Heyo, I'm MrMallard. I've been online for about 13 years, and while I've missed some of the bigger fads (YTMND and SomethingAwful, for example), I've been around for a good while. I think my first bonafide online community was Newgrounds, though I was like 11/12 at the time and my posting history is garbage - after the site updated in like 2006, my computer was too crappy to run it (lmao) so I abandoned ship and started bouncing from community to community.

MrMallard as a username got its start at an anime chatroom I used to frequent. It used to have a 5 point warning system for swearing, speaking in ALL CAPS, stuff like that, and once those five points were used up you were banned for the day. I think it was an IP ban that rolled over at the end of the day, but I had dial-up at the time which let me log back in under a different IP or something - so I would make up stupid fake names, go back to the chatroom and not get banned.

Mr. Mallard was a random throwaway name I made up to get back in one day, and it just sort of... stuck. It took a while to get there, though - I was 15 when I first used it as an actual account name. That account turns 8 years old this October, so it's stood the test of time. 

I'm Australian, not from Sydney or anywhere major though. My main hobby is video games, though I get a lot of time in with technology in general - I wouldn't be making a Geocities website if I wasn't a goddamn nerd.

Might as well throw some lists into the mix to pad this page out:

Favorite games:

• Ridge Racer (PSP)
• Rayman Legends
• Borderlands
• Final Fantasy series:
  • V
  • IX
  • X
  • X-2
  • XIII-2 (because if they were gonna turn XIII into a series, they could have done a worse job than this game)
• Mass Effect series

Favorite bands/music:

• The Mountain Goats
• The Weakerthans
• Counting Crows
• David Bowie