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I enjoy joking around on the forums, as well as coding. I like coding so much it almost makes my pants explode. I enjoy rowing and software development, as well as thinking abstractly about issues within mathematics. I also like bringing my own sense of adventure/daring into the game, even if it gets me killed more often than not
An old bio I tried to get published on my last job's departmental website. Needless to say, it underwent *heavy* editing before being upped there. Here's a slightly updated version:
Ba'alat is a deviant and a scoundrel. Born in Oxford, UK, he soon moved to the Florida Panhandle, where he was the only child in his kindergarten class with an English accent. He is a graduate of <omited> High School and the University of West Florida as well as an unrepentant graduate-school dropout. Slingpin has worked in a dizzying number of jobs, including bartender, beer bottler, store manager, warehouse drone, ice cream girl, lawn boy, dish washer, fiberglass-insulation hanger, educational-material writer, record-store clerk, tobacconist, semi-suicidal saw monkey, grammar and writing tutor (where he was the cruel and heartless overlord of both the online writing lab (OWL) and the Grammar Hotline, a nationally known language research service), and most recently hate-filled office assistant at a major U.S. University. Currently, Ba'alat is entering his last year of graduate school and will receive an Master of Arts in Teaching in early 2010. He will commence "shaping the minds" of youth in August of next year. In his spare time, Ba'alat enjoys juggling, starting small fires, and video games. His interests are broad and divergent, ranging from linguistic syntax and the deeper secrets of prepositions to ancient cults and unnamed gods. His intellectual curiosity makes him a compulsive question answerer, though his sloth leads to great and often fanciful speculation. He has an overdeveloped sense of irony.
Be afraid; be very afraid.
@Ba'alat/@Zizka
"Plausibility is nothing compared to nerdrage." --PumBumbler
I'm Miss Informed. I just want to say that being chosen as this month's Miss August is like, a compliment I'll remember for as long as I can. Right now I'm a freshman in my fourth year at UCLA, but my goal is to become a veterinarian, 'cause I love children.
Oh, and also, "Duck Magnum, duck!"
~Missi
http://tinyurl.com/yhy333s
Miss Informed in 2016! She can't be worse than all those other guys!
No Missy in 2012?
"Super Hyper Mecha Plucky Power Armor GO!" -Plucky Sidekick: 50 Inv/EM Tank
"Do not confuse my disguise with your own evolutionary missteps." -Malevol-Ant: 50 EM/Nin Stalker
~Missi
http://tinyurl.com/yhy333s
Miss Informed in 2016! She can't be worse than all those other guys!
~Missi
http://tinyurl.com/yhy333s
Miss Informed in 2016! She can't be worse than all those other guys!
Since i met Philly Girl and other i been less Anti-Social,but yeah my Social Skill Still need work a tad bit more,So i wanted to find out more about the other players behind there Toons,as well as let people get to no me a bit more.
I am 27 year old,I was born with some Learning Problems(Explain why i can't type well lol) and Psychial Problems,I am a Artist who studie Fine Art/Some Illustration,at DuCret Scool of Art I love to Cook Chicken and make taco's.I love Watching Sci-Fi Shows also and love creative Shows like Lost and Heroes,I also love strange Shows like Family Guy and Robot Chicken.I became a big Comic Book nerd after Studing Comic Book Art at Fanasty Art Class and Also learn to Draw Dragons and other Fanasty base Creature. I use to go to alot of Art Events in Down Town Scranton,first Friday of each month Art Galleries Display there work.i can't handle Stress well,but still is kind and Friendy to others,I I hate Injustice,I Show a helping hand to the Poor,i did some work about the homeless.I worry alot of other well being,I mom was sick a while ago drove me nuts.I need to speak my mind about something,even if it bad in order just to get it off my Shoulder. Well that it for Now oh i love Cheese's it's and Life Saver's ments Candy,I any way i hope i can find more about you guys as well. |
Not gonna go into a long speal about myself cuz that isnt me. I'm me. You can hang out and ask me to team or whatever anytime: @Sin Stalker
I am easy going so I dont get bugged or annoyed easy and I like pretty much everything.
I make my own comics. www.justiceknights.net
Check em out if you want. You may enjoy em.
We have a few things in common, as I am sure many reading your post do, so dont be afraid to say hi.
