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Post by Spicy Jones on Oct 3, 2018 11:09:59 GMT -5
I'm curious as to who our pilots are. What's your life like outside of War Robots? No reason to give information you don't want to, and I don't want to get personal but tell me about yourself! I work in construction, I'm getting into welding and hopefully will join the Iron Workers' Union next year. In my free time I like to draw, low key got a degree in animation and aspire to make games that don't make obvious money grabs yet manage to be fun. I got a cat, she's awesome. I like fast cars and many types of music. I don't like people much but animals are awesome and I feel like they and I connect Except deer. ?fluffernutter? deer. SpicyJones  That was me, but this thread is about us. Please tell about yourself |
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Post by Koalabear on Oct 3, 2018 11:12:00 GMT -5
I'm a communications coordinator, so I write for a living and get paid to do it!
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Post by ⓣⓡⓘⓒⓚⓨ48 on Oct 3, 2018 11:18:29 GMT -5
I'm curious as to who our pilots are. What's your life like outside of War Robots? No reason to give information you don't want to, and I don't want to get personal but tell me about yourself! I work in construction, I'm getting into welding and hopefully will join the Iron Workers' Union next year. In my free time I like to draw, low key got a degree in animation and aspire to make games that don't make obvious money grabs yet manage to be fun. I got a cat, she's awesome. I like fast cars and many types of music. I don't like people much but animals are awesome and I feel like they and I connect Except deer. ?fluffernutter? deer.SpicyJones That was me, but this thread is about us. Please tell about yourself Regarding the emphasized part of your post... makes me wonder if this was you:
***Warning.... wall of text... but it's a classic so if you have a sense of humor it may be worth your while...*** Roping A Deer ( Names have been removed to protect the Stupid! )
Actual letter from someone who farms and writes well!
I had this idea that I was going to rope a deer, put it in
a stall, feed it up on corn for a couple of weeks, then kill it and eat it.
The first step in this adventure was getting a deer. I figured
that, since they congregate at my cattle feeder and do not seem to have much fear
of me when we are there (a bold one will sometimes come right up and sniff at the
bags of feed while I am in the back of the truck not 4 feet away), it should not
be difficult to rope one, get up to it and toss a bag over its head (to calm it
down) then hog tie it and transport it home.
I filled the cattle feeder then hid down at the end with
my rope.
The cattle, having seen the roping thing before, stayed well
back. They were not having any of it.
After about 20 minutes, my deer showed up -- 3 of them. I
picked out.. ..a likely looking one, stepped out from the end of the feeder, and
threw.. My rope. The deer just stood there and stared at me.
I wrapped the rope around my waist and twisted the end so
I would have a good hold. The deer still just stood and stared at me, but you could
tell it was mildly concerned about the whole rope situation.
I took a step towards it...it took a step away. I put a little
tension on the rope and then received an education.
The first thing that I learned is that, while a deer may
just stand there looking at you funny while you rope it, they are spurred to action
when you start pulling on that rope.
That deer EXPLODED.
The second thing I learned is that pound for pound, a deer
is a LOT stronger than a cow or a colt. A cow or a colt in that weight range I could
fight down with a rope and with some dignity.
A deer-- no chance.
That thing ran and bucked and twisted and pulled. There was
no controlling it and certainly no getting close to it. As it jerked me off my feet
and started dragging me across the ground, it occurred to me that having a deer
on a rope was not nearly as good an idea as I had originally imagined.
The only upside is that they do not have as much stamina
as many other animals.
A brief 10 minutes later, it was tired and not nearly as
quick to jerk me off my feet and drag me when I managed to get up. It took me
a few minutes to realize this, since I was mostly blinded by the blood flowing out
of the big gash in my head. At that point, I had lost my taste for corn-fed
venison. I just wanted to get that devil creature off the end of that rope.
I figured if I just let it go with the rope hanging around
its neck, it would likely die slow and painfully somewhere. At the time, there was
no love at all between me and that deer. At that moment, I hated the thing,
and I would venture a guess that the feeling was mutual.
