TOG - The Older Gamers

Nyteshaed · 4th January 2007, 10:51 AM

OK, first the business details:

I have read the FAQ, Guidlines, Stickies and legal stuff...
I live in Portland, Oregon, Pacific Standard Time (Actually I live Washington just over the river/state border but Portlands a little easier to spot on a map)
As I am a full time student with one term to go I am on at all times of day... Only 2 classes left this term, YAY!)
I attempted to put a referal, but couldn't figure out what name they used for their accounts. However Dewpan, Brindikal, Taliesin and Braus are some of the names the evil pair that got me started use on Proudmoore.

I am using Nyteshaed as my primary but I am AKA Gawren and playing on the "evil" alliance side with a group of TOG members as Noireie.

Games I play: Yes I did start playing games on an Atari 2600 and do have an emmulator.... However, more usefully I currently play Battlefield(S) 1942, Desert Combat, 2, and just recently 2142, which isn't to say I am any good. My wife and I still occasionally play Startcraft (Broodwars) and did play Guildwars, and of cource WoW on Proudmoore. Note: She will likely apply as well, but she likes to consider all things very very carefully

particularly any group membership.

A little bio: I have lived my entire life in the state of Oregon around Portland with a brief exception for a "college" town called Eugene and a few months working for Intel in the U.K. My first online organised game experience was Quake in which I joined and eventually ran for awhile a clan called C&M (Chaos and Mayhem) which was a wonderful experience. The clan was much like TOG in that it was only for people more interested in playing togethor and having fun. To be sure we practiced and did our best to be competitive, but we had a strict policy of recruiting based on sportsmanship and maturity, rather that skill level. Initially we didn't have an age limit but one came into it later for reasons I am sure the reader can understand.

After my wife had some serious medical problems while going to school in Eugene I was forced to drop out, but eventually she graduated and we moved back to Portland. There I worked for Intel for several years before the "Dot Com Crash" doing streaming video and SQA. After a year of unemmployment I decided to get off my tush and go back to school and now I am 1 term from graduation.

Aside from all that, I am a heavy gamer to be perfectly honest, but I also deeply enjoy camping, fishing, cooking, flying sport kites (the wife and I are working on our tandem flying), reading, and mideival society. The mideival society is in fact where I know many of the people who are already in TOG from and where I met my wife.... a wonderful story I will tell some other time

I think that should about cover it, so ..... Thank you for your time and I look forward to seeing everyone online!

Sincerely,
Nyteshaed

P.S. Oh and it might be useful to known:
Nyteshaed - Troll - Rogue - 22nd - Barrens - Primary
Gawren - Tauren - Warrior - 21st - Barrens
(My lady shamman's personal meat shield

)
Noireie - Nightelf - Hunter - 13th - Darnassus
(Sunday Night PST Only)

Nyteshaed · 4th January 2007, 11:28 AM

I was reading some other peoples stuff and thought of something that might be of some limited interest to others

My wife and I are addicted to games.... card games, board games, RPG's, you name it.... gonna have to buy another bookshelf in fact... the first ones flowing out on to the floor!

Nyte

Janus · 4th January 2007, 12:45 PM

Great application post, Nyteshaed

Welcome to TOG, your application has been reviewed by an administrator and approved.

You will now have full access to all parts of the TOG website

All TOG member only forums
All member only areas of the website

Undoubtedly you want to get started and the best place to start is to visit the main forum for the game in which you are interested, have a read of the sticky posts and other threads that catch your attention.

Introduce yourself and ask any further questions you may have.
You will find other TOG members most helpful if you take the time to ask any questions you may have.

The social heart of TOG can be found in “The Lounge Room”, where any topic is being discussed and debated. If you want to know the other TOG members across the whole of TOG visit the Lounge Room.
Want to know when the next real life get together is of TOG members, again the lounge room is the place to be.

We sincerely hope that you enjoy TOG for as long as you choose too, feel free to spread the message to your friends and family who enjoy gaming and don’t forget to have fun yourself!

All the best!

The Older Gamers!

mayday · 4th January 2007, 04:50 PM

G'day and welcome to TOG.

Vulcan21 · 4th January 2007, 05:36 PM

Welcome to TOG and enjoy your stay.

ausgamer · 5th January 2007, 02:32 AM

Welcome to the TOG's mate

Now that you have joined the rank's of TOG, check out the CODII forums

Enjoy your stay

Cheers

beowulf2947 · 5th January 2007, 03:32 AM

Welcome to TOG! You should fit in fine around here.

Bor@c · 5th January 2007, 04:36 AM

Welcome to TOG! Please stop by the COD division forums, check in with the peeps there, and find out what COD is all about and what the really really dark side of TOG is playing. JK. You will be more than welcome to stop by and say hello. Once again welcome.