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CHUK

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me


I try to produce reasonable content. You can not care about it at your own discretion. I make the general assumption that since you are here, you do not come bearing complete apathy.

I gots wife and kid in the Hotlanta. Holla. (pictures are of my daughter - Salem Clarke Jones Vinson. I'm kickin' around a website of pictures and movies of her HERE )

Salem Website Link (updated 7/31/2007)

Ashley kicks ass. She could kick your ass. Unless its you reading this babe, please don't kick your own ass. Thanks.

Professionally, I am the Character Art Lead at Hi-Rez Studios . I started at Hi-Rez in July 05.
You can check out the trailer for the game we're currently working on at Hi-Rez - Global Agenda - HERE . (a licensed Unreal 3 title) Kudos to everyone at work for being so badass.
My portfolio from 2 years ago is still up if anyone wants to check it out. Don't go if you have a phobia involving goblins.


Also write for a crude humor website when I actually have time. Thanks to Dave for keeping that going. Dave, you are the man.
I have not written an article in forever though, being a too-busy sonofabitch.
Links to my articles:
Social Discourse
Thoughts on Vegetarianism
Things I Hate

AND, I am a Libertarian! I will vote LP even in the face of ineffectuality, so stop trying to explain voting math to me, thanks. Yes drugs should be legal, and yes I know what that means. Yes asshole, all of them.


Find out who YOU look like ... while squinting really hard.
(If Barbara Bush didn't follow the picture formatting instructions, why should I?)
You Are Incredibly Logical
You think rationally, clearly, and quickly. A seasoned problem solver, your mind is like a computer!
How Logical Are You?
My score on The Personality Defect Test :
Smartass
(You are 71% Rational, 85% Extroverted, 52% Brutal, and 85% Arrogant.)
You are the Smartass! You are rational, extroverted, brutal, and arrogant. In fact, you could very well be the anti-Christ, as you are almost the exact opposite of everything Jesus was supposed to be. While Jesus says love your enemy, you say love beating the crap out of your enemy. While Jesus raises the dead, you raise hell. While Jesus walks on water, you tend to sink. You probably consider people who are emotional and gentle to be big pussies who are obviously in lesser stature than you. You have many flaws, despite your seeming intelligence and cool-headedness. For instance, you aren't very nice. In fact, you're probably an asshole. And you are conceited and self-centered. Not only that, but you are very loud and vocal about all this, seeing as how you are extroverted. There is no better way to describe you than as a "smartass", I'm afraid. Perhaps just "ass" would do, too. But that's a little less literary and descriptive. At any rate, your main personality defect is the fact that you are self-centered, mean, uncaring, and brutally logical.
To put it less negatively:
1. You are more RATIONAL than intuitive.
2. You are more EXTROVERTED than introverted.
3. You are more BRUTAL than gentle.
4. You are more ARROGANT than humble.
Compatibility:
Your exact opposite is the Emo Kid.
Other personalities you would probably get along with are the Capitalist Pig, the Braggart, and the Sociopath.
If you scored near fifty percent for a certain trait (42%-58%), you could very well go either way. (For you, the Braggart).
Link: The Personality Defect Test ( OkCupid Free .. Dating )

Also an avid Penny Arcade reader.


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My Interests

Games bitch. GAMES.

Currently Playing:
Oblivion - I finallly got a video card sufficient to run this performance glutton, and I'm having a pretty damn good time tooling around Cyrodil killing stuff... and selling the things I get... from the stuff.

All time favorites:
Guardian Heroes (Saturn)

Diablo II, Starcraft, Warcraft III, Resident Evil series (especially 4), Puzzle Fighter, Gunstar Heroes, Soul Calibur II, Battlefield II, Tekken III, Tekken Tag Tournament, Shadowgrounds, Metal Slug (series), Kohan (series), Street Fighter II changed my life, but I played it so much when I was 12, that I can't even look directly at it now.

I'd like to meet:


The Cutting Edge
(84% dark, 53% spontaneous, 21% vulgar

your humor style:
CLEAN | SPONTANEOUS | DARK



Your humor's mostly innocent and off-the-cuff, but somehow there's something slightly menacing about you. Part of your humor is making people a little uncomfortable, even if the things you say aren't themselves confrontational. You probably have a very dry delivery, or are seriously over-the-top.

Your type is the most likely to appreciate a good insult and/or broken bone and/or very very fat person dancing.

