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Name: Shawn
Age: 32
Location: Raleigh, NC

*Senior Writer at GamerLimit.com.

*Follow me on Twitter: Shawne1979

*Official member of the Cblogs Recap team.

Systems Currently Owned:
- XBOX360, PS3, PSPgo, PS2, Wii, GameCube, DS, SNES, NES

Games I'm Currently Playing:
- World of Warcraft: Cataclysm

Game Reviews:
- Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2
- Metroid: Other M
- Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty
- Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands
- God of War 3
- Blaster Master Overdrive
- Dark Void
- Ratchet and Clank Future: A Crack in Time
- LEGO Rock Band
- Borderlands (PC)
- Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
- Dead Space: Extraction
- Darkest of Days
- The Beatles: Rock Band
- Shadow Complex
- Shatter

Front Paged
1) The Start of the Affair: Civilization
2) Feel the Hatred: The onslaught of Fall/Winter game releases
3) Halo-Life: Call of TurokShock - The Best FPS you Never Played

My Favorite Entries
1) My introduction post. Get to know me if you dare!
2) The Dragon's Den - My Gaming Setup
3) The Dragon's Lair - My New Office
4) The 12 Days of Destructoid Christmas

When it comes to video games I am obsessive-compulsive about beating them. If I start a game I must finish it. No matter how bad, or how hard it is I will not rest until the ending credits have rolled across the screen. Like Bruce Hornsby says ... that's just the way it is!

Games Beaten Recently (in chronological order):
- Rayman Origins
- Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
- Bulletstorm
- Dead Space 2
- Portal 2
- Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception
- Donkey Kong Country Returns
- Back to the Future: Episode 1
- Ghostbusters: The Video Game
- Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit
- Enslaved: Pigsy's Perfect 10
- Enslaved: Odyssey to the West
- Call of Duty: Black Ops
- Dragon Age: Origins
- Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2
- Halo: Reach
- Metroid: Other M
- Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty
- Super Mario Galaxy 2
- Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands
- Final Fantasy 13
- God of War 3
- Battlefield: Bad Company 2
- Bioshock 2
- Blaster Master Overdrive
- Mass Effect 2
- Dark Void
- Darksiders
- Assassin's Creed II
- Batman: Arkham Asylum
- Ratchet and Clank Future: A Crack in Time
- Modern Warfare 2
- LEGO Rock Band
- God of War: Chains of Olympus
- Borderlands
- Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
- Dead Space: Extraction
- Halo 3: ODST
- Darkest of Days
- The Beatles: Rock Band
- Uncharted: Drake's Fortune
- Shadow Complex
- Resistance 2
- MadWorld
- Shatter
- Bionic Commando
- X-Men Origins: Wolverine
- Gears of War 2
- Beyond Good and Evil
- Dead Space
- Prince of Persia & Epilogue DLC
- Ratchet and Clank Future: Search for Booty
- Killzone 2
- Shadow of the Colossus
- Flower
- Fallout 3
- LEGO Star Wars: TCS
- Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
- Mirror's Edge
- Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition
- Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
- Mega Man 9
- Mario Galaxy
- God of War 2
- Gears of War
- Metal Gear Solid 4
- Grand Theft Auto 4
- Bioshock
- Assassin's Creed
- Halo 3
- Forza Motorsport 2
- Mass Effect
- Heavenly Sword
- Ratchet and Clank Future: TOD
- Portal
- Resistance: FOM
- Metal Gear Solid 3
- God of War
- Metroid Prime 2

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Where do dragons work? (My new work office)
SilverDragon1979 \| 9:46 AM on 08.20.2008	23 comments

Most of you don’t know what I do for a living, so let me give you a brief description. I’m an electrical engineer who works for a high performance analog company as an IC Designer in the field of notebook computer power electronics. In other words, I design microchips that regulate power to Intel and AMD Notebook CPUs. In even simpler terms, I make your computer work. If you are still confused don’t worry, because I have never found a good way to describe what I do to people.

So just recently I have gotten a lot more responsibility at work, and with this new responsibility has come a completely new office and computer setup. I was so blown away by it all that I wanted to share it with you, because it’s pretty incredible. As you can see from the pictures below I am now running 2 different computers, with a total of 3 20” LCD monitors. One computer is a Dell Windows laptop that displays using a 20” 4:3 LCD monitor. The other computer is a super-powerful Dell Linux Box that requires me to use 2 20” 16:9 widescreen monitors side by side.

As you can see from these images I am literally surrounded by monitors. I can turn my head almost 120 degrees and see monitor. It’s absolutely crazy.

Well I just wanted to share my new office and computer setup with you all. Hope you enjoy the pictures.

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22 comments | showing # 1 to 22

thefil

Address and access codes please.

Half left

Neat, that's a lot of degrees of monitor viewing. now get back to work.

Kryptinite

I envy you a little :)

randombullseye

So that is the Dragons Den?

Y0j1mb0

So you should be the guy I curse to the bowels of Hell when my computer is not working??

Today isn't a total loss after all.

Also Tarheel #1. Learn to live with that.

Mr Wilson

Nice!

Timmeh

I've always been torn when it comes to office space. In my previous job I almost ended up with a shiny new office to myself instead of sharing with a couple of people but then some asshole manager decided he wanted it for the 3 days a month he was on site.

This was probably for the best though because I already spent half my day arsing around playing games and browsing the web (the general lack of computer literacy among my colleagues led them to think jobs that took me 45 mins constituted several hours of work). The lack of any direct supervision/monitoring I enjoyed coupled with a newfound insulation from the rest of the building would have, I fear, been too much for my meager willpower and I would have been sacked for doing even less.

Char Aznable

3 monitors? Do you really need that many? Sorry, that's just my jealousy speaking. Enjoy your 120 degrees of awesomeness.

The real highlight of the office is that couch, though. When I have a couch in my office, that's when I'll know that I've become something.

The Duke

Dude you need to rig up Forza 2 with some xbox's in that office, it's the only logical option. But also, that is an awesome office.

SilverDragon1979

@Yojimbo: I can't believe you just wrote in your comment "Tarheel #1. Learn to live with that." You are truly dead to me now.

Velt

So cool, congrats.

Y0j1mb0

LMAO.

Demtor

Heh, thats pretty sweet. I had a dream of having my own office until I found out they have these things called cubicles. Then I discovered what I have now which is a glorified cubicle called a "workspace."

Y0j1mb0

That is all.

Y0j1mb0

better.

RonBurgandy2010

I' m thinking about going into hardware. That's what you do right?

SilverDragon1979

Yeah I do hardware only, no software at all. I have designed at the system level, but now I'm designing at the silicon level.

RonBurgandy2010

How does it pay?

ThisYearsPink

So what? I have 30 calculators just like yours in my "office." And I have an LCD projector and a SMARTboard. Oh, and rulers. Lots and lots of rulers. Do you have any rulers?

Seriously, nice office and monitorage.

SilverDragon1979

Starting salary fresh out of college with just a Bachelors degree can be anywhere between $50k and $70k. If you have a Masters that can be bumped up to between $60k and $80k.

RonBurgandy2010

O.O

Dirtnap

Ha, showing off the new setup! I dig it, pretty nice man. Maybe I should show off my new office too. :P

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