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Post by sapientcoffee on Aug 9, 2014 5:58:48 GMT
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Post by fwip on Aug 9, 2014 6:06:08 GMT
Favorite Games (board games, card games or videogames): games with Hungarian card, Poker(with friends), War Thunder, Burnout Paradise I just realized that, quite by coincidence, I have acquired and extensively played both of these games over the past summer. (it was strange to come here, start reading randomly as I scrolled down to most recent posts, and then realize that the two biggest new games in my library were in someone else's favorites.)
War thunder (115 hours played, including some time with the game running in the background) info:
Username: Andrew_Maxw[followed by some random numbers]
Currently following American Army Fighter, American bomber and Russian Fighter (Ishak/MiG and Yak) upgrade lines. Currently researching the P51 Mustang to enter Rank 4. 5-plane combat lineup consists of two aircobras (Even though they're level 2 I still prefer them to Kingcobras due to m10 bazooka capability), two Kingcobras, and a B17.
Burnout Paradise(40 hours): Can't get online because I'm borrowing my brother's copy
Approx. 25 wins until Burnout Elite
Favorite car so far: Hawker Solo, use the Hunter Oval Champ for Marked Man and Road Rage.
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Post by Vilthuril on Aug 9, 2014 23:05:01 GMT
Real Name: Known to my eldest cat as, "That One." Nicknames: (have been called by live people in certain locations/contexts) Pavel, Ioann, Charbonneau, Keido Zenkatsu, Scotty Age: 46 (a.k.a. older than dirt but younger than Dumbledore) Height: 6' Weight: 172 lb. Gender: Male Favorite Games (board games, card games or videogames): League of Legends, Catan, Munchkin, pinochle, MUDs and D&D back in the day and the even older day. Favorite Court character: Ysengrin, Rabbalope-Soon-To-Be-Student Favorite sport(s): Running, Hiking, Crew, (watching) Baseball Favorite movie(s): Casablanca ("They grab Ugarte. Then she walks in. Well, that's the way it goes. One in, one out. Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine."), Seven Samurai, almost anything animated - e.g most recently Gru and Lucy, oops, I mean Despicable Me. Favorite book(s): Watership Down, The Flower Ornament Scripture/Avatamsaka Sutra, The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For (Alison Bechdel), Tintin in Tibet et al., Heinlein up to half way through Stranger in a Strange Land, LeGuin's science fiction works... Finally, tell us a little about yourself: Single parent of a teen, living in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, garden spot of Canada/the place everyone else sneers at when we pretend to be experiencing "cold." Went There and did That in my 20s and early 30s, and now vegging out until The Kid goes off to his next gig, then we'll see. Ah, but what about music? I listen to anything of any genre as long as it's creative; heading next week to see Aerosmith, woo hoo!  |
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Post by smurfton on Aug 10, 2014 4:32:02 GMT
Welcome, Vilthuril, to the forums! Does The Kid read Gunnerkrigg Court, or just you? |
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Post by Vilthuril on Aug 10, 2014 8:07:13 GMT
Welcome, Vilthuril, to the forums! Does The Kid read Gunnerkrigg Court, or just you? Thanks smurfton! He reads it too, but not as avidly; he's more into (jazz, broadway, and/or a capella) music and (computer or role playing) games. Oh, and needless to say the obligatory skype and facebook. Come to think of it, another question on this thread could be, What Other Comics Do You Read? For me it's K Chronicles, Unshelved, Chocolate With Pepper (Chikorita on Deviantart), occasionally Sandra and Woo, Doonesbury, Zits, formerly of course Calvin and Hobbes and Bloom County... I'm slowly getting the Complete Peanuts collections because Peanuts ---> Calvin and Hobbes ----> almost everything. Lots of other graphic novels on the shelves, e.g. Aya, Habibi, Solanin, as previously mentioned the Bechdel and Tintin books, Dr. Seuss, Sparks (Marvit), Birth of a Nation (McGruder, Hudlin, Baker - not the film!). Still, Gunnerkrigg Court is my big favourite; I'm all ready for the next book to come out! What about all y'all? Inquiring minds want to know (so they can look up new stuff)!  |
