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As with any other forum, blog, old school bbs, or other community spots, I enjoy getting to know other users. Knowing who they are, what they do, what they enjoy, and so on, helps the community become a closer nit of online friends or acquaintances. I understand that there is the “FunFactsâ€

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Here ya' go.

First Name:

Matt (That's my nickname. I don't give away my real first name.)

Location:

<-

Age:

14

Occupation:

Volunteering at rehab/elder care facilities.

Hobbies:

Writing, art, coding, photography.

Favorite tech item:

Any good digital camera.

Favorite and most despised software:

Flash Pro. 8.0

Favorite and most despised games:

The Sims (all the sims games)

Favorite and most despised movies:

Sixth Sense and the rest are inappropriate.

Favorite and most despised television series:

Code Lyoko

Favorite and most despised band, song and music genre:

Fergie, Sean Paul, almost all r&b and hiphop.

What is your most enjoyable outdoor activity?

Biking

If you could take a vacation anywhere in the world, where there would be no expense to you, where would you go and what would you do?

Go back to Fl. where I was born and enjoy being there. Simple as that.

Name one person, who in your opinion, is a hero or role-model:

My old Language Arts teacher. Very smart man.

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former"

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First Name: Daniel

Location: Wisconsin

Age: 22

Occupation: Website and Graphic Designer

Hobbies:

Listening to music, making music (guitar style), watching movies, playing video games (7 consoles, 0 "next-gen" consoles :(), reading books (Tom Clancy or Frank Peretti), graphic design

Favorite tech item: My MP3 player brings me much happiness...

Favorite and most despised software:

Favorite: The GIMP. I wouldn't be a graphic designer today were it not for ol' GIMPy

Most despised: IE6. I don't think I need to elaborate as to why...

Favorite and most despised games: (assumes "video" games)

Favorite: Second Sight, or Splinter Cell series. It fluctuates...

Most despised: GTA. Or Manhunt... Let's say just about anything by Rockstar. Nothing quite like glorifying senseless violence...

Favorite and most despised movies:

Favorite: The Incredibles

Most despised: It's a Wonderful Life

Favorite and most despised television series:

Favorite: Mythbusters

Most despised: Just about any of the drivel currently referred to as "Prime-Time drama"

Favorite and most despised band / song / music genre:

Favorite: Project 86 / From December - Project 86 / Everything from Metal to Worship, Post Hardcore to Classical

Most despised: Too many / I don't listen to crappy music long enough to decide / some country, most rap, most emo

What is your most enjoyable outdoor activity?

Does driving count?

If you could take a vacation anywhere in the world, where there would be no expense to you, where would you go and what would you do?

I'd go to Germany and drive Nürburgring Nordschleife 'til I die. I'd probably pick up a BMW beforehand for maximum enjoyment.

Name one person, who in your opinion, is a hero or role-model:

My High School French teacher, Mr. Souther. That man taught me more about everything than anyone.

I am not a mechanism, I am part of the resistance;

I am an organism, an animal, a creature, I am a beast.

~ Becoming the Archetype

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First Name: Matt / Matthew

Location: Norfolk, Britian

Age: 19

Occupation: Student

Hobbies: Playing & making music, PDN, meeting new people :)

Favorite tech item: MP3 Player / Digi cam / my swanky soundcard (Edirol FA 101)

Favorite and most despised software:

Favourite um, possibly PDN or Firefox

Despised, Most things by apple or microsoft (I hate them both equally)

Favorite and most despised games:

Favorite splinter Cell, GTA san Andreas, any Elder Scrolls, some driving ones

Despised, the Sims, lots of kids games & the ones that are blatantly made to make money & not provide entertainment to the person that buys them.

Favorite and most despised movies:

Favorite. Lock Stock & 2 Smoking Barrels, Snatch

Despised, any teen chick flick :?

