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...What are you doing here? Don't you have anything better to do?
Wait, this is TV Tropes. Never mind.
I'm a young nerd in every sense. I even have Asperger's, making me a TV Genius. I'm writing a book, (mentally) designing a video game, and (mentally) plotting a webcomic. Not sure if any of those will ever come to fruition, though. The book is most likely. Interestingly, they're all (possibly) Genre Busters: the book, Draconity, is an Alternate History about a dragon Adventurer Archaeologist in The Unmasqued World several decades after an Alien Invasion; the game, Alone, is an open-world survival puzzle platforming shooter on a recently deserted island IN SPACE; and the webcomic, Reprisal, is about a vigilante rebel demon hunter on a Beyond the Impossible Roaring Rampage of Revenge in a Mundane Fantastic world that's ruled by said demons in an officially unofficial sense. And, for no apparent reason, everyone is a Petting Zoo Person. I don't know why; for some reason, it just feels right to have furries.
One of my first acts upon becoming a troper was choosing the page image for Superpowered Evil Side with one suggestion. Since then, I've been editing and adding things all around. I also wrote the first reviews for Just Cause 2 and Mass Effect 2.
I'm on a robotics team; we get a game, build and program a robot for our game, and play against other teams and their robots. I do programming. One year, we went all the way to the world championship, but we didn't win. It was fun while it lasted, though.
I like action stuff, be it video games, books, or movies. In fact, all of my works stemmed from coming up with action scenes in my head. A halftrack chase through a mountain pass! Fighting a Mini Mecha on a train! Slicing planes in half with railguns! A sword fight in an ancient alien doomsday device! Magic bullets that create explosions on impact! Going Guns Akimbo while hanging upside-down from a chandelier! A helicopter chasing a traceur across skyscrapers toward a zeppelin! A Traintop Battle across two side-by-side trains! Carsurfing gunfights! Magic users playing missile pong! Magically-justified Bottomless Magazines! Killing a demon with a missile satellite! Driving an APC with the thresher from a combine harvester through a zombie-infested mall! Putting a car on cruise control and hanging out the window to fire a shotgun while steering with your feet! Jumping from one plane to another in mid-flight! An Elevator Action Sequence on top of the elevator! Yes, they all make sense in context. Somehow.
I also like a good story. However, if the action's good enough, it can justify the bad story, or lack thereof - it's part of why I like Just Cause 2. Combining both - a good story and good action - is a plus in my book, and is one of the reasons I like Mass Effect and The Dresden Files.
Interestingly, when I first started writing, I hadn't heard of the Mary Sue concept, but I practically went out of my way to avoid it. I gave my characters issues - anger problems, not very powerful, whatever - to create conflict, and therefore create a good story. When I heard about Mary Sues, I thought, "Why would anyone create a character that can win any fight? That's boring." I took several Mary Sue litmus tests, and most of my characters came clean first try, except for one that had issues that the test didn't address.
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I wish I'd stuck with computer programming (I stopped at Visual Basic). You build robots and program them, that's pretty impressive. And you're writing a book. I envy people who have these kinds of talents. Good luck with your skills and interests. - Bonsai Forest
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