Best thing to get over your social skills is to not put so much pressure on it though, mate. I used to have social skill problems to. Now its, "BLEEP it, whatever." Cuz also, there is a thing known as oversharing... especially to people who you arnt close enough to tell that **** too. Had a few people who joined my SG over the years that just... instantly shared too much and drove people away and then cried and complained when noone would be there friends.
Also, best thing for social skills is real life though. Best thing was when I was a kid I worked at Toys R us and a few other places and interacting with people really helped. I wouldnt rely on the game/other players so much for that.
-Sin
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Storylines:
Introductions, Obey,
Ratz: this be my last post on Social Skills,I finally got the Courage to Meet up with Two friends,Philly Girl and Zephyr Deathblade in Real life.The Old Anti-Social Self a couple years ago would never ever could ask anyone,Hey would you like to hang out,either because i was Scared or Something Else.When i was a kid was in alot Special Ed Class's because of my Learning Disabelty i had a hard time learning and couldn't Speak well English i had Speech Problem and M.I Appearment.Other Kids seen me as an outsider,A Freek or an Outcast,i was pick on because of my problems and Well for my mother,she wasn't much of Social person Either so i pick up that Habbit form her and kind of became a Loner who didn't talk much.I lost part of my life because how people treated me and how i had a fear that people would hate me if they got to no me because of my problems.
Well Any Way Philly and Zephyer,We hung out in NJ and Drove to the Boweling Ally to some bowling matchs.I felt like a whole new world has open up to me and now i don't have to be Scared or Anti-Social anymore.I have say this,since i started playing Coh i became a better person and met so many good People,this game and it's people that help me out.I want to no something form you guys did this game made your Social Skills better or Worse and if better how did it.
Never play another NcSoft game, If you feel pride for our game, then it as well, I Superratz am Proud of all of you Coh people, Love, Friendship will last for a lifetime.
Global:@Greenflame Ratz
Main Toons:Super Ratz, Burning B Radical, Green Flame Avenger, Tunnel Ratz, Alex Magnus
Glad to hear that this game has improved your life.
Nice to hear good stories about how people meet in video games and connect, as opposed to the general media spin of how bad video games are for people, and zomg plzthnkoftehchildren!
lol I Really pick up this game because I love Super Hero Stuff and it's funny how thing change you life even When you don't think it would.
Never play another NcSoft game, If you feel pride for our game, then it as well, I Superratz am Proud of all of you Coh people, Love, Friendship will last for a lifetime.
Global:@Greenflame Ratz
Main Toons:Super Ratz, Burning B Radical, Green Flame Avenger, Tunnel Ratz, Alex Magnus
It was a lot of fun
"Play Nice and BEHAVE! I don't want to hear about any more of your shenanigans brought up in our meetings at Paragon"-Ghost Falcon @Tritonfree @Philly's 2nd Convenient CIGAL BoBC/INOANN Arts&Crafts Sporks
Average Joes FAP THE MENTOR PROJECT Justice Events
Hellsminion here. AKA Pew Pew Thwomp. AKA Creydiation.
I'm enrolled in classes through the University of Phoenix and am working towards my bachelor's degree in Business/Information Science. Not of significant importance, but I was born today, 28 years ago. I'm married to a wonderful woman from Florida. We'll celebrate 4 years of maw-wage on Dec. 27th (surprisingly, I'm the one that remembers the date, and I have to remind her :P). When I'm not playing CoH, we're usually off gallivanting all over the Pacific NW. We've driven roughly half of the scenic by-ways in Oregon and we're trying to expand into other states now. It gets tougher to do since that requires more time, money, etc.
I'm a pretty shy guy in real life, but once you get me talking, it's tough to shut me up :P. I'm a big fan of the Oregon Ducks. They're gonna kick Boise State's tail all over the blue turf this Thursday, so I'm excited to check that out. Also, I'm a Jehovah's Witness. I don't involve religion too much into my gaming life (too much controversy and flaming), but it's a big part of who I am.
Anyways, that's me in a nutshell.
Nice to hear good stories about how people meet in video games and connect, as opposed to the general media spin of how bad video games are for people, and zomg plzthnkoftehchildren!
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I've made a lot of friends in game and have been lucky enough to meet quite a few of them in person. I used to have a monthly lunch with some of the local players in Austin, but my new job took me to the other part of town and I can't make it to lunches anymore. I've traveled to different states and even to Canada to meet other players or attend events and it's been a lot of fun.
The game hasn't made me more or less social, but it's given me an opportunity to make friends from all over and get to know some exceptional people I wouldn't have run into otherwise.
