Q. When do you play, including timezone? (Answer!)
Q. Are you interested in working within the game industry? (Answer!)
A. yes as a Community Administrator
A. Yes, and I have a microphone
Q. What is your first computer or video gaming memory? (Answer!)
A. Online playing Aces over the Pacific on dial up, for overall first it was Pong
Q. What experience do you have beta-testing games? (Answer!)
A. I have Beta Tested Dark Age of Camelot, Battletech 2035 (Cancelled Project), Warcraft III, Shadowbane, Earth and Beyond, Archlord, Lord of the Rings, Call of Duty 4, Battlefield 1942, Neverwinter Nights.
Q. What music do you like to play games to? (Answer!)
A. Nickelback, Foo Fighters, Gorillaz, Breaking Benjamin, Fuel, 3 Doors Down, Disturbed, Korn, Deftones, Three Days Grace, Linkin Park, Matchbox Twenty, Green Day, My Chemical Romance, Staind, BLINK 182, Rage Against the Machine, Marilyn Manson, Seether, The Goo Goo Dolls, Mudvayne, Saliva, Creed, Slipknot, Tool, Queens Of The Stone Age, P.O.D., Geto Boys, Smashing Pumpkins, Everclear, 2pac
Q. If you could cancel any online game, which would it be? (Answer!)
Q. What do you love or hate about PVP? (Answer!)
A. The short of it, I love the community, hate the politics.
Q. What is a feature you would like added to GamerDNA? (Answer!)
A. Music widget, a/v capabilities
Q. What are your most memorable achievements in a game? (Answer!)
A. killing four warrior builds at the same time in one match in guild wars with my Assassin Ranger and living.
Q. If you could meet any game developer, who would it be? (Answer!)
A. Sean M. Dahlberg AKA Ashen Temper
Q. If you made your own game, what would it be like? (Answer!)
A. Complicated question, the short of it is that it would have pvp as a focal point however
Q. What question would you add to the Attitudes system? (Answer!)
A. In your opinion what are the three biggest problems with the current trends in MMORPG design?
Q. What are the proper uses of tank guns and bubblegum? (Answer!)
A. as dex monkey training devices
Q. What is the most overlooked or misunderstood game? (Answer!)
Q. Have you ever had a memorable real-life meeting with other gamers? (Answer!)
Q. Where did you get your gaming names from? (Answer!)
A. Empty space, namely those in my own skull
Q. Do your quiz results on GamerDNA reflect your personality, and if not, what did it get wrong? (Answer!)
A. Everything was spot on, although a good quiz relating to one's personality or knowledge about game mechanics or principles would go a long way to defining how gamers percieve their environment with relation to their social extremes would teach us more about current issues pertaining to the social extremes we see in Bartels quiz
Q. When you are not playing games, what do you do for fun? (Answer!)
A. Normal geek stuff, watch movies, table top role play, or war game, drink vodka, womanize, and smoke cigars
Q. How do you feel about selling virtual items for real money? (Do NOT advertise RMT services!) (Answer!)
A. players will eventually get it anyhow, and with the fact that most players have a real life to live not everyone can spend 20 hours a day in game to get these things any other way. This issue begs more reflection and since I am not looking to start a thesis on it here I will leave it at that...for now
Q. Beside GamerDNA, what are your favorite websites? (Answer!)
Q. What sort of tools (calculators, builders, spreadsheets, etc.) do you use to plan your characters? (Answer!)
A. Online sources mostly, and a whole lot of trial and error
Q. What is the most memorable flamewar you can remember? (Answer!)
A. Intra Guild arguments mostly, that would not be known or remembered for the most part
Q. What are your thoughts on player-made mods/addons for games? (Answer!)
A. Good for community, unstable and exploitable though
Q. Do you feel relationships within games are meaningful? (Answer!)
A. not as much as people may believe, but on the other hand they are beneficial
Q. How many hours a week do you play? (Answer!)
Q. How do you feel about playing characters of the opposite sex? (Answer!)
A. perfectly fine, though I rarely do, I hate the idea that people do it to gain some sort of social edge or psychological benefit
Q. What do your characters and avatars usually look like? (Answer!)
A. sleek sports car = lean dex monkey = Rogue
Q. What sort of players annoy you the most? (Answer!)
A. Those who see themselves as knowing more then others based purely on their own self righteous egotistical judgmental idiocy, those unwilling to admit their own flaws or selfish behavior and unwilling to broker compromise and show themselves as inflexibly conservative concerning their fellow man and his right to have a opinion of his own.
Q. Why do you join guilds or clans? (Answer!)
A. For the social dynamics, the community of man, and the camaraderie and mutual benefit and protections afforded by such organized efforts. The drama, and theatrics of a good story intertwined with purpose and souls who fill in character and choice for moral, and virtue
Q. What are your favorite tabletop (RPG, board, miniatures, etc.) games? (Answer!)
A. Old School here...1st ed D&D, Warhammer 40K, Cyberpunk, Paranoia, and a little of my own sauce too
Q. What are your thoughts on roleplaying in games? (Answer!)
A. I could write a essay on this, however I will say that I basically believe it is one of the lost arts and most important in pvp. PVE role playing is a fail, there is a point howerver where true role playing in a MMO becomes very powerful and that is in a pvp context.
Q. Have you ever had a romantic encounter with someone you met in a game? (Answer!)
A. Yes, I rebuked her advances though. (Yes I know for sure it was a woman)
Q. Other than your console or PC, what is the piece of hardware you can't live without? (Answer!)
A. XBOX 360, and my 37inch HD TV
Q. If you could bring any book, movie or comic to life in a game, which would you choose? (Answer!)
A. either Warhammer 40K, Battletech or Transformers
Q. In real life, are you male or female? (Answer!)
Q. What are the specs on your gaming rig? (Answer!)
A. AMD 64x2 4600+ Processor 512 Geforce 8800GTS 4GB DDR2 RAM
