Ach, bad me, overlooked this thread.
I'm male, asian, early thirties, chained to a desk, and a long-time gamer (wheee 1980s). At work I pretend to be a web dev/DB programmer, and at home I enjoy reading, strategy games, RPGs, and eroge. I love hanging out with other old fogeys who also complain that games nowadays are all flash and no substance. Back in our day we programmed in BASIC and regularly made machine code calls, we walked 2 miles through snow to get to school, get off our lawn, etc.
My pet genres are strategy games and eroge. The former because I like thinking, the latter because eroge is so much more advanced compared to western porn "games" (I mean, just look at what Illusion has published)
Space sims too, but the genre is sadly very sparse and most of the titles are only concerned with graphics, graphics, graphics. Jeez. Most of them - when you strip away the shiny - are merely all about combat, with some obligatory teensy-weensy customisation usually limited to weapons upgrading or maybe trading your ship for one with a larger e-peen. Nothing like Gear Head. Hell, Gear Head puts RPGs to shame in what the player can do.
In my spare time I climb rocks, break into buildings, and jam with my band. The second activity arose back in college when they'd close the computer faculties for the weekend, leaving us nerds angry and bored (this was back in the early 90s). So me and two best buddies figured out how to scale the lab building, shimmy into a classroom, and from there make our way through the ceiling and drop down into the pc lab. Friday night in, Sunday night out. 3 geeks, 20 computers, one high-speed 14.4k baud modem. Crazy times.
Nowadays I just sit around in forums and bitch about the sad state of gaming while waiting for the next batch of Touhou images to appear on pixiv. Ha.
