Can't say I'm literally a gaymer, more like a bimer, but count me in!

As for an Intro... (And to try and get this thread heading in the right direction!)

Little bit about me: I am 34 years young from South Australia... I have been "out" since I was 14 years of age, which didn't go down as well as I had hoped at home or in various social circles, nor was it my choice to even come out, lots of drama involved with that... It is sadly a common theme in the LGBT community, especially those who came out in the 90's or earlier, times were more Homophobic, the Australian Prime Minister John Howard had just altered the marriage act to exclude LGBTQI people for example.

Haven't spoken to my parents since... But that is okay, water off a ducks back. No fucks to give.
Happy to say I am more successful in life than they ever were.

I am a massive supporter of Science, Evidence and Sound logic, Ergo; Climate Change, Evolution, Atheism is at the top of my list. - And as someone who loves a good debate, will debate these topics until blue in the face. You better bring your best pair of evidence underwear.

I am a Retained Firefighter and an Emergency Services Officer where I also do Marine Rescues and Vertical Rescues. - Also work in the health industry.
Future career wise I have applied for a position as a firefighter for the Australian Defense Force... Failing that, I will likely do another season as a project firefighter with the National Parks.. I will be doing either on top of my current Firefighting position which is paid on a per-job basis.

But in my downtime I am a gamer, I love gaming, it's the best outlet for me to forget about the real world and simply relax and unwind... But I am probably preaching to the already converted here on the vgchartz front.

My primary platform is of course the PC and it's the strategy titles that really tickles my pickle... But also own Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo consoles as well, which I really don't have any preferences for. (But I like to collect games, so there is that.)

At the moment game-wise I am building out my WiiU collection... As a console that is phased out and depreciated, it's a ripe time to collect for as the games and hardware are cheap.

And at the moment I am playing Pokemon Shield on the Nintendo Switch.

I also like cats.

Yeah why not sounds fun.

I'm male, 23. Born and raised in Latin America, and I've been living in the US for the past 6 years. Moved here for college. Currently residing in the Northeast, but I'm probably going to the South or California soon. We'll see.
I was raised in a very socially conservative community. I'm talking about all-male, fully Catholic Elementary, Middle, and High School with mandatory weekly mass, PLUS Sunday mass with my family. DESPITE all of this, I never was particularly religious. No reason at all to be honest. It just was like that. I never was questioning, or sought to prove or disprove Catholicism, nor do I have a negative opinion of religion. It just never struck a chord with me. I have a lot of love and respect for my Catholic friends and family, but it's just not something innate in me. I'm just fairly detached and uninterested in religion as a whole, even though I enjoy some Catholic traditions.

Not out yet. Working on it. If I had to take a guess, I feel my family would stand with me if I told them. They're religious, and not very open-minded, but probably more open minded than the average person from where I was raised.

I'd say the thing is, growing up, I barely understood the concept of "gay" even existed, which clearly, caused a lot of confusion. It was a slow, prolonged realization. It fully hit me one day, and that's just been life since. There are actually a couple friends in the US who know, and I'm happy that people here are so open minded. Compared to friends back in my hometown, it really is quite a sharp contrast.

I'm a Nintendrone until the end and well beyond.

You're all my dudes and dudettes and as a guy with a libertarian tinge (and actually bicurious myself) you got my support! Games are for everyone and everyone should feel welcome in the gaming community. We all deserve the joy and entertainment the medium brings us, that's a universal trait!

I know coming out is probably was not easy for many of you, and lord knows why some people actually think it's in any way their business to dictate their way of life over your own or have beef with it (mainly just a factor of some people stuck in their ways of hardcore religion these days I'd say). But it shows a strength and resilience to do so.

I'm 29 years old from Puerto Rico, born and raised in a Catholic household with my grandmother being the central figure. Fortunately it was a welcoming and quite open-minded family, so bigotry and homophobia was not on their mind. It was kind of a struggle growing up with feelings towards the same sex while being a Catholic, but I couldn't hide it anymore. When I finally came out the day I turned 22, I told myself that if I'll have to be judged for it then so be it. I still consider myself Catholic, a very open-minded one.

I'm kinda out, only to my brother and my mother. She didn't seem to take the news too well. She didn't shout at me, or got angry at me or threw me out of the house, but she seemed to be in a state of total disbelief for several days, even trying to dissuade me out of it as if it was just a phase I was going through. I feel like she ignores my sexuality and placed my coming out moment on the back of her mind, but I still love her though. My brother? When I told him, he thought I was bi! He didn't mind at all.

Computing and gaming is my passion. I'm still green programming, but I really want to get out there. Gaming wise I started with the NES when I barely had the ability to hold a controller on my hands. Went to the SNES and fell in love with SMB3 and SMW even before owning the games myself. Memories of going to my mother's cousins house to play SM: All Stars still invade my mind. But then I moved to PS and Gran Turismo, which is where my affinity for vehicles and for the Sony consoles grew. Was a late bloomer with the N64, getting one in Christmas 2001. Got the PS2 next Christmas; I discovered more games, more genres I couldn't afford with the previous console. Because of that, it is the console I still hold on high regard over any other. Then came the PS3 on January 2009 and I stayed with it, even with its notable hiccups. And now, I'm on the PS4, mostly stuck playing PvE because for some reason PvP terrifies me. I've been conditioned to feel humiliation when I lose to another person. Maybe someday I'll be confident enough to play Apex Legends for more than 40 minutes at a time.

