The Truth Hurts, KrelEN!

Everyone knows how this works by now. Ask all your questions by Sunday, February 24, and ten questions max per person.

Allons-y!

1. What are you studying in college?

2. You look a lot like my friend Matt. Explain.

3. If you could meet anybody who would it be?

4. You're going to die in one hour. What do you do in your last hour of life?

5. You and I are two of the few on here who think Mac > PC. Explain.

1. Being a metal man yourself, how do you explain that Metal Man from Megaman 2 is pathetically weak against his own weapon?

2. What game do you play in which you are most likely to deck someone with the iron fist of mad skillz?

3. Best black metal album ever = ?

4. If you had MANHUNGER for a sandwich, and assuming you have any material available for construction of said sandwich, what kind would you make?

5. What's the weirdest opportunity for a photo op you've ever encountered?

Originally Posted by sprouticus

1. What are you studying in college?

2. You look a lot like my friend Matt. Explain.

3. If you could meet anybody who would it be?

4. You're going to die in one hour. What do you do in your last hour of life?

5. You and I are two of the few on here who think Mac > PC. Explain.

1. Absolutely nothing... Yet. I'm just under four months away from finishing high school, and then after a year off I'll be studying English.

2. One of us is the bastard son of the other. From the future.

3. Oh, hm. I tend to always consider this one with a list of awesome musicians, but I'll rule them all out just this once. My choice - among sensible, living people - is Iain Banks. His writings have been a staple in my book collection for a looooong time, and I'd love to go for a drink with the man and talk anything and everything with him.

4. Use various media of communication - phone, email, IM, Facebook, letters, even face-to-face conversation if possible - to talk to important friends and relatives and tell them all exactly what I think of them. There are lots of things I want to get off my chest, but would regret saying immediately afterwards.

5. Superiority in many areas does, unfortunately, come at a premium. Until a few years ago I was vociferously anti-Apple. Not necessarily in support of any other platform, but hey, the hardware and software had no appeal for me back then (and I was happily nested in Windows and all of its lovely compatibility). My interest picked up when I read about the Intel transition and the sudden heaps of new hardware in 2006. Late that year, my brother bought himself a Macbook, and after spending a week poking around with it, I was converted. The OS X version of iTunes pisses all over its Windows counterpart, the windowing system is wonderful, Photoshop is somehow more usable and fluid than it ever has been for me under XP, and I don't think I'd be able to survive without Exposé anymore.

tl;dr: Pretty. Shiny. Powerful.

Originally Posted by Moon

1. Being a metal man yourself, how do you explain that Metal Man from Megaman 2 is pathetically weak against his own weapon?

2. What game do you play in which you are most likely to deck someone with the iron fist of mad skillz?

3. Best black metal album ever = ?

4. If you had MANHUNGER for a sandwich, and assuming you have any material available for construction of said sandwich, what kind would you make?

5. What's the weirdest opportunity for a photo op you've ever encountered?

1. Metal listeners are constantly knocking heads with one another in pretentious elitist genre debates. It's Capcom's tribute to our self-destructive tendencies!

2. Old-school Super Smash Bros on the N64. I was never amazing at Melee, but holy shit, I started playing SSB regularly again back in October, and I forgot just how goddamn good I am at this game. I main Ness. I'm hot shit. And I'm not any kind of tourneyfag.

3. Ever, huh? I'm not a fan of all that stereotypical early-nineties Scandinandinavian BM (I'm no kvlt kiddie), so I'll stick with something that'll make all those assholes in Mayhem shirts balk in disbelief:
Imaginary Sonicscape, by Sigh.

4. The bread would have a thin, crispy crust, rich in colour. It'd be an inch thick, and still warm from the oven. The sandwich itself would be loaded with jalapeños, goat cheese and marinated, aromatic chicken. And there would also be pickles. And I'm going to write this shit down.

5. This. By a mile.

1)

Spoiler:

2)

Spoiler:

3) Why the namechange from Krelian to KrelEN?
4) If you had to destroy one corner of the Internet, which would it be and why?
5) Where do you see yourself 15 years from now?
6) If you had to give up sex for the rest of your life in exchange for $250,000 a year, would you do it?