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Post by keef on Aug 10, 2014 14:00:05 GMT
Welcome! LeGuin's science fiction works... Yes! Planet of Exile, The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed are on my list of books I should read again, probably as soon as I have finished reading the internet. Thank you for reminding, I stopped reading his comic when I had enough of Salon. Another bookmark on the list.. I had even forgotten Keith Knight uses keef as his pen-name; I named myself after a Dutch book I have a list for all weekdays, but I doubt there is anything you haven't heard of. This one is pretty new: O Human Star Looks promising. |
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Post by Daedalus on Aug 11, 2014 7:08:29 GMT
What about all y'all? Inquiring minds want to know (so they can look up new stuff)! Girl Genius, Sandra & Woo, OOTS, xkcd, SMBC, 6x9 are my webcomic fixes of choice. Favorite book(s): Watership Down YESSSSSSSSSS. Though, when it comes to LeGuin, I like Earthsea personally. Welcome to the forum!! |
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Post by Fishy on Aug 11, 2014 7:18:50 GMT
Well I wasn't planning to, but since I've been trying to be a teensy bit more active here... Hello.
Real Name: Kieran
Nicknames: Fishy, and I go by that with just about everyone I know.
Age: 19 years old
Height: 5'3
Weight: 135 lbs
Gender: Male
Favorite Games: Bioshock (only the first one), Dark Souls, recently Cards Against Humanity, and I'm painfully into Visual Novels. I definitely didn't just start imagining a Gunnerkrigg Court visual novel as I was writing this, don't be silly...
Favorite Court character: Zimmy
Favorite movie(s): V For Vendetta. Haven't read the comic it was based on, didn't even know it was based on a comic 'til recently.
Favorite book(s): The Great Gatsby, The Zombie Survival Guide.
Damn... I feel like an incredibly boring man looking at this.
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Post by The Anarch on Aug 11, 2014 7:39:13 GMT
What Other Comics Do You Read? I'm pretty sure I put up my reading list in my original introduction, but I'm sure things have changed since then, so here's the updated version! The unlinked titles are strictly NSFW for graphic violence and/or explicit nudity. The Adventures of Dr. McNinja, Amazing Super Powers, And That's How Equestria Was Made!!, Bad Machinery, Calvin and Hobbes, Collar 6, Curvy, Dangerously Chloe, Darths & Droids, Dash Academy, Dead Winter, Doomsday My Dear, dream*scar, Dresden Codak, Eerie Cuties, Ensign Sue, Exiern, Flaky Pastry, The GamerCat, Girl Genius, Girls With Slingshots, Go Get a Roomie, Goblins, Grrl Power, Joe Loves Crappy Movies, Johnny Wander (currently Lucky Penny), League of Super Redundant Heroes, Leftover Soup, Light and Stone, Love Me Nice, Magick Chicks, Manly Guys Doing Manly Things, The Mansion of E, MegaTokyo, Ménage à 3, Misfile, My Cage, Nerf Now!!, The Non-Adventures of Wonderella, The Noob, Octopus Pie, Oglaf, The Order of the Stick, Penny Arcade, Peter is the Wolf, PHD Comics, Platinum Black, Prequel, The Rock Cocks, Sam and Fuzzy, Sandra on the Rocks, Scenes from a Multiverse, Sequential Art and Battle Bunnies, A Softer World, Spinnerette, Sticky Dilly Buns, Strays, String Theory, Super Mario Bros. 2, Supernormal Step, Two Guys and Guy, Warp & Weft, What Birds Know, Wondermark, Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic, and You Suck. |
