"Official" My Gaming getting to know you thread

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larch

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Thought it might be a good idea to start a thread like this meet the people behind the nicknames. You dont need to go into super personal details but a picture would be nice. ;)

Current Job: Owner of IT company. (Self Employed)

Activities: Couch Rugby

Interests: Blogging, playing console games, watching Anime, reading Manga and listening to music and just generally clowning around.

Favorite Music: A Perfect Circle, Nine Inch Nails, 30 Seconds to Mars, Crossfade, Breaking Benjamin, Slipknot, Korn, Megaherz, Seether, Killswitch Engage, Saosin, Lacuna Coil, Flesh Field, X Ray Dog, Fear Factory, Moonspell, Tool, Marilyn Manson, HIM, Foo Fighters, Deftones, White Zombie, Three Days Grace, SKIN, Finch, Within Temptation, Adema, Nightwish, Insomnium......the list goes on and on.

Favorite TV Shows: BONES, Mentalist

Favorite Movies: The Crow, V for Vendetta, Dark City, Sin City, 30 Days Of Night

Favorite Books: Stephan King, Dean Koontz

Favorite Quotations: The larch guide to taking criticism: Grow up, realize you aren't perfect, and if you want your dick sucked then slip your date some roofies cause I sure in hell ain't deepthroating you.

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And since this is such a super awesome thread the mods can sticky it. ^_^
 
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Errr...Uhm...I think the photo kinda ruined the chances of this getting sticky'ed. Which gives me an idea. Remember that e-mail that circled the globe about "never put your photo on the internet" about that fat kid that everyone edited and made to look like a dork across the World? :)
 
Haha OK

*jumps on the bandwagon*

Hi, I'm Lydon ("Hi Lydon!"), pronounced Lie-din ;), and I'm 19.

Current Job: Student (majoring in Politics, Philosophy, Social Anthropology and some Sociology)

Activities: Gaming (duh), tennis soon, hiking and hopefully soon water polo too :)

Interests: Architecture, politics and music.

Favourite Music: Evanescence, Ben Moody, Within Temptation, We Are the Fallen, Panic! at the Disco, Nightwish, Imogen Heap, Paramore, Red, Tarja Turunen, Frou Frou, The Bird and the Bee, Delain, Epica, Stream of Passion, Skillet, Breaking Benjamin and a looooad more.

Favourite TV Shows: Will & Grace (by far), True Blood and The Vampire Diaries.

Favourite Movies: Mean Girls, iRobot, Flight Plan and Avatar.

Favourite Books: The Sword of Truth series, Evernight series and many more. Mostly fantasy :)

Favourite Quotations: "I thought we turned over a new leaf. Hehe little did we know what was on the other side."

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Current Job: Student

Activities: Paintball, Games

Interests: Games, Rugby, Cricket

Favorite Music: Linkin Park, Metallica, Static-X, Nirvana, Bush and others

Favorite TV Shows: 24

Favorite Movies: Heat, Black Hawk Down, Terminator 2

Favorite Books: Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six and novels that expand on game stories like Mass Effect Revelation and Ascension

Favorite Quotations: Doing the right thing is like pissing yourself in dark pants, you get warm feeling but noone else notices.

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High my name is Daniel. I am 20 turning 21 next Saturday.

Current Job: Musician

Activities: Guitar playing,Band practise

Interests: Games,Guitar playing,Reading,Posting on forums.
Favorite Music: Slayer,Metallica,Iron maiden,black label society,Megadeth,Gary moore,The police,David bowie.

Favorite TV Shows: The drew carey show, Futurama,The simpsons,Family guy,American dad.

Favorite Movies: IT,Fear and loathing in las vegas,Hamburgerhill,Conan,Evil dead 2, The mist.

Favorite Books: Wheel of time,IT

Favorite Quotations: "It's like pissing in the ocean.:D
 
Current Job: Sales Rep/Freelance Language Practitioner

Activities: Gaming, playing guitar, getting stoned then doing said activities

Interests: Games, guitaring, music, reading, anime,

Favorite Music: Soul Embraced, Carcass, As I Lay Dying, The Devil Wears Prada, Agathodaimon, Parkway Drive, All That Remains, Killswitch Engage, Amon Amarth, The Wake, Insomnium, Northeer, Children of Bodom, Made of Hate, On Solid Ground, A Plea For Purging, Insomnium, (early) In Flames, Austrian Death Machine, Beyond the Embrace, Bring Me the Horizon, The Black Dahlia Murder, Callenish Circle, Dark Lunacy, Deliver Us From Evil, Gardenian, Eternal Tears of Sorrow, Slipknot, Kalmah, Mortal Treason, Still Remains, (early) Underoath, etc.

Favorite TV Shows: Heroes, Dexter, The Office

Favorite Movies: Shawshank Redemption, Lord of the Rings, Mists of Avalon, Curse of the Ring

Favorite Books: Wheel of time, Lord of the Rings, anything by Ted Dekker, Michael Robotham, Hubert Selby Jr, and Andrzei Sapkowski

Favorite Quotations: "The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another."

