GuildCafe Member Page: Grimparrot

A. "Its scary. I was thinking something like this would be cool, and there it was. Like your sucking the thoughts out of my brain. HONEY WHERES THE DARN TIN FOIL? I NEED A NEW HAT! umm what were we talking about?"

A. "When a new couple of leaders in a guild I helped get started in SWG took the guild in a different direction that I cared I got into a real heated flamewar. One of those nasty ones where everyone is just taking it way too seriously. I feel kind of ridiculous about it now."

A. "Not sure exactly although it involves liberal use of the phrase "yo yo yo" and "sup biatch" and other such pseudo urban crap."

A. "Lots of possibilities here, but I'd say Majestic. It was a really cutting edge ARG well before its time. If it launched today I think it would be a lot more successful. Back then the monthly fee model was less accepted than today and people didn;t understand ARG's too well. People still dont now largely, but they are a lot more common.

A. "Lord British. Or the guy who thought up the Star Wars Galaxies New Game Experience, but only if I had a vat of tar and a sack of feathers along."

Manufacturer: Custom built
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+, MMX, 3DNow (2 CPUs), ~2.0GHz
Memory: 2048MB RAM
Hard Drive:120 GB
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS
Monitor: 19" LCD
Sound Card: SB X-Fi Audio
Speakers/Headphones:Altec Lansing VS221 35 Watt
Keyboard: Logitech G-15 Gaming Keyboard
Mouse: Logitech G-5 Gaming Mouse
Mouse Surface: My Fat Thigh
Operating System: Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2 (2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.061219-0316)"

A. "Star Wars Galaxies, so Lucas Arts would give the license to someone else. Like Blizzard or NCsoft."

A. "David Eddings Belgariad series. I'd love to see the city of Riva and the flaming sword of the riven king in a game someday."

A. "Can be good. I think the WOW model is pretty awesome really. Adds a lot to the game if you can make the interface what you want."

A. "I generally look at the builds made by people who are smarter than me and steal their work."

A. "When I played world of warcraft I played with discord mods. Nothing now that Ive moved on to other games"

A. "Like killing people. Hate getting killed. Which is why I tend to not like PVP too much because theres lots of the latter, not so much of the former."

A. "One of the more recent seems a little silly, but it was when I walked into Rivendell the first time on LOTRO. Walking over the hill, I got hit with a hope bonus which just makes everything light up at night, the stars get brighter, etc and the elven city laid out in the valley below, with the waterfall...I felt like I was there. I don't get that sense of wonder in games like I used to."

A. "Like radiation it is profitable and safe in small doses. In large quantities it can liquefy otherwise intelligent peoples brains."

A. "To have someone to BS with as I grind. Misery loves company. Plus it would be a sin to deprive others of my rapier wit and sparkling personality."

A. "Not as much as the ones I have in real life, but then again I actually have a real life. Not everyone is as blessed. I don't mean that in a mean way, I have it better than the majority of people I know in games and out."

A. "I hate what its done to games. But I understand the demand and I'm all about the capitalistic instinct to make a buck."

A. "I'm the store manager of a Game Crazy store so in a sense I do, although I think of "working in the industry" to be more the development end. It's cool being where I'm at though and lots of little perks. Like the free copy of Super Mario Strikers Charged Nintendo just sent me."

A. "1337 d00dz who got pwned by English class and think they are chillin in the hood yo, as they play a MMO on their parents thousand plus rig in the suburbs."

A. "Video game wise, my folks bought pong and it burned in the black in white tv in the basement horrifically. I feel old."

A. "My ass, or the ass of the person next to me, provided they are attractive."

Grimparrot has respect:


Tarinth says Grimparrot is a "Fine Roleplayer."
	Love your avatar.

EvilAerosolCan says Grimparrot is a "Nice Person."
	For intelligent posts in the health care thread. It wouldn't let me add rep to your posts. :)

Dem. says Grimparrot is a "Nice Person."
	Lots of great contributions to the forum. A lot of insightful posts :)

Elocke says Grimparrot is a "Nice Person."
	We seem to agree on our game comments and that's downright cool lol.

Angelcake says Grimparrot is a "Nice Person."
	I enjoy being in a guild with you!

MaeveAlleine says Grimparrot is a "Treasure Hunter."
	Well, you are just the cutest little pirate parrot!

Huzke says Grimparrot is a "Nice Person."
	His dwarf's last name is top notch in my book!

jazmina says Grimparrot is a "Nice Person."
	Its awesome to him him as an important member of BoH!

tekhedd says Grimparrot is a "Talented Player."
	I have to spread more fame around first...again? Huh!

PastorInsanity says Grimparrot is a "Nice Person."
	Despite his dwarvish prejudices, Berean (Grimparrot) is a wonderful companion and ally, and I look forward to many an adventure with him throughout the lands of Middle Earth!

