Star Trek Online App

[Rikiar]

Which branch(es) are you joining us in? (Aion, Champs, DDO, GA, STO): STO, maybe CO if I ever reactivate, i dunno. For some reason CO cant hold my attention, but STO does. Lazer beams pew pew! Oh yeah, and Old Republic when it comes out since I am sure you guys will be playing that too.

Are you over 18? (you must be 18+ to apply) Chronologically, I am 28. Mentally, that might be another matter. My GF refers to me as "the Manchild"

Are you a member of any other guild in that game? Nope, and it was starting to get lonely. I decided to lurk the STO recruitment forums. After waking up from a boredom-induced coma two weeks later, a sexy nurse brought me my laptop, and I saw Unrepetant's recruitment thread. After reading a good portion of the thread (yes I skim) I thought "Hey a mutant like me might fit in with these guys". So here I am.

What is the name/class/current level of the character(s) you intend to join with? Furis@Rikiar. Yes, I know i made my forum name my Cryptic account name, not my character name. This makes more sense, given the way all the silly @accountname stuff works. Have a beer on me and chill out. Oh yeah, almost forgot - hes a C5 Trill Engineer. I will probably roll a tac officer at some point, but I just have this guy for now.

Do you have friends or family in the guild? If so what is their forum name? No, but approximately 95% of you will probably soon be my interweb friends, and the other 5% will be vaguely offended by me, but not really be able to vocalize why (tip - its the swearing. Not at you, I just have a dirty mouth. Get over it. I reccomend 4chan for desensitivity training. )

Did you read our charter and rules? Which rules translation was your favorite? Yep, scottish was my favorite. 1. Its the only translation that makes any sense 2. its short and sweet and 3. I assume it involves drinking in some form.

Do you have an issue using Ventrilo? (Being able to at least listen is helpful for active participation in PvP/raids) Nope, Vent is no problem, as long as I am not sneaking some game time in at work, or in public - I travel alot, and while I have come to terms with my nerdhood, I am not sitting at an airport chatting on vent while playing video games. Some 90 year old granny might give me a wedgie.

Answer the following 4 questions. PROTIP: if your answer is shorter than the question, we will make fun of you for being boring.

1. What's the dumbest, funniest or most embarrassing thing you have ever done: So this is probably TMI, but hey, you asked. So I am in college, and casually dating this girl. We were having a little afternoon delight, and all of a sudden I realize something is wrong. I make a strategic withdrawal to assess the situation, and realize I am covered in blood. Thinking I broke something important, I start to freak out. The girl laughs at me and tells me I just earned my red wings. I am a torrent of emotions - suprise, confusion, disgust, anger from being laughed at, all at the same time. This being too much to process I just get up and leave the room, walk naked to the shower and clean myself. When I get back to my room, I get dressed, gather my sheets and head to the laundry to clean the blood off. The girl has already started telling everyone around what happened, and my nickname for a month was Red Wings. Definitely the most embarrassing thing ever. The good news is after that, pretty much nothing embarrasses me.

2. What is your Zombie Plan? This is a very complicated question dependent on several variables.

Plan A - Short term zombieism plan - I call this the "28 Days Later Plan" for a situation where the zombies run out of steam or whatever and die off / starve off. Following standard rules (see "Zombieland"), first secure my apartment building using whatever is necessary - bat, katana, I keep both handy. This should be fairly easy once zombies have been cleared from it, as it consists of three separate building on a square city block sitting on top of a concrete parking garage, and was designed to be a secure building, with few accesspoints, and no windows or balconies for 2-3 stories. Then, make my way to my parents house across town, and secure the guns in the safe, the big ass truck, and as much food / water as I can get in the truck. Get back to the apartment and dig in for a month. Easy!

Plan B. The long term plan - this is for when those zombies dont need constant meals of brains to keep going. Think "Dawn of the Dead" If I know these things are here to stay, I need to make my way to the family farm. This place is great - its in the woods in the middle of butt-fuck nowhere, 100 acres of crops on 1000 acres of land, it has its own well, and a generator. Best of all, it has a small arsenal thanks to my redneck cousins. I could arm a whole fucking company thanks to a combination of the second amendment, a hunting culture, and hicks.

Unfortunately, this place is in North Carolina, and I live in Seattle, so thats a problem. I haven't quite worked out that small detail yet, but I think it might involve an awesome road trip where I run into Woody Harrelson and some kid who was only there because Michael Sera turned down the part.

