Guild Wars 2

• I am Sarah, 36 years old. I use my middle name.
• I live in the suburbs of Philly, in one of the many college towns in that area.
• I work as a cataloging and systems technician in a university library.
• I grew up on a farm near Lancaster PA, and we specialized in raising exotic quail, pheasants, and pigeons; along with selling vegetables.
• Due to health issues, I can’t have any pets, though I’m definitely a cat person.
• My grandparents were guides and ran camps in northern Maine, so I spent many summers working up there. Waking up to a moose sitting in the pond in your front yard was interesting.
• I went to college for Computer Science, and actually use my degree a bit in my job (Database Design, Technical Writing, Data Structures, and Statistics were my most valuable classes)
• I once did a lot of open source development, mostly for IRC related projects; and wrote FreeBSD documentation; but have not done anything for a long time.
• My first video game was Millipede on the Atari, and the games that have made me a gamer include Legend of Zelda, Metroid, Tetris, Final Fantasy 3US/6J, Secret of Mana, Valkyrie Profile, Portal, and Transistor.
• My first “online” games were the BBS door L.O.R.D and Tradewars 2002. Then, a few 2D hobby games, a Korean grinder, D&D Online, then GW2.
• I played GW2 since beta 2, and GW1 since this past August. I love them both.
• I mainly read Sci/Fi and Fantasy. Authors I read recently include Ursula K. Le Guin, John Scalzi, Jim Butcher, Neal Stephenson, and Andre Norton.
• Due to several autoimmune conditions, I now have to walk with a cane.
• I love to cook, and was taught how to cook a number of Indian dishes from a coworker from New Delhi. I also make a pretty good Cajun gumbo.
• I listen to a wide variety of music, but gravitate mostly toward traditional folk genres. I prefer acoustic over electric sounds. I even like bagpipes (all major Scot/Irish types).

I can’t give you my real name due to my line of work ;-)

• I can tell you I’m 51, but don’t look anywhere near it.
• I’m involved in counter-terrorism, working for the US Govt.
• Sarcasm and humor are my preferred communication methods, when those don’t work, I just won’t say anything.
  *I didn’t have any Atari systems, but I did have both Mattel Intellivision systems and numerous games(sadly didn’t keep them, the horror).
• I thoroughly enjoy war movies, action adventures, sci-fi, and the like…and big on the old school musicals and old time Hollywood films.
• I remember the announcement about TriForge, Inc. before they changed the name to Arena.net, and completely forgot about them until the first new reports of GW1.
• I participated in the entire first week preview that they had for GW1 from E3.
• I was part of the Alpha team for Factions(I can safely say this now I believe) ;-)
• I owned both Collectors Editions and Standard copies of all the GW1 campaigns and one Expansion. I eventually consolidated to only one account.
• The only online games I’ve every played are GW1 and GW2, I have a thing against monthly payments.
• I almost always play female characters exclusively whether it’s a single player or multi-player game, just my preference.
• I dislike PvP, but somehow have managed to kill 114 players in GW2, must have been from the first year, though I did dabble in WvW for a while.
• I can be annoying as all he**, and I usually run around solo, though I lead an in-game guild that has been in existence since Diablo 2; I joined in GW1 when our original guild was first part of an alliance then moved over when others stopped playing.
• I don’t care what others think about me, nor do I seem to care about my health.
• I like to take on 3 Teragriffs at once on my ranger and get stomped, I also like watching my pigs down Mordrem Wolves and Husks solo.
• I listen to rock, from Aerosmith to ZZ Top.
• I read Sci-Fi and Fantasy/Adventure, with some Horror and Suspense novels thrown in for variety.
  *I do not watch television, nor have I watched it for the past 4 years.
• I’m divorced and love it, don’t miss taking care of the 7 cats we had…I prefer dogs but don’t mind cats because they keep to themselves mostly.

I’m done with this.

i’m a janitor
i need to start playing GW2 again with my buddies.

I’m in.

