Member Introduction Thread

[Nichi]

Welcome! I think you'll find there are still some familiar faces around here, so make yourself at home ^_^

[Bella]

Christ, I've been gone so long, I may need to reintroduce myself.  >.>

Not gonna lie, I don't recall you, but I remember your signature... I think...

Anyway, welcome back! : )

[Chocofreak13]

you avatar seems eeriely familiar. that said, welcome back, even if we've never met. :3

[DustiiWolf]

Hello. Im Dustii Wolf.

I like animes, mangas, and (of course) OS-Tans.

Im a avid fan of Windows 8 (Ive used Developer, Consumer, AND release preview)

I like my computer, and am extatic about windows 8 upgrade this october 26 (which i get for $15 since my ultraportable is new c:)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydJinL8Ln3Q
My most FAVORITE song, video, and os-tan related item.c:

[Chocofreak13]

heh, thanks for reminding me. that one's not on the playlist yet. though i listened to the song on the way home yesterday. -w-

with that in mind, i wouldn't mention your devotion to the Win 8 OS much here. the only 8 love here is for the -tan. >>;;

what sort of anime and manga do you like? (those words are singular and plural, btw. don't mind me, i'm just a grammar nazi. i can't turn it off. ^^;;; )

looking forward to seeing you around the forum, dustii. don't limit yourself to one section, either. we love having new members around here. i'm kari, and you can call me either kari or choco. ^^

EDIT: oh yeah, dustii, do you have any instant messengers? the IM of choice here appears to be skype. :3

[Bella]

Welcome aboard Dustii~

I'm not a fan of Windows 8 personally, but i'll support you because I'm fond of other un(der)appriciated OSes, like Vista. (Annnnnd Multics and CTSS and OpenVMS, I'm quite the retrocomputer / niche-system fan).

[Nichi]

Welcome :3

I like your designs. They're quite nice :3

[DustiiWolf]

Hehe. guess im one of the few Windows 8 fans then.. ;w;"

@Kari - I like Lucky Star (Anime), Okami-san & her 7 companions (Anime), Megaman NT Warrior (Anime & Manga), Puella Magi Madoka Magica (Anime), Haruhi Suzumiya (The series, "Melancholy of"; Movie "Disappearance of"; Gag-Manga "The Melancholy of Suzumiya: Haruhi-chan"), Inuyasha (Anime).

@Bella - i actually read Vista was a great OS on higher end pc's and bootcamped macbooks. it just was a bit of a resource hog and didn't work well on your lower end "consumer" pc's. And that's cool you like older OSes.

@PentiumMX - thanks! ^^

[Bella]

Right you are, most of the Vista hate originated from MS shoehorning it onto hardware that couldn't handle it. When it's actually run on hardware with the right specs, it tends to work quite well. (Thanks, old computers are a pretty big passion of mine. )

You're a fan of Madoka Magica AND Haruhi? You're gonna fit in just fine.

[DustiiWolf]

Yep. *giggles* id buy ALL the Haruhi-chan manga in the nook store if i could afford it. i only own 4 of them.
and i can watch Madoka Magica for free using Crackle. c:

[Chocofreak13]

i was never a fan of vista, but that was likely due to the issue you just mentioned; microsoft shoving a square peg into a cheaper round hole. the 'family' computer in the basement still runs it, but it was a very early vista PC, and when i was using it i actually got used to it crashing. it was odd if it didn't crash before startup, actually. >>;

you know, it's been awhile since we've had a new member. i'm gonna properly introduce myself. -w-

