Let's be honest...(http://xkcd.com/1146/)
Just to be clear and save the time of anyone for whom this is a deal breaker, I am in an open/non-monogamous/poly (labels could go on but I think you get the idea) relationship with dracopervicax. If that's a problem hey maybe we can still be friends! Or not, your prerogative.

Now that that's out of the way...

My name is Anthony. For anyone that cares about MBTI I'm an INFP but am very borderline on the F.

I recently moved up to Philadelphia at the end of 2012 after saving up money to come be closer to my fiancee who moved up here for her work last year. My end career goal is basically doing independent game development so it made sense for me to be the one to pick up and move in that regard.

So this leaves me with abandoning most of what I knew back in Atlanta and on the precipice of a new adventure. Lots of things are in flux and or have been changed recently in my life and while it can be a little bit scary it is exciting too.

My old job, while I loved the people I worked with was a little too boring and safe. Just barely enough occasional challenge to keep me from shooting myself in the head out of boredom but not really engaging. Hopefully I will find new work that is super engaging, fun to go to or the long shot I'll finish a game that takes off and get to do game development full time.

That is what would be ideal. To spend all my time design and developing games and worlds and mechanics and systems. I know I have a lot to learn before getting to that point but I'm working on it and steadily moving forward. so Huzzah! I also want to get out from time to time and make sure to not be this super cooped in introvert hiding in my little cave playing in my own imaginary worlds all day. A measure of balance is needed right?

reading Flow... oh what else?

http://www.onegameamonth.com/lathomas64

At the end of 2012 i quit my job and moved up to Philadelphia. While here I intend to be making games.

It looks like I'll be starting up a job over at Delphic Sage soon. Guess the whole blind jump thing re:job situation worked out!

In particular I am current working on a tarot based video game called fortunes which is based on a tarot card game design as a transmedia tie in to the world of the book series "The Way of the Gods". So that's my major project besides looking for work currently.

In addition to that I am also trying to make some smaller games for this whole one game a month thing. Nothing too fancy for that just yet, just trying to work on rapid prototyping and iterating on said prototype. Hopefully it should be a fantastic learning experience!

I managed to slide in at the last day for the january one. It's super simple, but its a game with a beginning middle and end so yay for that! I call it detainment

I am also looking for work in programming, I had a decent gig back in Atlanta, but that was too far away from my fiancee so now I'm up here and happy about that, but need a new gig to keep paying for food and a roof while I have fun with the above mentioned game making.

I am tentatively putting out feelers socially both here and among the philly redditors group. I'm a bit introverted but I still like to be around people and would like to make some friends in the city as well!

At some point I will also be looking for some physical activity to take the place of the Tae Kwon Do I used to do back in Atlanta, maybe will take up yoga or join the philadephia school of circus arts! It sounds outlandish which is exactly why it might be a fun thing to do! If you go or are interested in going maybe we could go together sometime so I can be less timid about the whole adventure.

Trying to place myself in the shoes of the other person(s) before making assumptions about their motivations

programming

overthinking/overanalyzing things

Listening

dealing with pain when there is no choice(I'm generally more pain-tolerant then most people but also more pain-avoidant. Except in certain contexts).

Wow that was extremely but unintentionally coy going back and re-reading this. Basically there is a small streak of sexual sadomasochism running through my personality that I was referring to up there and I didn't even realize I had referenced that in this profile. Not going to back down now that its already(however obliquely) out there.

My Hair usually because of the dreadlocks. Or that I am at the sidelines of an activity just observing. New places give me pause sometimes and I try to look around and take everything in before participating in whats going on around me.

I think games should also be included in this space as well. Any media really...

Also this list is by no means exhaustive,

books
Neuromancer
Kushiel's Dart(all the Terre D'ange setting books really, they've had a huge impact on me as a person. Thank you Jacqueline Carey!)
Her Majesty's Dragon
Name of the Wind
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Speaker for the Dead
Xenocide
Agile Game Development with Scrum

Games
Kingdoms of Amalur(playing through it now)
Bioshock
Dance central 2
Braid
Psychonauts
Portal
Battle for Westnoth

Movies
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
Moon
Django Unchained
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Princess Mononoke
Spirited Away
Nausica and the Valley of the Wind
I like a lot of miyazaki's work except proco rosso

TV
Full Metal Alchemist
Elfen Lied
Once upon a Time
Ally McBeal
Naruto(its cheesy and a little bit of a guilty pleasure)

Also a separate list because its a thing: http://combosaurus.com/user/biomancy

I could wax poetic on how if I needed to or the situation called for it most things could really be done without, or list some really basic requirements of life type things but that wouldn't be interesting and wouldn't really reveal anything about me, and that's the point for these questions right? So I'll just add the disclaimer that while I do not want to practice bad faith, these are things that i'd be extremely loathe to give up... whew!

Some means of getting ideas from my head out into the world.

physical affection(hugs and cuddling are great)

Feedback on whatever manifestation the ideas in my head have taken.

People to occasionally pull my out of my own head back to the real world to go explore, learn and cultivate more experiences and ideas.

Exercise of some form to keep my body in shape and happy and from distracting me from mental pursuits.

Games to play with the important people helping me out with 2, 3, and 4(and possibly 1 and 5 as well) above.

What I should say here

what I really want to achieve here

what precisely 'activity partners' is supposed to mean in the context of this site. 90% of things I could think for that to mean would fall under "new friends" or "casual sex" If I want someone to randomly go rock climbing with for example, I think that could qualify as a new friend. Why would I go climbing with someone I don't like?

how can I make a positive effect on the casual misogyny/bigotry in video game culture.

Ways to sneak subtle messages into games using their unique characteristics as a medium.

how different aspects of the world around us affect and influence our behavior and society without us even realizing
patterns

how to get better at user interface design

polyamory

etymology of random words

Horrifying means to the end of solving societal problems (super villain in training?)

At what point do you when you're new in a social setting risk ostracizing to call out casual bigotry(minor unintentional misogyny| 'gay' being used as a pejorative|etc.)

How much the gamification/progress bars on this page effect behavior. Am I more outgoing and messaging more because OKCupid tells me to send messages to 10 people? Things like that and how it effects behavior are interesting collisions of game design and psychology and its amazing how even if you are aware of the manipulation it can still affect your behavior. Time to go find 50 people to rate now!

Social norms and mores about communication frequency. I feel like I'm always contacting people either too frequently or too rarely.

The rise of the creative class, apparently its a book as well not just a topic so I'm going to have to pick that up at some point.

http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2867#comic

Relaxing, watching FMA:brotherhood with Gina, preparing for whatever is going to be going on the rest of the weekend.

I'm not 100% sure what I'm doing here. Here's to exploration and learning right?

I want to be a manic pixie dream girl when I grow up.

Are not bothered by the fact that I am in a long term committed open relationship.

You want to play video or board games sometime

Know cool off the wall places that you'd like to show/share

Want to go off exploring.

Want to stay in exploring.

Want to try out something I've made.