Oh, hey there.

Almost missed the introduction board.
Allow me to apologize in advance if this isn't a very cohesive introduction. Also, yes, I read the warning stickies.

Well, I'm tehrmc08, though I've also gone by rlink0. I have a YouTube, and it's www.youtube.com/user/10sTinTh0uGhT where I do piano tutorials and a few Let's Play's. I have actually acquired some popularity (1,250+ daily views, 283 subscribers as of the time I'm writing this). I'd like it if you subscribed, but I don't blame you if you don't.

Hopefully you noticed by my description of my YouTube channel that I love music. I really like Alternative Rock and similar things. I also like some dubstep, which is pretty different but I like it nonetheless. By the way, DJ Ephixa rocks. He has a YouTube channel, you should check it out, even if it's only to see the 3 dubstep remixes of LoZ: OoT songs (Lost Woods, Song of Storms, Gerudo Valley) which are awesome.

I'm not too much of a console person, I really hate wireless because I hate using batteries. So I'm not a handheld person at all, either, I just have my old GB and GBA (not even an SP). I have a 360 and a wii, but neither gets much use anymore unless relatives are over. I'm much more of a PC person, which shouldn't surprise really anyone (given the nature of this site).

As for preference between consoles, I really don't like the wii (I thought the GC was better). I don't really like motion sensor stuff, and in games like wii sports boxing or COD3 the controller is REALLY annoying because the wire between the controller parts flies around hitting me on my hands, arms, and face (due to rapid movement of the individual controller parts). Without motion sensor stuff, it wouldn't happen. As I've never even touched a PS3, I can't say much about it, but I'm willing to believe that it's good. 360 is pretty good, too.

As for why I like the GC more than the wii... I think most of the wii games are pretty meh and rely too much on people being overwhelmed by motion sensor stuff. The common games people quote for why the wii is good, like Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, Twilight Princess, and SSBB are all good games of course, but Metroid was so much better and more challenging on the GC, Twilight Princess, for whatever reason, could not hold my interest, and SSBB is only decent if you're playing online/with friends a lot, and since I did neither (wifi was unbearably laggy, not a very social person) it wasn't my favorite thing.

But enough of a console war rant...

I also played Guild Wars (on and off) and my username there is Arlink Kred. Played is past tense because I think the last time I touched it was months ago.

As much as Modern Warfare 3 is taking a beating, I still like it a lot. I also liked the others in the MW series. I soloed every single player special ops in MW2 and MW3 (on veteran) and also got the co-op ones on veteran as well. Relying on others is not my favorite thing. BTW, I got MW3 instead of BF3 because I hate DRM. I really don't like EA because they have such tantalizing games but put some of the worst DRM on them. Though I don't mind Steam that much. I just don't like it when they [EA/2K Games] want to install rootkits and disable drives.

This might seem odd given my last mini-paragraph, but my favorite game of all time is probably Tales of Symphonia, which I'm replaying right now (odd because MW3 is criticized for being very closed, but Tales of Symphonia is very open). CoD2 takes a close second, I think. And that's part of the reason I hated CoD:WaW, because they took the skins of CoD2 weapons and tweaked the graphics. And added a few more. And they added Nazi Zombies, which everyone went nuts over, but I thought was merely "decent." They also pretty much ripped the MP system straight from CoD4. I would've been fine if Infinity Ward ripped from themselves, but it was Treyarch that took it. Also, playing on Veteran was insane because of all the grenades thrown. But at least the storyline wasn't bad.

Wow, I put an anti-Treyarch rant in here too. Sorry about that. I suppose opinions are a part of who I am, right? ;D

Almost forgot. I do have programming experience (specifically with Java). I've done some HTML/CSS/PHP, but I don't like working with websites. Too much graphical stuff, which I'm not that good with.

Ehh, if you read all that... Congrats. As of this moment even I would think TL;DR for this.

If there's anything you want to know... ask, and maybe I'll tell you.

 

I have seen you around on the forums. Welcome to RomUlation. Please read the rules and there is an 'Rants' board

 

I've read most of the rules stickies/important looking stickies, and I did notice the rants board.
It's just that this was supposed to be an introduction, parts of it got carried away into rants. I did say that it might not be a very cohesive introduction in my second sentence.
Thanks for the welcome!

 

You are welcome here at RomU.
Don't worry, I sometimes can get carried away

 

Hi! I'm the nicest girl you'll ever meet on the internet! Welcome to RomUlation! ;D 8)

 

Hey there, welcome on this forum.
I also like dubstep (a lot).
Don't mind Stanley, he's crazy at times.
Enjoy your stay!

 

Thanks for the compliment! !!! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

 

So I see, except for some reason I can't tell if Stanley is a he or a she now...? In Stanley's quote, it was edited to a "she"...?
Thanks for the welcome, both of you!

 

My name looks and sounds like a male's because a meany mod changed my name :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( : : : : : : ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

 

It's a him (hoho I love ruining troll attempts).

 

See, I was thinking that was a possibility. I was browsing the forums earlier and you didn't have 20 emoticons to end your post.

 

I had trouble using emoticons and now that it works again I can't help but spam it ;D ;D ;D ;D

 

he err, had a sexchange recently.
I didn't want to mention it since she's quite sensitive...

 

It would appear to me that Stanley is quite sensitive about a lot of things, what with the number of emoticons used.

 

I think she's insecure...

 

No I'm not! :-\ :-\

 

Well, HTML/CSS are pretty much almost completely graphical related. I suppose you could say that some formatting isn't quite so graphical, but I don't like making layouts of pages either.
PHP is not quite as graphics intensive. Because you can make it spit out HTML, it does have graphics/layout/formatting to it, but there are logic parts to it. When I took a web design class my favorite assignments (in fact, probably the only assignments I really enjoyed at all) were PHP related and had to do with problem solving in that language. For instance, creating a nearly infinite sierpinski triangle thing was fun to figure out.
Unfortunately, we also did a lot of Photoshop/Flash stuff. Barely any coding with Flash, though, mostly graphical animations stuff. I managed to get (Flash/Adobe?) Certified or something. The certification has more to do with knowing what the tools do rather than being able to use them in a way that is pleasing to the eye. I suppose I'm not the worst at it (for an example of my graphical ability, check out my YouTube background, and that's with a 256kb file size limit), but I don't find much enjoyment in the process.
I've also taken a Computer Science class and I enjoy that far more. It's all about Java, pretty much.

 

True, but if the designer can figure out a good layout, if it's not too complicated the designer himself could then pretty much go code it himself (or use a WYSIWYG editor). Assuming he isn't trying to use absolute positioning in his layout, it shouldn't be too hard. HTML is just about the most basic of basic languages. I guess if he needs interactivity/dynamically generated content, he would need somebody to work the PHP and JavaScript, but making mouseover menus can pretty much be done in something like DreamWeaver. Coding a form that protects against people trying to destroy it may take some time, but once you do it one time, you can pretty much re-use that part that checks for SQL injection and such. I bet there are probably people that post code for that stuff online. Though, the rest of the form processing (like generating the content based on input) would be developing, yes. Or storing it in a database or something.
I don't know. I agree that there is a design part and there is a development part, but it feels to me like the design part is much bigger in making websites.
As for your API thingy, true, but that's a special case, I suppose.
I guess if somebody needed an applet or something for a website, sure that would be more coding intensive, but websites don't always use applets, either.