FOT Gamers

[JeffertonFromTX]

So, I figured there had to be at least a few of you guys who actually play video games and on that off chance I wanted to post my gamertag and what I was playing so I could possibly get a few FOTs to play games with.

I have an X-Box One and a 360 and my gamertag is AGENTofASGARD. Please feel free to add me.

Currently Playing:
-Dragon Age: Inquisition
-Destiny
-WWE2K15
-Diablo III: Ultimate Evil Edition
-Everything Telltale Games is putting out right now.

I'm also planning on getting the Borderlands: Handsome Collection as soon as it comes out.

[Biscuit Gravy]

sorry, I'm PS4, and so far away from Texas that I cry about it daily (true story).

I've loved the Telltale Game games that I've played on PC, but recently I've read some pretty bad horror stories about the bugs that apparently they all have.  it's great story writing though.

personally, I've just kicked a Destiny habbit, but am bound to restart whenever the next expansion hits (seeing as I've paid for it).  I usually only have enough time each night to focus on one game, and at the moment, that's Diablo 3. 

I played Diablo 3 on PC when it came out, and thought it was "ok", but the expansion really does add a lot.  much like the expansion to Diablo 2, it makes the core game seem unplayable without it.

anyways, PSN: floatingslowly, you know, if you live in Oceania and have a PS4 (or if you stay up to gawdawful in the morning, stateside).


ok, back to crying about Texas.  thanks for reminding me, you jerk...   

[Mike Desert]

I have an Xbox One and a PS4, I believe I am Desert666 on both.

Playing now: Dying Light (XBOne)
                     Dragon Age [my second playthrough] (PS4)
                     The Evil Within [3rd playthrough, but got bored and stopped] (PS4)
                     Assassin's Creed Unity [got kinda bored early on so taking a break] (PS4)

[Biscuit Gravy]

Now that we have video games out of the way, is it safe to talk about Texas?  I turned my Australia wife into a Texas, accent and all.  There’s nothing more beautiful in this world than a pretty girl who knows her fixin’ to’s and y’alls.

I’m a distant relative of General Travis, and get misty-eyed when visiting the Alamo.  That said, if it were me, I would have made friends with all those Mexicans with a  well-placed joke about their sisters, and my gold-ribbon slow-cooked pork tacos.

As a less than conservative kind of guy, I prefer Austin, my tiny blue island in a sea of red, but I’ve lived up and down I-35 most of my life.  During the mid-70’s, I lived in Wichita Falls, before the tornado tore the town to hell,  which consequently caused me to have a life-long fear of tornados; I pace the house like a frightened little girl at the mere mention of them in the neighbourhood.

Every time I leave Texas,  I dream about getting back.  It’s not something that you can ever get over.  I see no way of leaving Australia for at least the next five years, and there’s a good chance that I’ll end up living like Mad Max someday, but there’s always hope of finding a six pack of Shiner Bock at the local bottle-shop (not going to happen, I’ve desperately looked).
 
Unfortunately, I think that I’ll just have to settle for a “come and take it” cannon tattoo, and get a smoker, you know, so that I can make “real” BBQ, not this shrimp on the barbie crap they got going here.

Anyways, enough about me.  I want to hear about YOUR Texas.  Are you from the Multiversity where the Nazis won the war?  I bet those Nazis could never take Texas.

XBONE.  what are you guys thinking?

[Biscuit Gravy]

why is there a smilie in my post?  I didn't do that.  how did the forum software so astutely simulate my xbone criticism???

Mike, I'll add you on PSN later tonite.  you seen like someone who stays up past 2am PST. 

[JeffertonFromTX]

I used to have a huge chip on my shoulder about being from Texas because I thought it limited me, as well as making people look at me differently because I'm southern. Like, I thought that they thought that I was some sort of rube, but as soon as I started wrapping up high school I realized that that was all in my head and I started really embracing all the great things about being from Texas.

Shiner, first and foremost. Robert E. Howard. The Last Picture Show. The Mavericks. I now really love being a Texan, even though I haven't experienced as much of it as I should. Like, I traveled around a lot in high school because of my UIL events so I saw the same dozen towns over and over again, but I still really loved it. It was really just a matter of accepting myself and not letting my surroundings define who I am.

