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[Born Villain]

I like hearing people talk about themselves, so to anyone who is as bored as me, tell me what you are obsessed about, and how, why, when you got obsessed etc.

This should be interesting.

[Carol the Fool]

http://m.youtube.com...h?v=mjEtpPEY0MY I just watched this yesterday, so I find this ironic

[Lyon]

Anything by J.R.R. Tolkien. My dad first read The Hobbit to me when I was five, and most of Fellowship and Two Towers over the next year. Of course, being a faint-hearted six-year-old who was still terrified of the dark, I couldn't stand the suspense of the Dead Marshes and asked my dad to read something that wasn't so intense. Two years later, I picked up Two Towers and finished with the series. Then I got most of the documentation volumes and posthumously published works and read them. Then I re-read everything that I had, checked out more documentation volumes, and read those two. Now I'm considered a Tolkien expert, although I still lack the ability to speak Elvish.

[Armos]

I am obsessed about ME! I am a winner. I'm a member of the Win Club, whose members include Charlie Sheen, Ronald Regan, Zombie Regan, Chuck Norris and Myself among a few others of the social elite. I mean, while some people wake up in the morning feeling like P Diddy, i wake up and allow the win to fill my soul. When not obsessing about me i obsess about other things.

[McDanil]

KINGDOM HEARTS!!!! And then, Phoenix wright, Professor Layton, Fire Emblem, Lord of the rings, harry Potter, Star wars, Dragonrealm by Richard Knaak, and, (things that I was once super-obsessed with) Yu-gi-oh, Magic the Gathering, Pokemon and SSB. And thats not even a quarter of my obsessions.

[Vithar Megilaglar]

Hmm...interesting question.

I was am still obsessed with Star Wars for...most of my life, insofar.

Lord of the Rings was a more recent acquisition (10 years ago, give or take)

Final Fantasy series. I think it was FFX that really got me into the series. So, also about ten years ago. That waned for a bit until the first Dissidia game came out. My obsession for Final Fantasy still hasn't worn out.

A couple of minor obsessions would be The Obsidian Trilogy by Mercedes Lackey and The Wheel of Time series, a la Robert Jordan.

[Lyon]

Obsidian Trilogy is the best. I'm actually rereading them right now. Arena, Vith?

[Kamikaze_X]

Well, quite an interesting question indeed, Charon.

Alright, let's begin. I am obsessed with many things, but here are those that pop into mind.

- Any and all of J.R.R. Tolkien's words and lore - much like Lyon really. I still have yet to finish the Silmarillion though.
- Anime/manga, most notably - Bleach, Naruto Shippuuden, One Piece, Rurouni Kenshin, Samurai Champloo, Cowboy Bebop, Gantz, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Love Hina, DBZ, Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni, and perhaps many more. I'm a bit of a fan...
- History! Any and all topics - I'm a minor in History for college, so this makes sense. My main obsession with history is within the American/European, and Asiatic focuses (mostly Japan).
- Design and the arts - I major in Graphic Design and have been drawing all my life... this makes sense as well. And with almost every drawing I put my heart into, I am essentially a perfectionist.
- Video games - I'm a BIG RPer (go figure), so you can imagine I am obsessed over Fallout (3-New Vegas), Oblivion and soon TES V: Skyrim, Halo 1-Reach (exclude ODST please), Call of Duty (none of the MW games), Final Fantasy VII-X, and many many more. A little tid-bit would be my goal in life as becoming a video game designer/conceptual artist, and then studio CEO...
- Uhhh.. root beer. I love it. It tastes delicious.
- Grammar; I'm a grammar nazi... and spelling nazi. In addition, an obsession with people saying words right could be connected to weird pet-peeve with people saying them wrong - what's odder is that it isn't so much English than other languages I know like Spanish or Japanese...
- Politics and Economics - Red can attest a bit - I find it all fascinating and yet equally frustrating! If you couldn't tell, I'm a fucking nerd.
- Anthropology / Social Sciences - more or less a recent obsession, or perhaps more accurately an intense interest of mine! Anthropology is quickly becoming one of my most favorite courses at my University, and I loved Socilogy and History last semesters.
- Writing - I enjoy creative writing at least, and anyone who has read my material on the Oracle's Mandate (my book or game) could agree... it's almost a fanatic passion.
- Forum RPing, obviously. It's ironic because up until now, I have hosted A LOT of things, all worthy games, yet somehow they continue to fall dead. Oh well, it's still a passion of mine.

Honest to god, there's probably a LOT more, but It's about 1:20 am here at the moment, so my brain's a bit fried. Hope ya learned some stuff about me though.

[Lyon]

You haven't finished the Silmarillion?! Shame! I'm not speaking to you until you have.

[Vithar Megilaglar]

I finished the Sil ages ago.

An Obsidian-based Arena RP might be worth the chance.

[Just Joe]

Searching for new songs. I only found it a week ago but I class it as one of my favourite songs ever.

When Led Zeppelin did Blues: http://www.youtube.c...h?v=Bkjv9SscotY

When the Devil came down to Georgia (Or, as I call it, a delightful slice of American folk music): http://www.youtube.c...h?v=cDm_ZHyYTrg

I also like hearing mad folk stories, or just stories around the world, as well as pretty weird tales, like anything by HP Lovecraft or Mike Mignola.

Edited by Just Joe, 20 September 2011 - 01:41 PM.

[Lyon]

As far as music goes, I'm a fan of Lux Aeterna. Beautiful track, which goes well with a lot of different stuff.

[McDanil]

ooh, axis of Awesome, as well as the many soundtracks to the games mentioned above.

Also, John williams and Hans Zimmer for the win. And Howard Shore is pretty decent too,

[Born Villain]

Like I said intersting.  I'm hapy I posted this, I may just post more questions.

[Carol the Fool]

You should do that. Actually, we should all start doing that

[Just Joe]

McDanil, on 20 September 2011 - 07:57 PM, said:

ooh, axis of Awesome, as well as the many soundtracks to the games mentioned above.

Also, John williams and Hans Zimmer for the win. And Howard Shore is pretty decent too,

A little bit different but John Murphy is a good composer also

[Chef]

I am obsessed with...

• Scott Pilgrim
  
• Any novel by Cormac McCarthy
  
• Any movie by Quentin Tarantino or the Coen Brothers
  
• The Lord of the Rings films (the books aren't as good )
  
• Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo
  
• Spaghetti Westerns and Space Westerns
  
• Cosmic Horror
  
• Just about any video game by Atlus (Persona 4, Catherine)
  
• Flight of the Conchords
  
• Indie Rock
  
• Any graphic novel by Alan Moore
  
• Writing crazy shit
  
• FOLK RAP
  
• And, last but not least, teh ladies

That is all, ladies and gentleman.

[Redcoat]

• Britain, her Empire, and her Commonwealth
  
• History, especially war history, and especially the First World War
  
• Politics (social democrat)
  
• Reading, especially stuff my friends force on me XD
  
• Writing, especially essays
  
• Mathematics, even if I suck at it
  
• Sciences, especially the social sciences but also interesting aspects of any
  
• Sociology (it's my major)
  
• RPing, naturally

Well, there you have it.

[Just Joe]

Oh, and epic bass riffs.

[canterbury]

Hyomin

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