Crash Landon
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Biography
- Join date: June 14th, 2002
- Aliases: Crash, CL, Old Man, Crush London
Personality
Crash is an okay guy by most accounts, although he's somewhat long-winded. He has managed to become one of Gamingforce's more recognized members despite having essentially no gimmicks other than a mildly amusing user-name and a memorable avatar. He seems to straddle the fine line between "pleasant person" and "utter asshole"; it is difficult to know which personality will appear. His sense of humor is appreciated by some but is also considered trite by a select, influential few who can go fuck themselves.
Crash also eschews the main focuses of Gamingforce by not having any strong interests in anime, computers, video games or politics. He likes people, or more specifically, observing people, which probably explains why he sticks around.
Crash is actually a skilled cartoonist and satirist but this fact remains mostly unknown to the masses since it's generally regarded that Infernal Monkey and niki have the lock on this pursuit and GOD FORBID anyone else should move into the same territory. Ironically, Crash is much more well-known for his skill with writing, much to Crash's perpetual befuddlement.
In the real world, Crash works as a graphic designer for a small chain of supermarkets around Western New York. Contrary to the beliefs of some, he is no longer a "sandwich boy".
He is often falsely mislead by discussion of "The Great Crash".
Community Involvement
Forum Activity
Crash made an inexplicably strong impact upon Gamingforce at the time of his arrival and became a Moderator eight months later in February 2003. He resigned briefly in 2004, so as to clear his mind, but reaccepted his old position shortly thereafter.
Crash tends to concentrate his efforts in The Sewers and Community Commons, as these forums tend to contain the most interesting people and the highest concentration of idiots he can mock. Crash sometimes wanders into the Political Palace but has had little effect upon that forum because he debates with a level head and is of no interest to the usual denizens who shun open-mindedness.
Crash never, ever visits Animespot because his mother was mentally ill and he's dealt with enough irrational obsession-compulsion for one lifetime.
He can often be found in #gfchat during the evening, where he usually speaks in gramatically correct sentences. Occasionally he comes up with some good one-liners, but they tend to be forgotten because he's not Malaysian or a trend-whore. C'est la vie.
Drama
Crash tends to shy away from 75% of Gamingforce's drama, preferring to watch at a distance. Due to his policy of keeping Moderator actions seperate from those as an otherwise normal member (as much as he humanly can), most drama that involves Crash tends to be when he's called in as a referee of sorts. By then, his role tends to be sorting out the pieces that have already combusted and scattered about the forums.
His status as one of oldest members, age-wise, may be a mitigating factor in why much drama doesn't directly involve him; perhaps he is viewed as likely being too level to drag into disputes - or too senile.
He is noted for absolutely ruining the 2007 Gamingforce CD Swap by sending 2 CDs of good music as opposed to sending 1 CD of complete garbage like everyone else.
Projects/Achievements
Crash spearheaded the 2004 GFF Annual Awards and wrote a majority of the descriptive blurbs for each category. The project was viewed as a general success by most, and a general nuisance by the remainder.
He has received GFF Awards in the following categories: Best Username, Most Articulate, Best Writer. So far, prospective employers are unimpressed.
Crash has proposed a community event, "GFF Mole", but the idea has routinely been met with lukewarm reception due to the malaise that surrounded the GFF Survivor Project. He remains hopeful, however, that enough people will decide to stop being boring asswads and give the GFF Mole idea a chance.
It's not a project or achievement, per se, but Crash is also adept at crafting fanciful names for people, places and things. He attributes this to a blessing placed upon him by vagrant gypsies that allows him to psychically access a dimension adjacent to Earth where all objects bear their ideal name. From there, it is simply a matter of relaying the better name to this dimension and setting things right in the process. Skeptics insinuate that the true source of this gift is a diet high in sugar, but Crash laughingly dismisses this theory because he is mildly diabetic.
Related Media
Quotes
"I pull words out of a bag and hope they make complete sentences. So far I've been completely firetruck."
<Crash> Oh yes, I'm so fucking emo. I just drip emo. Look, my shit is glad to escape my asshole because it's sick of my whiny colon!
"Theoretically, all acts of debauchery are exonerated when performed in the name of science. It is difficult to cry foul when one's pursuit of knowledge is so noble."
<Devo|zZz> Crash is training for that Top Chef?
<Crash> No. I totally lack the experience.
<Crash> Hito's a better candidate.
<Crash> I'm only good for ideas and wild experimentations. If I had to make, say, lobster bisque, I'd be clueless.
<Crash> I'd get stuck at "lobster". I'd ask what goes next. I'd probably cover the lobster in Bisquick, because that's the most logical conclusion based upon the name.
<Crash> If Bisquick cannot make a suitable bisque, I do not know what it is good for.
