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I mostly enjoy team-oriented gaming. Whether co-op or team vs team, I’m there to help my team win. I don’t care about stats or where I show up on the ladder, although all that stuff kinda’ comes anyway. I’m an aggressive player who readily helps teammates however I can. I also talk a lot — sometimes that annoys the stick-in-the-mud types, but I don’t care; I’m there to have fun with those who also want to have fun …and talk smack.

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Yeah, I’m a veteran gamer …to say the least. I starting gaming in 1984 with Castle Wolfenstein on the Apple ][+. Back then I ran a BBS (for you kids, that’s basically a server with several telephone lines connected to it, four lines in my case). My friends would dial in on modem and we would play games like [i]Wolfenstein[/i], Doom II: Hell on Earth (1993) and Descent (1994). Everything ran on IPX/SPX, not TCP/IP.

In 1991 Spectrum HoloByte came out with Falcon 3.0 , a combat flight simulator, and I became addicted to it. No one had a screen name back then, but in fighter sims everybody had one. The movie Top Gun was still very well-known, and so I took “Iceman” and named myself “IceBags” …because that is a very ‘cool’ name. That’s been my screen name ever since.

Then came what is the grandfather of all modern FPS: Quake (1996). I went all in. For years I ran the Internet Quake Coalition (IQC) that hosted servers for dozens of clans, did tournaments, hosted communications and all the rest of it. Everyone played Quake . PCs were expensive and become practically obsolete in a matter a few months.

Half-Life (1998), but especially its total conversion Counter-Strike (1999) was the next game to totally capture my attention. I ran several servers for several years, but I also got into Unreal Tournament (1999), and I periodically played other titles as well: Fallout (1997), Age of Empires (1997), Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines (1998), Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six (1998), StarCraft (1998), Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun (1999) and Worms Armageddon (1999).

While I was busy with life, game developers kept busy, and in 2008 Valve released Left 4 Dead and then Left 4 Dead 2 in 2009. There is no game I have played more than L4D2. It never gets old — period.

Because I really enjoy heavy teamplay and FPS, I play a lot of Insurgency (2013) because it has a great community (except the woketard commies on TUG), players are mature and a lot of fun, and because the game has everything without all the glitzy fluff that takes away from the sheer fun of gameplay.

It’s hard to imagine a L4D killer or Insurgency killer, but if one is released, I will go all in.

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I’m a Voluntaryist-Traditionalist. I’m opinionated but also the epitome of live-and-let-live. Politically I am neither liberal nor conservative; I am libertarian (not the party though — those people are nuts, because all political parties are nuts), but I also have traditional values (but I don’t seek to impose them on everyone). I can’t stand political correctness or the woketard cowards who seek to control me when I say ‘inappropriate’ things — I don’t get along with emotional children. I’m actually a very cool dude …unless someone wants to be a douche bag to me, and then I go Next Level.

I can’t stand religion, but Faith is something very different. I can’t stand groupthink in any form, and I don’t respect the mental slaves who regurgitate talking points, recite half-baked self-contradicting arguments and can’t (or won’t) think for themselves. I don’t do well with stupid people …and most people are stupid little cowards who have reduced themselves to a barnyard animal …and I couldn’t possibly care less if someone finds that offensive.

I’m about as authentic as it gets. I’m a great friend and a fierce enemy. People tend to respect me or hate me. Regardless, I am who I am.