So it's been close to 5 years since I last left a journal entry on DA, but the only thing that's really brought me back around is the amusing little fake pokemon world and I are creating for .  Having since earned my BA in Game Art and Design, I find this little club to a rather interesting way of passing the time.

For those of you reading this because of and are trying to learn a bit more about me, allow me to explain.  I'm a gamer.  no, not a hard-core, memorize-everything-about-everthing-new-and-retro gamer, a gamer.  I have a solid understanding and history with old-school games; I have a clockwork ability to analyze more than just why a game did something, but why it was DESIGNED to do something.  I'm a role-player, or more specifically, I am a Dungeon Master.  But as my DnD players will tell you, I don't just know and judge by the rules, I understand the very methodology behind their balance.  I AM the rules, and by being so, I know how to keep things going fairly and smoothly.  I rarely here gamers complain.

Am I bragging? I don't think so.  I'm more like warning.   is the Admin and primary founder of .  ,,, and are the co-founders and secondary admins of .  I, am the rule nazi, the rule maker, the system developer.  If one of the above take the time to say something's wrong, it's likely to be a friendly, smooth, simple exchange.  If I have to follow-up, something is probably so wrong your likely next step is to be banned from the Island... or I just have a much better way of explaining the problem... or you've legitimately found a loophole in the rules that needs tweeking... happens, no system's perfect...

But the one thing I've noticed is that people's attitude towards you is entirely based on the reader's impression of what you wrote, and with DA's nasty history of jerks, peddlers, theifs, and A#*holes, please choose your words wisely, and remember this simple piece of advice...

It's NEVER a bad idea to follow up whatever you're saying with a word or two in parentheses, like "kidding" or "being sarcastic" or "actually annoyed"... It just leaves little room for misinterpretation.

(not kidding)

(at all)