- 44 years old, gamer for 34 of those
- 8 year old offspring (who earned Legendary Defender of Ascalon at age 4..)
- single parent and happy to be that way
- long time GW1 player before GW2
- played Radio Shack pong standalone before, but Space Assault was my first computer game
- TRS-80 color computer, that is.
- CEO of a software development company
- I like making videos but I usually end up just playing and never using the footage
- live in Vancouver (the Canada one)
- AC/DC, Avril Lavigne and Alanis Morissette. I know more Minecraft versions of songs than their originals, and now my son is introducing me to dubstep (I know it’s a bit late).
- love pink and orange, but never together!
- I can read and compose music, played piano and guitar but not so much anymore
- I bet you can guess my favourite book, but perhaps surprisingly I’ve only read it a couple of times.
- Second favourite is Stephen King’s The Stand, which I have read 4 or 5 times
- I REALLY don’t like going to an event where I have to mingle, but I will stand on stage by myself in front of any number of people with ease.
- I put great effort into keeping my real life and game life separate, to the point that sometimes I think I have MPD
- Used to have cats, but I don’t anymore and I’m happier to not have hair to clean up all the time.
- I go nuts doing the same thing for too long.. which sounds strange considering how much I play GW2.. In this case, there are so many things to do, I can change (ie: doing daily fractals to WvW to dungeon runs, etc..) whenever I get bored of something.
- The only event I do consistently is Wild Wednesday Tequatl runs with Soren Ironclaw and Kenage Achalarus. (11pm PST run, usually guild spawn one right before that with GSCH/SORC)
- The Hot Republic [THR] is my guild, and I spend absolutely no time trying build it into anything.
- In Guild Wars 1, I spent most of my time standing in pre-searing Ascalon, buying and selling.

oh ya..

- Blackgate on my main and Crystal Desert on this account.

20 years old.
100% Indian
Male
Undergraduate Finance Student
I want to be an Investment Banker
Been playing MMO’s for as long as I can remember
Love to read more than anything else (even GW2!)
I read basically anything. Favorite books include: Stardust, Airborn & Wizard’s First Rule
I love PvP in GW2, but I occasionally enjoy other game modes
I can be quite vicious in game (especially PvP), but I’m actually a pretty nice guy
Been a part of Knights of the Rose [KoR] since pretty much the release of GW2 and I plan to stay there until the death of GW2.
In GW1, I was one an officer of a French guild in the Alliance that owned HzH who specialized in DTSC during US peak hours. I was 14 years old at the time.
I’ve farmed enough Kurzick Faction to get the “Savior of the Kurzick” title 10 times over.
I love watching movies. Some favorite movies include: Casablanca, The Intouchables and the Dark Knight
I take my coffee black and without sugar
In-game gold has little value to me so I end up giving it away most of the time.
I’m a thief player and I always will be a thief player.
I love Cheesecake and Oreos.

Oh and for some reason, I find myself being attracted to older women

It’s threads like these that bring me to the forums. Yay, community.

Male, age 35
Masters degree in psychology, but burned out on academia
Overly fond of Excel
Currently freaking out over a potentially major career/life change
Never played GW1. Considering it for the rockfur raccoon mini.
Played GW2 since beta. It was love at first Charr-hammer.
I have a bad, bad case of altitis. And yet, not as bad as the awesome peep with 64 GW2 character slots. I am in awe of that person.

I spurn all the usual addictions, except chocolate. Mm, chocolate.
Also a “Wrath baby” and somehow manage to juggle GW2 and WoW.
I’ve been an avid gamer since my wee days. My first game purchase with my own money was Final Fantasy. The original, for NES.
Also an avid roleplayer and have been since high school. I adore well-written characters, but I’ll admit to being a bit elitist about it.
I have latent desires to be a game designer. I’ve been part of a LARP design since its early days, and I enjoy poking new games to suck out their delicious, delicious systemy bits. I hope to write a roleplaying system book or make a board/card game sometime in the future.

Allisa Wonderland.8192:

- Second favourite is Stephen King’s The Stand, which I have read 4 or 5 times

^one of my fav books as well. I re-read every few years before New Years (and then inevitably get the ‘Baby can you dig your man’ lyrics stuck in my head for the month of January).

I don’t suppose Mario Puzo’s The Godfather is your top fav? (Had to take a shot in the dark instead of immediately going for Harry Potter )

• I think this is the best thread on the forum.
• I’m closer to 40 than I am to 30.
• I’m female and live in the UK.
• GW2 was the first MMO I played, before then I was a console gamer.
• I am currently at level 665 on Farm Heroes Saga and 554 in Candy Crush.
• I have a degree in Genetics and would like to clone myself so that I can send my clone to work and I can play GW2 all day – early experiments have not been successful.
• I have serious altoholism and am working on having a character of every profession in every race at level 80 – need more character slots for the Revenants.
• I work at a University.
• My husband tolerates my Tyrian obsession very well, as a thank you I let him watch football (soccer) without making too much of a fuss
• My favourite colour is green.
• Cooking, gardening and sewing are what I do to relax when I’m not playing GW2 – work gets in the way of all these things.
• Every year I read The Eight, by Katherine Neville. I love fantasy, crime and historical mysteries too.
• The thing guaranteed to make me laugh is pictures of animals wearing clothes.
• I have no pets (see above, its probably safer for everyone this way).

Rauderi.8706:

Currently freaking out over a potentially major career/life change

For you Rauderi

Life is …

BooDuh.2841:

Allisa Wonderland.8192:

- Second favourite is Stephen King’s The Stand, which I have read 4 or 5 times

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^one of my fav books as well. I re-read every few years before New Years (and then inevitably get the ‘Baby can you dig your man’ lyrics stuck in my head for the month of January).

