- ECOH Cam
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- Exalted Heroic Member
The Community Joe interviews are back in full swing! I present to you the first interview of 2012!
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Let's start off with something basic, who are you and where are you from?
I am another anonymous Internet user. Like the stereotype, I am cynical and jaded. I come from Colorado (aka little wannabe California). I'm also intensely and irrationally paranoid, so I NEVER use real DOX or any real info while on the Internet. The Colorado thing makes me a double liar though, because that is really where I am from.
I've visited Colorado a couple of times. It's pretty awesome in terms of scenery. Would you care to tell us what you do for a living?
I work in construction. Specifically windows and doors. There's nothing interesting about it, so I don't know how to embellish it. Um...I have thousands of scars from doing it, being cut by glass or metal, or burned, or stabbed by nails. There's nothing particularly technical about it, nor glamorous. It does offer me the opportunity to break things though, which I'd assume is a positive in most people's eyes. I'm desensitized to it, so it does nothing for me in that regard.
Also, Colorado is pretty cool. I just don't like the populated areas, because they are pretty much just little wannabe California. I don't know why.
So you help in the creation of neighborhoods? Or do you help build large corporate buildings? Or are you just a freelancer who does random jobs to put the food on the table?
Mostly the freelancer occupation. I just fix broken things, and occasionally install new things because I have a rep that seems to say I'm good at it. I'm certainly not the kind of person who defines themselves based on their job. *insert Fight Club quote here*
Here's a break in the usual format, dear interviewer. How many cats could you fight at once before they overwhelmed you? My personal hypothesized power level in that regard is 400 cats. I only have one cat, so I have not put my supposition into action. Nor would I because empathy blah blah blah.
Me? The maximum would have to be somewhere around 25. Sure it's nowhere near your 400. But be honest, where are you going to find 400 cats? Some huge animal shelter that holds only cats?
Well, it's a thought experiment. Actually injecting rational and logic into it defeats the purpose. I'd peg you at about 200 cats. So your power level is 200 cats IMO.
And I'm damn proud of my 200 cats power level! Anyway, none of this explains the username. Where did you come up with the idea for it?
That comes from my secondary profile on Halo Combat Evolved. My "main" was lepton, but i made another so other people could play on my "main" and have access to all he levels. Evilcam comes from my fascination with the horror movie franchise called Evildead, Evildead 2, and Army of Darkness. The first person perspective shot in each movie, representing a disembodied antagonist intrigued me. It was looking through the "bad guy's" eyes. I called it The Evil, because I name things for some reason.
I likened it to "cam" as it applies to a camera. Like a helmet cam on some shows, races, etc. I thought that a first person bringer and embodiment of evil was a great name for my secondary profile, being Halo is a FPS. I used it for Bungie related online screen names because Lepton was already taken as a gamertag on Xbox Live, and bungie.net. Most people seem to assume that it has something to do with how I view myself (evil) and my name (cam). Neither are accurate. My paranoia would never allow me to use my real name on an online handle, and I'm pretty non-evil. I'm certainly not good by any means, but I'm not evil either.
That blows all of my theories out of the water. So we know that you've played Halo: CE, but was it your first Bungie title? And how did you get into said title?
It was my first Bungie game. I was aware of Myth and Marathon, but I didn't play them when they were popular. I first played Halo: CE in probably January of 2002. I went over to a friend's house, and he had just bought this new fangled "Xbox" thing. We had been playing console games together for years, so he suggested we try this one, and a game with unimpressive cover art called Halo.
I initially hated it, because I couldn't wrap my mind around the controls. I was still used to Golden Eye on the N64 or PC FPS, so this two stick thing messed with me. I thought it looked spectacular, and saw serious potential in the gameplay and mechanics. When I finally got the hang of the controls, I was instantly hooked. I would play it every day after I got my own Xbox and copy. I'd play it almost every waking, non-work hour of the day. I started saying "wort wort wort" in real life when I decided to focus. I started annoying my non gamer friends and family with Sanghelli speak, and Johnson quotes.
