My Name: Rob
My Aliases: DX, Duxburian, NX51, Lewis, First Among Equals, Xiro
My Location: Ridgewood, NJ, USA
Year I started Soaking: ~1997-1998?
Date I joined the Online Community: September 10th 2003, Waterbridge Forum
Date I joined the Rogue Group: October 2nd 2006
Forums I have been a member of: WWc, SSC, iScF, SM, WWN, CFM, CAM, High Command, Water Talk, WGN, WWR, TMW, Waterbridge, RWW, probably others
Sites I have founded/co-founded: WaterWarfare.com, SoakerMedia.net, WaterFight.org
My staff positions:
Admin - WaterWarfare.com [WWc]
Admin - SoakerMedia [SM]
Moderator - Super Soaker Central [SSC]
Moderator - iSoaker.com Forums [iScF]
Moderator - Super Soaker Headquarters [SSH]
Former Admin - Waterbridge Forum
Former Admin - Crescent Forest Militia Forum
Former Admin - Ridgewood Water Warfare [RWW]
My personal armory:
1x CPS 1000 - stock
1x CPS 2100 - broken
1x CPS 2500 - broken
1x CPS 2700 - for sale on Ebay
1x CPS 3000 - stock
1x CPS 3200 - mostly stock
1x CPS 10K - works perfectly
1x CPS 11K - needs like a whole body
1x CPS 12K - works perfectly
1x CPS 15K - pc doesn't connect right
1x CPS 21K - needs a new trigger valve
1x WW Orca - mostly stock
1x WW Blazer - broken
1x MI Defender - would I leave this thing stock? Ew no
1x XP 310 - broken
1x Speed Loader Double Cross 2000 - stock
1x Standard APH
2x APR 3000 [APH] - broken
1x N-REV Challenger [APH]
1x PVC Piston Pumper G1 [PPH]
1x Douchenator WBL G1/G2
1x MS Douchenator WBL G3
2x AP Water Cannon
1x Ruta Cannon
1x N-REV Box of Doom [PPP G2] - paused
1x N-REV Fighting H [APH] - paused
1x N-REV Douchenator Water Cannon - paused
1x N-REV Dominator WBLG - paused
1x Death Cannon - in the assembling phase
1x N-REV Dominator - in the design phase
My teams and positions:
Ridgewood Militia [active team] - Co-Founder, Commander
Crescent Forest Militia [former team]
Stonewall Insurgency [former group]
Skipper345 [former group]
Maritime Militia [future team!]
My Battle Record:
2004: Won 1, Lost 1, Tied 0 [2 ranked wars]
2005: Won 5, Lost 1, Tied 2 [8 ranked wars]
2006: Won 7, Lost 0, Tied 1 [8 ranked wars]
2007: Won 2, Lost 0, Tied 2 [4 ranked wars fought so far]
My combat specialty: All known positions, ranks, roles, and jobs, both physical and psychological, and on and off the battlefield. I am "required" to have a specialty in "everything".
About my water warfare career:
WELL...since I don't want to write you a book, I'll keep it short and sweet. I am a 10th year veteran commander in the Fluid and Hardcore progression levels. My team takes our wars seriously, hence our 700+ day winning streak as of today which is still going. I am also a "philosopher tactician" and enjoy studying water warfare on the intellectual level through the Tactical and Technical Theories. This understanding of the origin of tactics and personal/natural forces involved in battles allows me to create my own tactics and concepts at will. That coupled with "ridiculous" physical agility, varsity sprinting speed, and fast .09-.23 reaction time = a person not to take lightly in battle. I've tied a war after being outnumbered 4:1 alone and was hit only twice in the whole 2006 season. Obviously, I talk and write like a big shot, but NEVER on the field of battle. The way feelings, karma, momentum, and luck work in the Tactical Theory, "double the pride" really does result in "double the fall."
I've played an important role in the online community, holding two admin roles and three global moderator roles all at the same time. That's partially because I have a reputation for maturity and being "incorruptible" by power. We'll see how long that lasts... :p :laugh:
Favorite Soaker: It's probably something you haven't heard of and probably something you don't want to face. Seriously though, I love modding and building rather unique homemades. If I had to choose, it would be a light 15K for a primary and a water cannon for a specialized sidearm.