I don’t suppose Mario Puzo’s The Godfather is your top fav? (Had to take a shot in the dark instead of immediately going for Harry Potter )

Check the forum name. I’m betting the fave book is by someone name of Carroll.

Donari.5237:

BooDuh.2841:

Allisa Wonderland.8192:

- Second favourite is Stephen King’s The Stand, which I have read 4 or 5 times

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^one of my fav books as well. I re-read every few years before New Years (and then inevitably get the ‘Baby can you dig your man’ lyrics stuck in my head for the month of January).

I don’t suppose Mario Puzo’s The Godfather is your top fav? (Had to take a shot in the dark instead of immediately going for Harry Potter )

Check the forum name. I’m betting the fave book is by someone name of Carroll.

I was trying to save this one for later in the week silly, to make it a suprise n all

Allisa here is Shark Girl (a mixed media study incorporating Wonderland themes) by Casey Riordan Millard. Thought you might enjoy

I am 35 years old
I make Youtube videos currently and it is more fulfilling than any job I’ve ever had and or been paid for
I’ve been a Metallurgist
I’ve been a Pharmaceutical QA/QC specialist
I’ve been part of an R&D team for Flu Vaccines
I have a degree in Chemistry
I went back to school last year and graduated at the top of my class despite being the oldest, my degree was as a Network Admin, I’ve never used it.
I’ve been on the Magic the Gathering Pro Tour, it was a really long time ago now
WOW was my first MMO
I am a huge Warhammer 40k fan although I’ve not played in more than 8 years.
I spent a year living on a Submarine
I only have one viable Kidney
I played American football for 12 years of my life. While I love the sport I hardly ever watch others play it.
My favorite author is Stephen King
I read the Hobbit in 5th grade and was hooked, I don’t care much for the movie
I am terrible with names but can hold a ton of useless facts in my head.
I am an animal lover
I love sleep but often don’t because it’s difficult to shut my mind off. My best ideas have all resulted from this.
I love the GW2 community, I honestly believe it’s the best out there.
Despite any perceived missteps, I enjoy and love GW2 more than any other MMO I’ve ever played.
I had 11 level 80s. I’ve since deleted 7 of them and do no regret it.
My favorite color is green
other stuff I am sure. lol

BooDuh.2841:

Rauderi.8706:

Currently freaking out over a potentially major career/life change

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For you Rauderi

Life is …

That is oddly soothing and terrifying at the same time.
Much like life.
Thanks, BooDuh.

So, more random tidbits!

I sneak GW2 forums at work.
I graduated top of my high school class. It didn’t mean squat in college. :P
I love Charr for many reasons, but most amusing is their casual brutality, and yet I loathe MMA for the same reason.
Most of my television amounts to anime off Crunchyroll or what episodes I can catch of Castle and a few other humorous dramas. Asking me about actors is an automatic failure.

Angel McCoy.1832:

• I spent many years writing freelance for tabletop games such as Vampire: the Masquerade,

ZOMG I love you already!

Angel McCoy.1832:

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

So have you been playing “spot the pale bald guy” while watching? It’s quite a fun game.

Is that a drinking game? If so, by the time you watch the season I’m on, you wouldn’t get very far before… Hehe.

No, it’s not a drinking game. Well I never played it as one. I played it more as “Where’s Waldo”. The last time I played a drinking game was Season 4 Lost and “take a shot at every Jackface”.

I don’t do drinking games anymore. It got expensive.

• I’m 25.
• I’m a 3D animation student.
• Currently working on a 3D film about an alien hillbilly farmer who grows sunflowers on the sun. Due spring 2016.
• I love to go fishing and hiking (though I rarely get the opportunity).
• I live in Florida, but I’ve been out west many times to all the big national parks. I love mountains.
• I love science fiction.
• Despite how I may sound on the forums, I’m actually a very quiet and nice person in real life.
• Hope to one day have a job in the game industry.

