Hello! I'm Knoxtane. I've been around for a while, just not too active until recently. I decided to come back and try to be active and engage with the community, I love forums and refuse to let them die. I’ve “Worked” in the gaming industry for a few years not, while it’s not my career I have learned a lot, it start back in 2014, back then I was the "assistant" community manager for PixelBeam, the team behind the indie shooter "Storm United". I haven't heard from those guys in a long time, don't even have their contact info anymore. Then moved on to become a moderator for 343 Industries and the Halo franchise, which I still help out today, mostly on the steam hubs that the titles have. Besides that, I’m just a construction worker in the Quality Control and Assurance side of things, making sure soil and concrete are up to snuff and pass project or county requirements.
Little background of my PC Gaming history.
T'was 1999, I was 6 years old and I had a "New" HP Desktop. I sat down and watched my Older brother play this really cool space RTS game called "StarCraft" I had no idea what it was or how to play, but I asked him if I could play. He said sure and I jumped in as Terran, Mined some Minerals and created 2 marines...this was at the...4 minute mark? I got killed by a Teal protoss with 6 or 7 zealots. I was hooked Then one year later I started Diablo, the O.G. 1996 Diablo. I didn't get too far and then that PC died and I didn't get back into PC gaming until I was 12 or so, with RuneScape and StarCraft Again. Then I played on some shitty laptop and eventually saved up money to build my own PC in 2014. I know, yeeearrss later. Hopped into some BF3 then BF4, didn't rank up too much. Mostly played CS:S since 2009. Between two accounts I have about 1,500 Hours in CS:S, which isn't that much for how long the game has been out but I went a few years without a PC.
So, my first build, AMD FX-6300 Six Core Processor / 8GB DDR3 1600MHz / ASUS Nvidia GeForce GTX 750 Ti OC 2GB / 1TB 7200RPM HDD / Windows 7 Home. And the rest is history. I'll type the specs of the next PC I built after that and the one I bought after that lol.
Next PC: Intel Core i5-4690K / 16GB DDR3 1600MHz / 120GB Patriot Pyro SSD / 1TB 7200RPM HDD / Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 4GB Founders Edition / 750W Thermaltake 80+ Bronze PSU.
PC after that was an Alienware Aurora. i7-8700 / 16GB DDR4 2666MHz / GTX 1070 Ti Founders Edition / 250GB M.2 NVMe SSD
Current PC: Intel Core i7-7700 / 16GB DDR4 (2x8GB) SK HYNIX @ 2400MHz / GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 8GB Founders Edition / STORAGE: 500GB Crucial P3 m.2 NVMe SSD / STORAGE: 1TB SAMSUNG 860 EVO / STORAGE: 1TB 7200RPM HDD