Turgenev

There's a bit of a story behind Turgenev.

Back during my first foray in multiplayer gaming, I was a Descent II player (around 1994-96). We used a few online gaming BBSes back then, along with direct-dial hookups organized on Usenet, and ultimately Kali (an IPX emulator). My very first handle was "Virago", but I got tired after the first few matches with everyone confusing my name for "Virgo".

So, I toyed with a few more handles as I got myself up to speed. By the time Kali 1.2u rolled out, I wanted something straightforward and frankly meaner than nails. Well, I was fresh outta college back then, and I'd done some world literature that covered Ivan Turgenev, i.e., the father of Russian literary nihilism. And so, in 1995, I named myself... Nihilist, and joined the Wildcards (www.wildcards.org) for Descent II.

I ran with the WC for about 3-4 years, and had a blast. Kept the handle Nihilist for about 6 years for Descent, Freespace, Quake II, and a few other games I don't remember very clearly.

Around 2002, I picked up Jedi Knight II, and was looking for a new gaming crew. I'd burned some bridges with the WC (their "leader" when I'd left at the time was an utter spooge), and I was looking for a more adult-oriented experience. I shopped around a bit, but it was during a saber duel tournament that I rolled up vs a dude named Aoshi, who was with the IRON Brigade. Seemed very nice, so he gave me the recruitment pitch, and I joined.

I was still running with the tag "Nihilist" back then, but after 7-8 years of using it, I was tired of it. So I figured, "why not be the father of nihilism himself?" I applied under the name "Turgenev".

Took that name from JKII, to Sony's Planetside in 2003, where I wrote my first "Turg Fiction" short stories and novellas (my big one, "Dissection", was advertised by Sony on their website for a while). Except for the WC, "Turg" is how most people know me nowadays, both in gaming and in personal life. (Hell, even my fiancee calls me "Turg" on her blog.) Fast forward to 2009, and Turg fits like a deerskin glove.

I think this one's a keeper now.

I'm so glad I had a gastric disturbance that prevented me from doing that RTF with y'all. I'd have been teed off at an ungodly hour.

(Hi, Purp!)

They could SO make this into a surprise event by having a few ghost ships fly along the Rikti bombing routes, dropping barrels of rum that causes extreme fire damage on impact and 1 minute of inebriation.

Told you. Nooooo one lissens to Turg. "Oooo, let me believe my husband over some weird guy on the internets wearing tights" indeed.

Ahem: YOU SHUT UP MY RED AND BLUE LIGHTNING CLOUD IS MESMERIZING

I know how that feels. >.>

E: Update me for tonight as Supreme Soviet (Bots/Traps Mastermind). Thanks.

Or when two heroes would attack a mob, but all the XP went to the person who did the most.

(That REALLY didn't last very long.)

I'm a frickin' idiot is what I am. Glad you guys had a packed and successful run.

Talk about your needs for PERC assistance. There's a bunch of people running regular community events here that could be advertised by PERC, for instance. And any one of them would make a good PERC cohort to get things moving.

Funny, I had my video card (8800 GTS 512MB) spark out on me late Sat/early Sun too. Ended up running to BB to grab an Nvidia 275 GTX 1GB. Which, btw, runs Aion quite sweetly... COH doesn't really get an improvement cuz my old 8800 was fantastic for COH game play anyway.

'course, having to go out and GET the card yesterday threw my Sunday plans outta whack... Tina ought to love the two baskets of unfolded laundry when she gets home...

Oh, crud, that's why you /tell'd me... sorry, I just logged into COH around 1am Eastern, I forgot totally man. My bad to the team, glad it went well!

I keep thinking you typed "poop on the forums". I'd say go back to Justice for that. XD Freedom's a fiber-free zone!

EvE: Beautiful, beautiful game, but horridly boring except for the 2% you're actually PVPing. IRON was big into this for years (still is, both as corporation and as privateers). For my money, check out Jumpgate: Evolution. Same idea, but that you're in a one-man fighter instead of an RTS-style frigate command. The old Descentaholic in me craves it.