Introduction It is I, The King!

I've seen alot of established members posting long overdue intros and thought I'd crouchjump right on the bandwagon and get one in, seeing as I'm still relatively new. A lot of people don't know me yet as well, so read on..

My name is Hamish, I'm 19 (for another month) and live in London, England most of the time. When I'm not there I'm up at university it Norwich, where I'm going into my second year of and English Lit degree. This is the main cause of my reported post length, so beware ye illiterate dawgs.
I play guitar- blues, jazz, funk, metal, country and also play a little bass occasionally. I'm a gear freak, and have spent way too much money on my setup which includes an Ibanez RG-450 (japanese), Aria Les Paul (but with a freaky body shape), a couple of old starter guitars, and my ENGL 100watt Powerball Valve head. It currently runs through an old beat up bass cab because I can't afford the matching cab.
I also love the Mighty Boosh if you didn't get the thread title.

Halo
I play Halo more than any other game, pretty much exclusively of late, and its an old addiction. I got Halo CE after a while of owning my Xbox, it took me a while to give the game a chance and take it seriously. But shortly after I bought it I went away on family holiday to a small house on a barren island, with Halo as my only entertainment. I went from complete novice, through campaign on easy, normal, heroic, and just more than half way through legendary because it was all there was to do.
I came back and owned the friends that had introduced me to the game, pretty satisfying, but they got as good as me pretty quickly. We played custom games for years, mostly 1v1s with one guy Jack. Never got to LAN play, so I'm still pretty used to splitscreen and will play it quite happily.
I never got into Halo 2, I was too much of a small child pistol ***** who was happy to keep playing Halo 1, which I did for years. My only Halo 2 games were an occasional custom which I didn't enjoy, and one recent run in where I met one of my friends.
I got to university and he was in the dorm room next door, I saw his xbox and asked if he played Halo. He smiled his intensely annoying, smug little smile and proceeded to 15-0 me on Halo 2. I got Halo 3 quickly afterward and realised that Live was what I had been missing out on. Basic training was so much fun, I was a noob with an AR but it didn't matter, cause I was still better than everyone I played. I played alot of social because me and my friends played as a team or did customs most of the time, and I was the only one who would pay for Live. My occasional ranked games got me my hallowed staff captain, which stood until me and the friend at uni I mentioned above decided to do some doubles work, getting me colonel in a few sessions. You'll see us in the upcoming 2v2 tournament.

Forge
Forge didn't impress me at first, I found weapon and object placement alone pretty unappealing since I loved 2 weapon gametypes. But when the Heroic map pack became free I thought that playing around on Foundry was by far the most intelligent use of my time. Me and my brother stayed up late building a map, one that I still appreciate today despite its basic nature. The bungie humpday with FH had also directed me here, where I saw stuff that really showed me what was possible. I read through all the forging 101s and downloaded a few maps from the then recent 1v1 tournament. I made another map, a paintball style symmetrical thing, pretty basic, but my first attempt at interlocking and floating.
After signing up for ForgeHub I thought I became more ambitious, spawning the projects I've posted here. I haven't started a new project properly as I'm trying to find inspiration for a map with really interesting gameplay, something that eludes me so far.

 

Hmm, good point. I may be from England but I still think Marvel kicks ass, even though CA isn't the best.