Thunder850

My Neoseeker History:
I'm Thunder850. I've been on Neo for over 6 years now. I'm generally an intelligent person.

Also, I tend to go by Thunder. The reason behind me adding the 850 to my name still baffles me, considering the name "Thunder" was still available at that time.

Since I joined in 2006, I've gotten a lot busier over time, so I'm not on nearly as much anymore. In fact, my PPD has quartered since mid-2007 (my PPD was about 9 back then, now it's around 2.5...)

A Bit About Me:
I'm an average high school student who lives in the US. I love metal music (actually, just rock music in general), and love playing video games. My other interests include watching TV, using the computer, Boy Scouts, and playing the piano. I'm a somewhat unique person.

These are all of the bands that I listen to (alphabetically):
AC/DC - The Acacia Strain - Aerosmith - AFI - The Agonist - Alesana - Alexisonfire - Alice Cooper - Alice in Chains - All That Remains - Anathema - Anthrax - Apocalyptica - Architects - Arma Angelus - As Blood Runs Black - As I Lay Dying - Asking Alexandria - Atreyu - Attack Attack! - August Burns Red - Avenged Sevenfold - AxeWound - Bad Company - The Beatles - Between the Buried and Me - The Black Dahlia Murder - Black Sabbath - Black Tide - Black Veil Brides - Bleeding Through - Blessthefall - Blink-182 - Bloodlined Calligraphy - Blue Öyster Cult - Born of Osiris - Bowling for Soup - Breaking Benjamin - Breaking Wheel - Bring Me the Horizon - Buckethead - Bullet for my Valentine - Caliban - Cannibal Corpse - Chelsea Grin - Cherri Bomb - Children of Bodom - Collective Soul - Cradle of Filth - Crossfade - A Day to Remember - Dead Kennedys - Death - Deceased - Deep Purple - Def Leppard - Demon Hunter - Destruction - Dethklok - The Devil Wears Prada - Devo - The Dillinger Escape Plan - Dio - Disturbed - Dope - DragonForce - Dream On, Dreamer - Dream Theater - Duran Duran - The Eagles - Enter Shikari - Escape the Fate - Eths - Evanescence - Eyes Set to Kill - Faith no More - The Fall of Troy - Falling in Reverse - Filter - Finntroll - Five Finger Death Punch - Fleetwood Mac - Foo Fighters - Foster the People - Four Year Strong - From a Second Story Window - Godsmack - Guns N' Roses - Halestorm - Haste the Day - Helloween - HIM - I Killed the Prom Queen - Impending Doom - In Flames - Iron Maiden - Jane's Addiction - Jethro Tull - Jimmy Eat World - Job For a Cowboy - Joe Satriani - John Lennon - Journey - Judas Priest - Kansas - Kataklysm - The Killers - The Killing Tree - Killswitch Engage - Killwhitneydead - Kiss - Korn - Lacuna Coil - Lamb of God - Lenny Kravitz - Linkin Park - Living Colour - Lynyrd Skynyrd - Machine Head - Marilyn Manson - Mastodon - Meat Loaf - Megadeth - Meshuggah - Metallica - Miss May I - Modest Mouse - Mötley Crüe - Motörhead - Mountain - Muse - Never See Tomorrow - Night Ranger - Nirvana - Oceano - Of Mice & Men - The Offspring - Oh, Sleeper - Ozzy Osbourne - Pantera - Papa Roach - Paramore - Parkway Drive - Paul McCartney - Pearl Jam - Phish - Picture Me Broken - Pierce the Veil - Pink Floyd - Poison - The Presidents of the United States of America - Priestess - Primus - Prototype - Queen - Queens of the Stone Age - R.E.M. - Rage Against the Machine - Rammstein - The Ramones - Ratt - The Red Chord - Red Hot Chili Peppers - Rise Against - Rob Zombie - The Rolling Stones - Rush - Santana - Scar Symmetry - Scars on Broadway - Scorpions - Sea of Treachery - Seasons After - Senses Fail - Serj Tankian - Sevendust - The Sex Pistols - Shinedown - Silverstein - Silversun Pickups - Skeletonwitch - Skid Row - A Skylit Drive - Slash - Slayer - The Sleeping - Sleeping With Sirens - Slipknot - Smashing Pumpkins - Smashmouth - Social Distortion - Sonic Youth - Soundgarden - Spineshank - Steve Miller Band - The Stone Roses - Stone Temple Pilots - Strapping Young Lad - The Strokes - Suicide Silence - Survivor - System of a Down - Talking Heads - Tears for Fears - Tenacious D - Testament - Thousand Foot Krutch - Three Days Grace - Throwdown - Tool - Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Trivium - Twisted Sister - Underoath - Upon This Dawning - Van Halen - The Verve - We Came as Romans - Weezer - White Zombie - Whitechapel - Whitesnake - The Who - Wings - The Word Alive - Yes - ZZ Top - 30 Seconds to Mars - 36 Crazyfists - 311

