Introductions and other things

Well, I'm not really good at these sort of things and i don't really care to waste people's time with the unimportant, so lets get right down to it.

I'm Veysey and I've been inspired/encouraged to start a blog as a sort or journal/area to jot down my thoughts and help keep track of things. My wife believes I have a lot to share and contribute (which is good, because if not, I'd not have bothered). What will I be sharing? Well, the areas I will likely talk about are the following:

• Competition and things surrounding that
• Games from a development and/or consumer point of view
• Advancements in my personal growth and how I got there
• Interesting happenings that I feel can entertain and/or help others
• Guides/Notes/Insight into any of my various projects 

So I guess you're going to need a bit more of an explanation  I'm sure. OK, regarding competition, I very much enjoy the growth to both myself and those I'm involved with when I complete. I absolutely love the thrill of battle and analyzing how and why things flow the way they do. More than that, I adore being able to help my opponent with any issues they might be having. I believe competition is a very positive thing. Yes, someone has to win and someone has to lose BUT the winner learns that their answers were right and the loser learns that theirs were wrong. It's a very positive learning experience.

For games - I dabble a bit in game development. Currently I'm messing around with a program called Game Maker which is fairly enjoyable for someone like me who doesn't have much free time. I "grew up" on C++ and did a little bit of homebrew XBOX/PS2/GCN/GBA development before leaving the industry for a while. Now it's back as a hobby. I also play games a lot and tend to focus on speedrunning in single player games. For two player games, I tend to focus on fighters or fighter variants. Currently I'm playing Super Street Fighter 4 and Dissidia Final Fantasy.

Personal growth tends to come from challenging myself and my hobbies help me in that area. A lot of people I know have seemed to become stagnant as they've become older so I need to try all the harder and lead by example. I'll hopefully have a lot of insight to share here since I think my preliminary thoughts can really help people get a head start and hopefully readers can help propel me forward as well through comments and encouragement.

Of course we all have those days where a situation (or series of) presents itself and it provides an amazing lesson or some form of entertainment for outsiders. I'll be more than willing to share these and spill out my thoughts on the matter.

Finally, I keep myself very busy with various projects. I mentioned I'm toying with game development right now, I'm attending Taekwondo, I participate in gaming tournaments, I have 4 children and a wife, I'm back in school taking Business Accounting, and in all these areas I'm doing my best to help those around me. So don't be surprised if some of that spills over to here.

To finish off this long initial post (get used to it, I'll almost always have a lot to say), I just want to say thanks for stopping by and checking things out. I'll try to spice up the next post with something interesting. It will likely be gaming related since that's been my focus the last couple of days.

~Veysey