Favorite and most despised television series:

I don't have a TV

Favorite and most despised band, song and music genre:

Favourite, I'll shorten this list cos otherwise we'll be here for days.

Bela Fleck & the Flecktones, The Christian McBride Band, tower of Power, Dream Theater, The Roots, Jurassic 5, Weather Report, Miles Davis, The Clash, Pink Floyd, Madness (sometimes). That'll do for now.

Despised, I try not to dislike music but there is some that really does do my head in, Emo stuff generally does, as does Pop-Punk & general Pop, also a lot of modern R&B stuff does too.

What is your most enjoyable outdoor activity?

camping, chilling, jamming with mates :)

If you could take a vacation anywhere in the world, where there would be no expense to you, where would you go and what would you do?

Probably Cuba :)

Name one person, who in your opinion, is a hero or role-model:

Dunno really.

dA

Son, someday you will make a girl happy for a short period of time. Then she'll leave you & be with men that are ten times

better than you can imagine. These men are called musicians. :D

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...Bela Fleck & the Flecktones...

They're incredible!

v An excellent open–source strategy game—highly recommended.

 

"I wish I had never been born," she said. "What are we born for?"

"For infinite happiness," said the Spirit. "You can step out into it at any moment..."

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First Name:

Ryan

Location:

Sheffield, England

Age:

16

Occupation:

Student

Hobbies:

Graphic design, computers, Sci-Fi, model making (or at least used to), quest for knowledge and useless/ful information, education is my life

Favorite tech item:

My laptop

Favorite and most despised software:

Favourite: Firefox; the convenience of internet information has helped me immensely over the years

Most despised: there are many but the first that comes to mind is Safari for Windows

Favorite and most despised games:

Favourite: Tomb Raider: Anniversary, Burnout series, plasma pong

Most despised: not sure, if I don't like it I won't buy it

Favorite and most despised movies:

Favourite: don't have one

Most despised: don't have one, if I don't like it I won't watch it

Favorite and most despised television series:

Favourite: Doctor Who, Stargate SG-1, ST:VOY, CSI series' & NCIS, House, Grey's Anatomy and a few comedies

Most despised: Big Brother and nearly all reality-TV shows like it

Favorite and most despised band, song and music genre:

Favourite/genre: [from my dA profile +more] The Zutons, Franz Ferdinand, Muse, System of a Down, Disturbed, Three Days Grace, Funeral For A Friend, Lamb of God, Rick Wakeman, The Beatles, ELO, Queen, many 70s & 80s bands, Kaiser Cheifs, Godsmack, Rainbow, The Jam, Fall Out Boy, Bring Me The Horizon / rock, heavy metal, metal, indie, alternative, classical, bit of jazz

Most despised: anything rap, R&B, dance, techno, hip/hop, opera (far too slow)

What is your most enjoyable outdoor activity?

Breathing. Anything else is classed as exercise, and that is not enjoyable

If you could take a vacation anywhere in the world, where there would be no expense to you, where would you go and what would you do?

Egypt, Cornwall, Dover, Sailsbury, Greece, Machu Picchu, many, many places.

Why?: Because.

What would I do?: Ask me when I come back

Name one person, who in your opinion, is a hero or role-model:

My geography teacher, Mr. Fogg. He knew something of everything and a brilliant teacher, I've learned many things from and he's inspired me to go the geography/geology route in further education. Brilliant ideas, brilliant mind-set, brilliant man. Same goes for Mr. Keeble and Gell, both of whom are design and technology teachers.

Yes, I know you only asked for one but I had to.

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First Name: Angela

Location: Iowa

Age: 32 (am I one of the oldest people here??)

