I say this, while standing in the same pose as the Heroic pose in Fable 1: "I am a hardcore gamer and proud!" I'm 31 and the fact that I'm still a ... doesn't have anything to do with it. I've had offers, everyone has, but I'm a romantic and I think this is the wrong era to care about poetry and romance and true love instead of doing the.. how did Philip J. Fry put it in that episode of Futurama when talking to Lurg? "The horizontal monster mash."
Digression complete. When I was a little kid around the age of 8 I played my first video game, my mom and her twin sister had bought the Atari 2600 when they were younger. I knew then what I know now- my purpose in life is to design and create games. I grew up visiting The Museum of Natural History, various zoos, playing games and watching fantasy movies like The Hobbit and The Flight of Dragons. I spent my life Spocking the entire history of games- campfire stories of ancient legends, book-style RPGs like AD&D, Werewolf The Apocalypse, Earthdawn and Nightspawn. Once Ultima Online came out, the granddaddy of all MMOs, I played that too and still do. My own text-based forum RP is hosted on this site.
I've spent enough of my life to make Urkel look like Ar-kel, and nothing could make me happier or more proud, or more confident in myself. If looking from a totally business sense, the video game market is bigger than the Music and Movie industries combined, and I want to lead my own company. Once I get some investors or production money, I'm gonna hold the TriForce right above my head, and Kaizoku-o ni ore wa naru!
Oh and about apparel- Jim Rivers of Obsidian Entertainment personally called me by name when I met him in person and he gave me a really good quality tee shirt with the company name written on it.
I might just resemble Grandma's Boy a little too much, by why stop now?
