IRL

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I am a recent grad at the UW-Madison, with a Bachelor of Science in English. I transfered from Whitewater where i also minored in computer science, and previously to that I was a high school drop out. I am now 30 years old and while I am at the same point a lot of 25 year olds are, I feel like I have accomplished much more than most.

I strive to be a video game designer specializing in systems and stories for RPGs and Strategy games, both online and off. And have a strong interest in writing as a career as well, and am currently somewhat at work with my first novel and have many more novels in mind past that. In addition to these two desires, and as a way to further develop it, I am currently at work with creating my own pen and paper RPG system. All these topics are quite common in my blog.

I am also a Hemophiliac. For those of you who do not know, this is a disease that you have from birth in which you basically start to spontaneously bleed internally. I am a severe Hemophiliac which generally means that I get these bleeds at least once a month, but for me tend to be about every week or two. In particular my target joints are currently my left ankle and my left elbow, my left elbow causing me the most grief. I have a port in my chest, which is a catheder that goes into my bloodstream that lies under the skin that allows me to treat myself at home.

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I have been on the net for well over 15 years, and yes playing online RPGs since this inception. A list of games that I have somewhat seriously played in my years are as follows, in order of when I played them:

• Shadows of Yserbius
• The Realm
• Dark Sun Online
• Emperiana
• Ultima Online (really beta only but I played for about half year)
• Asheron’s Call
• Dark Age of Camelot
• Asheron’s Call 2
• Shadowbane
• Anarchy Online
• Star Wars Galaxies
• City of Heroes
• Everquest 2
• Currently looking for my next MMO

I have played most class types through these games and find myself better at playing a healer than most of the classes, followed by some form of a tank (i prefer an offensive magic tank such as the Thane in DAoC).

I have also built and designed web pages for about 8 or 9 years, and actually prefer working in straight HTML over wysiwyg programs. Though this is really changing solely because the new way of doing design using CSS for positioning is a pain in the butt to do without a program to do it for you. This site is the latest in a series. I blogged before there was the term blog about my Asheron’s Call Adventures, in my early days I had a site that gave general information and multimedia on various animal types, I’ve had a news site for EQ2 for a short time, and I also have designed a few websites for friends and family when they’ve needed it.

I currently use a number of social services to track my life. So if you feel like stalking me, head over to the lifestream page to see a list of programs I use and what I’ve currently been up to. I think I tend to talk a little more about Hemophilia in Twitter as I have never found myself wanting to talk at length about it here, though I’ve tried a few times.

This Site

As you may notice in this site I do contain advertising. I predominately advertise for Amazon.com as well as Google Adsense. I try to avoid any other advertising, and none of my reviews that I perform are spurred on by advertisers at all. (That being said if you make a product that I review and appreciate my review, i’d be more than happy to accept goodies, just contact me=P). If you register on my site, I do not in the least bit sell this information to others, the sign up process is more in hopes to stop others from advertising here.

If you appreciate any of my articles, please click on the adsense ads on the page you appreciate. If you are influenced to buy a product in which I review and there is a link available for purchase, please be kind and use my link. I don’t make any money off this website, I tend to lose more money off it by far. But I would like to at least break even and this is the only way in which I do.