM scene a bit and also started getting more into fighting games (SkullGirls ) too, which is surprisingly really fun. I had never played a fighting game until SkullGirls a few months back, and it's got me pretty hooked. I like the fast paced nature of it and how easily you can see skill between players.

A few months ago I started lifting weights due to suggestion from my good friend @ChoiSeunghyun which has helped my overall mental and physical health a ton. I'd definitely suggest it to anyone who wants to live a healthier lifestyle or just feel better about themselves in general.

I guess that's me in a nutshell. I program, I make music when I can, I watch lots of anime, I lift weights, and I've been itching to play a good competitive game. Hope to get along good with you guys.

[PrettzL]

Nice to meet ya Tyler! @Cozy is a pretty good handle. I've always liked short aliases. :3

I dabble in Anime myself, though I tend to watch stuff based on suggestion from a few friends who are pretty hardcore weeaboos.

Also no pressure on writing much- that goes for you and everybody, heh. I went to college for language arts, reading, writing and linguistics so I've sculpted myself in to a conversationalist.

I'm an old hat as far as foruming is concerned too, so I'll always be pretty active. I hardly use IRC these days unless I'm in #horriblesubs when something new needs to get leeched on to my storage drive immediately. (I'm working my way through Space Dandy right now really enjoying it)

Since tomorrow is the last day of the Steam Holiday sale I'll be picking up the 3 DLC characters for SkullGirls so I can have a full selection on who to be terrible at for a while. I'm pretty new to SkullGirls but ParaSoul seems like she's going to be my girl.

[ChoiSeunghyun]

no people you know to live with.

WEOW

my good friend @ChoiSeunghyun

*BEST friend and coach,

Take like.. 5 laps my god.

[atavax]

I might be a little paranoid about the internet, so i'm going to avoid giving out my full name. I'm Ben/Benjamin, typically go by the handle Atavax. I'm 27, in Detroit, and currently a cook at a high end restaurant. I used to play computer games on my father's lap before i could walk, and my uncle bought my siblings and me a NES shortly before I was 3. I always loved pc FPS and loved mouse for FPS. I started shifting away from console genres when they focused more on analog sticks. I was always a d-pad kind of guy. Hopeful that the steam controller will help me enjoy gamepad gaming more then i do now. So played a lot of FPS and a little MMOs. Played a ton of Starcraft, Counter Strike, Quake 3, Urban Terror, Ultima Online, and a bit of WoW.

When i had a laptop for college i didn't really game until i dropped out, and then i could only really play MMOs .A year or so later i built my first gaming desktop, started playing tf2 and MMOs. Eventually decided i personally found the challenge of shooters much more enjoyable then the challenge of MMOs and dropped MMOs entirely. Played TF2 a little competitively but it was already kind of old and started looking for a new/fun shooter to challenge myself with excelling at. Played a bit of Firefall when it was in beta and had a instanced PvP mode, was one of the better players and was even flown to California to give feedback on an internal build. But eventually they cancelled the instanced PvP part and i regressed to basically just playing TF2 casually while looking for the next great FPS. About a year ago i also got a bit obsessed with mice, read a lot about mice, bought and tested tons of mice, became one of the more respected members of a mouse forum and have been getting free review copies of a couple gaming mice Also, i love beer and have started brewing beer with a couple coworkers on our days off.

[Blake_Stamps]

Well if the username wasn't a giveaway...

Hello! My name is Blake, and I'm 27. Currently I'm a PhD student trying to finish out my degree in microbiology. I've always been a gamer, focusing on the FPS genre- rabid Q3A fan, but otherwise CS, Q3A, Urban Terror, RTCW, the battlefield series, etc. etc. I've dabbled in WoW but never got into it.

Otherwise I'm a homebrewer who loves practicing what he studies at home (when I can!) and traveling to all kinds of places. Big fan of any and all SciFi (Mars trilogy, and anything by Alistair Reynolds). Pleased to meet everyone here!

[Fixious]

Hello. I am Fixious. I've been playing Tribes on and off since 98', more-so within the last couple of years. I made the unfortunate mistake of creating /r/tribes in 2009 and continue to mod that hell-hole 5 years later. Sometime around summer 2013 someone (project lead for 'Z' actually) approached me with the idea of creating a website for games like Tribes, thus fps-z.com was born sometime around October 2013, along with the subreddit /r/fpsz. A few months later I discovered Telos.

Before Ascend I was quite active in Legions: Overdrive, and helped the devs test and release one final update to the game. I was Test Lead for a year or so I guess (still am technically). I'm sure that experience will help with AoT, at least some of it I guess. Never been a huge fan of 'modern' shooters or arena/dueling games. Usually needed something more, which is why I enjoy games like Tribes and others like it. Happy to see Telos isn't just some arena duel-fest and has actual objectives involved, and hope we can all improve it.

[vornskr]

Hi all. I'm vornskr (Paul in real life). I'm 27 & working on a PhD in music theory; I'm also a mod on /r/musictheory. For the last few years I played comp in Tribes Ascend with a few house-league teams. Before that I spent a couple years playing the custom game Mafia in sc2, and long before that I was involved in the comp ctf & modding communities for Star Wars: Jedi Knight. So I have some experience with map design & mod qa (though in a game that's almost 20 years old now). I love scifi/tolkien, Shakespeare, some tv/anime, and quite a bit of music.

Looking forward to helping build this game & its community!

[PrettzL]

Nice guys! So far we're all rockin' middle of the road age and a lot of college efforts.

