History Tropers / Tacitus

A Troper who discovered TV Tropes sometime during the summer of '08 and now spends much of his free time punching that Random Item button. He did some quiet edits on a few videogame-related pages, tweaked the ''RedVsBlue'' page a little, hotlinked some images in his youthful ignorance, and stuck a few of his favorite quotes from ''{{Futurama}}'' and ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'' in places they seemed appropriate.

Then he landed on the ''BattlefieldEarth'' page, and his life was changed forever...

Namesake is the Roman historian, not the MacGuffin of ''[[CommandAndConquerTiberium Tiberian Sun]]''. Interests include history, writing, video games, political science, ''{{Warhammer 40000}}'', and good books. Has launched a half-dozen or so tropes including AveMachina, WarriorMonk, RandomEvent, ParodyRetcon, and some other stuff he's forgotten. Has made many an edit, but is particularly proud of his contributions to ''Warhammer 40,000'''s [[Characters/{{Warhammer40000}} character sheet]]. He'll get around to finishing the overhaul of the ''CommandAndConquer'' pages someday...

[[TVTropesAsAGatewayDrug He's eternally grateful to TV Tropes]] for introducing him to [[TheAdventuresOfDoctorMcNinja Dr. McNinja]], [[GirlGenius Agatha Heterodyne]], [[GunnerkriggCourt Antimony Carver]], [[TheDresdenFiles Harry Dresden]], ThatGuyWithTheGlasses, [[TheSpoonyExperiment The Spoony One]], HaruhiSuzumiya, Commissar CiaphasCain, the LetsPlay phenomenon, [[YuGiOhAbridged LittleKuriboh]], TeamFourStar, [[{{Touhou}} ZUN]], [[FanFic/ShinjiAndWarhammer40k an entertainingly insane incarnation of]] [[NeonGenesisEvangelion Shinji Ikari]], [[RedVsBlue the inhabitants of Blood Gulch]], [[FanFic/TiberiumWars Pep]][[FanFic/{{Renegade}} Tuck]], [[FanFic/HalfLifeFullLifeConsequences squirrelking]], and hopefully many more to come.

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Namesake is the Roman historian, not the MacGuffin of ''[[CommandAndConquerTiberium Tiberian Sun]]''. Interests include history, writing, video games, political science, ''{{Warhammer 40000}}'', and good books. Has launched a half-dozen or so tropes including AveMachina, WarriorMonk, RandomEvent, ParodyRetcon, and some other stuff he's forgotten. Has made many an edit, but is particularly proud of his contributions to ''Warhammer 40,000'''s [[Characters/{{Warhammer40000}} character sheet]]. He'll get around to finish the overhaul of the ''CommandAndConquer'' pages someday...

Namesake is the Roman historian, not the MacGuffin of ''[[CommandAndConquerTiberium Tiberian Sun]]''. Interests include history, video games, political science, ''{{Warhammer 40000}}'', and good books. Has launched a half-dozen or so tropes including AveMachina, WarriorMonk, RandomEvent, ParodyRetcon, and some other stuff he's forgotten. Has made many an edit, but is particularly proud of ''Warhammer 40,000'''s [[Characters/{{Warhammer40000}} character sheet]]. On his current to-do list is finishing the overhaul of the ''CommandAndConquer'' pages and taking a second crack at ''BattlefieldEarth''.

[[TVTropesAsAGatewayDrug Is eternally grateful to TV Tropes]] for introducing him to [[TheAdventuresOfDoctorMcNinja Dr. McNinja]], [[GirlGenius Agatha Heterodyne]], [[TheDresdenFiles Harry Dresden]], ThatGuyWithTheGlasses, [[TheSpoonyExperiment The Spoony One]], HaruhiSuzumiya, Commissar CiaphasCain, the LetsPlay phenomenon, [[YuGiOhAbridged LittleKuriboh]], TeamFourStar, [[{{Touhou}} ZUN]], [[FanFic/ShinjiAndWarhammer40k an entertainingly insane incarnation of]] [[NeonGenesisEvangelion Shinji Ikari]], [[RedVsBlue the inhabitants of Blood Gulch]], [[FanFic/TiberiumWars Pep]][[FanFic/{{Renegade}} Tuck]], [[FanFic/HalfLifeFullLifeConsequences squirrelking]], and hopefully many more to come.

An upstart Troper who discovered this website during the summer of '08 and now spends much of his free time punching that Random Item button. He did some quiet edits on a few videogame-related pages, tweaked the ''RedVsBlue'' page a little, hotlinked a few images in his ignorance, and stuck a few of his favorite quotes from ''{{Futurama}}'' and ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'' in places they seemed appropriate.

Not to be confused with the MacGuffin of ''CommandAndConquer: Tiberian Sun''. My namesake's the Roman historian, but see MeaningfulName below.

