adachishai
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Post by adachishai on Jan 4, 2016 13:17:27 GMT
Hello there Nonchalant Dominance Community!
I'm Adachi, but my real name is Adam. I'm from Poland and I love video games, some more than others. It can be a little strange but to me a Grand Theft Auto V and especially an Online component are somewhat a replacement of something wonderful called Test Drive Unlimited. I just like cars in general. Sure I don't know much about them nowadays, I used to know a lot back in the day. To me a GTA Online is a way to collect vehicles, drive them and most of all - have fun.
I never owned any console. I believe I have a decent enough PC to handle any game I want to play. When GTA V came to PC I was really excited, taking into consideration that this game broke every record in sales. I've bought the game in the box so I don't use Steam to play it, although my steam collection is quite big. I had a lot of fun with small group of my friends. They moved on to play other games and so did I. However, sometimes I've been returning to GTA Online just to play or check new updates. Grinding money solo can be really boring and difficult so I didn't play as often as I used to.
Then, one day, I stumbled upon a video made by Broughy which tested performance of various cars in GTA. It was really interesting for me as I loved watching Top Gear. When I was watching Broughy's videos I've learned about racing community. At this moment I've watched basically all videos connected to testing cars in Cutting Coroners GP, Top Speed videos, every single discussion video for GTA (of course a new generation discussion videos) and the second season of Multi-Class Endurance Championship. It was really entertaining to watch.
More so... it made me realise that in GTA Online there is a serious racing community with it's own events and set of rules. That was a big surprise for me. After some time I've decided to give it a go. Yesterday I've managed to be part of some races hosted by -Spyder- and... I'm sorry but I forgot your name... Falken? Anyways it was a great fun, despite my performance and lack of fully customised cars.
As I've mentioned. I like collecting cars. A looks or my personal taste is a very imporant aspect of me choosing a car to buy. Taking it into the consideration, my only fully upgrader vehicle was Progen T20 and Grotti Turismo R but after yesterday's races I've decided to sell my Adder, which wasn't fully upgraded anyway, and buy some more vehicles which I've later fully upgraded.
I'll try to be as active as possible, but my studies may prevent me from being available every single day. I hope that we'll get along and that I'll meet new people, despite my reserve for TeamSpeak and other forms of voice communication. Everything can change and I believe that I'll learn the other side of GTA.
To conclude this rather bulky wall of text I wanted to wish the best for the community, especially Broughy and all the others who work hard to make this happen.
P.S. If some of you are wondering why my nick is Adachi and my Rockstar Social Club ID is AdachiShai then there is a little story. I've watched Naruto back in the day. One of my favourite characters was Itachi. As I didn't have a proper nickname that time I've decided to create one by combining my name with the name of the character I liked. Later I realised that Adachi is somewhat popular surname in Japan and sometimes creating username ID by typing adachi was simply not enough. I'm also a big Star Wars fan and I'm a part of a polish RP organisation which plays on modded version of Jedi Adademy. My main character there is Adachi Shai. A surname "Shai" I've taken from the Wookieepedia when I was searching for a proper and fitting surname. Well... if there is anyone who has read up to this part, thank you for reading my rambling.
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The_Bad_Loser
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Post by The_Bad_Loser on Jan 4, 2016 14:50:13 GMT
Wow! A thorough introduction if ever there was one. Welcome to the world of competitive racing in GTA:O. Fortunately for you, you can own up to five properties equating to 50 different cars. Be sure to check out the Crew Guidelines if you haven't already. You aren't required to talk on TS, but it's definitely a good idea to have it and be online when racing with crew members. If nothing else, you may find lobbies by simply being in TS. To get involved in the community you'll want to check out the PC Events forum. In the meantime, if you have any questions or concerns, Sugar_Free_Nos and Mid1010 are the PC commissioners and we have a plethora of knowledgeable and helpful lieutenants. See you at the starting line!
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Post by Sugar_Free_Nos on Jan 4, 2016 23:47:45 GMT
Great intro! I loved TDU2 as well! I won't bother posting my copy pasta as The_Bad_Loser already posted his. See you in game!
