Twenty-two-year-old college student based out of Virginia. Will write for pasta, or even some of that high-end cat food with the spiffy can from those commercials.
Has been hopelessly addicted to video games ever since he spent way too much time playing Donkey Kong Country as a fourth-grader, so most of his "contributions" lie in that direction. Rabid Nintendophile — viva la Mario! Enjoys platformers, RPGs, turn-based strategy, and adventure games. Is terrible at fighting games and first-person shooters, but would enjoy them if not for the rampant sucking. Thinks real-time strategy is tremendously overrated.
Tends to be a dabbler in other types of media. Likes some anime (mostly big dumb Fighting Series) but not all; will pick up maybe one new live-action show a year; and virtually never goes to the movies. He will watch any baseball game going (viva la Braves!) but hates all other sports. Shows he likes include Seinfeld, Futurama, Scrubs, Veronica Mars, The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, Burn Notice, and non-sucking/infantile cartoons, particularly The Venture Brothers and Avatar The Last Airbender.
Splitter in theory, lumper in practice. Has a seething hatred for Subjective Tropes and other "let's talk about me" entries.
Currently on hiatus from editing due to burnout.
Added the following entries:
- Airport Fantasy
- Awesome, but Impractical — thanks to adam850 for the name
- Baten Kaitos
- Berserk Button — thanks to Ununnilium for the name
- Blood Knight
- Boss Rush
- Broken Bridge
- But Thou Must!, under the name Figurehead Hero — thanks to webrunner for the improved name.
- Cap
- Character Tiers
- Chest Monster
- Chrono Trigger
- Console Wars
- Creativity Leash — from YKTTW
- Dronejam
- Duel Boss
- Emulation
- Fan Translation
- Fetch Quest
- Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
- Fire Emblem
- Floating Continent
- Four-Point Scale
- Genre Title Grab Bag
- If My Calculations Are Correct
- Import Gaming
- Inevitable Waterfall
- Killer App
- License To Whine
- The Lost Vikings
- Low-Level Run
- Luigification — from YKTTW
- Mad-Lib Fantasy Title
- Malevolent Architecture — thanks to Andrew Leprich for the name
- The Mario
- Metagame
- Minimalist Run
- Mistborn
- Mysterious Waif
- No-Damage Run
- Noob
- Not Compensating for Anything
- The Palantir Ploy — thanks to Seth for the name
- Pandering to the Base — thanks to nwj for the name
- The Problem with Licensed Games, but not the name
- Protection from Editors — with much help and input from Fast Eddie and Pteryx
- Randomly Drops
- Rescue Arc
- RPG Elements
- Rule of Fun — from YKTTW, courtesy of an Unknown Troper
- The Same But More
- Scrub
- Self-Imposed Challenge
- Solo-Character Run
- Sonic Syndrome
- Speedrun
- Standard Status Effects
- Take It To The Forums
- Talking Your Way Out — thanks to Seven Seals for the name
- The Tetris Effect — thanks to colin for the name
- Tournament Play
- Trauma Inn
- Video Game Culture
- Video Game Movies Suck
- Woolseyism
- World War III
- Did not start, but did most of the writing for the following entries:
- American Gods — started by Micah, but the description in its current form is mine
- Belgariad
- Get on the Boat — expanded significantly
- The Hub
- Mortal Kombat
- Most Gamers Are Male
- Large sections of the Naruto character sheet
- Series Goal
- Spoiler Policy, based on consensus at Spoiler Discussion and Spoiler Policy Discussion
- Star Fox
- Super Mario RPG
- Named, but did not write:
- Added pictures to:
- Absurdly Spacious Sewer
- Big Boo's Haunt
- Bubbly Clouds
- Class and Level System
- Cool Sword
- Crowning Boss of Awesome
- Donkey Kong Country
- Down the Drain
- Eternal Engine
- Flunky Boss
- Follow the Money
- Gangplank Galleon
- Go for the Eye
- Green Hill Zone
- He Knows About Timed Hits
- Interface Screw
- Jungle Japes
- Lethal Lava Land
- The Lost Vikings
- The Lost Woods
- Lost World
- Lylat System
- Macro Zone
- The Maze
- Minecart Madness
- Monster Arena
- Ominous Floating Castle
- Port Town
- Prehistoria
- RPG Elements
- Shifting Sand Land
- Slippy-Slidey Ice World
- Super Mario RPG
- Temple of Doom
- Tempting Fate
- The Tetris Effect
- Underground Level
- Under the Sea
- The Unpronounceable
- Warmup Boss
- Warp Zone
- Woolseyism
- Yoshi's Island
- Planted the seed for Mook Chivalry in YKTTW, but Tzintzuntzan wrote a better entry than I ever would have had I pulled the trigger, so kudos to him.
- Conceived Stock Superpowers in Super Strength Discussion, but Lale did the legwork.
- Transcribed The RPG Cliches Game
...with many other examples and/or slight revisions.
