The Introduction Thread

[Piney]

Hi, I'm DancingRanger. You can also call me Matt or Gilbert(the name of one of my OCs). I am a gender fluid/ gender neutral person with Aspergers living in backwoods Kentucky. I play a lot of video games and D&D, write, and draw.(I don't bite if you ask for doodles). My main thing is to silently lurk the interwebs looking for awesome things and of course chat buddies. I'm also know as Bahamut's Regent on ChickenSmoothie, And BahamutRegent on Flight Rising (Woot; Go Icepapie!). My interests include dragons, and (almost) anything with feathered wings, oh and planes/spaceships/rockets. I am currently studying to become an aerospace engineer, and will possibly work for NASA some day.

I discovered SSSS through HIVE works' partnership with Flight Rising, and was instantly hooked.

Welcome *offers you welcoming cookies because that seems to be a thing now*

Looks like we've got another engineer/future engineer on the forum! Albeit, there aren't any other aerospace engineers that I know of; that's cool!

[Solovei]

I discovered SSSS through HIVE works' partnership with Flight Rising, and was instantly hooked.

That's that.... dragon website right? I think a couple of the forum members play that! You could probably start a thread in the General Discussion board to swap usernames or whatnot!

[PaperArtillery]

Is that a 91/30 I spy?

Yes. Yes it is. I had a hard time deciding whether to hold the Tula or the Finnish one, but went with the Tula.

[Solokov]

Yes. Yes it is. I had a hard time deciding whether to hold the Tula or the Finnish one, but went with the Tula.

Honestly considering the context of the  board I would have gone with the finn-nagant myself.

How many arsenal marks and year? Anything unique about it, or just one of the millions made dunked in cosmoline and tossed into a warehouse?

[Unwary]

Greetings, I am Unwary though I also go by Norrolith.
I am a young North American who has told stories all his life.
Until starting college I was a homeschooler all my life.
I work at a youth program in the summer, kids and urban farming.
ooh, let's just say I have a hobby of collecting hobbies...
I juggle, draw, play obscure card games(Android:Netrunner ring any bells?)
Write, Develop games both video and physical, I am an aspiring Capoerista.
I don't do much social media, and so if I have intrigued you can find me at deviantart.
http://norrolith.deviantart.com/
I will try and be active around here but I might not make it.
Th-Th-That's all folks.

[PaperArtillery]

Honestly considering the context of the  board I would have gone with the finn-nagant myself.

How many arsenal marks and year? Anything unique about it, or just one of the millions made dunked in cosmoline and tossed into a warehouse?

1942. I used to know the number of marks on it, but it's slipped my mind and I'm not home this weekend. I'll check again. I do know that it was supposedly issued in mid 1943 (it sure looks it, the laquer and wood is torn to hell and there's some wear on the rifling).

[jayen_aitch]

Hello there everyone.

• jayen_aitch isn't my real name, but it is my initials (after a fashion).
• it is a name I have used on various internet places since I was roughly half the age I am today.
• in consequence sometimes I cringe at it a little, but it will do.
• I live in Stockholm, with a cat and a Finn.
• I grew up in Yorkshire.
• I can play the bass guitar, and sometimes do, but unfortunately I am not in a band at the moment.
• I do however love music, and literature, however I cannot draw to save my life, which is a shame.
• When I am exercising then I mostly like to ski, walk or play capoeira (which I started about a year ago and am not very good at yet).

[Unwary]

Good to hear of another capoerista here!
welcome by a fellow noob!

[jayen_aitch]

Good to hear of another capoerista here!
welcome by a fellow noob!

Ace, what style do you play?

The group I train with is a very friendly and international Senzala group and I just about scraped my yellow corda at the group's festival in May.  It was actually a Finn who introduced me to it.

[Unwary]

I confess I haven't tested for a fita but I trained under mestre Yogi Senna.
I did not focus as much on Portuguese as I ought.
So I can say my capoeira name translate as Databank and you can find out about us http://www.abcapoeira.com/
(Right now I am having to with great sadness put it aside for a while and get through college.)

[Solokov]

1942. I used to know the number of marks on it, but it's slipped my mind and I'm not home this weekend. I'll check again. I do know that it was supposedly issued in mid 1943 (it sure looks it, the laquer and wood is torn to hell and there's some wear on the rifling).

So would it be reasonable to presume that the rifle killed fascists? What about the Finnish rifle? Does it's markings tell any tales?

[jayen_aitch]

I confess I haven't tested for a fita but I trained under mestre Yogi Senna.
I did not focus as much on Portuguese as I ought.
So I can say my capoeira name translate as Databank and you can find out about us http://www.abcapoeira.com/
(Right now I am having to with great sadness put it aside for a while and get through college.)

Okay, looks different to our system in some ways, for example yellow is a very low grade with us.

My appelido is Curioso, which works well for me.

I am sure there is still more that is similar than different.

Very much looking forward to training on Monday.

[Rha]

Hi! I'm Rha, or Theram on some places.
I started reading SSSS a week ago, after clicking the add on Flight Rising (also Rha there!). By now I have also read A Redtail's Dream.

I'm half Spanish, half Belgian so I speak Spanish and Dutch fluently. I really want to learn Swedish, it just sounds so nice and I really want to visit Sweden(and some friends there), too.

I'm going through my last few months of a videogames master's degree, very intense but really worth it. I'm an 'ex' art student, where I learned almost nothing useful at all..I heard this from a lot of art students, at least here in Spain.

Well, that's it : )

[DzigaWatt]

Welcome, have some cookies On a side note, you are my new idol :O

[PaperArtillery]

So would it be reasonable to presume that the rifle killed fascists? What about the Finnish rifle? Does it's markings tell any tales?

I count 5 (possibly 6, there's another slight indentation) armory marks on the 1942 Tula. The 1943 Finn appears to have no armory markings besides "SA" stamped twice (likely because the first on the top of the receiver appears to have seen some wear).



Finn "Lilja" is top, Soviet "Katiya" is bottom.  I'll get some more pictures in natural light when I can; weather here's been garbage, and it's also just before midnight local time.