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Post by smurfton on Aug 11, 2014 8:07:54 GMT
Come to think of it, another question on this thread could be, What Other Comics Do You Read? What about all y'all? Inquiring minds want to know (so they can look up new stuff)! I've read the completed webcomics Girly, Concerned, 8-Bit Theater, Narbonic, Spacetrawler, Digger, Rice Boy, Order of Tales, Problem Sleuth and Jailbreak Adventure. The ones I read now are Girl Genius, Gunnerkrigg Court, Skin Horse, Schlock Mercenary, The Mansion of E, Captain SNES, The Order of the Stick, xkcd, The Adventures of Dr. McNinja, Awkward Zombie, Questionable Content, Erfworld, One Way, Darths & Droids, Vattu, El Goonish Shive, Goblins and Broodhollow. Then there's a couple that I'm not really reading right now, but still have in my bookmarks ( Aikonia, Looking for Group, Sandra and Woo, Gaia, Misfile, Blindsprings and Namesake). If any of you have heard of all of these, you win one (1) internet cookie. If you can't tell, I tended to get my new comics off of TV Tropes' Archive Binge/Webcomics Long Runners pages for a while. Archive binges are way too much fun. Because I've never had internet access at work, I'm not terribly sure where to draw the line on violence in order to be SFW, but the linked ones should be fine. I'll put links in later.it would seem that I *almost* owed Jim North a cookie thereWell I wasn't planning to, but since I've been trying to be a teensy bit more active here... Hello. Real Name: Kieran Nicknames: Fishy, and I go by that with just about everyone I know. Welcome, Cracks, to the Gunnerkrigg Court Forums! Favorite Games: [...] Dark Souls [...] \o/ Posted 8 minutes ago. [...] last edited 8 minutes ago I do this way too often. |
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Post by smurfton on Aug 12, 2014 7:05:35 GMT
[...]6x9 are my webcomic fixes of choice. Unless you mean 6x9 College, which hasn't been updated since 2009, I can't find it. Care to link? |
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Post by effulgentether on Aug 13, 2014 7:46:07 GMT
Real Name: n/a, sorry
Nicknames: got a couple, but their too much of a hassle to write
Age: 19 in two weeks
Height: 5'4
Weight: around 150, although I'm rather muscular as well
Gender: Double X chromosome
Favorite Games (board games, card games or videogames): uhhhh I don't really play these. I loved playing boxing games and fifa and skateboard games when I was younger with Dreamcast, and I enjoyed those sonic games on game cube. I've always wanted to learn to play chess.
Favorite Court character: annie, kat, ysengrin, Anthony, paz
Favorite sport(s): soccer (in my sangre ay), hockey, lacrosse, martial arts, running
Favorite movies(s): a couple of morose latin american war films, the harry potter's, crap by Del torro, miyazaki is a good contender, yeah not very original with my movies but whatevs
Favorite book(s): brothers karomazov, anything by Garcia Marquez, anything by Neruda, anything by Junot Diaz, mostly world literature.
Nice to meet you all. I heil from the very lackluster area in the metropolitan region around Dc.
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Post by smurfton on Aug 13, 2014 8:23:13 GMT
Favorite Games (board games, card games or videogames): uhhhh I don't really play these. So, I'm confused and impressed here. What do you do when you invite someone to your house?
Edit:Welcome to the forums, Efful!
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Post by zimmyzims on Aug 13, 2014 8:26:29 GMT
Favorite Games (board games, card games or videogames): uhhhh I don't really play these. So, I'm confused and impressed here. What do you do when you invite someone to your house?
Edit:Welcome to the forums, Efful!
