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I am a nerd, and no one of reasonable intelligence could convincingly dispute my claim on that title.
I can directly trace my nerdiness back through those categories, too.
Controller S for Xbox looks good on a leather jacket.
Maybe I’ll discover I was far from the only one to tread a similar road to nerdom.
I shudder to think how many countless hours I poured into those games.
Of course, that was just the beginning.
The final piece of the puzzle came when I received my very first proper smartphone, theNokia Lumia 520.
It was absolutely a budget machine, but it kickstarted my love of technology.
Yes, that includes being an avid reader of Windows Central years before I joined the team.
I wasn’t thinking much of anything when the original Xbox was announced (I was smol), so I couldn’t have known how much it’d affect the trajectory of my life.
That was over five years ago.
I cover a lot more than just Minecraft now, of course.
I’m writing about it all, and I don’t plan to slow down any time soon.
I never did have the opportunity to see Van Halen live, but I still associate their music with my earliest gaming memories.
It’s my duty as a nerd.
From the Xbox 360 to Xbox One S to Xbox One X to Xbox Series X, I’ve spent a lot of time with Microsoft’s gaming platform.
The Surface Pro 4 got me through the door as a journalist. I certainly wasn’t playing anything more than Solitaire on it, though.
Here’s to the next 50 years of Microsoft and whatever comes next. Hopefully, it still includes Xbox.
