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My current goal is to produce game stubs for upcoming games, improve the [[MapleStory]] guide, and add information regarding [[Urban Rivals]].

You can find some of my contributions through the extended toolbox links on the right. Feel free to PM me on [[User talk:Notmyhandle|my talk page]], or you can do so privately by using the email link in the toolbox in the right margin.

Need help? Ask in either [[User talk:Notmyhandle|my talk page]] or the [[StrategyWiki:Staff_lounge|Staff Lounge]].  If you can, join me and the others in the [[Special:Mibbit|#StrategyWiki IRC Channel]] (I try to be there, but I usually forget).

A shout out to Lunar Knight for the idea of a personal infobox.

I've protected my pages from edits, but if you have an idea for making them better go ahead and discuss it with me on [[User talk:Notmyhandle|my talk page]].

I love video games, I love gathering data for them just as much (maybe even more).

I perform all of my edits by hand. The most automated processes I rely on are copy/paste, some regular expressions and the find functions within Firefox or IE. I am currently experimenting with AutoWikiBrowser.

In November, 2006, I was making articles on Wikipedia for [[Gunster: Rain of Bullets]] and various other things when I noticed that "game guide information" was not allowed on Wikipedia. I panicked and, seeking refuge for my work, found GameInfo at Wikia (where I dumped some of my contributions) and then later StrategyWiki. Since SW had an active community and a much more original skin and organization, it had me hooked.

I most often work with cleanup, creating new article pages, setting up guides for others, solving editing problems, and contributing what I can remember from playing games. I also work with screenshots, image touch ups, content, inquiry, helping with community issues and admining (more or less).

I rarely work on Wikipedia, as SW takes up most of my time. I am also an administrator on a few Wikia wikis. I tend to stay away from video game related wikis on Wikia, however I am prone to supporting large, active communities such as WoWWiki, when I am playing the game(s) covered by the wiki.

Although I'm relatively young, I grew up playing NES and Atari games, and I still have many if not all of my NES carts (we went through maybe 4 systems but none survived).  PC games were also a big thing, since my brother purchased a Pentium 400 or something that I used to play [[Commander Keen]] games and [[Warcraft: Orcs and Humans]] on. Eventually I killed that computer (probably by formatting it) and we got a newer one later which I used to play [[Ascendancy]], [[Civilization]], [[Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness]], and [[The Secret of Monkey Island]] on (all of which I sucked at).

I think I was 8 or so before I got my SNES (it was like $115 used with several games), which I still have (yet it's now broken, and I will soon find a FC Twin to replace it). I was given [[Shadow Run]] as part of the bundle, however because I was quite young and impatient, I went and traded it for [[Secret of Mana]]; a great trade indeed (although I had to pay an extra $20 or so during the exchange). I feel bad for getting rid of that game though. I have only traded/sold around five games in my life and I've regretted every single exchange. I remember writing an "essay" in the third grade where I basically wrote about a mix of reality and visual ideas from the sprites and items present in [[Secret of Mana]]... wow.

(Side note; sold games: [[Shadow Run]], [[SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron]], [[Vagrant Story]], this one basketball game for Xbox though I gave it away instead of selling it; lost games T_T: [[Banjo Kazooie]], [[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time]])

When I turned 11, 5th grade, I rented an N64 and had a party with a couple of friends, playing [[GoldenEye 007]] and [[Star Fox 64]]. That December my cousins and my brothers received an N64 to be split between us.  After several years of swapping we ended up with the system (which I still have).

At the age of 16 I got a student Visa with a low limit. Thus the ability to purchase things online was now mine.  I went on a [[:Category:Sega Genesis|Genesis]] rampage and now have 1-3 consoles (I haven't checked my inventory for a while), about 10 controllers, several crazy adapters, a 32X without a connector cable (T_T), a Menacer Rifle, about 8 [[Sonic the Hedgehog 2]] cartridges, and many other games.

That's about it, 'cept I've been buying games in between my whole life.