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Post by zimmyzims on Aug 13, 2014 8:44:46 GMT
I sense a new pastime in the offing. Is the pastime drunk hiking in the nude? That sounds problematic... ? Can they even be separated? Maybe she, shockingly, talks with them? I was under the impression that card/board/tabletop games were a sort of vehicle for conversation, like food is. You got it all wrong. This is how you receive people if you're looking for a discussion:  |
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Post by Vilthuril on Aug 13, 2014 17:11:10 GMT
Woot! New things to reaaaad! |
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Post by Daedalus on Aug 13, 2014 18:12:56 GMT
[...]6x9 are my webcomic fixes of choice. Unless you mean 6x9 College, which hasn't been updated since 2009, I can't find it. Care to link? is a webcomic a friend of mine writes. Gimmick being that the characters only take actions suggested by the readers, so it's kind of like a text-based game as well. Inspired by Homestuck. |
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Post by The Anarch on Aug 13, 2014 21:32:22 GMT
it would seem that I *almost* owed Jim North a cookie there Even closer than you thought!  Of the finished comics you listed, I've also read Girly, 8-Bit Theater, and Spacetrawler, all of which I was extremely sad to see come to an end. On the rest, I've read at least parts of xkcd, El Goonish Shive, and Looking for Group, but none of them ended up staying on my regular reading list for one reason or another. And I know of Questionable Content, at least, primarily through the jesting rivalry between Jeph Jacques and Sam Logan. I can has half a cookie? |
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Post by smurfton on Aug 14, 2014 18:48:35 GMT
it would seem that I *almost* owed Jim North a cookie there Even closer than you thought! Of the finished comics you listed, I've also read Girly, 8-Bit Theater, and Spacetrawler, all of which I was extremely sad to see come to an end. On the rest, I've read at least parts of xkcd, El Goonish Shive, and Looking for Group, but none of them ended up staying on my regular reading list for one reason or another. And I know of Questionable Content, at least, primarily through the jesting rivalry between Jeph Jacques and Sam Logan. I can has half a cookie? Considering that I was relying on Mansion of E, Girly, and Captain SNES to keep me from owing cookies, you might as well take the whole thing. tl;dr U can has.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but you read Spacetrawler, and yet have never heard of One Way? You realize that they have the same author, right?
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Post by chrisjenl on Aug 14, 2014 21:36:21 GMT
Real Name: Chris
Nicknames: Chrisje
Age: 31
Height: 160cm
Weight: 65 kg
Gender: Male
Favorite Games: World of Warcraft
Favorite Court character: Annie
Favorite sport(s): no time
Favorite movie(s): Sin City (first one)
Favorite book(s): The Sword of Truth
Finally, tell us a little about yourself: work in a restaurant and try to write a book
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Post by SilverbackRon on Aug 15, 2014 3:55:07 GMT
sixbynine.webs.com/ is a webcomic a friend of mine writes. Gimmick being that the characters only take actions suggested by the readers, so it's kind of like a text-based game as well. Inspired by Homestuck. Yeah, that looks pretty good. I started following it after you first suggested it, now I have signed up and started playing. It's rather fun. |
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Post by The Anarch on Aug 15, 2014 4:39:23 GMT
Huzzah! nom nom nom nom Ah, I have indeed heard of One Way then, but I'd forgotten that was the name. Unfortunately it didn't grab me at all in the way Spacetrawler did, so I ended up only reading about twenty pages in before moving on. Things may have changed beyond that point, but where Spacetrawler felt alive and vibrant to me even during its quieter moments, One Way felt staid and stilted. And too dry, which is a bit odd since I actually enjoy dry humor usually. |
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haha my avatar is great. Past me was hilarious.
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Post by tlo on Sept 17, 2014 14:34:12 GMT
I wondered where this thread was.
Real Name: You can call me Nat. (Not really a real name, but eeeeeeh, not tellin' you my real name.)
Nicknames: Glag, Topaz, Weirdo
Age: Highschool age
Height: We'll, I used to be short, but then I was tall, and now it's kinda back an' forth. Not sure, I think I'd count as 'stocky' right now.
Weight: Heavy, but honestly, it's not fat. Marching band kinda does that to you.
Gender: Guy.
Favorite Games (board games, card games or videogames): Clue, LoZ (all of them), And Cave Story especially.
Favorite Court character: Mort, (May he rest in peace.) and Zimmy, also Robot, and, uh, totes Coyote. And Red and shadow, too. And Kat. And Jimmy, and, uh... Just, all of them but Boxbot.
Favorite sport(s): Marching Band. Do not even argue.
Favorite movie: The Princess Bride.
