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| − | == Introduction to gaming ==
| + | Ryan joined [[The Elite]] in January 2003, debuting on the [[Perfect Dark]] rankings with a rank of 167. Throughout 2003, Ryan played Perfect Dark continuously, working his way up the rankings before overthrowing [[Karl_Jobst|Karl]] for the championship in December that year. Ryan continued playing through 2004 and 2005. |
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| − | Ryan played a Nintendo 64 for the first time at a friend's place in 1997, when he was 10 years old. The game was [[GoldenEye 007|GoldenEye]], which had just been released. From that moment on, Ryan started saving his pocket money for a Nintendo 64 of his own. When he eventually had enough money, he purchased his Nintendo 64 for $187AU. This occurred while Ryan was living in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore%2C_Queensland Theodore], a small country town in Central Queensland, Australia. | + | Ryan bought a tuner card solely so he could make videos for [[The Elite]]. He's accepted tapes from other players and captured them. This includes players from the TS2 and MK64 communities. Ryan has performed acts of kindness towards other Elite members, including buying a VCR and mailing it to [[Wouter_Jansen|Wouter]] and buying a PAL N64 and mailing it to [[Shade]]. |
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| − | Ryan had his Nintendo 64 for a few years before he purchased GoldenEye or Perfect Dark. See the [[#Game List|Game List]] for the list of games he owned. During this time, Ryan's family moved to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nambour Nambour] (South East Queensland, Australia). His parents split up in July 2000, when Ryan was 13 years old. His father moved to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_Hill Broken Hill], New South Wales, Australia, however Ryan stayed in Nambour with his mother because of friends, school, and fact that Broken Hill is a very small town in the middle of nowhere. At this point in Ryan's life he had very little experience in computers.
| + | In May 2005, [[Bryan Youse]] gave up the task of updating the [[Perfect Dark]] and [[GoldenEye]] rankings. Ryan's experience in computers and programming, combined with his reliability and troubleshooting skills made him the perfect candidate for the Elite's updater. He consequently took over the reigns, updating ritually twice a week and fixing rankings issues until January 1 2008 when he was succeeded by [[Octo]]. |
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| − | Ryan finished primary school and thus had to go to another school for grade 8 onwards. He mixed with new friends there, and started to form a deeper understanding of the Windows operating system, as well as computer hardware in general. In Grade 10 (2002), Ryan's IT class at school did basic HTML for a term. While the class itself taught invalid and deprecated HTML, Ryan developed an interest and started to advance his knowledge on web design using tutorials on the Internet. This was a constant, slow process which happened gradually over the course of three years. | + | In late 2011, Ryan decided to invest his time in creating a new rankings system for The Elite. It was kept a secret from the community and only revealed to a few staff members for ideas and feedback. Ryan spent almost every weeknight and weekend working on the rankings for two months before launching them publicly in December 2011. Ryan continues to improve the rankings, adding new features at the request of community members. |
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| − | == Introduction to the Elite ==
| + | In 2012, Ryan discovered a way to skip the lasers on [[Investigation]] and posted it on the forums. This is considered the "holy grail" of [[Perfect Dark]] strategies. Laser skipping has been discussed ever since the early days in 2000. |
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| − | Ryan frequently searched the Internet in search of cheats for his games. In October 2002, one particular search brought him to the [http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/n64/game/198275.html Perfect Dark FAQ List] on [[GameFAQs]]. He read some of the posts on the Perfect Dark message board at GameFAQs from users such as [[Jim_Barrett|Jimbo007]] and [[KillerSim|KillerSim7]]. Some of these users had links to their times pages in their signatures. After viewing their pages, Ryan concluded that speedrunning these games was cool. He quickly found [[The Elite]], which was linked from their times pages. He downloaded videos from the PD Fastest Videos page (ableit slowly, using dialup). Ryan had his mind set that he would eventually become first on the rankings. He knew he could do it. But he was shy, as he'd never joined an Internet community before. | + | Ryan continues to monitor the forums, implement rankings features and provide assistance to [[The Elite]] members. |
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| − | == Your Eliteness: The Name == | + | == External Links == |
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| − | On October 22, 2002, Ryan was attempting to register a username on [[GameFAQs]]. He was choosing usernames which indicated success at Perfect Dark (eg. PD King), but they kept getting denied as they were already taken. Ryan realised his alias shouldn't be related to Perfect Dark, as he may want to post in other games and boards in the future. Eventually, he settled for the username "Your Eliteness". It was meant to be read as ''someone who is elite'', much like "Your Royalness" means ''someone who is royal''. Instead, it was read as ''my eliteness'', which doesn't make sense at all. But the name was chosen, and it stuck.
