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Who are you?, The person behind the gang.

Karz Master Alpha Junkers Darkwind Guru Renegade Group: Storytellers + IP Posts: 2,375 Joined: Nov 13, 2006 Awww goat looks so cute in a red ski cap! ......................... vet wv zom Posted Dec 5, 2009, 3:40 pm

Rick #Red# Ryder Reds Ryders Sunday Driver Renegade Group: Members Posts: 76 Joined: Jan 12, 2010 This place never ceases to amaze me. I cannot peruse the forums long without finding some incredibly engaging material... Let's see. Far more than you ever wanted to know about me. I am a decendant of the Bruces. I'm not certain what that means to others but my family takes a bit of pride in our heritage. "Seventh try is the charm" and "If at first you don't succeed..." and all of that. My great grandfather pursued the American dream as a plumber. His two sons: a civil and an electrical engineer. (The latter has been well recognized for his work on some silly thing called a communication satellite. We used to tease him that it was code for 'spy satellite'. As it turns out, it wasn't.) Their children: a physicist, a business executive in the defence and energy industries, a Stanford graduated corporate lawyer gone stockbroker, a software engineer, and several educators at all levels. I, through some life choices made for me, and plenty by me, am a plumber. Did the apple fall from the tree or go back to it I wonder. When I was a very small child my stepfather raced competatively on the off road circuit in the Southwestern United States. Mint 400, SNORE 250, and the like. I never gained much interest in cars, but I did get to be on the pit Crew. I was the short guy that fetched the gatoraide and put the funny straw in it. My fondest memory of that was watching a 2 seater VW powered dune buggy trying to surmount a five foot verticle rise out of a wash, with three wheels. It took them thirty minutes. Well that and the time my uncle brained a rattlesnake with a well thrown rock. At age 11 I tested and was found to be in posession of either a 187 I.Q. or an incompotent test administrator. My mother, horrified, told me I needed to fail or 'they would take me away'. So I was retested. Apparently I did poorly enough. I enjoy that baggage to this day. I am rather uneducated, at least I carry no license to say otherwise. I've been self employed for the better part of my adult life. All things considered I do pretty well for myself I think. I do occasionally fantasize about being back in grade school... "Do you want to grow up to be a ditch digger?!" "Um... well actually..." *smack* -ok maybe not the best fantasy. I've been a closet gamer from age eight or nine, the only thing that allowed that interest to grow was the utter lack of parental concern over my activities outside the house. Basic D&D with the big kids was a huge adventure. After eventually having the devil stomped out of me on that one I moved on to Steve Jackson's games among other less controversial titles. In the early eighties I bought nearly everything he'd ever done, or was rumored to have had a hand in. I even got suckered into a new copy of Wabbit Wampage based on just such a notion. In 1984 I was a founding member of CADA, our local middle school CW club. I'm not sure if we were 'sanctioned' but I do recall getting a little patch in the mail for some thing or another. Our chief rivals (in our imagination) being N.O.M.A.D. of later Origins AADA World Championship concussion grenade infamy. In 1985 I met Scott Haring at a gaming convention and asked him a question having to do with pop up turrets, explosive bolts and car top carriers or somesuch and a printed ruling was made on it.  