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Yeah I'm a lurker so you don't know me. So it's like a blank slate that you can fill with demented scribblings and disgusting bodily fluid discharges, I mean fresh and new ideas!

Ignored?

Why are you a lurker?

hylian said:

Why are you a lurker?

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I keep forgetting about this place. I'll go wander off and hang out at basketball forums that have like five active posters and get bored, and go damn, I wish there was a forum like Horizons Tavern (an Ultima Ascension themed forum that died about five years ago). And after a few days of this I'll remember this place and sort of drift by, but there's too much to catch up on and I'm all, oh I'll do it later and then I forget.

So adhd, basically.

Zonker needs to discover the wondrous joys of bookmarking.

Why no avatar?

Good question!

Do you play video games? And if so what kind?

hylian said:

Do you play video games? And if so what kind?

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Right now Fallout 3. And Bioshock.

Used to play various ultimas, the old fallouts, baldur's gate, planescape torment. No twitch games, just rpgs.

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Oh, uh, some hints.

I lived in Argentina for a year when I was 16. I lived in Novosibirsk Russia for a year in 1996. I sing in a jewish community choir. I love tech house.

Where does your name come from? Because I've seen a boxed popcorn snack called "screaming yellow zonkers."

Do you prefer western RPG's or JRPG's?

Cajungal said:

Where does your name come from? Because I've seen a boxed popcorn snack called "screaming yellow zonkers."

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I was a big Doonesbury fan when I was a teenager...

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hylian said:

Do you prefer western RPG's or JRPG's?

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I didn't know there were JRPGs. I HATE all the final fantasies and their ilk, if that helps.

Is it the turn based combat you dislike about the FF games or is it something else?

hylian said:

Is it the turn based combat you dislike about the FF games or is it something else?

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Mmm, no more that combat is such a central feature. I like more story driven games.

Hmm interesting cause while I agree that some RPG's don;t have very string stories. I usually found FF and other JRPG's to have a strong storyline. I have often felt that western based RPG's seemed to be more lacking in the story department. I know that there are exceptions to each case (Bioshock, etc) I am curious if you have found that to be different in your opinion

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Hmm interesting cause while I agree that some RPG's don;t have very string stories. I usually found FF and other JRPG's to have a strong storyline. I have often felt that western based RPG's seemed to be more lacking in the story department. I know that there are exceptions to each case (Bioshock, etc) I am curious if you have found that to be different in your opinion

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Well, I haven't played very many. The idea sort of turns me off. The graphics look stupid, and the crazy stories sound like they've been invented just to justify handing out great big silly looking swords. Maybe I'm wrong.

So is it the fantasy part of the story that turn you off of them? Is it that you prefer more realistically set stories?

hylian said:

So is it the fantasy part of the story that turn you off of them? Is it that you prefer more realistically set stories?

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I think it's the cartooniness that turns me off. Baldur's gate is a fantasy game...

Are you a legs man or a boobs man?

Philosopher B. said:

Are you a legs man or a boobs man?

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Legs, definitely.

So then- how do you prefer your legs prepared?

Laurelai said:

So then- how do you prefer your legs prepared?

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I don't eat meat...

Tofu?

North_Ranger said:

Tofu?

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I have a thing for tortillas wrapped around eggs and cheese with enchilada sauce. Also make a mean bean curry. And I am the master of fruit smoothies. At work I eat pizza and veggie and rice and bean wraps. And soup, cream of mushroom soup with crackers and parmesan, yum. Also make pretty mean bean and cheese enchiladas.

Should learn to make a tofu curry though, you're right. Yeah, about time for the old Zonker to learn a new veggie recipe. Made some apple bread last week that was pretty yummy.

What's up with your signature?

mr_thehun said:

Do you like Hunter S Thompson?

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I think fear and loathing in Las Vegas has resulted in some really hilarious lolcats. Other than that I don't have much of an opinion.
http://icanhascheezburger.com/2007/01/24/we-cant-stop-here-this-is-bat-country-2/


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drawn_inward said:

What's up with your signature?

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From a thread from one of the earlier halforum incarnations... I think it's a japanese food commercial excerpt.

When/why did you decide not to eat meat?