Favorite book(s): Anything Shakespeare, Harry Potter a goood deal, the Fablehaven series by Brandon Mull, and a bunch of other books that I don't feel like listing right now. Just, too many.
Finally, tell us a little about yourself: Welp, I'm Glag (no idea why this ain't capitalized in my username), and a certifiable crazy. I type how I speak, so please don't correct my grammar; I'll use good grammar when I'm being serious. But, I really love the Legends of Zelda and, duh, Gunnerkrigg Mort. Uh, Court. Yeah. I do Marching Band, the best sport, and love classic books and classical music. Other than that, not really anything to say 'crept that I'm bonkers, so don' get too cuddly.
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Post by fwip on Sept 17, 2014 15:28:04 GMT
You're like the fourth one, including me. I don't know what it is about these forums that makes people like Cave Story. |
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haha my avatar is great. Past me was hilarious.
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Post by tlo on Sept 17, 2014 17:33:02 GMT
It's probably the fact that both Gunnerkrigg and Cave Story have fabulous stories :3
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Post by Corvo on Sept 18, 2014 5:00:08 GMT
It's probably the fact that both Gunnerkrigg and Cave Story have fabulous stories :3 "Oh, and we forgot to tell you that you are not human. Now on more important matters..."  (My english isn't super excellent. Please correct me if there's something wrong here, my fine buddies.)  Next up: Rey as King. (Except no, not really.) |
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Post by Ophel on Sept 18, 2014 5:20:36 GMT
It's probably the fact that both Gunnerkrigg and Cave Story have fabulous stories :3 "Oh, and we forgot to tell you that you are not human. Now on more important matters..." (My english isn't super excellent. Please correct me if there's something wrong here, my fine buddies.) Next up: Rey as King. (Except no, not really.) The not so good English kinda lends it quirkiness of manga translation. Not a lot of them have super fine language quality. So I kinda feel it appropriate, actually. Also, hello there tlo! Warm welcomes to the GC boards! Warm as cloudy late spring afternoon and freshly baked cookies, 15 minutes out from the oven. Favorite sport(s): Marching Band. Do not even argue. Also, ARGUMENT!! >:3 But no seriously, I was once in a marching band. Not very big, but it was fun! |
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Post by fwip on Sept 18, 2014 5:45:09 GMT
It's probably the fact that both Gunnerkrigg and Cave Story have fabulous stories :3 "Oh, and we forgot to tell you that you are not human. Now on more important matters..." (My english isn't super excellent. Please correct me if there's something wrong here, my fine buddies.) Next up: Rey as King. (Except no, not really.) This is the very best thing. I thank you very much, whether you made it or merely conveyed it, for my life is the better for having seen this. (I also think Coyote would make an awesome Cave Story character.) |
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Post by CoyoteReborn on Sept 18, 2014 14:27:24 GMT
"Oh, and we forgot to tell you that you are not human. Now on more important matters..." (My english isn't super excellent. Please correct me if there's something wrong here, my fine buddies.) Next up: Rey as King. (Except no, not really.) This is the very best thing. I thank you very much, whether you made it or merely conveyed it, for my life is the better for having seen this. (I also think Coyote would make an awesome Cave Story character.) I would indeed. Of course, I would make an awesome character in pretty much anything. |
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Post by smurfton on Sept 19, 2014 6:10:49 GMT
You're like the fourth one, including me. I don't know what it is about these forums that makes people like Cave Story. Have any of you other four people seen this Tool Assisted Speedrun of Cave Story by Nitsuja: tasvideos.org/1917M.html ? Or, on YouTube, Edit: moved here from general discussion thread. |
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Of the finished comics you listed, I've also read Girly, 8-Bit Theater, and Spacetrawler, all of which I was extremely sad to see come to an end. On the rest, I've read at least parts of xkcd, El Goonish Shive, and Looking for Group, but none of them ended up staying on my regular reading list for one reason or another. And I know of Questionable Content, at least, primarily through the jesting rivalry between Jeph Jacques and Sam Logan.
