Hey, hi, hello, it's me. Samsara. I'm very bad at talking about myself!

It's currently extra skippable because I haven't felt like rewriting this part yet!

I've been on TASVideos for over half of my life, joining in November 2006 as a dumbass 16 year old, but only starting to TAS consistently in 2014 as a dumbass 24 year old. I became a Judge in October 2015 before stepping down in November 2016 after my personal life bashed me over the head with a sledgehammer. I had a meltdown and got banned left willingly and completely on my own so I could recover, returning three years later on July 10th, 2020 to a somehow warm and welcoming reception despite... everything. I returned to judging exactly one month later, on August 10th, 2020, then proceeded to change basically everything I didn't like about the site through sheer determination, force of will, and also many many other people also didn't like those things so I didn't actually have any opposition. I then became Senior Judge on January 1st, 2022, the same day we premiered the revamped site, and became the third Admin on April 23rd, 2023.

As of roughly June 2024, I've been on an indefinite forced hiatus acting as a full-time caretaker to an ailing family member, having little time, energy, or happiness to spare for TASVideos. Needless to say, my personal life has decided the sledgehammer wasn't enough and upped the head trauma game to the cerebral bore from Turok 2. I haven't left the site completely, I still lurk as often as I can and try to handle things as they reach me, but I'm far more limited now than I was when I was keeping a steady streak of getting promoted every year and a half. Hopefully things will get better for me soon. I miss being around.

I tend to do games that catch my attention in some way. I've done a few games from my childhood, but most of what I do tends to be obscure, but interesting games that often don't make it overseas. I have a soft spot for games considered "weird", "bad", or even "downright terrible". I like challenging myself with complicated TASes at times as well.

My personal philosophy towards TASing is that the barrier to entry should always remain low. I've maintained for close to a decade now that the only "skills" or "tools" required to create a quality TAS are patience and Google; i.e, the ability to find information and the time it takes to implement it. It pains me a little to see others present TASing as requiring more than that, whether it be people outside of the loop mistakenly thinking it's more complicated than it actually is, or worse, longtime TASers trying to convince newcomers that they're required to learn and use every possible tool at their disposal. warmCabin said it best: You shouldn't need a degree in computer science to get into this hobby.

This list hasn't been updated in years, someone remind me to do that when I'm free.

Move to the new site broke this section! Will be remaking someday!