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Post by BlackGrouse on Dec 19, 2016 14:28:43 GMT -5
I live in Finland (born 1981) and I have been working "all my life" in our farm (currently we have calvers). I'm family man with wife and three daughters born on 2010, 2013 and 2015. My computer and gaming experience starts with Commodore64 and after that comes Amiga 600. Then it was time for PC (486 SX, 33 MHz) and from that time there have been several PC's to present time. I haven't always played games with computer, there were quite some time before I "found" games again. This War Robots is one of the most interesting game so far - it was somewhere mid-june 2016 when I first get knowing this game and have been playing it constantly since then. Forum name "teeri" was 29th user registered to here. Before that I was just reading Wiki-site threads, but now I'm participated to forum - with my "non-native-language" style  Here in Finland is common joke about how finnish people speak english. That style is called "Rally english" and it comes from how some finnish WRC rally drivers pronounce english at live interviews. At the present time my War Robots hangar is in "trash gold" tier and my plan is to rise up to the low gold. Currently upgrading weapons to level 9. Maybe sometime I'll join to clan! EDIT 14 Feb 2017: Joined to Aurora Nova clan ! By the way: that teeri means Black Grouse ( Tetrao Tetrix) in english. Wikipedia, Black Grouse |
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Post by Dredd77 on Dec 19, 2016 14:32:54 GMT -5
Cows are awesome. How many head do you have?
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Post by BlackGrouse on Dec 19, 2016 15:27:07 GMT -5
Dredd77Head count variates from 80-100 and now we have 82. That includes cows (37), heifers (27) and bulls (18). Oldest (cow) is born on December 3rd 2005 and youngest is September 4th 2016. In this year we got 24 new calfs - last year only one due bad "stud bull" (I dont know what it is in english  ).
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Post by [AurN]Zenotaph on Dec 19, 2016 15:47:05 GMT -5
Ah, I grew up on a farm in austria. I so love cows.
Yeah, and I know all my meat by names...
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Post by Dredd77 on Dec 19, 2016 16:38:49 GMT -5
Right on, I lived on the family farm here in Kentucky for awhile, about 25 adult cows, Black Angus, similar operation. I found them to be a lot of fun, very curious animals not unlike cats. Used to love watching the calves play in the snow most of all. A lot of people take farming for granted, but there's a lot of integrity in that work.
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Post by BlackGrouse on Feb 10, 2017 16:39:33 GMT -5
By the way: that teeri means Black Grouse ( Tetrao Tetrix) in english. Now I did it... I did spent 500 Au to rename my pilot name to BlackGrouse ! Referring this old post: My record 783k damageHere is the picture to proof it:  It was good time to use Au now when Galahad has arrived to my hangar. Now I have been saved gold for: - third slot - fourth slot - fifth slot - orkan x 2 - Galahad - and one Gekko in the "dark newbie time" Only one Orkan is purchased with real money during Black Fridey -sale. All others are earned only by playing game. I did buy one 30-day Premium before 5th slot and another right after it. After this I haven't buy anything from the game. It was close that I didn't lose my gold saved for Galahad. My daughter (6 years old) got my tablet and managed to open screen lock and started War Robots. She was opened one robot Equip-screen (by accidentally) and scrolled to Carnage to start upgrading it by one level (7 to 8). Luckily I was purchased Galahad day before so there was not enough gold to speed up upgrades She only swaps my Tridents to Thunders instead. After that I did change screen lock from swipe to PIN -code. |
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Post by Lionheart on Feb 10, 2017 17:21:20 GMT -5
Suomi! Quite an impressive intro. You're practically a Jedi with when you started! May the forum be with you. XD Congrats on the family, by the way. You'll find that people are pretty helpful, and pretty unique if anything else around here. lol By the way, try not to mention the Talvisota, some people may be sensitive about it.  lol If you want to talk shop with me though, I'll break out the Mannerheim. |
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Post by DirtyLikaRat® on Feb 10, 2017 17:31:48 GMT -5
What's up teeri? I'm a farm boy myself. I live in the southern united States on the border of Georgia and Florida on the Suwannee river. We have a large farming community. Cows, pigs, chickens, tobacco, cotton, all kinds of vegetables. Good to meet you. And by the way, I bet your English is spoke more proper than mine. We have an odd sounding type of dialect here in the South. If you've ever seen the movie "Oh Brother Where Art Thou?" ... Well that's how my people speak. Lol
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Post by [AurN] perfectlyGoodInk on Feb 10, 2017 17:45:10 GMT -5
Good call on changing the name. I kept misreading "Teeri" as "Teri" as in Teri Hatcher. Sorry!
I have fond memories of the Commodore 64. We didn't have one, we had the much more limited TI-94A, but I'd come across them very often in school and at computer camp (uh... yeah, I was such a nerd that my summer camp was a computer camp. seriously). And heck, I recall we had a 486 DX 33 MHz growing up. I eventually became a software engineer, and did that for a long while before studying economics and going into educational technology.
Anyway, glad to make your acquaintance!
