Official GTPlanet Member of the Fortnight [Member of the Week]
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Nice to get to know you Moglet 
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Welcome to the madhouse, Moglet. 
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I showed my best friend thsee questions and she aid Alyson Hannigan. Plenty of peoplse eem to lack shame.
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As haitch said, it's not for everyone but if you like a fairly quiet life with some amazing scenery to explore then it's great. There are plenty of cycle routes and lots of places to go walking, and once you get below the surface there is always something happening. Plenty of music festivals, boat races, food and drink events, places of historical significance, car shows, sports events and some awesome old pubs.
It's definitely not a busy city life full of people and overpriced trendy bars but I'm very glad of that. I'd much rather be down the beach with my mates drinking local ale and soaking up the sunshine!
EDIT: This was filmed where I live!
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It is once again time to welcome a new face; someone that doesn't cower in the face of fame, someone that doesn't regress when presented with the opportunity to shout from a rooftop "I'm better than you... on the internet!", someone that loves Tesco Burgers perhaps more than anything else (well, not really, read the interview!) - these are the traits of the archetype known only as The GTPlanet Member of the Week
No matter where you go, people will know you. No matter what you say, no one will interrupt or correct you. No matter what you're wearing it will be fashionable for the next 10 years.
So let us welcome the newest member to the League of Extraordinary GTPeople, Dankey Kang, er, I mean DK!
I never would have imagined that of all people on GTP, I'd be considered a Member of the Week. When I think about my posting habits, I don't feel as if I'm the kind of person who'd win it.
I was 14 years old, and I spent a lot of my spare time back then playing Gran Turismo 4. One car that caught my attention was the Nismo Skyline GT-R R-Tune, and I searched for pictures on it online. One of the pictures was on GTPlanet, and I guess something drove me to sign up.
The Infield, the Grand Theft Auto sub-forum, Opinions & Current Events and Movies & TV.
I wanted to get my money's worth for my Premium, so that's why I like the Infield. Conversations there seem relatively free of rubbish compared to some non-premium forums.
I started checking out the GTA sub-forum when GTA V came out, and joined the GTPL crew for GTA Online. The thing about getting involved in a GTA forum is that you're now waiting on news about two series.
I just check the Opinions forum out of curiosity, to see what others make of what's happened in the news. I'm a bit shy in real life, so I'm woeful at debating.
As for Movies & TV, it's a good place to discuss some of the latest and greatest TV shows. There's also The General Anime Thread, which I've been posting in ever since I watched Initial D.
I was 8 years old, and my parents had given me and my brother a PS2 for Christmas. When I got bored of FIFA 2003, I'd put in the demo disc, and there was a four-minute-or-so video showcasing GT3. It was at that moment that I was captivated by GT. In March 2003, after weeks of saving up my pocket money, I bought GT3, the first game I ever bought with my own money. It took me a whole month to learn what the brakes did.
I signed up as "driftking18594", and that became "DK" when I got Premium gifted to me by a still-unknown benefactor.
Both, they each have their strong points. I normally care far more about the offline experience than the online one, but Forza allows exponentially more freedom in customisation. However, I just don't feel the same enthusiasm for Forza as I do for GT. Forza 4 had thousands of offline career races, so I guess I felt overwhelmed by that. If I could, I'd mix the event list of GT4 with the cars and tracks of GT6 with the customisation options of Forza.
Codemasters' F1 series, GTR2 and Race07/GTR Evo, the latter two because there's boatloads of mods that add hundreds of hours of playing time. I don't mind poor graphics if amazing gameplay makes up for it - which GTR2 does.
It looks nice, but it's a bit too annoying sometimes when I'm using it on my phone, as the page sometimes doesn't fit properly.
Despite that little downside, I think it's an improvement on GTP11, it's useful in that it alerts you when someone quotes your post, so it helps get a conversation started.
It's a solid game, but the minimal customisation (especially since they removed race modifications from GT5) is really disappointing. I keep thinking of missed opportunities - Senna's TG184 and MP4/4, Donington Park, a revamp of Monaco and Interlagos would have been nice for the Senna DLC.
I don't know what I bring, to be honest. The last time I checked, I had about 4.5 posts per day, so it's not like I take part in a lot of deep conversations.
I can't see how I can improve, either.
Mild and dry. Ireland has given me enough rain to last a lifetime, but I don't like it either too hot or too cold. If it's too cold, you freeze your nuts off, and if it's too hot I might get sunburn.
