Q. What are your thoughts on roleplaying in games? (Answer!)
A. Without RP I'd have never taken the time to spit on Celawen's nice new boots.
Q. In real life, are you male or female? (Answer!)
Q. Are you interested in working within the game industry? (Answer!)
A. I work in a 4x4 ft cube, why would I ever want to leave that???
Q. When you are not playing games, what do you do for fun? (Answer!)
A. Rockclimbing, I find extensive keyboarding and mouse work build the finger strength needed.
Q. Have you ever had a memorable real-life meeting with other gamers? (Answer!)
A. Nope, I'm scared you are all crazy.
Q. How many hours a week do you play? (Answer!)
Q. How do you feel about selling virtual items for real money? (Do NOT advertise RMT services!) (Answer!)
A. I hate fekking gold spammers.
Q. Where did you get your gaming names from? (Answer!)
A. You hit "random" enough and you get Oatik, you spell Oatik backward and you get Kitao. Although I've been told Oatik is a bartender in some series of books but I'd be lying if I said that's where it's from. Not that I wouldn't lie about it, it just needs to be a better lie.
Q. What do you love or hate about PVP? (Answer!)
A. Luckily any RP servers are almost never PVP which is good because I'm not good. Or as my son tells me when we duel. OMG!!!!!!!!!1!!!! Dad you suq!!!!!!!!!! I then steal the RAM from his machine...who sucks now!</p><p >Did you see me lay down the law!
Q. If you could meet any game developer, who would it be? (Answer!)
A. Teppy (from A tale in the Desert) I'd punch him right in the face. Sure the fact that you could make beer is great, but it took 3 hours (real time) and at certain intervals you had to add stuff so it wasn't just click and go...I had spreadsheets on fake beer making. It was a hell of a crafting system, but a little too hard core. Eh, I probaby wouldn't punch him.
Q. What do your characters and avatars usually look like? (Answer!)
A. They are usually short and hip, if a Halfling with Elvis sideburns is "hip". In fact is "hip" even used anymore or should I have stuck with "cool".
Q. What sort of players annoy you the most? (Answer!)
A. People who show up late to the group AND are halfway around the world. No, don't worry I wanted to stand around while you take the next 45 minutes to get here. *sigh*
A. No, I feel voice chat detracts from the game
Q. Other than your console or PC, what is the piece of hardware you can't live without? (Answer!)
A. My big swinging cod. (bonus points to those who know who said that)</p><p >But honestly I'm married so it would be TIVO.
Q. How do you feel about playing characters of the opposite sex? (Answer!)
A. I've only created one to RP as my sister (1 of 14 sisters) but whatever people want to do. It was the first time I'd encountered the breast sliders in the character creation screen. Both size and angle...fancy!
Q. Have you ever had a romantic encounter with someone you met in a game? (Answer!)
A. I don't think anything that Oatik is involved in can be considered a "romantic" encounter.
Q. Why do you join guilds or clans? (Answer!)
A. My friends make me. I like people, I'm just not good at meeting them.
Q. What is your first computer or video gaming memory? (Answer!)
Q. What experience do you have beta-testing games? (Answer!)
A. If by "beta testing" you mean playing for free before the official release then I've done that. But I'm not much of a helpful tester.
Q. Beside GamerDNA, what are your favorite websites? (Answer!)
A. slickdeals.net and bluesnews.com
Q. When do you play, including timezone? (Answer!)
A. Anymore I'm mostly weekends only, 8am-11am central is great if you plan to solo and never see anyone.
Q. Do you feel relationships within games are meaningful? (Answer!)
A. Isn't that the whole reason for this site?
Q. What music do you like to play games to? (Answer!)
A. I just always have the game sounds on.
