I'm not about to start my introduction with a bunch of hyperbole.. but you know what makes me happy about Destructoid? You know what really pleases me? Really, REALLY gets me all excited in the pants region? The fact I can post everything that I just said in these last three sentences here and nothing gets censored. I've written for many places in the past, I've ran my own blog and still the politics followed me. I was the foul-mouthed heathen that everyone had to tame and man, did that shit get old.

Let me start out by saying that I'm not your typical female around these parts. We've had the vicious stereotypes out there that make us one of two things; we're either gamer "grrls" and all of us wish we had dicks where our precious flowers are.. OR we're "females who casually play fucking BEJEWELED and call those videogames.". This, my friends, is what I have to work with.

I am neither. You won't catch me popping caps in heads because I'm imagining they're macho frat-boys with their all-night keggers. Furthermore, I don't "puzzle game" and call it a fucking day. No. Sure, I like some mindless entertainment that's been railed through the system for the casual gamer.. but it's not my bread and butter. No, sir. Not this chick.

What you do have in me is a mouthpiece for men and women alike. The kind of person you can sit down with and pick their brains for what you think happened to the survival horror genre. To ask where the downfall of the console war went and you know what? I won't bullshit you. I'm the same female that's told game designers and developers to their faces what they could've done better in their last title and yet, I've remained friends with every single one of them. Yes, I'm abrasive but I say this shit as my truth and I expect people to do the same with me.

Most of all, I'm passionate about my Industry and that is the Video Game Industry at large. I've become a big advocate for anti-piracy in the gaming world and fight hard to educate people on it where I can. I love the forefathers of our precious hobby, the ones that came to the front of the lines and started the market for our dreams and goals. I admire the creativity of Miyamoto and Kojima and find them to be geniuses in the field. Art couldn't get anymore interactive than what we see before us when we boot up our systems.. and I love everything about it.

So, there you go. This is me. Candice. I'm a fucking brat and I doubt anybody will appreciate that, but it's honest. Most people might say I'm too intense to get, but that's an intensity that spans both areas. Good. Bad. Indifferent. Hate with a fury, love with a fire.

Can't wait to talk to some of you and thanks for giving me another sounding board here at Destructoid!

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