That's a tough question. There's GTA, but when you think about it, GTA games are a caricature of US society, and if you're a "have-not" in the real USA, just imagine how bad it would be in San Andreas, Liberty City or Vice City.
There's Mass Effect, which I've never played, which offers interstellar travel at much faster than the speed of light.
And then there's Pokemon, where there's not really that many existential threats to humanity, unless you think about Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald and especially Diamond/Pearl/Platinum. Come on, what sort of person wouldn't want Pokemon to exist?
A few scenes of Braveheart were filmed there. It also has the largest Norman castle in Ireland.
The funny thing is, I'm in two minds over PD's notorious lack of communication. On one hand, it would be nice to have an in-depth preview of the game and any upcoming features...but on the other hand, the wait for the aforementioned game/features can be excruciatingly long *cough*Zahara Circuit*cough*.
Not much, except video games, reading and watching TV.
I wish. I only have a provisional licence and no car. I'd have to get a well-paying job before getting a car, just so I could afford the bloody insurance.
Grand Theft Auto V. It's fun to get drunk and then do all sorts of dumb stuff in the game.
I've a few on my kill list.
I'm a massive Michael Schumacher fan. You might think of this as opportunistic, but when I heard of his skiing accident, I was horrified. Schumi was my hero when I was growing up, ever since I was 6 years old when I got the 2000 Formula One yearbook for Christmas, and I saw his vivid red Ferrari on the cover. When you're six years old and like F1, you don't usually pick some random guy from the middle of the pack - you go straight for the winners. I decided to add a little "Irishness" and found a picture of him in a Jordan 191 from his debut in the 1991 Belgian GP.
A mix of all three. If it's something I'm really hyped up for, I'll buy it on day one if I can afford it. If I'm hyped up for it but can't afford it, I wait for the price to drop a bit. If I think it's a decent game, I might get it used (especially if it's a Pokemon game, in case the previous owner has built up a decent stash of Pokemon).
A PS4, for GT7 and Project CARS. I'm not excited about the XBone (especially with Forza 5's microtransactions), and I'm not too sure about the Wii U, I can't see that many games for it that justify buying it.
I can't really think of anything better than stealing Colin Chapman's philosophy of "performance through lightweight" and hoping that it isn't copyrighted.
I watch a wide variety of movies, but normally I prefer watching TV, especially Game of Thrones and Breaking Bad. My favourite kind of movies are sci-fi movies, especially if giant robots are involved. There's a real lack of giant robot movies that aren't anime.
3, I hope. Maybe I need a little anger management, but that's about it.
The Nissan GT-R R35. I first became infatuated with the GT-R dynasty when I got Need For Speed Underground 2. To me, the GT-R is an engineering masterpiece, it just seems to have grip that defies the laws of physics. I don't care about straightline speed nearly as much as I care about cornering speed. I guess when you consider how much electronics was involved in the GT-R R34, that makes me a geek.
It was in the GT4 drifting forum:
Two, one PS2 and one PS3 controller. The latter was smashed open when I was getting griefed in GTA Online.
On the ferry between Holyhead in Wales and Dublin. The internet connection was unbelievably slow, to the point where it was taking about thirty seconds to merely load the HTML code.
I have no idea, and I wish I had some way of finding out. I'd guess about a week, when my family went on holiday to Connemara in County Galway, and there wasn't an Internet connection there.
I'd have to say @W3HS. He's overcome a lot in his life already, like alcoholism and drug addiction (forgive me if I got that part wrong) to go on an epic trek across Asia. Not many people would consider spending months battling against the elements armed with only a tiny moped.
I'd like to see customisable events, with customisable opponents to the point where you could pick their liveries. That was the one thing that kept me playing Juiced 2 after beating it, where I was racing against the AI in cars from my own garage.
I came up with a list of animals, and then scrapped them in favour of hedgehogs. Imagine a massive grey thing with hundreds of thousands of quills charging towards you at 40km/h. It'd be king of the savannah, easily, a lion or crocodile wouldn't dare to attack.
The beautiful Danielle Sharp.
She's a Game of Thrones fan, so that's a plus.
Yeah, and the vast majority have been run by @Furinkazen. I have the honour of winning the first two seasons of ToCA, but the field has gotten much better since then, to the point where I'm lucky to score a top 10 finish.
I don't have the time right now, but if I did, it'd involve Skylines.
I'd like to thank whoever nominated me for this award, I've been told his username tastes of Tesco burgers.
No matter where you go, people will know you. No matter what you say, no one will interrupt or correct you. No matter what you're wearing it will be fashionable for the next 10 years.
