Aichon:Aichon
About Me
I'm currently a graduate student studying Computer Science at Texas A&M University. Although I'm relatively new to the game, having only joined on August 15, 2009, I've made a solid attempt to delve right in and understand the core mechanics of the game and what it takes to get by in the city. So far, my main character has managed to avoid getting himself killed, but we'll see how long that lasts (especially now that I've put that out there in the open) only get killed once (the day after posting that comment)...okay, he's been killed a few times now. I suppose 12 days was a good run for a first-time player heading through Dangerous suburbs, right?
In addition to studying aspects of gameplay and the history of the game, I've also taken a liking to editing existing userscripts in order to make my gameplay experience more enjoyable, and will likely continue to do so as I plays the game further. Having never worked with GreaseMonkey before, I'm finding it to be a fun distraction from my graduate research, but I'm not sure that my work is of a high enough quality to be ready for public release at this time. More information on the userscipts that I have edited or created is available later in this document.
Aside from those details, I'm an avid Mac addict and have been using them since the late 1980s. I'm running Mac OS 10.4.11 on an Aluminum PowerBook G4 1.67GHz DL-SuperDrive model. Though it's ancient by modern standards, with an outdated OS, I've intentionally chosen to use them since this is the latest Mac laptop model and the latest OS release that can still run Mac OS 9 games, of which I have quite a few that I enjoy still. Plus, despite its age, it still holds up remarkably well for almost all of my computing needs. When I do have to use a PC, I run Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition on a 3.6GHz Pentium 4 in my research lab. Not the greatest machine, but it works well enough, I suppose. I used to run a quad-core Xeon with 12GB of RAM, but I handed it off to another grad student since my research migrated to a topic that was less computationally intensive.
My browser of choice when on a Mac is currently Safari, simply due to how fast it runs, though in the past I was a big supporter of Firefox (back when it was still called Phoenix, and then later Firebird) and Camino (back when it was called Chimera), though the two of them, in their modern incarnations, are too bloated for my tastes. Google Chrome is far and away my browser of choice on Windows, and I'm hoping it will give Safari a run for its money once it makes its way to the Mac later this year or early next. The userscripts I'm working on, while originally intended for use with GreaseMonkey in Firefox, seem to work relatively well with GreaseKit in Safari, and I suspect they could work well enough in Chrome as well, since there are tools to enable userscripts in that browser as well.
Other
I'll be adding in more as I have my characters engage in various tactics, but for now, most of these focus on my survivor character. As time goes on, I'll be adding policies that might be contradictory, but that's only because I use multiple characters.
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Alt user
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| This user has alts but DOESN'T Zerg.
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Drive to Revive
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| This user goes on DIRT:NAPS.
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Supporter of No Tactics
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| I have no clue what I'm doing.
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