I partly learned English from school, with ingesting Closed Captioned programming being the key to success.

Sony pony to the death (or until Sony really, really, really, really fudges up).

Wrong thread my dear watson?

gay, married, looking forward for surrogacy to have kids... (yeah adoption is ideal but husband is insisting)

just passed cotton anniversary last week...

been together for a while though... open relationship is still active LOL

Since it appears we're doing at-length bios now...

I is a 37-year-old dyke, born once upon a time in a galaxy far, far away. Or so it seems! Actually, I was born in 1982 in a dying coal town in the U.S. state of Texas, where I explored and caused mischief.

I've known that I liked other girls since elementary school, but was confused about my sexual orientation during my tween years. My parents did not approve, but also didn't really buy my account of myself too much because they figured it was just me being out to rebel and irk them in another way. I suppose it was an understandable view. I was generally grounded during my teen years. Which I often defied. The response from my parents was generally like "Sigh. Janice...". Yar, I was that kid.

Anyway, as time wore on, I got tired of being grounded all the time and superficially gave in on a lot of things. Among these was that I *officially" conceded that my same-sex attraction was all petty acts of rebellion and pledged never to participate in such sinful deeds again and ceased to do so openly. To prove my sincerity, I started dating guys. But it wasn't an act, of course; I was, in fact, a lesbian. I've just kept that on the down low in town since then, as it's a pretty conservative place that's basically run by the local church (Southern Baptist).

The original Dyke March in 1993 made a difference in my life. I was 11 at the time and this was back in the pre-internet days, in a tiny, rural community where nobody was then or is now out as gay. I saw coverage of the Dyke March on TV and suddenly had words for what I was (or might be, I thought to myself at the time) and realized that I wasn't the only person out there like me. So yeah, while some people may not see the need for things like parades and marches celebrating gay pride, highlighting lesbian issues, that sort of thing anymore today (including some members of the LGBT community), there was a time and place where the existence of such things made a real difference in my life.

I have (quietly) dated women since graduating high school, but am currently single.

At least I've became a tremendous success life in other ways though: I currently bag groceries, clean toilets, return carts from the store parking lot, sweep floors, etc. for a living at an out-of-town grocery store that I can't afford to shop at. Once upon a time, I was going to become a train engineer or else a traveling historian who made a living writing books and giving speeches like the peeps interviewed on The History Channel. But then I discovered that I simply lacked the discipline for such things and recognized that I was doing terribly in college even after swapping out majors and starting to run out of money, so I gave up and decided to just start earning a "living" properly now. And here I am.

Video games were often therapeutic for me growing up and still are. The game that got me into gaming was the original Metroid. My dad had bought an NES in the fall of 1986 (when I was four) and actually tried to get me into some of his early purchases, like the original Super Mario Bros. and Ghosts n' Goblins. Don't know what he was thinking with the latter because at that age, I found that game scary and way too difficult. Super Mario Bros. I found neat in that it was the title that taught me what video games were, and I was briefly fascinated by being able to move a character around on the screen, but the limitations of how I could do so grew irksome to me quickly and I got bored of it. The more open-ended nature of Metroid, which my dad got the following year, however, I found captivating. I was unable to put it down the first time I played it at five years of age (even though I wasn't exactly masterful back then) and would say I was a gamer from that point forward.

As the years went on, my tastes grew up to an extent. My parents got me the Sega Genesis with Golden Axe I requested for my 8th birthday in 1990 and that marked a shift whereafter I didn't feel like going back to the NES very often. I started getting into Sega titles like ToeJam & Earl, Sonic the Hedgehog, Streets of Rage, the aforementioned Golden Axe, Shining Force, the Lunar games, and so on, as well as tournament fighters (the new in-thing back then) like Street Fighter II, Killer Instinct, and the Mortal Kombat games, as well as more story-driven and/or "adult" computer games like Out of This World, The Secret of Monkey Island, Alone in the Dark, Wolfenstein 3D, Civilization, Doom, and the Theresa Duncan games (Chop Suey, Smarty, and Zero Zero). The Super NES made a splash with me beginning in late 1993 with the release of Secret of Mana, followed quickly by Illusion of Gaia, Super Metroid, and Final Fantasy VI.

I initially had difficulty adjusting to the shift to 3D, but the early Tomb Raider games in particular helped me make the transition eventually. My interest in games generally waned during the 2000s though, as the popular titles started being the Grand Theft Auto and Saints Row games, the original God of War, the Halo games, Gears of War, stuff like that that honestly probably did have real merits objectively but to which I just couldn't relate aesthetically and often found offensive (as frankly intended). That's widely considered to have been the golden age of gaming though, so I guess there's something wrong with me.  The 2000s were also sort of the darkest period of my life outside of gaming and I can't help mentally associating the games of that era with that dark period I don't like reliving. However, the current decade has brought me back into the fold, most of all with the popularization of Steam and independent games development, as well as with many of Sony's newer first-party titles starting with Heavy Rain.

Also, I'm part of the Cats cult.

Sign me up for ally.