• I’m 31 years old.
• I have moderate to severe tremors, which often cause me to double tap keys without noticing, causing a lot of doubled letters or long proofing of posts.
• My username came about during an internet persona reformat, and I saw my PC bluetooth adapter blinking out of the corner of my eye.
• I’ve been playing MMOs since pre-Luclin EverQuest.
• Mainstream MMO experience: EQ, AO, DAoC, AoC, LotRO, WO, GW1, DDO, Vanguard, SW:tOR, GW2, possibly more that I’ve forgotten.
• I have been an invited, closed beta tester in most MMOs I have played (not counting pre-order “betas”), most companies citing my community involvement during EQ.
• Gamer since before most children could form coherent sentences, my first console was an NES when I was 3. Beat Super Mario Bros. by the time I was 4.
• I love gaming, trading card games, and animation (regional variants, 3D, and more, based on artistic merit). I consider building, maintaining, and repairing PCs and networks a passion rather than a job or hobby.
• I love science fiction, science fantasy, and high fantasy, as well as Cyberpunk and Steampunk subcultures.
• I love an eclectic music range, from classical to modern rock and metal, with a special place for electronica, especially chiptune.
• I love to argue and debate, to the point of coming off arguing for the sake of arguing, as long as the point remains the exchange of opinion. I’m told German blood tempered by German, Irish, and Texan upbringing will do that to you
• I come across as very opinionated and stubborn, to the point of sounding “holier than thou”, but never mean to be so. And I leave any argument with a clean opinion: I have mine, you have yours, and as long as all sides are considered by all involved parties, no animosity is ever held, regardless of how “violent” the argument may have been.
• Outside of arguments, debates, and internet interaction, I’m pathologically shy.
• On the GW2 forums, I go through stints of regular posting, then vanish for long stretches of time, to the point that I come back and nobody remembers me.

Angel McCoy.1832:

Lotus.1682:

Oh and for some reason, I find myself being attracted to older women

Well, hello there.

(couldn’t resist)

You should definitely hit me up in game. xD
Plus you’re an author

Oh, oh, can I play?

• I’m on the wrong side of fifty, so I help put the “old” in Old Timers Guild.
• I’m fond of saying I’m from nowhere because my father was in the Navy. I’d attended 6 schools by the 3rd grade.
• My first PC game with any pretensions to graphics was Wizardry I, and I’ve been gobbling up FRPG games ever since.
• I thought I was hot stuff in college because I had a home-built PC with 48k of RAM and no disk drive, plus a 300 baud modem. The bad old days.
• I used to read tons of SF&F books before MMO’s stole my soul. Favorite authors include C.J. Cherryh, Jim Butcher, Mercedes Lackey, Robin Hobb.
• I get most of my reading done while commuting now. I would surely have been jailed for road rage long since if not for Audible.
• I have pretty eclectic musical tastes, but absolutely no C&W allowed.
• I was a software developer for 25 years, but threw it over for technical writing after the obligatory mid-life crisis. Best decision I’ve ever made. (Go for it Rauderi!)
• I love to cook. And, sadly, to eat. I wish I had a kitchen slave to wash up after me.
• I got my mother into MMO’s at age 76, which just goes to show you’re never too old to be corrupted.

Angel McCoy.1832:

KOPPER.1458:

I’ve been on the Magic the Gathering Pro Tour, it was a really long time ago now

Did you go to Kuala Lumpur on the tour? If so, I was there too. I was working at WotC at the time.

You both have my partial envy as a Pre-Fallen Empires player Though I know I am nowhere near good enough to make the Pro Tour.

BooDuh.2841:

Donari.5237:

BooDuh.2841:

Allisa Wonderland.8192:

- Second favourite is Stephen King’s The Stand, which I have read 4 or 5 times

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^one of my fav books as well. I re-read every few years before New Years (and then inevitably get the ‘Baby can you dig your man’ lyrics stuck in my head for the month of January).

I don’t suppose Mario Puzo’s The Godfather is your top fav? (Had to take a shot in the dark instead of immediately going for Harry Potter )

Check the forum name. I’m betting the fave book is by someone name of Carroll.

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I was trying to save this one for later in the week silly, to make it a suprise n all

Allisa here is Shark Girl (a mixed media study incorporating Wonderland themes) by Casey Riordan Millard. Thought you might enjoy

Hmmm.. What would you bite off if you had a shark for a head? :’D

Never read a Potter book or The Godfather. Do they have Wonderlands in them too?

(He’s a righteous man!)

A question for those who use their middle name instead of forename:

When did you decide/was it decided to use your middle name? Is there a reason why?

I ask because I despise my first name of Christopher, and at age 18 I tried to get people to use my middle name of Simon. My parents completely agreed, had no issue with it, but noone ever remembered so I finally dropped it and went back to Chris.

I was thinking of actually changing my name legally to a chosen forename, and changing my surname from White to its ancestral Waskaelis (I’d need to find a definitive correct spelling first) because I hate my forename so much, just wondered how quickly people adapt, or if they ever do.

GuzziHero.5104:

A question for those who use their middle name instead of forename:

When did you decide/was it decided to use your middle name? Is there a reason why?

I ask because I despise my first name of Christopher, and at age 18 I tried to get people to use my middle name of Simon. My parents completely agreed, had no issue with it, but noone ever remembered so I finally dropped it and went back to Chris.

I was thinking of actually changing my name legally to a chosen forename, and changing my surname from White to its ancestral Waskaelis (I’d need to find a definitive correct spelling first) because I hate my forename so much, just wondered how quickly people adapt, or if they ever do.