Despite the gash in my head and the several large knots where
I had cleverly arrested the deer's momentum by bracing my head against various large
rocks as it dragged me across the ground, I could still think clearly enough to
recognize that there was a small chance that I shared some tiny amount of responsibility
for the situation we were in, so I didn't want the deer to have to suffer a slow
death, so I managed to get it lined back up in between my truck and the feeder -
a little trap I had set before hand...kind of like a squeeze chute.
I got it to back in there and I started moving up so I could
get my rope back.
Did you know that deer bite? They do! I never in a million
years would have thought that a deer would bite somebody, so I was very surprised
when I reached up there to grab that rope and the deer grabbed hold of my wrist.
Now, when a deer bites you, it is not like being bit by a
horse where they just bite you and then let go. A deer bites you and shakes
its head --almost like a pit bull. They bite HARD and it hurts.
The proper thing to do when a deer bites you is probably
to freeze and draw back slowly. I tried screaming and shaking instead. My method
was ineffective. It seems like the deer was biting and shaking for several minutes,
but it was likely only several seconds.
I, being smarter than a deer (though you may be questioning
that claim by now), tricked it.
While I kept it busy tearing the tendons out of my right
arm, I reached up with my left hand and pulled that rope loose. That was when
I got my final lesson in deer behavior for the day.
Deer will strike at you with their front feet. They rear
right up on their back feet and strike right about head and shoulder level, and
their hooves are surprisingly sharp. I learned a long time ago that, when an animal
-- like a horse --strikes at you with their hooves and you can't get away easily,
the best thing to do is try to make a loud noise and make an aggressive move towards
the animal.
This will usually cause them to back down a bit so you
can escape.
This was not a horse. This was a deer, so obviously, such
trickery would not work. In the course of a millisecond, I devised a different
strategy. I screamed like a woman and tried to turn and run.
The reason I had always been told NOT to try to turn and
run from a horse that paws at you is that there is a good chance that it will
hit you in the back of the head. Deer may not be so different from horses after
all, besides being twice as strong and 3 times as evil, because the second
I turned to run, it hit me right in the back of the head and knocked me down.
Now, when a deer paws at you and knocks you down, it does
not immediately leave. I suspect it does not recognize that the danger
has passed. What they do instead is paw your back and jump up and down on you
while you are laying there crying like a little girl and covering your head.
I finally managed to crawl under the truck and the deer went
away.
So now I know why when people go deer hunting they bring
a rifle with a scope to sort of even the odds. [/div]
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Post by ⓣⓡⓘⓒⓚⓨ48 on Oct 3, 2018 11:22:22 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2018 11:24:17 GMT -5
BS Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington (UTA), May 2002
Went back to my roots and now I specialize in welding: training, management, engineering, cost control etc.
That's me in the video, trying out a welding system for "ease of use" for a pipeline job.
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Post by Spicy Jones on Oct 3, 2018 11:27:54 GMT -5
Regarding the emphasized part of your post... makes me wonder if this was you:
***Warning.... wall of text... but it's a classic so if you have a sense of humor it may be worth your while...*** Roping A Deer ( Names have been removed to protect the Stupid! )
Actual letter from someone who farms and writes well!
I had this idea that I was going to rope a deer, put it in
a stall, feed it up on corn for a couple of weeks, then kill it and eat it.
The first step in this adventure was getting a deer. I figured
that, since they congregate at my cattle feeder and do not seem to have much fear
of me when we are there (a bold one will sometimes come right up and sniff at the
bags of feed while I am in the back of the truck not 4 feet away), it should not
be difficult to rope one, get up to it and toss a bag over its head (to calm it
down) then hog tie it and transport it home.
I filled the cattle feeder then hid down at the end with
my rope.
The cattle, having seen the roping thing before, stayed well
back. They were not having any of it.
After about 20 minutes, my deer showed up -- 3 of them. I
picked out.. ..a likely looking one, stepped out from the end of the feeder, and
threw.. My rope. The deer just stood there and stared at me.
I wrapped the rope around my waist and twisted the end so
I would have a good hold. The deer still just stood and stared at me, but you could
tell it was mildly concerned about the whole rope situation.
I took a step towards it...it took a step away. I put a little
tension on the rope and then received an education.
The first thing that I learned is that, while a deer may
just stand there looking at you funny while you rope it, they are spurred to action
when you start pulling on that rope.
