Hey Adamski,
thank you very much! It's nice to get a warm welcome–I normally shy away from posting/introducing myself.
Yes–Windows Live really did choose that somehow! Think it was when I had to sign up for GTA IV on PC. Best I can tell, pilar means 'pertaining to a hair follicle', and gore means 'gore' obviously. So PilarGore would have to be the gunk you squeeze out of a zit. Lovely!
Got my tickets for EuroGamer today. Friday afternoon, Saturday afternoon (all-day tickets sold out sadly) and Sunday all day. I live in the East End so getting to and fro is fine–I'll just catch the District line! I work near Earl's Court so I know the area a bit, and will be able to get there without any trouble.
Yeah I've really got back in to games since I got my new PC in December. Practically addicted you might say. I like playing games, reading about games, watching people play games on YouTube etc. I get excited about new games coming out, but I'm still kind of catching up, since I missed out on several years of good stuff. I think I'll definitely keep an eye on the PC news on the site.
Yeah I really love Minecraft. I think that's what got me back in to gaming. My old PC could *just* handle it, but when I realized I could afford a new PC (I was gonna buy a massive textbook for work instead!) I just went for it, and the other games followed, since all of a sudden there was no game where I had to stop and think, 'Will my computer actually run this?'. Even Crysis runs pretty smoothly. Another member mentioned his Minecraft server on the site, so I had a quick look at that, and it looks pretty cool.
I found out about MLG through the EuroGamer Expo site. I had been looking at the recent E3 stuff on YouTube, then the ongoing Gamescom coverage and had thought, 'I'd really love to go to something like that'. So on the spur of the moment I searched for UK gaming conventions, and after looking at the EuroGamer Expo site for a bit (I feel really lucky that it's near to me and only about a month away), I saw they mentioned that your site was having a couple of socials. I surfed over, checked it out and figured that this would be a really suitable intro to getting *properly* in to gaming, rather than staying at home playing games alone. As much as I am fine playing games alone, and as scared as I am of trying to get in touch with other gamers, I would really like to be able to, since I have very few people I can really talk about games with, and it really is (I have come to accept) a proper *hobby* for me. That's pretty much it!
Anyway, thanks for the reply to my thread–I'll definitely hover around and post on stuff that I find interesting. Other than that, guess I'll see you in September!
Take care,
PilarGore
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