The Introduction Thread

[Bobbey]

Seeing as this forum isn't that old, why not trying to get more aquainted with each other?
This thread is made to formally introduce ourselves and to let everybody know a little bit about each other.
You don't have to answer every question on this list if you don't feel like it, I'm only suggesting them. You're still allowed your privacy ;D

Now, I'll start this out:

Real Name: Bobbie Jane

Nicknames: Bob, Bobbie, Bobbey, Bibi, Baba, Bubblelicious, BJ.

Age: 19 years old

Height: about 5"3

Weight: about 140 pounds

Gender: I'm a girl!!

Favorite Games (board games, card games or videogames): The Legend of Zelda OoT and TP, SSBM, FF Tactics, MarioKart64, Monopoly, Yahtzee and Cribbage.

Favorite Court character: Reynardine

Favorite sport(s): Soccer, golf, fishing, ice skating.

Favorite movie(s): Forest Gump, Waterboy, Happy Gilmore, The Beatles Yellow Submarine, The Terminal, The Green Mile, any Star Wars movie, Hook, Aladdin (that movie was hard core), The Prince of Tides, any Harry Potter movie, but especially the third one, Shrek 2.

Favorite book(s): Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, Un homme et son péché by Claude-Henri Grignon, Volkswagen Blues by Jaques Poulain, I am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolff.

Finally, tell us a little about yourself:
You can guess by my avatar that I am in fact a jazz musician and that I play the tenor saxophone. I'm currently living in Montréal and yes, I'm a Quebeker, which means that I speak mostly in french. I enjoy reading books and playing videogames during my free time and I've started to read Gunnerkrigg court a few weeks ago and became a member a few days ago.

[Aspen d'Grey]

You know, there was one of these threads. I wonder where it went... >.>

[Tom Siddell]

Time for a new one then.

[Bobbey]

aspengrey said:

You know, there was one of these threads. I wonder where it went... >.>

Well, I looked around in the forums and made shure that this kind of thread didn't already exist before making one, so I guess it's okay?

[amelie]

Fun! :]

Real Name: Raina

Nicknames: Rainie, Rain

Age: 16 in less than a month :]

Height: 5'3''ish...

Weight: no idea. I make a point not to actually know.

Gender: girl!

Favorite Games (board games, card games or videogames): FFX, Mario Kart, Hearts, Risk

Favorite Court character: Mort!

Favorite sport(s): I play tennis sometimes...

Favorite movie(s): Anything Miyazaki, Amelie, Memoirs of a Geisha, Hercules (Disney!), Pirates of the Caribbean

Favorite book(s): The Belgariad (series) by David Eddings, The Odyssey, Enchanted by Orson Scott Card

Finally, tell us a little about yourself:
I'm music obsessed! I play violin, guitar, piano, and sing lots! I'm up near Boston and have been reading GC for about a year :]

[aoeniac]

I'm Noah, but I tell people to call me Noa. They get confused when I say that, because, ya know, you can't see how words are spelled when you're speaking.

I don't care much for my own privacy, but I don't really feel like typing out every little thing about myself. If you're curious about anything, for who knows what reasons (ya weirdos ), then just ask and I'll be happy to share.

[Yin]

Real Name: exsqueeze me? I'm not giving out info like that!

Nicknames: Yin, SLI, Lysythe, Seolfor (most of them have something to do with silver)

Age: 17 in October

Height: 162+ cm

Weight: don't ask a girl her weight!

Gender: Female!

Favorite Games (board games, card games or videogames): Scrabble, Monopoly, Disx and Ticket to Ride.

Favorite Court character: Zimmy

Favorite sport(s): sport? Vhat sport?

Favorite movie(s): The whole dang Pirates series

Favorite book(s): Lords and Ladies

Finally, tell us a little about yourself: a 'little'? Okiedokie. See the character in my av? That's my surname in Hanyu Pinyin.

[edmund]

Real Name: Edward Hordern

Nicknames: Edmund, Eddy

Age: 20

Height: around 5"9

Weight: 61 kg

Gender: Male

Favorite Games (board games, card games or video games): Anything with FF in the title, Mario Kart 64, God of War 2, 500, Go and Chess

Favorite Court character: Alistair

Favorite sport(s): Cross country, Soccer, Fishing and Bush
walking (I know its not a sport)

Favorite movie(s): Blade Runner, 5 Element, Ghost in the Shell 1 and 2, Akira and Getting Square

Favorite book(s): The Secret Agent by Josphe Conrad, The Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick and anything by Joe Sacco (Graphic Artist)

Finally, tell us a little about yourself: Uni student doing arts at unsw in Australia, Into gaming, reading, Australian politics, techno and art.

