User:Ulillillia

About me
In a nutshell:

These, because there aren't any "tags" or categories mentioned for them, are left as plain text.
Keeps a dream journal, solo amateur 2D video game designer, interested in numbers and equations, interested in geography, interested in geology, likes educational TV shows, likes classic animated cartoons, interested in technology, interested in future technology, interested but not involved in travel, straight edged, Teetotaler, irregular sleep schedule, childfree, audio file editor, uses Winamp, and semi-active.

Brief history
My website covers these and more in far more detail.

I was born in early 1984 and much before 1997 is very vaguely recalled. During 1988 until about 2003, I was heavily involved with video games, one of the categories I contribute to Wikipedia on. I first play games normally, but when done, I accomplish self-made challenges (like getting tossed up at 2400 mph in Super Monkey Ball 2), find bugs, and various other things that can keep me at a single game for even over 1000 hours (combined total). Coincidentally, however, I end up studying game mechanics to very fine details, right down to the mathematical formulas and algorithms. Since July 23, 2001 (±1 day), I've been involved with internet forums and have posted about 21,000 or so messages. Only video game music and the dream of making my own games has remained strong (especially the music as it's the only type of music I listen to (often played back at different speeds through altering WAV file sample rates)). I have one game released thus far.

As to school, I've graduated from high school with a B or B- grade on average (about 83% is the most accurate average). I've never bothered to go to a college/university due to numerous issues on top of one another, but would like to get a degree in computer programming, especially game programming. Since tenth grade, I've had a renewed interest in learning about the weird universe we live in and the "mechanics" and history. I watch numerous educational TV shows, post on internet forums, and checking Wikipedia and lately subscribing to Scientific American.

Since about August of 2001, I've been running a website (now at ulillillia.us []). My blog (started in 2003 or so, but has entries dating back to late October of 2004) and my massive, book-length, richly-detailed dream journal (contains over 500 dreams gaining an average of about 15 per month) are regularly updated. There's a few other things like tips and tricks (how to multiply a group of 3 or more numbers at once without doing them in pairs is my ultimate math trick [], discovered just after leaving elementary school (at about 13.52 years old)). Some of the images I post on my website are uploaded here (all except my logo and most screenshots are GFDL).

Everything about me revolves heavily on numbers. I see everything as having numerical values (whether physical objects or abstract things like compatibility), usually as ratios, fractions, percentages, and others. Once I "find" these numbers and learn to make use of them, I can become skilled at almost anything. Without using numbers as an example, I'm bad at drawing and artwork. With the numerous formulas I've now obtained, and "turning things into numbers", I'm somewhat skilled with it. I'm able to perform (somewhat advanced) calculations of mid-level algebra in my mind with astonishing speed and accuracy.

My areas of expertise
As to Wikipedia, I only come here in "bursts". By this, I mean that, for a few days or so, I'm actively here, but then suddenly leave for weeks or even months. I later return and the cycle repeats. I mostly just edit articles involving video games since that's where my greatest expertise is, especially those for games for the NES, SNES, Sega Genesis, Playstation 1, and Gamecube. A few computer-related articles have been updated since that's another one of my skilled areas, but mainly in just general operation. I've custom-built my computer and I have a moderately high understanding of the technical terms involved and what effect they have. I may be skilled at using numbers, but the Greek symbols and things I see here in various formulas confuse me and there's nothing much I can contribute here since everything I know is already covered quite well. I avoid "heated" areas like religious things.

My interests

 * Science - Astronomy tops my list being more than twice as liked as the next best, physics. Rounding out the top 5 list are chemistry, geology, and meteorology in that order to round out my top 5.  Biology is my least favorite.
 * Numbers - Everything and anything has numerical values to me. Multiplication is my top favorite along with lengthy formulas with many nested parentheses.
 * Computers - Browsing forums, making animated GIFs (I may have the world's biggest, most complex animated GIF (unverified statement) having a 4.1 MiB file size and 3444 frames [].)
 * Video games - Mostly 2D games and platform games are of my greatest interest, especially those rated E and E10+. This is also my greatest expertise.
 * Other entertainment - I'm mostly into educational TV shows, but sometimes classic animated cartoons. I listen to video game music 23 hours a day on average (including while I'm sleeping) often for days or even weeks on end without changing songs or speeds (46 days is my record for the same songs, 12 days for the same speed).
 * Other - I find dreams of great interest and even though I keep a massive book-length dream journal, I don't bother wanting to interpret them. 17 dreams (as of April 7, 2007) are extremely well recalled to the finest of details.

My plans for Wikipedia enhancements
Because I have GameBridge to record videos (and capture still frames from), I can post screenshots of various games that don't have any here and update articles that have little about a game I know much about. Bubsy and "Looney Tunes Back in Action" are two such examples of this. I'm unable to get screenshots for Sega Genesis games (since they come out extremely distorted, so much that you can barely make out what the largest of objects are) and SNES (since I can't find it - lost it 4+ years ago) but I am able to get screenshots for the other 3 systems I have, including the NES.