PEOPLE LIKE YOU: David Letterman - John Belushi

The 3-Variable Funny Test!
- it rules -

My test tracked 3 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender :

You scored higher than 84% on darkness
You scored higher than 53% on spontaneity
You scored higher than 21% on vulgarity

Link: The 3 Variable Funny Test written by jason_bateman on OkCupid

Music:

I tend to burn bands out till I can't listen to them anymore. Current favorites: Radiohead, McLusky (RIP), Clutch , The Flaming Lips, Beck, Tool, Hank Williams III, Black Sabbath, Tom Waits.

McLusky:


...and of course, The Dappled Greys (!!) If you are into bluegrass well, this is what its all about.

Movies:

Evil Dead II - My favorite movie EVER.

John Carpenter's The Thing - The Thing and Aliens represent the golden-age of physical movie effects - not that I'm totally knocking CG, but its just not the damn same.

ANYTHING WITH ZOMBIES - Night of the Living Dead (both versions), Dawn of the Dead (both versions), Shaun of the Dead, Day of the Dead, Resident Evil I, etc.



Dead Man, Dark Crystal, anything Kubrick, Princess Mononoke (anything Miyazaki), Hero, House of Flying Daggers, Big Trouble in Little China, Akira, Legend of the Wind Ninja.

Television:

I am incredibly impressed with the apparent indistructability of Japanese people, so of course... MXC ROCKS (hehe, rocks...).

I have also been getting up to speed on Arrested Development. If you're not watching it, DVR that shit or whatever. Or, do like I did and borrow the DVDs from one of your smart friends. Its also too damn funny for me to begin to describe accurately.

And now, a historically accurate video about our nation's founder.

Books:

George R. R. Martin's The Song of Ice and Fire (series)

This is easily some of the most amazing fiction ever written.

Atlas Shrugged / The Fountainhead

I have no sympathy for the stupid and am a raving capitalist, so much of Ayn's work forms my socio-political bible.

My Blog

Damn you Tom, fix this shithole.

All my goddamn profile links are broken.  This is pissing me off.Between the disfunctional HTML and the Hot-Chick-Friend spam, my interest is growing cold.  Get to work Tom, or some other (f...
Posted by CHUK on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 09:02:00 PST

I don't get this.

I keep seeing people who have been paid to stand around holding a sign outside some business.  I'm assuming this is because they aren't allowed to well, just PUT a sign there, but nothing prohibi...
Posted by CHUK on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 05:31:00 PST

Its definately taking.

No smoking for 6.5 weeks.  Well, aside from Adam's bachelor party, but that was necessary... and its been 4 weeks since then. The act of smoking is starting to seem... ridiculous to me.  In ...
Posted by CHUK on Thu, 08 Mar 2007 09:49:00 PST

Burned on Politics (run for cover)

*sigh*Not to talk politics... buuut...  (and since this is text, imagine the delivery to be cynical and depressed, with a glimmer of light-hearted mockery)Modern Politics = Gay. (and I mean that ...
Posted by CHUK on Mon, 27 Nov 2006 08:47:00 PST

Aspiring quitter, wish me luck...

Auuugh. Horrible.Quitting smoking again.  Not really thinking you guys should care, only had some thoughts on the issue I found humorous, and one was an analogy, which is some high-class funny, s...
Posted by CHUK on Sun, 05 Nov 2006 02:28:00 PST

Filler

Filler.  You already know exactly what I'm talking about. You just don't KNOW you know.  You probably watch The Sopranos, or Lost, or fucking Carnival (oh excuse me, Carnivale).  You're...
Posted by CHUK on Wed, 30 Aug 2006 07:58:00 PST

From the mouth of a 2-year-old maniac

From the mouth of a 2-year-old maniac:(All of these are exact quotes)At the Bodies exhibit: "Skeletons Da-dee! SKELETONS!" "That brain looks like my butt!" "Look da-dee, that baby is sl...
Posted by CHUK on Tue, 22 Aug 2006 07:22:00 PST

Liar.

Saw Charlie Sheen being interviewed on some shitty E show. What he said: "If you don't believe in God, you've never looked into the face of your child." What he really meant: "If you don't believe...
Posted by CHUK on Tue, 25 Apr 2006 04:38:00 PST

When Species Collide

Carpenter Bees... Bastards. Thanks to my pal Dave for hooking me up with his technique... Industrial strength wasp spray straight into their goddamn holes.  They were falling out and dying al...
Posted by CHUK on Sat, 01 Apr 2006 06:42:00 PST

I have no idea what I'm doing.

If you don't have kids and its because you think other people with kids know how to raise and take care of them and you don't... well, that's not exactly true. See, I am responsible for getting my l...
Posted by CHUK on Fri, 31 Mar 2006 06:07:00 PST