Launcher of...
* AveMachina
* RandomEvent
* WarriorMonk

Built pages for...
* {{Concerned}}
* PumaMan
* TheHidden

Contributor for...
* BattlefieldEarth
* {{Bioshock}}
* ChronoCross
* ChronoTrigger
* CrowningMusicOfAwesomeVideoGames
* An ever-growing number of entries on the MysteryScienceIndex3000. If the description is copypasted from Wikipedia, I'll probably spice it up a bit.
* OregonTrail
* FanFic/RedVsBlue
* FanFic/ShinjiAndWarhammer40K
* RedVsBlue (particularly the character sheet)
* {{Warhammer 40000}} (particularly the character sheet)

Interests:
* CallOfDuty (if you play, I've probably killed you at some point, and possibly [[StopHavingFunGuys insulted your play style]])
* ChronoTrigger and ChronoCross
* {{Discworld}}
* EternalDarkness
* {{Futurama}}
* HarveyBirdmanAttorneyAtLaw
* HalfLife
* History
* HPLovecraft
* MontyPython
* MysteryScienceTheater3000 (and the MSTing of bad fan fiction)
* Politics
* {{Portal}}
* TheOrderOfTheStick
* Video Game Music
* {{Warhammer 40000}} (In case you're wondering, Space Marines, Eldar, Orks, and Chaos, in that order)
* WorldDomination
* WorldOfWarcraft (before turning on it, refusing to pay any more money to Blizzard, switching to {{Warhammer}} Online, and finally running out of money for either)

Tropes That Describe Me:
* TheBerserker (deeply, deeply repressed, but...)
* BerserkButton (uncooperative technology)
* TheBigGuy (GentleGiant and GeniusBruiser)
* BoisterousBruiser (online)
* BloodKnight (online)
* DeadpanSnarker (prolonged exposure to ''MST3K'' does that to you)
* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife (nobody's hiring dictators, apparently)
* EvilLaugh (occasionally happens in public, which earns some worried looks from bystanders)
* GallowsHumor (a necessity given my hobbies and studies)
* GenreSavvy (thanks, TVTropes!)
* GrowingTheBeard (inverted)
* KnightInShiningArmor (or at least it's one aspect of my personality)
* KnightTemplar (another aspect of my personality)
* ManipulativeBastard (I try to keep it locked down)
* MeaningfulName (either subverted or played straight depending on how much I feel like talking. Also because I have an interest in writing and history, but prefer Seutonius to Tacitus)
* MoreDakka (what can I say, the [[{{Warhammer40000}} Orks]] are my favorite)
* NightmareFetishist (mainly psychological horror - [[BadassBoast I read Lovecraft for bedtime stories]])
* OpaqueLenses (trying to learn how to do the ScaryShinyGlasses at will)
* SelfDeprecation (a great tool for [[strike:manipulating]] getting along with people)
* TheSmartGuy (partially subverted due to being big and beefy)
* TheStoic (sometimes TheQuietOne)

Eternally Grateful to TVTropes for Introducing Me To:
* TheAdventuresOfDoctorMcNinja
* CiaphasCain
* DominicDeegan
* [[http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Realm/2628/elmer.htm Elmer Studios]]
* GirlGenius
* HaruhiSuzumiya
* LetsPlay
* NeonGenesisEvangelion - through a very unorthodox route: I learned all about it by reading [=MSTings=] of terrible [[SelfInsertFic self-insert fics]], had my interest peaked by the fic listed below, and now have finally started watching the [=DVDs=]. I prefer the "Shinji and [=W40K=]" version to the canon, as I find myself thinking ''[[BetterThanCanon this would be much better with]] [[ChainsawGood chainswords]]''.
* RedVsBlue
* ShinjiAndWarhammer40K
* TheSpoonyExperiment
* The writings of [[http://www.fanfiction.net/~squirrelking squirrelking]], specifically the Gary's Mod performances of "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHxyZaZlaOs Full-Life Consequences]]" and "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8yHguvYYyQ&feature=related What Has Tobe Done]]."
* Team Four Star's DragonballZAbridged
* ThatGuyWithTheGlasses
* The music of the TouhouProject
* {{Xkcd}}
* YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries

Apparently I Won...
* Made Of Win awards for work on the CrowningMusicOfAwesomeVideoGames page which no longer exists, an addition to the ParanoiaFuel page describing my neurosis due to the site's ad banners, and naming ScryVsScry
* An Aluminum Hat Prize from the ''RedVsBlue'' [=WMG=] page (completely by accident).
* One third of a Made Of Win award for contributing to the radiator woman gag from CargoShip, and one half of another from the [[TheBible Biblical]] {{Groin Attack}}/{{Twenty Bear Asses}} joke.