Tagged

TBH I’ve been looking forward to being tagged for a long time – I’m the kind of person that has a lot of weird stuff to say but doesn’t like to say it unless the opportunity presents itself.

 

And then I get double-tagged by Sean.

 

This is gonna be fun.

 

#1: I am narrowly classified as INTP personality type. I say narrowly because two of the personality aspects (I forget which two at the moment) I was just past the threshold

 

#2: I am incredibly indecisive. I can’t pick an absolute favorite in most categories “absolute favorite” is asked for.

 

#3: I tend to overthink the way I write things, such as how I want to start this 40 fact list with broad stuff and then proceed into narrow stuff.

 

#4: I got into LEGO in 2003, and my favorite themes as a child were Alpha Team (2004), Mars Mission, Batman G1, and Exo-Force.

 

#5: My first BIONICLE set was Piruk, which I got for free as a part of the BrickMaster program. For some reason I got two copies.

 

#6: I began actively collecting constraction sets in 2008, but tended to scrap the characters as soon as possible to make my own story. At one point I changed the story every few months.

 

#7: I got back into BIONICLE (story included this time) in 2013.

 

#8: Probably as a result of not coming into the line at its beginning, I don’t enjoy “The Golden Years” as much as later BIONICLE. My favorite years would probably be 2004, 2006, and 2008.

 

#9: Ice Cream Time. 2:00 EST. The only fixed time in my daily schedule.

 

#10: I enjoy strategy, racing (with items/violence), and platforming/adventure games. The first three video games I got as a child – LEGO Chess, LEGO Racers 2, and LEGO Island 2 – were the first in all three game styles I played (well, LI2 did have a platforming section in it, at least…)

 

#11: Recently I’ve also been playing Smash, which has done a good bit to expose me to other games. My mains are Ike and Shulk, but I also play a fair bit of Bowser, Robin, Ganondorf, Roy, Toon Link, and Samus.

 

#12: Currently playing Fire Emblem: Blazing Sword (which is just called Fire Emblem in the states.) It’s fantastic.

 

#13: I have high-functioning autism/Asperger’s syndrome. I’ve lost most of the symptoms of autism as I grew older, but still have some of the inability to register emotions in real life.

 

#14: Actually, that’s not entirely true. I have a strange tendency to place people I meet on a “continuum” concerning how they behave most of the time. It has something do with geometric shapes.

 

#15: I have perfect pitch (also known as absolute pitch), which allows me to name the key of any song I hear, and of many sounds I hear in everyday life. Much to the annoyance of those around me when I point it out.

 

#16: I listen almost exclusively to instrumental music, including soundtracks (F-Zero X, Xenoblade Chronicles), trailer music (Position Music, Audiomachine), and primarily vocal artists that also release instrumental versions of their music (Celldweller, Blue Stahli, Dream Theater).

 

#17: My favorite genre of music is what I like to call “medium hard” rock: usually anything harder than standard rock’n’roll but softer than heavy metal. This includes hard rock, symphonic/progressive metal, and metal covers of “not quite heavy metal” songs. See ArtificialFear’s Legend of Zelda covers.

 

#18: I will listen to other genres on occasion, include rock/metal music softer than my selected spectrum (rarely harder), dubstep/dance, classical, choral, jazz trio, and whatever that Hispanic guitar genre is called. I can’t stand pop, rap, country or “beach music” (not surf rock, that music with the steel drums) unless it’s done really well (such as TobyMac’s combination of rock/metal and rap.)

 

#19: I’ve played multiple instruments, including piano, snare drum, voice, and recorder. Presently I play the bass guitar (sometimes in the style of an electric guitar) and the classical guitar, and beatbox. I’d like to get into playing the electric guitar and/or drum set at some point.

 

#20: Halfway through. I think soon I’ll run out of normal stuff and start spouting useless information.

 

#21: I’m nondenominational Christian. No, Sean, we don’t have a pope in this denomination.

 

#22: I enjoy reading the historical and apocalyptic passages in the Bible. The latter is a good source of inspiration for me.

#23: I run the lyrics slides, and occasionally the sound board, at my church. It’s given me a whole new hatred for grammatical and punctuation errors.

 

#24: I know a decent amount of the lore for the Star Wars, Marvel, DC, and Lord of the Rings franchises.

 

#25: I enjoy medieval fantasy, but not what’s termed “high fantasy”. Anything based of Tolkien, except the original itself, becomes bland to me. I like to downplay magic and mystical races in favor of down to earth characters with down to earth warfare. (See fact #12)

 

#26: I haven’t read that many books in my teenage years, but I remember in my early teens I read Warrior Cats and enjoyed it.

 

#27: I haven’t watched that many movies either, prefer video games. Usually the draw to a movie for me would be character designs that could inspire my creative outlets in some way or the special effects.

 

(this is the point the useless information starts)

 

#28: I probably have an addiction to cubed ice.

 

#29: I use inhuman amounts of ketchup.

 

#30: I once gave myself a nosebleed while pushing a potato across a carpet, and five minutes later saw someone else do the same thing. It makes sense in context.

 

#31: I have bunch of (now faint) scars from falling out of a tree.

 

#32: I’m an experienced piggybacking mount.

 

#33: I probably have misophonia, where I can become disgusted or angry when hearing certain sounds, namely the sounds of certain food being eaten or of verbal distress. Ties into fact #14 in determining who I want to hang out with.

 

#34: According to a dialect test I took a while back my dialect would be more at home in California than where I live, in the South.

 

#35: Back to BIONICLE: My favorite masks are the Kakama Mata, Noble Matatu, Great Komau, and Kiril.

 

 

#36: When I reached this point I was racking my brains for anything remotely interesting about me that you wouldn’t already know.

 

#37: #RoastJake2k15.

 

#38: I was going to take a fancy picture of myself wearing a life-size version of my selfMOC’s mask, but was too lazy.

 

#39: Said picture was also going to use this cape I have stuffed in my closet that I’m now slowly eating away to make custom capes/hoods/stuff for my MOCs.

 

#40: I’d bet 40 cents that within the next hour I remember something interesting about me that I forgot.

 

So yeah. Enjoy this fantastic image of a chicken's eye and these useless facts.

Done