Other interests besides soaking:
I've got a billion interests, and I take all of them seriously. A few examples: 12 years of classical piano, 6 seasons of track, and I've been interested in geology, meteorology, geography and marine biology since I was like 6. Taught myself science until high school when science was corrupted into just another form of math. I'm one of very few people who absolutely loves science, but absolutely hates math. Won the town Science Fair as a 2nd grader and the Geography Bee as a 5th grader. If you like geology, then go pay Silver City, NM a visit. About 7 miles north is a town called Pinos Altos. Some of the quartz in the area contains this dusty stuff on it. Get a nice big piece and crack it at a vein - huge amounts of the dusty stuff comes pouring out. I got more out of a single rock than the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum had in their "native gold sample" display. I'm still kicking myself for sweeping away what turned out to be not dirt and rust, but gold dust.
I used to build card houses a lot [my record is an impressive 17 floors], play 36 different card games well, and invented 3 games of my own [Extreme Egyptian, 1000, and the greatest game ever, Utter Chaos, which mixes rules from dozens of other games and is crazy as hell].
What else...um...oh yeah, I love history, mainly military, political, economic, just about everything but social history. I used to live in the perfect place for fostering that kind of interest - My old house's driveway was part of "King Phillip's Trail", a route used by natives to attack New England settlements during King Phillip's War. Any true Duxburian resident knows that the Pilgrams landed here before "Plimoth Plantation" and would have stayed here if only Duxbury Bay didn't like disappear every 6 hours - The tidal pull is 8-12 feet. There was no "Plymouth Rock" since the Pilgrams didn't land in Plymouth, so I don't see why people still argue about that. :laugh: There is however a "Pulpit Rock" on Clarks Island where they held early religious services.
Military history - everything up to WWII. After that, it just gets plain cheap. You can now hit a camel in the ass with a missile launched from a ship sitting in a gulf 2000 miles away. How cheap is that? You also no longer need to be a great shot - just spray out a billion bullets. Pulling off 4 aimed shots in a minute with black powder guns actually required skill. You also had to engage and outmanoeuver your enemy since there were no airstrikes or artillery support from 10 miles away. And no radios either. My favorite war was the American Civil, for no other war up to then showed such great progression. You start out [First Bull Run] with two lines standing and shooting with muzzle-loaded muskets, but three years later you're in 50 miles of trenches [Petersburg] and experimenting with breech-loaders and 120-round-per-minute machine guns. It's the bridge between the American Revolution and WWI.
Notable mention goes to the War of 1812. So many people don't give this war due credit. It was basically our second war of independence and so cool because of events like the Washington hurricane. The British have just raided our capital, burned the presidential mansion, and are on their way out. A freak hurricane decides to slam into the area. In addition, a tornado drops from the sky, roars into the British column, and picks up/hurls cannon, scaring the **** out of their raiding party. Divine intervention? Maybe. Then there's Baltimore, where during the bombardment of Fort McHenry, a shell scores a direct hit on the gunpowder supply and for some reason it doesn't explode. Then there's the Battle of New Orleans where the British lose over 2000 and Jackson loses 21. Amazing war.
Politics - I won't dive too deeply into this because it is a touchy issue. I am the founding member of the Pan-American Party, which is a yet-to-be-registered third party based on Classic Liberalism, the original form of liberalism that died out in the late 19th century. It crosses economic conservatism [Adam Smith was a classical liberal] with aspects of modern libertarianism. I also threw in the ethics of progressivism and put everything into idealistic realism in a bid to make this a cross-regional, cross-racial, cross-class political party that can actually function ethically and efficiently. The way the party's beliefs are setup, taxes could be extremely low, there would be no trade deficits, there would be no favoritism in the president's cabinet and appointed positions, there would be little if any polarization on social issues, the US would no longer be the leading contributer to "emissions, ozone-breaking CFCs, and rising sea levels which will in my lifetime devour the very place I am posting from right now" and the economy would still be booming. All of which is not dreaming, it is fully possible.
I think differently than most people, something I started noticing a while ago. Instead of fighting it, I let it take me, hence this strange mix of political views which finally ended my confusion over whether to go left or right. I went neither left nor right nor center, but somewhere totally new, which is something totally Duxburian [like the ideas in the Tactical Theory].
I think that's been enough writing for now...[/color]
Edited By Duxburian on 1185758807