So let us welcome the newest member to the League of Extraordinary GTPeople, Dankey Kang, er, I mean DK!
I never would have imagined that of all people on GTP, I'd be considered a Member of the Week. When I think about my posting habits, I don't feel as if I'm the kind of person who'd win it.
I was 14 years old, and I spent a lot of my spare time back then playing Gran Turismo 4. One car that caught my attention was the Nismo Skyline GT-R R-Tune, and I searched for pictures on it online. One of the pictures was on GTPlanet, and I guess something drove me to sign up.
The Infield, the Grand Theft Auto sub-forum, Opinions & Current Events and Movies & TV.
I wanted to get my money's worth for my Premium, so that's why I like the Infield. Conversations there seem relatively free of rubbish compared to some non-premium forums.
I started checking out the GTA sub-forum when GTA V came out, and joined the GTPL crew for GTA Online. The thing about getting involved in a GTA forum is that you're now waiting on news about two series.
I just check the Opinions forum out of curiosity, to see what others make of what's happened in the news. I'm a bit shy in real life, so I'm woeful at debating.
As for Movies & TV, it's a good place to discuss some of the latest and greatest TV shows. There's also The General Anime Thread, which I've been posting in ever since I watched Initial D.
I was 8 years old, and my parents had given me and my brother a PS2 for Christmas. When I got bored of FIFA 2003, I'd put in the demo disc, and there was a four-minute-or-so video showcasing GT3. It was at that moment that I was captivated by GT. In March 2003, after weeks of saving up my pocket money, I bought GT3, the first game I ever bought with my own money. It took me a whole month to learn what the brakes did.
I signed up as "driftking18594", and that became "DK" when I got Premium gifted to me by a still-unknown benefactor.
Both, they each have their strong points. I normally care far more about the offline experience than the online one, but Forza allows exponentially more freedom in customisation. However, I just don't feel the same enthusiasm for Forza as I do for GT. Forza 4 had thousands of offline career races, so I guess I felt overwhelmed by that. If I could, I'd mix the event list of GT4 with the cars and tracks of GT6 with the customisation options of Forza.
Codemasters' F1 series, GTR2 and Race07/GTR Evo, the latter two because there's boatloads of mods that add hundreds of hours of playing time. I don't mind poor graphics if amazing gameplay makes up for it - which GTR2 does.
It looks nice, but it's a bit too annoying sometimes when I'm using it on my phone, as the page sometimes doesn't fit properly.
Despite that little downside, I think it's an improvement on GTP11, it's useful in that it alerts you when someone quotes your post, so it helps get a conversation started.
It's a solid game, but the minimal customisation (especially since they removed race modifications from GT5) is really disappointing. I keep thinking of missed opportunities - Senna's TG184 and MP4/4, Donington Park, a revamp of Monaco and Interlagos would have been nice for the Senna DLC.
I don't know what I bring, to be honest. The last time I checked, I had about 4.5 posts per day, so it's not like I take part in a lot of deep conversations.
I can't see how I can improve, either.
Mild and dry. Ireland has given me enough rain to last a lifetime, but I don't like it either too hot or too cold. If it's too cold, you freeze your nuts off, and if it's too hot I might get sunburn.
That's a tough question. There's GTA, but when you think about it, GTA games are a caricature of US society, and if you're a "have-not" in the real USA, just imagine how bad it would be in San Andreas, Liberty City or Vice City.
There's Mass Effect, which I've never played, which offers interstellar travel at much faster than the speed of light.
And then there's Pokemon, where there's not really that many existential threats to humanity, unless you think about Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald and especially Diamond/Pearl/Platinum. Come on, what sort of person wouldn't want Pokemon to exist?
A few scenes of Braveheart were filmed there. It also has the largest Norman castle in Ireland.
The funny thing is, I'm in two minds over PD's notorious lack of communication. On one hand, it would be nice to have an in-depth preview of the game and any upcoming features...but on the other hand, the wait for the aforementioned game/features can be excruciatingly long *cough*Zahara Circuit*cough*.
Not much, except video games, reading and watching TV.
I wish. I only have a provisional licence and no car. I'd have to get a well-paying job before getting a car, just so I could afford the bloody insurance.
Grand Theft Auto V. It's fun to get drunk and then do all sorts of dumb stuff in the game.
I've a few on my kill list.