[Aspen d'Grey]

Yup, good point. I had intended to go hunt for it after I posted that and then IRL interfered. x.x

Anywase:
Real Name: Aspen d'Grey
Age: Older than thou and younger than them.
Height: 5'11"
Weight: 116lbs
Gender: Male
Favorite games: Second Life
Favorite Character: Annie
Favorite sport: Rock climbing
Favorite Movies: Hrm... V for Vendetta
Favorite Book: Ender's Game

[Myrani]

Real Name: It starts with a J.

Nicknames: Auddie, Jandalf.

Age: 20 years young.

Height: 5'-11" and a wee bit.

Weight: Around 135 lb.

Gender: Of the female persuasion.

Favourite games: Risk, Cranium, War (because I actually know how to play it), Mario Kart... dang, I don't play enough video games.

Favourite Court character: Eglamore.

Favourite sport(s): None. Just foosball. Yeah. <3 foosball. I don't think Wii Bowling counts here.

Favourite movies: All things Star Wars, Primer, THX 1138, Amélie, Dr. Strangelove, lots of Monty Python, Indiana Jones, The Princess Bride, Serenity, Stranger Than Fiction, Howl's Moving Castle, the list goes on a bit.

Favourite books: The Dune series by Frank Herbert, the Baroque series by Neal Stephenson, Traitor and Revenge of the Sith by Matthew Stover, the Space Trilogy and The Problem of Pain by C.S. Lewis, pretty much anything by Terry Pratchett, and this list also goes on a bit.

Some stuff about me: I'm a Manitoban in college for graphic design. I also love to write and am currently working on a fictional series with a friend of mine. The rest is not exceptionally interesting either.

[mrw]

Hmmm, I guess it would be antisocial of me not to write something. If you make it to the end, the vague answers might make more sense.

Real Name: Nuh-uh, internet, you know...

Nicknames: None, oddly enough

Age: Not dead yet, as far as I know

Height: Somewhat tallish

Weight: Normal for height

Gender: Happily married, much to my surprise ;D

Favorite Games: Being silly and obscure. Scrabble, Go-stop (Korean card game), Riven, Half-life, Quake, Doom III and any other game that involves fragging demons

Favorite Court character: Zimmy

Favorite sport(s): Hiking in the mountains, yay!

Favorite movie(s): Anything funny

Favorite book(s): LOTR, Harry Potter, anything Asimov or Lloyd Alexander, but these days mostly reading textbooks.

Favorite music: Pretty much exclusively industrial metal and classical. One to wind me up, the other to cool me down. Go figure.

A little about myself:
I'm actually kind of socio-phobic, which does have something to do with my vague answers. I'm a bit like Annie in face-to-face situations - distant and apt to disappear. In spite of that, I like people in general, but I spend a lot of time wishing I was invisible.
I'm a technical person, into electronics and especially high-voltage mad science sort of stuff. Actually, I have a fascination with nearly anything science.
I have an overactive imagination that works mostly during the day when I should be doing more productive things.
Some time ago I wrote a novel, but only let two people read it - one really liked it and the other became worried I was going to hurt myself. Now it gathers dust, but I've never lost touch with the characters. Sometimes I read GC and feel inspired, but the inspiration has yet to defeat fear of my artistic ineptitude.
My goal in life is to be a nice person. I think I'm doing ok.

[todd]

Real Name: Todd Jensen

Gender: Male

Favorite Games: I like Civilization I and II (haven't played III or IV yet), and text-adventure games of the Zork variety.

Favorite Court Character: Annie.

Favorite movies: I don't go out to movies much, but I did rather like (with some reservations) the recent LOTR trilogy. I also enjoyed the movie adaptation of "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe".

Favorite books: Includes the Lord of the Rings, books on the Arthurian legend, Shakespeare, things about British history (particularly medieval).

A little about myself: I live in St. Louis, but spent much of my boyhood in England. (The school that I attended was very different from Gunnerkrigg, of course. It was a day school, and didn't have uniforms. No ghosts, minotaurs, living shadows, robots, or creepy forests surrounding the place either, naturally.) I live with my pet cat Obie. I discovered "Gunnerkrigg Court" last year, and so far have been enjoying it.

[mura]

Ah.. a chance to talk about myself. : D Goodygoodygumdrops.

Real Name: It's mucho icky.. so, no.

Nicknames: Chilli, Charlie, Charliebadaboom, Jelly, Jellybean, Sleepyhead

Age: 18 years old

Height: 5'3''. Sniff : (

Weight: 41 kg

Gender: Female. Well, somewhat.

