i love mutilating them and like sculpting gross shit onto them. and setting fire. the bastards deserve it. plus it referens=ces stuff like Goya and Jake & Dinos Chapman and shit in some kinda masturbatory way. fine art seems to be all about masturbation in the non-literal sense And I am an expert on masturbation!!

nah never heard of them, worth a listen?????

ic. I think you're right about masturbation for the most part. I hope you're drawing from stuff like those games by the one guy Chef found, about finding dead people in chimneys and making the player choose whether or not to have sex with them. no actually idk if that's what you're doing at all it's just something that interests me

what you said about your dissertation reminded me of the band initially but I guess they're more about depravity. I used to say listening to them is kinda like bathing in the dumpster outside mcdonalds and getting coated in ketchup mustard and hamburger grease. idk you might like em youtube chartreuse toulouse

Registed at GamingW in June 2004.

Then: 18 years old ... first year in Community college. I wrote pretty cheesy music, but some people liked it. I made Wilfred the Hero between 2004-2006, and it was pretty popular back them.

Today: Turning 25 in another month. I work for the Feds on radio systems for National Parks and I take my job pretty seriously. Have a Bachelor's degree and am going to have a Master's in December. I mess around with game development sometimes, but I don't think I'll ever do another major project. I feel pretty competent about my music these days. I am currently rendering track 18 out of 19 for my first feature film soundtrack. I am just starting to get back into the community, because I am getting sick of explosions and the color gray, and therefore want to get back into indie games.

I actually just moved to Miramichi, New Brunswick.  (But only for a year. I plan to be back in Canada's Atlantic Playground - man I really hate that slogan - next summer.)

You'll be an hour from me!

2002: Traveled to China, got engaged to a young Chinese woman, and stuck in a dead end job.

2009: Returning to China in the next two months, engaged to a young Chinese woman, and still stuck in the same dead end job. 

Joined as a senior in high school.  GW was a way to pass the time during graphic design class.  Since then, I attended, and subsequently dropped out of college, dicked around for a while, got married, had a kid (2 years old now.), and now I live in a decent apartment with my family, and I sell cell phones at the local Wal Mart.

Sure, I'm not driving a Benz to my personal yacht, but we're doing ok.  I'm happy with my life, and it's really just beginning anyway.

2005: Just graduated High School, just got through the IB program (yeah, like from my game, remember guys!!!) and entering UAB for undergrad. studying Biology and being a pre-med.

2010: Starting medical school this August in Long Island, New York.

Yeah, my life's been pretty on-track, no real surprises or bumps along the way. Made a plan, and I'll stick to it through the end.

Joined as a senior in high school.  GW was a way to pass the time during graphic design class.  Since then, I attended, and subsequently dropped out of college, dicked around for a while, got married, had a kid (2 years old now.), and now I live in a decent apartment with my family, and I sell cell phones at the local Wal Mart.

Sure, I'm not driving a Benz to my personal yacht, but we're doing ok.  I'm happy with my life, and it's really just beginning anyway.

I think it's a pretty big deal if you can have a job like that and still be happy. by the way can you tell us the head of krull story again? I forget exactly how it goes

Not sure why I decided to visit the forums today and also not sure why I'm writing this now...

2002: Student in year 8, complete with everything that goes along with being 13 years old.

2010: A few months away from finishing a Bachelor of Animation (2D). I'd say that I'm more well adjusted and everything, but really that's just a part of maturing in general.

First joined as RPGenius and wrote maybe two RPG Maker tutorials and also made a couple of games but (of course) I lacked the foresight and motivation to plan or finish anything. Changed my name a couple times, I think I mostly swapped between Green-Bomberman and Ramael. I don't even play Bomberman so I'm not sure why I chose that name at all. Was involved in a couple of things here and there but I don't remember really. I stopped posting here around 2007 because I decided that it was pointless because I never actually enjoyed it. After a few years I also found the community to be pretty de-motivational and hostile and in general this place carried a pretty negative vibe. I don't know how it's going today though.


EDIT: Actually checking over my recent posts it seems that I was still posting as recently as early 2009. I did not remember that!

Environmental Science 

I double-majored in Environmental Management and Agricultural Science and lots of people from my graduating year got jobs with surveying companies, environmental engineering projects, fisheries, wildlife ecology programs, pollution analysis, research and laboratory work. I, myself, worked for a year in marine affairs in a coastal conservation and coral reef monitoring projects. But then again, this field is pretty big in this country. I dunno what it's like where you live.

With respect to the topic, I joined in mid-2005, just after discovering RPG Maker. I had just finished writing my GCE. Didn't really do much back then except write the occasional story. Now, I think I'm more disciplined with myself and I try to write a lot more. Finished up college and worked as a farm veterinarian assistant part-time during my last year. Worked in the marine affairs projects for another year after that. And now I'm a high school Biology teacher and enjoying it, but don't know how long I am going to stay in this. Unsure if I want to go into my Master's yet.

Still alive and kicking I doubt that anyone remembers me though.

I think it's a pretty big deal if you can have a job like that and still be happy. by the way can you tell us the head of krull story again? I forget exactly how it goes

Holy crap.  I forgot about that.  I don't remember posting it here, but I guess I did.

I was out shopping with my mom.  Just a normal trip to the grocery.  My mom asked me if I could go to the freezer section and grab a gallon of ice cream.  I was happy to oblige.

I picked out some ice cream, then wandered up behind my mom who was pushing the cart.  Feeling goofy, I proudly hold up the ice-cream, then put on my best bellowing barbarian voice and declare;

"My Lady!  I have brought you the head of Krull!"

Suddenly, a woman who looks much like my mother from behind spins around with a quite horrified and shocked look on her face.  Before she can scream, I quickly say "Oh, I'm sorry.  You aren't who I thought you were."  And I retreated.

I thought I handled that quite well. 

edit:

Just something to add here.  In college, I tried to live the Gaming Worldian dream.  It was 2002, so the idea of a "Game Design Degree" was new, and it still wasn't figured out that such a degree is basically useless.

Now, when I see a wide-eyed kid boasting about how he is going to get a game design degree and become a game developer, I take the cigar out of my mouth, scratch my scruffy, scarred face and gruffly dash his hopes with the experience of a hardened war veteran.

"It's not the degree that counts kid.  You think some game company is going to hire you on the spot just because you have a fancy, expensive game design degree.  Game companies like that don't put any more value on that than a potty training certificate.  If you want a job in the industry, it doesn't matter if you have a doctorate in Super Mario theory or you're a high school dropout.  You hafta have a good, impressive portfolio to show off.  And even the best portfolio is useless unless you have someone to show it to.  You have to get out there kid.  Attend the trade shows and the conventions.  Hand out your business card.  Show your work to anyone who will see it.  And you have to stand out.  These companies have to want to hire you above the other yahoos with a portfolio looking to get into the industry.  Damnit kid, don't cry.  You're gonna get tears on my new boots."

Ahahaha I had completely forgotten that Head of Krull story, that's aces.

It's a really good story. I could swear you said it was your wife last time though

It's a really good story. I could swear you said it was your wife last time though

No sir.  I was not married at the time of that story.