Fedaykin98

I once knew Fedaykin98 as a hard-hittin', game playin', P&C dwellin', forum postin' fool. Now I just know him as the guy who put a Peter Cetera in my head for twelve hours, and I hate him with the fury of the wild Jovian winds for it. You'll see.

If you feel like Fedaykin98 is everywhere you go at GWJ, then you're not wrong. From Gears and Beers to World of Warcraft; from Everything Else to Politics and Controversy; from the pile of shame to, well, the Employee Profiles you just can't escape him. We don't want to say Fedaykin98 is a staple of Gamers With Jobs, but perhaps we could call him a classic accessory, like a nice handbag or a really snazzy fedora.

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Fedaykin's on the left, and Duffman, who appears to be sad about getting drunk with Fed, on the right. Without further ado, here's Fedora ... I mean Fedaykin98!

1)Who the devil are you?

I am a man who will fight for your honor. I'll be the hero you're dreaming of.

2) What are you supposed to be doing during the day when you're reading GWJ?

You know, I work all day to get you money, to buy you things. And it's worth it just to hear you say you're gonna give me everything.

3) How about family? Kids? Pets? Particularly meaningful inanimate objects?

I married a hot night elf chick back in February. She's a hunter, so she has a pet owl named Cupcake. Also, I have a brother who who has played Gears of War with the GWJ crew a couple times; his handle is Joshua SQ3 03, although his name is not Joshua. What?

4) What was your favorite game over the last year or so? Why?

If we're talking about games that came out in the last year, then it's definitely Gears of War - anyone who hasn't been violated by a drunken Gumbie both before and after they're downed just hasn't lived. An honorable mention should probably be given to the Wii Bait-and-Switch game, also known as the "Great System / Oops No Games LOL!" game. I got pwned on that one a bit more badly than Gears, though.

And if we're talking about games that didn't release last year, I've currently gotten back on the WoW. No, I don't know what I was thinking, either, but I seem to be having a good time. Once again I'm more concerned with making money through enchanting and disreputable use of the Auction House than actually levelling up. Sometimes I engage in Auction House arbitrage. Okay, you got me, I really just wanted to use the word "arbitrage". My work here is done.

5) Which game are you looking forward to most?

Either Unreal Tournament 3 (or whatever they're calling it) or Age of Conan. I have always loved the fast-action FPS games like Quake and Unreal Tournament, particularly in CTF or other team based objective gametypes. I had a great time with UT2k4, but at the time, I hadn't found GWJ yet, so I don't think I quite maxed out its fun potential. I'm eagerly anticipating experiencing the genre that was my first multiplayer love in the full glory of the Goodjer experience.

Age of Conan because I'm a fan of the movies, the comics, and the original Robert E. Howard stories. By the way, he was from Texas, and we do indeed all have a thing about Texas. Can't be helped; we get all this outside reinforcement from people like John Steinbeck and AC/DC. But I digress...I'm hoping that Conan will bring the gritty flavor of that world and more realistic art to my MMO experience. The idea of action-based combat seems likely to increase my satisfaction with smacking thousands of mobs with my sword. I like that the races are not divided up between factions, so if my friend really wants to play a Stygian, we can still quest together. The PvP with guild-built cities sounds very interesting. When the whole enterprise collapses after a couple of months, I'll probably shrug and return to my attempts to conquer the financial district of Ironforge.

6) What is your fondest gaming memory?

Either the original Wing Commander or Quake 1 with the Threewave CTF mod. Way back when I didn't have a computer at all, I used to browse the PC games section just to torment myself with what I was missing; the games seemed so much more complex than my console games. The top of my wish list was Wing Commander. When we finally got a computer, I bought the game, but couldn't run it because I had no "Expanded memory", which is far different than "Extended memory". Far different unless you whisper to your computer, in a way it wants to hear, that they're secretly the same thing. This led to me returning the game and waiting another six months before buying it again, my confusion alleviated and the panacea of emm386.sys having been discovered.

