Hello.
My screen name is Androgeos, although I used "Altiris" as a screen name for quite some time. I live in Singapore, and my hobbies are using the computer, writing, eating and doing nothing.
Since this is TV Tropes, I've decided to describe myself by doing it like a regular article, and in a fashion that nobody should ever take seriously. I hope it helps.
This contributor has created the following articles:
This contributor plays the following games:
- Bejeweled: I switch between Bejeweled Twist and Bejeweled 3. I no longer play it as often due to suffering the effects of Hype Backlash.
- Descent: Descent 3. I'm not really good at it; my kill efficiency is around 29%; normal players have around 56%.
- FreeSpace: FreeSpace 2. I'm a regular at the Hard Light Productions Forums, the largest FreeSpace community on the Internet.
- Jets\'n\'Guns: Played and cheated in it way too much. The TVTropes article is the result of this.
- Need For Madness: Same as above, but the games don't allow cheating, so the article I created for this game is based on sheer gaming experience.
- Raptor Call Of The Shadows: One of the first computer games I ever played, alongside BioMenace. I'm good, but I've seen other players pull off more ridiculous feats.
- RollerCoaster Tycoon: My cousin lent me his copy of the original when I was 10. I've been hooked to the series ever since. I also own RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 and its two expansion packs. Do not talk to me about RollerCoaster Tycoon 3. I view it as a waste of hard disk space.
- SimCity: The Deluxe Edition of SimCity 4. I also have SimCity 2000 stashed somewhere, but I no longer play it.
- SPISPOPD: I have a copy of Supreme With Cheese. Hard difficulty is my choice on any level.
- Trackmania: Once in a while. I'm ranked within the top 1 300 000 players on the TrackMania server, not that it says much. I neither support nor oppose Nadeo's introduction of the FreeZones. It helps my frame rates, though!
- Tyrian: I have uncovered every secret there is to Tyrian 2000 from playing it, as well as cheating in ENGAGE mode. Slow speed and Hard difficulty is my preference when I'm not cheating.
This contributor provides examples of:
- Captain Oblivious: Was called this after annoying too many Internet users over my lack of knowledge regarding anything that is mainstream. It's not as if I want to know, anyway.
- Chaotic Good: I will drop everything to help those who need and deserve assistance, but I value my freedom too. I keep a personal moral code that I consider to be far superior than any regulations imposed by the law.
- Death Glare: My normal flat facial expression appears to be this.
- Determined Defeatist: I come from a line of laymen who have a can-do approach to everything. Mix that with the way I tend to look at things and you get this.
- Hype Aversion: In my dictionary, the definition of "mainstream" is the same as the definition of "rubbish".
- Insult Backfire: Having been called a moron, a lunatic and oblivious by members of the Internet communities I visit, I now regard these adjectives as compliments if they are directed at me.
- The Lancer: I'm forever envious of people in positions of great power, but I'd hate to be placed in a similar position. I also like to work alone to help a team. I can work in a team, of course, but I doubt I would be just as effective.
- Literal-Minded: When I first came out on the Internet, I was pretty much this. I've managed to distance myself a little from this trope in recent months, but jokes and comments made in Sarcasm Mode to me may still fall flat on occasion.
- Motor Mouth: I've been told in person that I speak too fast. On a personal note, I cannot recite the first two paragraphs of the invoked trope's article without taking three very deep breaths.
- No Social Skills: Slightly above the bar, but not by much. Enough to be on neutral terms with almost everybody I meet, but not enough to sympathise with or befriend them.
- Not So Stoic: The number of times every non-family member I have ever met has seen me with anything other than my flat face can be counted on both hands and feet. I mean it.
- Perpetual Frowner: Unfortunately, my flat face is also comes off like this, even to myself.
- The Quiet One: I don't like talking, especially when I'm doing something else (which is basically everything else).
- Reasonable Authority Figure: I consider rule-bending to be something that needs to be done when the situation needs it. Like how Dettol boasts that it can kill a percentage of germs when you use it, 99.9% of scenarios do not require it. That's my take on this, at least.
