Topic: Welcome thread: Please introduce yourself here

Hi all Jag here!

Been playing since the 90s with my first console being the Mega Drive (II with Aladdin to be specific!) and my first gaming PC being a Pentium 3 800MHz powered machine with an ATi Rage Fury Maxxx perfect for Unreal Tournament!

Always loved how gaming tech especially evolves and was a natural fan of DF since the start.
I'm chuffed to see they've gone independent and wish them a long and stutter free life!

Hello, very good afternoon. I’ve been gaming since SEGA Megadrive. Have been following DF since its inception. Great to be apart of the now INDEPENDENT DF community.

Hi! I grew up in the 90s playing PC games. We weren't allowed to have a living room game console, but as a teen I saved up to buy a little TV and a GameCube and I've been playing everything everywhere since! I don't consider myself a collector per se but over the years I've built up a sizeable library of games and systems. I like playing across time and genres, there's just so much good and fun, timeless stuff across the board. In particular I still regularly bring my DS, 3DS, PSP or Vita on my commutes, the back catalog for those systems is insane.

Hello. My name is James, I go by Jaymageck as a weird contraction of my real name.

I've been reading Eurogamer on and off since the early 2000s and clicking DF stuff from quite early on. I'm less of a PC guy though, my interested has tended to be on stuff like "Impossible ports", so my interest in DF really scaled up during the Switch era.

I'm a semi-regular on Resetera under the same name, which is one way I stay in the loop on everything DF posts.

I'm a big Metroid fan and was once a huge Mass Effect fan. I also love Outer Wilds.

Edit: removed the last bit because my inability to set an avatar was because I couldn't find it on desktop. Got it on mobile fine.

I'm a new forum member, but not a new follower of DF. I cant recall exactly when i started following DF content on youtube (sadly not a paying supporter, but please dont hold that against me, cough). I think it was around the time when the RTX 2000 series launched, and i was totally hooked, because it really was a paradigm change to rendering in-game graphics in my opinion. So i was looking for content about people covering the new games and stumbled upon some DF content from Alex's coverage of Metro Exodus. His coverage and the way his enthusiasm was palpable caught my attention and i've been following most of the DF content since then.

Keep up the good work, and dont change a winning formula please. My personal preference is the videoes about how engines use different technologies and how the technologies themselves are evolving. Like the first videoes about the early DLSS versions, and the huge differences gained in the quality of that technology during the following years. Or the videoes about the first Pathtracing games and how that has also evolved with new denoisers like Ray Reconstruction. I'm a huge nerd about the graphic quality in games and the immersion they bring. Sadly also a nerd about other aspects of gaming, like audio and music, but those are hardly ever used in any new interesting ways anymore. I blame headphones and younger kids who dont appreciate a full surround experience :/... I do remember John and Alex having a few videoes also covering audio of late though, so perhaps we could get more of that as well.

Btw, been playing games since before the C64 was released, owned a C128, Amiga 512 and went to the PC in 1992 due to university. Been playing on PC ever since, and still play now and then when i get the time. Never owned a console, cough.. and never will, cough.