So... I've just finished an 8 hour-long drive from Curico, in central Chile, to Llanquihue, in the southern lakes region of Chile. I came to surprise my parents for the holiday season. I'm fucking freezing here but that won't stop me from doing a certain thing MarkyO (yes, THAT MarkyO, Day[9]'s admin) suggested I should do a couple days ago while we were modding Artosis' chat: An AMA.
I'll be doing this for a couple days, will answer when I have the time. I'll be pretty busy tomorrow with christmas preparations and activities but I'll get back to you to answer your questions.
*Edit* So, to provide a little background: I'm 26, I'm an MD and I currently work in a small countryside hospital in Chile as its sub-director and ER staff. I'm also a musician, begun playing the violin back when I was 4, dumped when I was 14. I now play guitar and drums, a bit of keyboards, and also sing. And I've been an avid gamer for the last 14 years. Oh, and I'm also an SC2 caster. One of the very few who cast in spanish. I do game analysis in a style very similar to what Day[9] does.
My feelings about Che Guevara? There are other ways to change the injustices around you than waging war and killing people. We as medics took an oath of honor to save lives, not ending them. There are greater goods in this life than just giving up to politics and going guerrilla on everyone's ass.
My favorite word to scream in spanish is "huevón", which in chilean-spanish is something like "dude", but can also be ussed as an expletive meaning "dickhead" or "dumbass". It's so funny to use, because one too many times people think you are insulting them when you're actually not, even in its due context it is confusing. Ultimate trolling.
Medical school was the biggest challenge of my life. Here in Chile it lasts 7 years; the first two are somwhat of a science minor, and then the next 3 years you have the real medical classes (internal medicine, surgery, gynecology and obstetrics, psych, thanatology, pediatrics, pathology, diagnostics, etc); finishing that gives you the MB degree (medical bachelor). Finally the last 2 years is called the "internship", which is actually clinical practice. After that you get the MD title. 7 years is a lot. After you get through it all you just feel so relieved... But you actually have no idea of what's ahead of you. Work is just so demanding I'm pretty competitive and self-demanding, quite the perfectionist I'd say. Medschool tested me in ways I never thought possible. I used to be top of my class at school for every single year, got a near-perfect score at the universitary entrance exams (the PSU, Prueba de Seleccion Universitaria) but I never got the grades I was used to get in school... I hovered at a 3.5GPA all the time... That kind of got to me and I got depressed (again, I've suffered depression for a long, long time and as you know it never goes away, it just gets under control until it goes off again) because I wasn't used to "losing" to someone else. Medschool is pretty competitive, but I grew up and understood not everything revolved around being the best and competing all the time. I just had to do my best and that was it. So, in retrospective, I can now say SC2 ladders ain't got a thing to medschools ranking systems, LOL. I think I never exelled in medschool maybe because I never actually learned how to study, I have a pretty good memory and paying attention in class was usually all I needed to prepare a test, and maybe because it was in college where I begun playing hardcore (got into competitive CoD and Q2, and then SC2) and that took a lot of time off of me.
how many people have you slept with and what was your most interesting intimate experience? are you pro choice or pro life? and what is your stance on gays?
I've slept with 6 people so far. My most interesting intimate experience so far was something that at first was very awkward: She was my best friend and I was in my internship. A patient I was treating died, it was the first time I had to deal with that. And I was so angered and sad, because it was a young man with silicosis (a disease common in miners, and my patient was a miner) and no matter what we did, he just kept getting worse and worse and I got so angered at the fact he died so young (maybe reflecting on a previous, personal experience which I believe made me the person I am now; i lost my best friend ever, my first love, when we were only 9 years old). The death of this guy really got to me and revived so much of that blocked anger and sadness, so I called her and she came to comfort me just like she always did. Somehow between all the crying and hugging we begun making out... and ended up having sex. And it was SO weird, because even though we had slept with other people before each, we were so shy and clumsy with each other, like it was the first time for both, but it wasn't. It was a moment filled with such care, so much love and so much passion (oh, was she wild when we got into it ). Things got awkward pretty quick the next days, but we got over that.