That deer EXPLODED.
The second thing I learned is that pound for pound, a deer
is a LOT stronger than a cow or a colt. A cow or a colt in that weight range I could
fight down with a rope and with some dignity.
A deer-- no chance.
That thing ran and bucked and twisted and pulled. There was
no controlling it and certainly no getting close to it. As it jerked me off my feet
and started dragging me across the ground, it occurred to me that having a deer
on a rope was not nearly as good an idea as I had originally imagined.
The only upside is that they do not have as much stamina
as many other animals.
A brief 10 minutes later, it was tired and not nearly as
quick to jerk me off my feet and drag me when I managed to get up. It took me
a few minutes to realize this, since I was mostly blinded by the blood flowing out
of the big gash in my head. At that point, I had lost my taste for corn-fed
venison. I just wanted to get that devil creature off the end of that rope.
I figured if I just let it go with the rope hanging around
its neck, it would likely die slow and painfully somewhere. At the time, there was
no love at all between me and that deer. At that moment, I hated the thing,
and I would venture a guess that the feeling was mutual.
Despite the gash in my head and the several large knots where
I had cleverly arrested the deer's momentum by bracing my head against various large
rocks as it dragged me across the ground, I could still think clearly enough to
recognize that there was a small chance that I shared some tiny amount of responsibility
for the situation we were in, so I didn't want the deer to have to suffer a slow
death, so I managed to get it lined back up in between my truck and the feeder -
a little trap I had set before hand...kind of like a squeeze chute.
I got it to back in there and I started moving up so I could
get my rope back.
Did you know that deer bite? They do! I never in a million
years would have thought that a deer would bite somebody, so I was very surprised
when I reached up there to grab that rope and the deer grabbed hold of my wrist.
Now, when a deer bites you, it is not like being bit by a
horse where they just bite you and then let go. A deer bites you and shakes
its head --almost like a pit bull. They bite HARD and it hurts.
The proper thing to do when a deer bites you is probably
to freeze and draw back slowly. I tried screaming and shaking instead. My method
was ineffective. It seems like the deer was biting and shaking for several minutes,
but it was likely only several seconds.
I, being smarter than a deer (though you may be questioning
that claim by now), tricked it.
While I kept it busy tearing the tendons out of my right
arm, I reached up with my left hand and pulled that rope loose. That was when
I got my final lesson in deer behavior for the day.
Deer will strike at you with their front feet. They rear
right up on their back feet and strike right about head and shoulder level, and
their hooves are surprisingly sharp. I learned a long time ago that, when an animal
-- like a horse --strikes at you with their hooves and you can't get away easily,
the best thing to do is try to make a loud noise and make an aggressive move towards
the animal.
This will usually cause them to back down a bit so you
can escape.
This was not a horse. This was a deer, so obviously, such
trickery would not work. In the course of a millisecond, I devised a different
strategy. I screamed like a woman and tried to turn and run.
The reason I had always been told NOT to try to turn and
run from a horse that paws at you is that there is a good chance that it will
hit you in the back of the head. Deer may not be so different from horses after
all, besides being twice as strong and 3 times as evil, because the second
I turned to run, it hit me right in the back of the head and knocked me down.
Now, when a deer paws at you and knocks you down, it does
not immediately leave. I suspect it does not recognize that the danger
has passed. What they do instead is paw your back and jump up and down on you
while you are laying there crying like a little girl and covering your head.
I finally managed to crawl under the truck and the deer went
away.
So now I know why when people go deer hunting they bring
a rifle with a scope to sort of even the odds.
LOL, holy 「dookie」 what the fuq. No, I'm not nearly that country that I don't mess with cows. The only horses I know are in my car and I was driving around the forest one time and some deer jumped out and ran into my car. I didn't hit it, like I was going 25 mph around a switchback and saw the deer, STOPPED, and the mother「fluffernutter」er lurched into my car and dinged TF outta it. Worse yet, I couldn't claim it. So 「fluffernutter」 deer. I hate those suckers.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2018 11:28:25 GMT -5
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Post by Spicy Jones on Oct 3, 2018 11:30:08 GMT -5
I'm a communications coordinator, so I write for a living and get paid to do it! Please explain, that's fascinating. What's your favorite thing to write? |
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Post by Spicy Jones on Oct 3, 2018 11:36:09 GMT -5
BS Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington (UTA), May 2002
Went back to my roots and now I specialize in welding: training, management, engineering, cost control etc.
