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Post by lodus (@nommasch) on Jan 16, 2016 2:58:51 GMT
Hello everyone! I am 19 years old, German and living in Switzerland at the moment. I've discovered Broughy some time last year on reddit. It was a link to his GTA-Online discussion video, proving that offroad tires are actually the best for racing. I liked what I saw and watched some more videos. I was really fascinated by his MCEC videos (Only watched some races of season 2 then), and the fully upgraded car testing videos were exactly what I was looking for, so I subscribed. A few months later I first joined the crew, as It took me some time to realize that it's open for everyone. After some more not very active time in the crew (and one purge-kick), I came back to the forums to add Broughy's tracks to my game, discovered the events-section and signed up to join pyro's daily playlist. That's how I got here. I always liked racing games and even raced with randoms in GTA on PS3 quite a bit, but I never really saw the competitive side of it. Neither in GTA Online, nor in any other racing game. The only thing I did, was following something you could call a racing line, while wondering why I can't get better in any simulation-like racing game. And since real life racing wasn't a specific interest of mine until recently, I'm fairly new to the whole racing world in general. But I'm eager to learn more new things, get better and have as awesome battles with other crew members as I had since being active in the crew. And now I'm gonna stop, before this thing get's any longer Thank's!
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sngrmns
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Posts: 344
Registered on: December 2015
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Post by sngrmns on Jan 16, 2016 10:39:51 GMT
It took me some time to realize that it's open for everyone. After some more not very active time in the crew (and one purge-kick) Hello nommasch, great intro! This pretty much describes how I came to join except I hadn't heard of our leader until I came to the forums. I had never put any time into racing in GTA - didn't think such a thing existed outside the random horseshit on offer from the odd public invite. It wasn't long after I learned that there was such a thing as a real racing community that I started seeing the NoDo tag and realized that this was a solid and respectable crew. After a couple months of racing mostly with a few friends, on a small selection of courses, I mentioned to (here I prove I'm terrible with names, I think it was Kobi but could just be some random neurons firing in this poor brain of mine) a member that I should get into a crew and promptly received an invite. Shortly afterwards Life got ahold of me, I didn't play for a while and fell victim to the Purge. On returning to the game I realized that the crew was open invitation, walked through the door into the forums and here I am. I grew up in a family of motor-heads with a bit of racing background even, so you could say that it's always been in my blood if only through osmosis. Like you I hadn't ever done any competitive racing before joining NoDo - you might argue that I have yet to provide any competition for those I've raced against! Honestly though I hope to prove if only to myself that I've got the patience and understanding to hone my skills to the sharpest edge my talent can hold without chipping off into the verge. I have yet to actually make it to one of Pyro's playlists but I've been privileged to be a part of several impromptu playlists with some of the (more regularly active?) members and I've had a great time so far and I'm soaking up all the advice / wisdom that I can. Even if the latter is often in short supply... /s I'm glad I got to participate in the The Fridgitâ„¢ Multi-Class Snow Endurance Race although my performance was quite horrid and I got lapped by just about everyone, I think, before being disconnected. And you thought you were going on too long... ha. I'll show you tl;dr!! Oh, right; almost forgot: Welcome!
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Sugar_Free_Nos
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Host and Disk Jockey of 103.2 The Scum
Posts: 1,663
Registered on: October 2014
PSN ID: Sugar_Free_Nos
Xbox GT: Sugar Free Nos
Steam: Sugar Free Nos
Social Club: Sugar_Free_Nos
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Post by Sugar_Free_Nos on Jan 17, 2016 4:07:26 GMT
Hello and welcome to NoDo! It's always great to see someone new on PC. Myself along with Mid1010 are the commissioners for the PC side of things, so if you ever have any issues, questions, or whatever don't hesitate to shoot one of us a message. Be sure to check out both Pezby and Bladecruiser's Welcome to NoDo Weekly Playlist as well as meetmypyro's Weekday Playlist Series to join in our daily playlists as well as the GTAO PC Events Board to sign up for scheduled events. Also take a look at the Nonchalant Dominance Community Guidelines so you know what's expected of everyone and The Official Live Chat Clients to communicate both in and out of game. We currently have both a Slack Chat which is text based and a Teamspeak 3 Server for voice communication. To avoid the purge when the RGSC Crew fills to 1000 and be promoted to Representative in the crew, follow all instructions in this thread. I hope you have a great time racing with us and I'll see you out on the track!
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Post by KoBo_043 on Jan 17, 2016 11:10:10 GMT
Welcome to NoDo nommash! Enjoy your stay
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