As you can see, my music taste is mixed...at least, mixed in the rock category. I simply love rock music. A majority of the songs on my iPod are heavy metal (and a majority of those songs are some form of extreme metal) but honestly, I have a taste of many different kinds of rock, from early classic rock (The Beatles, The Rolling Stones), 70's Classic Rock (The Who, Aerosmith), early forms of punk rock (The Ramones, The Sex Pistols), a few tastes of New Wave (Duran Duran, Talking Heads), 90's grunge and alternative rock (Nirvana, Stone Temple Pilots), and various forms from the 2000's (30 Seconds to Mars, Muse). In addition, I also have a lot of post-hardcore, pop punk, progressive rock, etc. Anyways, I love rock. If it's rock, I probably like it. However, as it may seem, I'm not completely limited to rock, I've experimented with a lot of other genres.

TOP PICKS

I Like: Heavy Metal Music (and all of it's subgenres), Post-Hardcore, Alternative Rock (actually, I pretty much like all types of rock music), Video Games, Neoseeker, Sleeping, hanging out with my friends, girls, playing the guitar, Redditing, and...probably a few more things that I haven't mentioned.

I Hate: Hip Hop Music, Mainstream Pop Music, Country Music, Some Dubstep (some of it, I have liked a couple of songs...), school, religious wackjobs who forget about seperation of church and state, religious wackjobs in general, right-wing Republicans, racists, sexists (actually, generally intolerant people), and finally, dumbasses (other than to laugh at).

All-Time Favorite Video Game: Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy
(It's amazing. I am the master of it...I've beaten it 100% 14 times now since December of 2003, and I'm still not sick of it. I know it one end to another.)

All-Time Favorite Band: Avenged Sevenfold
(Awesome band.)

All-Time Favorite TV Show: South Park
(It's as funny as hell.)

All-Time Favorite Song: Inside the Fire - Disturbed
(Great song, but I kind of overplayed it...)

Electronics
Here are the details behind my electronics, and things of the such:

- Old-School PS2, Gotten December 2003
- Nintendo Wii, Gotten November 2007
- Nintendo DS Lite, Gotten December 2008, Now Broken
- Blu-Ray-Style PS3, Gotten December 2009
- Nintendo DSi XL, Gotten December 2010
- iPod Nano 2G, Gotten December 2006, Now Replaced
- iPod Nano 4G, Gotten December 2008, Replaced
- iPod Touch, Gotten March 2011, Current iPod
- Mac OSX, Gotten Sometime in 2009
- MacBook Pro, Gotten October 2010
- NES Emulator, Gotten April 2011
- N64 Emulator, Gotten September 2011
- iPhone 4S, Gotten December 2012

Music

I have sort of a distinct taste in music. My favorite genre of music is heavy metal, and unlike a lot of other metalheads, I am open to absolutely all subgenres of metal. I always see metalheads that say they hate metalcore, or hate nu metal...I'm open to all metal, from alternative metal to viking metal to grindcore. My favorite metal bands have to be Avenged Sevenfold, Disturbed, and System of a Down, but you can check out my band list further down on my profile.

