super freak, he's super freaky, yeaow

yeah, i'm passionate about a few things in my life, but outside of my pony, i'm a video game freak. mostly PC gaming, but i'm also a pretty big console fan. i got started playing pc games back in the mid 90's with sim city. i'd sit at my 286 for 6 or 8 hours on a saturday afternoon and build these elaborate, super-pixelated cities. then, at a moment's notice, i'd burn it all down. normally, killing something you've just spend 5 hours building would seem very anti-climatic, but there's something very appealing to watch all those little people go screaming from their homes in terror as godzilla rampaged thru the town or the largest earthquake to ever hit Punkville takes it all out in one quick sweeping, burning, devastating 2 minutes. i've since rid myself of the 386 and sim city and moved on to bigger and better things like my 486 and sim city 2, but i've never lost my passion for pc games and i continue to play them almost every day of my life.

I now own a Pentium 4, 2.54 Ghz with Geforce 4 Ti 6400 graphics card, a 6.1 surround sound speaker system that's THX certified and Pong has never sounded or looked better. Pixelation at its finest. I started out the real gaming at what i think most avid gamers begin with - the FPS or first person shooter. Got real good with doom and quake and unreal tournament and just about every one in-between. I was part of the Mad Dogz clan for a Quake 2 CTF league. That was a lot of fun. I then advanced further with a game called Tribes where i not only gave up showering and eating, but i designed maps, created a group that built specailty maps for clans and gaming leagues and ultimately was recognized and awarded for my work by having two of my maps added to the offical add-on pack for the original game. That was the true highlight of my gaming career. I've since played almost every other type of game and am a fan of RTS, RPG and recently, MMORPG.

This last one is a really strange occurrence, because until now, i've played and passionately hated MMORPG. Spending $15 and a month killing defenseless bunnies to build up my character to a level 3 broom handle melee character just doesn't seem like that much fun, but i was coerced into buying a new game called City of Heroes and have given up showering again. Well, not really, but i'm actually considering doing some wash this month. Some time... I won't go into detail about the mechanics of a MMORPG (if you have questions about it or what the hell MMORPG means, google it), but i've created two characters thus far. The first being a Defender named lilblackgirl (imagine that), which i gave up hope on about two weeks ago and my newer and well played character who's a Tanker, Boswilligkeit (meaning malevolence, in german - i needed something that sounded menacing and My Little Pony was already taken). I managed to get Bos up to a lvl 16 yesterday and he's just one mean SOB. 12 feet tall and the size of a mack truck, he melee fights with a 5 foot war mace. He can super jump (you know, leaping tall buildings in a single bound), teleport friends and foes and is an overall badass. I'll try to post his specifics and a screenshot of him here later, but he's not one to be messed with in a dark alley.

This should be a pretty great year for games as Half Life 2 and Doom 3 should be released in the next 3-4 months and there's a slew of other great looking games by Crimmus that i'll need to spend hard earned money on and further ignore my life to play.