Occupation: SAHM (former technical writer)

Hobbies: music, reading, gardening, Paint.NET, World of Warcraft

Favorite tech item: my widescreen monitor

Favorite and most despised software: World of Warcraft for both...I love it but can't put it down

Favorite and most despised games: I really like card games and Pictionary

Favorite and most despised movies: Favorite: Star Treks, Ever After (other chick flicks); Most Despised: anything with vampires

Favorite and most despised television series: Favorite: if I say Survivor, will I be boo'ed off the forum? Most Despised: any Judge Judy type show

Favorite and most despised band, song and music genre: Favorite: folk guitar, like Nick Drake, Dave Calandra, any classical trumpet by Wynton Marsalis. Most Despised: I like elements in almost all music

What is your most enjoyable outdoor activity? gardening

If you could take a vacation anywhere in the world, where there would be no expense to you, where would you go and what would you do? take my kids hiking through Yellowstone National Park?

Name one person, who in your opinion, is a hero or role-model: Corrie tenBoom

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First Name: Mike

Location: BC, Canada

Age: 16

Occupation: Student/Part-timer (retail)

Hobbies: Anything you put in front of me other than larping & country music

Favorite tech item: My comp :D

Favorite and most despised software: Favorite: HLSW or SmartFTP (sorry pdn), Despised: Babya PhotoPro

Favorite and most despised games: Favorite: Medieval 2 total war or CSS, Despised: Def Jam - Icon

Favorite and most despised movies: Favorite: Gladiator or 300, Despised: Navy Seals 3

Favorite and most despised television series: Favorite: Grey's Anatomy, Despised: Lost

Favorite and most despised band, song and music genre: Favorite: NAS, Despised: Toby Keith

What is your most enjoyable outdoor activity? Airsofting

If you could take a vacation anywhere in the world, where there would be no expense to you, where would you go and what would you do? A random private island in the Caribbean and make a sand castle 8)

Name one person, who in your opinion, is a hero or role-model: My old English teacher Mr. Rankin, Most brilliant man you will ever meet or Macgyver

Sorry for all the "or"'s :D

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First Name:

Location: England

Age: 16

Occupation: school

Hobbies: psp, reading, computers

Favorite tech item: my psp

Favorite and most despised software: favourite atm paint.net :D most despised anything begining with the word microsoft

Favorite and most despised games: resident evil and metal gear solid favourite, most despire oh i dont know summoner was a big disappointer i guess

Favorite and most despised movies: team america favourite most despised i dont know james bond

Favorite and most despised television series: favourite life on mars and doctor who most despised any soap

Favorite and most despised band, song and music genre: favourite band kaiser cheifs most despised i dont know any emo bloody potato

What is your most enjoyable outdoor activity? erm does psp outside count?

If you could take a vacation anywhere in the world, where there would be no expense to you, where would you go and what would you do? America just cos there so friendly to the british

Name one person, who in your opinion, is a hero or role-model: roland of gillead the gunsliner

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First Name: Stephan

Location: The Netherlands, Nijmegen

Age: 13

Occupation: Student / Wannabe Concept Artist

Hobbies: Playing Games, making art

Favorite tech item: PSP

Favorite and most despised software:

Favorite: PDN, and also Firefox

Despised Anything you have to pay for.

Favorite and most despised games:

Favorite BF2142

Despised Tony Hawk Pro skater. Each part sux.

Favorite and most despised movies:

Favorite LotR3

DespisedThe Titanic

Favorite and most despised television series:

FavoritePractically any comedy

DespisedDrama and Reality (bweugh)

Favorite and most despised band, song and music genre:

FavoriteTenacious D, Any, Parodies and Rawk!

Despised Timbaland, Any, No genre in particular.

What is your most enjoyable outdoor activity?

Outdoor? Is that like... with fresh air? I don't come there. It makes my skin burn...

If you could take a vacation anywhere in the world, where there would be no expense to you, where would you go and what would you do?

Probably Dynabyte, get myself a nice computer, (8800GTX-IC2D E6600+ combo) Then trip over to Washington or Houston, and sit close to lots of game servers.

