Currently:

I haven't been playing many games lately. I usually like playing the Call of Duty franchise games, but the latest Call of Duty (Modern Warefare II 2022) has been so depressing for me, it's so slow, and I hate the season pass setup and the Netflix menu layout.
I played through Resident Evil 4 the remake, I didn't like it at first, but it grew on me. I mostly played it on the Asus ROG Ally; the Ally handled it really well with high graphics settings.
I planned on playing The Texas Chainsaw Massacre game when it was released, but work got really busy and I have been working a lot more than normal lately. Hopefully, it'll be calming down soon.
I am still planning on playing Starfield when it releases next month. I took a couple of days off of work, and I hope to stream the game for a few days before getting back to work. Hopefully, even after going back to work, I'll be able to play/stream in the evenings.

Lately, I've been working a lot at my day job. But, I've also been buying things to help setup my stream room, and a recording area in my home. For my stream room, I've bought some new things and have been setting up OBS and StreamLabs OBS, creating scenes, setting my camera's up, setting up my audio mixer, trying to get my mic and headphones to sound perfect. For my recording area, I've bought a number of backdrops in various colors. When taking photos in front of my green screen, I'd go into Photoshop to remove the background and to create thumbnails for my videos, and I noticed my beard and scraggly hair was causing a lot of green to bleed through and it was very difficult to get rid of the green hue in my beard and hair. So, if I'm going to be using my image on a green'ish background, that backdrop is fine. If I'm going to be using my image on a red'ish background, I have a red backdrop now. I have a few others, and they seem to work really well for what I got them for. I also got some new lights for recording videos and taking photos and a motorized rotating display stand so I can take videos of products. I've been planning on reviewing products, as well as live streaming playing video games, and would love to get into IRL streaming, but haven't planned out any IRL streaming segments as of yet.

Prior:

I have always been into video gaming. As a small child, my parents had an Atari 2600, and a case full of games. I used to play it often. Then the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) came out, and my parents bought one of those and we accumulated a bunch of games for it. I really enjoyed playing The Legend of Zelda, The Goonies II, Kung Fu, Ghosts 'N Goblins, Dr. Mario, Ninja Gaiden, Contra, Metroid, the Mega Man series, and the Super Mario series.

When the Super NES came out, I was gaming more than ever. I was playing Super Metroid, Killer Instinct, NBA Jam, the Donky Kong Country games, Secret of Mana, Final Fantasy III (it was FFIII here, but FFVI in Japan). I think I spent most of my time playing Mortal Kombat and Super Street Fighter II Turbo. When the Sony Playstation came out, I got one and a bunch of games. I spent hundreds of hours playing Final Fantasy VII. I also loved playing Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Gran Turismo 2, Tomb Raider, the Resident Evil games, the Need for Speed games, and lots of others.

My most underrated game was called Lost Odyssey on the XBOX 360. I spent more time with that game than any other, and it didn't seem to be a very popular game. When I would talk to friends about it, they had never heard of it. I thought it had a great story, it had spectacular graphics for the time, it felt like an upgraded Final Fantasy game.

More about myself: Growing up, I've always been into technology. I was always interested computers, and learning what they could do. When I was in middle school, dial-up internet came out, and AOL was this whole huge thing. I learned HTML to build websites. I also read a lot about how to program in assembly langugage, writing virii and things. When I got to high school, I got more into computers and cable internet became available in my area. My parents got a decent computer at the time, and they gave me their older computer. I learned about Linux, and was able to install it on their old computer and started learning how to program in C. I wrote a handful of my own programs to do what I wanted. I made a program that was sort of like a calculator, but it had all of these calculation formulas I needed for a math class I was in, so I'd just run my program, punch in the numbers I had, and it would tell me the formula used and what the answer was.

During my senior year in high school, there were some other computer nerds that liked playing games on their computers. They were playing Quake III during lunch and after school pretty often. I started playing Quake III before and after school. I believe Quake III was the first real computer game I played (not counting Soltaire, Freecell, Minesweeper). Around this time, I was getting more heavily into programming in C and Assembly language in Linux. I got some more hand-me-down computers from my dad's friends. I had FreeBSD, NetBSD, Red Hat Linux, and OpenBSD on three computers ( one was a dual-boot system with Linux and NetBSD ). I started programming in Java before I started college. I was able to make GUI versions of my C programs. It was nice to be able to style my apps the way I wanted them to look visually and still have the funcationality that I needed for things I was working on. I built a TCP/UDP scanner, a web scraper, a GUI version of the calculator app I built (which was really good for an electrical engineering class I took, that class was full of mathmatical formulas). One of the last things I built was a Linux Kernel Module, it was a root-kit, when installed you could use it to hide directories, hide processes, and hide login information within the system, so no trace of you being on the system would show. It also backdoored the Linux Syscall table, so if you called a specific syscall with a particular argument, it would give that user root access. I got pretty deep into computer security around this time, but when the anti-security movement came out, and exploits were being created for almost everything and programmers started trying to build their applications with security in mind, chaining attacks became the new norm and it became a bit more difficult to exploit flaws in software. I was also working full time and going to school full time, so I didn't have the time to spend learning a lot of these new security methods/techniques and I got left behind.

Besides video games and computer nerd stuff, I've always really been into tv and movies. I love cartoons and my favorites when I was growing up were He-man, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Ren and Stimpy, Aeon Flux, Beavis and Butthead, King of the Hill, Daria, and Family Guy. As I got older, other cartoons came out, like The Oblongs, Bob's Burgers, Archer, and F is for Family. Some of my favorite non-cartoon shows are: Married with Children, Rosanne, The Soprano's, The Walking Dead, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The Office, Schitt's Creek. Some of my favorite movies are: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Texas Chainsaw Masssacre Next Generation, House of 1000 Corpses, The Devil's Rejects, Demolition Man, Friday, Next Friday, Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood, Scream, Scary Movie, Saw, National Lampoon's Vacation, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, A Christmas Story, Krampus, A Christmas Horror Story, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, Land of the Dead, and lots of others.
I've also been really into music, if you can call it that. Growing up, my parents listened to Country, Oldies, and 80's rock. In the 90's, I grew up watching Mtv, back when they had music and music videos. I also went to the skating rink a lot when I was in elementary and middle school, so I had a lot of exposure to lots of different kinds of music. In the early 90's, I started listening to bands that weren't really on the radio, bands like Corrosion of Conformity and Acid Bath. Around the mid to late 90's, I also started listening to metal bands like Cradle of Filth and Norwegian Black Metal bands like Dimmu Borgir. Today, I listen to a lot of metal bands like Rotting Christ, Dimmu Borgir, Belphegor, Shape of Despair, Colosseum, Carpathian Forest, Nattefrost, Mayhem. I also listen to electronic music, like Hyper Crush, Lords of Acid, KMFDM, Ministry. Who can pass up classic rock, like Lynyrd Skynyrd, old-school Aerosmith, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, and Pink Floyd. I also like oldies bands like The Spinners, The Supremes, Four Tops, Gladys Knight, Steppenwolf, Aretha Franklin, James Brown.

I grew up in and around Wilmington, North Carolina. I still live relatively close to Wilmington with my beautiful, amazingly wonderful wife. She also grew up around the Wilmington area. We have a couple of Great Dane puppies and love spending time together.