For starters, how many hours a week do you spend playing video games?
It depends. Start of the semester? Maybe up to 20 hours if I’m really bored,
or if I’m not going out of town for the weekend. By the end of the semester
my game time usually drops close to zero. If I’m with my family in the
summer, then basically all I do is eat and play video games (it’s kinda tough
to hang out with your friends when they’re a billion miles away) and play
golf. If I’m fortunate enough to be in Pensacola for any part of the summer,
the game time becomes pretty much limited to Halo nights (C’mon, skimboarding
or video games? Not a real hard choice).
Here's a biggie: in your opinion, what's the best video game ever?
Wow, this is a biggie. A top 10 (or maybe even 20) would probably be better,
but I’ll make do with what I’ve got. As far as the most fun I’ve ever had
playing a game is concerned, Halo is definitely Number One. I can’t even make
a guess at the disgustingly high number of hours I’ve played the game, but at
least 95% of all that time was a blast to varying degrees. Until Halo,
Goldeneye definitely owned the title of “Most Fun had While Playing” (ah,
body armor and getting killed by explosion that creep through walls, how I
miss thee), but times change. Final Fantasy 7 and 8 are probably my favorite
single-player games, but Super Mario World for the SNES and Megaman 2 are
pretty high up there too..
How about the best video game system ever? Another tough
question, but I’d have to say the original 8-bit Nintendo system (Sega
Genesis sucks!). Some people might argue the old Atari system revolutionized
the gaming world, but the Nintendo is really the winner here. Despite the
razor-edged torture device of a controller (at least it feels that way now,
it probably wasn’t that bad when I was 2 feet shorter and didn’t have giant
ape hands), there will never be an experience quite like my first
groundbreaking experience on that Christmas morning so many years ago. I can
definitely see myself at age 90 playing Double Dragons II (or Super Mario
Bros. 1-3 or Contra II or Marble Madness or any number of classics), cackling
wildly when I Power Knee another minion across the screen and feeling like
I’m 8 again. Of course, by that point I’ll not still be acting 8, my mental
faculties will have long since declined once again to that level.
Kyle Rosemore
Now that you're on your 4th year of college, would you say you enjoyed high school or college more?
High school, hands down. Well, the last two years of high school, anyway. A lot
of people who went to East Hill have criticized it pretty harshly, but as
someone who went to three (yes, three) different high schools in two years (one
of which wasn’t even in the US), I think I can say that East Hill was actually a
pretty fantastic school. Sure, some of the people who ran the place were pretty
crazy sometimes (or even all of the time) and there were some incredibly stupid
incidents and rules (I refer to the Daniel Losey and Crew scandal in our senior
year). Gripes aside, what really made high school the best was the people there,
particularly since the school was so small and our group of friends all got
along so well (At least the guys did, anyway. The girls… well, they’re girls,
they still don’t make sense now, how could I expect to make sense of high school
girls?). It was pretty tough to be in a classroom with both a terrible subject
and a less-than-great group of jokers. Before school? Fun. During class (except
for my trig class with the group a year ahead of us)? Great. After school?
Great. Soccer? Fantastic. Any sort of group trip? Awesome. Yeah, I have to say
that high school was definitely more fun than college has been, no doubt about
it. My one regret from high school is that I didn’t realize how much I liked the
beach until I had to move inland.
Where would you like to take your Computer Science degree? Home (haha,
that’s me, gotta make the dumb joke). Seriously though, there are a bunch of
things I could end up doing with it. My original purpose was to write code for
video games, but now that I’ve done more programming I’ve realized I wouldn’t
mind writing code for any number of purposes. I’m also strongly considering
applying to law school so that when I get my computer science degree (in however
many more years I have to spend in college to get it), I can go into the field
of intellectual property law.
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Would you like to work in the West with your dad or stay here in the Southeast?
I don’t really know. The biggest recurring theme in my life has definitely been
travel (and all the trouble that goes with it), so even if I do end up working
with or near my family it’ll almost certainly be at the end of a very long,
winding road.
Of all the places you've lived (foreign and domestic), which was the best?
As of right now, Pensacola (Pensacola Beach, more specifically) has to be it.
Plenty of people who live in Pensacola can’t wait to leave, but there’s just
something about the beach there. You remember the general that Russell Crow
played as in Gladiator? This general, who has seen so many places and traveled
so far, has no interest in money or power; all he wants is to go home to his
farm. I think the chances of me ever actually living in Pensacola again on a
permanent basis are virtually zero and I’ve certainly got a lot of traveling
left to do (it’s in my blood now, I doubt I’ll ever really be settled down), but
Pensacola Beach is a very special place in the world.
What's your best story from living with Josh and Richard?
I think it would have to be the night this girl named Laurie got attacked by her
boyfriend while I was talking on the phone outside. It was around 2 in the A.M.
when I hear this girl screaming, so I run around the corner of a building, this
guy is walking away from the girl, then he sees me, runs to his car and drives
off. I find the girl sitting in her car in tears (imagine that, her boyfriend
just tried to beat her up and she’s crying). What ensues is an hours-long
incident where the cops showed up, took a statement, talked to the
now-ex-boyfriend on the girl’s cell phone (yes, the moron actually called her to
apologize, then hung up on the cop). Aside from some major bruises, the girl was
completely fine, which was what really mattered in the end. It’s certainly not
an amusing story, but it’s definitely one of the most unexpected incidents I’ve
ever been a part of.
Finally, why do you think God made you so annoying? My bet is
that He’s got a serious sense of humor. Whenever He gets bored, he just flips on
the “24 Hour Snarl Channel” and BAM, instant comedy. |
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