@atavax Paranoia? I'd call it more of a healthy concern for your own privacy, Ben. I wont burst your bubble there, information that's available online can be a little overwhelming. Let me tell you though, being public about yourself online since you were 13 is an accomplishment I am proud of. A chronicle for the ages of dumb dumb guy becomes slightly older dumb guy.

At your reistorante are you the executive chef? If so, congratulations. I was a skullery chief (fancy way to say dishwasher/barback manager) for a while when I was younger. It's probably the only work I thoroughly enjoyed- a chef's kitchen has a familial tone which once you've become a part of it it sticks with you.

D-Pads have always been my cup of tea too, since Super Mario world I've been stigmatized to mirror controls being the standard. Which is probably why I'm not so good with Xbox 360's controller over the Playstation controllers. (The analogue sticks being tandemized is really odd for me) I do try though. Do you play quakelive at all?

@Blake_Stamps PhD in science, you are a Sir and I salute you. If I ever go back to college I doubt I'd have the wherewithal to go for a doctorate. Cuz~ F. That S. in the A. Hardcore. (Glad to see I'm not alone as a reader too) I bet your library has a lot of golden age (50's) sci-fi- Niven, Pournell, Heinlein, Asimov, etc etc. We should probably talk books some time.

@Fixious Evan! We've talked briefly. I truly am sorrowed by your loss of what was a solid community. FPSZ is a great source of information for me and was actually what turned me on to AoT, without you I wouldn't likely be here. So thank you for that.

@vornskr Paul, that's a rock solid name of a dependable guy. Ho~lee~crap another mega smarty-guy we truly are blessed. I'm not sure if it was jedi Knight II or the original that had the really epic lightsabre dueling, but that game is a fond, albeit brief, memory for my PC upbringing. (Better than Shadow of the Empire was at least) Would you suggest checking out /r/musictheory for a filthy hifi casual like myself or is it more for the 'hardcore circle of fifths' and 'accidentals as an art form' kind of crowd?

I'm loving this group.

[atavax]

@PrettzL No, i am not the head chef. Really i don't have the experience or the education for head chef.

I played a little quake live after it went live on steam but i felt guilty because i would destroy people and feel like i'm killing the games's playerbase. I typically just play the different beta modes of TF2 because i feel like at least then i'm doing some good even if i am putting people off the game by dominating. Also right now i'm trying out acceleration because i have nothing better to do and after an old quake world competitor gave me some tips for how to find a good accel setting for myself.

[PrettzL]

Also right now i'm trying out acceleration because i have nothing better to do and after an old quake world competitor gave me some tips for how to find a good accel setting for myself.

Low sensitivity with acceleration, eh? Sometimes I feel like I'm alone playing at 5700 DPI.

Is the benefit of low sens just better stability/accuracy for fine shots?

[ian]

*My name's Ian and I like to party.
When I go to class late, they call me tardy.*

I am qhp and I am studying and teaching for a doctorate in CpE. I've played the Tribes series since T2 and have lots of FPS experience -- mostly from CS and Q3/CPMA. Like Fixious I also moderated /r/tribes but I did a worse job of it so he has his job back. I am in Central/Northern Florida so holla at yo boy if you're around and want to turn up.

e: does italics markup not work yet?

[JustinPierce]

e: does italics markup not work yet?

It does, but it seems that a return will break it.
So you'll have to manually do it for each line.

[DrunkenJedi]

Hey all, don't feel like writing paragraphs so have some bullet points to sum me up:

• Rowan - 21/M/UK

• I'm studying Sports Science at University.

• Gaming all my life, Ascend being my first Tribes/FPS-Z title.

• Now I mostly play DOTA 2 but AoT should be good and I look forward to playing.

[Fixious]

Thought I'd add some other forms of contact:

evanvolm AT gmail.com for Gchat
Fixious on #fpsz and #telos on irc.quakenet.org.
evanvolm on Steam

Those are my main forms of contact. If xFire is popular I can use that as well (I use Pidgin, which supports xFire and other protocols).

[Lemuel]

Christ, there are some long paragraphs in here.

My name's Theo, I'm 16 and from London in the UK. For about 5 years I primarily played TF2, getting into the comp scene after 2 or so, and actually currently run a site devoted to coverage of the competitive scene within that game, as well as doing some shoutcasting. I've played a bit of Tribes, although never enough to get very good, and at the moment am sort of on a Smash Bros. Melee binge. It's awesome to see this community starting to grow and I'm glad to be a part of that.

EDIT: Well now that I have some time I figured I'd do what other people are doing and say a bit about myself from other perspectives than vidya james. I spend the majority of my time playing music. I started playing the cello when I was six, picked up the drums at nine, ukulele at eleven, then piano and guitar at fourteen. Drums have become my main instrument, mostly playing jazz, which is what I listen to (and where my name comes from).

I also quite enjoy the production aspects of music (and writing) which can be heard shameless plug over at my soundcloud /shameless plug.

I program a bit as well, Perl, Python, Java, and now Swift (as well as html and css).

And that's basically me, I'm super excited for this game to become a reality. Onwards to Telos!

[MKULTRA]

Hey everyone, I'm Connor.

I'm 27 years old, currently living in Texas. I work in foreign and domestic shipping for government types. For better or worse I'm stuck here stateside for the time being.

Anyone coming here from tribes will know me as BagOfWiggins. I helped create Clan Alpha Saber which became the largest TA clan. I really enjoy making gameplay montages for tribes and encouraged several of my clan members to record and document their favorite moments over on our YouTube channel

Glad to see some familiar faces here.

[DrunkenJedi]

Anyone coming here from tribes will know me as BagOfWiggins

Heeeeeyyy!