Originally Posted by Mo0

1)

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2)

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3) Why the namechange from Krelian to KrelEN?
4) If you had to destroy one corner of the Internet, which would it be and why?
5) Where do you see yourself 15 years from now?
6) If you had to give up sex for the rest of your life in exchange for $250,000 a year, would you do it?

1. Way back when I first encountered a Gamecube controller, I noticed the positioning of the Z button and swore loudly out of surprise. I was confused as to why there wasn't an equivalent on the other side of the controller. Odd design decision, but not a bad one I guess!

2. Whatever that font is, it's haunted me for years. IT'S EVERYWHERE. I've seen it on software boxes. I've seen it outside car dealerships, kebab 'restaurants', dodgy mobile phone stalls in marketplaces, the lot. I've seen it in the UK, Ireland, the US, parts of South America and every European country I've been to. It was used on the old GCN Action Replay. WHAT IS IT. WHERE IS IT FROM.

3. Lifting the name of a game character is somewhat unoriginal. No harm in adding some personal flair.

4. There's a forum I used to waste my life on. After about four years of kicking around there I realised most everyone interesting had left and in the place of interesting conversation, it had become rife with recycled 4chan shit and dipshit spoiled brats, so I came over to GFF. My main impetus for buggering off was that they disagreed with the "ban people for being stupid cunts" policy I was pushing for.

5. Living underground in NYC, occasionally heading up to the devastated surface or hopping back in time for short stints. Any serious answer I give would be boring. Perhaps I'll be some kind of eternal traveler forever. Perhaps I'll be dead.

6. Rest of my life? Hell no. If I was given permission to opt in and out of it on a year-by-year basis, then sure, that'd be awesome.

Originally Posted by KrelEN

1. The girl in pink looks terrified. Was she part of the group, or just in the wrong (right?) place?

2. What was your favorite country to visit?

3. Least favorite?

Originally Posted by christinajon

1. The girl in pink looks terrified. Was she part of the group, or just in the wrong (right?) place?

2. What was your favorite country to visit?

3. Least favorite?

1. Wrong place, right place. Same difference! I don't think she spoke English, so she just sat there quietly :wtf:ing to herself.

2. Ecuador, on the technicality that the Galapagos Islands were intensely cool. Loved them. Would visit again A++.

3. Uruguay was a total dump. I spent three weeks there in '06, and wanted to off myself. I had food poisoning on the third day, which escalated into a shitty cold on the fifth. Halfway through the second week I was able to wander around, and realised there was nothing to do in the tiny town in which we were staying. Endless nights of "oh hey here's a restaurant we haven't been to ye- oh wait " culminated in a brief trip to Montevideo. Which sucked. Nice architecture ruined by a really depressing developing-country vibe. We trundled back into the countryside, and I spent the remaining ten days - it rained solidly every day - at a net cafe, torrenting PSP games.

1) List all the countries you've visited, regardless of length of visit.

2) Just how much latent homoeroticism goes on in British boy's schools?

1. What's the most despicable thing you've ever masturbated to?

2. If a wood chuck could chuck wood, would you even give a shit?

3. If you had no choice: extremely hairy ballsack or extremely hairy asshole?

4. What's your least favorite body part on a female?

5. What's your least favorite body part on yourself?

6. Favorite color?

7. Why GFF?

8. Laptops or desktops?

9. What's the most extreme intoxicating substance you've ever used/abused?

10. Do you even know who the hell I am?

1) How's your family life?

2) How would you want to spend your last days?

3) When was the last time you felt regret?

4) What was the most psychedelic moment you've ever had?

5) Have you ever had surgery?

6) When was the last time you felt enlightened?

7) When was the last time you did something uncharacteristic for a woman?

8) Do you know what kind of career you want to get into?

9) Are you the kind of person who takes advice, or gives advice?

10) Name some things you're exceptional at.

1) What is the shittiest song you will admit to actually liking?