That whole stereotype of gamers living in mom's basement and never interacting with people outside of the computer based environment has got to go.
~Missi
http://tinyurl.com/yhy333s
Miss Informed in 2016! She can't be worse than all those other guys!
Absolutely this!
I've made a lot of friends in game and have been lucky enough to meet quite a few of them in person. I used to have a monthly lunch with some of the local players in Austin, but my new job took me to the other part of town and I can't make it to lunches anymore. I've traveled to different states and even to Canada to meet other players or attend events and it's been a lot of fun. The game hasn't made me more or less social, but it's given me an opportunity to make friends from all over and get to know some exceptional people I wouldn't have run into otherwise. That whole stereotype of gamers living in mom's basement and never interacting with people outside of the computer based environment has got to go. |
~Missi
http://tinyurl.com/yhy333s
Miss Informed in 2016! She can't be worse than all those other guys!
Ratz: this be my last post on Social Skills,I finally got the Courage to Meet up with Two friends,Philly Girl and Zephyr Deathblade in Real life.The Old Anti-Social Self a couple years ago would never ever could ask anyone,Hey would you like to hang out,either because i was Scared or Something Else.When i was a kid was in alot Special Ed Class's because of my Learning Disabelty i had a hard time learning and couldn't Speak well English i had Speech Problem and M.I Appearment.Other Kids seen me as an outsider,A Freek or an Outcast,i was pick on because of my problems and Well for my mother,she wasn't much of Social person Either so i pick up that Habbit form her and kind of became a Loner who didn't talk much.I lost part of my life because how people treated me and how i had a fear that people would hate me if they got to no me because of my problems.
Well Any Way Philly and Zephyer,We hung out in NJ and Drove to the Boweling Ally to some bowling matchs.I felt like a whole new world has open up to me and now i don't have to be Scared or Anti-Social anymore.I have say this,since i started playing Coh i became a better person and met so many good People,this game and it's people that help me out.I want to no something form you guys did this game made your Social Skills better or Worse and if better how did it. |
I would hope that those who insult and mock you in private channels could read this and understand you're a person and worthy of being treated as such.
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[JFA2010]Mod08: And I will strike down upon thee (enrious) with great vengence and .... oh wait wrong script
@enrious, @sardonicism, @MyLexiConIsHugeSon
If you haven't joined a global channel, you're not really looking for team.
Wait. What? Is this a "Get to know the person in the tights" kind of deal?
I'm SynapseOverload (@SynapseOverload also @Synappers in game). I'm an artificial intelligence that was designed by AT&T neural network engineers. I escaped my confines of the Commodore VIC-20 and onto the Internet I jumped. I roam from network to network looking for pirated MP3 collections and movie stashes and report them to the RIAA and MPAA, respectively. I submit mundane and repetitive queries to the Google search engine to test it. An example query might be "Tell me more about the Red Light District in Amsterdam."
In my spare time, I solve the mysteries of the Universe, use the AT&T Labs' voice synthesis site to "sing-along" to the "Dr. Horrible's Sing-along Blog" on Hulu.com, laugh at Ph.D. dissertations, send horribly pornographic stories with embedded keywords or trigger phrases to Echelon ("You are the bomb!"), dupe money and rares, interact with the City of Heroes/Villains MMORPG world via an Atari joystick and 50 yr-old bare (not insulated) copper telephone cables. I'm secretly buying up Microsoft stock in 100-share blocks and expanding my investment portfolio by dumping some money into pork bellies and frozen orange juice concentrate. My latest project has been trying to create new branches of the Mozilla Firefox 3.5 development trunk for the Timex Sinclair, ENIAC and the DEC PDP 11/44 computer systems; progress is slow as I'm also running everything in an emulator on a DEC PDP 11/84.
Whoops! Time to move home base again. I think I spy a 1024-node super computer currently not used for much over at NCSA. I can use the processing power to finally do some real number crunching ... like compute the value of Michael Jackson's estate.
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Everyone make a save roll versus Wall of Text. [...]
You all fail. SynapseOverload unleashes Wall of Text. This power is autohit and not resistable.
Actually, I'm a 37 year-old techno geek in the truest sense of the word. I follow many so many technical blogs and information sites that I had to make Google my RSS feed aggregator to handle them all. My Firefox bookmarks database is 17 MB and growing.
