Tsunde Ray - Television Tropes & Idioms

alt title(s): Gs68; Ray Ayanami

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Raymond A., also known as Ray Ayanami and TsundeRay ~~and, to a lesser extent, Gs68 (properly spelled gs68)~~.

He comes from Santa Clara, California, and currently attends San Jose State University.

Ray plays a lot of video games, and also watches anime and reads manga. Despite being a Challenge Gamer, he rejects the label of "hardcore gamer," mainly due to particular definitions of it. He plays games from many different generations, from the NES era to the 360/Wii/PS3 era.

He is a regular in the Troper IRC Channel, talking about games nobody knows about, getting randomly hugged/cuddled/glomped by fellow tropers, and engaging in the proper procedure for dealing with trolls: jumping into water and waiting for death by Sonic drowning music to put him out of his misery. He's also the Token Shota of #fetishfuel.

Currently, Ray is crafting tropes for a nonexistent Shoot Em Up called Desu Shi. Its page is currently in a massive state of disrepair.

Sadly, Ray's birthday, November 21, does not fall on 19, November or 20, November.

May be in cahoots with Astra Kiseki, discussing not-so-innocent ideas for his favorite video game characters. May also be in cahoots with Wit, who he is slowly destroying the wiki with, one shmup reference at a time.

Feel free to ask him about the following:

1942 and its sequels
Battle Garegga
Cave Story (unless it's about the Bonus Level Of Hell)
DJMAX (specifically, DJMAX Portable, Trilogy, and Technika)
Gradius
La-Mulana
Mirai Nikki
Mushihime-sama Futari, unless it's about the True Final Boss (aka: the only thing about Futari that 99.99% of gamers know about)
Tetris: The Grand Master
Thunder Force
Time Crisis (unless it's Time Crisis: Project Titan or the console ports of Crisis Zone and Time Crisis 4)
Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune

Ray has started the following pages:

Ray and his life contain examples of:

Examples by Ray

All Love Is Unrequited
Berserk Button: Do NOT bring up to him the stereotype that Asians are automatically godly at video games.
Bishounen
~~Challenge Gamer~~
Corrupt The Cutie: He's had his mind corrupted by the Troper IRC Channel, this fellow troper, and the Internet in general. And he likes it.
Cosplay
Dangerous Forbidden Technique: His interest in and developing competency of (Visual) C#.
Dethroning Moment Of Suck: His shenanigans on the SCP Foundation that led to him being stripped of his membership there.
Everybody Hates Mathematics: An aversion, and therefore a Complete Monster.
*facepalm*
Gratuitous Japanese: Subverted; he has a ~~somewhat~~ limited grasp of proper/academic Japanese. オタクの日本語が嫌いです。^translation
^{I hate otaku Japanese.}
I Thought That Was: Ray Ayanami is not a Gender Flip of Rei Ayanami.
Lawful Good: To the point where he has a potential phobia for getting in trouble with figures of higher authority. Wanna see a Heroic BSOD? Find a way to get him grounded by his parents or expelled from university.
Faux-Meganekun: He wears glasses with zero-grade lenses.
Nightmare Fetishist: He's a yandere and yangire fetishist.
Nintendo Hard: College in general.
No Guy Wants To Be Chased: Double subverted; he doesn't mind girls advancing on him or being playful around him, but most of the girls who are the latter already have boyfriends.
Noob: He fails Fighting Games forever.
Popular Is Dumb: Subverted in high school, where he was very popular amongst his graduating class ~~despite~~ because of his intelligence.
Rage Quit: How a usual session of Thunder Force III ends.
The Scrappy
Self Imposed Challenge: In shmups, he strives to complete the game—or at least get as far in it as possible—on a single credit. Continuing feels like blasphemy to him.
Shoot The Shaggy Dog: His life is quickly barrelling towards this.
So Bad It's Horrible: His voice, especially when it's recorded.
"I can't understand anything your saying in this. Is your mouth stuffed with cotton?"
Stupid Sexy Flanders
That One Level: Physics class, which judging by recent test scores, homework scores, declining understanding of new materal, and procrastination on readings, he might fail. He takes solace in the fact that his crush is also failing.
Verbal Tic: "[noun/verb] Mania."
Tsundere and Kuudere: If he's more energetic he tends to be the former; otherwise he's the latter.
Yaoi Fanboy: Though he's not really into it for the romance or action so much as the art style. He just thinks Yaoi Guys look very pretty.

Examples by Other Tropers. (aka: Wiki Magic, go!)

Medium Awareness - His description of his life makes this pretty obvious. Cliche

Want to contact him, or play games with him?

AIM: Richt3r Belmont
Backloggery
Email: gsuck68 [AT] gmail (DOT) com
LiveJournal
Skype: gsuck68
Twitter (updates are protected)
Xbox Live: Ray Ayanami (However, unless you want to see his scores for some of his games, it's pointless to add him right now. He isn't renewing his Gold subscription until June, when he has time to play console games again.)

YouTube (recently, he's taken to filming his TGM shenanigans)

You can also catch him at the following online communities (often under his old handle, "gs68"):

The Troper IRC Channel, as TsundeRay
The TV Tropes Facebook group, as Raymond A., though he rarely posts there. Don't add him unless you have mutual friends with him (his profile won't let you add him if you don't have any anyway).
Tetris Concept, a board dedicated to Tetris.
GameFAQs boards, specifically:
- BEMANI and Rhythm Action
- Life, the Universe, and Everything (if you have access there)
- Wii - Virtual Console and WiiWare
Orange Lounge Radio, a video game podcast </shameless plug>
Nationstates: gs68, as the delegate for the 4chan region, and Tsunderei, his nation for Dystropia.

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