My "Secret" Origin

I am twenty-five years old, and I first moved to the United States when I was five. I can still remember sitting with the teacher's aid in second grade trying to learn how to pronounce the letter "Z." It was on that day that I decided that I always wanted to be understood. So, I learned to speak English fluently and then (years later) amended my resolution to also be fair, levelheaded, and unbiased.

It would have been a good origin story if I had grown up to be judge, lawyer, or a police officer, but I'm just a drone, pushing papers at an office. But, I am a nerd, and the internets are rife with unfair and biased journalism and commentators, and so I'm climbing on my soapbox to add my voice to the discussion.

Let me be clear, this is not going to be a political blog. This is going to be another nerd blog where I discuss nerdy things that are on my mind and every now and then review games or movies. I assure you I am not auditioning to get on one of the more popular review sites. I'm just doing this on my spare time.

I'm not saying that my opinions are better than other people's opinions. Opinions are just opinions. Just that, as a consumer, it's sometimes hard to look past either the hype or the hate, so I'm going to try to express my opinions with the least amount of hyperbole.

What am I going to talk about? Well, my interests are video games, anime, cartoons, movies, tv shows, comic books, toys, and card games. Right off the bat, I can tell you that I'll be writing about Filler/Padding in Anime. Also, Dragonball/Z/GT.How to get into comic books. Stand Alone Comic Books. Wonder Woman. Among other things.

Oh, and why is it called Compulsion to Collect? I grew up in the lower class income range. I was never hungry, but luxuries were exactly that: luxuries. I've concluded that my compulsion to collect stems from a need to prove to myself that I'm not poor. "I'm not poor, look at all the useless crap I own!"