Additionally, I have a taste for punk rock, particularly post-hardcore. Post-hardcore has to be my favorite non-metal genre, though I'm open to all rock music.

Now, there's music I don't like that much. I pretty much hate most pop music. When I say "pop music", while it normally refers to generally popular music, I am referring to what's literally classified as pop, because it really doesn't fit anywhere else. When I say I hate pop music, I'm not referring to Michael Jackson or the Beatles, I'm referring to the crap you hear on 100 different radio stations. I hate hip hop music, along with a lot of other people...it's just not my style. I also don't like country, and don't like a lot EDM (big note: I love Enter Shikari). You can say that I'm intolerant of other people's tastes in music, but I'm really not (I used to be...), it's just my personal taste.

My favorite band is Avenged Sevenfold. In October of 2010, my friend was talking to me about some awesome metal band he'd discovered called Avenged Sevenfold. A couple months later, I purchased what was said to be A7X's best song...Afterlife. I loved Afterlife so much, that I purchased all of Nightmare, which had the highest ratings at the time. Over time, I slowly started getting random songs from their various albums (Bat Country, Almost Easy, etc.) Eventually, I purchased a Waking the Fallen CD in Apri of 2011l, followed by City of Evil the following June, and Sounding the Seventh Trumpet in the following August. I got their self-titled album and Diamonds in the Rough digitally. So, basically, I have all of their songs, including the newest single, "Carry On." My two favorite songs by them are Trashed and Scattered and A Little Piece of Heaven...they have a lot of good songs.

Disturbed is my second favorite band. They were my favorite band for quite a while, and the band that got me into heavy metal. I discovered them for the first time in April of '08, playing their Ten Thousand Fists song, "Stricken," in Guitar Hero III. I liked it so much, that I bought Ten Thousand Fists and Indestructible in a CD store without even knowing any of the songs in it. Of course, I loved just about every song on it, which led me to buying Believe last August. Finally, I then bought The Sickness, along with Asylum, for a total of 63 (at that point) Disturbed songs on my iPod, in addition to several music videos.
I then acquired the non-album/bonus Disturbed songs, including Run (which is great, by the way), Two Worlds, Parasite, Monster, Hell, etc. I have gotten all known Disturbed songs = 83. Then, about 6 months later, they released all of those songs on an official album, The Lost Children. Haha.
My favorite Disturbed songs are Inside the Fire and The Night...and pretty much everything else.

My third favorite band is System of a Down. They're an Armenian-American alternative metal band. They have some weird-ass stuff, but it's all awesome. I've been into their music since around March of 2011, and since then, I've acquired all of their albums. Since their hiatus ended last year, I'm really looking forward to seeing a new album by then, but I'm still waiting...My favorite songs by them are Radio/Video and Lost in Hollywood, although my opinions on their songs change pretty frequently.

Top 20 Bands:
1. Avenged Sevenfold
2. Disturbed
3. A Day to Remember
4. System of a Down
5. Rise Against
6. Bring Me the Horizon
7. Trivium
8. Five Finger Death Punch
9. Bullet for my Valentine
10. Enter Shikari
11. Escape the Fate
12. Asking Alexandria
13. Falling in Reverse
14. Scars on Broadway
15. Metallica
16. Evanescence
17. Killswitch Engage
18. I Killed the Prom Queen
19. Iron Maiden
20. The Devil Wears Prada


Top 10 Guitarists
1. Synyster Gates (Avenged Sevenfold)
2. Matt Heafy (Trivium)
3. Dan Donegan (Disturbed)
4. Zacky Vengeance (Avenged Sevenfold)
5. Daron Malakian (System of a Down, Scars on Broadway)
6. Zach Blair (Rise Against)
7. Dimebag Darrel (Pantera)
8. Kirk Hammet (Metallica)
9. Matt Tuck (Bullet for my Valentine)
10. Jona Weinhofen (Bring me the Horizon, I Killed the Prom Queen)

Top Songs of each of My Favorite Bands:

NOTE: This section's under construction. My lists change constantly.

