This troper is a high-school age nerd from the US of A.
Fan of - Science fiction, fantasy and anything
Joss Whedon, as a rule.
I'm also an aficionado of video and tabletop games (and soon to be DM), such as:
- Nobilis
- Dungeons and Dragons - 3.5 forever. Fuck 4e.
- Deus Ex - Pretty much my favorite game ever. "A bomb's a bad choice for close range combat."
- Sonic the Hedgehog - Before Adaptation Decay set in. By my estimation, the last good Sonic game was Sonic Adventure 2: Battle, but the original Genesis games were the best. (I still have a working Genesis and cartriges for most of the Sonic games!)
- Team Fortress 2 - SPAH SAPPIN' MAH SENTRY! (I'm a spah player. I enjoy it to a ridiculous degree.)
- Half-Life 2 and associated episodes. Not to mention mods. MINERVA: Metastasis
and Hidden: Source are two good ones. Can't wait for Black Mesa.
Favorite trope - I have to say that my favorite trope is also the one that describes me best:
Dangerously Genre Savvy.
Hang on, I just found the
Science Hero trope. Epic win.
I'm also a bona fide
transhumanist. I think humanity will develop strong AI and immortality treatments sooner or later, and I'm certainly going to invest in cryogenic freezing as a precautionary measure, and I certainly recommend that anyone who reads this considers it as well. Most life insurance policies will cover cryonics (i.e. set up the cryonics organization as a beneficiary), and if you do a cost-benefit analysis, it's really the only logical conclusion. Even if there's only a ten percent chance of it working (and the science suggests the chance is much higher than that), that's still a ten percent better chance than a standard human internment ritual. If you get yourself cremated or put into the ground to rot, you're dead.
Period.
This Overcoming Bias post has much more information, if you're interested. Sorry for writing an
Author Tract, but this is a subject I feel strongly about.
More updates coming soon. Probably.