It was fantastic - the first game that I had ever played that really was that cinematic experience, with me as the main character. Nevermind that it slowed down to 1 FPS during a heavy firefight near a capital ship. Forget that I didn't even have a sound card - the game was totally compelling even in its PC speaker bleeps and bloops. Soundtrack? I made my own soundtrack. I'd recently gotten Guns 'N' Roses' Use Your Illusion albums, so I made an entire, dual-sided mixtape that just alternated "You Could Be Mine" with "Don't Cry". You'd be amazed how well the intro to the former fits with the animated scramble sequence at the beginning of missions - probably got me keyed up better than the real music would have. And "Don't Cry" provided a poignant counterpoint to all of the violence going on around my ship (by the time it came on, I was usually in the sh*t); it brought home the deep pathos of this unhopeful interstellar conflict.

It was an awesome experience. When I finished Wing Commander, I felt like I had blown up the Death Star.

Quake 1 CTF was the yang to Wing Commander's yin. When Wing Commander came out, the idea of multiplayer combat was nearly unheard of. Fast forward through Wolfenstein and Doom, the latter of which introduced me to the joys of "online" multiplayer by way of 3am one-on-one matches over the modem. Quake 1 was ugly. There were no fancy 3D accelerator cards when it released, and the only colors in the game were brown and red. You might think there was yellow in there somewhere, but it was a brownish yellow. If Romero hadn't been so obsessed with blood and satanic imagery, they probably wouldn't have bothered with red either.

One look at Quake and I was ready to go back to Duke Nukem, which had replaced Doom 2 as my modem game of choice. Enter TheWalt, who wanted to get together over Christmas break for a LAN party. Good idea? Sure, fine, whatever. Let me know. What? Everyone else already bought a network card? (Who owned a network card back then?) TODAY?!?!?! Alright, let's do it.

TheWalt was hot to trot with Quake as our network game of choice, but god, it was ugly, and had none of the fun items and weapons of Duke Nukem. Additionally, Jim had a particularly slow computer and kept pulling for the older games. We tried some Quake deathmatch, but it had no personality, and it had been beaten near to death by the ugly stick. TheWalt, ladies and gentlemen, would not be denied. I finally agreed that I would try this "Capture the Flag" mod that he had downloaded IF, and only IF, he personally installed it on all six computers while the rest of us were taking a pizza break.

Enter a new world of custom graphics, drawn with colors that id had apparently included but felt no desire to actually use. Custom maps. Custom items, gameplay mechanics, a grappling hook - and the flag actually shows up ON YOUR BACK when you have it? They can DO that?!?!? And my god, the revelation of teamplay...friends, I fell hard. Upon returning to college, I learned that you could play this game over a little thing called the Internet, which was just taking off. It did require you to be running Windows 95, so after years of keeping myself pure, I immediately sold out and downgraded into Bill Gates' master plan, because the thought of Quake CTF whenever I wanted it was too good to be true. And you know, it was that good, for as long as it lasted. Did I mention id Software is in Texas?

7) Finally, why do you play games at all? Why haven't you outgrown them?

I can't thing of a funny answer or a song quote that goes here. Seriously, I just never stopped. I think that as more and more people who play video games reach adulthood, it will be more and more normal. Any stigma attached to game playing will disappear because everyone will have played them at some point, with lots of people never having quit.

8) Thanks for taking the time to answer our hard hitting questions! Any last words?

LESS QQ MOAR PEW PEW!

Comments

I always thought he kinda looked like Spud from Trainspotting

/ducks

"Do you see the beast?"

Hello.

Duffman wrote:

I always thought he kinda looked like Spud from Trainspotting

/ducks

Hey, there's that one picture where he doesn't look like Spud. In it, he looks like Spud's brother. Possibly a twin.

We've already had the Spud discussion in the "post a picture" thread, nothing to see here...

shiho: When it came out (and before that, when it was announced), Quakeworld seemed like the heavens had opened and were smiling down on me. I can't really express how big Quake was for me at the time; I was addicted to Bluesnews (even got credit for tipping him off to an update of the Threewave site once!). I remember anticipating Threewave 4.0 like no other piece of software ever - sadly it was a near-total bust; I think I only liked about 3 of the maps. A couple of them were unplayably large.

You guys are so right, Threewave CTF was IT. Man, I fricking LOVED the use of the grappling hook, i got to where i couldn't enjoy Quake without it. Just thinking about zipping around levels with that thing makes me misty.

