Q. What sort of players annoy you the most? (Answer!)
A. The morons who think they know everything but refuse to learn anything or if they do learn anything it's so they can do it wrong...
Q. Have you ever had a romantic encounter with someone you met in a game? (Answer!)
Q. When you are not playing games, what do you do for fun? (Answer!)
Q. What is your first computer or video gaming memory? (Answer!)
A. An old windows 3.1 computer. I often made up entirely text based games to abate my near constant boredome.
Q. How many hours a week do you play? (Answer!)
Q. If you could meet any game developer, who would it be? (Answer!)
A. ...Richard Garriott, the father of modern RPGs.
Q. What do your characters and avatars usually look like? (Answer!)
A. It varies. Though I tend more towards dark reds and blacks in my clothing colors and red, irish red, brown, or black in hair and black, red, grey, or blue-green in eye color.
Q. How do you feel about selling virtual items for real money? (Do NOT advertise RMT services!) (Answer!)
A. A waste of time and money that could be better spent.
Q. What are your favorite tabletop (RPG, board, miniatures, etc.) games? (Answer!)
A. D&D...nothing else...just D&D...
Q. If you made your own game, what would it be like? (Answer!)
A. Online RPG/Action/Adventure with a detailed plot but with the flexibility to allow the player to ignore the plot altogether if they so choose.
Q. How do you feel about playing characters of the opposite sex? (Answer!)
A. It can be useful. Especially if you are playing a game where the npcs or other game mechanics react better towards the opposite sex.
Q. Where did you get your gaming names from? (Answer!)
A. I tend to research real names but if I want or need a truely unique name I sometimes combine names into one. Although if I were playing a non-human race and needed a name to match the race i have resources for creating such names as well.
Q. Are you interested in working within the game industry? (Answer!)
A. I am currently the owner of a software design company. It's a small business so far but give us time and you will know us.
Q. What are the proper uses of tank guns and bubblegum? (Answer!)
A. Tanks guns are used for blowing the hell out of anything in your path. Aside from chewing bubblegum can be used to stick things together. If you meant used together then i suppose you could use bubblegum to attach shrapnel to the shells or use it to hold something down inside the tank.
Q. Do you feel relationships within games are meaningful? (Answer!)
A. Sometimes. It depends on the people and the situation.
Q. What is the most overlooked or misunderstood game? (Answer!)
A. ...*thinks*... The Adventures of Lolo I and II for the NES. I recently rediscovered the timeless joy of that simple yet time consuming game.
Q. What is the most memorable flamewar you can remember? (Answer!)
A. ...People actually remember those things? I try to avoid them and forget them when I can't avoid them....
Q. What music do you like to play games to? (Answer!)
A. Music. Anything at all. Except country or rap...... Depending on the how long i've been up sometimes I want fast music or sometimes it just needs to be any music.
Q. What do you love or hate about PVP? (Answer!)
A. I don't particularly love or hate anything about PVP. I tend to design my characters around a set personality regardless of how well that design works in PVP but I can live with dying innumerable times if I enjoy my character. Plus it's always more fun to kill someone with a bad build and you both know it's a bad build.
Q. In real life, are you male or female? (Answer!)
Q. What are your most memorable achievements in a game? (Answer!)
A. Beating it..... Seriously that's about all that is ever truely memorable for me and that's because I rarely actually do it....
Q. If you could cancel any online game, which would it be? (Answer!)
A. Cancel as in for everyone?....None. No matter how bad a game is someone somewhere will still enjoy it. And if not it will die on it's own.
Q. What sort of tools (calculators, builders, spreadsheets, etc.) do you use to plan your characters? (Answer!)
A. Notepad and Wordpad. I can make anything else I need using those two text editors. Though sometimes it's handy to just script something from scratch in C# or something. Just to help.
A. Yes, and I have a microphone
Q. Have you ever had a memorable real-life meeting with other gamers? (Answer!)
A. Real life? Any real gamer has no need for the thing known as real life.......Seriously though. I rarely meet anyone in real life. I have no need to go anywhere or meet anyone so the closest i come is talking with the employees at gamestop as i'm buying something....
Q. What experience do you have beta-testing games? (Answer!)
A. I don't do it much. I disdain having to contact the company when something goes wrong with a game so I don't do well as a beta tester. I occasionally do it but I never wind up finding any of the problems anyways. Not that I notice at least.
Q. What are your thoughts on player-made mods/addons for games? (Answer!)
A. The lifeblood of the online non-persistant gaming community. Without mods/addons things tend to get rather stale. It's always refreshing to find some new trick or item or find a spell works differently. Player-made ones just take less time to get made and get fixed faster when something goes wrong.
Q. What are your thoughts on roleplaying in games? (Answer!)
A. In a game with the sole design intent of roleplay it can do great but only with good dedicated roleplayers. In a game not designed for roleplay it's better in moderation. How much is too much depends on the people involved.
Q. Beside GamerDNA, what are your favorite websites? (Answer!)
A. Your measly 1000 characters would be insufficent to list them all so i'll just suffice to say any game i've ever played, any webcomic i've ever read, any anime i've ever watched, any game i've ever thought of playing has a place on my list of favorite websites. Some people may have their 5 or 10 or 50.... I've got my entire bookmarks/favorites full of them.
Q. Why do you join guilds or clans? (Answer!)
A. Depends on the particular guild/clan and game. Sometimes I just join to have access to guild only features. Sometimes it's the people that draw me or the community. Sometimes it's just the opportunity to beat the snot out of the members of other guilds/clans.
Q. If you could bring any book, movie or comic to life in a game, which would you choose? (Answer!)
A. Why choose? Bring back a convergent world one first and then all the others can come with it.
Q. When do you play, including timezone? (Answer!)
A. I am up and online as long as I can force myself to stay awake. I'm in PST timezone but I have no actual schedule so i'm as likely to be up at midnight as at noon. Of course sleep is sometimes required. Depending on how much stimulous I can draw from what i'm doing I can last anywhere from a half hour to four or five days before needing to sleep. Passing out doesn't count if you don't stay down for more than a few minutes.
Q. Other than your console or PC, what is the piece of hardware you can't live without? (Answer!)
A. My lighter...I suppose that counts.... if not then..... my cellphone most likely. It's the closest thing to a computer when i haven't got access to one.
