Hey everyone.

My name's Chris, but I go by Koz (shortening of my last name.) I found this place on a referral from a coworker and heard it might be a fair bit of fun. I'm an avid computer and tech enthusiast who's been gaming for way too long; tinkering with stuff for way longer. =P

Anyways, I was looking forward to meeting some new people to play and hang out with. I'm currently an active member in a little local LAN party group, (roughly 25 people) and would love to see an event the size of yours. Looking forward to good times. =)


Some more about me? I'm a network/security engineer in Northern VA under contract to DoD. When I'm not breaking the internets I'm usually reading (science fiction, current geopolitical events, tech/geekery news), playing hockey, or experimenting in the kitchen with the fiancee.

Here's the currrent rig:

System Specs:

Core i7-920 (2.66GHz)
ASUS P6T Deluxe V2
12GB Corsair DDR3-1600
2x AMD Radeon 4890 (1GB)
3ware 9650SE RAID Controller
--4x Western Digital 1TB Drives (3TB RAID 5)
Western Digital 300GB 10k Velocraptor Drive
Samsung DVD-RW
Corsair 1000w PSU
Silverstone TJ10-BW Full ATX Chassis
2x Samsung 204b 20in LCD
1x Gateway 24in LCD

Peripherals

Logitech G15 Keyboard
Logitech G13 Gamepad
Logitech G35 Headset
Logitech G5 Mouse


As for games, I play a bit of everything, RPGs to FPSs. I have a soft spot for old school space sims and the like. EVE Online remains my traditional obsession, though I'm not as active in it as I used to be.

That's about it. Looking forward to playing with you all. =)

HAHAHA Making him afraid of Petch already?! He met him first! We are teh scary ones!

Hey Kozality! Love the avatar. Descent FTW!

Needs moar Descent4. NOW.

About that, I was on the development team called MSDS which then broke off and formed Orbital Design Studios. I still have all of our project files on my pc As well as the legal contracts, the design documents, models, music, etc.

This stage of it's life anyhoo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descent_4#Descent_4:_Invasion

Oh yeah, proof, if you need it: 3rd poster on the page (taken from the internet archive since the site no longer exists)

The project lead would randomly surprise me with obscure quotes, and I'd nail the movie every time. It got to the point where he'd only throw out quotes from Princess Bride and he'd try to see how much of the movie I had memorized. Was around the same time that I ripped the movie to plain audio because a friend of mine wanted to listen to it while he drove. *shrug* In my defense, I was also 16 at the time.

Welcome Koz!

I grew up in VA and I actually spend a great deal of my weekends down in nova visiting friends from college.  Most of them work for various defense contractors.  I took a different route and went private sector doing sys admin work for various SAP-based systems. 

Including Petch, there will actually be 4 people (that I'm aware of) coming up from the nova area to this coming lan.  If you can make it, I'm sure you'll have a great time.

BTW: if you can't make the lan, we do get together most Friday and Saturday nights and you'll find various insane Fites peeps on the Teamspeak server, details here:
http://www.fites.net/index.php/topic,4051.0.html

Keep an eye on the Calendar thread for any impromptu online games.

Yeah we play online like..every weekend. Usually starting around 9pm and going late.. The typical routine is to play some games (GTAIV, TF2, L4D2, BC2, and so on) for a few hours and then just BS around on teamspeak the rest of the time.