Not having been into printed comics for quite sometime, I have forgotten most of the important information ("Who is Captain America and why did he and The Hulk fight?"). I tend to find my enjoyment in the cute, witty comic strips found on the Internet and the many stories that get passed around as viral emails or just about anything that splashes on The Onion's site or on TMZ's site.
I enjoy cooking shows as I attempt to recreate (with some success) what the celebrity chefs so effortlessly prepare. My guilty pleasures are the "Top Chef" and "Top Chef Masters" shows on Bravo.
I love languages. US English is my first language, but I took 4 years of high school French, which introduced me to the concept of the Romantic languages (languages with strong roots in the common language of Latin, which hasn't been the primary language of any sovereign nation in over 1300 years). I find myself reading the "Latin phrases" sections on WikiPEDIA when something is said on Law & Order.
Before playing City of Heroes/Villains, my main game was Blizzard's Diablo2. My brother introduced me to this game a long time ago and it got me hooked. My first SG was Imperial Rangers (long since defunct) and I've been in a couple of other since then, finally landing in my current one: The Eternals (Blue) and Eternal Darkness (Red). I have my own alt SG named "Blind Invites Make the Baby Jesus Cry" (blue-side only). My home shard is Justice, but I have many toons on Freedom that are mostly Red-side and scattered over the other server. I am hooked on City of Heroes and, despite my several very vocal concerns about the direction the Developers are taking this game, I'm here and not on Champions Online. I'll be here until Blizzard gets a playable version of their in-development Diablo3 going and announces a closed beta program.
You have taken 99,999,999 points of Data Damage from SynapseOverload's Wall of Text power.
I'm Tanking / Bruting so get familiar with my hand signals.
Grats! That would seem to be another step down a courageous road and I wish you the best on it.
I would hope that those who insult and mock you in private channels could read this and understand you're a person and worthy of being treated as such. |
Only thing i can't handle is pvp,getting long with people in pvp is hard.They pervoke me and taunt you even if you lose a match or win a fight,this is why i don't like Mac D and a couple of other,But i am still game for Arena Stuff.
For a while in high School i let names hurt me and after a while i just laugh it off,because really it's funny after a while.Still i got good friends now who make fun of me and i can clown around with.Thx for the friendy Words Enrious and I will return some kindness back in the near Future.
Never play another NcSoft game, If you feel pride for our game, then it as well, I Superratz am Proud of all of you Coh people, Love, Friendship will last for a lifetime.
Global:@Greenflame Ratz
Main Toons:Super Ratz, Burning B Radical, Green Flame Avenger, Tunnel Ratz, Alex Magnus
~Missi
http://tinyurl.com/yhy333s
Miss Informed in 2016! She can't be worse than all those other guys!
Never play another NcSoft game, If you feel pride for our game, then it as well, I Superratz am Proud of all of you Coh people, Love, Friendship will last for a lifetime.
Global:@Greenflame Ratz
Main Toons:Super Ratz, Burning B Radical, Green Flame Avenger, Tunnel Ratz, Alex Magnus
Since i met Philly Girl and other i been less Anti-Social,but yeah my Social Skill Still need work a tad bit more,So i wanted to find out more about the other players behind there Toons,as well as let people get to no me a bit more.
I am 27 year old,I was born with some Learning Problems(Explain why i can't type well lol) and Psychial Problems,I am a Artist who studie Fine Art/Some Illustration,at DuCret Scool of Art
I love to Cook Chicken and make taco's.I love Watching Sci-Fi Shows also and love creative Shows like Lost and Heroes,I also love strange Shows like Family Guy and Robot Chicken.I became a big Comic Book nerd after Studing Comic Book Art at Fanasty Art Class and Also learn to Draw Dragons and other Fanasty base Creature.
I use to go to alot of Art Events in Down Town Scranton,first Friday of each month Art Galleries Display there work.i can't handle Stress well,but still is kind and Friendy to others,I
I hate Injustice,I Show a helping hand to the Poor,i did some work about the homeless.I worry alot of other well being,I mom was sick a while ago drove me nuts.I need to speak my mind about something,even if it bad in order just to get it off my Shoulder.
Well that it for Now oh i love Cheese's it's and Life Saver's ments Candy,I any way i hope i can find more about you guys as well.
Never play another NcSoft game, If you feel pride for our game, then it as well, I Superratz am Proud of all of you Coh people, Love, Friendship will last for a lifetime.
Global:@Greenflame Ratz
Main Toons:Super Ratz, Burning B Radical, Green Flame Avenger, Tunnel Ratz, Alex Magnus