I use my middle name because shortly after I was born my parents decided that they didn’t like my first name as much. Now I know that anyone calling using my first name is a salesman and makes life easier.

- Recently turned 30.
- Look much younger than my actual age.
- Black belt in Tae kwon do and competed (years ago) to place third in nationals within my division.
- Cosplays and still enjoys anime.
- Met my lovely partner at Sakuracon and coming up on our 3rd anniversary.
- Can’t stand being idle when playing games.
- Got my girlfriend into GW2 and she has a talent for turning an 8min dungeon run into a 2 hour marathon. I call her senpai anyway.
- We have two birds; one of which is why I don’t use voice chat because the sudden CAW outbursts makes people on the receiving end cry.
- Thrives off of sweets and has no pudge to show for it.
- Loves strategy games.
- Loves darker humor.
- Usually very secretive.

• I’m horrible at speech to text
• People say I laugh too much, sometimes for no reason and it’s contagious :P
• This year i did hit 25 winters!
• I love WINTER & winter sports wuhuuu!
• My favourite sport is snowboarding, would love to go surfing some day :>
• It’s my last year on college and i’m kind of scared of real life I still want to do regular stuff in my life, so i hope i get my dream job as gameplay designer/ level designer / programmer .. anything connected to the games.
• I love bringing things to life even if that’s a phone, pc or tablet game or app or simply, just a 3D model made in 3DMax/Maya
• i’m dreaming to hit lottery just that i can create games till the end of my life without worrying for my income and make people happy ^^
• I love motorbikes, bikes & girls with lovely eyes

GuildWars?

• I’m in love with GvG, and sicretly still hope for it^^ ( i’m patient person )
• If people ask me, I love to give suggestions or arguments
• I’m obssessed with Archers/Rangers, anything that has BOW!
• I keep playing Ranger, because i did mainranger in GW1 for 4 years, and that’s everything i’ve played in any other MMORPG.

My carrier of MMOs/MOBAs:
*- KalOnline: archer
*- Lineage1-2: archer
*- Guild Wars 1: ranger
*- Tera: archer
*- League of Legends: ADC/Marksman
*- Smite: ADC

- 54 years old, male
- married, 3 children (wife and 2 kids playing GW2, too)
- German
- working as a public servant
- Played Dekaron (Segnale Arignon) and Atlantica (Cannon Claudia) before, had a blog and several youtube videos about that game
- like boardgames with railways or fantasy, for example 18xx, Age of Steam, Runebound, Mage Knight
- programmed a pbem game which is still running but not by me anymore
- loved to play “Elite” on my old Amstrad CPC
- current non-MMO: Distant Worlds Universe
- loved to run long distances until my knee joints gave way, now growing fat (again)
- short sighted
- good in math, could be gentler in communications
- liked to sing in a church choir (big fan of Heinrich Schuetz), sadly my voice rusted away
- love GW2 for its leisurely pace.

• My name’s Tony IRL.
• 33 Years old male.
• I look like my main character of the same name.
• Stay at home full time carer for my wife.
• Before being a carer, I enjoyed working in retail.
• I live in Greater Manchester, UK.
• Piken Square for life!
• Run a casual RP guild.
• I’m completely addicted to Guild Wars 2!
• I’m a bit of an altaholic with 21 characters.
• Other than Guild Wars 2, I enjoy music and horse riding (when I can!)
• First game I played was Flimbo’s Quest on C64
• Not sure what else to say, sorry. Guess I’m a bit shy

GuzziHero.5104:

A question for those who use their middle name instead of forename:

When did you decide/was it decided to use your middle name? Is there a reason why?

I changed my complete name for other reasons a few years ago. I like both of my names. Due to past experience, I felt it better to have more separation between my professional and personal loves. I use my first name professionally, and my middle name personally.

Claudius.5381:

- loved to play “Elite” on my old Amstrad CPC

There’s a new version of Elite that just came out in December, one of my guildmates has been playing it and loving it.

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

Angel McCoy.1832:

KOPPER.1458:

I’ve been on the Magic the Gathering Pro Tour, it was a really long time ago now

Did you go to Kuala Lumpur on the tour? If so, I was there too. I was working at WotC at the time.

You both have my partial envy as a Pre-Fallen Empires player Though I know I am nowhere near good enough to make the Pro Tour.

Played M:tG from Ice Age to Zendikar. The worst mistake I ever made was becoming a judge. After that, I never was able to regain my love for the game, and eventually sold my collection for about $3200US. Dealing with the tournament atmosphere is also why I avoid almost all forms of PvP now.