Favorite Games: Everyone Loves Katamari Damacy, Final Fantasy VII, IX and XII, Dynasty Warriors 4, GTA: San Andreas, Harvest Moon ( I know, I know! The shame will never disappear.), Crash Bandicoot 3, Radiata Stories, Max Payne PC ver., Counterstrike, Starcraft (can't wait for number two!)

Favorite Court character: Sorry for the boring answer, but I love all of them equally. Even the Administrator.

Favorite sport(s): Swimming and badminton.

Favorite movie(s): Enemy at the Gates, Hotel Rwanda, Fried Green Tomatoes, The Page-turner, Les Dernier Jour, Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal Rising, Love Actually, About A Boy, the LOTR trilogy, Music & Lyrics, The Constant Gardener.

Favorite book(s): The His Dark Materials trilogy by Phillip Pullman, Dansu Dansu Dansu and Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami, anything written by Neil Gaiman, Soul Music and The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, Oscar Wilde's short stories, the LOTR trilogy by J.R.R Tolkien, the Belgariad series by David Eddings, The Rice Mother by Rani Manicka, Village by the Sea by Anita Desai, The Girl Who Played Go by Shan Sa.

Finally, tell us a little about yourself: Mura is the quiet one at the back of the room with her headphones stuffed in, her hands all smudgy with pencil/pen marks and her lap full of cat sketches+eraser shavings. She likes very sour drinks and likes to compose nondescript emo music for the piano. She also has ugly toes.

Pleased to meet all of you. : )

[Count Casimir]

Real Name: Unneeded!

Age: 17
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Height: 6'0"

Weight: 180 lbs

Gender: Male

Favorite games: Diablo II, FlyFF, Speed (the card game), Starcraft, etc.

Favorite Character: Reynardine

Favorite sport: Soccer, frisbee

Favorite Movies: V for Vendetta, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings

Favorite Book: The Lord of Castle Black, Steven Brust

[Boksha]

Real name: Leon
Nicknames: Boksha, although most of the people that used to call me that are now spread out through the country. Some people call me Hairy Dolph.
Age: 21
Height: 1.82 m according to my passport (that's around 6 ft)
Weight: 90kg (around 200 lbs)
Gender: male
Fave games: Unreal Tournament 2004, although I sometimes get a bored with it. Besides that I like lots of videogames from the 90s. I have a strong dislike of realistic shooting games, WW2 games in particular.
Fave sport: I try to avoid sports where possible.
Fave movie: Dark City, probably. I also like martial arts movies, recently saw Tom Yum Goong, which was amazing. I also watch a lot of anime.
Fave book: I don't read much.
Fave music: I listen to a broad range of music, although nearly all of it's electronic. For mixes, I really like (among many others) James Zabiela, Sander Kleinenberg and Nick Warren. For songs, I like Ils, Ulrich Schnauss, Royksopp and Beanfield, to name a few.
Fave GC character: Kat (surprised I seem to be the first in this thread)

A bit about myself: I'm a university student, I study applied physics. I live in the eastern part of the Netherlands with 3 other students who started in the same year as me. I'm a total insomniac, which gets in the way of lots of things. In my spare time I'm currently trying to teach myself japanese. To aid with that, I've written several computer programs to help me learn the kanji and build up my vocabulary. It's still not going very quickly.

[Mezzaphor]

Real Name: Brad

Nicknames: Chris

Age: In my Roaring Twenties

Height & Weight: None of your business

Gender: Manly masculine male, (still available, ladies!)

Favorite Games: Hearts, Apples to Apples, the Sega Genesis Sonic the Hedgehog games, Super Smash Bros. Melee

Favorite Court character: They're all so awesome, but if I had to choose, it would be Annie

Favorite sport(s): Hiking, camping, ultimate frisbee.

Favorite movie(s): The Incredibles, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, The Man Who Knew Too Little, What About Bob?, Groundhog Day, the first two Pirates of the Caribbean, Primer, Scotland PA.

Favorite book(s): Just about anything by C.S. Lewis, history books.

Favorite music: Starflyer 59, Sufjan Stevens, Havalina Rail Co. / Havalina / Matt Death and the New Intellectuals, Sixteen Horsepower, Woven Hand, Danielson Famile, Runforyerlife, Five Iron Frenzy, the W's.

A little about myself: I'm a recent college grad, just starting my first full-time post-college job.
Social stuff doesn't come easily to me.
I had an idea for a five-movie-long Star Wars parody, but I've lost all desire to finish writing it.
I discovered GC about the time that Annie revealed her custody of Reynardine to the adults.

