User:Ghosst

Background

I've been gaming since the Pong! Console (way before Atari) entered my world. I was very good at beating the AI, but against my older cousins, I always lost. Perhaps these early defeats are why today, I still don't enjoy PvP... My parents always discouraged me from video games, and yet, bought me tons of them. I suppose they were meant to be used at night, or in the winter. But the basement was always cold and dark, so it seemed fitting that I bundle up and kill those damned Space Invaders!

While I started with consoles, ie - Pong, Atari, Coleco, Intelivision, etc I soon moved into PCs when my father brought home a Digital VT18X with 4, count em 4!, Floppys! Holy Cow - 1.2MB of storage baby! (Yeah, I'm old). It's pretty much been downhill since, although there was this one time, at college, when I left computers all together ... but that's another story.

After leaving aviation (no I was NOT a pilot, it takes more than stick-jockeys to make an airplane fly) I returned to primary passion and only real talent, computers. Since then I've worked on way too many computers, built servers, administered them, installed networks, and gain a few licenses along the way. I am NOT some little "L33t Hax0r" or "Script Kiddie". I use my talents to make things work, not ruin them. I also tend to focus more on hardware than writing code.

I have worked for a gaming company, supporting Semper Fidelis / Soldner: Secret Wars. I also designed a few of the maps, wrote the game requirements, and translated a lot of info from German-English into the Queen's English. For my efforts I received no money, no thanks, and no credits. But I did have a cool [Project-Zero] gaming tag...

I would love to work for Arena Net, but somehow I don't think I have the time for it. I tend to get along well with the Admins because I was one. I also tend to dislike silly questions that have no relevance but then again, everyone in support knows you can't fix stupid. It just happens.

Guild Wars

I have a horrible tendancy to wander everywhere with different characters. So one day you might find me in Pre-Searing, and on another, in Tyria with my warrior. Later that night I might be in Nightfall with my Dervish, or just hanging out in Piken Square with my Necromancer. It's disturbing really, because I could have far more titles, or work on the account-wide titles if I would just pick one thing to do. But death-levelling charr means I have to walk away from the computer for hours so I can't always play in Pre-Searing which is one of the titles I really want to acheive.

The pointless teenage jibber-jabber in Ascalon, Amerian District #1 can also drive you nuts. Most of the time I just put people on my ignore list, but it seems to be full. The funniest part is these are the same people who keep getting banned. I could be strange in thinking they should just play or create an MSN group chat instead, but I don't rule pre-searing (although ... if I did...)

Beyond those oddities, I enjoy playing the game for the story. I tend to get wrapped up in it far too much (see my guilt stats on the right-hand side) and block out things like eating. I often offer help to new players, or give guild invites to those who ask for them. I DO NOT SPAM guild recruitments because such drivel annoys the Hell out of me. I also only trade in party search or trade chat. My local chat is always turned off except in Pre-Searing where being a Gate Monkey has fuelled my rather large wallet. I keep my pre-searing and post-searing seperate as you never know when you will need to salvage a rune in pre.