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short version:

Was born in Colorado but only lived there about a year. Moved to Oklahoma City and it sucked. Went to a catholic private school with my only memory of it being the nuns being jerks. The summer before 4th grade I moved to a podunk redneck shit kicker racist town called Whitesboro, Texas and it sucked more.

At about 6th grade I realized I wanted to make video games after playing Final Fantasy III (or IV I guess) and reading about Digipen in Nintendo Power. My parents told me there was no way I was going to go to Digipen because it wasn't an accredited four year university. After that, I decided I was going to be a comic book artist and even had my own little company full of characters and its own universe.  I also thought I would be writer at some point in there but I'm a shitty writer so gave up on that one (though I'm an excellent story teller and my story turned into an incredible DnD campaign years and years later).

Graduated high school (nothing real interesting there, played a lot of M:tG and that was about it) and went to Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX because they accepted me. They're actually the only school I applied to because I really didn't care much. I went into Computer Science because I figured that could be neat and then went ahead and tried to do the Math double major because I could.

I started college thinking I was going to be the good little student who never drank or did drugs who would get stuff done. a week before classes I already had a girlfriend, was getting laid regularly, and on my way to being an alcoholic. Somehow made it through my first year and failed most of my classes. Good thing for freshman forgiveness and being able to just wipe that year off the records!

Second through fifth year was more of the same really, not a lot interesting.  I use to think a B was unacceptable in high school, at this time I was happy with a C-.

Barely graduated college with a BS in Computer Science (whopping 2.4 GPA) and dropped the Math major to a Math minor I forgot to declare and never really cared. I tried to find jobs but SMU is shit for CS and couldn't find anything. I worked at Best Buy Geek Squad for a month or two when I talked to one of my friends who got accepted to the Guildhall at SMU.

I had heard of the Guildhall but figured it was only the super nerdy asian genius CS guys that got in, not the guys like my friend. I tried to get in on a whim a week after the application deadline. I turned in an old Neverwinter Nights module and some hand drawn Dungeons and Dragons maps and I was accepted into Cohort 5 and it was officially awesome.

Spent the next two working and nothing else. It sucked since I pretty much woke up around 8AM and worked until 2AM for about two straight years but it was worth it and fun. I eventually graduated with 3.6 GPA in level design.

Looked for a job and that sucked. I procrastinated and got a late start so the placement lady was always on my back. Went on interviews and got offers from Pandemic, King's Isle and Vicious Cycle and could have gotten offers from Bioware, Kaos, and a few others if I could actually leave the Dallas area. The girlfriend had a good job and didn't want to leave so I was stuck there.

Spent the next three months unemployed trying desperately to find a job in the Dallas area really trying to work for Gearbox. Remembered I knew someone that worked at Terminal Reality and talked to them on a whim. Got an interview with them after the HR lady lost my LD test a few times and got an offer the next day. They didn't tell me what I would be working on in the interview so I was afraid I was either going to be working on Bloodrayne III or some crappy movie game like Spyhunter II or worse. I told myself it would be alright because this was only experience until I got to Gearbox so I accepted the offer.

Got to Terminal Reality, found out I would be working on Ghostbusters: the Video Game and been working here ever since and loved every minute of it. Since then (a little over a year ago) it's been work work work and got married a few weeks ago.

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So not so short, meh, whatever.  I like to write.



I am a robot from a planet belonging to a parallel dimension called zuskter. My sole purpose is to research, and monitor human evolution and development, and send regular reports back to zuskter. I have been here for 65,000,000 years, and yes, I caused the extinction of the dinosaurs, seeing as thier civilization was getting too advanced, and they were comencing inter-dimensional travel and were readying a intergalactic campaign, a fact which posed a grave threat to my programmers.

I am also responsible for the current economical crisis, and the deteriorated relationships between powerful countries. I alone am the culprit for the thinned the ozone layer. All this I have done as a means to cause panic and uncertainty amongst this planets leaders. Soon your world shall be a war ridden nuclear wasteland, and the Zusktarian empire will be able to expand their inter-dimensional colonies.

In short: just throw grenades at me



                                                                           

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The end.



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twesterm said:

 I decided I was going to be a comic book artist and even had my own little company full of characters and its own universe.  I also thought I would be writer at some point in there but I'm a shitty writer so gave up on that one (though I'm an excellent story teller and my story turned into an incredible DnD campaign years and years later).

 

Dammit that's what I want to do I guess almost everyone dreams about similar things,anyway twes is life really that hard?I thought most people were like rolstoppable.

OT:My story is too sad to tell you all (seriously I'm not kidding or anything like that) so I'll tell you my vgchartz story.I end out on vgchartz since I was looking for console and software sales I found nexgen wars but it wasn't accurate(the site was horrible) I never joined  but I used to visit it.Later  I think in a youtube video of wii vs ps3 there was a link to this site.So I would visit it alongside ign and other gaming sites.I tried joined ign and become an insider but I had to pay money so I reject it.So instead I continued lurking(this happend around september) here and  I really loved bod thread about being a Toys R us employee it was like reading a journal,since that day I checked all the threads. I admired the members like soriku and leo j like if they were sort of celebrieties or something like that and the fact of interacting with them would be awesome.So after chrismas I decided to join and after trying different user names I used ctk495 since it was a casio keybord I had in my bedroom.I finally joined and the rest is history.



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konnichiwa said:
hsrob said:
I was born in Ireland and moved to Australia when i was 9 with my family because my brother's autistic and there were better schools in Australia. Finished high school and went to University in Oz, got my bachelor of science in 98, bachelor of medicine in 02. Worked as medical officer in a Brisbane hospital in 2003, probably the most stressful and interesting year of my life. Came to China as part of a 6 month break from work and haven't been back to work as a doctor since. I teach English in China now, which is a fun job and i get to have the social life i never had time for in Australia. I got engaged last year and will be moving back to Oz at the end of this year with my fiance and will get married early next year.....that's about it really.

 

 Just wondering you teach English in Wuhan?

 

Curious that you ask.  Actually not Wuhan, rather Huangshi 黄石, which is about 60km's from Wuhan, much smaller and much nicer but in a rather undefinable way.



ctk495 said:
twesterm said:

 I decided I was going to be a comic book artist and even had my own little company full of characters and its own universe.  I also thought I would be writer at some point in there but I'm a shitty writer so gave up on that one (though I'm an excellent story teller and my story turned into an incredible DnD campaign years and years later).

 

Dammit that's what I want to do I guess almost everyone dreams about similar things,anyway twes is life really that hard?I thought most people were like rolstoppable.

 

It was hard when I was in grad school, now it's simple.  It's awesome being able to actually come home at night.



Hmmmm.. I had one rough life... well not really... its pretty damn boring, so Il save from it :P



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