I have to tell you something..

Actually a lot of somethings. That's why you're here after all, to read what I have to say, to see what I have to show.

I don't know how you got here, where you're going, or even who you are, but none of that matters now, you're here, lets get down to business.


Stay a while and listen.


I am a man of many interests, a few talents, and a bit of worldly wisdom. I'll be sharing these things, not necessarily in that order.


Firstly, I am a Geek slash Nerd slash whatever you want to call me. After all, it's only a label, and I reserve the right and responsibility to be more than a word. I like Magic: the Gathering, Dungeons and Dragons, Sci-fi, video games, board games, and trust me, the list keeps going. This doesn't make me special, but you should know this moving forward, I will be talking about these kinds of things predominately.
I also highly value artistic expression and this will take up a large portion of the things discussed here. It took me most of my life to realize that I was a creative person. I attribute this to the fact that I have always thought of my self as a logical person, valuing science and reason above other ideals. Many people and personality tests out there will tell you that you can't be a creative person unless you live whimsically and value feelings over evidence. I've listened to these people talk about right-brained vs left-brained and have built my identity around the assumption that I needed to fit a particular mold. That's just not who I am, nor ever have been.


But I'm not an "artsy" person, just like I'm not only into nerdy interests. People are allowed to be multifaceted. Anybody who doesn't like sports simply because they like video games is limiting themselves. If you don't like sports that's fine, you don't have to, but you also don't have to hate it. I'm using sports as an example here, but the sentiment applies to almost everything that you can like or dislike.
For the longest time I refused to listen to pop music, or rap music because I liked metal, and grunge and alternative. Then one day I decided that, you know what Taylor Swift, I will Shake it Off, thank you. When I stopped hating things because they weren't the things I already liked, I started liking things more.
It's ok if you don't like Metal, that doesn't mean that Protest the Hero is bad, likewise, just because you don't like Justin Bieber doesn't mean he isn't talented. (I'm not saying I like Bieber, because I don't really. I'm from Stratford, I'm not supposed to like him) That sorry song is good, and I liked it before I knew it was by him.


Liking something doesn't really change who we are as a person. I find it terrible that, in this age that we are judged by others based on the different ways we choose to waste our time.
"You watch that stupid show?" (that I have never watched and will never even give a trailer a chance because it seems like it would be dumb so fuck you) "you should watch this show, its much better." (in my baseless opinion) "no seriously, I'll stop being your friend and spoil it for you anyway if you don't. (Seriously though, watch Deadbeat, its a fantastic show.)


This way of thinking is dumb. Like what you want, and if someone is intolerant to your taste, let them be, and like what you want anyway. Everyone has shitty taste especially me.

--Lynxsys
(Mathew)