User:NMRodo

Hi, everybody. Welcome to my user page. Here's some stuff about me and the Wiki.

NMRodo's Userbox Tower

vg-3 This user is an advanced gamer.

File:Controller example.png This user is addicted to video games.

This user listens to video game music.

File:Dot.pngFile:Dot.png This user plays retro games.

game dev This user is interested in video game development.

File:Jrslugguh.PNG This user likes to draw.

prog-0 This user cannot program at all.

File:Wii small.jpg This user prefers Nintendo's Wii over the other consoles.

File:Gcn small.jpg This user prefers the Nintendo GameCube over the Xbox and the Playstation 2.

PS2 This user enjoys playing games on a PlayStation 2.

File:DS logo small.gif This user prefers the Nintendo DS over the Playstation Portable.

File:NES small.png This user still plays games on the NES (it's his dad's).

File:Controller example minus.png This user never got to play a SNES, but sometimes plays Super Mario World via Virtual Console.

This user owns a Crimson-Onyx Nintendo DS Lite. One of the hinges broke!

Ulti Fav This user believes that Super Mario Bros. 3 is the best video game ever.

fan-0 This user dislikes the video game Rayman Raving Rabbids 2.

fan-1 This user enjoys the video game Zoo Tycoon DS.

fan-2 This user loves the video game Punch-Out!! (the Wii version).

fan-3 This user thinks that Super Mario Bros. 3 is the best video game ever made... as stated four boxes up.

fan-0 This user dislikes the Personal Trainer video game series. C'mon! Get a real person to help you!

fan-1 This user enjoys the Pokémon video game series.

fan-2 This user loves the Kirby video game series.

fan-3 This user, quite obviously, thinks Super Mario is the best video game series ever established.

File:MarioNSMBWii.PNG This user dressed up as Mario for Halloween. (This user is just a tad obsessive.)

History

The Beginning

I discovered the Mario Wiki in very early 2007, and was fascinated by the idea; a fountain of infinite Mario knowledge! I've been big on Mario's games my whole life (which is only, ahem, somewhere between 10 and 20 years in the making), since I'd been playing my dad's NES and got my own GameCube. Due to my general lack of common sense, it wasn't until May that I realized I myself could contribute to this Wiki. And so, on May 30th, 2007, I joined the community. Immediately I began editing and even creating some articles.

The Forum

Eventually I discovered that this Wiki had something that only made it better: a forum. There I met the wonderfully demented likes of Smiddle, Uniju, Moogle, and some others. I put up a conversation every now and then, but mainly enjoyed the whimsical nonsense of the longtime users. The forum really distracted me from the Wiki itself, and eventually I took off for two reasons: 1) I was determined to do a lot more work a few articles in particuluar, and 2) I had already been frequenting a different forum for over a year. The forum is not exactly a regular part of my internet browsing anymore, but I still pop in sporadically.

The Departure

As I continued working on the Wiki (and being gawrsh-danged proud of it), I soon noticed a disturbing pattern. Nearly every article I read was unbearably sloppy. The smart thing to do? Edit it, of course! But did I do that? Nope! I decided that this project was a little overwhelming for me and I took a long break starting in 2008.

The Homestar Runner

I still read the Wiki a whole lot - in fact, on one of my computers, it's actually my home page. I edited on occasion, but not nearly as often as I did when I first joined. And then I came across something that blew my mind: the Homestar Runner Wiki. For those who are uneducated or just have lives away from the internet, Homestar Runner is a web cartoon that's been going on for nearly 10 years. It's very humorous, and sometimes tends to be idiotic - right up my alley! I read the articles upon articles about the cartoons, the characters, everything. I learned so many things about the cartoon I had no idea about. And then... I joined their community. Under the name NMRodo, I had officially disappeared from the SMWiki. But not for long...

The Return

Mario games, for an extremely brief period, actually became sort of boring to me. I was more interested in Animal Crossing: City Folk, the New Play Control! edition of Pikmin, and of course, Homestar Runner. But then guess what I found out about unbelievably late: Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story. I picked up the game around late September and was playing for weeks. Then I remembered: "Wasn't there a Wiki or something on this?" And so I came back to the Mario Wiki, to fix up some things that just needed improvement, and take pride in it. My time is now split between the Super Mario Wiki, the Homestar Runner Wiki, and school. In order of most to least importance.

So that's my story. You probably didn't read it. Or this. But in any case, there you go.

Accomplishments

Some things I've done.

• Created over 100 articles
• Made over 5000 edits I don't know how I got that statistic, but it's way off. >_>
• Gotten every Mario game since Super Mario Sunshine (hey, c'mon, I'm a young'un)

What I'm Looking Forward To

• Watching the rest of this television season of The Simpsons and Family Guy.
• Christmas.
• My birthday, which is unfortunately less than a month after Christmas.
• Super Mario Galaxy 2.

Other Interests

Some things I like aside from Mario.

• Homestar Runner (obviously)
• "Weird Al" Yankovic
• The Simpsons
• Brawl in the Family
• That Guy With The Glasses

Last but not least

Is it me or is this artwork of Bowser really awesome? File:BowserNSMBWii.png

Well, that's about all I got to say. What, were you expecting like a giant page of a hundred animated GIFs or something? Or about 10 dozen LOLcats? Nope. I don't have that much patience. Bye now!