1. Avenged Sevenfold
1. Trashed and Scattered (City of Evil)
2. A Little Piece of Heaven (Avenged Sevenfold)
3. Beast and the Harlot (City of Evil)
4. Second Heartbeat (Waking the Fallen)
5. Save Me (Nightmare)
6. Critical Acclaim (Avenged Sevenfold)
7. An Epic of Time Wasted (Sounding the Seventh Trumpet)
8. M.I.A. (City of Evil)
9. Afterlife (Avenged Sevenfold)
10. Seize the Day (City of Evil)

2. Disturbed
1. Inside the Fire (Indestructible)
2. The Night (Indestructible)
3. Stricken (Ten Thousand Fists)
4. Haunted (Indestructible)
5. Another Way to Die (Asylum)
6. Run (Indestructible Bonus)
7. Asylum (Asylum)
8. Down With the Sickness (The Sickness)
9. The Curse (Indestructible)
10. Warrior (Asylum)

3. System of a Down
1. Radio/Video (Mezmerize)
2. Lost in Hollywood (Mezmerize)
3. Violent Pornography (Mezmerize)
4. A.D.D. (Steal This Album!)
5. Highway Song (Steal This Album!)
6. Toxicity (Toxicity)
7. Lonely Day (Hypnotize)
8. Chop Suey! (Toxicity)
9. B.Y.O.B. (Mezmerize)
10. Sugar (System of a Down)

4. Rise Against
1. Give it All (Siren Song of the Counter Culture)
2. Prayer of the Refugee (The Sufferer and the Witness)
3. Rumors of my Demise have Been Greatly Exaggerated (Siren Song of the Counter Culture)
4. Swing Life Away (Siren Song of the Counter Culture)
5. Six Ways 'til Sunday (The Unraveling)
6. Hairline Fracture (The Unraveling)
7. Survive (The Sufferer and the Witness)
8. Help is on the Way (Endgame)
9. Architects (Endgame)
10. Audience of One (Appeal to Reason)

5. A Day to Remember
1. The Downfall of Us All (Homesick)
2. Another Song About the Weekend (Homesick)
3. All I Want (What Separates me from You)
4. 2nd Sucks (What Separates me from You)
5. I'm Made of Wax, Larry, What are you Made of? (Homesick)
6. Right Where You Want Me to Be (Attack of the Killer B-Sides)
7. The Danger in Starting a Fire (For Those Who Have Heart)
8. All Signs Point to Lauderdale (What Seperates Me from You)
9. Since You Been Gone (Attack of the Killer B-Sides)
10. Casablanca Sucked Anyways (And Their Name Was Treason)

6. Escape the Fate
1. My Apocalypse (Dying is Your Latest Fashion)
2. Not Good Enough for the Truth in Cliché (Dying is Your Latest Fashion)
3. Something (This War is Ours)
4. There's No Sympathy for the Dead (Dying is Your Latest Fashion)
5. World Around Me (Escape the Fate)
6. Make Up (Situations EP)
7. The Aftermath (G3) (Escape the Fate)
8. Friends and Alibis (Dying is Your Latest Fashion)
9. This War is Ours (The Guillotine II) (This War is Ours)
10. The Ransom (There's No Sympathy for the Dead EP)

7. Bring me the Horizon
1. It Never Ends (There is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen it)
2. Suicide Season (Suicide Season)
3. Blessed With a Curse (There is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen it)
4. Diamonds Aren't Forever (Suicide Season)
5. For Stevie Wonder's Eyes Only (Braille) (Count Your Blessings)
6. Chelsea Smile (Suicide Season)
7. Crucify Me (There is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen it)
8. Alligator Blood (There is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen it)
9. Sleep With One Eye Open (Suicide Season)
10. Don't Go (There is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen it)

8. Five Finger Death Punch
1. Remember Everything (American Capitalist)
2. Dying Breed (War is the Answer)
3. The Way of the Fist (The Way of the Fist)
3. 100 Ways to Hate (American Capitalist)
5. Back for More (American Capitalist)
6. Canto 34 (War is the Answer)
7. Ashes (The Way of the Fist)
8. Salvation (The Way of the Fist)
9. No One Gets Left Behind (War is the Answer)
10. American Capitalist (American Capitalist)

