Geek, code monkey, redditor, music lover, keto'er, cat person, sarcastic, chaotic good, night person.

Coding, gaming, hanging out with friends, and pumping the music into my ears as fast as it'll go.

I work as a coder at a web dev shop, but games have always been my big dream. Right now, game development is an after-work hobby that brings in some extra cash, but I'd eventually like to transition into doing it full time, and I'm getting pretty darned close to being able to make the leap. If I didn't have these pesky student loans, I could have done it a long time ago.

When I'm not building 'em, I like to play 'em. My recent history includes FTL: Faster than light, GW2 (played a couple weeks and got bored), Minecraft, SC2, BF3, a few years of WoW (clean since 2011!), ME1-ME3 (shame about the ending, although the DLC helps a bit), Bastion, and a few others I'm sure I've forgotten. Further back you'll find some DDR (I was good, back in the day!), SSB:M, all the old Nintendo platformers (Mario, Zelda, Banjo Kazooie), and a little bit of Halo (before I made the jump to PC gaming). Plus a bunch I'm forgetting.

I also like to hang out with my brother and our friends. Play some pool, watch bad movies, grab a bite to eat. Simple life, nice and easy.

Uhhh, so I'm a pretty decent coder, and I know enough about the other hats of game development to be dangerous. Not bad at gaming, either, of course. ;D

Hmmm, let's see. I like to cook. I don't consider myself crazy good at it or anything, I'm definitely getting a lot better since I've started paying more attention to what I eat. I'll update my pics some time. Just imagine me with a terrible photoshop job.

I used to be a halfway-decent pianist, and I still love music to death, but it's been a while since I've played seriously. I've totally got a keytar, though.

Probably my unruly hair and fashionably geeky glasses, then my sarcastic demeanor, then my brains. People tell me I'm smart, creative, and awesome. There's not really a good way to agree with them without sounding like an ass, but they're totally right.

Also, depending on the environment, probably the fact that I'm listening to really embarrassing music way too loud.

Books: I haven't read a lot since high school. I've been reading some Steven Pinker lately, but I usually prefer to spend my free time doing other things. Nothing against books, I just tend to get my entertainment elsewhere.

Movies: The Prestige might be my all time favorite, but it's really hard to decide. I'm a huge sucker for animated movies with awesome soundtracks and cheesy heartwarming plots. Lion King, How To Train Your Dragon, Up - you know the drill. Also a big fan of epics and anything with a cool story: Gladiator, The Patriot, 300. Oh, and some comedy every now and then, too. Anchorman's hard to beat, and it seems like everything Jim Carrey touches turns to gold.

Shows: Don't watch a lot of TV, but when I do, it's usually 30 Rock, South Park, Colbert, Adventure Time, Futurama, Tim & Eric, SVU, Always Sunny, or whatever happens to be on at the time. I love Arrested Development, but haven't sat down to finish it all yet. Ditto for Firefly.

Music: I'm all all over the place, from film/game soundtracks (Zimmer, Powell, Oematsu, Kondo), to glitchtech (BT, Beats Antique, Glitch Mob) and electroswing (Caravan Palace, Parov Stelar), to folk and indie (OCMS, Fun.), to alt-pop (Passion Pit, MGMT, Arcade Fire), and dance/techno - especially when it's genre-bending (Daft Punk, Bond, Lindsey Stirling).

I'm a huge fan of instrumental music. It's not that I dislike lyrics or anything weird - you can just say much more with music than with words. I'd rather listen to a film score than a ballad! I'm fairly certain the Lion King soundtrack is the best music ever written, but John Powell is fighting hard to win me over with some of his latest work. HtTYD was amazing.

Food: So this one's changed a lot since college. I used to be a fast food junkie, and I'm still paying for it, but lately I've been paying a lot more attention to what I eat, cooking a lot of my own food at home, and picking better things when I go out to lunch with the gang at work. I've lost a ton of weight since I started doing keto with my brother and a friend of ours, and it's been surprisingly easy/fun, since I get to play around in the kitchen a lot more.

One of my favorite dishes right now is baked bacon-wrapped chicken and broccoli, with spinach and asparagus. Also a big fan of anything steak-related. Can't resist a good filet! I've got a weakness for peanut butter. Mmmmmmm, peanut butter. <3

I'm flexible, though - I didn't let the whole diet thing turn me into a food snob! I can chow down fast food with the best of 'em. Asian, Mexican, bar & grill - you name it, I'll probably eat it. Seafood's a bit hit-or-miss, but I've been warming up to it lately.

Games: BF3, SC2, Minecraft, FTL: Faster than Light, WoW (quit in 2011, could be persuaded to play again!), Smash Bros, all the Nintendo franchises, Mass Effect (as long as we pretend IT theory is what really happened), DDR

- Music
- Games
- A stable internet connection
- A little rain, from time to time
- My family
- My migraine meds. What a lifesaver! <3

Music, and how awesome it would be to build a game and/or live a life worthy of an incredible soundtrack.

Game dev. I make casual web and mobile games, which brings in a good chunk of income and helps me find reliable contacts. It's a fun little gig: low pressure, work on my own timeline. Last year it made about half as much as my 'real' job. This year, I'd like to match or beat it. Getting to the point where I can quit the dayjob and work on games full time is a big life goal for me. :D

Science, politics, the world, the mechanics of the human brain, and spirituality. Then I usually end up frying my own brain and just resort to gaming. Sometimes, I think it might be best to just do my part and hope everyone else does theirs. Other times, I end up spending several hours making angry words at strangers on the internet.

Spiders. Seriously, they're out to get me, and I do not approve. I have learned that third floor apartments are a terrible mistake during the summer and fall.

Oooh, fun one!

A bunch of my friends and I all go over to my parents' place every Friday for a family/friends meal. After that, we usually head back to Greenwood to hang out and play some pool or watch bad movies, then I usually end up back at home playing or making games until I pass out around 3AM. If I'm awake before noon on Saturday, I'm doing something wrong.

My reddit account is jusksmit. Have fun.

- The first thing you checked was my favorite music, and you recognized some of it. :D

- You're quirky, imperfect, and can put up with a gamer.

- You're part of a nerdy/geeky club that you think I should try out. I love my friends to death, but since I graduated I very rarely spend time with other geeks. Kinda sucks.

I'm really not sure what I want beyond that. Sometimes I think I want to find someone who's cute, funny, and adventurous. Other times I think I'd be happy if I could just find someone who can sit down and play video games all day. Sometimes I wonder if I'm just supposed to stay single for a while.

Regardless, I think one of the most important things I'm looking for is someone who has their own big plans and life goals. Someone on an adventure. I'm not looking for a P2: I'm looking for another P1.