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[Konnery]

Hi

Welcome to my intro-thread; I noticed these were a thing.

Born in the year of the snake, I grew up fascinated by music. My father had impeccable taste in his music choices, often playing Howlin' Wolf, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, etc. while he would do manly things around the house (see: fixing plumbing). Among my fascinations with music I liked to build things and subsequently discover how things worked. I've heard the story of how I made the doors in the house pulley-operated by other doors in the house when I was at the ripe age of 5. An ever-spongy and absorbent brain I was.

I was roughly 7 and four quarters when I played my first video game. My friend brought over this strange contraption with an orange and gray pistol attached by a cable. The goal of this "video game" was to shoot ducks and yell at a dog when he chuckled at you, or so I gathered. This arrangement progressed until he brought over a game about an italian man getting lost in pipes and finding money. This must have been my father's reasoning for fixing the house's plumbing.

I became equally enthralled by music and video games as I acquired a Super Nintendo Entertainment System, a Gameboy, and my grandmother gave us her old piano for me to play on. I would either be playing Turtles in Time, Pokemon, or Tschaicovsky, the value of any of those being highly debatable. I moved onto the stringed instrument most people know as a guitar the same year I received a Playstation 1; it was my first experience with 3D graphics and Metallica. I recall distinctly enjoying the Final Fantasy series during these years, with much of my interest focused on the lad with the gunblade and facial scar. The introduction to that game spoke to me on a deep level. It was at this time that I discovered Music put to Video Games in online videos; typically dubbed AMVs I enjoyed these way more than I should have and I subsequently became obsessed with Dragon Ball Z for a few years.

Once I got into my teenage years I purchased a Playstation 2 to continue my love of JRPGs and around the time I beat Rogue Galaxy I was given Halo and an Xbox by my brother who had no need of either anymore. A year later I inherited his drum set as well when he joined the military. Now I compose kill frenzies on my Xbox 360 just as much as I compose unknown Grammy-winning scores on my instruments in Ableton Live.

PS: I wrote this on a type-writer while smoking a cigar in a bubble-bath.

[digtastik]

Welcome to the forums. Perhaps you will bond with some folks here.

[PappaDukes]

That intro is breathtaking. I read every last word, which is something I usually only reserve for R.L. Stine novellas.

Welcome the fuck to the greatest forums you will ever know.

[Jon Bloodspray]

Welcome to the Forums.

[Sir Legendhead]

Oh yes, you will do well here. Very well indeed.

strokes white cat

[TurboKill]

Trying to imagine a dragon writing this on a type-writer while smoking a cigar in a bubble-bath. I would buy that t-shirt movie.

Welcome good sir.

[ProlificDream]

Thanks for having a spectacular intro thread! Welcome man!

[PappaDukes]

Great, Shane scared him off.

[Edd Strid]

Welcome to the forums.

[Sir Legendhead]

Great, Shane scared him off.

Aw man. I hadn't even gotten to the part with the laser cannon...

[keisal]

Welcome! What do you do for a living? Favorite games?

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Welcome! What do you do for a living? Favorite games?

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Welcome! What do you do for a living? Favorite games?

[keisal]

Forums are being weird, I don't know why it wrote that 3 times

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Forums are being weird, I don't know why it wrote that 3 times

[Konnery]

Thank you all for the warm welcome. I see your cat and raise you a platinum maned lion.


As for my living/favorite games goes...

I'm a professional ne'erdowell/hoodlum student. I attended a university for 2 years before I felt the system couldn't handle someone of my cerebral stature so I told it to go fuck itself in the most pleasant way possible and am now attending a trade school for connections to the music industry and to further my knowledge in the world of audio engineering.

I wish to one day be the genius recording and mixing large orchestras for films. Or composing, there is always that option should I have the testicular fortitude to make my creations public.


Favorite games would be an extremely difficult list to compile, I'm both indecisive and ever-loving so games, movies, and music are all hard ones for me to favorite, HOWEVER, at the moment I'm enjoying dying repeatedly in Spelunky, finishing up Fallout 3 so I can get New Vegas without feeling guilty for leaving it at the altar, and am playing through some older XBLA games I bought on sale and kind of forgot. If I HAD to pick some favorite though..

Morrowind
Darksiders
Wind Waker
Castlevania SOTN
Halo 2
Crash Team Racing
Final Fantasy 8
Borderlands
Dark Souls
Tomba

I'm forgetting some obviously but I have a pretty wide palette for games. Also I have excluded Super Meat Boy because I still haven't beaten the last level and have kind of come to terms with how much I suck at that game.

[Nihil]

cool beans, cool beans. welcome aboard.

[Sir Legendhead]

Thank you all for the warm welcome. I see your cat and raise you a platinum maned lion.

Ha! Your desire to overwhelm the kitty betrays you, Mr. Bond...



...lol seriously though, welcome to the forums.

[The Virgin Queen]

PS: I wrote this on a type-writer while smoking a cigar in a bubble-bath.

This right here is some wonderful imagery. Welcome!

[Zodiac Eclipse]

PS: I wrote this on a type-writer while smoking a cigar in a bubble-bath.

Why, of all things, did this turn me on? Welcome new guy, you sound rather sophisticated and worldly, carry on.

[Konnery]

Why, of all things, did this turn me on? Welcome new guy, you sound rather sophisticated and worldly, carry on.

Why wouldn't it, of all things, turn you on?

[Mighty Hatman]

Do you live in Georgia the country or the state?

[Sir Legendhead]

Dude, Konnery, check this out. I'm guessing you're a fellow Bond aficionado, by your avatar and all. My friend and I were talking about Donald Pleasence just last night. This guy is one of my favorite actors in general, and my favorite Blofeld by far.



I absolutely adore this man. What a creepy little bastard he is.

Just look at the eye makeup. It's unnerving enough to consider how the character may have suffered such a wound, yet think of the actor! What it must have been like for him to have his eye wrenched open in such a way as he played his scenes.

And the way he greets his esteemed nemesis. Such familiarity, such friendliness, without even a trace of contempt.

It's as if he is literally a human spider. Everything he says and does is just so NOPE.