As far as i know, there are people who follow Chick Geek Games and those who subscribed to my RSS, so i am sure someone would read this :) And i know how people think – who the hell are you and why should i keep reading this unknown person? The Internet is about connection between people, not about anonymity anymore. So, here’s “About me” page, meet me here and maybe we can be friends :) (Look me in the eyes, you feel sleepy.. lol :)
My name is Nina, i was born and still live in South region of Russian Federation (well, technically it was USSR back then, because i was born in 1985), between Azov and Black seas. If you, like many other Americans or Europeans think that Russia is a vast cold place, it is actually not, there are even palms growing in just a 6-hour-ride away from my place!As i write this, i am 25 years old and I've been a gamer for almost my whole life. My dad worked with computers, so the first computer I've seen was an USSR clone of Apple, he brought it home back in 1989. In 1993 I've got my first own 286 PC, which was highly unnatural for a Russian kid, especially a girl. Since then i play games, practically, any games except for a sport-themed ones. I had 486, and then a whole assortment of different Pentiums. My hobbies away from PC are photography and diving. I like travelling, so both of these hobbies fit in nicely :)
Besides PC games i also owned a Chinese/Russian clone of NES and had a collection of several hundreds of cartridges – unfortunately, it was stolen from me in 1997. I had Sega MegaDrive (aka Sega Genesis), but i lost my collection of Sega games too (we had to sell it during our Russian “Great Depression” of 1998). Right now i own Wii (bought it just because of Rayman Raving Rabbids 2 :), PS 2 (my husband’s unit), PS 3 and PSP.
Online games came into my life relatively late, less than 6 years ago – i played Eve Online on dial-up in 2004, but it was too laggy, and ADSL started to appear only in 2005.
I have 1,5 high educations – first, Applied Informatics in Economics, that i did not finish because higher mathematics and relational database theory had totally beaten me in fluff and dust. But i know the basics of programming and algorithm theory.
My second education is Advertising, i graduated at June 2011. My diploma work was "Analysis of Nissan brand image in print advertising during the period of 2007-2010 years" (and the practical part of it i was recommended to publish, which i'm currently figuring out how to do), means i like Nissan cars & i know a bit or two about the stuff in case you want to hire a hot russian advertiser chick, lol =)
So, the advertising these days is all about tricking people into thinking and doing something that the seller wants them to think and to do. A lot of this stuff i see implemented into games, and being a gamer i’m highly interested in finding ways to defend my own mind from all this shit they pour on us every day. Because, you know, it's good to see a new game being advertised - so you'll know this game does exist - but it's bad when you're being zombified into letting someone to dive into your wallet just because you wanted to play something.
Trolls at mmorpg.com blame me for “positioning myself like a female gamer is something rare, which is not”. Well now, a lot of girls in USA and Europe play games, write programs and administrate networks, it’s nothing unusual. But on this side of the world thing like that are very rare and in my society i’m considered like a total geek.When i studied programming, our group was full of girls, but no one of them owned a PC or knew that when you want to burn some files to a CD, you have to burn the files and not their shortcuts – they just wanted to have a high education in their portfolios, it did not matter which one. Girls also rarely play online games, so i am a geek on every side here :)
That’s why i chose this nickname.
Also, you can see more recent pictures of me here:
My New Haircut :)
My Picture As Of Now (15 January, 2011)
