User:Coldacid

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coldacid, better known by his birth name, Christopher S. Charabaruk, is a student and computer game developer in Pickering, Ontario. A former student of George Brown College in Toronto, Ontario, he is a co-founder of the Toronto Independent Games Conference[1], a coordinator of the IGDA Indie SIG, and a known personality at GameDev.net. coldacid has been a programmer since the age of 6 and shows no signs of stopping any time soon, although thanks to the Internet is nowhere near as productive as he used to be.

coldacid is a rabid fan of anime and manga, and is a staff member for Anime North, in (naturally) the games department. He is an executive of his anime club, UTARPA, as well as sergeant at arms of Toast I.T. Toastmasters[2].

As of April 2006, coldacid is 23 years old.

[edit] Wikipedia Interests

• Computer games
• Toronto
• Anime and manga
• All things Japanese
• Computer programming
• The Internets and the rumours on them, along with other forms of Internet humour

[edit] Links

• coldacid's website
• coldacid's LinkedIn profile
• coldacid's old game development team
• Sleep - something of which coldacid never has enough.
• Userboxes by coldacid
• Complaints about Wikipedia

[edit] Userboxes

Natural languages en This user is a native speaker of English. en-ca This user is a native speaker of Canadian English. de-0 Dieser Benutzer hat keine Deutschkenntnisse (oder hat beträchtliche Schwierigkeiten mit der Sprache). uk-0 Цей користувач не розуміє української мови (або розуміє зі значними труднощами). 1337-n +|-|15 |_|><0|20z 15 +3|-| /\/471\/3 5|*33|<z0|2 0|= |€€+. ... This user would like to be able to speak more languages. Anime and manga アニメ This user is an Anime Otaku. 漫画 This user is a Manga Otaku. Sieg Zeon This user enlisted in the Universal Century Zeon Forces. And is ready to drop colonies on the feddies. This user is a Ah! My Goddess! fan. あ! Sata Andagi, Sata Andagi! This user loves Azumanga Daioh. NERV This user is a member of NERV. ES This user is a loyal member of ACROSS This user is a member of the SOS Brigade - Wikipedia Branch. Idiot Box This user activates the Stargate to explore other planets. This user rejects your reality and substitutes his or her own! CSI This user follows the evidence. This user is not a number, he is a free man. BSG This user is a fan of the original Battlestar Galactica... but is not a fan of that soap opera in space. trek This user is mildly embarrassed to have a Star Trek userbox, but really, who are they kidding? + This user is up to the elbows in meatball surgery. Mr. T This user pities the fool!

Games This user is addicted to computer and video games. This user is a Japanophilic gamer. + This user plays retro games. game dev This user is interested in computer and video game development. This user prefers to play games on a personal computer. This user still uses a Sega Mega Drive or Sega Genesis. This user prefers the 'classic' Sonic games over the others. This user plays all the Elder Scrolls games. Fallout This user prefers advanced power armor. Halo This user plays the Halo series. @ This user plays NetHack. This user plays Dance Dance Revolution (or another dance game such as In The Groove or StepMania). This user plays Paper and pencil games. D&D This user plays Dungeons & Dragons. BESM This user plays Big Eyes, Small Mouth. CN This user's alignment is Chaotic Neutral: the "Free Spirit." This user is a Go player.

Computing @ This user can be reached by email at chris@coldacid.net. Web This user has a website. OWN This user uses an email account with his/her own domain name. prog-3 This user is an advanced programmer. game dev This user is interested in computer and video game development. This user still uses a Commodore 64. KB This user believes that a kilobyte is 210 bytes, not 103 bytes. Computer programming bas These users have written BASIC compilers. c++-2 This user is an intermediate C++ programmer. c#-3 This user is an advanced C# programmer. lua This user can program in Lua. Perl This user is a Perl hacker. php-3 This user is an advanced PHP programmer. py-0 This person does not understand Python (or understands it with considerable difficulties, or does not want to program in Python). ruby-1 This user is a beginning Ruby programmer. xhtml This user can write XHTML. xml This user can write XML. game dev This user is interested in computer and video game development. I studied computer programming in college, and all I got was this lousy compiler error.