Hello :)

My name is John but most refer to me as Jack or Jax. After a famous quote from Al Pacino in Scent of a woman where he wanted the bar in his room covered with bottles of John Daniels and his counterpart answered "don't you mean Jack Daniels Sir?" Pacino said, He may be Jack to you son, but when you've known him as long as I have...

Hence...Jax

I am a nearly 50 year old kid and and being of that age immersed in what mayhem WWII brought to our parents and elders. Then school and books furthered and deepened the knowledge or stories from our elders. Our generation or much of them at least, got fascinated. Both fascinited and appauled by its horrors and the people whom suffered them or implied them, the technical novelties it brought, sometimes its beauty too or the heroism on either part, the sheer bestiality of it. On many issues as humans it brought us back centuries to what man really is, a beast, an animal. Kill or be killed, eat to not get eaten. And out of that mayhem, out of that horror a new world humanism rose. A better one, not yet perfect but surely a better one. That in part explains my fascination to SHIII and 5. The duality of it. The kid playing a U boat captain with all his chevalry and loyalty to his nation or ideology yet destroying vessels with people on board to win a war. The kid trying to win over an artificial intelligence and when done so upping a level in realism to win again. We, I, see this as playing but when I really start thinking about it, it amazes me what I actually am. How the hell can I be so exalted after sinking a vessel with 1500 people on board. Or with tons of food that would stop people from starving? The kid that wants to beat the AI I hope.
That said, I am not a lunatic or a depressed human wreck, I just enjoy beating the AI. And well, the enemy I beat is computer generated. No lives are taken or destroyed. The theater of war when the kid plays is virtual and luckely so. The 50 year old man is an IT manager from Belgium whom likes to travel, whom is happy with his wife. Even expecting a newborn! Reads, watches movies, loves football(soccer) a good glass of Champagne or a decent beer with his best friends. In short, the small things in life which makes it worth living. :DL

A man and a kid that is who I am....and I do so love them both. Duality.....
Btw...I am so envious of all in this forum that can play an instrument or have an artistic talent! I really suck at that:cry:

Jax

Nice to meet you John! I hope that your presence will be comfortable, :salute:

Welcome to SubSim John http://www.psionguild.org/forums/ima...es/welcome.gif

Hello,

I'm Logan. I enjoy games with good graphics, I'm a flight instructor for the United States Navy. I enjoy playing flight simulation games and Silent Hunter 5 whenever I am not deployed. I am also into Intermediate HTML, and I live in Charleston, South Carolina.

Welcome Aboard Logan

Thanks

Welcome Logan, :salute:

Made the introduction in the general area, but haven't done so here.


Jonathan here, just picked up Silent Hunter 5. Installed a couple of mods on it, listed below, and still on the lookout for any ideas for any other good ones. I messed with Silent Hunter 4 Gold Edition a while back, but haven't played the game in a long time.

Nice to meet you all!

SH5 Mods Installed:
Accurate German Flags
BRF 1.3 Full
Capthelms Audio + Steel Viking Touch Ups
Compatible Conus00's Graphic Mod + Steel Viking Touch Ups
Environment 5.0 Mod
Shadow Improvement Mod
Sobers Smaller Water Drops
Steel Viking & Com Underwater Mod
Steel Viking's Interior Mod

Welcome to SubSim VWFKamikaze

Welcome Aboard VWFKamikaze! :salute:

Hello all. It's Archie here, some may remember me from the dark side (the SHIV threads), unbelievably, after getting out of SHIV about 12 to 18 months ago, I completely missed SH5's arrival, until now, just installed it today with a decent swag of mods and I am back on deck. :salute:

Hi all! From Croatia and starting to be SH5 addict.
One week and I'm hooked :)

Welcome Aboard marek01m!
 

:yeah: and I hope SH5 gives you pleasure.

A newbie from the Sonoran desert of Tucson, AZ
 

Hi, I'm a SH5 newbie from the Sonoran desert of Tucson, AZ. I've been doing ‘train simulations’ since I am a disabled former Locomotive Engineer with the Southern Pacific Railroad and Amtrak, the American passenger railroad. I enjoy historic computer simulations and think Silent Hunter 4 and 5 are fantastic though I don't' know how to use them - yet. I hope I can learn lots tips to using them from you guys here at the Subsim forum. Besides sims with the PC, I work part time as an astronomy teacher at the National Observatories west of Tucson, AZ. Thanks for all the info posted which will help me get going with the subs of Silent Hunters.

Welcome to SUBSIM :yep::up: