User:Gocnak

Who Am I?

Your name?
Nick K.

You live in (city & country)?
Michigan, USA

Your birthdate?
August 2nd, 1996.

Your occupation/job/studies?
Unemployed as a college student.

Your hobbies?
Building computers, playing video games and speedrunning them.

Your em@il/aim/icq/mirc/steam/msn/youtube/homepage?
http://www.youtube.com/user/Gocnak
http://steamcommunity.com/id/Gocnak/

Your music taste?
http://last.fm/user/not_gocnak

Anything you want to say here (about yourself)?
I'm okay at coding in Java and some C++.
Oh yeah and speedrunning HL2 is kinda familiar with me.

Your nickname (story behind it)?
Back when I was about 8, I was obscenely fascinated with Go-Karts. It came time for me to sign up for my first username which was for Runescape. I had to use my stunning 8 year old wits and spelling skills to create a unique name for me. The "Goc" is from "Go c(art)" and NAK are my initials. Putting it together, I formed Gocnak. It has stuck with me ever since, due to my lack of originality for creating a better name.

Your config (key bindings, etc)?
MWHEELUP/MWHEELDOWN = "+jump"
"mouse5" = "reload"

Everything else is default bindings.

Size of (Gold)Source directory on your HD?
Like, 20 MB.

Computer specs (processor/videocard/mouse etc)?
Specs can be found on my twitch page: http://twitch.tv/gocnak

First contact to speedrunning (when, how etc.)?
My brother had received the "Half Life 2 Collectors Edition" for Christmas in 2005. I became infatuated with Half Life ever since he let me watch him play it. One day, I stumbled upon a neat little video titled "Half Life 2 Done Quick" and was in awe. Of course speedrunning is generally amazing, but it was this run that motivated me enough to make me say "I wanna do that." I tried to mimic what was in the amazing run, falling in love with the idea of beating the game as fast as possible. I was an Xbox gamer ever since we had a 360 in the house, speedrunning Halo (and even joining the High Speed Halo,http://highspeedhalo.net team). I came across SourceRuns in December 2011.

First speedrunning demo?
"test.dem"

Favorite speedrun(s) from yourself (the one(s) that you're most proud of)?
HL2 DWaHMoV

Favorite speedrun(s) from others?
Half Life 2 Done Quick

Favorite player (runs/100%/marathon/coop)?
Everybody is good in their own special way.

Favorite trick in a speedrun?
Stuck-launching

Most difficult thing ever done in a speedrun?
Supercharged ABH, a hop over a fence, grabbing a box while ABHing, doing a moonjump with that box, hopping over 3 dolts standing in line, getting a guard to break the table, and teleporting Barney.
All in the same segment, in under 40 seconds.

Most annoying monster/map?
Monster: Chell
Map: d1_town_05

What other games than (Gold)Source do you like?
Rocket League is pretty cool.

Anything else you want to add here?
Four and four. I think it's eight?


/Gocnak (talk) 19:55, 7 September 2012 (PDT)