Name: Kari (answers to Kari or Choco)
Age: College-age
Location: a cave in new england
Occupation: student/public nuisance/resident tsundere/grammar nazi/comic artist/OSC site harvester
Favourite Colour: Purple
Favourite Foods: Pizza, Chocolate, Coca-Cola (i drink at least 3 of these a day), Pasta, Banquet Frozen Dinners
Favourite Number: Free/13
Favourite Anime: One Piece/Naruto/Big O (occasionally others, i watch plenty of others as well)
Favourite Manga: Reborn!/Me and My Brothers/Kare First Love/Yaoi (i own over 400 volumes of various manga)
Favourite Song: I Won't Be There/Burnin' For You (by Simple Plan and Blue Öyster Cult respectively)
Favourite Movie: anything Miyazaki/anything Burton/The Boondock Saints/Edward Scissorhands/Ferris Bueler's Day Off
Favourite TV Show: Law and Order: Special Victims Unit (i can recite the opening by heart), Doctor Who
OS of Choice: XP or 7, though i have a laptop with 98SE that i use on occasion too. i'm not very fond of macs (though the two i have are valued, loved member of the family), Vista, or 8.
Computers: 8 (counting Gothpod, my ipod); 7 mine; 2 paid for
Interests (in no particular order): anime, manga, listening to music, art, sleeping, cooking/baking, singing, writing (on occasion, except comics, which occurs 90% of the time), computers, japanese culture, sewing, video games, Ball-Jointed Dolls, tabletop RPGs, the internet, metalwork (though this is mostly past), reading (manga or otherwise), history
Random Facts About Me:
~I collect manga, anime plushies, snowglobes, hats, and paper umbrellas
   ~I have over 400 volumes of manga and over 30 (pushing 40) anime plushies
      ~I also collect Ball-Jointed Dolls, though the collection is still smallish (big in some respects actually, i have 5 1/6 scale dolls and working on a 6th)
~I have over 14k songs in my music library, mostly in japanese, korean, and, to a slightly lesser extent, english
~I'm a 3rd year Art Student aiming for a bachelor's in Illustration, hoping to make comics
   ~I'm hoping to have a webcomic up within a month and a half
~I'm quite the raving weirdo
   ~This includes posting in various colours to protest people trying to regulate how i type, eating a picture of Drew Carey, and doing the dishes at 4am
~In some respects, i'm OSC's historian
   ~only because i was part of an older fansite and pay attention to the canon, resulting in me being able to tell you who loves XP-tan and who WE-tan represents.

everyone else should introduce themselves too. -w-

[Pitkin]

Welcome DustiiWolf. Nice to see another talented artist around (me, I cannot draw a stick figure without mould).

I'll follow Chocofreak's example and introduce myself.

Name: Pitkin, PipPitkin and derivatives, but I also respond to "hey you" but again not when followed by "you owe me".
Age: Old enough.
Location: Third floor in a small block of flats with the hardest possible adress (that's just terrible for pizza deliveries) in all Besançon, Franche-Comté, France.
Occupation: Forum freeloader, stay-at-home fanatic of proper spelling, grammar and trivial facts.
Languages spoken fluently: Finnish, English, French.
To a lesser extent: Swedish, German, Japanese.
Areas of interest: Languages, writing, politics, human rights, cultural geography, national flags now and before, history, computer and board games.
To a lesser extent: Anime, manga, sports.

Favourite

• OS-tans: Amiga-tan, Win2k-tan, OS9-tan.
• Current OS: Windows 7, Linux Mint.
• OS from before: Fedora Core 6 (xfce).
• Fedora-Tan: The one that lives with me.
• Board games: Galaxy Trucker, Space Alert, The Pillars of Earth, Dungeon Lords, The Republic of Rome, quiz games in general.
• Computer games: The Great Giana Sisters, The Last Ninja 2, Arcanum, LucasArts and Sierra point-and-click games, Phantasmagoria, Bust-a-Move 3 DX, Jagged Alliance, Diablo 2, Path of Exile.
• Console games: Megamans 1 and 2, Anticipation, Bubble Bobble, Super Marios 2, 3 and Galaxy.
• Historical flag: Republic of Tripolitania, early 1920s.
• Movies: The Shawshank Redemption, The Blues Brothers, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Indiana Jones 1 and 3, Porco Rosso, From Up the Poppy Hill, Castle of Cagliostro.
• Anime series: Magic Knight Rayearth, Chrno Crusade.
• Online comics: xkcd.com, KhaosKomix, Scandinavia and the World.
• Time to end the favourites list: Now.

