User:Pain
One of the members of the Amazing era Crossman Defense Force (the other CDF) operating out of PD of the same name in Darvall Heights. Our early core members were partly populated by members of an old free MMORPG known as DragonSpires. I was introduced to UD by Amazing aka Motorhed (one of DragonSpires' owners.)
By the way, you will notice that I play a lot of characters so let me state right off that they are run completely independent of one another. My human alts pretty much all float around the entire city.. helping out, dying, looking for a rev point. Repeat. My zeds mostly stay dead although I have a few who do different things when revved. I play somewhat infrequently so the way I maintain their personalities is by keeping a simple running log of what their next goal is.
Human Characters
Pain from DS
Crossman Defense Force member at large, I pop into the area from time to time and generally try to stay close to Darvall.
seeya
One of my old DS alt names.
Smokestack
Stadinko
Named after the policeman in Cheech and Chong's movie Up In Smoke
Nezerath
Named for a very pesky npc from DragonSpires. He used to come into our 'safe' town and spawn warlocks until everyone lagged out and got killed. It was funny when it happened to someone else.
DropDeadZed
Fisher King
my old DS alt for trading in the Dead Stone for the Green Scroll, I hardly ever use this guy
originally named after the movie of the same name (ps.Robin Williams doesn't exist in it, now watch it again!)
mojojojotheclown
named after JoJo the Clown and MoJo Jojo
breaker16
1sAdAd
um, I was upset at my kid one night
NonHuman Characters
Supernaught
Black Sabbath owns, nuff said.
Death Gait
dUrbanDead
named after Durban Poison
GreyMatters
WilLove
this evil guy I know, his guitar kills fascists
Slushy
VicRattlehead
I've played guitar since around 1984
Gameline
I got started with computers in 1983 as an inaugural member of my school's gifted and talented class. I immediately dropped what I was supposed to be working on as I was drawn to the IBM TRS 80 Model III computers. For you newbs (heh) this was back when you had DOS, not windows. We programmed in simple games we got from magazines and then tinkered with the BASIC (nothing Visual here lol) programing to mod our games.
From there I got my first home pc, a Commodore 64. That was 64 as in 64k of memory. It had a light pen and a tape cassette drive, nothing quite like sequential memory. We would hand type thousands of binary code pieces into an assembler cause the memory limitations really dumbed up games written in Basic. If you missed a single number of your binary code, you had to start diong halves of the code again till you got lucky and overwrote the error(s). When they invented a checksum it was as if I had won the lottery. By the way, my favorite 64 games were Bruce Lee, and the text games like Ultima, Zork, and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
I then did the console games via Intellivision, Coleco, Atari 2600, Nintendo, and Super Nintendo. I also got into Dungeons and Dragons.
Years later I hit the pc scene again just as Mosaic took off as the best graphical web browser. I started playing quake on my girlfriend's pc. Things got pretty awesome when the owners basically gave the code to the community. The first days of mods, hacks, cheats, etc for me in the terms of online gaming.
I found DragonSpires while looking for a free mmorpg and unable to think of a cool name logged in as Pain. I had no idea what I'd done. I became a small part of an amazing community of gamers there and spent many years hanging out.
I also followed friends to other games, many in beta testing (free!) Thes include Blade Mistress, Elancia, Furcadia, and many more.
I have done skins for Neverwinter Nights. I mapped for and helped admin a Player Worlds game called Delrith Online. I did weapons mods via 3dxMax for Ghost Recon. I made animated bot gifs and wrote a longstanding top 10 botcode for BotBattle.
I don't run a homepage anymore but I do maintain a collection of my art at the following imageserver. I have started doing acrylic reproduction of Monet's paintings. No telling what all you might find there.