Sarisa.4731:

Played M:tG from Ice Age to Zendikar. The worst mistake I ever made was becoming a judge. After that, I never was able to regain my love for the game, and eventually sold my collection for about $3200US. Dealing with the tournament atmosphere is also why I avoid almost all forms of PvP now.

I sometimes do Booster Draft and play among friends. I no longer really go out to play all that much – half due to my job being a night shift type thing, and half because I run into too many players who equate stomp-style wins as “fun” and aren’t having fun unless they have a deck which wins on turn 4.

. . . on the other hand, “Commander/EDH” was one of the more fun formats which got released. Still plagued by people who take it too seriously and try to win as opposed to making a fun deck.

-20 Years old male.
-Currently a Student-Athlete at a D1 Big Ten School in the midwest.
-Professionally Tournament Fish, as well as fish for the school
-Professional Public Speaker (For Fishing)
-Social Media Expert, mainly in terms of marketing for fishing companies and such.
-Avid Youtuber, for both fishing and gaming. (Produce videos for sponsors via iON Cameras)
-Avid Hunter
-Avid Conservationist
-2nd Amendment Enthusiast
-In a relationship of 3 years, My girlfriend has attempted to play games in the past but the only one that keeps her attention is NBA 2k
-Star Wars Freak, Played SWG When it was released till CU, Played an emulator of PRE-CU Since. Also have played SWTOR Religiously
-I spend wayyyyyy too much time on the road. As soon as it is warm enough for the ice to melt on the lakes I spend the majority of time traveling around and fishing around the country. I sleep in hotel rooms about 150-200 nights out of the year.
-Under Armour + Lucas Oil Fishing + iON Cameras Fishing Pro-Staff

Gaming
-MMO Freak, Played Ultima Online as a young kid and have played each MMO to come out since at least for awhile
-Favorite games so far go from SWG PRE-CU -> GW2 -> GW ->UO -> Rest
-SHINYAHOLIC – Been obsessed with obtaining shinies in every game I have ever played, whether that be Legendaries, Exceptionals, Rare skins, Rare Professions, whatever.
-PvP Elitist (I hate “structured/Limited” PvP, Love Open World PvP)

GW2
-Legendary Obsessed, Own 22 Bound Legendaries, have given 3 away.
-Thief and Ele Freak, own 5 lvl 80 thieves, and 3 elementalists.
-TP investor, different from flipper, I buy rare skins and hold onto them till prices are much higher. Approx total gain from TP ~150k Gold
-WvW and SPvP freak. Solo-Roamed for the first 4,500 hours played.
-PvE Hater. Have yet to finish a single story line, I hate PvE Content, it is not challenging enough, and not much satisfaction from completing anything

GuzziHero.5104:

A question for those who use their middle name instead of forename:

When did you decide/was it decided to use your middle name? Is there a reason why?

I ask because I despise my first name of Christopher, and at age 18 I tried to get people to use my middle name of Simon. My parents completely agreed, had no issue with it, but noone ever remembered so I finally dropped it and went back to Chris.

I was thinking of actually changing my name legally to a chosen forename, and changing my surname from White to its ancestral Waskaelis (I’d need to find a definitive correct spelling first) because I hate my forename so much, just wondered how quickly people adapt, or if they ever do.

I like both my first and middle names.
However, the proper pronunciation of my middle name escapes a lot of people, so I always thought it was rude when it was said wrong. However, I was very young and exacting. My grandmother taught me the proper Danish way to say Hans.
Some of my friends would use my middle name, which I had no problem with. Even today, I have a group of friends that know me by my first name and others by my middle name, which is just fine with me.
However, if I ever heard my mom use my middle name(proper pronunciation or not) I knew I was in big trouble…..

Angel McCoy.1832:

KOPPER.1458:

I’ve been on the Magic the Gathering Pro Tour, it was a really long time ago now

Did you go to Kuala Lumpur on the tour? If so, I was there too. I was working at WotC at the time.

2009 and 2010. I could make it to the tour I just never did very well while I was there. I enjoyed it a lot though.

GuzziHero.5104:

A question for those who use their middle name instead of forename:

When did you decide/was it decided to use your middle name? Is there a reason why?

I ask because I despise my first name of Christopher, and at age 18 I tried to get people to use my middle name of Simon. My parents completely agreed, had no issue with it, but noone ever remembered so I finally dropped it and went back to Chris.

I was thinking of actually changing my name legally to a chosen forename, and changing my surname from White to its ancestral Waskaelis (I’d need to find a definitive correct spelling first) because I hate my forename so much, just wondered how quickly people adapt, or if they ever do.

I grew up using my middle name. I have the same first name as my father (and grandfather for that matter) so I guess my parents figured it would be easier to use my middle name.

When I reached highschool I decided to change things up and started going by my first name at school (and afterschool job) while family continued to use my middle name.