Likes food: True.
Likes sleep: True.
Returns false: ###########
Forgot to mention Douglas Adams: True.
Has more to add for now: False.

[NejinOniwa]

NAME: Nejin Oniwa/Nej/N/The King (to my clansmen - no, I'm being serious, they call me that)
AGE: 22-0,027397260~
LOCATION: Ångström Laboratory, Uppsala, Vikingland
OCCUPATION: Mad scientist in training, writer of various more or less fictional literature, Hamster exterminator
Languages spoken fluently: Swedish, English
To a lesser extent: Old Norse, Japanese, French
Areas of interest: Lore and mythology, history, All Kinds Of Science In Which Things Are Made To Explode, killing hamsters, Net Neutrality, Experimental Cooking, Theoretical Physics, Material Physics, Neurobiology, Neurotechnology, Strategy, Gaming, Global conquest, Animu, Ponies, Hiking, Skiing and Everything that involves Snow.

Fun facts: Not going to make a favorite x list because lazy.
Likes food: Picky.
Likes sleep: No, because my sleep program doesn't work.
Likes Likes: Fuck off.
Is now on Guernsey: False.
Death to the Stormcloaks: Unknown.
Going to stop typing this list now: True.

[Nichi]

You know, since I never reintroduced myself when I came back in March '11, this does give me a chance to reintroduce myself :3

Name: PentiumMMX, although I tend to prefer "Penti" as the shorthand version
Age: Old enough to drink, if I wanted to
Sex: Physically male, mentally a strange mix of both; leaning more female
Location: In my "hacker cave", located in a hole-in-the-wall east Texas town with an ego problem
Occupation: Professional procrastinator, ninja maid
Languages spoken fluently: English
Languages I at least recognize some words from: French, Spanish, Japanese
Areas of interest: Computers, various operating systems (Old and new), video games, anime and manga, comic books, some sci-fi, wearing women's clothing, and writing stories in my spare time

Other bits of useless knowledge about me:

• Favorite OS-tans: 2k-tan, OS9-tan, Fedora-tan (The character, although our admin is a cool guy), and OpenVMS-tan
• Favorite OSes: Windows 2000, Windows 7, Mac OS 9, OSX Snow Leopard, MS-DOS 6.22, and any variant of Linux with the Cinnamon or LXDE interface
• Current OSes: Windows 7, OSX Snow Leopard
• Number of computers in my fleet: 15, counting my temperamental typewriter
• Favorite TV shows: Doctor Who, Warehouse 13
• Favorite books: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the Harry Potter series
• Favorite internet series: Atop the Fourth Wall, Bad Movie Beatdown, Continue Show
• Favorite anime: Fullmetal Alchemist, Haruhi Suzumiya, Lucky Star
• Favorite cartoons: Adventure Time, Danny Phantom
• Favorite comic series: Deadpool
• Favorite video games: Diddy Kong Racing, Chip's Challenge, Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back, Sonic 3 & Knuckles, Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
• Favorite food: Pizza
• Favorite drink: Tea
• Favorite color: Green, though I also like blue
• Number of past girlfriends: 0
• Gold medal for "Slowest internet connection on OSC": Yes
• Nyan Cat: Yes

I actually joined this site way back in December '08, but due to technical problems with my terrible dial-up connection, I was torn away in April '09 (Granted, barely anybody knew me back then ^_^; ). I came back in March '11, finally opened up more and actually let people get to know me personally, and have been here ever since.

I also traveled cross country to meet up with Kari and Bella, just this past June :3

[stewartsage]

Hi Dustii, welcome aboard matey!