9. Bullet for my Valentine
1. Tears Don't Fall (The Poison)
2. Hearts Burst Into Fire (Scream Aim Fire)
3. Scream Aim Fire (Scream Aim Fire)
4. Tears Don't Fall (The Poison)
5. Waking The Demon (Scream Aim Fire)
6. All These Things I Hate (Revolve Around Me) (The Poison)
7. Forever and Always (Scream Aim Fire)
8. Take It All Out On Me (Scream Aim Fire)
9. Hit the Floor (The Poison)
10. 4 Words (To Choke Upon) (The Poison)

-- IN PROGRESS PAST THIS POINT --

9. Scars on Broadway
1. World Long Gone
2. Kill Each Other / Live Forever
3. Chemicals
4. F**king
5. Cute Machines
6. Serious
7. Enemy
8. Stoner-Hate
9. 3005
10. Funny

10. The Dillinger Escape Plan
1. Milk Lizard (Ire Works)
2. Farwell, Mona Lisa (Option Paralysis)
3. Paranoid (Under the Running Board)
4. Setting Fire to Sleeping Giants (Miss Machine)
5. Black Bubblegum (Ire Works)
6. Party Smasher (Ire Works)


9. Serj Tankian
1. Empty Walls (Elect the Dead)
2. Saving Us (Elect the Dead)
3. Baby (Elect the Dead)
4. Sky is Over (Elect the Dead)
5. Money (Elect the Dead)
6. The Unthinking Majority (Elect the Dead)
7. Beethoven's C*** (Elect the Dead)
8. Honking Antelope (Elect the Dead)
9. Feed Us (Elect the Dead)
10. Lie Lie Lie (Elect the Dead)

10. Trivium
1. To the Rats (The Crusade)
2. Anthem (We Are The Fire) (The Crusade)
3. Master of Puppets (Ascendancy)
4. And Sadness Will Sear (The Crusade)
5. The Rising (The Crusade)
6. Like Light to the Flies (Ascendancy)
7. The Crusade (The Crusade)
8. Tread the Floods (The Crusade)
9. In Waves (In Waves)
10. Ignition (The Crusade)

11. Metallica
1. One (...And Justice for All)
2. Battery (Master of Puppets)
3. Master of Puppets (Master of Puppets)
4. The Thing That Should Not Be (Master of Puppets)
5. Ride the Lightning (Ride the Lightning)
6. Fade to Black (Ride the Lightning)
7. ...And Justice for All (...And Justice for All)
8. Trapped Under Ice (Ride the Lightning)
9. Ender Sandman (Metallica)
10. St. Anger (St. Anger)

12. Killswitch Engage
1. My Curse (As Daylight Dies)
2. This Fire (As Daylight Dies [Special Edition])
3. The End of Heartache (The End of Heartache)
4. My Obsession (God of War: Blood and Metal)
5. Rose of Sharyn (The End of Heartache)
6. Holy Diver (As Daylight Dies [Special Edition])

13. Iron Maiden
1. The Number of the Beast (The Number of the Beast)
2. Run to the Hills (The Number of the Beast)
3. 2 Minutes to Midnight (Powerslave)
4. The Trooper (Piece of Mind)
5. Invaders (The Number of the Beast)
6. Hallowed Be Thy Name (The Number of the Beast)



15. Korn [pre-dubstep]
1. Freak on a Leash (Freak on a Leash)
2. Another Brick in the Wall (Korn: Greatest Hits, Volume 1)
3. A.D.I.D.A.S. (Life is Peachy)
4. Falling Away from Me (Issues)
5. K@#Ø%! (Life is Peachy)
6. Ass Itch (LIfe is Peachy)

16. Evanescence
1. What You Want (Evanescence)
2. Bring Me to Life (Fallen)
3. My Immortal (Fallen)

17. August Burns Red
1. White Washed (Constellations)
2. ...Baby One More Time (Punk Goes Pop, Vol. 2)
3. Leveler (Leveler)
4. Poor Millionaire (Leveler)

