I'm bi, so of course! Although I've only wound up actually in relationships with other men. (Approximately. The gender of a lot of people I know is pretty complicated.) It's more like I don't notice a person's gender very much, so it doesn't really enter into my mind.

I think my winding up in relationships only with men is related to me being a TURBO NERD and involved mostly in male-dominated fields. More opportunity and all that.

I got an XBOX 360 back when I worked for Microsoft and could pick one up at an employee discount (it's a fairly modest discount, for XBOX stuff; PC software's marked down much further); I then never got around to buying a PS3 because there isn't that much divergence in the game libraries. There are a handful of things I'd like that the PS3 has and the 360 doesn't, but not enough to justify the price of an entire console system, y'know?

That may be the really clever thing Nintendo's doing. The Wii and Wii U are a fascinating mix of good and bad (and very bad) ideas, but at least none of the other consoles are likely to substitute for them, most of the time- so they're competing against Nothing, rather than against another console. Whether I buy an XBOX affects whether I buy a PlayStation, but much less so for whether I buy a Wii...

Of course, my favorite Wii games have all been ones that could be implemented without any of the features of the Wii, with the exception of Wii Fit, which is watching me lose about a pound a week. (More related to Dance Dance Revolution and calorie counting, though.)

TypeRacer, a web site that's about what it sounds like, once clocked me at 165WPM. Since it was a fluke, I had a heck of a time confirming it. (If you get a speed over 100WPM, they make you do it again to prove it.) My normal place is around 125, though, when I know what I want to type.

I'm a programmer. It's not like I do much of anything but type all day...

So, this all seems pretty awesome.

Hello, everybody! I have a name, but that's sort of a legal detail; who I am is Kistaro Windrider, one of those folk with sincerely-held species identity issues. Pleased to meet y'all!

I'm a computer scientist currently getting underpaid working for a non-profit in Seattle, currently on cancer research projects. (The fact that I found a job that actually uses the skills I thought were pretty awesome during college and then does something I care about with it is why I'm not really complaining about the pay too much.) Unsurprisingly, I'm an avid fan of video games- but almost always handhelds (or iOS devices), since there's quite a lot of contention for the TV (I'm splitting an insanely large apartment four ways- but we only have one epic television) and I spend a good portion of each day on a bus anyway. (If you ride Bus 545 from Redmond to Seattle to work, or the other way at the end of the day, then if your 3DS was on and ready for StreetPass, perhaps we've already "met"!) It also matters that it's what I was raised with, to a degree- my parents strictly forbade me from video game consoles until I turned 18 (my first was my GameCube in college), but because of long car rides (to school, mostly) I was allowed to buy a Game Boy in 4th grade, which I played enthusiastically and have had chronic wrist problems ever since. (That thing was a brick, seriously.)

I moved out to Washington state when Microsoft gave me a job out of college, but three years of software testing there is soul-destroying. I am much, much happier with what I do now, actually using my skills. Microsoft paid off my student loans, in the end, and that's all I really wanted from them anyway.

So, I said something about species identity issues. I'm one of those Otherkin people. To make an extraordinarily long and elaborate story short, I believe I've had past lives as a few dragons (hey, multiple incarnations as one dragon would be weird, why do people usually phrase that in the singular?), and identify with that more than I do as a human. But, well, a body is just a detail; the soul is the thing. Spiritually, I'm kind of a really incompetent Buddhist.

I play my PSP and 3DS about equally, although my 3DS is mostly playing my excess catalog of DS games. My iOS devices are mostly for turn-based games played over lunch, although I'm just about as likely to read. (Amazon and the Kindle service have lots of what used to be my money.) We have most of the recent and several not-so-recent consoles around here, though- I haven't played most of the library available to me, since libraries merge as people move in with each other.

Edited to add- I should probably explain the thread description. Well, it's pretty simple- I haven't seen a highly-active, classic-style, varied-topic forum thriving like this for a very long time. I like the aesthetic- it's the boards I remember from when the Internet was awesome. Call me a young curmudgeon, but I sincerely don't like the centralized corporatized social networks- and how they've eaten most of the other forums I've seen, as people drift away to use them instead. This place is, simply, refreshing.

But, enough yammering from me. Hello!