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Malcontented Technerdophile Perfectionist
Tremulant \| 5:40 AM on 01.25.2009	6 comments

Sometimes I annoy myself when it comes to gaming. I look for imperfections in every aspect, mainly lag, resolution, and sound. There are thousands of gamers who play for the games, oh no! I spend more time tweeking performance, if my game is lagging on the net i'll spend the rest of the day fiddling with my network. Whats that? Ghosting on my HDTV? Look like hours spent fiddling with colour spacing and contrast settings... (Does anyone with a Samsung use the backlight high and the brightness at 0?)
A slight crackle with my sound? Uninstall and fiddle with the wires for hours!

Then when it comes to actually playing i'm reading Dtoid or 4chan for hours never actually playing, I have the perfect future proofed setup...one day i'll actually play some games on it. People buy PS3's and 360s from the shop I work in and use the composite cables on a HDTV even though we offer HDMI cables from �9.99, they dont care, I wish I could live like that. I think if heaven existed i'd hate it, so i'm glad it probably doesn't.

Cheers,
Rob

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4 comments | showing # 1 to 4

Tremulant

@CHRISTIAN

Hope this comment was ironic, as your blog is swamped in 4chan references and memes.

Technophile

Sounds to me like you have OCD and not technophilia. But then, wtf do I know?

Solgrim

@Tremulant:

4chan memes or not, thank's for wasting hours there, to bring us who live outside 4chan a good joke every now and then. It's like you guys are the uncharismatic and ugly underpaid comedy writers.

Only you won't go on strike.

Spartacus

I feel the same way.

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about me

I am Rob Endean, I work in a games retail shop.
I have been brought up on Pesonal Computers but in the last 15 years I have also been an avid video gamer.
I own a PS3, a 360, a DSi, a Wii, a PS2, a Gamecube, an X Box and a gaming PC.

I am very hard to impress when it comes to anything, also I dont eat meat :<

Genres I liek:

Online Multiplayer Games
RPGs
FPSs

I dont like:
Sports Games
Army Men anything
"Ricky Games"

I generally like Fantasy and Sci Fi as a setting.

My favorite games in no particular order are:

Team Fortress 2 (Spy, Scout and Engi)

Dawn of War
Metal Gear Solid 4
Little Big Planet
Metal Gear Solid 3
Half Life 1 + 2 + eps
Portal
WoWCrack
Halo 2 + 3
Counter Strike
Animal Crossing
Titan Quest
DEFCON
Baldurs Gate
Super Smash Brothers Melee/Brawl
Paper Mario and The Thousand Year Door
Super Metroid
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (Color Version)
Diablo 2
Fallout 2 + 3
Starcraft
Max Payne 2
Neverwinter Nights 2
Warcraft 3
Metal Gear Solid
Final Fantasy 4 6 7 8
Um Jammer Lammy
Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge
Elder Scrolls IV: OBLIVION
Deus Ex
Left 4 Dead
Dead Space
Gear of War
Castle Crashers
Street Fighter 4

Gamertag
Cthulol
PSN
Endless Rob

In terms of other things in my life I like rock nonsense (NiN, APC, Tool, Mars Volta, System, etc etc) and post-rock twitchy music for jerks (Radiohead, Mr Scruff, Bjork, Sigur Ros, Gomez, UNKLE etc etc) and occasionally I love a bit of Metal or Technical Dance stuff like Red Snapper, Leftfield and even Aphex Twin.

I like tabletop roleplaying games, I prefer to run with basic 4th ed ruleset of D+D.

I like politics, quantum physics and psychology, if you get me drunk I am likely to gibber on about one of those 3 things, just tell me to shut up tbh.

I love reading, my favorite book is The Wasp Factory by Ian Banks.