Allisa Wonderland.8192:

Hmmm.. What would you bite off if you had a shark for a head? :’D

Orange traffic cones – I suspect they are waffels in some alternate dimension.

Allisa Wonderland.8192:

Never read a Potter book or The Godfather. Do they have Wonderlands in them too?

Like Wonderland, both have immersive worlds I found fascinating to explore.

This is kinda one of those illusion pictures… Just stare at it and you’ll see the image of a Black Cat appear. Smarter folks seem to see the image quicker.

MFoy.3284:

This is kinda one of those illusion pictures… Just stare at it and you’ll see the image of a Black Cat appear. Smarter folks seem to see the image quicker.

Is this where I make the bad joke and say the cat is actually white and gold?

Okay, my turn…

- 36-yr old married father of two girls
- They play all my MMOs with me (GW2, SWTOR, LotRO)
- Work for a large American aerospace company
- I have a business degree but should have been a structural engineer or video game tester (duh!)
- I have a pacemaker/defibrillator implanted in my chest
- Said defibrillator has gone off and saved me from death by ventricular fibrillation
- I swear like a sailor
- Basically learned to read with comic books
- I read the LotR trilogy annually and the Harry Potter series every couple of years
- Favor rock and roll (Neil Young w/ Crazy Horse = #1, Led Zeppelin = #2) but have been into dubstep lately…
- Been in love with video games since the Atari and Commodore 64 days
- First MMO was SWG which I loved until the NGE, quit the day after that abomination dropped
- Spent time in WoW and enjoyed it, but real life steered me toward a more casual, more solo playstyle
- REALLY enjoying GW2!
- I think it’s hilarious that “kitten” is the censor word. Cracks me up every time.
- I don’t have pets, but my godkitten neighbor’s kittening kitten craps in my godkitten yard all the godkitten time.

I guess that’s all for now…

GuzziHero.5104:

A question for those who use their middle name instead of forename:

When did you decide/was it decided to use your middle name? Is there a reason why?

When I was a kid my parents let my youngest brother change his name to Robin, as in Batman-and. So unfair, they wouldn’t let me be Batgirl. But that taught me that names can be changed. I didn’t mind my first name until people began mocking it, turning it into diminutives and the like. As it happened my middle name was one almost impossible to do that to, so between 5th and 6th grade I dropped my first and used my middle, just putting on my first name’s initial when having to use my legal name.

I did it that way for many years, until I got engaged in law school. Having decided to use my betrothed’s last name (it flowed better and made a better signature than my maiden name), I investigated and learned that while I could add a last name on my marriage certificate, I could not drop my first name. So I went to the courthouse and did a legal name change, becoming just Middle Last. A few months later we wed and I became Middle Last Marriedname.

I think that my early exposure to the power of choosing one’s own name was one small factor in my ease of adaptation to people using fan names, medieval/reenactment names, and internet handles. It always pained me in court when judges wouldn’t believe a client had borrowed a car from or loaned one to someone they only knew by a nickname, given how many of my friends sported names like Aelfric or Eowyn or Chort … and with my swiss cheese mind I retained very few of their real names despite being close friends with them for years.

Maybe I should take my turn at invalidating half the items on my “potential security question” list…

• 28 years old, male, single (not very interesting but it answers some omissions!)
• I was born and raised in New Zealand, but have lived in the US for the last few years.
• I work as a software engineer for Microsoft. This sometimes makes reading the internet, um, interesting.
• Due to the above I also live in the Bellevue area. I’ve never visited ArenaNet though – Sadi says I should, but… I don’t know, maybe one day.
• I started my online gaming thing in late August 1997 (which I remember so well because the Princess Diana crash anchors it, of all things) on Kali. I was something like 10, which seems awfully young to me now.
• Spent many many years just playing Descent. Actually still do, and am one of the top 10 players in the world now; sadly that doesn’t mean so much when only a few hundred people play the game at most.
• I started playing Guild Wars on release day, after watching my brother play beta; the reason was that it looked like a good spiritual successor to Diablo 2, which I was a big fan of at the time, and I didn’t have to pay a subscription to do so, which was a big plus for a teenager without a job or credit card. This was back in the time when a lot of pessimists were saying Diablo 3 would never exist; though in a twist of fate I never really got back into it once it did.
• I’ve also played D&D for a while (15 years on and off I think); kind of got stuck on 3.5e, but may consider 5e if the opportunity presents itself. Actually never played it in person until a one-hour demo session at a recent PAX; it was always over the internet using chat rooms and virtual tabletops. These days I mostly DM, since few of my acquaintances have the time/personality type to make it happen. Though I would really like to get back to playing one day
• I am what would be considered in the US as a Christian liberal, which is also apparently not very common in the US.
• I used to look down on gridiron/American football until I joined an office fantasy football league, and now I find it fun to watch. I feel like I kind of cheated with the local team winning a Superbowl so soon after I moved in though.
• I also do casual short- to mid-distance running – mainly 5k but have started working up to longer distances.
• I would like to read more than I do, but never seem to find the time. This also applies to playing music, learning foreign languages, watching movies that everyone else has already seen, and even playing video games that everyone else has already played.
• Speaking of music, I seem to gravitate towards power/prog metal but am the sort of doesn’t-get-it dweeb who listens to things like Dream Theater for the power ballads. Wee. Also, pianos are nice and make just about anything better if used well.
• I feel that the internet would be a better place if people were a little quicker to listen (and make a genuine effort to understand), and a little slower to talk (and judge). That probably goes for the rest of society too, actually…
• My most-anticipated HoT feature at the moment is the adventure thingy that reportedly involves jumping puzzles. I like to race them for time, but until now there’s never been a point other than just being able to say I did it.
• Or… okay, maybe the druid spec. I always have to play a druid in any game I play that has them. I don’t know why, it’s just compulsory.

