The First Mandatory Introduction Post

Hi, I'm Kata, and this is my gaming blog.

I say "gaming" although I will probably be talking about all kinds of nerdy stuff that crosses my mind (see: other interests).
But the whole idea of making a blog for my incessant nerdy babbling stemmed from the fact that even I got kind of sick of spamming my own personal blog with lengthy stories about the long hours spent playing Team Fortress 2 and how I owned someone as a Soldier or sucked so bad as a Spy. You can only imagine how tiresome that can be for people who don't know TF2 and have absolutely no idea what I'm talking about. So I decided to make a themed blog for my gaming related rants. Therefore this will first and foremost be a gaming blog, and I will write my thoughts about videogames that I am playing at the moment. Simple enough, I believe.
I have to warn you, though: I can be rather verbose.

Well, okay, Sorry, I take that back: I AM rather verbose.

Anyway. Wanna know more about me? I'm twenty-something (older than you'd think), I live in Finland, and I'm a game designer student. I obviously enjoy playing the vidya. I'm by no means a hardcore gamer, but not a casual one either.
I've been playing videogames since I was a wee lass and my parental units got me and my little brother a NES for Christmas. Our Christmas tree was in danger that year, since I couldn't play Super Mario Bros 3 without running and jumping around myself. Lara Croft was my hero back in 1996.
These days I play a lot on my PC (and I'm seriously in need of a better graphics card, try not to laugh at screenshots if/when I post some. Thankfully I'm not a graphics whore and I don't really care what the game looks like as long as I can PLAY it), thanks to Team Fortress 2 being the most awesome online multiplayer shooter in the history of ever. I haven't yet gotten to buying any of this generation's consoles (I am not getting Xbox360 because MGS4 is PS3 exclusive and so I have to shit out the insane amount of money to get the goddamn PS3 even though I really, really don't want to since I'd much rather get the 360. But MGS4 is THE game I've been waiting for, so I am going to play it, and thus need to sell my body rob a bank work my ass off in some shitty job to get the money), so I do all of my console gaming on my trusty old PlayStation 2.
I also have a girly, pink Nintendo DS.
I don't have a favourite game genre, because I play almost anything (RTS is probably the only genre I'm not too fond of). I tend to stick with action/adventure games on consoles, and FPS on PC. My favourite games, eh? The Orange Box, Metal Gear Solid series, Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan series on DS, Resident Evil 4, Final Fantasy series (XII is my favourite), Okami and so on.

My other interests include, but are not limited to cartoons and comics (both Western and what you usually call "anime" and "manga"), Asian ball-jointed dolls, music, certain TV series, cosplay and Transformers (the entire franchise from toys to cartoons). I draw a lot, sometimes I write mostly for my own pleasure and I play guitar in a not-very-active band (because our vocalist currently resides in the US).

And if there's anything else you'd like to know, don't hesitate to ask. I'm a nice person, really.