3. Tell us the story of why you will no longer drink <name of drink>:
This question usually means someone tells a story about how they drank XYZ too much, and something crazy happened, or they got sick, or both. I say those guys are fucking quitters. Yeah, I went out drinking tequila one night, and woke up in a pile of vomit on the floor a hotel room in another state to the sight of my friend nailing what turned out to be a stripper / hooker. This is what tequila is for. You drink it when you want to get crazy, have an adventure, sleep with a stranger, or hope that girl you have been pining over for a year will end up sitting on your face. Quitting drinking something because you had an awesome time is dumb.

4. Tell us something cool about yourself that has nothing to do with gaming: Hmm how do I do this without coming off as self absorbed and cocky. I probably shouldn't tell you about the time I traveled back in time to save the mother of the future leader of mankind from a cybernetic assassin, only to father the man I was intended to save in the first place!

So I guess I will just let a picture do the talking. This is me at Mardi Gras last year.
http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/2463/me1aob.jpg

Quick survey! We will totally judge you by the answers you make below:

• Favorite Type of Music: Generally, anything but country. Mostly Rock, and I will admit that I have a secret love of bad 80's hair rock.

• Favorite Movie: Top 5 : Shawshank Redemption, Blade Runner, The Beach, District 9, Heat - no particular order
• Favorite Book: the Dune series - the first half being better than the last half.
• Favorite Drink: Single malt scotch, or Vodka martini, up, olives.

• Favorite Non MMO Game: Top 3 : Master of Orion 1/2, Wing Commander Series, All incarnations of Half-Life . Yeah i guess thats way more than three games, but you do realize thats not a fair question, right?


If any of this contains spelling, grammatical errors, or is generally dumb, I am not responsible as I just TL:DR'd myself.

[huntgod]

Good start...

As to embarrassing moment...she told people? That's pretty fucked up...at least you didn't have your face down there...surprise!

I like that you not only have a zombie plan, but also a contingency zombie plan.

Nice pic, the chick looks like she's trying to make herself throw up...not sure that's a ringing endorsement for your skills. If that is the red wing girls though she is attractive enough to forgive that weird faux pas.

Love the Dune books myself, as you pass 30 and move to 40, I bet you begin to prefer the last half of the series to the first half. Chapterhouse was my least favorite, but reread yet again a couple of years back and it is now possibly my favorite.

I'm in a good mood...I vote...

[Wrothgar]

Haha I liked the quit drinking reasoning. I feel the same way. As far as I have read, you're the only one to not actually write that they hate a certain drink because they got sick. I've never ran across a certain alcoholic beverage that I'd never try again.

The embarrassing story was pretty good. I can see that you don't really get embarrassed anymore.

The app looks pretty good. Right now I don't really have any questions.

[Rikiar]

Nah shes not throwing up, just very suprised at what is happening - thats actually my girlfriend. Dont tell her about that redwings story, or she will start calling me that. Heres another for your viewing pleasure.
http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/9025/mardigras.jpg

[huntgod]

You got something red on your beak...

[Rikiar]

This thread is now about bears.
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[BadViking]

Yep, another stellar app. YES VOTE!


What Ms. Red Wings did was pretty fucked up. I commend you, I don't think that I would have taken it so well.
What a ho! I mean, I'm as freaky as they come, but thats just plain gross.

I love your choice of books too. HAVE YOU READ THE NEW DUNE BOOKS? They're GRRRREEEAAATT!!!!

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[huntgod]

I love your choice of books too. HAVE YOU READ THE NEW DUNE BOOKS? They're GRRRREEEAAATT!!!!

No they're not, they're Brian Herbert letting Kevin J. Anderson fuck his fathers cooling dead body...

That said, yes I've read them all...I did actually like Atreides, Harkonnen and Corrino, I found the early prequels, kind of ...meh, and then the Paul and Sandworms, left me kind of ...meh as well, though I enjoyed getting the information, Kevin J Anderson just isn't the same calibre of writer as Frank Herbert.

I was kind of like sleeping with a prostitute over sleeping with your wife/girlfriend, the novelty quickly wears out and in the end your fucking a soulless hole.

[huntgod]

I love your choice of books too. HAVE YOU READ THE NEW DUNE BOOKS? They're GRRRREEEAAATT!!!!

No they're not, they're Brian Herbert letting Kevin J. Anderson fuck his fathers cooling dead body...

That said, yes I've read them all...I did actually like Atreides, Harkonnen and Corrino, I found the early prequels, kind of ...meh, and then the Paul and Sandworms, left me kind of ...meh as well, though I enjoyed getting the information, Kevin J Anderson just isn't the same calibre of writer as Frank Herbert.

I was kind of like sleeping with a prostitute over sleeping with your wife/girlfriend, the novelty quickly wears out and in the end your fucking a soulless hole.

[Rikiar]

Eh, I have read Butlerian Jihad and one or two of the other "Prequels". I agree - good info, but its just not Frank Herbert. Also, i find them to not contain enough bears.

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