It made quite an impression on a 14 year old. I started to have silly notions of being a game designer one day. Around that time my father bought me a Timex Sinclair 1000 and tried to make a coder out of me with this groovy new thing called 'basic'. "Sure thing Pop". I fired it up twice. He later bought me a Commodore 64 with similar intentions,  I did start hanging around with the local 'hackers' and aspiring coders and gained a slight interest in things computer for about a year. These were the days when Lord British was a god, Ultima III and Bard's Tale were the cat's meow, there were still arcades on every street corner, and some coders still dreamed in machine language. Around this time I was also invited to join MENSA. I declined, clubs like that weren't exactly girl magnets, and that was all I was starting to think about. Gaming fell to the wayside until my Junior year of HS. I met the president of the afterschool gaming club and was invited over after school for a spot of Axis and Allies. I gave two turds about boardgames at the time, rather his sister was best friends with *the* hottest gal I'd ever laid eyes on. So my eventual reintroduction to gaming came about. From Ogre to ASL to Rise and Decline of the Third Reich. Never got the gal, but she did have lots of friends. In my twenty second year I met the kindest, most loyal, patient and beautiful woman on the planet, though I didn't know it at the time, but I married her nevertheless. (How do you say no to a hot latina with a bottom you could bounce a quarter off of?) (D'oh! that earned me a slug in the arm, but it's staying here naya ) That was sixteen years ago. We've been living happily ever after for a few years now at least. I have a seventeen year old step-son who calls me 'Dad' sometimes, and a seven year old daughter who appears to be as much of an idiot savant as I was, well minus the idiot bit hopefully. I quit gaming for the most part, but was eventually lured back by friends who were M:TG speculating. We all did quite well with it in the first years, I even dared start a business that allowed me to get paid to sit around and play cards all day. I started rubbing elbows with some people who are more than likely active in the industry to this day. A robbery ended that, and my focus shifted towards 'growing up' and getting a real job. As for computer gaming I started with the usual gamut. BBS', Usenet, Larn and Moria. I was a beta tester for UO and played that until shortly after EQ was released. It made a big impression, mostly extremely negative. I began to study Bartle's work, which later led to a deep and burning hatred of Koster's ideas, and the man himself for that matter. Many good people I knew, and especially women, were treated very poorly in that game. Garriot's grand libertarian dystopia, "Ethical Hedonism" gone horribly wrong. This led me to various sociological, cultural and psychological studies. Afterwhich I'd come to the certainty that a quarter of the human race was comprised entirely of latent psychopaths. We were a different society then I suppose. A work aquaintance and friend eventually talked me into joining them in Final Fantasy XI, where I experienced one of the most brilliant game designs ever concieved. It hooked me in again, and gave me a chance to test my paranoia recovery in an environment that sparked it to begin with. It went pretty well. Anyway, textwall short(er), I played a bunch of games and liked them when I wasn't busily beating myself up about it. I've learned to appreciate 'stupid people' (not meant as a pejorative, but rather a viewpoint carried by a once confused young man) for all the great things that they actually do bring to society, and have strived for decades to become one. I've succeded admirably. I would have been pleasantly suprised to have learned I scored 100 before I arrived here. Thank you Sam and community for reminding me that having a brain does not preclude being kind and consceintious, and that enjoying games is a measure of my worth. Every 'smart person' I've ever known enjoys games of some sort or another. Maybe I'll look into being one again someday. So there you have it. In short, I'm a stupid, uneducated, ditch digger. If you like labels. Oh, and I like pie. ......................... vet Posted Feb 12, 2010, 8:39 pm