[laserpig]

Real Name: Karl P[censored]y

Nicknames: Karla, Blond Kid By The Lamp (call me neither).

Age: 17

Height: like 5' 8" or 5' 9" -- I haven't checked in a while.

Weight: usually around 125 pounds.

Gender: I dunno, my name is Karl ... take a guess.

Favorite Games (board games, card games or videogames): Settlers of Catan (board game), Magic The Gathering (card game). No videogames. Electricity is a government conspiracy.

Favorite Court character: I would like to say "Robot" or "the Suicide Fairies," because they're cool, but Kat is just too charming not to love.

Favorite sport(s): Soccer, Water Polo, Hot-dog Eating.

Favorite movie(s): oooohh, that's a toughie. There's just so many good movies. For the sake of kickass I'll say Independence Day and 300.

Favorite book(s): I'm actually illiterate, none of the books I like qualify as good. Except for the Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov. Them's good books.

Finally, tell us a little about yourself: I am going to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in the spring to become a Mechanical Engineering major, and I act out a lot to get attention. Hey, admitting you have a problem is the first step towards not doing anything about it. Oh, also I have played trumpet for 7 years and am just now learning another instrument: trombone.

[Riess]

Well hi there, I'm apparently new.

Real Name: Martin
Nicknames: Buttercup. Don't ask.
Born in 1985.
Height, weight: not a clue.
Favorite Court character: I think that's a tie between the Suicide Fairies and Dr. Disaster. PARLEY.

About myself: I'm a (lazy) guy who makes digitally-aided art in his free time. I love comics. Eventually I started making my own, and that's what's dominating my life right now. I'm one of the crowd who found GC over Dr. McNinja, but it has since surpassed the good doctor in my favourite listl[/i].

(Post edited to be more timeless.)

[owl]

I made one of these, back in the day! Time for another, I suppose.

Real Name: Penny

Nicknames: Millions upon millions!

Age: 16

Height: 5"2

Weight: about 110 pounds

Gender: Female

Favorite Games (board games, card games or videogames): Hm. City of Villains, Final Fantasy, Munchkin, wordgames of any sort.

Favorite Court character: Kat/Robot/Reynardine.

Favorite sport(s): Uh. Swimming? I guess?

Favorite movie(s): Amelie, Pirates of the Caribbean 1 and 3...2 was alright, but meh...anything Miyazaki, Mirrormask, LoTR trilogy.

Favorite book(s): Anything Pratchett, anything Lackey, anything Heinlein...(There was a thread for this as well, somewhere. I expanded this list there.)

Finally, tell us a little about yourself:
Uh. Um. Well, I'm a nerd...happily enough. I like to write a lot, and to read, and to make stuff out of glass and metal, preferably by applying great amounts of heat to them. So yeah. Good times.

[fuzzysocks]

Didn't realize there were one of these now... supposed I should take it upon myself to introduce myself yes?

Real Name: Christine

Nicknames: Chris, Maddie(from an old username), and Fuzzy

Age: 23

Height: 5'8''

Weight: A little on the chubby side...

Gender: Female

Favorite Games (board games, card games or videogames): Odin's Sphere, Gitaroo Man, Pump it Up, Rival Schools, Bust a Move, Space Channel 5(1&2 thankyou), Elemental Gearbolt, Parappa the Rappa, Anything Shin Megami Tensei, and Final Fantasy 6.

Favorite Court character: It's a tie between Kat and Annie XD

Favorite sport(s): Hockey... is Krav Maga a sport?(Thats Israeli form of martial arts that deals with self defense... fun stuff XD)

Favorite movie(s): The City of Lost Children, The 5th Element, I <3 Huckabees, Weird Science, Drop Dead Fred, The Royal Tenenbaums, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Quills, Nightwatch(mind you I did not like daywatch), Mean Girls(SHUT UP I CAN HEAR WHAT YOUR THINKING), Empire Records, and a few others.

Favorite book(s): Anything Neil Gaiman frankly... I would marry that man if he wasn't already married... The Abhorsen series by Garth Nix, The Darren Shan Saga by Darren Shan, Harry Potter, practically anything Amy Tan at that, Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dotoyevsky(sp?), The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck, and more slews of other books... I am an avid book reader... so yah... this list would take forever...

Finally, tell us a little about yourself:
I like drawing and I've finally come across a style that I'm more than moderatly happy about... though I plan to further still expand on that style...

My art can be viewed here: TheFuzzySocks.deviantart.com

I listen to music, I go to school, I have a job... *insert more mundane detailings*... heh...