I define myself as a very moderate dude. I believe there are cases and cases and we can't box everything into black or white boxes, and the same applies to being "pro-choice" or "pro-life". Every single case should be revised and desicions must be taked well informed of every detail. I wouldn't approve euthanasia for a person who is mentally unable to decide for his own life, but I would for a person in pain or living a nightmare of a life, expecting death, who can make desicions and is mentally healthy to make the call to end his life; neither I'd approve an abortion for a healthy baby who can be raised by someone else who wants a baby but can't have it for X reasons, for example. I don't know if I made myself clear, but that is where I stand on the subject.
My stance on gay people: You are free to love anyone you can. If you are a male and love another male, or if you're a female who's into females, go for it. Nobody should be critizised for loving another person, even if it's of his/her same gender.
My top 5 favorite games of all time are: 1.- Buried in Time: The Journeyman Project 2 (PLAY IT NAO IF YOU HAVEN'T, YOUR MIND WILL BE BLOWN. You won't believe that game was made back in 1995.) 2.- StarCraft2 3.- Quake2 4.- HalfLife2 5.- FreeLancer 5.1.- Star Wars: Knights Of The Old Republic (man, I'll just say this: "Warning: Touch the master's blade and lose an arm, meatbag!" LOL)
If I foresee myself moving around three or four times over the next year, should I buy a laptop for Diablo 3 (and I guess SCII if I ever break down and play it) or get a desktop instead and deal with having to move it around. They're similarly priced, but obviously a desktop will be a better computer for the price right? Maybe not?
Also, who is/was your favorite Brood War progamer?
I'd go with the desktop. It will allow you to upgrade it for less money later when you'll need it, you can fully customize it, and you don't have to deal with the ever-so-annoying problem of heat. Laptops fuck up because of the poor heat management they have.
My favorite BW pro of all time is Jaedong. I still remember the first time I saw him play and he got me when I saw dat muta micro.
Sometimes people tell me I'm an alien because they don't know how I do all the stuff I do in the time I do it. Teehee.
I've tried poutine only once when I went to Canada. I LOVED it.
And I won't say I love that song, but it's ok. It's kinda catchy.
Also, holy shit at your edit. Legacy of Time: Journeyman Project 3 was one of the first real games I ever played, and it was incredible. I still quote it to this day, and could play it through from memory easily. Solving the puzzle in the Shangri La caves was one of the proudest moments of my juvenile life.
"He's single, he time travels, he parts water: ladies and gentlemen, Gage Blackwood!"
Dude, Legacy of Time was so incredibly good. But BiT still makes me stare in awe at those incredible cinematics. Those damn cinematics and ambience might be even better than Blizzard's in any game they have ever developed. Seriously. Even though the damn game is 16 years old, I've never played anything that's gotten close to it.
On December 24 2011 15:23 UmbraaeternuS wrote: I'd go with the desktop. It will allow you to upgrade it for less money later when you'll need it, you can fully customize it, and you don't have to deal with the ever-so-annoying problem of heat. Laptops fuck up because of the poor heat management they have.
My favorite BW pro of all time is Jaedong. I still remember the first time I saw him play and he got me when I saw dat muta micro.
I've tried poutine only once when I went to Canada. I LOVED it.
And I won't say I love that song, but it's ok. It's kinda catchy.
Yeah my laptop is both sterilizing and slowly burning my lap as we speak. I want something with bigass fans so my room doesn't remain a technological heat sink :p
Good choice, Zerg power
Poutine >
That is all.
Well, almost all.
"If meat is murder, then that rug is at least a severe beating." when you see a furry rug in Legacy of Time. Also, "Ch-ch-ch-chia floor!" made me lose it. SO GOOD.
I believe we all have a purpose in life: being happy doing what you do. I don't believe we haev a specific purpose in life (i.e: Becoming a well known physician who goes on national television with a program about health xD). For now I'm happy helping people get better and keeping them healthy, and helping people understand StarCraft and playing it better.
My intentions when I went into medschool were as clear as they are now: I want to contribute to make people's health better, to cure them if possible, or if not, to help them carry their diesease on the best way possible, and to help those dying to pass away comfortably and with dignity.
This is the first time I hear of spanish cast of sc2 besides from a few streams which I cant find anymore so please enlighten me where could I find a link to some of your cast and latino sc2 streams/vods.
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Day[9]'s admin) suggested I should do a couple days ago while we were modding 
Artosis' chat: An AMA.
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