ChaosD1

ChaosD1
Real Name	Jonathan Burkhardt
Affiliation	Channel Awesome Blistered Thumbs
Contributions	Site Blogger Mtn Dew Guy Wiki Staff MMO Grinder
Website	http://www.TGWTG.com

Born June 22, 1980 in Illinois

Currently living in Delaware.

Also goes by the usernames, "Chaos", "ChaosD1", "Chaos the Dark One", and "Lord Chaos". He's more often referred to by his real nickname, "Jon".

He's also known on the site by the more horrible nicknames forced upon him by Phelous:

• D1
• Mtn Dew Guy
• Join
• Total Chapos

The name "ChaosD1" was created as a shortened version of his original pseudonym "Chaos the Dark One". As for where THAT came from, is anyone's guess. It just came into his mind one day, and he thought it sounded cool. Nowadays, he thinks it sounds corny, and mostly goes by the shortened versions.

Biography

Originally starting out his internet presence in 1997 as a moderator on South Park forums, and playing Starcraft on Battle.net, Chaos later ended up joining the Marine Corps, seeing places like Okinawa, Korea, Tinian, and taking part in Operation: Iraqi Freedom in Kuwait. Upon his return, he stayed around on the aforementioned South Park forums until getting into World of Warcraft and other online games.

He's spent most of his life playing video games as his hobby, and is, to a lesser extent, an anime fan. He enjoys writing, and hates speaking about himself in the third person.

Having lived in Illinois, Florida, California, Okinawa Japan, and technically Kuwait, he currently lives in Delaware because he's retarded. (Seriously, I hate this state.)

His Presence at Channel Awesome

While staving off imminent boredom one day, Chaos happened upon Welshy's channel and followed a link to this site. Yeah. That's about it. Truly a tale for the ages.

Although initially drawn to the site by Nostalgia Critic, he, like many others, decided to click on OTHER people's links for once.

His favorite shows on the site are Phelous's reviews, Film Brain's Bad Movie Beatdown (which he refers to as "my favorite internet show in which my name appears in the credits") MikeJ's Shameful Sequels and Press Start Adventures.

Before the Arcade was removed from the site, (updated as of Tuesday, June 16th 2009) ChaosD1 topped the leaderboard in the TGWTG Arcade and has held the position for several months. Apparently being unemployed for several months does wonders for one's flash game skills. This earned him the name "The Arcade Whore" by Admin Mike, a nickname recently ousted by "D1". His closest competition was Y Ruler of Time.

In the wiki, he has created nearly every page about the original TGWTG Arcade games. He couldn't give less of a shit about the current arcade. Shit's broke, man.

He's been too busy working on his horrible videos to update of maintain the wiki, but he keeps in contact with the staff.

• User contributions

Videos

After doing a few text blogs, Chaos began his foray into video by doing cameos for people's videos here and there, appearing in Rabbi's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trailer and review, A few episodes of Sad Panda Q&A and the WikiTeam's 2 Year Anniversary video where he played "Not Film Brain" and "reviewed" The Invention of Lying.

Since he had edited the 2 year video, he decided to finally start something for himself and began work on his first video, reviewing the three flavors of the Mountain Dew 2010 DEWmocracy. This earned him the unfortunate nickname of "Mtn Dew Guy" granted by Phelous. Although he has done a few reviews so far, there's no real central theme to his videos... yet.

Chaos Reviews

Campaigning for the DEWmocracy (featured as an ABotW)

Chaos Reviews: Castlevania Judgment

Chaos Reviews: Sword of the Berserk

Chaos Reviews: LIMBO

Chaos Reviews: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World the Game (featured as an ABotW)

Chaos Reviews: Paranormal State

World of Warcraft Broadcast

Chaos appeared every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, at 9 PM EST (8 PM Central) playing World of Warcraft alongside MarzGurl, Cferra, Andrew, and "SheepwithBlogs", on a LiveStream broadcast. He plays as the Blood Elf Mage, "Snuggernaut". His primary group role is to set everything on fire, yell at Cferra and Andy's pet, and be a deadpan, sarcastic asshole. The broadcast is currently on hiatus, but Chaos plans to eventually do his own version once he gives enough of a shit.

Articles

After posting up a few non-themed "test blogs", Chaos began a more serious themed series with "Unsung RPGs" in which he highlights some of the overshadowed RPGs of the years gone by, and the current day. Later he was "inspired" by the reaction to Film Brain's Equilibrium review, and posted two snarky "guides" to site etiquette. While one guide was featured in Best of Blogs many site users feel both entries should be placed in the FAQ section (if the article's comments are to be believed).

Unsung RPGs

Thousand Arms (featured as an Awesome Blog of the Week)

Legend of Legaia (featured in Best of Blogs)

Persona 2: Eternal Punishment (featured in Best of Blogs) (...Christ, I'm on a roll....)

Grandia 2 (C-c-c-c-combo breaker!)

Chaos's Guides

Chaos's Guide to Commenting on TGWTG (featured in Best of Blogs)

Chaos's Guide to Constructive Criticism

External Links

ChaosD1's TGWTG Profile Page

Wilmington Video Game Examiner Link