Let's not whack around the bush here...I am Revan (well my online alias anyways), but you can simply call me Rev. I am 21 years old (I turned 21 on September 1st), should anyone care. Also, if you want a tl;dr thing, you can just read the TL;DR version and move on or say something, up to you.
TL;DR version: I'm Revan. I'm a n00b. Hi!
Okay, now that we got that out of the way, let's talk a bit of history about myself - again, should anyone care.... I've had this name ever since KoTOR came out (because I thought it was cool sounding), as you can guess. I know.... not an original name, but as I said, if you'd like, just call me Rev. All my online friends do.
But enough about names! That's a boring subject at the moment!
I have type-1 Diabetes (Diabetes, regardless of the type, is usually mistaken for type-2, the one where people are typically, and this is cruel to say, overweight. I really do feel sorry for those people, though and do not mean that term in an offensive manner), but not to worry, I've dealt with it since I was 11 years old. Though, I am as thin as a stick. Egh...
I'm a gamer by heart. Why, I remember playing Super Mario for the SNES way back when. It was fun, though those plant things freaked me out...heh. I also remember playing the original Lemmings (silly game. lol). I sadly missed out on the arcade years, pretty much. After SNES, I got the N64. Played the heck outta that thing! Also had a PSX. Awesome stuff. And then an original X-box. Those things pretty much made up my childhood.
I've been an Unreal fan since UT99. I'd usually play a lan game at my mom's office since everybody there had a copy apparently. Mom's boss would start up a lan match and I'd play with everyone on the local lan server. I was happy when mom bought Game of the Year, too. Gotta love the classics, aye?
Then, UT2003 was about to come out. I played the demo. I liked it. My mother and her work friends didn't like it because apparently it was 'slow'. Heh. Didn't buy UT2003, though. However, when I got my first ever desktop computer, it was about the time UT2004 came out. I played so much of it! Still do to this day. However, one year, CD2 to UT2004 broke in half. This was my face:
and then 
and then 
Anyways, I found that UT2004 was on Steam for a cheap price and so I bought it. Yay!
Forgot what year my official CD's broke, but nonetheless, I found BW around that time. I absolutely love this mod. So much variety and gore and yeah. I do vaguely remember the Archon stuff, but only vaguely. I think. I started playing Ballistic Weapons around 1.75 I think. Unless I am remembering incorrectly (which is highly unlikely). If that is the case, I definitely started playing it at 2.0. I am really happy it's at 2.5 now and I will always have it somewhere in my UT2004 build. I thank you guys for this awesome mod and the community for making addons for it, definitely.
Moving on from that, I also like to read, write, and draw (though my drawing degraded over the years. I use to draw mean stick figures!
). I haven't got caught up on reading much lately. I still haven't finished my small copy of Tom Clancy's: End War that I got in 2008. As for writing...I mainly type now-a-days, but I'll still pick up a pencil or pen here and there and write on it, which could lead to me getting carpel tunnel, but whatever.I'm also into various media. Movies, music, and obviously....video games. I don't care much about the news, because all I hear in the mornings is about politics and everyone's just interrupting each other and it's just annoying. The only programming there I care about is the weather.
Aside from the weather, I do have a few TV shows I keep track with, so I do try and keep with the times that way (we sadly use the newspapers for Guinea pig litter. Why can't I take some of those newspapers and read up on some articles for a change? Ugh. I guess there's nothing really stopping me from asking Dad if I could read some newspapers. Stupid technology is rendering newspapers virtually useless these days and that's becoming a waste of trees.). I'm typically a movie buff, but mainly regarding action (mainly Science Fiction stuff) and drama (not Soap Opera kind of drama....ugh....) as well as comedy.
Music really varies for me, but I mainly like metal and heavy rock. I do like pop music as well. There IS some country I vaguely like, but it's a rare occasion. You can forget about rap for the most part. Eww. If it DOES have vocals in it, I can deal, as long as they are good vocals, but to me, rap is mainly just talking to a beat...that's it. I'm also into classical (Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, etc) and orchestral (like epic movie soundtracks. John Williams, Hans Zimmer, Bear McCreary, etc, etc).As far as video game genres go: FPS, TPS (third person shooters, those tactical games or something like GTA), TBRPG (turn-based RPG like Fallout 1, 2, and Tactics), RPG (Morrowind and Oblivion), RTS (Command and Conquer, Dawn of War, etc), Adventure, Simulators (OFP1, ArmA 1, ArmA 2 [though I don't have ArmA 2], Silent Hunter games, Flight Simulator, Jane's USAF), occasionally sports (not often. Maybe occasionally a Madden game). Uhh, that's mainly it of me.
I hope for those that did read it that they are interested and I didn't bore them. Basically, if this is a tl;dr scenario, sorry. I tend to type up books when I say things.
Basically, I should have said, "I'm Revan. I'm 21. I'm a n00b. I like games. Hi!" or maybe even shorter. "I'm Revan. I'm a n00b. Hi!"
Anyways, looking forward to see the responses. This would mark the first real time I've joined a UT mod community. Tata for now. Hope to make lots of friends here. I'll update my profile soon.
Also, you can expect me to follow the rules. I wanted to make this perfectly clear as a completely new member of this board. I am not a person who would go out of their way to break them. Should I break or even so much as bend a rule, please, inform me, as I have no intention nor any desire to break one in the future. I wish no ill will on the staff nor the members of this forum. I've read the rules carefully and I believe I am within guidelines. If I am not for any mysterious reason, I apologize, please take any necessary action. Okay, I swear, this is it. All that I am saying. Take care, please, everyone.
Bad habit, I guess. 
Though technology hasn't rendered them completely useless, last I checked my Ethernet cable couldn't soak up hamster shit.