A. Yes, and I have a microphone
Q. If you made your own game, what would it be like? (Answer!)
A. It would be a point and click hacker in the style of Diablo and Titan Quest. I love those games and I love to collect things.
Q. What are your favorite tabletop (RPG, board, miniatures, etc.) games? (Answer!)
A. Its gotta be Dungeons and Dragons. My gaming group still meets weekly and I have another group that meets once every couple of months for a whole day.
Q. What is the most memorable flamewar you can remember? (Answer!)
A. Back in the age of the all mighty smite cleric I was camping a room in barrows PLing my minstrel. Another couple people came into the same room and started pulling. They then proceeded to die and asked for a rez. I chose not to respond to the tell and read about it the next day on the VN boards. This set off at least a 4 page thread ranting about people not being nice.
Q. How do you feel about playing characters of the opposite sex? (Answer!)
A. I really try not to do it. I don't want to be mistakenly hit on by some idiot who thinks that females are always behind female toons. Its just trying to avoid some unnecessary irritation on my part.
Q. Why do you join guilds or clans? (Answer!)
A. To hang out with friends.
Q. What are your thoughts on roleplaying in games? (Answer!)
A. Depends on the game. In MMO's its largely useless unless the server is specifically dedicated to it, and then still pretty lack-luster.
Q. In real life, are you male or female? (Answer!)
Q. What is your first computer or video gaming memory? (Answer!)
A. Pitfall on my Atari 2600.
Q. Are you interested in working within the game industry? (Answer!)
A. Not really, but if something fell into my lap I wouldn't say no.
Q. How do you feel about selling virtual items for real money? (Do NOT advertise RMT services!) (Answer!)
A. It's cheating. It's a game and if you don't have the time to put into it you shouldn't get anything out of it. It's like buying a superbowl ring on Ebay and then pretending you were on a Superbowl winning team.
Q. Where did you get your gaming names from? (Answer!)
A. Usually the random name generator. Or I steal names I've used for my D&D characters.
Q. Do you feel relationships within games are meaningful? (Answer!)
A. I've met some very nice people online, but I'm not good about staying in touch with people so for me they have meaning only while we are playing that game.
Q. When you are not playing games, what do you do for fun? (Answer!)
A. Read, cook, watch football, party.
Q. What sort of tools (calculators, builders, spreadsheets, etc.) do you use to plan your characters? (Answer!)
A. I will usually look at a ability calculator to see what useful things I can get and what I need to work towards.
Q. Have you ever had a romantic encounter with someone you met in a game? (Answer!)
Q. What music do you like to play games to? (Answer!)
A. My favorite band is currently Dragonforce. I love running into RvR with Soldiers of the Wasteland blaring in the background.
Q. How many hours a week do you play? (Answer!)
Q. If you could cancel any online game, which would it be? (Answer!)
A. World of Warcraft. People are way to obsessed with that game and it's gotten too big for its own good. It's nice to draw in more poeple to the genre, but they are attracting people who don't understand anything about the genre and it's killing it slowly by corrupting it from what made it great.
Q. What sort of players annoy you the most? (Answer!)
A. People who don't understand that really this is just a game and sometimes you lose. If you can't handle that simple fact then you shouldn't be playing.
Q. Have you ever had a memorable real-life meeting with other gamers? (Answer!)
