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[JonRowe]

32/M/Wi

Joined back in 2007, as I was banned from NeoGAF for being a 22 year old brat arguing about some stupid stuff.

So I came here!

Studied Biology in school, worked in IT in college, and worked in software a bit after college, but realized I couldn’t do QA, and got a job working an the pharmaceutical industry as a scientist. More recently I began working as a Quality and Food Safety Coordinator at a food ingredients manufacturer. No longer a lab rat, I now wrangle production problems.

RPGs have always been my gaming genre of choice. Played many JRPGs on consoles, and got straight up addicted to WoW in 2004-2005. Did a lot of high level raiding that affected my school work, made a lot of friends, and more recently I joined the QT3 adjacent guild and did raiding in Mists of Pandaria. I love anything Sci-Fi, (I even took an honors course in Sci-Fi lit in college)

Of course I was on a couple episodes of the QT3 podcast chatting about
Dwarf Fortress and Day Z

Speaking of podcasts…
I do a weekly podcast, Born in the Eighties, as described by former forum members as

@Bill_Dungsroman

the fuckin’ worst thing I have ever tried to listen to. The. Worst. I mean it’s terrible, and by terrible I mean it made my ears hemorrhage and my sense of humor staple a suicide note to my liver, which is currently awash in ever-increasing amounts of alcohol in the hopes of flushing out the insidious toxin that is your attempt at being funny.

@robsam

I have to agree with the hordes that you really aren’t funny. I think some people here gave you too much encouragement when you were doing your “dramatic readings” of posts on QT3.

@ZekeDMS

Jon, please tell me you’re not actually comparing yourself to Flowers’s level of funny. You can’t be that damn delusional. Flowers has a career and an understanding of comedy you completely lack, the only reason he should show up is to rip into your prior attempts for an hour if you swear NOT to come do stand-up with him. This doesn’t even read like an invitation, it reads like a threat to end his career.

Anyway we had our 300th episode earlier this year. It is me and my friends generally free-associating about game news, movie news, tech news, and now mostly deep diving into what I call “the bowels of reddit” discovering some real bad communities. We have a nice little following, who think we are fun.

I also used to do improv in town, and our group was pretty well regarded doing bi-monthly shows with a nice following, but as these groups go, people moved etc…

I currently GM a game of “Starfinder” for a local group, and have GM’d Pathfinder games before, I have a local weekly group that plays pathfinder modules (and the Starfinder game I GM)

Other than that, I am an owner of 2 beautiful cats, I am getting Married in 3 weeks, and I now own a house. I did all of the adult things in the same 3 months. Also, I am a CPAP’er.

I love this community, because it generally feels civil here. (generally) we have good conversations, sometimes arguments, but in the end things never get nasty. There are no 'dunkings or 'pile-ons.

Which I think seriously is aided by adding “likes” to posts, which keeps me staunchly in the “no-likes” brigade here. I wrongly argued that the switch to discourse would be bad. I like the non-V-bulletin forums software. There are hiccups, but generally it works really good. As long as likes stay gone, we are good. :)