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Before I go on, there is one thing you should know about me. My name is Rusty Shackleford and I do not want to discuss the government unless I'm on a rant or rambling. :y

I answer to Moose for the most part.
So after two months of doing fuckall with this here dA account, I decided to do something and perhaps even upload some art.

"Holy shit, Moose is artistically gifted? o:"

To a degree, yes. I am a decent artist with pencils, I can sketch some cool stuff up; I do some nature photography, and I can make some cool shit with Paint.NET. I'm also not a terrible writer and I've always wanted to write some kind of short-story fiction.

Anyway, I'm your average silly Internet bum, I browse and end up here and there; stay for a while and then take my leave.

There isn't a whole lot to know about me. I live in central bum-fucked Virginia. An old civil-war era brick house surrounded by woods off Route 17 is where I currently call home. My winter months are mostly filled with studying and whatnot, hunting, poking around in the woods, shooting skeet, all that hillbilly shit. :n

But in my spare time, I work as an appraiser with my father's appraisal business. It's decent work. I'm also getting into programming here soon, hopefully and I'll be putting together a rather kickass build for gaming mostly. Since this old '07 HP is heading straight to shitsville, I hope business pulls out to make way for my computer. Didn't have far to go since I mistreated it before I became the somewhat of a computer power-user I am now. But it's held up through all the neglect.

Other than all that, I enjoy several other pastimes and hobbies. I like to cook, and I wouldn't mind getting into wood and metal working some day. I am somewhat of a pyromaniac, I've nearly killed myself before dicking around with compressed air and fire. I like to read nonfiction books for the most part. I fish in rivers and ponds around my area for your average bottom-feeders: croaker, spot, perch, etc. I also enjoy taking charters and fishing the Gulf Stream out in the south-east Atlantic. Hoping to get together a trip to Argentina for some bird hunting and perhaps fishing. And maybe one day I'll learn the guitar if money holds out for lessons and a decent electric guitar. I am looking into wrestling or Judo, possibly kickboxing and Kenjutsu.

No surprise here, but I do lean to the right-wing more than the left. I do have great respect for my country and all the men and women who serve to protect it and of course the underpaid blue-collar workers that shed their sweat so they can keep us going and then be paid fuckall by the big man in the high-rise. But generally I want the fellow in office who won't send everything on a clusterfuck to a trainwreck in hell. There haven't been many since Regan. u:

I may seem hard on the outside, but I am a pretty accepting fellow really. Unless you really do something to piss me off, I'll be happy to forgive and forget. I try not to judge to the best of my ability, but I am only but human. I can be a different person on the inside despite my placid exterior. On the inside, I am a rather cold yet emotional person with many insecurities. I am elitist, arrogant, and borderline cynical. But through all these personal short-comings I walk the path of atonement. I've done enough subtle evil in my relatively short life, and I will not let that overcome me. One day I hope to not be a changed man, but a man at peace. For right now, I rather despise how I act. Somewhere in the mild melancholy pessimism and realism, I killed myself on the inside. For a long time I couldn't deal with my surroundings. So I filled myself with this cynical elitism, arrogance, and personality complexes. I still think hey great fucking move dumbass, but I am caught in my ways. Through a spiritual journey through time and space and some traditional Buddhist Zen techniques, this should be accomplished some time in the next thirty years. :v

But enough with all this rambling depressing stuff, I've opened myself up to people over the Internet too many times anyway.

So you may either be saying "God damn, that Moose must have all the ladies after him!" or "Haha, this jackass needs to get a fucking life." If you thought either, you are correct. Maybe one day I will become more social, but now I go to relatively few parties, am single, and only socialize within my town and school for the most part.

As for TV, I don't watch much of it. I usually watch horror movies, comedies, King of the Hill, The Simpsons, the news, or documentaries when DirecTV isn't down due to a storm.

I am somewhat of a survivalist gun-nut. I know my fare share about wilderness survival and am preparing for the inevitable zombie apocalypse with my summer job funds. :v

I am quite the paranoid conspiracy theorist. There is a Slender man and the government may or may not have anything to do with it. :u
If you want me to bombard you with crazy conspiracy theories, I'd be more than glad to ramble. :3

Now let me actually talk about my interests. I listen to a whole fuckton of well-known and obscure genres and sub-genres of music. I tend to favor old country, jazz, soul, doom metal, progressive metal, some death metal, stoner metal, heavy metal, classic rock, vintage music like Tennessee Ernie Ford, alternative metal and rock, and then there is some far-out shit that I don't classify in any of these. Namely Goblin Cock and Primus. Both somewhat obscure, both rather far-out and awesome.

My favorite artists include but are not limited to: Johnny Cash, Asleep at the Wheel, The Highwaymen, Grateful Dead, Boston, Led Zeppelin, The White Striped, Primus, Ted Nugent, Blue Öyster Cult, Iron Maiden, Electric Light Orchestra, Tennessee Ernie Ford, James Brown, The Temptations, John Prine, Little Feat, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Goblin Cock, Candlemass, and many others.

I am a console gamer and a PC gamer. I enjoy PC gaming over console gaming however. I am rather Internet-savvy as I am active on most of my instant messenger accounts, the Facepunch Studios forums, and several other forums.

Some of my favorite games fall under RTS, RPG, FPS, and racing sims for the most part.
They include: The first decade of Command and Conquer games, Red Faction Guerrilla, Midnight Club: Los Angelas, Sins of a Solar Empire, Rise of Nations Gold, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and the sequel, Fallout 3 (I also have played Fallout, but not far enough to draw an opinion), and many others.
Well, that's about all there is you want to know about another one-in-a-billion Internetist. And probably a lot you didn't want to know.

And one last thing, if you don't like me or what I stand for, either try and debate it with me or just don't bother. I'm always up for a good debate. But don't try to come on here and insult me, I've been arguing since I started talking. Not to mention I spent a lot of my time on forums as a troll. Either way, you'll get your e-peen tied into a pretzel if you think you're going to come on here and attack me.

As to not end in hostility, let me give you all a tl;dr summary.

I live in bum-fucked Egypt, have many hobbies, listen to lots of different genres of music and am somewhat of an artist. That is probably all you care to hear regardless.

So I hope you enjoyed reading some nutty right-wing conspiracy theorist's life story, if not, get bent. I didn't ask you to read this. Peace and love bros. :3

And my third or fourth finishing statement (lost track halfway through), I'm sorry for the highly unorganized and clusterfucked outline and nature of all this mess. :n