: About Me

I enjoy writing and creating new ideas and stories. Along with writing, I enjoy sketching and graphic design. Writing is a quiet passion of mine, one that is somewhat hidden behind my other abilities. My main skills are fabricating and drawing interesting characters and objects using pen, pencil and paper, as well as the computer to make intense images. Writing just happened to fit alongside my art and has continued to grow as well.

My passion is ...

Japan and all that implies.

I know too much about ...

videogames and comic books.

My parents always told me ...

you're better than you think you are.

My childhood ambition ...

was always to be a superhero.

My favorite memory ...

playing Moses in a church play.

Why I write ...

to express myself artistically and philosophically.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

are the Halo paperback novels/Batman Begins and Superman Returns/Rock of all kinds.

My first job ...

was a paper route.

My best moment ...

discovering I was a great writer.

My inspiration ...

Christ, 'nough said.

Hobbies & Games > Video Game Culture & Community Growing older and still playing video games

15 of 40

Now in my 20s and looking back at my childhood, I see how I have aged and video games as a medium have aged along with me. Back in the '80s, when I was a toddler, we had 8-bit games that used maybe ten variations of colored blocks to show everything in the game. Which, quite frankly, made everything look like a bunch of moving building blocks. I'll never forget the "bleeps" and "bloops" of the "great" sound effects. These games were mostly simple and easy to pick-up and play. Since I was young at the time, these games fit just right with my learning curve and problem-solving skills. Then c...

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