I don't do witty

[Ianki]

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,

[copulatingduck]

:O

I have a friend here researching the visual basis of neural congitive-scien-wutzits (on second thought, it's probably the neural basis of visual wutzits). You brain and Cog-Sci people know too much biology, I've failed that class twice now 

Also, I wish my major had some sweet ass computers to game on, but our computing clusters are about as old as the dinosaurs that run our department. 

If I ever boot up my xbox for games again (magic 8-ball says 'it is unlikely'), I'll add you. I'm *gasp* 'Copulatingduck'

[cbre88x]

:O
I have a friend here researching the visual basis of neural congitive-scien-wutzits (on second thought, it's probably the neural basis of visual wutzits). You brain and Cog-Sci people know too much biology, I've failed that class twice now 
Also, I wish my major had some sweet ass computers to game on, but our computing clusters are about as old as the dinosaurs that run our department. 
If I ever boot up my xbox for games again (magic 8-ball says 'it is unlikely'), I'll add you. I'm *gasp* 'Copulatingduck'

I def. plan on taking Geology for my science credits..haha.

[fyre]

Hey there.

[CaffeinePowered]

If I ever boot up my xbox for games again (magic 8-ball says 'it is unlikely'), I'll add you. I'm *gasp* 'Copulatingduck'

Same, though I did play Catan with Aerox the other day

[cannedpeahes]

Ohmigod! It's an oasis of coherent writing in the deep, desert sand of the internets! You, sir, deserve many, many medals.

Anyways. Heya, "Yahn-KEE". I don't remember hearing much of you. They have microphones on them fancy cognimukkinukkisciencemajigwhosits?

[rumsfald]

They have microphones on them fancy cognimukkinukkisciencemajigwhosits?

He'll run lab rats through a maze* for five years to tell us that the brain structure of rats will always chase cheese.


*if not lab rats, then freshmen in psych 101 classes who have to participate in crappy research, usually on saturdays, run by grad students trying to eek out a decent thesis about how we point and click on computer screens.

[Ianki]

He'll run lab rats through a maze* for five years to tell us that the brain structure of rats will always chase cheese.


*if not lab rats, then freshmen in psych 101 classes who have to participate in crappy research, usually on saturdays, run by grad students trying to eek out a decent thesis about how we point and click on computer screens.

The later.  They hate it, mostly trying to remember colors and blocks as they move across the screen while repeating digits to themselves or searching through visual scenes.  Never anything actually fun to participate in

Ohmigod! It's an oasis of coherent writing in the deep, desert sand of the internets! You, sir, deserve many, many medals.

Anyways. Heya, "Yahn-KEE". I don't remember hearing much of you. They have microphones on them fancy cognimukkinukkisciencemajigwhosits?

Nah i don't have a mic, or a wired x-box controller so i can't go ghetto.  I was thinking of getting one soon though, but the last one i bought only lasted a week so i'm a bit cautious now.  Isn't it more fun to yell at me when i can't talk back?

Same, though I did play Catan with Aerox the other day

I think there needs to be a night when 4 of us try to save april in Ninja Turtles Arcade.  I call Ralph.

[CaffeinePowered]

I think there needs to be a night when 4 of us try to save april in Ninja Turtles Arcade.  I call Ralph.

Fuck that, Turtles in Time SNES via Hamachi, even if its only 2 players :x

[Ianki]

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I think there needs to be a night when 4 of us try to save april in Ninja Turtles Arcade.  I call Ralph.

Fuck that, Turtles in Time SNES via Hamachi, even if its only 2 players :x
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Though Turtles in Time is quintessential, Turtles arcade is fucking win and you know it.

[CaffeinePowered]

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I think there needs to be a night when 4 of us try to save april in Ninja Turtles Arcade.  I call Ralph.

Fuck that, Turtles in Time SNES via Hamachi, even if its only 2 players :x
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Though Turtles in Time is quintessential, Turtles arcade is fucking win and you know it.
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Turtles in Time is the BEST beat-em-up ever made, period, next best is the Xmen arcade cabinet

[cannedpeahes]

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[quote author=CaffeinePowered link=topic=509.msg12801#msg12801 date=1213511797]
[quote author=Ianki link=topic=509.msg12800#msg12800 date=1213511343]


I think there needs to be a night when 4 of us try to save april in Ninja Turtles Arcade.  I call Ralph.

Fuck that, Turtles in Time SNES via Hamachi, even if its only 2 players :x
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Though Turtles in Time is quintessential, Turtles arcade is fucking win and you know it.
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Turtles in Time is the BEST beat-em-up ever made, period, next best is the Xmen arcade cabinet
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Simpsons?

-whimpers-

[ScottyGrayskull]

Turtles in Time is the BEST beat-em-up ever made, period, next best is the Xmen arcade cabinet

It's true! ScrewAttack says so!

Although I would buy the XBL TMNT arcade game if people wanted to throw down with some multiplayer.

[dapngwnman]

What about 4 player Turtles in Time arcade version played with MAME through Hamachi?

The arcade version has cooler sounds, but it is much shorter than the snes version.

[Ianki]

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Turtles in Time is the BEST beat-em-up ever made, period, next best is the Xmen arcade cabinet

It's true! ScrewAttack says so!

Although I would buy the XBL TMNT arcade game if people wanted to throw down with some multiplayer.
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I want to play all day.  Get that shit and add me brother.

[Ianki]

Also, i refuse to let the myth that the original TNMT Arcade game is insuperior compared to turtles in time go on.  If you don't think TMNT arcade is the best game ever, than you are too young to remember how awesome it was to spend your entire 4 dollar allowance on it every week in hopes of facing Shredder but only making it to the fucking rock boss in the technodrome. Always thinking Donatello was superior because he rules in the TMNT first NES game and he was the smart one, even though Ralph tore those Foot Soldiers to threads without a moments notice.  As well as pulling out the 4 player game a full 3 years before you were able to rip apart sentinels with Nightcrawlers super transport move or colossus' exploding metal in that uber win arcade box.

Sure i was 7, but there are plenty of games i played at 7 that i loved and yet haven't held up to the charm of the past (uhum, i'm looking at you "a boy and his blob"), and TMNT still fucking rocks.

The only thing changed from TMNT arcade (fuck the NES version with it's stripped graphics and it's added ice level) and Turtles in Time, was the ability to throw a foot soldier at the screen.  I tell you what, i don't need it.  All i want is Baxter (not the fly), an instant kill shredder, and enough quarters to die happy.

I'll stand by this to my death.

[exanimo2]

I love you.

[Kirby]

OH MY GOD 2 YEAR OLD NECRO

[Turtle]

OH MY GOD STOP NECROING INTRO THREADS

[exanimo2]

Ianki deserves it.