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Post by BlackGrouse on Feb 11, 2017 3:01:55 GMT -5
By the way, try not to mention the Talvisota, some people may be sensitive about it. lol If you want to talk shop with me though, I'll break out the Mannerheim. Yeah, I don't have any intention to mention that Finland has gone through few wars, but past is past and I'm grateful to our veterans who fought for us - actually 6th December 2017 is Finland's 100th Independence Day. |
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Post by BlackGrouse on Feb 11, 2017 3:09:22 GMT -5
And by the way, I bet your English is spoke more proper than mine. We have an odd sounding type of dialect here in the South. If you've ever seen the movie "Oh Brother Where Art Thou?" ... Well that's how my people speak. Lol Thank you, my basic english skill comes from elementary school (9 year). In here we have english lessons from 3rd to 9th grade. Rest of my "skills" is learned by myself during everyday life. I did check that movie description from IMDB but no, I haven't seen it |
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Post by BlackGrouse on Feb 11, 2017 3:14:51 GMT -5
Good call on changing the name. I kept misreading "Teeri" as "Teri" as in Teri Hatcher. Sorry! Yes it was, althought my username here still remains in "teeri" ! And heck, I recall we had a 486 DX 33 MHz growing up. My first PC contact was 486 SX 33 MHz with 4 MB RAM and 402 MB hard drive MS-DOS 6.22 and laterly installed Windows 3.0 ... |
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Post by Golden Sabre on Feb 11, 2017 8:19:05 GMT -5
What's up teeri? I'm a farm boy myself. I live in the southern united States on the border of Georgia and Florida on the Suwannee river. We have a large farming community. Cows, pigs, chickens, tobacco, cotton, all kinds of vegetables. Good to meet you. And by the way, I bet your English is spoke more proper than mine. We have an odd sounding type of dialect here in the South. If you've ever seen the movie "Oh Brother Where Art Thou?" ... Well that's how my people speak. Lol Yall speak the same tongue we do. Alabama/ Florida line here |
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Post by Lionheart on Feb 11, 2017 11:03:26 GMT -5
By the way, try not to mention the Talvisota, some people may be sensitive about it. lol If you want to talk shop with me though, I'll break out the Mannerheim. Yeah, I don't have any intention to mention that Finland has gone through few wars, but past is past and I'm grateful to our veterans who fought for us - actually 6th December 2017 is Finland's 100th Independence Day. Indeed! Finland is still one of the best countries in the world. Complete respect there. I also think it's awesome that everyone has some military training. (whispers) I'd still like to find an original metal stamp KP-31 someday. <3 |
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Post by BlackGrouse on Feb 15, 2017 0:42:03 GMT -5
More updates regarding me: got invite to Aurora Nova clan and accepted it. So now on I'm member of clan ! Looking forward to upcoming squad battles with clan mates. Last night (in my timezone) only few battles in solo with clan tag, but it did feel good  I'm ready to take my reasponsible for the clan. |
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Post by VivaLaResistance on Feb 15, 2017 9:46:43 GMT -5
Hey teeri, I'm of mostly Finnish descent myself. Only one grandparent wasn't 100% Finnish. I live in Minnesota where a lot of Scandinavians settled.
I also grew up on a farm and have milked many head of cow in my short lifetime....lol but unlike you, I hate cows.
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Post by BlackGrouse on Apr 15, 2017 14:01:04 GMT -5
So time passes and after two months being a clan member (14th Feb to 13th April) I have been Aurora Nova officer and 13th April I created new clan Aurora Proxima to be it's leader. Proxima is new chapter in Aurora Nova's clan family.
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Post by [AurN]Zenotaph on Apr 16, 2017 6:54:16 GMT -5
Family? Actually, we can build a full criminal network by now.
After sleeping 6 hours, revisiting discord, I need a secretary.
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Post by BlackGrouse on Apr 18, 2017 5:33:57 GMT -5
I need to clone myself soon or 48 hours to day. - wake up - waking up oldest daughter for the pre-school in school times - feed cattle in the morning - do some other farm work - some point of day have to eat something - feed cattle in the evening - maybe some more farm work especially in the summertime ... and be with family ... and War Robots related things like checking Discord server, do admin stuff for the clan if needed, try to have some time to play and squad with clan mates... + other small things between all this  No - I'm not burned out - I'm experienced to have full time job/things all my life ! |
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Post by BlackGrouse on Jun 4, 2017 15:11:41 GMT -5
Little update, I handed over Aurora Proxima leader position to my officer. Currently in another clan.
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Here in Finland is common joke about how finnish people speak english. That style is called "Rally english" and it comes from how some finnish WRC rally drivers pronounce english at live interviews.
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![[AurN]Zenotaph Avatar](http://www.teeri.net/aurn/aurnlogo28feb1-avatar.jpg){kind=avatar}
lol If you want to talk shop with me though, I'll break out the Mannerheim. 
![[AurN] perfectlyGoodInk Avatar](http://storage.proboards.com/6607038/avatar/40AmBXNiR1xsOVmOvxBp.jpg)
I'm ready to take my reasponsible for the clan.
