Handle: PsiFire
Age: 33
Location: Westchester NY
Sex: Yes please.
About Me: I started with 7hm (The Heavy Machine) back in early 2003 (?) when I attended my first LAN party (LAN 7.0) in White Plains at the Courtyard Marriott. I was only able to make it for the second day and had a blast (I hear the first day was a logisitcal nightmare). I have been going to LAN parties on and off since. I currently help run the forums/website over at 7hm and am apparently supposed to organize the LAN parties (cause nobody else has).
I work in healthcare (go figure) and am a computer geek on the side. I have been playing with computers on a hobbyist level since I was 5 when I got my first computer (a Color Computer 1 complete with the little chicklet keyboard). I eventually got the CoCo2 and CoCo3 (complete with a ton of crap to go with it). I worked at Radio Shack for a period of time after high school and bought my first PC used from there (Tandy 1000 8088 Based
).
My first modem was a 300 baud direct connect. You had to dial the phone, wait for the carrier tone then hit a red button and hang up. And yes, I actually owned an acoustic coupler for a period of time (even used it once or twice).
I started running a Bulletin Board System (BBS) [back when the WWW was just starting up] which is the dialup equivalent of these forum sites, back in the late 1980s/early 1990s. I had three phone lines feeding three "nodes" which allowed people to logon at the same time and play various games ("door" programs), post crap, and download files. Tradewars was one of the more popular ones, which EVE Online reminds me of constantly with it's celestial trade routes and fighting enemy space pilots. The BBS originally ran on DOS with Desqview which was a multitasker of sorts. I could run multiple instances of DOS on the same machine and Alt-Tab (or whatever the key combo was) between instances. The BBS Software was Renegade. I later graduated to OS/2 v3.1 which is/was basically Windows Big Brother. I eventually switched to PCBoard in the end of the BBS's life. Think I may still have the disks for that around somewhere (or else I sold it on eBay).
With the advent of the Internet and the World Wide Web, BBSs pretty much became obsolete and I shut down in the late 1990s. MY first ISP was Cloud9 Internet (still is for my parents) where I'd dialup into the internet on an almost daily basis and rack up huge phone bills in the days before unlimited calling and before Cloud9 got a node in my local calling area (where calling within was free).
I praised the day Optimum Online finally came to town in the early days of this Century. My area STILL doesn't have DSL, and we likely will be waiting forever for FIOS too. I'm an online junkie and forum whore on occasion. Most of the time I play EVE Online. You can thank Popsikle for getting me hooked on THAT.
My first gaming platform was TECHNICALLY the Color Computer I got at the age of 5. It had little cartridges that you plugged into the side with games on them that you could play. The joysticks were anything but ergonomic trust me.
My first REAL gaming platform was an Atari 2600 which our family got for Christmas one year. I was stoked cause my Cousins had one for a while and now we could play all the games they could. Yup, we had Pac-Man, Asteroids, and even PONG.
I later got a Sega Genesis complete with Altered Beast (it came with it). I later got the Sega CD. I ended up "donating" it to a local ambulance corp after I left it there after getting fired from my first job as a paramedic.
I got a Sony Playstation (again for Christmas) one year and played that for quite some time. (Remember Warhawk? Still an awesome game). My friend Chris bought me a PS2 for my wedding present (now THATS a wedding present). and I still have that. Don't play it much anymore since my PC is my main gaming platform anymore.
My wife actually owns a Gamecube.
My current rig (needs updating) is an AMD Athlon XP 3800+ on an Asus A8N-SLi Motherboard with Nvidia GeForce 6600GT, 2 Gigs of Crucial Performance RAM, 2x 250gig SATA Hard Drives, DVD Player, DVD-DL Recorder, and yes it still has a 3.5" Drive (I'm old fashioned like that).
When I'm not playing EVE Online, I like RTS games over FPS, tho I don't mind dropping into Unreal from time to time to melt some faces. I love Starcraft which is the first game we really played on our home LAN. We had little LAN parties at my house when I lived with some friends. Most people I can recall having at once was 6. My current favorite RTS game is Dawn of War. It's everything I imagined SC2 would be, but never was (who knows, maybe it will be but I doubt it).
I like Battlefield 2 for the large playing field and the different weapons, but playability is a PITA at times. CS:S is cool but redundant after a while. I cant stand Quake. For fast paced action, I love Unreal Tournament hands down, and would love to give UT3 a whirl.
Was that long winded enough for everyone?
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