I also loved the character mod that made you all into The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight. Such camaraderie! /sniff

shihonage wrote:
Duffman wrote:

I always thought he kinda looked like Spud from Trainspotting

/ducks

Hey, there's that one picture where he doesn't look like Spud. In it, he looks like Spud's brother. Possibly a twin.

His brother is the dead ringer for Dirk Nowitzki. And his brother is a baller (or was during highschool for a while).

Enough has already been said about the Spud-like qualities.

Great interview! It reminded me that I need to get off my butt and get my tickets to Seattle for PAX.

Mixolyde wrote:

I for one welcome our new desert overlords.

The spice is life!

The spice must flow!

Hemidal wrote:

Now his ego will never fit through the door.

Congrats man! Now put down the sundae spoon and go and play some Gears this weekend. :)

Wait.. you mean it fit through the door in the first place?

wordsmythe wrote:

Fed's the meaning in my life. He's the inspiration.

Wordy.. you are like my brother. And not the good one. That sick, dark twisted one whom I have to go on an elaborate quest and kill.

Fed: Like the bossman said, you truly are a must have accessory. I think of you like the ribbon in FFVII when you're trying to save up enough battle points for Cloud's ultimate limit break. If you don't have it, then it's 10x harder to get the limit. Well, that part doesn't really matter, just the part about needing it to get the limit break thinger.

Fed when you coming to BCS next? I know you are missing some original good ole fashioned Freebirds. When you do drop me a note or something. 98 PUSH!

Fedaykin98 wrote:

We've already had the Spud discussion in the "post a picture" thread, nothing to see here...

TheWalt wrote:

Enough has already been said about the Spud-like qualities.

Well, now I just feel like an ass....

TheWalt wrote:

Great interview! It reminded me that I need to get off my butt and get my tickets to Seattle for PAX.

All Gary's couch belong to me.

Please to meet you, Fed.

Nice to meet you Fed'. Have a good one with you and yours.

Three drinks and he didn't finish a single one. Tsk tsk. Teach him o wordsmythe.

LeapingGnome wrote:

Three drinks and he didn't finish a single one. Tsk tsk. Teach him o wordsmythe.

Oh come now, they weren't mine! I always finish my drinks, and quickly, except in the case of wine, which may take some time, and may go unfinished.

Nice to meet you Fedaykin

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Hey Fed, if you put on those glasses and cut your hair back do you think you could pass for Ewen Bremner?

And the ultimate thread skimming award goes to ...

shihonage wrote:

And the ultimate thread skimming award goes to ...

Yea yea.. f*ck me. Just three posts above my previous post. Rudeness

Fedaykin98 wrote:
LeapingGnome wrote:

Three drinks and he didn't finish a single one. Tsk tsk. Teach him o wordsmythe.

Oh come now, they weren't mine! I always finish my drinks, and quickly, except in the case of wine, which may take some time, and may go unfinished.

Really, if I'm supposed to be your evil twin, then maybe this works out well. Still, you sound like me but with a penchant for wearing unitards and eyeliner.

I'm just sayin'.

wordsmythe wrote:
Fedaykin98 wrote:
LeapingGnome wrote:

Three drinks and he didn't finish a single one. Tsk tsk. Teach him o wordsmythe.

Oh come now, they weren't mine! I always finish my drinks, and quickly, except in the case of wine, which may take some time, and may go unfinished.

Really, if I'm supposed to be your evil twin, then maybe this works out well. Still, you sound like me but with a penchant for wearing unitards and eyeliner.

I'm just sayin'. :twisted:

Who wears the stirrup-pants in that family?

BlackSheep wrote:

Who wears the stirrup-pants in that family?

Stirruped pants get such a bad rap! Next time you meet an Oi boy with two-tone stirrups over his wife beater, maybe you'll change your tune.

On a potentially related note, are you coming to PAX, BS?

Btw Words, on the evil twin front, are you aware that Farscry and I are also nearly the same person? Although it seems like we might be nearly the same person in different ways than you and me. Hmm....

Hooray! One of my favorite (and contemporary) Goodjers!

Well done. Glad to see you on the front page, Fed.

Fedaykin98 wrote:

Btw Words, on the evil twin front, are you aware that Farscry and I are also nearly the same person? Although it seems like we might be nearly the same person in different ways than you and me. Hmm....

Is that because he and you are both, erm... cats, in a sense?