I'm glad that I'm not only getting new gamer friends but more Texas friends too. Hail the FOTs.

[Biscuit Gravy]

when they aren't asking if I'm Canadian (I'm told it's the safe bet...American's don't get mad at being called Canadians, but the 'Nucks get bent out of shape at being called 'American', which they are), I get asked about my HORSE and my HAT, of which I own neither.  It doesn't help that I'm also a J. Ewing...

thanks to Hollywood, almost everyone thinks that Texas is a flat dry desert, with nothing but big cactus, cattle, and oil wells.  I immediately shatter their dreams by explaining that Saguaro only grow in Arizona, and counter by asking if they've enjoyed an oilcan of Fosters' today (at which they only serve back puzzled looks, because not only does nobody drink Fosters, but you definitely cannot buy it in an oilcan), and "where is the nearest Kangaroo is for me to punch" (they assure me that the Roo will win, to which I fervently deny, stating "I'm from TEXAS").

I think that it's easy for anyone who has grown up around massive pick-em-up trucks, shit-kicker boots, and HOWDY Y'ALL's, to feel slightly embarrassed of your perception at what Texas means to you.  Frankly, speaking as someone who has been all over the world, and has lived a great many other places, there really is no better place.

thankfully my youngest boy has tri-citizenship; America, Australia, and Texas.

[fonpr]

all the great things about being from Texas.

Shiner, first and foremost. Robert E. Howard. The Last Picture Show. The Mavericks.

Molly Ivins, Johnny Winter, The Gourds, Doug Sahm, 13th Floor Elevators, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Butthole Surfers, Flatlanders, Alejandro Escovedo, Jim Hightower...

[Mike Desert]

Stickmen with Rayguns and Stubbs BBQ sauce

[JeffertonFromTX]

I really love that this has become a Texas Appreciation Thread.

[Biscuit Gravy]

all the great things about being from Texas.

Shiner, first and foremost. Robert E. Howard. The Last Picture Show. The Mavericks.

Molly Ivins, Johnny Winter, The Gourds, Doug Sahm, 13th Floor Elevators, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Butthole Surfers, Flatlanders, Alejandro Escovedo, Jim Hightower...

I met Gibby Haynes on the LES in New York.  man, did he have a serious set of drug-teef.  they distracted me as I stammered out my fawning sweet-god-thank-yous.

personally, I feel that Tripping Daisy/The Polyphonic Spree should be on every great musicians from Texas list (at least they are on mine).  The Spree catch a lot of grief for their choir act, but it's infective geniusness, and a joy to see live.

ps: if anyone could see me a Texas flag bumper-sticker for my car, I'd be much obliged.

[JeffertonFromTX]

I love The Polyphonic Spree, even though everyone I know seems to have soured on them. I still remember that performance at one of MTV awards blowouts they did around the time Eternal Sunshine came out. My former roommate had two of their albums and I was always borrowing them like a creep. I ALWAYS forget the Butthole Surfers are from Texas. I'm going to start throwing that around more when I put "Who Was In My Room Last Night" on at my local tavern.

Sadly, I have barely experience any live music aside from a handful of Legion Hall punk shows in my town, a B.B. King concert (also, weirdly in my garbage heap of a town), and an Arcade Fire show at an amphitheater in Ft. Worth that I can't remember the name of. Also, yes, I'm an Arcade Fire apologist. I blame not being in my thirties. 

[amc19]

Are we still talking video games? Just got Dying Light and Evolve on the PS4. Dying Light is great, Evolve is a lot of fun if you have friends with the game.

[JeffertonFromTX]

I REALLY want to try Evolve. I figured it would be more fun with friends, but still, I loved playing Left 4 Dead no matter what and the idea behind it really sounds cool to me.

Tell me more about Dying Light. Nobody I know has played it so I haven't gotten a solid opinion on it yet.

[effecT]

Anybody into Dota 2?
I want to get into it, but it seems kind of uninviting in terms of the difficulty.