User:Kain  

Kain

So I realised i've been working here for over a year now, and I never actually bothered to write anything on this page.

Well, here goes. I am a certifiable computer geek. My first computer was the Commadore Vic20 at the age of 3. True, I didn't do anything other than play games on it (Rat Race and Cosmic Cruncher in particular), but it got me used to some of the BASIC commands I needed to load tape programs. At the age of 5, I moved on to the Commadore 128. I'd just had a hernia operation (yes, at that age) and my Dad decided to buy me one for being brave. Awww, how sweet. Around then, I was starting to use cheat codes on games... dispicable, I know! But using all those PEEK and POKE commands got me interested in just how games worked.

So Dad bought me some programming books and I started fiddling around with BASIC in Commadore 64 mode.

By 9, I was fiddling around with the Commadore Amiga 500, which belonged to my Dad. At 13, I was bought a Commadore Amiga 1200 for myself as Dad got sick of me taking his A500. Admittedly he also bought himself one of the Amiga 1500's... for some reason. That's when I started learning to program in AMOS. At 14, I rescued an old 286 machine, repaired it (with some help from my Dad) and played old PC games. Once I turned 15, Dad bought me a shiny, new Pentium 75. That was partially because i'd asked for a Sound Card for my 286 as a christmas present, and partially because I was struggling to do schoolwork on my Amiga 1200.

I've been a PC user ever since. Once Windows 95 was released, I taught myself HTML using Frontpage. Once I knew how the code worked, I started using Notepad to write webpages. From there, i've branched out into MySQL, PERL, Visual Basic and Delphi. Sadly, my programming knowledge is limited these days... i've forgotten a lot! But I do intend to re-visit some of these languages and just brush up on what I know. So, what do I do for fun? Well... I play the guitar, badly! I'm a bit rusty there as well, so I need to brush up on my skills. Other than that, I go out to concerts and play games online.

How else do you think I got this job?!

My main characters in EverQuest II are an 80 Conjuror (Mythicalled), 80 Berserker (Mythicalled) and an 80 Defiler (doesn't even have the fabled epic because i'm lazy). I also have 3 tradeskillers at level 80, and i'm a role-player. So, you'll find me hanging out on Antonia Bayle... usually trying to cause trouble. As you can probably guess, I also enjoy raiding and I feel i'm not too bad at it. Well... I can sit down, shut up, take orders and put out DPS. :) Usually this results in me dying, though.

I do play other games as well, such as Left 4 Dead on my PC (got the second one pre-ordered), Resistance 2 on my PS3 and Mario Kart on my Wii. I love watching movies, though I generally prefer to do so in the comfort of my own home. I'm not one of the people you will find raving about the latest cinema releases. Instead, i'll usually wait for the Blu-Ray or DVD release, buy it and watch it then.

Daresay i'll add more to this later, but that's all I can think of for the moment.

- Kain.

This page last modified 2009-10-04 23:52:06.