| + | * [http://rankings.the-elite.net/ The Elite Rankings] (developed by Ryan) |
| | + | * [http://rankings.the-elite.net/~Your+Eliteness/perfect-dark Ryan's Perfect Dark Times] |
| | + | * [http://pdwrs.free.fr/players.php?player=ryan_dwyer Ryan's Perfect Dark World Records] |
| | + | * [http://rankings.the-elite.net/~Your+Eliteness/goldeneye Ryan's GoldenEye Times] |
| | + | * [http://thengamer.com/xstats/elite/ranks.php?name=YE Ryan's Elite Contest History] |
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| − | Ryan currently wishes he could change his alias or drop it altogether, but this is not an option after all the success and fame it has received.
| + | {{2013 Elite Summer Contest}} |
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| − | == From Zero to Hero ==
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| − | Ryan didn't start playing [[Perfect Dark]] for speed right away. He posted frequently on the Perfect Dark board at [[GameFAQs]], helping users with their problems. It wasn't until December, when Ryan started playing for speed due to boredom during the school holidays. It wasn't long before he was challenged by [[KillerSim|KillerSim7]] to join [[The Elite]]. Ryan made a times page and joined the rankings at 167th place (points) on January 3, 2003, at the age of 15 years. Throughout the course of 2003, Ryan used every spare moment he had to play [[Perfect Dark]].
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| − | On February 14, Ryan's house was broken into and over $1000AU worth of equipment was stolen. Ryan's entire collection of Nintendo 64 games was stolen, except for [[Perfect Dark]] which was still in the Nintendo 64 itself. Ryan also had a Gamecube at this point and three games for it: Burnout, Resident Evil (remake) and [[TimeSplitters 2]]. These were all stolen as well.
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| − | Ryan started to get the uncommon world records (ie. not [[DataDyne_Central:_Defection|Defection]]/[[The_Duel|Duel]]) around June - July. In August, Ryan paid [[Karl Jobst]] for his NTSC (American) console, and received it shortly after. He went on an NTSC rampage over the next few months, getting world records one after another. Ryan eventually passed [[Karl_Jobst|Karl]] on December 24 2003 (Australian time) to become the Perfect Dark Champion. This was a very exciting day for [[The Elite]], as [[Bryan Bosshardt]] passed [[Wouter Jansen]] to become the Champion of [[GoldenEye 007|GoldenEye]] just hours later.
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| − | == The Aftermath ==
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| − | Ryan kept playing in 2004, though his rate of playing started to decrease slowly. On June 12 2004, his mother made him move out to live with his father, for reasons completely unrelated to his gaming career (she said she ''"couldn't raise him like a father can"''). After moving, Ryan was without a computer for three months. His play rate took a severe hit. His computer was eventually shipped to him, but Ryan already had another interest in life: Web Design. In January 2005, Ryan started learning PHP, a server side scripting language. His skill in this field constantly grew.
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| − | His most notable works of PHP are:
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| − | * [http://youreliteness.thengamer.com/qdb/ The Elite Quote Database]
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| − | * [http://youreliteness.thengamer.com/forum/ Forums-o-pwn]
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| − | * [http://youreliteness.thengamer.com/gfusers/ The GameFAQs User Database]
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| − | Ryan still played [[Perfect Dark]] occasionally, with the low average of one new time per month.
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| − | == Reign as Updater ==
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| − | In May 2005, [[Bryan Youse]] gave up the task of updating the [[Perfect Dark]] and [[GoldenEye 007|GoldenEye]] rankings. Ryan took over the reigns, and still updates ritually twice a week to this day. Ryan's experience in computers and programming, combined with his reliability and troubleshooting skills make him the perfect candidate for the Elite's updater.