Cheers to those who replied to my question

I tend to know people by what I first knew them kitten if I first met them on the net, I remember their nickname and not their real one.

Sounds like it isn’t a problem to a lot of people to adapt though. I might change it when I am able to!

Angel McCoy.1832:

• I spent many years writing freelance for tabletop games such as Changeling: the Dreaming, Vampire: the Masquerade, Mage: the Ascension and bunches of others.

Oh cool, I knew James Moore and his sister as well as Bradstreet. Very cool bunch over there at White Wolf back then.

Oh, I guess here goes…

• My first name is “Godestablishedyou,” yes, that is my first name, no I didn’t change my name, that is my given name.
• I studied computer science in a private university but ran out of money my Junior year, so I never finished my BS.
• After I left university I continued to study and took classes in a junior college.
  At one point, I took some 3ds max classes in which we had semester long projects. So I asked the professor if I could make a FPS from scratch in the Unity engine, he agreed. I determined to make all the assets and code myself (which I did).
• After two semesters of working on this game (endless tweaking and optimizing, I couldn’t let things go, bad programmer instinct), I have this to show for. You can try the game here. I apologize if I broke it on the latest build.
• Shortly after, I went in to an interview at ArenaNet for an internship as a programmer. I heard interviews were quick there, and they were… So I flew back home. But at least I got to meet the president with the other interns, and the office tour was nice.
• Some time later I got my first real job as a QA Engineer at a software company, but now I work as an account manager in a completely different field outside software development.
• I will eat every food, except Balut, monkey brain, and blood (I don’t consider scat food). But this was after I decided to not be so picky when I ate.
• I store too much Star Wars, Star Trek, Arda lore, and other useless information in my head.
• I enjoy studying and reading about science, philosophy, theology, and about anything interesting.
• My wallpaper on my desktop and work desktop for years has been a rendering of my FPS, reminding me I should keep at making games, since it is something gratifying to do.
• GW2 is a good game to take a break from DotA 2 and CS:GO (I really love Counter-Strike), a lot less stress.
• After the GW2 beta, I hit max level with my norn guardian, and got burned out. I recently came back after two years and I now have an asura elementalist and a human thief.
• My guild is divided in to three groups, those who haven’t logged in for 4 months, 12 months and Unknown.
• I like airsofting with friends every few months.

BUMP

-game stuff
I started playing about a month or two after launch to join my friends since vanilla dioblow Tres was disappointing. My first character was a char warrior to get used to the mmo world . I later decided to make a female Engi because I wanted to stare at someone pleasant for hours on end (best choice evar, love the class). My ranger looks similar to me because I’m awesome like that. My ele is basically my dress up barbie doll (incidentally I like the play mechanics too).

IRL stuff
I like long walks on the beach. I lived in Illinois for a while, which made me miss California so much more when I got back. (no I won’t tell you where I am now.)
I used to surf alot, now I just live on a ship (no I won’t tell you why).
I’d have many side jobs growing up In life. Some examples include photography, modeling, and singing in public (yes I’ll sing for you). I was young and crazy back then, now I’m training to get that flat stomach again (definitely have a pillow in my belly).
Never finished college, but now at least I’m close to an AA degree in electrical engineering. I loved building computers, so IT stuff is a close second.

Love my family and adore my friends (both IRL and online). Love the night life. I lack sleep (4 hour sleeping days, and crash sundays). I’m single….. for a very good reason…. high standards :p..

back to game stuff

On Sea of Sorrows. My inactive guild is <SAO> Sword Art Online Kings. I spend my rare time off to do daily Spvp, hunt a world boss or too, and grind a dungeon or fractal if I have time to do so. I’m not the GL of my guild, but I’m a co-founder and plan to develop that sexy guild hall when HOT comes out.