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*That's an old pic, I cut my hair a while ago, but it's the only I have atm
 
Current Job:
Corporate Software Developer (Senior Programmer)

Activities:
Jembe drumming
Reading those good stories books; )
Electric guitaring
pc / console gaming

Interests:
Martial arts
Japanese culture
Anthropology
Philosophy and Psychology
Religion
Technology and Science
Fine arts
Digital Art
Anime and Manga

Favourite Music:
Rock
Metal
Symphony Metal
Classic
Alternative
Some gothic

Favourite TV Programmes:
Reaper (tv)
Moonlight (tv)
Grim and evil (cartoon)
Simpsons (cartoon)
Claymore (anime)
Trinity Blood (anime)
Ergo Proxy (anime)
Hellsing Ultimate (anime)

Favourite Films:
Dune and Children of dune (mini series)
The Crow 1
300
Bourne movies
Ghost in a shell 1 and 2
Jet Li - The Promise

Favourite Books:
Dune collection
Death Gate Cycle
Shike
The Ninja
Necronomicon The Best Weird Tales of HP Love Craft
Something Wicked (magazine)


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Current Job: Freelance journalist

Activities and interests Gaming, reading, hanging out with friends, good conversation, playing nerdy board games (Last Night on Earth, Heroscape, Touch of Evil, etc.), playing guitar, language and etymology, history, vikings, other stuff.

Favorite Music: In Flames, Iron Maiden, Lamb of God, Children of Bodom, Eluveitie, Opeth, Cradle of Filth, Lordi, Tiamat, Bruce Dickinson, Finntroll, Turisas, Amorphis, White Zombie, Korpiklaani, Emperor, Dissection, Dimmu Borgir, Ajattara, Therion, Kovenant, Ensiferum, Deathstars, Samael, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Queen, and lots of rubbishy 80s pop.

Favorite TV Shows: Mostly British comedies like Black Books, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, Green Wing, Peep Show, as well as Family Guy, American Dad, and QI.

Favorite Movies: The Alien series, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, SÃ¥ som i himmelen, Event Horizon, The Shining, and way too many others to list.

Favorite Books: The Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake, The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, anything by Richard Morgan, anything by China Miéville.

Favorite Quotations: Nothing really comes to mind, so I suppose I don't have any.

Picuture: I don't post pictures of myself on internet forums.
 
Hi, I'm Dan, and most of this has lazily been nicked from my Facebook profile.

Current Job: Copywriter at Ogilvy Johannesburg.

Activities: Gaming, geeetar, and collecting imitation Fabergé eggs.

Interests: As above.

Favourite Music: Too many to list, but I'm currently enjoying Four Year Strong, The Crosstown Rivalry, Terror on the Screen, Rise Against, Two o'Clock Courage, Me vs Hero, and slowly getting into the new Alkaline Trio.

Favourite TV Shows: Six Feet Under, Californication, Weeds, Nip/Tuck, South Park, The Practice, Extras, Mad Men, Summer Heights High, Man Stroke Woman.

Favourite Movies: Switchblade Romance, Football Factory, Kill Bills, Beetlejuice, Battle Royale, Meet Joe Black, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Corpse Bride, Superbad, Phone Booth, Slumdog Millionaire, The Boat that Rocked.

Favourite Books: When I'm not reading my own scribblings I like to live vicariously through rock star biographies. Most other writing makes me feel inferior.

Favourite Quotations: "Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little." - Banksy, on advertising

The photo uploader thingy seems to be malfunctioning.
 
Current Job: Legal PA for 2 directors of a law firm
Activities: Gaming, golf,watching rugby - GO STORMERS :D
Interests: Same as above but i also like history
Favourite Music: rock, metal - Favourite bands include FPK, Straatligkinders, Rise Against,Chevelle and many more
Favourite TV Shows: HIMYM, Big Bang Theory, Ugly Betty, Heroes, Dexter to name but a few
Favourite Movies: Meet Joe Black, Transformers, Sherlock Homes, Iron Man, Avatar, Troy, Pirates of the Carribean, Notebook, How to lose a guy in 10 days, Hangover, American Pie movies(only the 1st 3 though)
Favourite Books: uhm i dot really read.... im into visual stimulation
Favourite Quotations: "Run forrest Run!!"
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Current Job
Sys Admin
Activities
Gaming, Gaming, Call of Duty, Racing, Golf
Interests
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Favourite Music
Funky House, Fidget House, Hardstyle, Hardbass. Other stuff like Marilyn Manson, Deftones, Old Skool Cypress Hill.
Favourite TV Shows
Big Bang Theory, Two and a Half Men, Airwolf
Favourite Movies
Fear and Loathing Las Vegas, Pulp Fiction, Layer Cake, Snatch, RocknRolla, Lock stock 2 Smoking barrels, Austin Powers 1,2,3, Alien Series, Predator Seriers, Terminator 1 and 2, Kung Pao
Favourite Books
Huisgenoot
Favourite Quotations
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