Well it's been a while since I posted up anything about myself, so I figured that now is as good a time as any to introduce myself further.
My name is Andrew, I'm 18, and from a suburb of Chicago. I've been computer gaming since I can remember. I would give myself a start in the late 90s with early subsims like Fast Attack moving on to things like 688i and eventually SHII when it was released. I've been around here since 2001, so I was a major lurker for about 4 years. I kind of lost touch with subsimming after SHIV had been out for a while, moving into RTS's like M2TW and ETW and FPS's like TF2 and the like. I just bought SHV and am doing my best to enjoy the parts of it that are great while banking on the modders fixing up the parts that just aren't there yet.
When I'm away from computers I am a soccer fanatic and have played for as long as I've been computer gaming (if not longer) and I play the oboe for my high school and for local gigs. When I've got free time (which is hardly ever nowadays), I love building scale models, mostly 1/72 scale airplanes but I'll construct the occasional tank or submarine. I consider myself a massive math/science nerd and love music as well as anything that has to do with physics, aviation, space, or the history of mathematicians/physicists. I'm about to embark on my bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering from Georgia Tech (or MIT if I get lucky in about two weeks) to hopefully get myself closer to a dream job at NASA.
Some favorites of mine:
Movie: Hot Fuzz
TV Show: Top Gear
Music: Coldplay, The Temper Trap, Ratatat, Passion Pit, Fischerspooner
Games: Team Fortress 2, Empire: Total War, Silent Hunter IV
Teams: Cubs, Bears, Blackhawks, Bulls, Liverpool
And a picture of me at a gig for good measure:
