06-14-2008, 03:26 AM
I thought i would formally introduce myself even though i have been playing on the servers for a good 2 and half months now (only joined forums about a month ago though).
My name's Ian, and my handle doesn't mean anything nor have i ever though about how it should be pronounced. Everyone on the server has taken to "e-yan-Ki" or "yan-ki" or "Lan-Ki" or "e-n-ki", though it all works. To be honest i came up with it when i was 12 and i experienced the internet for the first time as a sixth grader in a chat room and needed an avatar fast. You can all call me Ian, it's what i go by in the real world anyways and you can all seem super cool and on the inside track when you refer to someone by their real name in front of pub kids as you're expressing that you have your fingers on the pulse of your community.
I'm a 25 year old 3-year graduate student, getting my Ph.D. in cognitive science and hoping for a masters in Philosophy as well. I grew up in Maine, got my B.A. in Oregon, and i'm currently at the University of Iowa in Iowa city Iowa, a town so shitty they named it twice. I've been playing video games since i was 7, and somehow convinced my parents to get me the NES that came with that sweet issue of Nintendo power with Battle Toads on the cover. However, i grew up in a mac household so the only FPS games i had until i went to college and bought myself a PC laptop was the Marthon games, Unreal and UT, and various Quake games. However, as a freshmen in college 8 years ago, on a good network for the first time in my life, i got half-life and CS, and i never looked back. You youngsters with your Intel Macs have it made, i tell you what.
Now, my current home PC is fucked. About a year ago it started freezing while playing source games and now it just goes blue screen and dies every other day or so (every once in a while with a piercing scream from my speakers, that my neighbors love when i'm gone BTW), so i end up playing late nights on the computer in the lab i do research in. It is designed for rendering 3d scenes remarkably fast (i study visual processing primarily), so it does more than well with the computer games. The lesson? Study hard kids, soon you'll slack off with more resources then you need.
I feel great playing scout, medic, or pyro; comfortable playing heavy, soldier, or engie, and absolute shit playing demo, spy, or sniper.
Anyways, <3 you all. If you have x-box live, my account is the same as you see above, Ianki,
My name's Ian, and my handle doesn't mean anything nor have i ever though about how it should be pronounced. Everyone on the server has taken to "e-yan-Ki" or "yan-ki" or "Lan-Ki" or "e-n-ki", though it all works. To be honest i came up with it when i was 12 and i experienced the internet for the first time as a sixth grader in a chat room and needed an avatar fast. You can all call me Ian, it's what i go by in the real world anyways and you can all seem super cool and on the inside track when you refer to someone by their real name in front of pub kids as you're expressing that you have your fingers on the pulse of your community.
I'm a 25 year old 3-year graduate student, getting my Ph.D. in cognitive science and hoping for a masters in Philosophy as well. I grew up in Maine, got my B.A. in Oregon, and i'm currently at the University of Iowa in Iowa city Iowa, a town so shitty they named it twice. I've been playing video games since i was 7, and somehow convinced my parents to get me the NES that came with that sweet issue of Nintendo power with Battle Toads on the cover. However, i grew up in a mac household so the only FPS games i had until i went to college and bought myself a PC laptop was the Marthon games, Unreal and UT, and various Quake games. However, as a freshmen in college 8 years ago, on a good network for the first time in my life, i got half-life and CS, and i never looked back. You youngsters with your Intel Macs have it made, i tell you what.
Now, my current home PC is fucked. About a year ago it started freezing while playing source games and now it just goes blue screen and dies every other day or so (every once in a while with a piercing scream from my speakers, that my neighbors love when i'm gone BTW), so i end up playing late nights on the computer in the lab i do research in. It is designed for rendering 3d scenes remarkably fast (i study visual processing primarily), so it does more than well with the computer games. The lesson? Study hard kids, soon you'll slack off with more resources then you need.
I feel great playing scout, medic, or pyro; comfortable playing heavy, soldier, or engie, and absolute shit playing demo, spy, or sniper.
Anyways, <3 you all. If you have x-box live, my account is the same as you see above, Ianki,
