Are you a good swimmer? If so, do you enjoy swimming?
I greatly enjoy swimming. I am pretty decent at it although I've never been really fast at it :derp:
Would you prefer a pool, a stream, or the beach for swimmins'?
I've actually never swam in a stream or a lake before. I've lived on countless beaches of course and pools and stuff and I could say they both have their pluses and minuses.
I feel that I should ask this follow-up: How far have you gotten in math when you were still in school? (Or at least your history of math courses.)
Linear algebra was as far as I got.
As someone who plays a lot of RTS games, have you touched the Command & Conquer series? What regard do you hold it in compared to say, the original Starcraft or TA?
I've never really actually played the CnC series. None of my friends were into it growing up so we never really gave it a shot. I still hold TA in high regards but I'll admit Starcraft has become the superior game competition wise. I think TA has the deeper gameplay though, it's just hard to balance 2 races without making them exactly the same.
What's your opinion on Supreme Commander? Do you consider it to be a worthy successor to TA?
I loved it. I definitely consider it a worthy successor. While it had some flaws, I think it captured the feel of the original game very well. It definitely solidified the core gameplay while providing a much better framework to balance around. I still think it has the best UI of any game, period. While each race wasn't terribly unique, they still had enough flavor to make them distinct.
Would I be right to assume that A's is your favorite part of the Nanoha series?
Very much so, and Hayate my favorite character.
Anyways, why Zerg? Out of all the races, why that?
It's a seat of your pants race. I don't like being pigeonholed into specific build orders or unit compositions. Plus it's the most macro oriented of the 3 races. The biggest thing I never really liked about Starcraft was having to babysit your units. I far preferred to be the general watching the field and giving the big sweeping orders, not telling each individual soldier how to breathe. Hence why I ended up getting far more attached to TA and SupCom than Starcraft. But Zerg let me be that. From my hive I commanded the swarm, and wave after wave of my creations pound against enemy emplacements and overwhelm. I enjoy it immensely.
Do you use an infrared mouse? If so, what is it?
I use a Logitech G9 at work, and on my desktop I have a Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer 3.0.
What do you think is your most favorite food in the Philippines?
Adobo chicken, yum yum yum <3
Your opinion on today's popular music?
I never have and probably never will enjoy American pop music. I'm just not a fan of hiphop/r&b. Jpop is a bit of a different story, but that's mostly because Jpop tends to be influenced by trance and other electronica (well at least the acts I enjoy).
Hot or cold weather?
Mild weather. I can tolerate both extremes, but I only really "enjoy" cold weather when there's snow on the ground, and hot weather when it's a dry heat and not muggy as fuck D:
Your favorite DoW/Starcraft unit?
For DoW2, Stormboys. I too, wish to be an insane ork who straps a rocket to their back just to punch things. Second would have to be the motherfucking Swarmlord, because the dude's a pimp and he knows it. Starcraft probably banelings, simply because the speed upgrade makes them so goofy. I always shout BANELINGS, TRANSFORM AND ROLL OUT before I attack with them.
The fastest you've ever gone in a car?
I live in the middle of nowhere so the road to my house has some decent straightaways with noone around to bother me. I routinely test to see how fast I can push what I'm driving. I think the fastest I've ever gone is around 115mph or so in my mom's Impala. I couldn't go higher because it had a rev limiter.
What is the worst job you've ever done?
I had a one day temp gig working at a Scotts warehouse. My job was to take expired/damaged bags of fertilizer, open them up, and dump them into big bins. I'm fairly sure I lost about 6 months off my lifespan that day, my lungs were burning (they didn't provide breathing protection beyond basic dust masks and it was like 90 degrees in there) and I was covered in yellow caustic dust. I threw out my clothes and I never really got all the gunk out of my cellphone.
How do you deal with a mouth ulcera?
Oh god I have a medical condition that gives me those constantly. I had one last week near my gums that was so bad I couldn't brush my teeth without horrible pain.
Get the nook, it's the better choice of the three big names out there (Sony Reader, Barnes & Noble Nook, and the Amazon Kindle)
Then you can ride my case about finishing up the conversions of the KGB stories! \o/
My mom has a Nook (got it for her for Christmas) and while it seems nice, I'm not entirely sold on it. The Kindle looks a bit nicer, but I'm holding out for a full tablet like the HP TouchPad at the moment. As for the KGB thing, I'm already working on the ability to convert threads into arbitrary formats (including PDF/EPUB), but that's way down on my list of things to do.
Following up on the RTS question, what's your opinion of MBA - or Multiplayer Battle Arena - style games, mostly common of which is Defenders of the Ancients/Shrine? Do they hold your interest at all, or is that style of PvP not your forte/cup of tea?
I don't really care for them because there's too little to control. It's literally just your hero, no control over the creep waves and stuff. I like DoW2 because it's that same style of tactical play with minimal econ/base building, but with far more units to control. I just think the tactical ceiling is too low on DotA and its clones, it's more akin to a beat em up than any sort of strategy game. That being said I've honestly not played them beyond 1 or 2 games of DotA. DoW2 just sucks up way too much of my time :V
Favourite food?
Favourite beverage?
Faith is for the Transient people?
Sith or Jedi?
Marvel or DC?
If one synchronized swimmer dances will the rest dance too?
What do you hold dearest to you?
Anonymous or Sony?
Anything that died for my meal, water mostly but I love bawls cherry, faith is what you make of it, sith got cooler toys and at least don't pretend like they're not assholes, mahvel baby, if a tree falls in the forest is Cirno still dumb, right now my hands, and I can't decide who I despise more.
Hei x Yin or Hei x Amber or Hei x Suou and why?
Something's wrong with your keyboard, you misspelled Yin x Suou.
Do you prefer to look for long term relationships, or just dating around?
I dunno, I don't have much of an interest in a love life right now given my current life status. I am interested in meeting new people sure, especially for long term friendships. But right now I have well, a nonexistant drive for anything beyond being a friend if you get my drift.
Have you ever been to a nuclear reactor complex?
No, and it sucks because I lived literally 20 minutes from one in Maryland (Calvert Cliffs) and then 9/11 happened and there will never be visitation access to nuclear plants ever again.
Do you think we'll see a colony on the moon/Mars in our lifetime?
I think so. Maybe not in the next 10-20 years, but eventually we'll have to reach out to the stars. It's an inevitability.
is there any other carreer you would love to do as much as nuclear medecine ? (don't say normal medecine :V )
What I would want to do the most? Ballet actually. I've wanted to be a ballerina since I was a toddler but unfortunately I wasn't permitted to take ballet growing up
. Second would be working in theater, either as an actor or in the pit orchestra as a musician.
For sciences, astrophysics and biochemstry are the two other fields I'd want to get into (and have actually studied in). Music teaching would be a great job for me as well. Another ideal job of mine is audio/acoustic engineering, either being one of the sound effect guys in movies or working sound stuff for concerts/recording studios. And of course filmography, specifically camera work.
What is your favourite drink?
I <3 <3 <3 banana or strawberry shakes. I'm not a big pop drinker but I love sugar cane sodas, especially strawberry or cherry flavored ones. I don't drink alcohol except maybe once or twice a year at most but when I do I like gin and tonics.
What is your commute like?
Boring and long. Driving nothing but country roads. It's beautiful at times but that's not really on my mind at 6am in the morning :b
