User:CooL

Your name? Jared O'Brien

You live in (city & country)? Atlanta, GA

Your birthdate? Long Island, NY

Your occupation/job/studies? Assistant for a financial company/renovator/still in school

Your hobbies? Hobbist speedrunner, mapper, musician, voice actor, writer.

Your em@il/aim/icq/mirc/steam/msn/youtube/homepage? CptCool4 or Centaur1um is everything

Your music taste? Most types of Electronic (minus Jungle), Rock, Classic Rock, Metal, anything but country or shitty rap, really.

Anything you want to add here (about yourself)? I pay 60 dollars a year for this website.

Your nickname (story behind it)? I used to be known as Cpt. Cool back in 2003 or so, when I first began gaming under my own name. This name was stolen from an episode of The Simpsons where Homer calls himself "Commander Cool". I later shortened it to Cool, then capitalized the L due to a lot of people capitalizing the last letter in their name for no reason, though I kept registering to sites as CptCool2 or CptCool4. A few months ago (May 2012), I changed my name to "Centaur1um" after talking about Centaurs in a carride with my girlfriend, and just added the ium to make the name unique, which I later found out was a genus of flowers, which is why I replaced the i with a 1.

Your config (key bindings, etc)? Everything is pretty standard, except that c is crouch, and mouse3 is save; stop. My AHK binds are q for wallclimbing, left alt for space spam, capslock for e spam, and f3 to disable the script.

Size of (Gold)Source directory on your HD? 228 GB

Computer specs (processor/videocard/mouse etc)? 1.75 TB, P55 motherboard (lol who the fuck cares?), 3.4 GHz i5 Sandy Bridge Processor, GTX 770, 12 gigs of ram, some shitty sound card, some wifi thing, 750W PSU, some other stuff, who cares.

First contact to speedrunning (when, how etc.)? HL2DQ, after listening to one of my friends talk about it (around the time when hl2 came out) when the run was active. I didn't pay much attention to speedrunning again until 2008, after seeing SW's 30 minute run, and finally getting around to seeing HL2DQ, which lead to learning how to perform the glitches in OE, and practicing all the time.

First speedrunning demo? My first one dates back to October of 2008 when I was recording a crappy speedrun of coast. The first one that made it into an actual speedrun was the segment I did for Ep1dq on ep1_c17_00a (10/2009).

Favorite speedrun(s) from yourself (the one(s) that you're most proud of)? Jesus, none of them.

Favorite speedrun(s) from others? EP2DQ

Favorite player (runs/100%/marathon/coop)? Rama

Favorite trick in a speedrun? CEOOB

Most annoying monster/map? Monster: Alyx

Map: d1_canals_09 ((once) unskippable without airboat)

What other games than (Gold)Source do you like? Mirror's Edge and Call of Duty: United Offensive are nice.

Anything else you want to add here? I like alcohol.