Hey there. I’m TheMarauder, AKA Random Dave, also known as Dave Kratky. It’s a pleasure to make your acquaintance.<\/p>\n
I was born in the mid 1970s and grew up on a farm just north of a little town in southern Ontario, Canada called Grand Valley.\u00a0 Thanks to forward looking parents I grew up with computers and was about the biggest nerd you could imagine through high school.<\/p>\n
I ran a Bulletin Board System (BBS) called AOU (The Ash Ock Underground) for quite a few years in Toronto then Grand Valley and from that co-founded a computer store in 1996 called VAM Computers<\/a> that’s still running today. I used to game.. well, constantly and held a few large LAN events in Orangeville under the FRAGtopia banner. Most of my writing was done on the old FRAGtopia reviews and news site, which I ran from 1999-2014.\u00a0 It’s been taken down, but you can find the Way Back Machine site here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Back in the day I did quite a lot of computer artwork starting with Deluxe Paint on the Amiga in 1989 and moving onto PC around 1993. I switched to Bryce and Photoshop in the early 2000s. Most of my older works can be found on the old website which you can access by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n These days I’m living in Wasaga Beach Ontario. While I still own the computer store, I’m doing IT full time for an engineering firm. I don’t have nearly the time to play paintball, game, write or do artwork that I used to so that stuff has fallen by the wayside for the most part. That’s what happens when you grow up and have responsibilities and it’s all good.<\/p>\n Enjoy your visit to the site! Feel free to take anything that you like but if you use it somewhere please give me credit and drop me a line to let me know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hey there. I’m TheMarauder, AKA Random Dave, also known as Dave Kratky. It’s a pleasure to make your acquaintance. I was born in the mid 1970s and grew up on a farm just north of a little town in southern Ontario, Canada called Grand Valley.\u00a0 Thanks to forward looking parents I grew up with computers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/planetmarauder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/planetmarauder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/planetmarauder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planetmarauder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planetmarauder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/planetmarauder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":426,"href":"http:\/\/planetmarauder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43\/revisions\/426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/planetmarauder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}