I also have an avid collection of hats.

[fuzzysocks]

laserpig said:

Real Name: Karl P[censored]y


Favorite Games (board games, card games or videogames): Settlers of Catan (board game), Magic The Gathering (card game). No videogames. Electricity is a government conspiracy.

Then why do you watch movies or go on the internet?

[xux]

Real Name: Joseph

Nicknames: Joe (big suprise, eh?), J.J. (my first two initials)

Age: 18

Height: About 5'5"

Weight: About 135

Gender: Male

Favourite Games: Final Fantasy IX, The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker

Favourite Court Character: Annie

Favourite Sport: Swimming

Favourite Movies: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Howl's Moving Castle, The Cat Returns, The Terminal, The Royal Tenenbaums

Favourite Books: The Harry Potter Series...haven't read a whole lot of books, really.

Finally, tell a little bit about yourself:
I just a normal nerd in between on summer break that mostly plays video games and chats online in his free time. I enjoy writing music and stories, as well.

[Hazel]

Hi. 'M a lurker, so you won't see much of me. I'll post now before I get too scared - as usual.

Real name : *strategically ignores*

Nicknames : LG (my initials (and this bugs me)), Hazel.

Age : teen.

Height : I dunno, it fluctuates. Around 5'7".

Weight : bugger off.

Gender : the above might be a hint.

Favorite Games : D&D and Scrabble.

Favorite Court character : Mort and Zimmy.

Favorite sport(s) : Eurgh, I don't do sport.

Favorite movie(s) : Everything Monty Python, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Tim Burton, and most vintage British comedy. And I expect I've forgotten something important.

Favorite book(s) : Too many to choose. Suffice it to say that any book you name, I've likely read it or at least heard of it. A few of the authors I revere unconditionally : Richard Dawkins, Douglas Adams, JRR Tolkien and Neil Gaiman.

Finally, tell us a little about yourself : I'm an art student who wanted to do evolutionary biology, and I drink tea by the gallon. I'm also a chronic misanthrope and a rabid stickler for grammar and punctuation. That should be enough.

[Cassiopea The Grande]

Real Name: Cassandra

Nicknames: Cassie, Casso (as in Picasso), Cassiopea The Grande

Age: 18

Height: 5 foot 5 inches last time I checked

Weight: 9 stone 4 approx

Gender: Girly

Favorite Games: Monkey Island 3

Favorite Court character: Reynardine KICKS ARSE!

Favorite sport(s): Ahahaha

Favorite movie(s): Labyrinth, Pirates 1, 2 + 3, Crybaby, most things Burtony, Queen of the Damned, Interview With The Vampire, Monty Python

Favorite book(s): Tithe, Valient and Ironside by Holly Black and a lotta korean manga (Model, Tarot Cafe)

Favourite Music: [glow=red,2,300]The Glitterati![/glow]

Finally, tell us a little about yourself: I'm soon to be an art student and I'm a tad eccentric and obsessive, I like to dress up as people I fancy and I should someday like to be able to draw cartoons fabulously, I also have a thing for arrogants bastards (hence Raynardine my fav ;D)

[glow=red,2,300]What does the lil' flamey thing mean on the files? I know it means 'flamed' but what is that?[/glow]

[Hazel]

cassiopea said:

What does the lil' flamey thing mean on the files? I know it means 'flamed' but what is that?

If you mean the flamey files in the forum thread list to the left of the threads, I can tell you with 95% certainty that it means 'hot topic', which is any thread with more than 50 posts, I think. *counts posts* And the red folder seems to be over 70.

_{If I misunderstood you, I'm terribly sorry ; I am unworthy. *prepares for seppuku*}

P.S. I like your taste in movies. And books. Oh, is Model actually any good?

[Yin]

Do not seppuku! You're entirely right =)

[Hazel]

sli said:

Do not seppuku! You're entirely right =)

*blinks* Oh. That's good to know.

I'm not entirely used to the notion of me being right. I'm fully expecting fire and brimstone to rain down on me in retaliation any minute now.

[Cassiopea The Grande]

I should add Monty Python to my list of films... Your avatar remind me...

Model is good, the drawing style is a bit peculiar, but it works. You obviously have to get used to the fact that not everyone is a girl, it just looks that way! If you like vampires (that reminds me... I should add Queen of the Damned to my movies...) Then you will most likely like it.

[owl]

Wow, I think that's the second time someone's threatened to commit seppuku on these boards! (The first was me, somewhere in the Wild Specs thread, I think, a couple months back).

[Cassiopea The Grande]

What is seppuku?