[DONE] Heyas!

[Grifter]

I'm a 44 year old male gamer who lives in the Pacific Northwest of the USA.

I have an unusual schedule that provides me with a fair amount of gaming time - but at varying times of day. In MMOs this often results in my developing different groups of friends in US West Coast, US East Coast, and European "Prime Times".

I've been a gamer since junior high school. I started with pen and paper D&D.

I was an early adopter of the home computer - and was fortunate to have a parent that supported that interest. I grew up playing with the Kaypro, Apple IIe, TRS CoCo, Timex Sinclair ZX100, Vic-20, and the Commodore 64. I fondly remember when the most common way to get new games was to buy a magazine that had the actual program written out line-by-line, and then taking it home and typing it all into your computer.

My best friend and I wrote our own BASIC program to assist us with dungeon mastering, and I distinctly recall us daydreaming of the day when we would have a computer DM that would show us some sort of computer graphics dungeon. A little more than a decade later I entered the final Beta of a little game called "Everquest". It was even greater than our childhood daydreams. I would spend a ridiculous amount of time playing that game for the next ten years. To this day no other game has come close to capturing the magic and community that I experienced in those first few years of Everquest. And I've tried a lot of games.

I prefer MMO's (I have played pretty much every major MMO) and FPS (especially cooperative or teamwork style FPS) - but I also play a lot of single-player and puzzle type games.

Currently I am spending the most time in Global Agenda, Star Trek Online, EQ/EQ2, Left4Dead/Left4Dead2, Team Fortress 2, and Counterstrike.

I'm kind of a gaming Jekyll and Hyde; in MMOs I really enjoy the social aspects of the game, and tend to play more as a carebear and light roleplayer; but in FPS games I'm a blood-thirsty, cold-blooded, killing machine!

I'm pretty outgoing, and like to joke around and BS - but when the bell rings, and the fighting starts...I fight to win.

/salute

Grifter

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