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| − | == WorldSkills ==
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| − | Ryan was invited to participate in the WorldSkills regional web design competition in late 2005. Ryan did so and won the competition. He moved on to the state gathering, which wasn't a competition but more of a compulsory practice for nationals. In May 2006, Ryan went to Melbourne, Victoria for the national competition and won silver. This made Ryan a temporary celebrity in the local paper, appearing as many as three times in a week, once on the front page.
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| − | * [http://www.worldskills.org.au/news_events/national_medal_results.php WorldSkills Medal Listing]
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| − | == Current Life ==
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| − | Life took a massive leap for Ryan in 2006. His father decided to move to a town even more remote than Broken Hill. Ryan decided not to go, and instead started renting a flat by himself at the age of 18. He currently has a job at a local electronics store, where he specialises in retail, web design, and administrating the ISP. He still plays Perfect Dark occasionally, but finds it difficult to get involved in the game like he was many years ago. And yes, he has friends.
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| − | Ryan still keeps a close eye on the Elite's message boards. He checks the [http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs/gentopic.php?board=198275 Perfect Dark board] at [[GameFAQs]] fairly regularly, although nowhere near as much as [http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs/gentopic.php?board=236 Web Design and Programming]. He is almost always online and in the Elite's chatroom.
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| − | == Summary ==
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| − | {| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5"
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| − | ! Date
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| − | ! Age
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| − | ! Event
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| − | | 1997
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| − | | 10
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| − | | Played Nintendo 64 for the first time
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| − | | 1998
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| − | | 11
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| − | | Purchased Nintendo 64
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| − | | Mid 1999
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| − | | 12
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| − | | Moved to Nambour
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| − | | February 2000
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| − | | 12
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| − | | Developed an interest in computers
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| − | | July 2000
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| − | | 13
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| − | | Parents divorced, father moved away
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| − | | February 2002
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| − | | 14
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| − | | Developed an interest in web design
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| − | | October 2002
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| − | | 15
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| − | | Registered "Your Eliteness" at [[GameFAQs]]
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| − | | January 2003
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| − | | 15
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| − | | Joined the [[Perfect Dark]] rankings
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| − | |-
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| − | | February 2003
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| − | | 15
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| − | | House broken into, games stolen
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| − | | August 2003
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| − | | 16
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| − | | Received the NTSC console and game
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| − | | December 2003
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| − | | 16
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| − | | Became the [[Perfect Dark]] Champion
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| − | | June 2004
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| − | | 17
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| − | | Moved to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_Hill Broken Hill] to live with father
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| − | | January 2005
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| − | | 17
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| − | | Started learning PHP at an incredible speed
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| − | | May 2005
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| − | | 17
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| − | | Became the rankings updater
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| − | | September 2005
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| − | | 18
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| − | | Started work at local electronics store
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| − | | January 2006
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| − | | 18
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| − | | Started living by himself
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| − | | May 2006
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| − | | 18
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| − | | Won silver at WorldSkills national competition
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| − | == Game List ==
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| − | In order of purchase:
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| − | # Banjo-Kazooie
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| − | # Dual Heroes
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| − | # Super Mario 64
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| − | # Lylat Wars (Star Fox 64)
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| − | # The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
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| − | # Donkey Kong 64
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| − | # Diddy Kong Racing
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| − | # Mario Kart 64
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| − | # Mario Party
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| − | # GoldenEye 007
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| − | # Banjo-Tooie
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| − | # The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
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| − | # Perfect Dark
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| − | # ???
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| − | # ???
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| − | # ???
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| − | # ???
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| − | It is unknown in which order these games were purchased:
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| − | * ECW Hardcore Revolution
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| − | * Gex 3: Deep Cover Gecko
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| − | * Shadowgate 64: Trials of the Four Towers
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| − | * The World Is Not Enough
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| − | * Turok 2: Seeds of Evil
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| − | * Twisted Edge Extreme Snowboarding
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| − | * Winback: Covert Operations
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| − | == Contact Information ==
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| − | * AIM: YourElitenessPD
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| − | * Email: [mailto:YourEliteness@gmail.com YourEliteness@gmail.com]
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