That's me in the video, trying out a welding system for "ease of use" for a pipeline job.
Great machine, btw, could build a real life Hover with it and sell it on Ebay. Bang bang, that's awesome, man. Really getting it. That "ease of use" system sounds exactly like the Scourge. Exactly what I want to get into, most likely working in urban infrastructure. heavypiece , that's just about the coolest thing I've read today. Fluffin' a, look at all you smart guys. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2018 11:43:21 GMT -5
BS Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington (UTA), May 2002
Went back to my roots and now I specialize in welding: training, management, engineering, cost control etc.
That's me in the video, trying out a welding system for "ease of use" for a pipeline job.
Great machine, btw, could build a real life Hover with it and sell it on Ebay. Bang bang, that's awesome, man. Really getting it. That "ease of use" system sounds exactly like the Scourge. Exactly what I want to get into, most likely working in urban infrastructure. heavypiece , that's just about the coolest thing I've read today. Fluffin' a, look at all you smart guys. |
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Post by Koalabear on Oct 3, 2018 11:51:24 GMT -5
I'm a communications coordinator, so I write for a living and get paid to do it! I would really enjoy getting paid to write... you're a lucky man. Thanks! I love my job! It's got ups and downs, but more ups than downs right now. |
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Post by ♧SGT FURY 24/7♧ on Oct 3, 2018 11:52:22 GMT -5
I work as a lab tech in a water treatment plant (drinking water, not stinking water). Early 50's, married 8 years to my HS sweetie after life separated us for about 20 years. Best 8 of my life so far.
I like guns and trail riding with my wife in my rough as a cob 1990 4Runner. Looking forward to offroad season, as there is no heat or A/C in the old girl.
7 kids between us (3 boys, 4 girls). Youngest is 14, and the empty nest is in sight. It looks good, too.
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Post by Koalabear on Oct 3, 2018 11:53:01 GMT -5
I'm a communications coordinator, so I write for a living and get paid to do it! Please explain, that's fascinating. What's your favorite thing to write? Basically, I write communications/emails for the big bosses to send out, I write articles of things that are happening in the organization, and I help write miscellaneous pieces like award nominations and stuff. Also do some editing work too. |
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Post by go red on Oct 3, 2018 11:59:34 GMT -5
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Post by Koalabear on Oct 3, 2018 12:01:18 GMT -5
@  ???48 OMG is that a true story??? It made me laugh so hard! |
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Post by Zero Jee on Oct 3, 2018 12:11:27 GMT -5
I'm a jack of all trades and have had more jobs than years on this Earth, all 46 of them. A few of the more memorable means of employment include: Bradley Fighting Vehicle Mechanic - U.S. Army ['91 to '95], Commercial Fisherman - SE Alaska, Repo Man - S.F. Ca, Organic Farmer and Wildcrafter - S Oregon, Art Teacher for a bunch of 8 year olds [G.A.T.E. program], Lanscaping Contractor [Mom was a Landscape Designer], Weed Dealer, T-Shirt Design Painter Hollywood, Ca where I met a humble Jonathan Davis [lead vocals for Corn], Street Artist - Venice Beach, CA, and Surf Instructor in Waikiki - Honolulu, HI. Mostly I am a journeyman painter and finish carpenter, and that's been my go to since the mid 90's. I'm currently getting back on my feet after a recent catharsis, spurred on by falling flat on my face. (a.k.a. mid-liife chrisis that started when I was the ripe old age of about 8.) Now, I spend my time gaming and doing art... both have been a passion since childhood (who else played on an Atari 2600?), and I hope to culminate the two into a source of revenue . . . finishing my B.A. and moving on to an M.F.A. and could see myself teaching art as well. Here is my latest peice:  |
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Post by Desert Eagle 44 on Oct 3, 2018 12:16:22 GMT -5
I'm a Federal Employee. So, like the rest of us, I pretty much sit around and watch ?popcorn? all day, and get paid to do it. 