Name one person, who in your opinion, is a hero or role-model:

Master Chief

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First Name: Victor

Location: Orlando, Florida, US

Age: 26

Occupation: Supervisor of Elections Assistant Poll Manager

Hobbies: Paint.NET, dA (new hobby), IM, walking, eating

Fav Tech Item: PC

Love: Paint.NET (duh)

Hate: Gimp (duh)

Love: TrackMania Nations ESWC; Gran Turismo 4

Hate: Anything that is not racing

Love: LOTR series

Hate: Super Mario Bros. (yeah, I watched it :()

Love: King of Queens

Hate: There's so much to hate that I can't even choose!

Love: Feel Good Ink. ~Gorillaz

Hate: Once again, too much to hate

Most enjoyable outdoor activity: Walking/Hiking

Vacation: China; I'd email somebody I know and say that I'm on the polar opposite geographical coordinates of them.

Role-model: The guy that lives next door (he has a Harley and a Jaguar)

"The greatest thing about the Internet is that you can write anything you want and give it a false source." ~Ezra Pound

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I might not fill all of this out...

First Name: Sammy

Location: Bakersfield, California

Age: 20

Occupation: game designer in training

Hobbies: RolePlaying, making piccies with PDN

Favorite tech item: My comp, of course.

Favorite and most despised software:

fav: PaintDotNet

most dispised: macintosh programming...eww.

Favorite and most despised games:

fav: Neverwinter Night(Best EVER!) :D

dispised: Fable(it stopped working on my comp)

Favorite and most despised movies:

fav: Blazing Saddles

dispised: Can't decide

Favorite and most despised television series:

Fav: Ghost in the Shell, all the way ^_-

dispised: I'd have to no with BanoBanka Nekosumora

Favorite and most despised band, song and music genre:

fav: Apocalyptica(duhh :roll: )

dispised: Korn

What is your most enjoyable outdoor activity?

Playing with the Border Collie!! RAWR!

If you could take a vacation anywhere in the world, where

there would be no expense to you, where would you go and what would you do?

I would sooo go to the Anime Expo and do -everything-

Name one person, who in your opinion, is a hero or role-model:

Motoko Kusanagi, the Major of Section 9.

Plenty? ^^

~EvilNekoMarine

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First Name: Bossk (It's an Indian name).

Location: India! :)

Age: 35

Occupation: *PRIVATE*

Hobbies: Forums, Paint.net, trying to train my gecko.

Favorite tech item: *UNKNOWN*

Favorite and most despised software: Paint.net=best, *UNKNOWN*=worst.

Favorite and most despised games: Not sure.

Favorite and most despised movies: Favorite=Any godzilla movie. Worst=The one bad Godzilla movie: Godzilla's Revenge.

Favorite and most despised television series: The Simpsons=best, Barney and Friends=worst.

Favorite and most despised band, song and music genre: Not sure.

What is your most enjoyable outdoor activity? Soccer.

If you could take a vacation anywhere in the world, where there would be no expense to you, where would you go and what would you do? Hawaii.

Name one person, who in your opinion, is a hero or role-model: Bill Gates.

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First Name: Tom

Location: London, England

Age: 15

Occupation: Student

Hobbies: Computer, 360, Sports

Favorite tech item: Paint.NET

Favorite and most despised software: Love PdN

Favorite and most despised games: Gears Of War, Oblivion, 360 games

Favorite and most despised movies: Freddy Vs Jason

Favorite and most despised television series: Hate Eastenders, love Friends

Favorite and most despised band, song and music genre: Love Blink 182, Green Day, Arctic Monkeys etc. Punk/Rock

What is your most enjoyable outdoor activity? Football (Soccer)

If you could take a vacation anywhere in the world, where there would be no expense to you, where would you go and what would you do? Everywhere I could go in a year

Name one person, who in your opinion, is a hero or role-model: Billie joe Armstrong

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First Name: Richard

Location: Limerick, Ireland

Age: 16

Occupation: Student

Hobbies: Games (PS3, no xbox for me), reading, music, and the greatest of them all, RUGBY

Favorite tech item: PS3??

