User:Richardphung/DigitalLifestyle

Digital Culture

Richard maintains an equally significant digitally immersed lifestyle in which he engages in digital content creation, file sharing, online communities, and massively multiplayer online gaming. Richard is known by several avatars, throughout several directories of special interest.

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Personal Computing
Richard's earliest digital media experiences stemmed from with games on his father's Commodore 64. His family later adopted a Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), and a 100Mhz Packard Bell PC. Later, his family would incorporate a 233Mhz NEC PC. Other than computers at school, Richard would not have access to a personal computer until his junior year at ASMS when he acquired an 300Mhz eMachine. In the summer of 2001, Richard built the first of the 0p-Fleet, a series of computers that would be the lineage of his personal computing units.

Computer Gaming
In years past, Richard enjoyed recreational computer gaming. Among his favorites were Real-Time Strategy and Turn-based Strategy games, but the occasional First-Person Shooter would captivate his interests for short periods at a time. As far as console games are concerned, Richard would not own a gaming platform other than the NES until 2002 when he purchased a Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES).
Richard actively played Guild Wars for a period of 4 years (2005-2009), and currently plays City of Heroes/City of Villains.

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Digital Media
Richard primarily engages in Archiving of digital entertainment media. This habit began in early 2000 when he began to rip backups of CD Audio into mp3 format using Audio Catalyst. His archiving has extended to include compressed back-ups of full-length movies in various media formats. It is unclear the particular legitimacy and originality of his entire collection, but it is certain that under no unlawful actions does Richard share or distribute this media. As of 2008, his digital media archive is comprised of ~50,000+ mp3's and ~1500 movies/documentaries.

In his travels, Richard enjoys taking photographs and videos that document his experiences. These can be found among various community sites.

Richard Phung's website can be found here.

Gagetry
See 0p-Fleet