The Fancy Bastard Forum

I'm a 21-year-old Kinetic Imaging student in Richmond, VA. I'm an intern working in the graphics department for a local TV station and I lifeguard to make moneyz.

i'm a 22 year old non college student that was a college student that's thinking about being a college student again. i live in fort worth texas and i like to build my own guitar pedals and record my own noise loops.

i wish i were a newest ring announcer for something...

Good idea Sean. Hi everyone! I'm a 33 year old, married, mom to 2 boys, graphic design student in Omaha, NE.

I'm.. uh... *counts fingers and toes* 23 years old, engaged, and working for a State School here in Abilene, TX. In about 30 minutes i'll be applying at a tech college, so hopefully you can just add student on to that.

I'm trying to make a living for myself from Visual Basic and Webapps, stumbled upon this site during the Rock Band Comic, and have been addicted ever since.

Anyone who knows VB around here?

as locke cole117 speaks i am watching season two (disc two) of the venture brothers in baited anticipation of the third season.

Hi, I'm Tindomiel. I'm a lab monkey working in biotech by day, and an artist honing my skills and writing a script by night--I'm hoping in the next 3-5 years to do as Joel did and quit my day job to pursue my dream of doing comics for a living.

I'm a socially incapable student who has no job and would rather buy books than food.
I do a lot of work in technical theater, and currently I'm frantically attempting to complete an art portfolio in time for college submission.

I'm an unemployed computer science/journalism student, who does a lot of writing in his spare time (PLUG: Dramspot.blogspot.com)
I geek over:
Trek
Trek
Firefly
Webcomics, in general
Steampunk
Mechs, the more hideously realistic the better
David Bowie, not so much his music though.
F*cking metal
good film
Trek
Vonnegut
Denise, Joel, Josh, and.... no that's it.

Edit: You killed my father, prepare to die.

Double Edit: Dram as in dramedy, not as in Dram, the liquid unit typically used for brandy.

Posted By: DramYou killed my father, prepare to die.

Hi everybody, I'm 25, married, live in Charlevoix, MI with my wife and two dogs. I'm an electrical engineer with a small company that makes industrial test equipment. Most of my free time is spent playing Xbox, reading comics or working on my house.

Hello, my name is Arcys. The name comes from the latin word arcis, which means citadel, stronghold, fortress, keep, or donjon.

My interests include web deveopment, manga, anime, and reading books. I'm currently unemployed but that will be rectified soon.

I started reading HE after I read Hyper Realistic Murder Simulators, and have loved every comic since!

Arcys

*is starting to feel "penis challenged"*

28 year old Australian nerd, work as a personal trainer.
Video games, movies all the basic FB type stuff floats my boat (Rick rolls are still funny!). Found HE through one of the comics that ended up on Digg and have been reading and listening to the podcast ever since.
It's one of the holy trinity of webcomics i always recommend to anyone who'll listen with Least i could do and Sam and Fuzzy.

I'm 21, Scottish and also an ex-student attempting to return to education, mainly for chemistry and physics in an effort to enter a career in pharmacy. The country needs pharmacists. Downtime consists mainly of 360, marvel and the bear trap that is stumbleupon.

25 year old graphic design graduate flailing madly to find a job where I can use 'mai mad skillz'. Until then, I'm working at a copy and print place - which is FAR FAR better then former job at a toy store (less screaming). Play video games, draw, watch bad movies, and am trying to up my geek cred by catching up on series that are good and I missed.

*joins Not Mandatory in the 'penis challenged' corner.*

Posted By: Roe25 year old graphic design graduate flailing madly to find a job where I can use 'mai mad skillz'. Until then, I'm working at a copy and print place - which is FAR FAR better then former job at a toy store (less screaming). Play video games, draw, watch bad movies, and am trying to up my geek cred by catching up on series that are good and I missed.

*joins Not Mandatory in the 'penis challenged' corner.*

Hey there, I'm Mattie. I am penis challenged. I'm also a Comp Sci student from Detroit, MI. Used to go to school in New Orleans (hurricane and all) until I changed my major. I want nothing more than to move back there...or to San Fransisco.

