Epic Default Productions

I was catching up on my magazine reading the other day, when I came across an interesting article in WIRED. It was basically about rules that men should follow.

Yes, I still read magazines

Yeah, the unemployemt office line looked like this

First off, I would like to let you know, that this Rant 500 is not being posted posthumously. I am, in fact, still very much alive.  I’ve just been busy. The last 4 months have been very interesting, and to be quite honest, life changing.

No, I didn’t find Jesus

Ok, here is a simple question for everybody out there: what type of person comes to mind when you hear the words “geek” or “nerd”? Describe them.

Is this question graded?

For those who didn’t know, I have been out of a job basically since Christmas.  It’s no real surprise, since Michigan has the highest unemployment rate in the country.  So finding a job has been hard. This is why I jumped on the first company to offer me a job – Circuit City.

Wait… Isn’t Circuit City Bankrupt?

A little over forty years ago, Sweden was one of those crazy countries that used to drive on the left side of the road. But with more and more cars coming into the country from Europe, that were built to be driven on the right side of the road, they decided they needed to switch.

What does this have to do with DTV?

For those who didn’t read my 2008 awards, I made a new year’s resolution last year to have a $0 gaming budget. That started out meaning that I would sell my Wii and old games and use that money to buy any new games. But after July, it meant buying absolutely NO new games for the rest of the year.

How did it turn out? Click to find out

10 awards…  in 500 words. Crap.

See if he can do it!

Underdog isn’t here! Sorry, I just had to make that joke. The introduction is always the hardest part for me to get down on paper screen, and most of the time I go with something corny – like the example above. But once that is over, then I get down to business.

Greetings! As you can see, I’m not one of the Epic Default regulars that you guys and gals have been reading so far.  But I hope to change that. My plan is to come here once a week and write something and have my posts finish in 500 words or less.

And so far I’ve already blown through 1/5 of that amount, so I best get on with what I was going to talk about… myself. I thought it would be kind of odd if a random crazy person dude just appeared on the site without any warning and started shooting his mouth off.

So hello everybody, my name is Andy. But as you will tell from my gamertag on the bottom of this post, my username is Qs23 and most people just call me Qs. I can’t be blamed for the lack of pronounceability of it though. I created it for use on my older siblings’ BBS board that they ran in the basement when I was around 6 years old.

And that hopefully should give a clue to how long I’ve been around technology. I learned my ABCs on an IBM 286, was writing school reports using Word 5.1, and surfing the net at 2400 baud.

And video gaming was there the whole time as well. My platform ownership history is as follows: Atari 2600, NES, SMS, SNES, Dreamcast, PS2, Xbox 360 and Wii. And all but the Wii and SMS are still in my possession.

And let us not forget the PC. I’ve been gaming on it since text based adventures straight through Myst on the CD-Rom and now up to World of Warcraft, which thankfully was able to break the addiction to over a year ago and even the expansions have not gotten me back.

But that’s enough about the past, what about the future? Well, I just graduated from Eastern Michigan University with a BS major in Electronic Media & Film studies and minor in Graphic Communication. What does that mean? I can produce anything for TV, Radio, Magazines, Newspapers, Movies, Internet, etc.

A lot of good that is doing for me at the moment though, because Michigan right now has the second highest unemployment rate in the country at the last check and I’m part of the 8.7% who don’t have a job. BTW, Rhode Island is first with 8.8%.

So what does that mean for you? Well that means that I’ve got time on my hands. Enough throw my hat into this ring on top of doing my own podcast. (I just had to plug it once) So as we near the end, I guess I will see you next time.

Qs23 appears courtesy of rapodcast.net. You might remember him from the PAX Review episode of our podcast a couple of months back. If you’d like to join the staff as well (we’re still looking for a web guru) please email us at fanboys.podcast@gmail.com

And now…a freaky game variant from Halo 3. Shark Attack!