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7 Random Things About Me

Hrafn from Think Artificial tagged me a few days ago with a meme to write 7 things about myself. So, without further ado:

  1. My love affair with RPGs began quite early. When I was 9 or 10, I discovered a copy of Dragon Warrior for NES at a yard sale and bought it for $5. Many late nights weren’t spent boop-boop-booping around that fantasy land of skeletons and green and red slimes. RPGs are still one of my favorite game genres, 15 years later.
  2. When I was a teenager, I avoided haircuts if at all possible; my hair was often down below my shoulders. My bangs could cover my whole face, hanging down to the front of my neck. My hair has migrated now, however; I prefer a shaved head, but I also sport a goatee at all times.
  3. I’ve never tried any illegal drugs, not even the relatively minor league marijuana. No desire to, either.
  4. My thumbs are double jointed, and I delight in twisting them backwards and popping them out of their sockets to make people squirm. I don’t have any other double jointed fingers or limbs, alas.
  5. I have the awful habit of biting my nails.
  6. I have a birthmark on my right eye which is more or less like a small cataract that doesn’t get worse (ophthalmologist’s explanation, not mine). My eye appears fine, but my right eye vision is substantially blurrier than my left.
  7. When eating, I really dislike for my different foods to get mixed on the plate; I don’t want corn bumping into my mashed potatoes, or my biscuit sitting upon a serving of green beans.

The rules of the meme said I needed to tag 7 people, but I must say – I’m not sure I can. Between Hrafn and Edrei, they’ve very nearly pointed to all of the folks I’d tag. There are a few left, however – Liz at LearningNerd, Gordon from One Man Blogs, and Tom. Of course, you three aren’t obligated to do this – but I’d certainly like it if you did. ;)

Comments 7

  1. Hrafn Th. wrote:

    Many nights of my teen years got spent playing MUDs, hack’n’slash and later roleplaying. Most of them were text based. Thanks for writing (passes time until BSG goes back on!).

    Posted 27 Jun 2008 at 8:44 pm
  2. Josh wrote:

    I’ve also enjoyed my fair share of MUDs over the years. I believe one was called The Two Towers, based obviously on Lord of the Rings; good stuff!

    Posted 28 Jun 2008 at 2:41 pm
  3. zhayena wrote:

    I really miss playing RPG. We were about five people who got together every week and played the strangest things. Now all of us wait for our kids to be old enough to brainwash :D

    Posted 01 Jul 2008 at 7:27 am
  4. Josh wrote:

    I never did do much of the tabletop gaming. I’ve always stuck to video / computer RPGs. I wanted to try tabletop, but never could find a group of people to play with.

    Posted 03 Jul 2008 at 6:37 pm
  5. zhayena wrote:

    That’s too bad; when playing live you always have these “good” ideas floating around that make the play go in unexpected directions. You don’t get that on computer games as it can’t deal with that many directions.

    Posted 09 Jul 2008 at 8:46 am
  6. Josh wrote:

    Yeah, it’s certainly much more limited than live roleplaying sessions. I tried it a few times, and I felt a bit awkward. Embarrassed in a way, I guess; I’m not sure why, as everyone else was also pretending to be an elf, dwarf, or something similar, so it’s not like I was the only one being a bit strange. :)

    Posted 09 Jul 2008 at 9:27 am
  7. zhayena wrote:

    You have to get inside the head of the character you’re going to be if it’s going to work and not feel strange. So it’s more to it than pretending.

    You have to be an elf, that has some strange voice inside that tell you to throw dices to survive.

    And maybe that’s why people outside the culture thinks we are all utterly mad :D

    Posted 09 Jul 2008 at 10:48 am

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