Dan Landis, Contributor (Raleigh)

Dan Landis grew up in South-Central Pennsylvania, in a little town called York. Yes, just like the peppermint patties. He attended Northeastern High School and graduated on time. He lived in the same house his whole life until he joined the Army at the tender age of 18. His house was coincidentally destroyed just a few months later by a calamitous young girl in a huge pick-up truck.

During his 4-year military career, he spent a year living in tents on the moutaintops of Korea, carefully analyzing and reporting the communications of the North Koreans along the Demilitarized Zone. He then moved to Germany and spent his remaining time in a triple-reinforced building surrounded by giant golf balls (the official story was that there was a McDonald’s inside one of them), and working with the NSA. He moved his girlfriend, Tami, over to live with him, and they took a trip to Denmark in 2001 to get married.

Dan separated from the Army in 2003 after being medically discharged due to crippling migraines. He moved back to Pennsylvania to live with his in-laws until he and his wife decided what to do with their lives. Since that time, he has excelled at being a massive drain on the economy and a heavy burden for his wife and family. Tami, his wife, then joined the Air Force in 2005, at which time Dan moved to live with her in North Carolina. They had a son, Gideon, in April of 2007. They currently live in on-base family housing with their dogs, Charlie and Ludwig.

Dan is a stay-at-home father and spends his non-baby-watching hours toiling away on the Interwebs and playing videogames. He’s been a gamer since he was 5 years old, and his first console was the Intellivision, which he sadly spilled cereal on and ruined. Since then, he has owned an NES, SNES, N64, Playstation, Dreamcast, PS2, Xbox, Gamecube, and now a 360. He has also owned all Gameboys, as well as the DS. Dan does not yet own a Wii or PS3, but maybe the kind people at ripten will buy them for him so he appears more objective.

Dan enjoys most genres, with the exception of sports. He’s very un-manly like that. His favorites include RPG’s, strategy, action/adventure, and various forms of shooty games. He also likes whatever genre you want to call Crackdown/GTA and the like - sandbox doesn’t cut it. He also thinks boobies are “pretty neat”.

Dan uses his keen eye, daft wit, and massively awesome analytical skills to conquer his gaming foes and destroy articles on Ripten.