My name is Chase Baggett. I live near Dallas, Texas. You’re not getting an exact location, but its pretty damn close. My interests include writing, poetry, film, video games, politics, law, and a vast majority of other “uninteresting” things. I am 17 and a college Freshman taking pre-law classes with an undefined major. I've been playing Muds since I was around 10 years old. I held my first staff position at the age of 12 on a Moo as a basic coder, more of a scripter actually, writing neat objects that would do things with the simple language that was moo. My boss at the time, however, closed down the Moo, and so I sought another game. I went to mudconnect and put in "Forsaken" because it was a word I liked, and alas, I found Aabahran: The Forsaken Lands. I played this mud for almost 5 years. For the first two, I did not participate in any webpage or forum. However, eventually, I registered on the site under the alias Warpnow, which was the first command I had ever built in moo-I was working on a star trek moo and "warp #" would start a ticker...or "warp now" would make it begin immediately. It opened my eyes. I loved the forum, and for a while the forum loved me.

In time, I grew to have many disagreements with the staff of Aabahran: The Forsaken Lands. I felt, and still do feel to a degree, that they are failing to do what is possible with such a great mud. That they've allowed the mud to sink to fewer players than it should always have. I believe most of the staff treasures the aspects of player killing over the roles of the characters because they see roleplay as something to enhance pk. I do not see it that way. Player Killing is an aspect of the game. Roleplay...is the game itself.

I am a writer and designer first and a builder second, and a coder third...or maybe fifth, if I can think up two more things. I enjoy toying with ideas and putting logic and thought to the task of any job. I thrive on disagreement. Many people hate me for this. I believe only that through conflict are the weaknesses of our own thoughts and beliefs exposed and the truly great points of all of our beliefs come forward and create a hybrid thought greater than the work of any single individual.I have my beliefs, and I believe in them more strongly than the vast majority of people I know. I will argue you until my last dying breath, but I will also listen to what you have to say base my actions not only on my own beliefs, but on the beliefs of my peers as a whole.

I am the furthest thing from a socialite that has ever existed. I don’t really like people. Oh, its not that I’ve never liked a person, its just that, in general, people are (to quote Red Foreman) “Dumbasses”. They are self-involved, self-abusing, users. They find it impossible to move their perspective beyond the tiny confines of their office cubicle or school locker. It is not that I think they are unworthy, but I do not think they, in general, try. They look for the easiest way out of every situation. And to top it off: I am the same way. The easiest way out, for me, though, is to be intelligent. It allows me to avoid a great number of things. I call myself an “intellectual” because it allows me to avoid the physical follies of theoretical musings. In doing so, I can achieve hypothetical perfection without having to concern myself with actual events.

You probably would not like me if you met me, but who could blame you? Who the fuck am I?

Nobody, that’s who.

Blogging, Computer Hardware, Nintendo Wii, Online Forums, Poetry, Politics, Wallowing in self-pity, Writing

Building, Computer Hardware, Film Making, Graphic Design, Moo Code, Some C, Video Editting, Writing