The Introduction Thread

[Finhawk]

Meanwhile, uh, Your Highness, why the "King of Apples and Mohawk Lord" titles?  Would you be kind enough to enlighten us?

Yeaaah, I'm not surprised you're confused. :,D

King of Apples is just a title that has stuck with me for a while now. As far as I can remember, I was chatting with my Internet pals at perhaps around 5 am or something like that and the whole chat was just madness and sheer stupidity. (Like always.) Anyways, I got hungry and because apples are delicious, I just grabbed one of them. In my sleep deprived state, I proclaimed myself as the King of Apples while munching on the fabulous fruit. I somehow remembered this the next day after I had managed to detach myself from my computer to get few hours of sleep. I don't even remember just exactly how everyone came to associate apples with me but it happened quite fast. Perhaps I just repeated my position as Apple royalty enough times.

As for Mohawk Lord, it's quite new. I guess I just keep on babbling on and on how much I love them mohawks and one of my new buddies randomly called me "Mohawk Lord". I happen to like the sound of it.

[Rae]

Hi everyone,

I'm Rae, approaching 1.0 Torbjorn, from the USA, currently living in Pennsylvania. I'm a grad student in the environmental sciences, and while the chapter break is going to be rough, I will be putting in serious work on my dissertation. Any of you whippersnappers interested in environmental science, grad school (in the US) - I'd be happy to chat.

I came across SSSS when it was recommended by someone on www.dailykos.com and ran into the language tree shortly after that. I thought it was amazing and gorgeous, but honestly, it was the charming cats in and around the language tree that made me cock my head and say to myself "I must know more about this..." Read through SSSS a couple of times, then aRTD, and now, yeah, refreshing several times a day/hour/minute to get my weekday fix. I just need to ban myself from the internet some days, sigh.

I do a number of things for fun - making jewelry, attempting quilt-making, carving my own stamps, writing smatterings of fiction. I enjoy cooking & baking and tend to waste a lot of time lurking on the internet. My current crazy idea is making a quilt pattern out of the Nordic council design...

[Oskutin]

Well, I could say something here too.

Some of you may have seen me explaining and speculating things in the SSSS section and comments, but anyways...

I'm finnish mechanical engineering student and indie game developer.
(Here's links to my game and game company if anyone is interested: www.infragame.net , www.loisteinteractive.com)
I'm interested in various subjects such as games, engineering, macroeconomics, psychology and generally making sense out of things and many many more thing.
Generally i'm very short worded, unless I find something interesting to share with others.
And I prefer working on nights and tend to go to sleep very late.

[Eich]

Well, I could say something here too.

Some of you may have seen me explaining and speculating things in the SSSS section and comments, but anyways...

I'm finnish mechanical engineering student and indie game developer.
(Here's links to my game and game company if anyone is interested: www.infragame.net , www.loisteinteractive.com)
I'm interested in various subjects such as games, engineering, macroeconomics, psychology and generally making sense out of things and many many more thing.
Generally i'm very short worded, unless I find something interesting to share with others.
And I prefer working on nights and tend to go to sleep very late.

Yeah, Mechanical Engineering!  *Is also an M.E. student* 
I always wanted to get into game development, but never really got around to it.  Plus, I'd probably be pretty terrible at it.    Your game looks quite well polished!

[dwuff]

Well, I could say something here too.

Some of you may have seen me explaining and speculating things in the SSSS section and comments, but anyways...

I'm finnish mechanical engineering student and indie game developer.
(Here's links to my game and game company if anyone is interested: www.infragame.net , www.loisteinteractive.com)
I'm interested in various subjects such as games, engineering, macroeconomics, psychology and generally making sense out of things and many many more thing.
Generally i'm very short worded, unless I find something interesting to share with others.
And I prefer working on nights and tend to go to sleep very late.

Awesome! I'm surrounded by game devs, the industry in SA is really booming. I think 50% of my friends are probably indie devs/aspiring indie devs, now that I think about it... I see your game was greenlit, well done! It looks really ominous, I just watched your trailers. It looks really good for alpha gameplay. I'll be following this one.

[Oskutin]

Yeah, Mechanical Engineering!  *Is also an M.E. student* 
I always wanted to get into game development, but never really got around to it.  Plus, I'd probably be pretty terrible at it.    Your game looks quite well polished!

Thanks.
Well it started as a hobby and we didn't know anyone from games industry when we'll started.

[Pessi]

My current crazy idea is making a quilt pattern out of the Nordic council design...

Sounds cool! Minna's version of the design is so much better than the current official one that I think they should change it. And of course give Minna a handsom reward for using her work

[ConnieMW]

yay, an Irish person .

Heh heh, yep. I haven't seen a lot of other Irish people on here so far, so I guess I'll have to not mess up representing my country

[ConnieMW]

Now to find out if she's a ginger or a leprechaun.

Neither I'm afraid! But I am a writer and Ireland is known as the "Island of Saints and Scholars" so hopefully that counts

[MJL]

So it's been ages since I've been a member of a forum, but I like SSSS so much, and the topics going on round here look so interesting, that I thought, 'why not?'

Anyway, about me: I found the comic two weeks ago, through Mental Floss I think (the language tree graphic), and then spent a few days going through the comic from the beginning. Of course I catch up right at the start of a chapter break, which is going to be awesome for the wirthdrawal symptoms 

I'm Dutch, 30 years old, and work as a copy editor and project coordinator for a small-ish publisher of geoscience books. I studied English at uni (and have a Master's in Translation though I never really used it). My hobbies include reading, writing, sewing, music, and webcomics.

[Rae]

Sounds cool! Minna's version of the design is so much better than the current official one that I think they should change it. And of course give Minna a handsom reward for using her work

Oh, wow. I agree with you - that logo looks like it belongs to a fly-by-night regional airline.

[kjeks]

Heh heh, yep. I haven't seen a lot of other Irish people on here so far, so I guess I'll have to not mess up representing my country

You'll do fine, I'm sure. It's only a year since I last visited your country, but I really miss it.

[JoB]

that logo looks like it belongs to a fly-by-night regional airline.

Pray tell, what makes you think that?

[ConnieMW]

You'll do fine, I'm sure. It's only a year since I last visited your country, but I really miss it.

I can assure you, it hasn't changed much in a year. Still rainy, still cold, yet somehow still quite pretty.

[Rae]

Pray tell, what makes you think that?

Ah, haha, the bird on the Lufthansa logo has an appropriately optimistic take-off angle going for it at least! Not fly-by-night at all    The Nordic council logo brings to mind pontoon planes landing on Canadian/Alaskan lakes...