18. Asking Alexandria
1. Youth Gone Wild (Life Gone Wild)
2. The Final Episode (Let's Change the Channel) (Stand Up and Scream)
3. A Prophecy (Stand Up and Scream)

19. Dream Theater
1. Panic Attack (Octavarium)
2. Octavarium (Octavarium)
3. Never Enough (Octavarium)
4. The Root of all Evil (Octavarium)

20. In Flames
1. Take This Life (Come Clarity)
2. Land of Confusion (Reroute to Remain)
3. Deliver Us (Sounds of a Playground Fading [Deluxe Edition])
4. Come Clarity (Come Clarity)
5. The Jester Race (The Jester Race)

PM me if you support metal music and you can be my neofriend.

TV/Movies

Top 5 Favorite Cartoons:
1. South Park
2. The Simpsons
3. Family Guy
4. SpongeBob SquarePants (Hell, you can't be too old for him XD)
5. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Top 5 Favorite Movies:
1. Avatar
2. Dead Leaves (Best Anime Ever)
3. South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut
4. Terminator 2: Judgement Day
5. Terminator

Video Games
The video game lists in this section aren't exact, because my list constantly changes...

Top 5 Favorite Video Game Series:
1. Jak and Daxter Series
2. Guitar Hero/Rock Band Series
3. Sly Cooper Series
4. Crash Bandicoot Series
5. Mario Kart Series

Top 5 Favorite 8/16-Bit Era Video Games (NES, SNES, Genesis):
1. Contra (NES)
2. Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Genesis)
3. Double Dragon (NES)
4. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II (NES)
5. Super Mario Kart (SNES)

Top 5 Favorite Generation 2 Video Games (N64, PS1):
1. Donkey Kong 64 (N64)
2. Crash Bandicoot 2 (PS1)
3. Kirby 64 (N64)
4. Crash Team Racing (PS1)
5. Mario Party 3 (N64)

Top 5 Favorite Generation 3 Video Games (GCN, PS2, XBox):
1 (Tied). Jak 3 (PS2) -
1 (Tied). Jak and Daxter (PS2)
3. Sly 2 (PS2)
4. Jak II (PS2)
5. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Top 5 Favorite Generation 4 Video Games (PS3, Wii, 360):
1. Rock Band 2 (PS3)
2. Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Wii)
3. Ratchet and Clank: A Crack in Time (PS3)
4. Guitar Hero III (Wii)
5. Super Mario Galaxy (Wii)

Top 5 Favorite Handheld Video Games (GB, GBC, GBA, DS, PSP):
1. Super Mario 64 DS (DS)
2. Mario and Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story (DS)
3. Mario and Luigi: Partners in Time (DS)
4. Mario Kart DS (DS)
5. Contra 4 (DS)

Old Stuff
Wow, I found a thread that I made two days after I joined, and actually is still being posted on (not really a lot, though.)

http://www.neoseeker.com/forums/2154/t780664-jak-daxter-fan-club/

My legitimate first thread was deleted.

NEOSEEKER HISTORY

Timeline
November 19, 2004: Visited Neoseeker For the First Time
September 6, 2006: First Legitimate Post
November 8, 2006: Registered, First Post
February 4, 2007: First Neopoint
February 24, 2007: First User Review
November 14, 2007; First Game FAQ
September 27, 2010: First Fanart Submission
October 26, 2010: Reached 1,000 Neopoints

Wiki History
*1st Wiki Contributor Tag; Crash Bandicoot; September 2010
*2nd Wiki Contributor Tag; Rayman; October 2010
*3rd Wiki Contributor Tag; Simpsons; November 2010

Accomplishments:
- Member #259,808
- Creator of ":happy:" smiley

Ranking
In mid-2007, all of the ranks were switched around, so I will just begin with the ranks from Still Seekin' and above. Plus, I don't remember when I achieved any ranks before that.

Level 24: Still Seekin': Reached 12/27/07
Level 25: Hooked on Neo: Reached 10/9/10
Level 26: N'Somniac: In Progress