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About Me

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I guess I was a hardcore gamer before I knew what hardcore gaming was. I'm a 32 year old lifelong gamer who lives in Hayward and who works at a game company. I used to write for various small music webzines and was well on my way to living the life of a professional college student, but games are a hell of a lot more interesting than indie music snobbery. Anyway, Destructoid seems to be a fairly cool place for me to spout off my uninformed and biased opinions... So hi! I hope you are all doing well.

I'm almost always down for playing SSFIIHDR or super Street Fighter IV on Xbox LIVE or in person.

I took over Dtoid Community Discusses from Tactix until I started working in the industry. If you are interested in checking them out, I have them linked below.

Dtoid Community Discusses pt 20*: Nintendo 3DS Hype Edition
Dtoid Community Discusses pt 21*: E3 2010

==Games I'm playing now.==

Super Street Fighter IV (X360)
Marvel VS Capcom 3 (X360)
Hard Corps: Uprising (X360)

Gamer Profile

3DS friend code:
Steam: ErbilT
Battle:
PSN: ErbilT
Mii: 3744-9311-4845-1672
Gamertag: ErbilT

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Childhood dream attained! I am now officially a video game character! ErbilT | 12:56 PM on 09.01.2009 15 comments

So a few months back, one of my friends over at Cryptic asked me if I wanted to be put in Champions Online as an NPC character. Of course this made me really excited and I agreed. I didn’t really think much about it until this message popped into my Facebook page yesterday…. I was impressed to see that you showed up as Timothy "7 Fingers" Erbil in Champions Online. How did you pull that one off?” So yeah, I haven’t gotten around to playing the game yet… my video card is dead and I’m currently using onboard video, but apparently I’m one of the leaders in a prison riot. It’s an open world mission, so people will be beating me up constantly. So yeah, I’ll end this post with a quote from my brother when I told him the news. It’s pretty cool though. Being put in a video game is one of the better geek honors.... maybe just short of being made into a webcomic character or being a Star Wars extra.” So yeah, this totally made my day yesterday.