Shooter -- I've already talked about him in another topic, but what the heck. I'll reintroduce him to all the newbies who don't know him and give them more information than they could possibly want. Just remember that I'm pulling all this out of memory, so I'll get some things wrong.
He's a freshman at Pinkerton Academy in Derry New Hampshire. His real name is Brian Rutzen. If I remember correctly, he has brown hair, wears glasses and has braces. His Social Security number is 020-54-1876, and you can reach him on AIM under the username ShooterAD (he also has an ICQ account, but he doesn't seem to have logged on there in over a year). He also used to go by the name "Firehose" at CubeSource.
His career at GameTavern started off with a position as manager of GameTRAC (in fact, he was sort of the founder). For a reason that I can't recall, he lost that position. Maybe it had something to do with what I'm going to talk about next.
He also joined the staff of NinGlobe, but apparently it was just to teach the webmaster a lesson. His first action was to use his FTP access to delete almost everything on that site. His intentions were good enough—he wanted to show cookiecaper (the webmaster of NinGlobe at the time) that he was far too trusting in giving FTP access to people. Deleting everything was a bit overboard, though, so Shooter lost his staff position.
He has basically spent the rest of his time here as a forum member although I wonder how he got his custom rank. In any case, he generally hangs out at all the forums I go to here at GameTavern (and even showed up at PVG), making occasionally insightful posts, more often just joking. He also reads my fanfics and is responsible for some of the smileys available here at GameTavern.
He also started the first "Person Above" topic but apparently didn't read it very closely and missed the
three times that I warned people to put more substance into their posts in that topic under the threat of closing it.
He's sort of gekko's enemy. Actually, that's not really true. gekko probably doesn't consider Shooter important enough to actually hate. Their various clashes have led to Shooter "quitting" two separate times that I can remember, though. But Shooter came back, thus illustrating the old truism at these forums: "They always come back."
Oh yeah, and there's Andromida. It's not really fair to talk about Shooter without mentioning her a little bit. The two of them had been going out for a year to a year and half before recently breaking up. I know a little more about their relationship, but it's only through chat sessions with Shooter (i.e. it's private).
Shooter agrees with me on all kinds of stuff. For example, we both don't think Britney Spears is attractive or that Hershey's kisses are all that great, and we don't worship The Simpsons. Academically, Shooter had trouble seeing any value in learning things like history. That may have changed since the chat I had with him about such things was last year. Hopefully he has learned the value of algebra, though. In any case, he understands when I explain science stuff to him, so he's not dull.
And he's finally starting to call me "well-educated" instead of "smart" now.
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Just 3254 characters. Man, I'm losing my touch...