Marrkos 88 MPH Darkwind Guru Renegade Group: Members Posts: 3,711 Joined: Mar 28, 2006 Quote: Afterwhich I'd come to the certainty that a quarter of the human race was comprised entirely of latent psychopaths. I think your numbers are low.  ......................... vet wv community Posted Feb 12, 2010, 8:47 pm

*Longo* Longos Merry Men Darkwind Guru Mutants Faction Group: Marshals Posts: 6,659 Joined: Dec 15, 2007 Good read Rick Red. Generally when I see a forum post longer than a paragraph, I lose interest. Yours have been the exception. Well done. ......................... vet combatL1 ped1 paintladder semiprocombat ped2 wv pvp4 pvp1 gwped paintball pvp3 pvp5 slay2013 marshal circuit2 combat1 e2g raceL1 gwextrav gateautumn pvp2 triangle1 Posted Feb 12, 2010, 10:03 pm

Rick #Red# Ryder Reds Ryders Sunday Driver Renegade Group: Members Posts: 76 Joined: Jan 12, 2010 Thanks Longo, Marrkos, for bothering to read that and respond. It was unusually difficult to post. I was going to chop off everything below the familial particulars but my blasted ego wouldn't let me. Eh, we win some we lose some. Now I get to listen to the little insecure bastard gloat. :wink: Thanks for the highlight the forum bottom tip M. works like a charm. Reading the rest of this thread was easily as much of a treat as the first couple pages. :big grin: Zork?! Star Fleet Battles?! Chainmail?!! Wow, the waaay back machine. And there's another tradesman among this esteemed body, and another current student of the Ego. Wow. My name: Red Ryder is/was the name of a popular children's air rifle in the U.S.  I thought it might be kind of slick to work that into a name somehow. Rick struck me as an archtypical car guy name here in the U.S. (was the name of my first mechanic IRL). "Red" is also a nickname often carried by people with red hair. I thought it all fit together magically for a cars with guns game that has nicknames as a character attribute. Unfortunately quotes couldn't be used in a screen name when I signed on. The kicker? Rick and Ryder could be chosen as character names in the generator. How cool eh? ......................... vet Posted Feb 13, 2010, 10:36 pm Last edited Feb 13, 2010, 10:40 pm by Rick #Red# Ryder

Zephyr River City Gamblers Darkwind Guru Evan Reds Faction Group: Subscribers Posts: 551 Joined: Dec 12, 2009 Rick #Red# Ryder said: "Do you want to grow up to be a ditch digger?!" "Um... well actually..." *smack* -ok maybe not the best fantasy. You know, it's funny.  My mother used to use that exact same scenario to threaten me into doing my homework when I was a kid.  As in, "if you don't do your homework and study hard, you'll wind up as a ditch digger in Tijuana."  Always in Tijuana, for some reason.  So, of course, the first time I found myself in Tijuana, I was sure to secure a shovel and have a friend snap a few pictures of myself hard at work on the side of the road.  I sent these photos off to my mom, with the proud caption "See mom, you were right!"  ......................... vet wv Posted Feb 28, 2010, 5:59 am

Volvo_13 The Naughty Number Nines Sunday Driver Renegade Group: Members Posts: 41 Joined: Jan 30, 2010 Finally checked this forum out... figured I'd join the fun. My name is Wayne, I'm a mid-thirties professional artist. I was always a fan of gaming. I grew up with a d20 in hand, playing everything I could get my hands on. D&D, Shadowrun, warhammer, TMNT, Car Wars, Gurps whatever, and many other wonderful time wasting rpgs. I joined the video game world with a C64 and loved all of the EA titles back then, MULE, Racing Destruction Set (primitive car wars), and whatnot. I joined my first band at 17, and played on stage at the old G. Willikers in Jersey before I turned 18. I still find time to play my guitar, loudly and with people, (guess you'd call that a band), and still get gigs from time to time and write original music. So now at 36, I'm married to a Phd in African American Studies, have a dog and a cat, live in rural Delaware (kinda miss the city life). I worked in the graphics/printing industry for several years, got laid off, had some hippey friends who travelled the country in their motorhome (caravan for those across the pond), and after the layoff they swung by on the east coast leg of their tour and we had a 6 month glassblowing orgy at my old house. So 8 years later here I am. Wife a college professor, me still playing in band for fun, and running my business... Rockstar GLassworks. It's cool, I get to do what I want for a living so after a 10-12hr work day I'm pretty darn exhausted. But happy. It's hard to keep the business afloat but every year it get's alittle bit better as I prove to people that I'm still here, my work looks great, and I'll get your order done when I say it will be. Here's my website http://www.rockstarglassworks.com ......................... vet wv Posted May 9, 2010, 1:46 pm

*Grograt* Grograts Gonads Darkwind Guru Renegade Group: Marshals Posts: 8,377 Joined: Oct 5, 2008 Hey, some lovely work, but when you said Hippie & Glass Blower i got completely the wrong idea nice name for your company by the way ......................... vet marshal wv community Posted May 9, 2010, 3:12 pm