2) If you could replace one character in SSBB for someone else, who will you ake out of the roster, and who will you put in?

3) What standardized testing do you have to take over there? (Is it the O Levels, or are you past that now? )

1. Is there a non-obvious genre of music you abhor that noone would guess at immediately?

2. Who is your favorite photographer?

3. What is the most interesting thing you've photographed?

4. What is the one thing you would like to have more of?

1) your favorite album of 2008 so far, give it a short review if you want.
2) do you owe me money,DO YOU?
3) what is your dumbest story? as in I once was happily going to handshake a friend a girl walks in between and I groped her ass, something like that.
4) Name something you'd want to be a part of, like an important organization or a group of scientists... or a band.

PENCILS DOWN

NO MORE QUESTIONS

Rather than close the thread and make KrelEN track me down to reopen it, I'm going to leave the thread open ONLY FOR KRELEN TO ANSWER, after which I'll close it.

If anyone else posts a question, I will dig up Zombie Nixon to stalk them.

Originally Posted by knkwzrd

1) List all the countries you've visited, regardless of length of visit.

2) Just how much latent homoeroticism goes on in British boy's schools?

1. Oh shit. Brain-racking time. In order of first visit, here goes:

Spoiler:

United Kingdom
Germany
France
Austria
Hong Kong
United States
Canada
Ireland
China
New Zealand
Tonga
Basque Region
Spain
Turkey
Greece
Israel
Syria
Egypt
Cyprus
Belgium
Mexico
Brazil
Argentina
Uruguay
Peru
Italy
Chile
Russia
Ecuador
Galapagos
Puerto Rico
British Virgin Islands
U.S. Virgin Islands

2. Surprisingly little. Two acquaintances of mine - a guy and his girlfriend - were suspended for fucking in his room a few weeks ago.

Originally Posted by Zephyrin

1. What's the most despicable thing you've ever masturbated to?

2. If a wood chuck could chuck wood, would you even give a shit?

3. If you had no choice: extremely hairy ballsack or extremely hairy asshole?

4. What's your least favorite body part on a female?

5. What's your least favorite body part on yourself?

6. Favorite color?

7. Why GFF?

8. Laptops or desktops?

9. What's the most extreme intoxicating substance you've ever used/abused?

10. Do you even know who the hell I am?

1. I'm sure there are plenty of people who've been given porn by a friend, and sat there happily stroking away until both of the ladies turn out to be well fucking hung. Or maybe it's just me.

2. I once asked that question of someone entirely unfamiliar with the tonguetwister and they took it seriously. For a whole fucking day.

3. Ballsack. That way, my dong is warm in winter!

4. Asses are overrated.

5. Medical complications = fucked-up ribcage.

6. I'm a fan of desaturated colours in general. I'm open to anything, although I'm not too fond of yellow or orange.

7. I believe I stumbled across a thread about the Bahamut Lagoon soundtrack back in... '04? I made an account and forgot about the place a week later. It failed to engage me! Came back two years ago, realised how awesome it was, stayed.

8. I move around a lot. 'A lot' = A SHIT-TON. Desktops aren't practical for me at this stage. Once I've got somewhere to live, I think I'll build a new one.

9. Last year, I was already a little blitzed when a friend palmed MDMA off on me. I felt slightly fucked up for days afterwards.

10. You're that honourable gentlemen who organised Secret Santa. I've never had any dealings with you otherwise, but you seem a respectable type all around. Primal Fear sucks.

Originally Posted by Plarom

1) How's your family life?

2) How would you want to spend your last days?

3) When was the last time you felt regret?

4) What was the most psychedelic moment you've ever had?

5) Have you ever had surgery?

6) When was the last time you felt enlightened?

7) When was the last time you did something uncharacteristic for a woman?

8) Do you know what kind of career you want to get into?

9) Are you the kind of person who takes advice, or gives advice?

10) Name some things you're exceptional at.

1. Clusterfuck. Father lies. Don't know where he is. Mother cries. Blames father for everything ever, shirks all responsibility. Wastes money at every opportunity. Grandparents dying. I don't live anywhere. Only stable person in my direct family is my brother.