Posted By: matsieDetroit, MI

Posted By: Arcys

Posted By: matsieDetroit, MI

I feel so, so sorry for you.

No, I used to live near Detroit in Macomb County. I actually lived right next to the park where they found that woman cut up.

I never really liked it up there. People drive like madmen and are generally dicks.

Also, Penguins will win. I may be biased as I'm from Pittsburgh...

23/m/NC want cybar???

I work as a mechanical engineer for a government contractor down in the military belt of NC (Jacksonville, Havelock, etc)

*joins the "penis challenged" crew*

Posted By: ArcysNo, I used to live near Detroit in Macomb County. I actually lived right next to the park where they found that woman cut up.

I never really liked it up there. People drive like madmen and are generally dicks.

Also, Penguins will win. I may be biased as I'm from Pittsburgh...Warning: The FBF is a known carcinogen to the State of California. Contact with the FBF may cause cancer, necrophilia, an urge to run in a tiny wheel, and/or lawn gnomes barbecuing your pets.

'Penis challenged'? You know, modern technology has gifted us with things like silicone strap-on dildos so that no one need go without in a situation where a penis is called for...

hello,

i am catfish. im a mechanical engineer, 26, live in brooklyn, bewanged. someone posted one of the early hijinks ensue to my local fixed gear cycling message board, and i've been rss feeding the lols ever since.

good stuff joel!

@Tindomiel-Yeah, but that requires all kinds of maintenance.

@catfish-"bewanged" may be the funniest word ever...except for maybe titillate and bejezus.

Ah, hello! I'm Dessy, I'm 22. I like movies, silly things, napping, and Radiohead. Not Mandatory got me into Joss Whedon so I'm going to get her into Battlestar Galactica.
I think Hijinks Ensue is one of the best things I have ever read. Some of those comics I swear Joel stole from actual conversations I've had with my friends.

Jesus. I've got to be the youngest person here.
I'm all about Star Wars and BSG. Not to mention(sadly) that I have read EVERY STAR WARS NOVEL!

30 year old Emergency Veterinary Technician in Chattanooga, TN. Diehard browncoat. Insatiable reader of books and other literary media. Martial arts enthusiast. Music lover. Artist. Writer. Poet. Singer/songwriter. RPG addict. Etc. Discovered Hijinks Ensue through whedonesque.com (Yeah. Discovered. You know. Like Columbus discovered a hemisphere full of people.)

Hey all,
i'm Jonny Ace, i'm 25 and live about 10 min from NYC (in NJ). i'm a professional poker dealer. i'm such a hardcore Browncoat that i not only help the NYC browncoats with the CSTS screening every year, i also just recently got the outline of Serenity tattooed on my left shoulderblade. besides that i also like Angel, love BSG and Lost, as well as a host of other things that i'm too tired to remember. i was directed towards HE, by my friend who knew i would love the AM-Glad comic. ("my name is RocketLauncherSpeedo...").

Greg, 22, I graduated from a college film production course a year ago and since then I've been juggling a part time job at a bookstore while trying to work on independent films and get experience doing illustration and graphic design.
Inspired by Joel, I just quit my job at a major Canadian bookstore in northern Ontario and moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba to attempt to make a living doing something creative.

I discovered HE several months ago and have been following the comic as well as the Experiment religiously.

Ok, I LOVE this thread. Learning your jobs, geek habits, how you first found HE, etc is fascinating to me. Please keep it up.

Hi all! I'm a 24 year old Englishman and seemingly one of the few non-US types here so far. I have an accent so typical I might as well out myself as some kind of dastardly villain here and now. Been reading HE long enough to have forgotten how I found it and I love to geek out to Whedon tv shows, gaming and a host of passtimes nerdish enough to need concealing from the general public.

I used to dream of tightening up graphics for a living but have since decided to embark on an illustrious IT career instead.

Posted By: joelOk, I LOVE this thread. Learning your jobs, geek habits, how you first found HE, etc is fascinating to me. Please keep it up.Artist and Creator of HijiNKS Ensue

To flesh out what I said. I found HE through the weekly Webcomic roundup on Joystiq. I...stumbled(fell while drunk) onto the podcast. Just think, people who are so much older than me having the same likes? Fate.....nah.

