Some one gives you a calfskin wallet for your birthday. How do you react?
Given that it's unlikely I'd recognise it as a calfskin wallet, I'd probably go "oh thanks for the gift" and transfer the contents of my wallet into it since I usually need a new wallet XD.
A boy shows you his butterfly collection and the killing jar. What do you do?
Test him for psychopathy
You're watching television, and notice there is a wasp on your arm. How would you react?
The colour would drain from my face and I would start to shake involuntarily - or I would freeze. Then the wasp would leave my arm, I would promptly leave the room and either have a ptsd panic attack or I'd vomit.
You're in a desert walking along in the sand when all of the sudden you look down, and you see a tortoise that is crawling toward you. You reach down, you flip the tortoise over on its back. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't, not without your help. But you're not helping. Why is that?
If I'm not helping that turtle, it's because I'm being stopped. If I'm in the desert maybe I'm being dragged somewhere by ISIS XD.
What was it about FFVII that piqued your interest? What kept you hooked once you started playing?
I was at my grandparents house and my uncle had recently bought a Playstation that came with FFVII and a memory card. The Playstation lived there for some reason. FFVII was in the console. On it popped. I think what piqued my interest was how incredibly different it was to anything else I'd ever experienced before. I used to play it with my cousin - I used to avoid playing it until I was with my cousin because getting a game over used to emotionally devastate me and I would think I was never ever going to make more progress (I didn't understand how levelling etc. worked). This was to the point where I couldn't beat Gi Nattak in Cosmo Canyon (yes, the one hit KO undead dude) and I distinctly remember my party's HP levels being around the 600-700 mark, which is arguably quite low for that point in the game if you're kind of just blindly running through it and you're 7 years old.
I skipped a lot of battles, which is why that happened - again, I didn't understand the levelling mechanic. I knew levels went up from battles but for some reason my brain didn't connect the dots from me not doing that to me failing. So determined was I to continue that I started the game again from the beginning.
Long story short, I fell in love with everything about the game. I liked the characters, the story, "special graphics" (which is what I called CGI when I was a young child XD) and the world. Since I barely understood what was happening in the story my main motivation was to see these mini movies as I progressed through the game.
What video game weapon would you wield as your own?
Biotics from Mass Effect. Not sure if that qualifies. If it doesn't, probably the Buster Sword.
On the flip side, what weapon would suck to be saddled with?
I always thought the Masamune would be a pain in the ass to walk around with. Realistically it would drag behind you and getting through doors would be an incredibly annoying issue XD.
Origins. Objectively Legends is better in almost every way, it's more varied, the gameplay is more refined, it's a bit more colourful. Origins is a bit quirkier and a lot harder, and there are speedrun challenges. There are speedrun challenges in Legends too but they're not the same, they're like mini variations of the levels. In Origins you hit a clock at the start and get through the level as fast as you can, but it's the same level. I thought that was cooler.
Are you a fan or player of any sports?
I like watching the winter sports. I don't play any.
What's your ultimate dream job?
I no longer have one. The sting of true adulthood is realising that nothing is perfect, and while I know I'd be happier doing certain jobs than others I don't have a dream job. It used to be singing, but I don't have the temperament to sing karaoke never mind sing and possibly embarrass myself in front of millions of people. I used to want to be a game designer, then I realised that I wouldn't be happy because software developers sneer at them for taking a job that doesn't pay as well just because it's a game-related job, and the employers all treat you like shit. The closest equivalent I have to a "dream" job is probably freelance videogame journalism, but I'd want to be paid moderately well and "freelance" and "moderate pay" don't work together. Such a job would never support the lifestyle that I want, so I'm happy sporadically doing something that's semi-equivalent while I manage to actually build up a lifestyle from a real career.
What's one big life dream you would like to achieve, but realistically have come to accept is unlikely, due to your own choices/circumstances/talents/etc.?
I'm having a hard time answering this question because I don't like to impose limits like that and try not to have any regrets. I suppose the easiest answer is having kids. It's incredibly unlikely that I'm going to have children, but I always wanted them. I would never adopt alone and the chance of finding another person to share my life with who I am at least semi-confident is going to stick around is slim. Statistics are annoying. A small percentage of the population are MSM, a small percentage of those would be happy with monogamy, a small percentage of those are people that I'm attracted to/ could spend my life with, and a minute percentage of THOSE people want children. It's not even me being picky about a partner, it's just that the numbers are against me
What's one big life goal you want to achieve, and think that you still can?
Visit some major spots in the US that I'm interested in visiting (I'm probably going to spend half a year or so moving around the country when I've got the money), and living in Canada - at least for a trial run.
If you have to entertain yourself for 1 hour using a stick, a spring, and a bowl of water, what would you do?
I would probably just swirl the water around with the stick and ignore the spring. I like water. Endless fun. I might take some bits of water and make some parts of my hair wet and others not then braid my hair XD.
How many more questions would you like me to ask, and how serious would you like them to be?
As many as you want and as serious as you want. I don't know if people get much out of the silly questions, I have no problems answering serious questions so fire away
What question haven't you been asked that you would like most to answer?
I won't know it until someone asks it, and then it'll be irrelevant
. This question is officially unanswerable to me
No
What led you towards studying microbiology?
I kind of fell into it. But I do love it, and I stuck with it because I found it interesting. Infection Biology is the most medically relevant subject area period, and I find everything about it interesting.
What job do you hope that to lead to?
Medical Diagnostics, whether that be in a lab or as a diagnostician. I'm still going down that road.
Would you consider living in another city in/region of Britain? What would be the draws & deal breakers?
I would like to live in smaller places like Inverness but they don't have any kind of gay social scene so I'd feel very much like the only gay in the village even though I know that's not the case.
I've considered Brighton for obvious reasons, also I have a relative staying there and I miss him (he's originally from Peterborough). I thought about Belfast because I love the Northern Irish accent, and I've thought about London because I like the solo-independence thing. I realise you're constantly surrounded by people but it's not the same as being alone, and there's something about just being alone and cutting all ties that I find attractive. I tend to like coastal towns and stuff too but the aversion to the gay in most of them is off-putting (small town minds). The dealbreaker in any place is usually attitudes toward gay men.