About

I…have many names, my real one being Wan Tung, though more people probably know me by BoswerLK (or Boswer Elkei). Actually, most of you probably know me as BowserLK. But that’s enough about the inherently dyslexia-inducing nature of my alias, since presumably, you’re on this page because you want to know more about this blog and its writer.

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Well, I grew up going to smart people schools and was quickly bored by the mundanity and relative impracticality of high level academic work. Not that I don’t think education is important, but I really just don’t care about finding derivatives or cracking number matrixes. So instead, I grew up with every intention of being a chef, since I found cooking interesting. Unfortunately, I’m chinese, which means I have chinese parents. They saw it fit to send me to a business college, except that was agonizingly boring and incredibly offensive to my moral fibers. Thus, I ended up majoring in I/O psychology and minoring in philosophy. In a business college. You probably have no idea what I/O is, and that’s because the job market for it is on the verge of extinction as I type (it’s probably all dead by the time you read this).

So, I have a fairly useless college degree, but realized I had a wide array of uncommon skills and abilities that I could exploit. I was a professional gamer for a short time but realized that there’s no money in it. Then I had a shot at being a professional poker player (microstakes Bodog players from around 2006 probably remember me. After all, you cowards ran away from every table I sat down on like I was passing out herpes or something), but in 2010, that turned sour. Plus, it was boring.

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This then, is my latest attempt at making ends meet. What you’re reading is my work portfolio for becoming a journalist/writer/reviewer guy. Here, I will analyze games, movies, MMA events, and whatever else that I find either particularly awesome that I wish all the world to share in its greatness, or things that I find are best avoided as if it were the plague. I really do enjoy video games and movies and entertainment in general, and I hope that you readers will find good entertainment through and within the pages of my writing.

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Oh, and by the way, if you’re particularly well off and enjoy my work, I will gladly alleviate you of a few digits off your bank account. Rest assured that it will go towards a good cause (sustaining me so I can keep writing, mostly. Or to buy a new game system so I can write some more. Amounts to the same thing to you guys really). You can find the paypal donate button on the bottom right of any page. Please note that there’s a fee for using credit/debit cards, but I’m sure most of you that are familiar with paypal use the free electronic transfer feature and those of you that don’t probably wouldn’t wanna be bothered with setting an account up to give some random internet guy free money, so I’ll just leave it at that.

If you feel like screwing paypal over and give more money to me instead, you can also send money to boswerlk@hotmail.com as a gift, and then I wouldn’t have to pay a merchant’s fee. Don’t tell them I said that.

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Alternatively, you could just pester IGN, Gamespot, Sherdog, or whatever your favorite mainstream website who normally writes these sorts of things is and tell them how awesome I am and how they should give me money to grace their sites with my wordological finesse.

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-Wan “BoswerLK” Tung

4 thoughts on “About

  1. Annie T

    Hi Boswerlk:

    Interesting introduction. Looking forward to see your reviews. I am particulary interested in movies.

    Keep writing!!

    Annie =D

  2. Wow, our backgrounds are really quite similar.

    Psyc degree: Check. (I am sort of using mine though. Polysomnography).

    Minor in Phil: Half Check. (I was on the way to doing so but grew tired of it. Sometimes wish I had not)

    Writer/Reviewer Aspirations: Check.

    I’d mention the gaming thing but that’s ubiquitious at this point.

    I hold a writing position at an upstart gaming website:

    http://www.gameronfire.com

    Perhaps you’d be interested in applying?

    It’s slow going right now (reaaaaly slow) and there’s nomoney in it, at least not yet, but what there is, is experience, recognition, hits, establishing yourself, etc etc

    1. kotaku is actually offering an unpaid internship. I’m not sure if they still are, but you guys might wanna consider jumping ship to that instead. kotaku’s one of my main sources for gaming scoops, so I’m not sure what I could contribute if I do join

      still, I’d imagine it’d look better on a resume than working for a new site. the latter would only be a good option if you’re planning to commit to it

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