'sup dudes and dudettes (what is this, the 90s?)
My name's Tanner, you can call me Kim (lots of people do this...), Nuke, or simply Tanner. I'm one of those guys that lurk 'round a while before slowly creeping into the community, but I still consider myself new. I'm a pretty awesome guy if I do say so myself, and now I'll be one of those guys that posts a lot about myself!
I'm 19 years old (until the 25th) and love reading, writing, listening to music, and of course, playing games.
My favorite book series include the Sevenwaters series, The Bridei Chronicles, and the Inheritance Cycle (the Eragon books). I don't do much writing any more, but back when I did I had started working on a fanfiction for Avatar (as in the animated show, not the movie with blue people), though I stopped writing it a while ago due to writer's block. I've been thinking about working on a fanfiction for the Eragon books that I've had ideas swirling around my head for, but so far I've only gotten the Author's Note and first paragraph down... I'm not a very quick-working guy.
Music-wise I listen mostly to underground rap/hip-hop, the kinds that don't go on and on about money, drugs, gangs, guns, violence, women, etc., and more of the kinds that have actual meaning or tell stories. My favorite artist by far is K-Rino, a Houston-based artist that is by far one of the best storytellers I've ever listened to. Check him out if you get a chance, I recommend starting with Annihilation of the Evil Machine by him.
Game-wise is where it starts to get good! Up until after Gen. 3, I owned pretty much every Pokemon game (not counting the ones like Mystery Dungeon, Pinball, etc., just the official storyline-based ones that go: Defeat enemy team, 8 Gym Leaders, and E4, then do some end-game). After that I've slowly but surely acquired one game of each generation and completed them as much as I can. Past the Pokemon series, I've played through most of the Sly Cooper series when I was younger, which I really enjoyed! The storyline was awesome, the missions were intense at times, and the gameplay overall was 10/10 for me. If you're reading this far and didn't see the tag, yes my title is a reference to a certain game.
Up until 2007 I played RuneScape, which was the first MMORPG that I had ever played, and then I moved on to another game that I was playing off and on during that time: World of Warcraft. I played WoW starting a few months before The Burning Crusade launched, and from that point until the end of BC I was a pretty casual player. I sucked, didn't do much but screw around, and actually thought Feral DPS was good at that time (it really wasn't). It wasn't until Wrath launched that I decided I was going to buckle down and get to work, and by mid-expansion I was somewhat a terror on my server. I often went on solo raids in Silvermoon City to rile up some of the old RPPvP guilds that got lazy, to give them something to do. It was fun for all! I stopped playing seriously mid-way through Cataclysm and came to a halt near the end of Mists of Pandaria, and right now I don't have a good enough computer to give Warlords of Draenor a try.
Finally, I often play League of Legends even though I'm not that great at it. I've followed the competitive scene since the Season 3 Summer Split, and I've done a bit for the Challenger scene by writing some articles for ESL America and I've done volunteer work for smaller leagues such as ALCS (Amateur League Championship Series; defunct after its first season), and NACL (North American Challenger League, worked for 2 seasons, no longer). In ALCS I didn't do much except moderate the TwitchTV chat room for the stream, but in NACL I handled many of the reddit threads, and attempted to keep their website updated with things like game statistics before it broke because someone was dumb tried to install a plugin that they shouldn't have. I also moderated the chat on their stream and made sure all of the bot commands were kept up-to-date so viewers were informed on things like who was casting, the reddit thread for the day, and the schedule.
And finally (for real this time), some odd things about me: I love it when someone has at least some grasp of proper spelling, grammar, and punctuation. Yeah, even on the internet! I make mistakes occasionally, and probably made quite a few mistakes here, but it's at least readable and structured correctly! I'll throw in one more odd thing; back in school, I was one of the few people that actually liked math. At least, until Geometry... I hate Geometry. I stopped taking math after Algebra 2, which was about 3 years ago, so I hope you guys don't give me any Algebra homework. ._.
If you haven't realized so far, once I get really into typing something up, I find it pretty difficult to stop. Anyway, I think I've gotten it all out of my system right now, but if anyone has any questions I won't mind answering them! If you've read this far, kudos to you! You've stepped almost completely into my mind.