Favourite Software: iTunes Most Despised: Anything that installs spyware :x :x

Favorite Games : Final Fantasy 7 and 10 especially, resistance fall of man

Most Despised: Racing Games

Favorite: Cool Hand Luke or The Warriors, Lord Of War

Most Despised: Columbo Films

Favourite TV Series: Corrie and Eastenders (I'm hooked ok)

Most Despised: Anything on Nickelodeon

Favorite Band: Bullet For My Valentine, As I Lay Dying

Most Despised Band: My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy, Green Day

Favourite Song: Bible Basher, but i have lots of favourite songs

Most Despised Song: Anything Dance or Dance related (techno etc.)

Favourite Genre: Metal Most Despised Genre: Dance Rap and Emo

What is your most enjoyable outdoor activity? Rugby of course

If you could take a vacation anywhere in the world, where there would be no expense to you, where would you go and what would you do? new zealand, All Black Territory

Name one person, who in your opinion, is a hero or role-model: Never Really Thought about it so i'll say the cliche, My Family

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I'm not a fan-boy, i have ALL 3 of the consoles.........PS,PS2 and PS3

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First name:

Barak

Location:

Near Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Age:

18

Occupation:

Subway Night Shift Manager, soon to be going to college

Hobbies:

Building things with Legos.

Favorite Tech Item:

My camera

Favorite and Most Despised Software:

photoshop cs3 Extended and MSPaint, respectively.

Favorite and Most Despised Games:

Master of Orion (any of the three) and Monkey Island

Favorite and Most Despised Movies:

DUNE and The Bridge to Terabithia

Favorite and Most Despised Television Series:

Drake and Josh, and General Hospital

Favorite and Most Despised Music Bands:

Petra and ICP

Favorite Outdoor Activity

Biking and track and field

Favorite Free Vacation Spot:

Any Air and Space Museum

Role Model

Arthur C. Clarke

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First Name: Kliment

Location: Moscow, Russia

Age: 107, turning 108 June 29th

Occupation: Retired Soviet General

Hobbies: Writing video games, playing piano, playing Starcraft, composing music, Paint.NET, writing, inventing, etc.

Favorite and most despised tech item: Computer and iPod

Favorite and most despised software: Flash and Any Apple Operating System

Favorite and most despised games: Starcraft and Any Sport

Favorite and most despised movies: Terminator and High School Musical

Favorite and most despised television series: The Simpsons and Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader

Favorite and most despised band, song and music genre: N/A, All of them, Imperial March, Any Rock, Classical, Rock

What is your most enjoyable outdoor activity? N/A

If you could take a vacation anywhere in the world, where there would be no expense to you, where would you go and what would you do? Japan (again)

Name one person, who in your opinion, is a hero or role-model: Yuri Gagarin

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The God of Judgement is not pleased...

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First Name:

Ben

Location:

Milky way Galaxy

Age:

17

Occupation:

School

Hobbies:

Reading

Paint.net

Favorite tech item:

Micosoft surface - eagerly awaiting the chance to see it in person

Favorite and most despised software:

Favorite - Paint.net

most despised - AOL

Favorite Book or story:

fiction short story - Victory Unintentional by Issac Asimov

Favorite game:

Risk - the board game, not on a computer.

Favorite and most despised movies:

Favorite- Lord of the Rings Trilogy (I see I'm not the only one)

Most Despised - 2001 a Space Odyssey

Favorite TV series

Star Trek

Favorite and most despised band, song and music genre:

Favorite genre - classical

most despised genre - heavy metal (winces)

What is your most enjoyable outdoor activity?

Hiking

If you could take a vacation anywhere in the world, where there would be no expense to you, where would you go and what would you do?

Actually, most of my vacation fantasies don't actually involve the world.

Name one person, who in your opinion, is a hero or role-model:

My Dad

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