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2018 12:50:48 GMT -5
Yeah I put this on page 3 of my resume...the page that nobody actually reads.
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Post by ⓣⓡⓘⓒⓚⓨ48 on Oct 3, 2018 13:06:50 GMT -5
@ ???48 OMG is that a true story??? It made me laugh so hard! No... it was an email story that made the rounds before social media kicked in... I saw it back in the early 00's.
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Post by ⓣⓡⓘⓒⓚⓨ48 on Oct 3, 2018 13:09:35 GMT -5
I make money doing things I don't always want to do while dreaming of making money doing what I love. Prolly like most folk.
I play Drums and Bass guitar while dabbling in keys and standard Guitar and digital programming/production.
I have a love of martial arts.
Served our beloved country in the beloved USMC for 5 years.
I enjoy outdoors recreation of most types and find nothing more enjoyable than being on a mountain trail surrounded by trees and critters... not of the two leg variety.
I read and/or listen to a lot of scifi/fantasy/suspense fiction. I hope to write one day... even if only an unpublished novel... have a story that's been simmering for years but not had the time to focus on it.
I like blades. All kinds. I have a lot of them.
Bout all I can think of atm.
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Post by Koalabear on Oct 3, 2018 13:09:51 GMT -5
@ ???48 OMG is that a true story??? It made me laugh so hard! No... it was an email story that made the rounds before social media kicked in... I saw it back in the early 00's.
I still LOL @ "... cleverly slowing down the deer's momentum with my head..." I found it on the darwinawards.com site as an Urban legend. This guy reads it out and does a pretty good job. |
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Post by Koalabear on Oct 3, 2018 13:12:01 GMT -5
I make money doing things I don't always want to do while dreaming of making money doing what I love. Prolly like most folk. (Except for Koalabear ... apparently... ) It's not all sunshine and roses, but it has been the best job I've had in a very long time. My contract ends in December, and I hope with all my might that they will extend me. |
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Post by Zero Jee on Oct 3, 2018 13:28:10 GMT -5
Yeah I put this on page 3 of my resume...the page that nobody actually reads.
@earlcampbell The best part was driving through the mountains of Oregon for pick ups. ⓣⓡⓘⓒⓚⓨ48 I too am an outdoorsman, and can relate to that feeling of "ahhhhhh" as soon as I step into the forest. I often contemplate building a hobbit house deep in the mountains, and retiring as a hermit. |
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Post by Desert Eagle 44 on Oct 3, 2018 13:39:44 GMT -5
I make money doing things I don't always want to do while dreaming of making money doing what I love. Prolly like most folk.
I play Drums and Bass guitar while dabbling in keys and standard Guitar and digital programming/production.
I have a love of martial arts.
Served our beloved country in the beloved USMC for 5 years.
I enjoy outdoors recreation of most types and find nothing more enjoyable than being on a mountain trail surrounded by trees and critters... not of the two leg variety.
I read and/or listen to a lot of scifi/fantasy/suspense fiction. I hope to write one day... even if only an unpublished novel... have a story that's been simmering for years but not had the time to focus on it.
I like blades. All kinds. I have a lot of them.
Bout all I can think of atm.
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Post by Estoplast on Oct 3, 2018 13:44:33 GMT -5
I work in medical equipment manufacturing and specialize in videoendoscopes. It covers all kinds of things from managing a team and some R&D to welding with lasers and soldering with Ag. All kinds of things really.
Free time goes to my family, friends, bicycle, nature and beer.
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 I live in the outdoors. |
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Post by Estoplast on Oct 3, 2018 13:47:42 GMT -5
I live in the outdoors. Omg. Where's your crap? |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2018 13:48:52 GMT -5
Yeah I put this on page 3 of my resume...the page that nobody actually reads.
@earlcampbell The best part was driving through the mountains of Oregon for pick ups. ⓣⓡⓘⓒⓚⓨ48 I too am an outdoorsman, and can relate to that feeling of "ahhhhhh" as soon as I step into the forest. I often contemplate building a hobbit house deep in the mountains, and retiring as a hermit. 
Used to connect via Schiphol a lot....damn the luck. Had just enough time "to visit the canals".
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