05-26-2008, 01:56 AM
Hi. I'm Peaches. I'm 18 years old (fun fact?) and I'm active on Destructoid, not so active on here. I'm was born in Hamilton and lived in Burlington, Ontario for about five or six years, and then moved to a dinky backwoods town in North Carolina that's just beginning to develop. Seriously, the people here power their refrigerators with their mullets.
I've been playing since the days of the SNES: it was platformers like Donkey Kong Country and such back then. Then I got my N64, and played Goldeneye, and so on. It's been a sample platter of gaming history for me: I wasn't really hardcore about it until I was about 13 and played the original Call of Duty. I made my first hardware purchase - an nVidia GeForce 5200FX - to keep up with that game. Built my first computer in 2006, and have been upgrading it since.
In my spare time, I write - none of the wrist-slittey stuff, just poetry and the occasional short story - and play video games and hang out with people and very little else. I'm en route to graduate from high school in about fifteen days (at time of writing), and enroll at Western Carolina University come August, on a Teaching Fellows Scholarship which pays for all my stuff (though I do have to serve in the public schools for four years afterwards). I'm going to major in Secondary Education, minor in English.
My name came from absolutely nothing, in case you were wondering. I picked a title and then the most off-the-wall thing I could imagine. But I can eat an entire can in three seconds, and I've done it in places like canoes and caves because it's a very convenient camping food. I play Call of Duty 4, TF2, Company of Heroes, Medieval 2, Garry's Mod, CSS. I play Heavy, almost always. Unless I'm a spy. And if I'm not a spy, I'm a Heavy. And if I'm a Heavy... I'll go toe to toe with Caff, most of the time. Looking forward to seeing you on the server, and goodonya, mates.
I've been playing since the days of the SNES: it was platformers like Donkey Kong Country and such back then. Then I got my N64, and played Goldeneye, and so on. It's been a sample platter of gaming history for me: I wasn't really hardcore about it until I was about 13 and played the original Call of Duty. I made my first hardware purchase - an nVidia GeForce 5200FX - to keep up with that game. Built my first computer in 2006, and have been upgrading it since.
In my spare time, I write - none of the wrist-slittey stuff, just poetry and the occasional short story - and play video games and hang out with people and very little else. I'm en route to graduate from high school in about fifteen days (at time of writing), and enroll at Western Carolina University come August, on a Teaching Fellows Scholarship which pays for all my stuff (though I do have to serve in the public schools for four years afterwards). I'm going to major in Secondary Education, minor in English.
My name came from absolutely nothing, in case you were wondering. I picked a title and then the most off-the-wall thing I could imagine. But I can eat an entire can in three seconds, and I've done it in places like canoes and caves because it's a very convenient camping food. I play Call of Duty 4, TF2, Company of Heroes, Medieval 2, Garry's Mod, CSS. I play Heavy, almost always. Unless I'm a spy. And if I'm not a spy, I'm a Heavy. And if I'm a Heavy... I'll go toe to toe with Caff, most of the time. Looking forward to seeing you on the server, and goodonya, mates.