Delandria says Grimparrot is a "Nice Person."
	He is just an all around great person!

Talason says Grimparrot is a "Nice Person."
	Glad to be in the same kinship. Fun to adventure with!

Agaris says Grimparrot is a "Talented Player."


Arelos@738 says Grimparrot is a "Nice Person."
	Enjoyed reading his blog, agree with his game comments, BTW, great avatar!

Delmar says Grimparrot is a "Talented Player."
	Very good posts; interesting and informative; good sense of humor

Perfectd says Grimparrot is a "Nice Person."
	Have some respect, hope you make famous

Teutonic says Grimparrot is a "Nice Person."
	Great person, who is one of the more level headed people at GC.

breygon says Grimparrot is a "Nice Person."
	Interesting in the blog about console's.

Celerity says Grimparrot is a "Nice Person."
	Thanks for your encouragement. U seem a stand up person, and that is wonderful!

Thwunk says Grimparrot is a "Nice Person."
	Great guy

Respect
Grimparrot respects:


Grimparrot says ZeDo is a "Nice Person."
	Been gaming with Zedo quite a long time. Good guy as long as you have a lot of crayons with which to draw him maps to get him through quests :-)

Grimparrot says Perriwin is a "Talented Player."
	Thanks for the link of the list of deeds.

Grimparrot says Tarinth is a "Talented Player."
	This is an outstanding community. Wish I had the vision and skills to pull off what your doing here, hope it pays off in a big way for you.

Grimparrot says Elocke is a "Nice Person."
	Great to play with

Grimparrot says Angelcake is a "Nice Person."
	Respect for our guild's semi-official Bard.

Grimparrot says Roxianna is a "Talented Player."
	I've lost track of the times reading her comments I thought to myself "Exactly!"

Grimparrot says jazmina is a "Good Leader."
	Started a great guild, and is maintaining it as such

Grimparrot says juice is a "Talented Player."
	Outstanding news posts lately.

Grimparrot says RJCox is a "Talented Player."
	Its not just a game you guys are making, to us old timer Warhammer gamers its a Holy Thing(TM). Now get back to work :-)

Grimparrot says PastorInsanity is a "Good Leader."
	Great guy, glad I got a chance to play with him.

Grimparrot says Hades-LotD is a "Good Leader."
	Wrote one of the best, if not the the very best primers on guild leadership I have ever read.

Grimparrot says Rusty is a "Talented Player."
	Thanks for the outstanding sig. Greatly appreciated.

Grimparrot says digitaldiva73 is a "Nice Person."
	The world has a shortage of good moms and brilliant minds. Your family is blessed to have both.

Grimparrot says Celerity is a "Nice Person."
	You took the thrashing in the forums with class. I have to respect that.

Grimparrot says Teutonic is a "Nice Person."
	Thanks for the kind words bro.

Grimparrot says breygon is a "Talented Player."
	Cool avatar. I had to blink because it looked a lot like the clan MacRae(of which I am decended) badge when small.

Grimparrot says Sanya is a "Good Leader."
	Glad to see someone of your caliber shepherding our community here.

Grimparrot says Worbane is a "Tactical Expert."
	Your twice the man I am, in levels and girth!

Grimparrot says ChangeAgent is a "Talented Player."
	If you play Tabula Rasa and enjoy it you have got to have some brains, glad your helping my favorite hole in the internets thrive.

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Grimparrot's blog:
Consoles make more sense now
I've always been a pretty die hard PC gamer. Until recently.

My computer is not crap. I figured it out, and over its lifetime from when I built it myself to now has run me about $2700. And countless hours hammering out errors, the occasional virus/spyware, minor things like the bimonthly format and reinstall I seem to have to go through to keep Windows working well. And on and on. That $500 console isn't looking as expensive now.

I'm now the manager of a Game Crazy store. I sell consoles and console games for a living. I'm starting to see the point.

For all practical purposes the graphics on a Xbox 360 or PS 3 are as good as anything I see on my computer. No the resolution isn't as high but the difference is made up for the fact that I put a game in the unit and it just plays. No configuration, no wondering if I will have acceptable frame rates, it just works.

As an adult with a family, and a job that takes 60 hours a week or so, my spare time isn't what it used to be.

As we see consoles start adding mouse and keyboard to the mix (Epic is adding mouse-keyboard functionality to unreal tournament for the PS3, and whenever someone has a good idea, Microsoft is fairly quick to copy it) the advantages of my PC are getting dimmer and dimmer. A lot of bad MMO launches would have been averted has the been designed for a console, as the performance would be a heck of a lot easier to run an effective QA process with.

Imagine MMOS that just WORKED.

I see this as the future.

And I for one welcome our new console overlords.

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