SH5 players, Introduce yourself: roll call I

[FooFighters]

Well.. time for me to enroll too

My name is Dennis.. I live in Spijkenisse, The Netherlands.
32 years old.. married.. Fresh owner of the company I worked 10 years for

uhmm.. hobbies..
* Games ! Silent Hunter.. Flightsim X, MLB baseball..
* I am very interested in military history (subs, carriers, battlegrounds etc.)
* I love vacation / traveling (which usualy ends in military sightseeing stuff)
* Classis US cars.. I actualy own an 1958 Oldsmobile Dynamic 88
* The real Kings of Rock 'n' Roll.. Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly
* Playing guitar and drums.. Foo's rule
* I am a big Baseball fan (the kind that is watching live Yankees games at 2am on mlb.tv)
* Stand up comedy.. I love guys like Russell Peters and Jeff Dunham
* Watching movies.. favorites.. Great balls of fire, The Final Countdown, Forrest Gump and afcourse Das Boot.

Real love.. this is what we visited during our honeymoon in the US
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...ht=FooFighters

This year, I tuned it down a bit.. We are only gonna visit Amarc (boneyard) in Tucson, San Diego naval base, USS Midway and SS Queen Mary (with russian sub)... and tickets for Yankees @ A's.
Short plan for this year.. Colorado, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, California.

Here are some shots..


Inside U-995


Blinking chrome.. my 1958 Oldsmobile


Okay.. this is an oldie during my band days..

[Carotio]

I'll start to say that my real name is Lars, I live in Odense, Denmark, but it's not my native city, so I hang around in other places too...
I think to have a computer game as the only mayor interest is unhealthy, for body, mind and life in general. That's why, I'm not totally focused on this subject alone. And it's a nerd thing, so... besides SH, my great interest is photography, where I have no real favorite subject to shoot photos of. However, I never say never to shoot some photos of pretty girls...

However, I have been following the SH series since the beginning thus having played SH1 and owning SH2, SH3 (2 times), SH4 and SH4 Uboat add on. My purchase of SH5 is in waiting mode. I was looking forward to the game, I really was, but some rather unpleasant facts have made me able to wait for further development, whatever that may be...

Anyway, this is me, in two photos. I'm sure you recognize one of the photos. In the second, it's me, Chad and maerean_m (one of the SH5 devs) in the conning tower of UC3 Nautilus at the subsim meet 2009 in Copenhagen.

[bladeghost]

Hi everyone my name is jon and I have been a submarine enthusiast for over 30 years. Also Im a 3d game artist and build first person shooter levels ,I've made mods for Doom 3 and AVP 1. I've just joined the subsim forum community, and what took me so long...good question. better late than never. Looking forward to being a contributing member. All the best everyone and stay afloat!.

JV

[fallenyggdrasil]

Hallo, I´m Adrian, 34 years old from Duderstadt, Germany.
I started playing submarine simultions with "Silent Service 1" on an Amstrad CPC 464, later "Silent Service 2" and "Das Boot (by threesixty) on Amiga and Aces of the deep on PC. Played all SH parts except SH IV, as I was not interested in the pacific theatre any more. By the way, I didn´t like these scripted campaigns in SH II, where I lost interest in this game in the very first mission... but didn´t care as it was a low budget edition...

One of my hobbies besides gaming is scale model building. I used to build plastic models like this (Tirpitz 1/400, Heller):



or my Type VII C/41 in 1/72:



but now turned to papercard models like this (to a huge part self built) Minehunter Type 40 (1/250):



Besides this another hobby is drumming in a heavy metal band *g*

Much more important of course are my wife and daughter....

Right now I´m updating my Vista and video drivers to install SH V tomorrow...

[Heretic]

My name is Mike. I'm a Wyoming native marooned in Nebraska. 44 years old. I did the Marine Corps 84-88 then did odd jobs til I finally wised up and realized I could get paid for programming. Been doing that for 16 years or so, in credit card processing. Ubi's bugs are nothing compared to what I can do to you! I've been computer gaming since Gary Grigsby's Carrier Force on the Atari 800. Old school hex and counters wargaming before that. My gaming claim to fame is some of the first interface mods for Take Command: Bull Run which led to my doing the Battle of Chantilly map for TC2: 2nd Manasas.
I live with my wife and daughter, their 10 rats, two dogs, two birds, and various strays. So I mainly hide out in my Dork Boy room.

Keep one hand on your joystick, one hand free for beer.

[gutted]

fallenyggdrasil:
Nice models bro! I been wanting to try my hand at a Type VII.



Heretic:
LOL. Awesome 109 'pit.

[Vikinger]

LoL Heretic.

Your garage is filled what u need. Beer and inside a replica of a messersmith ( looks like it)

But what on earth, Livining in nebraska whit out a shirt on LoL

[Bort]

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:

[dcb]

Dan, 42, Romanian living in Bucharest, journalist since 1994, and an IT journalist between 2005 and 2009. Married, kid (who isn't into subsimming, BTW).

I've been playing games since I got my first computer (an Atari) in 1988 and been lurking on Subsim since it was a BBS (back in the '90s), but only registered in 2005, when the SH3 modding forum got limited to registered members. BTW, thanks Neal for this move, otherwise I would have been too lazy to register ever, and would have missed all the fun.

(No picture for now, as I wouldn't know how to post it here).

[Wolfmanjack]

Name is dave live in california i used to be a member here a long time ago but i lost all my info for it..

Ive owned every single SH game sense the first one came out

[Jimbuna]

@fallenyggdrasil

Great models sir....I have just started babbling again myself after a 25 year hiatus.

@Heretic

Love the 109 cockpit.

hi everone

i'm henk life in apeldoorn in the east of the netherlands
was born in rotterdam
i'm 43 years old married and have 2 sons



scary

[JScones]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

I have just started babbling again myself after a 25 year hiatus.

If your post count is anything to go by, you've been babbling for years.

[Gunfighter]

Hi my Name is Bill I'm 71yrs old (Yup just an old Fart) Been using Sub games since Silent Service Oh way Back.Picture of me in Western Gear my other hobby,I love Country Music,and help to run a Country Club called
"The GUNFIGHTERS" hence my Subsim name.Love anything old West and American Civil War.

[Sailor Steve]

I've always loved your 'Gunfighter' conning tower emblem, Bill, but I never pictured you as that...experienced? Mature? (I'm about to turn 60 and don't want to use the 'O' word).

It's always cool to see what the people whose posts you've been reading actually look like. Gunfighter? You look the part.