Hi everyone, I'm just a 13 year old kid (I turn 14 in July) so bear that in mind and please make allowances for my grammar/spelling and my bland writing.  That said, I'll give you some info about me.  My first experience with computers dates back to 2001, when me and by brother got a computer as a joint birthday present.  I knew very little about computers then.  To illustrate how bad I was, I thought that the monitor was the computer! this was excusable  as I was only 5 years old, but I'm still a little ashamed now. Anyway, I played a game that resembled doom a little, and that lead to my love of games. I was *really* hooked at around 11, getting an xbox from micro$oft and playing a lot of games. I was a game junkie at age 12 and that's when dad threw out the xbox. he told me to play computer games instead, and bought me my dated GeFORCE 6200 so I could play games at a faster framerate than 10 fps. anyway, I played quake 3 rather obsessively after that, and honed skills such as strafe jumping, plasma jumping, and sniping with the railgun.   My dad installed mandrake then and I found myself playing games like supertux, not knowing there were native linux clients. nothing much happened until my 13th birthday.  I had learned a great deal more about computers and Knew of the ioquake 3 based games which, of course, brought me to tremulous. I was first drawn to the human team, being used to guns.  In fact, I've only started to use the aliens more in the last few weeks. well, that brings me here I guess. I have an interest in modding, and have gtkradiant installed, but I'm still learning how to use it.

I want to join this nice people's society because I feel that it would enhance my experience and maybe I'd make a few friends and learn some
things along the way.

I often just sort the servers by players, although you will often find me on atcs wonderland, because my real life friend plays in that server.

If you've read this far then you must be feeling homicidal. sorry =p

ps. if you see this, munroe, please tell me if my application is okay or not.

What??!?  You have friends in real life?  This is unacceptable. 

Thanks for the application, I'll throw in my usual suggestions.  Wear the }MGR{ tag so that other guild members can find you in game - one of our requirements, and the reason for the month-long wait, is that we get to know you before making a decision.  Well, before making a positive decision, there's been some times where negative decisions were made because nobody knows who the recruit is.

More importantly from my aspect is the fact that we also like to know people outside of Tremulous, so find yourself an IRC client (since you mentioned Mandrake, I'll assume you still use that for your main computer; in that case, X-Chat is a good choice, or if you want to go minimalist and yet still feature rich then fire up irssi and you can run it under screen and reattach anytime without leaving the window open all the time) and join us on chat.freenode.net channel #mercenariesguild.  We usually keep the chatter in there at a level that most parents won't find offensive, certainly not as bad as you'll find in the public chat on most multiplayer games :>

will do, thanks for the warm reception =]

Welcome to the MGR club

fixed =] edit your post, to 'you're cool' and cover up for me saying clan. it'll be a huge cover up! *cue diabolical laughter*

Also, if possible, try to encourage your friends to play on our servers -- we run the Pure Tremulous servers. Please try to come on them as much as you can as that is where you will find us. Also, we think that they're some of the best servers in general, so they are probably worth playing. The community there is very nice too.

Speaking of which, perhaps come by puretremulous.com sometime to chat with the other people who play there.

Have a good day.

I'm adding some other interests that aren't really meant to be in the application:
I like to read, mainly sci-fi and some comedys, and my favorite authors are (in no particular order) Eric Blair(aka George Orwell) Douglas Adams, J.R.R Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien, Aldous Huxley and to a lesser extent Charles Dickens.
My favorite television show is monty python's flying circus and my favorite python is Eric Idle.
I like music, but that really depends on what I'm listening to.  I can't stand rap, I just can't.  I like pink floyd with syd, but I think Roger Waters is a sellout.  I also liked hendrix, and still like the Dead Kennedys with jello in.
That's about it really.

All good tastes.  Are you from the UK?

I dig Aldous Huxley too.  I like books written some time ago about the 'future' which has since come to pass in reality.  Its interesting to see things the author imagined the future would be like, often in a exaggerated tone, which have actually become common place.

The state of the institutions of family and marriage for instance.  I think we're less than a decade away from marriages moving from 'till death do us part' to a '3 year contracted civil union' 

How long until we start planning children in labs, and doing away with mom+dad altogether?

Aldus Huxley's "A Brave New World" is the book where he describes this horrific vision of the future. It is certainly a science fiction classic, and I strongly recommend it to anyone interested in sci-fi. It one of those classics that everyone should read. In fact, I have in sitting on my shelf next to "I, robot" and "Stranger in a Strange Land." What's frightening is how you are reading along thinking "yeah right, like it's ever going to get that bad, but then you turn the page, and all of a sudden he's describing something that has already come to pass. It's almost creepy and at times is very prophetic on our current situation and where we're heading.

Oh by the way, I'm a big fan of sci-fi too. in case you hadn't figured that out yet...

yeah, I like brave new world, although I think 1984 comes close to rivaling it.  1984 seems almost prophetic, with the way things are going, and brave new world isn't far off the mark either, with all this talk of artificial humans with inferior intelligence etc.
Yes, I'm from the uk.

checklist of likeabilty:

likes sci fi: Check

liikes george orwell: check

is in the MGR club: check

likes xbox: check

has no friends: che.... what!!!! meh still check


and my complimentry  for you joining the club

hey!!!... umm... thanks 

Aww... I wanted a Flamethrower... *Sulks*

Oops, I HATE xboxes now.  You'd sooner catch me praising George Bush's English than using a micro$cam Microsoft product.  I know that I've had an xbox before, but then I knew little.

Alright...
But you still use Windows, correct?