07-14-2008, 12:53 AM
It's really fuckin' hot and I need to eat something because I'm dehydrated and hungry. And thusly the perfect time to throw up an intro.
I'm Wedge, aka Tycho or Paul, depending how you know me. I'm... fuck... 22 I think? And just moved to Portland, hence my absence over the last week. I've played games for as long as I can remember. Starting with an NES up until... now I guess, though my only "current" system is my awesome new PC. I tend to be behind on gaming related things, because I am a cheap ass motherfucker. I rarely if ever buy games at full retail prices, especially in the last five years or so. Except in which cases I can steal a game when it comes out, which I have been known to do. My second hand habits have amassed me a sizable collection of PC and console games up through the PS2/XBox/GC era. I'm talking on the scale of 100's of games and peripherals total, I'll probably take pictures once I stop being lazy and finish "organizing" it all here.
I grew up on consoles, mostly only played PC games on friend's computers when I was younger. First "gaming" computer I ever had, was when I was able to get my family to buy a refurbished Dell that had a GeForce MX 420 in it. For the first time I could now run games requiring that fancy "3d acceleration" on a computer. Back then I had a lot of aspirations to be a game developer, so many of the games I played were from the burgeoning (on the web) indie gaming scene. Zombie Smashers X2, Crimsonland, Notrium, Dark Horizons: Lore... and I spent a lot of time playing the Realm Wars demo for the Torque Game Engine, which had a very small obscure community playing their own modded servers of what was functionally a stripped down Tribes 2 based FPS starter kit.Â
I starting learning to script stuff for my own server, did some work for Dark Horizons later on, then made a couple attempts at my own game/mod that never got past tech demos. Somewhere in that time there's a fucked up story about how I became a furry and gay, a worthless college degree, probably some rape, and then it ends with me doing an internship stint with Garage Games and then opting to pursue a life with my boyfriend instead of a career, and spending the last year or two working crappy jobs, hanging out on Destructoid, and buying the Urnge Bawks, which got me here.
So yeah. I play almost every genre of video game, and have loud opinions about most as well. I tend to be pretty good at the games I play, I think I do okay at TF2. And to confuse any confusion on the issue, I'm not really a furry. Anymore. Unless you're cute. Or it pisses you off a lot.
I think I just typed something here. I don't remember exactly what. I really need to go eat something though.
And now, for something totally different, I'll bring up my class project from Animation 121. Fear my art skills.
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I'm Wedge, aka Tycho or Paul, depending how you know me. I'm... fuck... 22 I think? And just moved to Portland, hence my absence over the last week. I've played games for as long as I can remember. Starting with an NES up until... now I guess, though my only "current" system is my awesome new PC. I tend to be behind on gaming related things, because I am a cheap ass motherfucker. I rarely if ever buy games at full retail prices, especially in the last five years or so. Except in which cases I can steal a game when it comes out, which I have been known to do. My second hand habits have amassed me a sizable collection of PC and console games up through the PS2/XBox/GC era. I'm talking on the scale of 100's of games and peripherals total, I'll probably take pictures once I stop being lazy and finish "organizing" it all here.
I grew up on consoles, mostly only played PC games on friend's computers when I was younger. First "gaming" computer I ever had, was when I was able to get my family to buy a refurbished Dell that had a GeForce MX 420 in it. For the first time I could now run games requiring that fancy "3d acceleration" on a computer. Back then I had a lot of aspirations to be a game developer, so many of the games I played were from the burgeoning (on the web) indie gaming scene. Zombie Smashers X2, Crimsonland, Notrium, Dark Horizons: Lore... and I spent a lot of time playing the Realm Wars demo for the Torque Game Engine, which had a very small obscure community playing their own modded servers of what was functionally a stripped down Tribes 2 based FPS starter kit.Â
I starting learning to script stuff for my own server, did some work for Dark Horizons later on, then made a couple attempts at my own game/mod that never got past tech demos. Somewhere in that time there's a fucked up story about how I became a furry and gay, a worthless college degree, probably some rape, and then it ends with me doing an internship stint with Garage Games and then opting to pursue a life with my boyfriend instead of a career, and spending the last year or two working crappy jobs, hanging out on Destructoid, and buying the Urnge Bawks, which got me here.
So yeah. I play almost every genre of video game, and have loud opinions about most as well. I tend to be pretty good at the games I play, I think I do okay at TF2. And to confuse any confusion on the issue, I'm not really a furry. Anymore. Unless you're cute. Or it pisses you off a lot.
I think I just typed something here. I don't remember exactly what. I really need to go eat something though.
And now, for something totally different, I'll bring up my class project from Animation 121. Fear my art skills.
![[Image: boo-did-i-skeerd-u.jpg]](http://www.wiltonlibrary.org/ya/blog/boo-did-i-skeerd-u.jpg)