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adachishai
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Post by adachishai on Jan 5, 2016 1:17:54 GMT
Thank you for a warm welcome. I've already read Guidelines. I hope to see you in game too.
P.S. I see what you did there with your signature Sugar. I saw highlight of that stream on Broughy's channel ^^
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Post by KoBo_043 on Jan 5, 2016 14:32:58 GMT
Hey there Kurwa! (that's 'friend' in Polish right? ) Welcome to the crew and forums If you haven't done so allready, give this thread a read for our guidelines, promotions, and info about our live chat clients: nodo.freeforums.net/thread/1067/first-clickI'm sure you're gonna have a great time with us. Should you have any issues or questions, shoot me (or another Comm.) a message. Enjoy your stay
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adachishai
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Post by adachishai on Jan 5, 2016 18:20:12 GMT
Hey KoBo_043, you made me laugh ^^
This is a very common of Polish folks, who if I may add sometimes are just stupid as f*ck, to tell people that "Kurwa" means basically anything (from "hello", "friend" to other things). A short lecture - "kurwa" is a vulgar word with... many meanings. It can act as a comma, a pause in your sentence, though mostly used by shady and non-cultured part of the society, but the closest translation I can come up with is "f*ck", as if something went wrong and you're just letting people know about it, or "bi*ch". So please, don't use it very often. I'm sure you didn't know about this.
Anyway, thanks for a warm welcome ^^
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Post by KoBo_043 on Jan 7, 2016 15:11:55 GMT
lol, I know what "Kurwa" means Just screwing with you a bit hahaha, I make that same stupid joke everytime I see a Polish person joining My wifes grandfather is Polish. (By chance his name's Adam too ) What I've been told, it litteraly means "Whore" but it's used like "Fuck" (just like you said) But now I DO wonder how to say "friend" in Polish![/b]
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Altivo__
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Post by Altivo__ on Jan 8, 2016 9:30:58 GMT
Kolega/koleżanka or Przyjaciel
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Post by Altivo__ on Jan 8, 2016 9:39:01 GMT
Piwotanie Adachi! Ma zabawa tutaj przy NoDo! Does that make any sense?
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adachishai
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Post by adachishai on Jan 9, 2016 22:53:14 GMT
It is a bit tricky. Polish language is highly inflected language with relatively free word order so it's completely different from English. Most of polish vocabulary has a different endings which are used according to different situations.
If you would like to say "Hello there friend" then it could be translated as "Witaj przyjacielu". The ending -u in "przyjacielu" is used because it is a different grammatical case from Nominative ("przyjaciel"). What's more... the form of "przyjaciel" is used when you are speaking to men. If you want to say something to a girl or woman then it would look like this: "Witaj przyjaciółko" (Nominative case - "przyjaciółka"). In short, polish language is considered one of the most difficult to learn. Hell... even I'm making mistakes with spelling or correct forms.
And to address Altivo once again. Yea, I indeed understood something what you've written... but it is not written correctly. What you've written in "polish" (though "Piwotanie" is probably "greetins" or "welcome" in Slavic language, it's not polish) looks to me... well something like this (please excuse rough translation):
Has you fun here by NoDo! Strangely looking but... somewhat understandable. From here you can alter it and understand it. So yea... pretty tricky.
P.S. "Kolega/koleżanka" can also be translated as friend but for me friend and friendship is something much more precious. For me personally "kolega/koleżanka" means "mate", "buddy" or "pal". Yea... a bit tricky and long-ish post.
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Altivo__
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Greetings
Jan 10, 2016 8:02:59 GMT
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Post by Altivo__ on Jan 10, 2016 8:02:59 GMT
Youre right, Polish is a tricky language. Probably the reason Ive never fully learned it. I guess it all has to do with the whole situation and sentence. As example Kolega can be referred to as a friend, but I thought Przyjaciel is referring to a much closer best friend who knows a lot more about you. That's why I thought Kolega is the best form here.. Anyways, I'll leave that language up to the Polish. My grandfather is Polish and I used to know some words, but It's all dust now I'll stick with plain English! But I always like if someone from Poland comes in. As far as I know, I have no other family there..but a while ago I saw that a few people there have the same last name.. So I'm quite curious about that
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