The Underking Project Cerberus Sunday Driver Deathrace Mafia Faction Group: Members Posts: 77 Joined: Dec 19, 2008 I'm not telling!!!! Oh okay, I will. I'm about a week away from being 25 at the time of writing, I guess I'm supposed to be growing up but I still tend to watch cartoons and read comics, but mostly because I now enjoy looking for stuff that's aimed for older people in 'em I'm from that tiny blob of land called Denmark that's squished in between Sweden and Germany in northern Europe. I'm a student by day and by night I'm pretty much the same person I've always been. As I said I'm a student, it's a basic education, somewhere in the middle of high school and college, got a late start because I at one time wanted to be a computer money, which I later found out wasn't for me. So spent a few years on that, then I studied art for a while, then I became a postal worker, and then I worked with my dad doing electrician stuff for a while. I still haven't got a clue what I want to do after this, but it's a nice stepping stone for a lot of things, so yay for that. I'm opinionated but usually keep my more serious opinions to myself, both because I'm not crazily extroverted, but also because I usually get funky looks from people "Communism as Marx and Engels invisioned it would be great you say?" Anyway, I'm generally easy going, open minded and tend to accept people no matter who they are or what they've done, as long I'm not given a reason not to. Aand a small wall of text later there you have it, a short and possibly crappy summary of a strange dane. ......................... vet wv Posted May 27, 2010, 8:43 pm

JS Hitmen Trucking Inc -CI- Darkwind Guru Renegade Group: Members Posts: 3,238 Joined: Jan 9, 2010 Wabbit Wampage! lol, great game. ......................... vet wv pvp5 pvp3 pvp4 Posted May 27, 2010, 9:05 pm

Freeman Vigilante Masters Association Pedestrian Renegade Group: Members Posts: 7 Joined: Jun 13, 2010 Looks like I'm about 4 years late to the party, just signed up having only heard about this place a few days ago. My name's Rob, I'm 36 (married, kids, motgage etc ...) Been into computer games since I had a C64, been into wargames & RPGs since I was 13. Long time fan of games like Car Wars and Dark Future and found out about Dark Wind from some posts on the SJG forums. The names ... OK the gang name, Vigilante Masters Association, isn't an atempt at an ego (I missed the queue for those prior to birth it seems) stems from the clan I used to be with on Interstate 76 and Interstate 82. For those who've never heard of either it was an FPS style autocombat game, and a very good one. Sadly the servers have all gone and the game has died now, so DW looks to be the game to supply my Auto-Duelling cravings. The clan's website is still up (amazingly); www.the-vma.net (On that website I'm listed as D.H.Minion - a name taken from a Marvel UK comic book character) My handle, Freeman? I love the old TV show 'The Prisoner', so for a handle, I took the 'I am not a number, I am a Free Man' and abbreviated it to 'Freeman' So ... uh ... that's me. ......................... vet Posted Jun 15, 2010, 2:04 pm Last edited Jun 15, 2010, 2:05 pm by Freeman

phax Fathers of the Confederacy Racer Badlands Truckstop Faction Group: Members Posts: 215 Joined: Feb 11, 2010 Want to know phax?  Hit up my facebook @ CLICK ME! ......................... vet wv Posted Jul 7, 2010, 10:38 pm

Glurps Confrerie Racer Renegade Group: Members Posts: 107 Joined: May 16, 2010 Hi all ! It's my turn then ! I jumped in Darkwind about one month ago, and nearly played all day long since that time ! I'm 41, married, no child, I live in Saint-Ouen, 5 minutes walk to Paris France. Currently kind of unemployed, but working as an IT manager, or IT consultant. As a lot of you, i've been an addict of Computer games (apple 2, commodore 64, atari, amiga, dragon32, PC....) and i think i nearly played every strategic game available. (no pure wargame). I played and try some MMORPG : mostly Asheron's Call 1&2, but it made me too computer addict for my taste, and i decided to quit. Dark-wind is a kind of nice compromise, you can't save,and when you enjoy a scouting party with some others you need to be at full attention in front of your PC. However, i also enjoy a lot solo scouting, and the possibility that goes with it, to make 4 hour pause. I've been playing D&D since the age of 13, still today with the same groups for 20 years now.. ouch. And also Call of Cthulhu, Rolemaster, runequest, paranoia, INS/MV and some more i don't remember right now. I'have also been a very early MtG player, winning some tournaments, but found more pleasure playing with friends than tournaments. I quit MtG after some years. I also play a lot of board Games. I'ma quite frustrated of some games i couldn't play earlier in my life, mostly due to the lack of friends playing or enjoying : Bloddbowl, Car Wars, ... So i was very enthouisiast to discover Dark-Wind. ......................... vet wv Posted Jul 8, 2010, 5:30 pm

