User:Corner g

I am 20... And I am studying to be an accountant... And yes, I play Minecraft. I doubt you will find anyone else with that combination.

Minecraft Wiki involvement
I have a desire to make differences in situations where I have knowledge to offer, and the wiki is currently where my wanderings have lead me. I will do more to contribute as time goes on, adding images, quotes, and pages where necessary; however, my very private life secludes me from the news of new content in the game, so I am largely restricted to editing and improving. I am pathological about grammar and not making any modifications to the wiki that anyone will need to revert or edit thereafter, so I hope if you see my username on the list of recent changes, it shouldn't come to mean "oh there's something I need to fix".

I apologize if I accidentally undo an intermediate edit on a page: my perfectionism causes my small edits to take an age, so it is possible someone may edit the page between when I open the edit interface and save the changes. I always try to check the recent changes before saving to see if any changes have since been made, but I am subject to forget.

Minecraft Forum
I spent several years on the Minecraft forum during its more popular phase, being active exclusively on the mapping and modding section where I eventually became a sectional moderator. I released many resource packs starting from the early days of their support; I remember when all you had was the terrain.png... My active involvement in that section, combined with my desire to resolve conflicts in a composed manner and help those with a lesser understanding rather than ridiculing them lead to my acceptance as a moderator. Unfortunately, I realized how much my life was consumed by the many online activities I involved myself in, and dropped the moderator position. The sheer amount of textures regularly being added to the game prevented me from ever completing an entire pack, and I eventually left the forum entirely. I've considered returning, mostly to release content, but the activity and popularity of the forum has dropped off significantly, and I need to focus my time on more important things.

Gaming
Minecraft is one of two games I regularly play; I always tend to have two PC games I play regularly at any given time. I don't play Minecraft online, preferring single player as an enjoyable past-time and means of enjoying the combination of creativity and challenge without stress. I don't really have any achievements to speak of in Minecraft, as I start new worlds all the time, and get sidetracked often with making individual textures, but I make small builds and often start a Skyblock survival world for fun.

The second game I actively play is my online game; typically a first-person shooter of some sort. I had an unhealthy addiction to Team Fortress 2 for years, leading to a total play time of over 3000 hours! That is just the time I spent in the game, which doesn't include the similar amount of time I spent on trading sites trying to trade the game's famous virtual hats. Since then however, I have left the game for Overwatch, and have come to play it everyday. It is my current fps game, and despite all of the toxicity, I play it anyway.

One of these days, I will need to reduce the average time I spend per day in these games, and I may get a life... No, that's crazy.

Graphics
As mentioned, a large part of my attraction to Minecraft is the ability to do different graphics editing. I have always had a great interest in making textures, and Minecraft provides a simple platform on which to see my designs in a three-dimensional environment. I am the creator of the not really popular Serene Scape, Definitance, Native Lands, Home Lands, and Redefined resource packs, though they are all vastly outdated now, and I don't even use them myself because the game changes too quickly for me to keep up with. One part of the graphics design I have a great interest in is the normal and specular mapping, only supported in Minecraft with the use of certain shader mods, including (but not limited to) Sonic Ether's Unbelievable Shaders Mod, or the more recent Continuum Shaders Mod, which I use now. Normal maps and specular maps are separate textures using what would seem like strange colour palettes to tell the game's engine where light should reach from different angles and what should reflect light. The note block on my page is normal mapped, but isn't specular mapped mostly because it isn't made of materials I think should be reflective. I just wish Minecraft were written in something other than Java, so running the shader mods didn't take the beef of my GTX 1060 just to start.

Music
My other first love, tied with gaming, is music. I listen to video game guitar covers by artists like Family Jules, CSGuitar, etc. And intend to one day start posting instrumental covers on my own YouTube channel. I listen to the metal guitar covers, but I believe if I ever make covers of my own, they would be more "orchestral covers" using a variety of different string, brass, woodwind and percussion instruments where they fit the music. I own many instruments, but I couldn't say I am any more than a learner with any of them aside from drums. I have between four and five years of formal training on drums, yet it is the one instrument I do not own. I own acoustic, electric, and bass guitars, keyboards/electric pianos, violins, trumpets, and some small instruments like an ocarina and tinwhistle. I will someday make music, but I have too much going on to really practice, and I am currently living in an apartment that I don't expect would appreciate me playing instruments...

History
I wrote about my dreary, empty existence.