Would you ever become a vegan?

What's your favorite pizza topping?

If you had to do only one chore religiously for the rest of your life, would you wash dishes, do laundry, or dust/vacuum?

Zonker said:

drawn_inward said:

What's up with your signature?

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From a thread from one of the earlier halforum incarnations... I think it's a japanese food commercial excerpt.

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Cajungal said:

When/why did you decide not to eat meat?

Would you ever become a vegan?

What's your favorite pizza topping?

If you had to do only one chore religiously for the rest of your life, would you wash dishes, do laundry, or dust/vacuum?

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I'm not a vegetarian, I just don't eat meat. Myself. My son is allergic to dairy and has to eat meat to get protein, so on weekends when he's visiting I eat meat. But I don't cook it myself, I've discovered I can't control my weight if I eat meat. :shrug: I do eat fish.

So I would never become a vegan, because I don't feel all that strongly about it.

My favorite pizza topping is artichoke hearts. Mmm, artichoke hearts...

If I had to do one chore, I would rake leaves into piles and jump into them.

mr_thehun said:

did you know that uncle duke from Doonesbury was based off of Hunter S?

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Oh... huh, now that I think about it... Gosh, I don't know. Maybe subconsciously. It doesn't surprise me at all.

Actually I thought it was the other way around.

Answers to questions I wish people had asked me, because they're interesting:

Cerebus the Aardvark.

Doc Oc.

The Dead Parrot sketch.

Green.

Girl Genius, OOTS, XKCD.

How long ago did you start reading Girl Genius?

Have you ever played Girl Genius: The Works card game before?

hylian said:

How long ago did you start reading Girl Genius?

Have you ever played Girl Genius: The Works card game before?

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Hm, I stumbled across Girl Genius... gosh, a year or so ago. I've always been a Phil Foglio (sp?) fan, since Dragon Magazine when I was a kid, could never get enough of that, and then Xxxenophile when I was a librarian at the comics library at Reed College.

Don't have time to play card games, really.

Does this look infected to you?

Does Dave look infected to you?

Honestly? No, I think it's probably supposed to look like that.

Define the verb: To zonk. Is it irregular? Please conjugate it completely.

"To zonk out": to become unaware of one's surroundings, see "space out"

Fine, don't make up something more fun and interesting just to amuse me. rly:

What's your favorite obscenity, and is it the one you use most often?

I can't be creative on a Friday at five while I'm starving to death. Let me go home and order some pizza first...

to zonk: verb. To imbibe psychedelic substances to excess, resulting in the experience of the entire timeline of the universe from beginning to end in the span of twelve minutes, overlapping with corners of hidden dimensions where the color purple is interpreted melodically on musical hookas played by caterpillars on toadstools. conj: I zonk, he/she/it zorks, we zonkem, you all zonkan.

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Fun Size said:

What's your favorite obscenity, and is it the one you use most often?

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My favorite obscenity is the Russian curse word "vyjobyvat'" which, loosely translated, means "to fuck into oblivion." Unfortunately I am not fluent enough in Russian to use it much myself but I always get a kick out of it when I hear someone else say it.

Like it.

Why does your avatar so closely resemble my "RL Avatar Week" avatar? Hummmm?

Shegokigo said:

Why does your avatar so closely resemble my "RL Avatar Week" avatar? Hummmm?

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I've never seen your RL avatar week avatar so I wouldn't know. Could I see it?

That's me with my Sibir' hat. Sibir' is the pro hockey team located in Novosibirsk, where I spent a year teaching economics and met my ex.

So any resemblance to you is just amusing but not real. Much like most of my... (insert self-deprecating humor here).

Hm, I wonder if it's saved anywhere here. Let me check.

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Found it!

I was totally expecting you to be the female equivalent of a greasy pimply faced fat basement dwelling computer dweeb and you look disappontingly normal in that picture. My preconception of this whole board is in turmoil.

Couple of the other pictures of me that I've posted here on HF.





You can find alot of the forumite's pics in
http://www.halforums.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7371&highlight=shego+picture&page=3

As for not being a basement dweller? Life doesn't really let me or I would, though "letting myself go" would never be an option.

My favorite sf novel currently is Cherryh's Rusalka