2. Travelling. Dying in Antarctica seems like a great story [for other people] to tell.

3. Today. I regret taking a weekend out of school to visit family, a) because it was a fairly depressing affair, and b) because the train ticket cost me £72.

4. When I smoked up in NY last year, I was almost knocked out by the intensity of the stuff I had. Kaleidoscopic.

5. Twice: On my balls when I was nine, on my jaw when I was eleven. My chest might go under the knife in a few months.

6. I honestly cannot remember. I've been a miserable pile of spiritual and intellectual dullness for years.

7. I asked a friend to marry me last week. I was drunk and don't remember and apparently I was pretty serious about it even though I don't like her in 'that' way.

8. No fucking clue. I'd love to be a journalist of some kind, but like most things in my life, I have no way of knowing how that's going to turn out...

9. Neither. When people try to set me straight, I'm good at acknowledging that they're trying to help and what they're saying is useful, but I suck at paying any heed. When I advise people, I... Wait, I don't. Ever. I stay out of other people's problems for the most part.

10. Arguments. I can never be bothered to wall-of-text someone in an internet debate, but if someone in the real world comes up with straw man shit I disagree with, you'd better believe I'll do everything I can to set their INCORRECT OPINION right.

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1) What is the shittiest song you will admit to actually liking?

2) If you could replace one character in SSBB for someone else, who will you ake out of the roster, and who will you put in?

3) What standardized testing do you have to take over there? (Is it the O Levels, or are you past that now? )

1. "Code of Honor" by German band Deadlock is shitty. REALLY shitty. It's generic industrialdarkgothicmelodic metal with a girl singing the chorus and some fat guy grunting the rest of the words, but I like it. And I hate myself for it.

2. Boo to Wolf. I'd probably toss in Pokémon Rival, an idea I saw banded around a few months ago. Think Trainer, but with the counterpart GSC critters instead.

3. O levels were phased out at least 15 years ago... They were replaced by GCSEs. They're the basic qualification exams that people take when they're 15-16. AS levels and A levels are the advanced shit you take before you leave for uni.

Originally Posted by Dullenplain

1. Is there a non-obvious genre of music you abhor that noone would guess at immediately?

2. Who is your favorite photographer?

3. What is the most interesting thing you've photographed?

4. What is the one thing you would like to have more of?

1. I cannot stand this new 'indie' pop genre. It all sounds the fucking same and there is no musical merit behind it. I'm tired of hearing that half-arsed overexaggerated British accent style of singing, and I'm sick of the chavvy guitar tone. Arctic Monkeys, Franz Ferdinand, The Killers and co. all need to perish in a gutter.

2. Gilad and etchepare are two deviantART members whose work is consistently fucking incredible.

3. Despite not being my best work in terms of composition/editing, being up close with Galapagos tortoises was absolutely fascinating.

4. I'm going to steer around the cliché answer of 'money' here. I'd truthfully like to have more nice clothes - right now I desperately want a decent jacket, but... I don't have enough cash. Okay, money.

Originally Posted by juanzen

1) your favorite album of 2008 so far, give it a short review if you want.
2) do you owe me money,DO YOU?
3) what is your dumbest story? as in I once was happily going to handshake a friend a girl walks in between and I groped her ass, something like that.
4) Name something you'd want to be a part of, like an important organization or a group of scientists... or a band.

1. Ayreon's 01011001 is the best thing I've heard this year. It also trumps everything I heard last year. It's so varied and gripping that I can't say no to its overall magnificence!

2. I certainly hope not considering how destitute I am at the moment! ;_;

3. Three years ago, I accidentally revealed to a group of friends that I was unaware that Oxbridge = Oxford and Cambridge. Yeah, that was their running gag for a few weeks.

4. I'd love to spend a short while working for the Civil Service, just for the experience. A desk job, anything. From what I've read relevant to schoolwork, their office workers don't really... do anything most of the time. And that sounds like the lecherous, despicable kind of occupation I'd love.