I'm a massive Michael Schumacher fan. You might think of this as opportunistic, but when I heard of his skiing accident, I was horrified. Schumi was my hero when I was growing up, ever since I was 6 years old when I got the 2000 Formula One yearbook for Christmas, and I saw his vivid red Ferrari on the cover. When you're six years old and like F1, you don't usually pick some random guy from the middle of the pack - you go straight for the winners. I decided to add a little "Irishness" and found a picture of him in a Jordan 191 from his debut in the 1991 Belgian GP.
A mix of all three. If it's something I'm really hyped up for, I'll buy it on day one if I can afford it. If I'm hyped up for it but can't afford it, I wait for the price to drop a bit. If I think it's a decent game, I might get it used (especially if it's a Pokemon game, in case the previous owner has built up a decent stash of Pokemon).
A PS4, for GT7 and Project CARS. I'm not excited about the XBone (especially with Forza 5's microtransactions), and I'm not too sure about the Wii U, I can't see that many games for it that justify buying it.
I can't really think of anything better than stealing Colin Chapman's philosophy of "performance through lightweight" and hoping that it isn't copyrighted.
I watch a wide variety of movies, but normally I prefer watching TV, especially Game of Thrones and Breaking Bad. My favourite kind of movies are sci-fi movies, especially if giant robots are involved. There's a real lack of giant robot movies that aren't anime.
3, I hope. Maybe I need a little anger management, but that's about it.
The Nissan GT-R R35. I first became infatuated with the GT-R dynasty when I got Need For Speed Underground 2. To me, the GT-R is an engineering masterpiece, it just seems to have grip that defies the laws of physics. I don't care about straightline speed nearly as much as I care about cornering speed. I guess when you consider how much electronics was involved in the GT-R R34, that makes me a geek.
It was in the GT4 drifting forum:
At least I still had good grammar back then! Also, I'm way less enthusiastic about drifting, but I guess ageing five-and-a-half years can do that to you.
Two, one PS2 and one PS3 controller. The latter was smashed open when I was getting griefed in GTA Online.
On the ferry between Holyhead in Wales and Dublin. The internet connection was unbelievably slow, to the point where it was taking about thirty seconds to merely load the HTML code.
I have no idea, and I wish I had some way of finding out. I'd guess about a week, when my family went on holiday to Connemara in County Galway, and there wasn't an Internet connection there.
I'd have to say @W3HS. He's overcome a lot in his life already, like alcoholism and drug addiction (forgive me if I got that part wrong) to go on an epic trek across Asia. Not many people would consider spending months battling against the elements armed with only a tiny moped.
I'd like to see customisable events, with customisable opponents to the point where you could pick their liveries. That was the one thing that kept me playing Juiced 2 after beating it, where I was racing against the AI in cars from my own garage.
I came up with a list of animals, and then scrapped them in favour of hedgehogs. Imagine a massive grey thing with hundreds of thousands of quills charging towards you at 40km/h. It'd be king of the savannah, easily, a lion or crocodile wouldn't dare to attack.
The beautiful Danielle Sharp.
She's a Game of Thrones fan, so that's a plus.Yeah, and the vast majority have been run by @Furinkazen. I have the honour of winning the first two seasons of ToCA, but the field has gotten much better since then, to the point where I'm lucky to score a top 10 finish.
I don't have the time right now, but if I did, it'd involve Skylines.
I'd like to thank whoever nominated me for this award, I've been told his username tastes of Tesco burgers.
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Very solid interview. I like the idea of having an anger management. Booked!
and welcome to the madhouse, DK.
and welcome to the madhouse, DK.
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Congratulations dude.
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Nice to meet you DK 👍
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This week's interview is probably going to be up by Wednesday, or Friday at the very latest.
Why not today you ask?
August is going to be a very good month for the Member of the Week feature - two interviews every week on Monday and Friday. Who are the guests and why are there going to be twice as many interviews per week? You'll just have to wait until Friday, August 1st to find out.
Why not today you ask?
August is going to be a very good month for the Member of the Week feature - two interviews every week on Monday and Friday. Who are the guests and why are there going to be twice as many interviews per week? You'll just have to wait until Friday, August 1st to find out.
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Are you doing an extra interview with staff each week?
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Maybe, maybe not.
Maybe something else entirely.
Maybe something else entirely.
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This week's interview is probably going to be up by Wednesday, or Friday at the very latest.
Why not today you ask?
August is going to be a very good month for the Member of the Week feature - two interviews every week on Monday and Friday. Who are the guests and why are there going to be twice as many interviews per week? You'll just have to wait until Friday, August 1st to find out.