I loved that game. It was, for lack of a better word, perfect at the time. I still think it measures up today. So you all have my friend who introducedd me to Halo to blame for me being here :loking ur threads and bannin ur duds.
So, based on what you just told me, you were an experienced gamer. How and when did you get introduced to gaming?
I just took my shirt off. It might not be related to anything here, but then again...
I think the first game I ever played was Super Pit Fall on my father's Atari 2600. I played a lot of Super Mario Brothers on the NES, and a lot of arcade games at the local arcade.
I don't know if I really liked doing it at the time. I still did it though, for whatever reason. Games were a passing hobby for most of my life. Something I did when I wasn't doing anything else productive.
I played a ton of Street Fighter 2 in the arcades, and on my friends Super NES. Mortal Kombat in arcades and my friend's Genesis. Lots of Wolfenstien and Doom and original Duke Nukem on my grandmother's PC. Some Resident Evil, Captain Skyhawk, Quake, Twisted Metal, etc. It was actually only after high school and after I got a "real job" that I really got into gaming.
Prior to that, I did play games sometimes, but as I said it was a passing hobby. I was into partying and the like. I actually started playing games a lot in an attempt to even out my life. I knew if I continued down the path I was on, I'd lose my job and end up in jail. Its kinda funny, but games and the Internet saved me from that. It gave me something else to do. Most people I see on the Internet lament that they are not wild party animals. I lament what I was.
So you were into a lot of popular games at the time. It's nice to know you weren't one of those late bloomers who got into video games simply because they got cooler. How did you first get introduced to Bungie.net? And how do you feel about being so active in the community?
I found out about Bungie.net from the ilovebees.com teaser that Bungie released prior to Halo 2. I saw the website in the CE booklet, but I never went there. I did go there, mostly at the behest of the friend who first made me play Halo. He went to Bungie.net to read Frankie's weekly updates. He suggested I look into ilovebees and Bungie further. I did, but tepidly.
I didn't actually make an account until Halo 2 was released, though even then I didn't really post. Lurking FTW! Anyway, after Halo 2 took up most of my leisure time, so I stopped going to the forums as often. I'd peruse Zanzi, or the Flood or the Septagon occasionally, but still wouldn't post. When Halo 2 became boring (about 2 years after haha) I went back to the forums, found out my old account was auto-deleted, and made the one I use now. I started posting in the Flood because Zanzi was gone, then The Septagon, New mombassa, and the Halo 3 forum. I think I made my account like the day before Halo 3 was announced.
As for the active in the community thing...I don't know. So I'll go ahead and get off this computer, and let someone else answer.
Hi, I'm someone else, and not at all evilcam pretending to be someone else. You can be sure of that. I think evilcam doesn't really think about his place in the community, because by definition, the community lacks places to occupy. He just does what interests him, and enjoys doing it most of the time. It's an impersonal niche and I, oh I mean he enjoys that anonymity while still reaping the benefits of community interaction.
I myself, not being evilcam of sound mind and body, think it's kind of funny that he spends so much time on some game developer's board. I can't fault him for it, because it no less productive than watching crappy shows on TV or whatever else boring people do. I do kind of want him to die though. Yes, I intently plan on killing him. No one is reading this now, because its intermitten in a crap ton of words about crap no one cares about. I can be honest, and true. I can be the real me. I can show you the real pain that you, and he deserves to feel.
Back to evilcam now. So, yeah, I like the community and people. What about you dear Cam?
I don't want to go too far into it, since it's supposed to be all about me, I mean you. I joined back in the summer of 2008 for the sole purpose of getting the Septagon next to my gamertag in Halo 3. I came back in the latter part of 2008 to see if there was anything else to this site other than the front page. Boy was I in for a surprise...
Yeah, title threads and BR sux threds are surely something
Oh yeah, those were dominant in the Halo 3 forum (at the time I hadn't discovered the Septagon). You can infer what happened after that. The discovery of stats and private groups soon after my return. Besides Bungie.net, do you visit any other online community?