*JD_Basher* Gearjammers Darkwind Guru Renegade Group: Marshals + Storytellers Posts: 2,728 Joined: Feb 11, 2007 Welcome to all the new Wastelanders in DW! I hope you all took the time to read all the other posts made here by the other DW fanatics from page (1). I have been here just a tad over three years as a subscriber and have never tired of the game mainly because of the Developers' tireless efforts coding and adding great additions for us players to enjoy. Reading the previous posts will give you an idea of those who have come and gone in the past and let you know a bit about some of the hard-core "lifers" (like me) who are still around. If you see me in the lobby, gimme a friendly "Hello!" If you see me on the DR (DeathRace) track, stay out of my LOS! My racing mantra is: "Second place is the first LOSER!" Oh yeah!, When you hear the voice tell you "Your scouting event is about to start...... Did you remember reloads?" That's me! Actually most of the vocals you hear are mine except a few. Enjoy your DW experience! JD ......................... vet marshal wv cont Posted Jul 9, 2010, 12:08 am Last edited Jul 9, 2010, 12:16 am by *JD_Basher*

Karz Master Alpha Junkers Darkwind Guru Renegade Group: Storytellers + IP Posts: 2,375 Joined: Nov 13, 2006 Man I love all you guys....group hug everyone! ......................... vet wv zom Posted Jul 9, 2010, 2:19 am

*JD_Basher* Gearjammers Darkwind Guru Renegade Group: Marshals + Storytellers Posts: 2,728 Joined: Feb 11, 2007 Karz Master said: Man I love all you guys....group hug everyone! I don't group or 'bro' hug anyone..... Unless it's an all female group that needs a hug! ......................... vet marshal wv cont Posted Jul 9, 2010, 2:30 am

*Rev. V* Cestus Dei Darkwind Guru Civs Faction Group: Marshals + Contributors Posts: 3,208 Joined: Aug 4, 2010 Me- Part time rockstar, full time archaeological conservation guy, anchors, cannons, swords, muskets, tools, etc. Pretty sick of nails. Seriously. After the first 50,000 they all look the same.... Sometimes I get to play with some REALLY cool stuff. These took a LOT of work with a toothbrush and wooden stylus, completely encrusted when they came into my lab. Weeks of pure tedium, and yet it was a lot of fun too... Chased/repoussed silver, from a 1715 Spanish galleon that sank off of the coast of Florida. ......................... vet wv zom marshal paintladder cont Posted Aug 19, 2010, 8:46 pm Last edited Jul 29, 2012, 1:34 pm by *Rev. V*

*Grograt* Grograts Gonads Darkwind Guru Renegade Group: Marshals Posts: 8,377 Joined: Oct 5, 2008 My god Lemmy has joined us welcome dude ......................... vet marshal wv community Posted Aug 19, 2010, 8:52 pm

Crazy AL Street Pizza Darkwind Guru Merchants Faction Group: Members Posts: 1,228 Joined: Feb 14, 2008 Ted Nugent plays DW? Awesome! ......................... vet wv zom pvp1 ped1 Posted Aug 19, 2010, 9:10 pm

Snidely Carmichael Abysmal Horrors Autodueller Renegade Group: Members Posts: 256 Joined: Apr 7, 2010 Rev. V said: These took a LOT of work with a toothbrush and wooden stylus, completely encrusted when they came into my lab. Weeks of pure tedium, and yet it was a lot of fun too... Chased/repoussed silver, from a 1715 Spanish galleon that sank off of the coast of Florida. Wow, those look fantastic, Rev.  Will they be on public display? ......................... vet wv pvp5 pvp4 pvp2 pvp1 pvp3 Posted Aug 20, 2010, 5:05 pm

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