Posted 1 year ago
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So, I am waaaay late to this,(12.5 years late actually smh) but better late than never I suppose. This is gonna be a bit long (considering how many years I've been a member), so please bear with me so apologies in advance if I bore anyone lol.
About Me
Outside of VU stuff, I'm a Help Desk Technician most of the week. In my down time, I always enjoy a good novel or ebook particularly wuxia and such, and can also be found occasionally gaming, or drafting up a script of some sort to simply certain daily proccesses at work or home. If not that, may also be found RPing sometimes as well.
My History With the Mafias
I joined this wonderful family back when I was just 15. Looking back at it now, its pretty crazy because I see that my 'VU journey had just begun. I had just started on VU 4 months before joining here, and I've been a member ever since. I didn't know a lot at that time, and was pretty much new to everything. For me, I think this website was the first of it's kind that I ever came across, and I was pretty intimidated by everything but excited at the same time. (I still remember spending over 10 minutes sometimes over the years on the expired password reset screen trying to recall passwords I hadn't used when making a new one lol)
I didn't know much back then but I loved spending a lot of time back then checking out the *use codes, trying to find credit earning methods and glitches that could potentially crash the client or find unusual rooms and such. Thinking about it now, I'm chuckling at how excited I was upon finding the use codes for some of the vip actions, the "free" included clothing, avatars, and stuff like the 2Go Phone item (Still have that saved as an outfit for the occasional memories, and shits and giggles lol)
I've always had a strong and burning desire to learn how to automate whatever I could in VU, and also tear it apart to look at everything in detail. I also used to always think about how I could remove certain inconveniences brought in using the software, or supplement certain things, and would often dig through the log files looking for useful data then exploring where those leads took me, before jotting it all down. And I still do.
Many times I would get a great idea but be unable to implement it because of my skills which were lacking in the coding department. So instead, I'd end up mapping out multiple pages of everything that would need to be done, and hope one day I could do it. Or I'd stumble through the painful way, going step by step using google and trial and error until I had gotten somewhere. I actually just managed to recover all of my old notes and findings on API data, log experiments, RegEx stuff, and code snippets from my wrecked laptop hard drive from years ago, yesterday. Which is nice, really nice. As I can finally start working on some ideas again without starting from scratch. And looking through my notes, I see there are ideas which have since been made into services now, like the hidden outfit viewer for chat rooms, and other stuff that isn't out there yet, or could be improved upon, so plenty of work to be done ^^
Overall, I've been more of a lone presence on the site, often forgetting to even log in, until recently. I'd find API related stuff on my own, but not know where to post about it or who to bring it too, or even how to go about turning the information into something tangible or usable. But, I do wanna say. I got to work with DM twice personally years ago on things I had found, so that's pretty cool imo
Definitely was exciting, being able to contribute meaningful input towards something that was previously unknown. Also got a better understanding into some things, which is always good. But yea, you could say I've always had a knack at finding information given a starting source and suggested tools, then finding ways of bringing it all together, a researcher of sorts perhaps.
Current Skills
As of the moment:
For those who read through all of the above, or at least tried to, thank you so much for hearing my story. I hope to eventually be able to share my ideas, inspirations, projects, and completed solutions with you all!
About Me
Outside of VU stuff, I'm a Help Desk Technician most of the week. In my down time, I always enjoy a good novel or ebook particularly wuxia and such, and can also be found occasionally gaming, or drafting up a script of some sort to simply certain daily proccesses at work or home. If not that, may also be found RPing sometimes as well.
My History With the Mafias
I joined this wonderful family back when I was just 15. Looking back at it now, its pretty crazy because I see that my 'VU journey had just begun. I had just started on VU 4 months before joining here, and I've been a member ever since. I didn't know a lot at that time, and was pretty much new to everything. For me, I think this website was the first of it's kind that I ever came across, and I was pretty intimidated by everything but excited at the same time. (I still remember spending over 10 minutes sometimes over the years on the expired password reset screen trying to recall passwords I hadn't used when making a new one lol)
I didn't know much back then but I loved spending a lot of time back then checking out the *use codes, trying to find credit earning methods and glitches that could potentially crash the client or find unusual rooms and such. Thinking about it now, I'm chuckling at how excited I was upon finding the use codes for some of the vip actions, the "free" included clothing, avatars, and stuff like the 2Go Phone item (Still have that saved as an outfit for the occasional memories, and shits and giggles lol)
I've always had a strong and burning desire to learn how to automate whatever I could in VU, and also tear it apart to look at everything in detail. I also used to always think about how I could remove certain inconveniences brought in using the software, or supplement certain things, and would often dig through the log files looking for useful data then exploring where those leads took me, before jotting it all down. And I still do.
Many times I would get a great idea but be unable to implement it because of my skills which were lacking in the coding department. So instead, I'd end up mapping out multiple pages of everything that would need to be done, and hope one day I could do it. Or I'd stumble through the painful way, going step by step using google and trial and error until I had gotten somewhere. I actually just managed to recover all of my old notes and findings on API data, log experiments, RegEx stuff, and code snippets from my wrecked laptop hard drive from years ago, yesterday. Which is nice, really nice. As I can finally start working on some ideas again without starting from scratch. And looking through my notes, I see there are ideas which have since been made into services now, like the hidden outfit viewer for chat rooms, and other stuff that isn't out there yet, or could be improved upon, so plenty of work to be done ^^
Overall, I've been more of a lone presence on the site, often forgetting to even log in, until recently. I'd find API related stuff on my own, but not know where to post about it or who to bring it too, or even how to go about turning the information into something tangible or usable. But, I do wanna say. I got to work with DM twice personally years ago on things I had found, so that's pretty cool imo
Definitely was exciting, being able to contribute meaningful input towards something that was previously unknown. Also got a better understanding into some things, which is always good. But yea, you could say I've always had a knack at finding information given a starting source and suggested tools, then finding ways of bringing it all together, a researcher of sorts perhaps.Current Skills
As of the moment:
- Some research and development skills.
- General experience with programming flow control and scripting
- Some experience with AutoHotKey and making GUI's
- A strong passion to develop tools / services to contribute to this family through supplementing users VU experience, or provide additional functionality
- Finding bugs. One of my strengths, for sure
. Searching code, and this website in particular, for unintended and overlooked bugsFor those who read through all of the above, or at least tried to, thank you so much for hearing my story. I hope to eventually be able to share my ideas, inspirations, projects, and completed solutions with you all!
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