Another "describe or introduce yourself" thread

[PoetPhilosopher]

I'm making this "Describe yourself" or "describe yourself at this point" thread for people who either may have missed the others, or have more to add. So to describe myself and to describe myself at this point:...

I'm a long-time fan of the Sonic the Hedgehog series of games, and started on them I believe with Sonic 1 for the Sega Genesis. One of my favorite Sonic games was Sonic Adventure for the Dreamcast. And I also like the new Sonic movies.

I also would like to some day own an "AI" machine like the NVIDIA Orin AGX (or something even more complex than that) because I'm into Graphics Programming and liked a less powerful such machine I had tried, and I also happen to consider the machines pretty good for Graphics Programming (if you don't mind ARM architecture computing).

Another thing about me is that when debating some subjects, I may come off rather strongly about them at times, but I'm not so much offended by the stance, but more I worry that the way some things are worded and portrayed, they have the chance of being used as rhetoric and flame-bait against a side not by the person speaking the words, but by some unhinged observer(s).

On a related note, sometimes I worry too much!

Another thing about me is that I hold myself to pretty high standards, not to the extent that I consider myself to have achieved things "greatly" but I have seen the progress in myself from the rock-bottom I was pretty much once at. And in a way, I might come off as holding others to high standards too, in how I pick my friends and people I associate with. I hold "friendships" in a high regard, and don't consider everyone a "friend" at face value, because I have seen people in my life before with dozens upon dozens, or hundreds, of friends themselves, and so many friends that some of their friends are "slipping beneath the cracks" because of it, and I don't want to be like that. And I also consider the people you hang out with to kind of influence you to some extent, so I'd rather not be around too many people who I might consider to be bad influences, although I realize that my notions on the subject are a bit "judgemental" at times as well.

 

[Twilight Hue]

I'm making this "Describe yourself" or "describe yourself at this point" thread for people who either may have missed the others, or have more to add. So to describe myself and to describe myself at this point:...

I'm a long-time fan of the Sonic the Hedgehog series of games, and started on them I believe with Sonic 1 for the Sega Genesis. One of my favorite Sonic games was Sonic Adventure for the Dreamcast. And I also like the new Sonic movies.

I also would like to some day own an "AI" machine like the NVIDIA Orin AGX (or something even more complex than that) because I'm into Graphics Programming and liked a less powerful such machine I had tried, and I also happen to consider the machines pretty good for Graphics Programming (if you don't mind ARM architecture computing).

Another thing about me is that when debating some subjects, I may come off rather strongly about them at times, but I'm not so much offended by the stance, but more I worry that the way some things are worded and portrayed, they have the chance of being used as rhetoric and flame-bait against a side not by the person speaking the words, but by some unhinged observer(s).

On a related note, sometimes I worry too much!

Another thing about me is that I hold myself to pretty high standards, not to the extent that I consider myself to have achieved things "greatly" but I have seen the progress in myself from the rock-bottom I was pretty much once at. And in a way, I might come off as holding others to high standards too, in how I pick my friends and people I associate with. I hold "friendships" in a high regard, and don't consider everyone a "friend" at face value, because I have seen people in my life before with dozens upon dozens, or hundreds, of friends themselves, and so many friends that some of their friends are "slipping beneath the cracks" because of it, and I don't want to be like that. And I also consider the people you hang out with to kind of influence you to some extent, so I'd rather not be around too many people who I might consider to be bad influences, although I realize that my notions on the subject are a bit "judgemental" at times as well.

I miss the Dreamcast. I still have mine along with a small library of games

 

[PoetPhilosopher]

I miss the Dreamcast. I still have mine along with a small library of games

I miss the system, too. I liked Sega's unique style and "take" on things, and getting it in such an abundance, and not where I have to jump from system to system to get it.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I'm a long-time fan of the Sonic the Hedgehog series of games, and started on them I believe with Sonic 1 for the Sega Genesis. One of my favorite Sonic games was Sonic Adventure for the Dreamcast. And I also like the new Sonic movies.

Sonic was, and still is, pretty cool and amazing back in the day fir what it was and it's aged very well. Though I've not played much after 2. I'm also fond of Sonic Spinball, though I'm starting to wonder if I'll ever beat it, and I love Dr. Robotnicks Mean Bean Machine.
The Dreamcast I haven't got to play.

 

[PoetPhilosopher]

Sonic was, and still is, pretty cool and amazing back in the day fir what it was and it's aged very well. Though I've not played much after 2. I'm also fond of Sonic Spinball, though I'm starting to wonder if I'll ever beat it, and I love Dr. Robotnicks Mean Bean Machine.
The Dreamcast I haven't got to play.

As you progress from about Sonic 2 to newer and newer Sonic games, the games seem to get even better in some ways for a time (Sonic CD, I found great, for example), before starting to get kind of "average" past Sonic Adventure 2, with good games (Sonic Generations, Sonic Colors, etc) and ones not so great (Sonic 2006, etc), to ones that people really can't even decide whether they are good or bad and the perception changes over the years (like Sonic Unleashed and Sonic Lost World), but now we start to get to the point where Sonic is starting to be pretty good again, with the Sonic movies, Sonic Mania, and Sonic Frontiers. I'll wait and see whether the quality holds up, because I'm not convinced consistency will remain again yet, but with the successful movies, you'd think there's now extra priority on making the future games good.

 

[ChristineM]

Computer games seems to be the main topic of conversation here so I'll give my view.

I spent my whole working life driving high end desktop and mainframe computers to their limit. So i tried to avoid them in mybdown time. Any games i did play with bored me silly within a very short time.

 

[PoetPhilosopher]

Computer games seems to be the main topic of conversation here so I'll give my view.

I spent my whole working life driving high end desktop and mainframe computers to their limit. So i tried to avoid them in mybdown time. Any games i did play with bored me silly within a very short time.

I sometimes play games and sometimes program for them. I can't say I always love playing them, just certain ones really. I'm honestly finding some games on consoles too long these days, a lot of Nintendo Switch games can be 40-65+ hours long and I don't always play them through.

On the other hand, I don't like much the "casual" short games one finds on phones and tablets either, as they're often riddled with ads and microtransactions.

Some games I like besides Sonic though, are Final Fantasy XV, most fighting games, and Half-Life 2. Lately, I've also taken a liking to old Star Wars games, and Quake 1.

I've had quite a few PCs over the years, some of them huge and costly (over $3,000), others quite basic.