BlindSight

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Current revision as of 21:23, 14 March 2009

AD Persona

BlindSight joined the boards quietly in December of 2007. Perhaps unbeknownst to many, he has generally always been a professional lurker extraordinaire. He does not use any alternative names on the boards.

Posting Philosophy

BlindSight generally follows rigid standards with which he holds all of his posts:

1. He tries to follow the board rules as closely as possible, particularly in regards to spamming and spoilers.
2. He generally does not post if he does not have something thoughtful to say that has not yet been said.
3. He reads all posts on a topic before posting, with the exception of games such as " word association " (this follows from #2).

Rule 1, in regards to spamming, is gradually becoming more difficult to follow with the lack of engaging material on Adult Swim to have meaningful conversations about, in addition to the influence of some of his board friends. Whether bad or good, you can judge that for yourself.

Personality

BlindSight is quite meticulous in both the real world and on the boards; his posts can be very detailed and very long. Some of the best examples of this come from the Eureka seveN Second Run Spoiler-Free Discussion thread. He has been voted for the character, L, from Death Note in both the AD Regular's as (as) anime characters and the AD Regular's as (as) anime characters: take 2!~ threads by other board members.

This meticulous nature also manifests itself within his style of writing, in his grammar. His motivation for this, however, is very different than you may think. His goal, within what may appear to be a boring and overbearing form of writing, is to dramatically reduce any miscommunication and, thus, avoid unnecessary conflicts. He sees this style as more of a necessity on the boards due to the inability to convey tone through voice and body language. Recently, his style has gradually incorporated more emoticons, in an effort to alleviate part of the robotic-like tedium that he fears resonates from his posts.

His tendency to lurk also extends from his introverted nature. He is generally pretty quiet, content to have a few select friends with whom to share his life and devote himself. He prefers more worthwhile 1-1 conversations in which his introverted nature is often shed to the point where others may wonder if he is the same person from the boards.

Favorite Threads

The threads that I frequent in is often changing, depending on what is capturing my interest at the time. Here is the current list (not necessarily strictly AD):

• (as) Old School: Blue Gender
• Icon Theme Day IV
• Action Word Association 18: Now Able to Vote
• An original Dubzeh n Ciddeh production! =o

Every now and then, I will also visit the In AD, we STILL know no drama. thread. I also often drop in the random new threads that pop up in AD.

Real Life

BlindSight graduated from the University of Michigan with a B.S. degree in Atmospheric Science in 2005 and Florida State University with a M.S. degree in Meteorology in 2008. He is currently employed as a weather forecaster for a private company in Grand Forks, ND that works with primarily different departments of transportation for multiple states. The forecasting side of the company operates 24/7, requiring him to work rotating shifts, resulting in a fairly random schedule. Thus, the time that he can visit the boards is generally dictated by that schedule and the time that he chooses to sleep.

He really is a person whom is often driven by his feelings, much more emotional than board posts might convey, but he has never been that good at showing it, even in real life. As stated above, he only keeps a few friends, but he can usually talk their 'heads off' once he gets to know them well.

Interests

BlindSight has many hobbies that he likes to participate in during his free time. He enjoys, in no particular order:

• Anime
• Movies
• Sports (watching & playing)
• Video games (mainly RPGs or Nintendo series)
• Photographing nature
• Rock music

Anime

A list of some of his favorite anime:

• Trigun
• Cowboy Bebop
• Mushishi
• Gankutsuou
• Fullmetal Alchemist
• 5 Centimeters Per Second

More details in regards to his preferences can be found on his Anime List

Random Stuff

• BlindSight says jump up and down on your left foot!!
• He does not fanboy anime characters, although his favorites include Vash the Stampede, Mustang, Ed (Bebop), and Wolfwood.
• He has recently discovered that he finds anime women with dark hair and dark eyes to be more attractive (this possibly might extend to real women also: status uncertain.).
• He is a dreamer; He dreams big, mostly for people in this world (love, peace, understanding, etc.). He has written poems and jotted thoughts based upon these dreams.
• He craves sweets (chocolate and ice cream), like L, pizza (usually from Papa Murphy's), almost any Italian food, and Cheez-Its.
• He grew up with lots of pet cats (approximately 4 on average at any given time) and naturally became a cat person, rather than a dog person.
• His favorite color is blue.
• He feels that he must inform you that it is indeed called 'pop', not 'soda'.
• He plays spades online quite a lot and enjoys playing card games in general.
• He has never been drunk and does not drink alcohol.
• He has never been high... at least not as the result of drugs that were not prescribed for medical reasons (wisdom teeth).
• He wears glasses.
• He recently signed up for Netflix and now has more than 50 discs of anime in his queue.
• He is pretty religious.
• He ran cross country and track all 4 years in high school and played soccer for 9 straight years before that.
• He gave up on searching for how to set up some of the stuff on this page, mostly from laziness, and just copied from others by clicking the 'edit' button for their page.
• He has now fulfilled his creative urges with the building of this page...

Guest Book

That's it. Just go ahead and sign on the dotted line. Mwah ha ha. What's that you're wondering? No; I'm not hiding anything. It is not as if there is some sort of invisible contract that you can not see...

• Yay! FIRST COMMENT! Like the page!....ummm....yeah I don't know what else to say so....later. See you on the boards! - AS_anime_watcher

• CUUUUUUUUTEEEEE blindy has a wiki YAYAYYA!!! ima go read it nooowwzz i just wanted to rape erm.. i mean grace your guestbook with my precence ^_____^ - cidz.

• Hey BlindSight! Nice wiki! You are a master lurker and a cool guy! - Gypsy

• BLINDEH~!! ^____^ Yaaay great work on the wiki! So detailed~ Makes me want to do something about mine. XD woohoo jur awesome defz yaya ^_^_^<3 spam moar! >.> - teevee

• oh, and hey, if you are gonna go grab a coke, grab me a diet! thanks! :P -Gypsy

• If you're after my soul, you should be aware that it hasn't been taken to the dry cleaners in a while and probably smells like mothballs and burnt pizza. - Cille