I dont remember how I found the site...I just know it appeared in my bookmarks right around the time of the first podcast

Good stuff everyone. I'm a 23 year old married man, working for the Army, Military Intelligence, out of Sierra Vista Arizona. Right now I manage Databases and cruise the Internet on the governments dime (sorry tax payers). New to the whole board thing, but, I'm liking what I see.

Posted By: The Vomiteer
cruise the Internet on the governments dime (sorry tax payers).

Posted By: EddieThat's right; Joel likes to watch.

Posted By: The VomiteerRight now I manage Databases and cruise the Internet on the governments dime (sorry tax payers).

25. Male. Kansas City, MO. Fancy forum moderator (my hand is firm but fair). Prone to fits of enlightened idiocy (idiotic enlightenment?).

27, father of one (soon to be two) geek(s)-in-training. My 3-year old daughter gets excited when Doctor Who comes on, so I'm pretty thrilled about that.

I'm an MD/PhD student at UNC Chapel Hill (PhD in Biomedical Engineering). Bachelors was in Computer Engineering. I've been an ardent fan of video games - particularly RPGs and strategy games - since early on. I like cycling, I have a 2nd-degree black belt in tae kwon do. My guilty pleasure is that I host a weekly D&D game here. I take a moped to school because I hate riding the bus and it gets 100 miles per gallon (plus I like to show off my l33t 49cc-engine skillz). Other favorite hobbies include long walks on short piers and bringing sexy back.

I got turned on to HE courtesy of Joystiq's Weekly Webcomic Roundup, which is always a treat for anyone that keeps up with video games.

I was also the dad on the Brady Bunch.

Posted By: ArcysAnyone ever feel like somebody's always watching you when you go to the bathroom or is it just me?

Posted By: Mike BradyI have a 2nd-degree black belt in tae kwon do.

I only ever made second-degree brown. I'm really hankering to pick it back up again.

Posted By: Bill*jealous*

Hi, I'm Doug, and I like puppies and sunsets and long walks on the...er...wait...that's not it.

Lesse: 44, part-time admin asst, part-time classical singer, full-time queer geek (queek?).

Found the site via LJ-->Josh-->HE. And once I saw this comic, I knew I'd never leave. And this one is pretty spectacular, too.

And I Eat Your Pop Tarts must become a t-shirt.

Posted By: Mike BradyI have a 2nd-degree black belt in tae kwon do.

Oh yeah, how I found the site.
I was cruising the PA forums for the first time (and one of the last, never grabbed me)
I either saw a post or a signature by/from Joel, saying that he a had started doing a Webcomic and had a handful of strips up. I clicked and loved, but my fandom wasn't complete until the glory of the HE podcast.

Hi, my name is Sean. *waits for the group to reply "Hi, Sean"*

I've been following HE since one of my most esteemed LJ friends posted a link back here, thereby enlightening me to the concept of spoiler-free carbonite.

Star Wars is my alpha, lambda and omega, but I also did the Indy/Black Hole/Clash of the Titans/Superman diptych/E.T. thing to help fill those empty and meaningless passages of time between SW episodes. Oh, and my SW fandom unfortunately led my folks to believe I was into sci-fi in general, so I was once made to endure Star Trek I. The scars are still there. Finally, my father helped round out my childhood movie experience by sneaking me into such family-friendly classics as Animal House, The Jerk, and Stripes.

I spent six years studying Latin, then went on to get my degree in German, so between the two, my command of English is...um, good. I also took a year of Norwegian while a German major at Portland State, due to the fact I was dating a Norwegian at the time. The upshot was that when we were in Oslo late in 2001, she took me to see FotR in the Oslo Colosseum, billed as the world's LARGEST THX-certified movie theater. I was hooked on those movies from the moment Sauron exploded.

TV...I rarely get into series until after their run, after having witnessed so many other fans' hearts being ripped out, Temple of Doom-style, while their shows were still running. That said, I still try to follow CSI:, and I hope that they've finally purged all the sniveling, money-grubbing actors and can resume putting together a cohesive season of interesting episodes.