SNBeast
Perpetually Confused
- Joined
- Jan 1, 2022
- Messages
- 5
- Reaction score
- 15
- Pronouns
- He/Him
So I've been in the Discord since early '21, with activity picking up in '24, and even there I haven't really given myself a proper introduction beyond "I've been starting to appreciate speenda" in '22. I was for most of that an observer rather than a participant, which went from a valid calculation due to bad prior experiences IRL to a mistake which I should correct in order to learn and to put myself out there. (Perhaps with slight further delay to wrap up my degree over the next month and a half.)
I am a computer science major, and I engage somewhat with hobby programming, perhaps too much with a focus on making programs to solve my own problems. I also love doing dumb tinkering with computers, part of which is motivated by a "need" to test my programs in a variety of conditions. A great example of the intersection of these things with my particular age and general oddity would be that I am working on reverse-engineered server software for a Cartoon Network semi-MMO web game which shut down in 2014 whose fan server on Discord numbers in only the tens of online people which I only played a couple times, and I somehow got that approved to be a culminating project for my degree.
An interest in computers, programming, and games also naturally led me down the console modding pipeline. I believe in physical ownership, I believe that part of owning a console is the right to do as you please with it, and I believe passionately in the cause of use of such tools for preserving games. That perhaps gives me an inkling of appreciation for Bulbapedia and its peer projects, and the people who tirelessly contribute to them who should be proud of the real work they do to archive real history. I wish I had the focus to join you.
But for now, I am just a guy who paces around too much trying to focus on his last bit of schoolwork before going to join a workforce he is unready for. That is the gist of why I pick Spinda to represent myself, and I can only hope to compensate by showing a Spinda's energy.
I would love to be using some of the time to be playing Z-A right now, if only just to grab the Greninjite, but Pokémon Center sent me the wrong version of the game (bought Switch 2 Edition, received Switch version). I have thus since October 20th been in the hell of having a copy of the game next to me that I refuse to open because it is not mine while their undermanned support staff runs out the clock of the Greninjite event and perhaps the return window not giving my ticket opened that day a substantive response.
With a fair bit of the spare time I have which is not objectively wasted pacing and not spent on Discord, I play Europa Universalis IV, a "grand strategy" game that I cannot recommend enough to strategy nerds for its insane replay value, but also cannot recommend at all due to its insane replay value. I currently have 1,582 hours in it, and still feel like a novice wasting his time, slackjawed at what those he sees as even mildly skilled can pull off. It really makes me appreciate how deep humans can develop their skill even in tight niches.
To round out this mess with some Pokémon-related self-trivia, my first Pokémon game was Platinum. I am reticent to call any of them my favorite, so if needed I default to calling Platinum it. My starter was a Piplup named Bippy, a name my sister would use. Whenever I spend a while playing Pokémon (the main-series video games primarily) I wind up building living dexes or doing playthroughs insistent on using Pokémon who represent peers. With the living dexes, I suppose the end goal is not to have them all: nothing with regard to them makes me happier than to pull out of them to help a friend complete their dex.
Thank you, and I eagerly await having the opportunity to get to converse with you all.
I am a computer science major, and I engage somewhat with hobby programming, perhaps too much with a focus on making programs to solve my own problems. I also love doing dumb tinkering with computers, part of which is motivated by a "need" to test my programs in a variety of conditions. A great example of the intersection of these things with my particular age and general oddity would be that I am working on reverse-engineered server software for a Cartoon Network semi-MMO web game which shut down in 2014 whose fan server on Discord numbers in only the tens of online people which I only played a couple times, and I somehow got that approved to be a culminating project for my degree.
An interest in computers, programming, and games also naturally led me down the console modding pipeline. I believe in physical ownership, I believe that part of owning a console is the right to do as you please with it, and I believe passionately in the cause of use of such tools for preserving games. That perhaps gives me an inkling of appreciation for Bulbapedia and its peer projects, and the people who tirelessly contribute to them who should be proud of the real work they do to archive real history. I wish I had the focus to join you.
But for now, I am just a guy who paces around too much trying to focus on his last bit of schoolwork before going to join a workforce he is unready for. That is the gist of why I pick Spinda to represent myself, and I can only hope to compensate by showing a Spinda's energy.
I would love to be using some of the time to be playing Z-A right now, if only just to grab the Greninjite, but Pokémon Center sent me the wrong version of the game (bought Switch 2 Edition, received Switch version). I have thus since October 20th been in the hell of having a copy of the game next to me that I refuse to open because it is not mine while their undermanned support staff runs out the clock of the Greninjite event and perhaps the return window not giving my ticket opened that day a substantive response.
With a fair bit of the spare time I have which is not objectively wasted pacing and not spent on Discord, I play Europa Universalis IV, a "grand strategy" game that I cannot recommend enough to strategy nerds for its insane replay value, but also cannot recommend at all due to its insane replay value. I currently have 1,582 hours in it, and still feel like a novice wasting his time, slackjawed at what those he sees as even mildly skilled can pull off. It really makes me appreciate how deep humans can develop their skill even in tight niches.
To round out this mess with some Pokémon-related self-trivia, my first Pokémon game was Platinum. I am reticent to call any of them my favorite, so if needed I default to calling Platinum it. My starter was a Piplup named Bippy, a name my sister would use. Whenever I spend a while playing Pokémon (the main-series video games primarily) I wind up building living dexes or doing playthroughs insistent on using Pokémon who represent peers. With the living dexes, I suppose the end goal is not to have them all: nothing with regard to them makes me happier than to pull out of them to help a friend complete their dex.
Thank you, and I eagerly await having the opportunity to get to converse with you all.
