User:Vyran
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My name doesn't mean anything.
Now that that's out of the way, on with the show.
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[edit] About Me
Home is Latrobe, Pennsylvania: neighbor to Pittsburgh and home of a beer, a golfer, and a Presbyterian minister with an endless supply of sweaters and a train set that travels the world. Right now I'm in my third year at the Tampa campus of the University of South Florida, majoring in Computer science. I got into using Wikipedia early in 2005, using it as my main (if not only) source for information for research for a class. Once I realized that I could read about the Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge and see the most vulgar movies ever created (Pulp Fiction isn't even in the top ten), I was hooked. I didn't start editing until June 2005, when I had my way with the page for the Tekken character Kazuya. Now, I only edit every once in a while, but I have over two thousand pages on my watchlist, and a few on the other Wiki projects.
[edit] Interests
[edit] Programming
I know Pascal (doesn't everyone?), C++, and Java. L33t programming language is amusing, but not really good for anything unless you think you're a h4x0r.
Some people that made it possible for me to get a job typing things in brackets: Charles Babbage • Alonzo Church • Ada Lovelace • John von Neumann • Alan Turing
These ideas behind Artificial Intelligence are also interesting, if you're a huge nerd like I am: Fuzzy logic • Pattern recognition • Machine learning • Information entropy • Bayesian inference •
[edit] Music
[edit] Progressive
Ayreon • Devin Townsend • The Dillinger Escape Plan • Dream Theater • Fates Warning • Jethro Tull (flute = \m/) • Liquid Tension Experiment • Nobuo Uematsu and The Black Mages • Pink Floyd • Yes
[edit] Heavy metal
Amon Amarth • Arch Enemy • At The Gates • Beseech • Charon • Children of Bodom • Dimmu Borgir • In Flames • Kalmah • Lacuna Coil • Nevermore • Nightrage • Nightwish • Norther • Opeth • Ram-Zet • Sentenced • Sonata Arctica • Strapping Young Lad
[edit] Electronic
Beborn Beton • Chicane • Daft Punk • Goldfrapp • Nine Inch Nails
[edit] Other stuff
The 69 Eyes • Apocalyptica (cellos = \m/) • Electric Six • Joe Satriani • Poe • Radiohead • Primus
[edit] Mythology
Though I've started to branch off into Egyptian, Greek and Roman, Mayan, Chinese and Japanese mythology, Norse Mythology is my favorite. For some reason, the stories of the Frozen North appeal to me more than the others. The poem Þrymskviða is particularly amusing. As with a lot of my interests, this one stemmed from videogames (Warcraft III, Dark Age of Camelot, Max Payne, and some aspects of the Final Fantasy games have roots in Norse myth).
[edit] Role Playing Games
If you're in the Tampa, Florida area, or go to USF, let me know if you want to start a game. I've had absolutely no luck finding players.
[edit] Games I Play
Vampire: The Masquerade and Vampire: The Requiem • D&D
[edit] Games I'd Like To Play
Demon: The Fallen • Wraith: The Oblivion • Werewolf: The Apocalypse and Werewolf: The Forsaken • Mage: The Ascension and Mage: The Awakening • Call of Cthulhu
[edit] Video games
I've gone through a lot of games in my 20 years of life. Here are my favorites:
- Chrono Trigger - The greatest game ever.
- Chrono Cross - Sequel to the greatest game ever. Also pretty damn cool, but a very different style of play.
- The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind - The most open role-playing experience outside of a tabletop game. The ability to create so many different things is amazing.
- Final Fantasy IV, VI and VII
- Gungrave: Overdose - Straightforward shooter soaked in style.
- Half-Life
- Halo 2 - The preferred method of destruction of my apartment...or was last year, when my roommates were cool. Now I have to go somewhere else to get my alien killing fix.
- The King of Fighters
- Red Faction II - The blow-stuff-up-and-kill-everyone game of choice on PS2.
- Secret of Mana
- Silent Hill 2 and 3
- Soul Calibur 3 (I already went through SC2 a while ago)
- Tekken 5
- WWE SmackDown! Vs. RAW 2006 - Yeah, a wrestling game. Fuck you too.
[edit] Psychology
This isn't really an active interest of mine, more so a slight interest for the sake of making believable Malkavians in Vampire: The Masquerade.
Insanity • Psychosis • Hysteria • Bipolar disorder • Dissociative identity disorder • Demonic possession
[edit] Evil Characters
Call it macabre, but I am a sucker for characters that are full of psychotic, unstable rage.
Arthas Menethil from Warcraft III • Darth Vader • Iori Yagami from the King of Fighters series • The Joker • Kazuya Mishima • Kefka Palazzo from Final Fantasy VI • Magus from Chrono Trigger • Nightmare from Soul Calibur • The Punisher • Pyramid Head from Silent Hill 2 • Randall Flagg • Sephiroth from Final Fantasy VII • Venom
[edit] Wikipedia
[edit] Current projects
None.
[edit] Past projects
The List of Tekken characters is the only page I've done significant work on so far other than this one. Other than that, I usually just patch up mistakes when I see them.
