![]() ![]() That my parents didn’t outright dismiss me, make fun of the request, or tell me I was ridiculous is the kind of small detail that in retrospect makes me tear up because of how much it says about how my parents approached their children and their interests, however bewildering. Nonetheless, one night, at the age of 14, I remember walking into my parents bedroom, explaining what E3 was and why I wanted to go, and being asked to leave the room. That’s the kind of scare tactic stuff you’d hear on the nightly news-still hear today, frankly. Maybe this was true, but when my dad brought home our first computer and connected it to the internet and I figured out how to start building a website, my first impulse was to copy and paste reviews from the pages of EGM and claim they were mine. was picked to be read (by me!) in front of the entire school. ![]() People told me I had an early knack for writing around the time the essay I wrote for my school’s anti-drug propaganda program D.A.R.E. You would visit sites in “frames” or “no frames” versions. (At the time, it was cool if you could code a website with or without “frames,” essentially a tab on the side of the screen that could be used to modify the other side of the screen, not dissimilar to picking chapters in a book. I started writing about video games online around the time of Geocities and Angelfire, websites that no longer exist but in the late 90s were transformational, because it let normal people build a website with some basic tools and HTML tinkering.
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