"I was otherwise very normal before I became 4 years old"

How short of shorts can I get away with at PFfest?

You'll need a plugin to play spc files, of course.

I found a post where he even gives the password for the level he's talking about. There is no track actually called "Out Where The Lake Is", he made that up, according to his post here:
http://www.gimptalk.com/forum/topic/Music-2522-1.html

"Out Where the Lake Is", as I call it (from chapter 10 on "Bubsy in: Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind" (passcode MSFCTS)), is my all-time top favorite song, of which, during the 12 years I've had it, I've listened to it anywhere from 900,000 to 1,200,000 times.

Try that password when you get home, and we can figure out which track he means.
(Yes, I did some googling. I'm genuinely curious about this song!)

It's a generic bluegrass type song. The SNES version has synth banjo and fiddle, but the Genesis version the Ulillillia guy is obsessed with is a bit more primitive - just your basic midi sounds.

having said that, the nintendo bluegrass is pretty sweet. not sure i'd want to listen to it 1,200,000 times though.

Originally coming with Eternal Champions, a game I dislike, the Sega Genesis system itself didn't seem exciting. Then, along comes Bubsy. For days on end, I'd be playing "Bubsy in: Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind". This was my top favorite game of all time. It's the only game that I know of from this time where the screen can scroll at even 95 pixels per frame (causing the background to move nearly 3 pixels per frame able to go from the top of the level to the very bottom in just a half of a second).

It's waaaay shittier, but it's obviously the one he's referring to. The Genesis Bubsy Soundtrack ("Bluegrass Bobcat" is track six) and the plugin to play it.

wtf dude

I donno I found this site fascinating. I think aspects of it are definitely depressing, because it does seem like he's not been properly cared for, but what can you do in a case like that? He's written so much in so much detail that it really gives you more insight into autism than reading some reference book on it...its a window into his, uh, 'mind game.'

I would actually like to try these videogames he's working on if he ever finishes them and puts them online.
And then there's the part where he talks bout wanting to make his own music loops...

Did anything happen to him on June 13th?

However, his "index" is more of a table of contents than an actual index.

Lord in heaven, I need to leave the library for the day.

About him being happy, though. I thought I read somewhere on his site him mentioning that he feels his existance is pretty bleak, and him also speculating about the (possible) light at the end of his tunnel. I can't find that part now, but I was sure I read that.

He's an otaku. In Japan they've become fashionable and sexy to girls following a hit manga, novel, TV series and feature film called Densha Otoko: Train Man. He sounds like the kind of guy who should move to Japan -- for the games, the trains, and the girls. His cockpit-style living space is also very Japanese.

"The purpose of the nose is to smell, right? My nose doesn't seem to be able to pick up most anything besides smoke where I'm extremely sensitive to. My parents once bought chicken from KFC. They can smell the chicken from even ten feet away. I, who was holding it, couldn't smell it from even a foot away! If a dog's sense of smell was 10,000,000 units, as an example to compare, the average human would get about 2000 units (smell masters would get more around 4000 units). My nose seems to output more around 80 units, a tiny fraction that of normal. My nose, to conclude, has almost no use, but has a lot of strong negatives to simply having it."

Err, he's autistic. There is a huge difference. He's not just some socially inept nerd who keeps to himself. He is biologically lacking the ability to empathise with other human beings.

I'm just picturing you in a surgeon's gown, rummaging through his brain with a scapel and saying "Nope, there's definitely no empathy here."

http://www.ulillillia.us/gamedesign/supernaturalolympics/download.shtml

marmot otm

He needs ILM!

1.4 Food and drink tips 'n' tricks
1.4.1 Bottled soda trick - Do you keep spilling your soda because the bubbles churned up? This trick will nearly, if not always prevent it from happening again.
1.4.2 Fat Removal trick - This trick will teach you how to eliminate your meat and pizza fat content by up to 98%.
1.4.3 Meat trick - Want juicy meats? This trick will help you get the juiciest meat possible with a special cost though.

1.5 General tips 'n' tricks
1.5.1 Bug trick - Have bugs like moths and flies buzzin' around your house? Don't have a fly swatter to get them with? This trick will help you understand their weaknesses so you can fight them better.
1.5.2 Days in month trick - Can't tell which months have 30 or 31 days without looking at a calendar? This trick will help with that.
1.5.3 Minesweeper game guide - Can't figure out Minesweeper on Windows? This guide will help you win with a high chance [includes a tutorial game!]!
1.5.4 Mowing speed-up - Does mowing that tall grass or your yard take too long? I have a way to reduce the need for it and still keep those engine RPMs high.
1.5.5 Creating custom jigsaw puzzles - Would you like a custom jigsaw puzzle with your own image? This trick tells you how.
1.5.6 Determining jigsaw puzzle difficulty - Did you know that the number of pieces in a puzzle isn't the primary factor in determining difficulty? This tip explains why.

After reading "My Annoying Nose," which Momus posted, I e-mailed him about my similar problem & let him know it was called anosmia. That was really important to me when I found out. I would be reluctant to diagnose him with anything else, however.

Nick pwns Bubsy 3D:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pYQGASnFWg

skillz.

i know this guy.

oh snap he narrated this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25bjSoyXlw0

xpost! I just came here to say that. He has a wonderful accent which doesn't sound at all like I expected. If he'd just enunciate a little more he could make good money reading kids' stories (uh, until one of the dreaded words came up).

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Hey, you've got a great voice for gaming-tips narration -- reminds me of William Burroughs, but much younger sounding.

OTM, especially like where he says "bad graphics"

Ha, I didn't see that. I nearly mentioned Burroughs myself but thought better of it in case I showed great ignorance of American accents, not being from over there.

Nah, definite similarity, and I've listened to tons of Burroughs readings. I don't think there are any recordings of WSB from before he was already in his 40s, so if you subtract age and add a touch of nasal tone, there you go.

I would totally listen to video game podcasts from this dude.

i know this guy.

-- andi, Monday, 6 August 2007 08:27 (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

So what's the deal?

What's with the youtube people and their "get a life" remarks? After all, THEY are watching the damn thing.

i love his 1-10 scale

This is the most bittersweet website.

His meat juiciness tip is surprising:

First off, this trick can ONLY be applied when you're shopping for meat. This particularly applied to a pot roast. When you go out to buy meat, look for the white stuff in the packages and feel it. When there's a lot of it and it's rather hard, the juicier it can be. There's one catch though you should be aware of [but it's rare]: it could have very little in the center, thus taking out the juice. This has worked 22 out of 23 times so far. The catch of this trick got to me, but looking at the chances of failure, it almost-always works.

I like his description of an accountant's job.

jesus, i just got lost in that site.

it was bad news for me this afternoon.

Love this site. It's addictive. Reminds me of my video-game-obsessed OCD childhood.

By "the white stuff" does he mean the fat? Cause thats a well known one, fat-marbeled meat being more tender.

"marbeled"? gah I cant spel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvOOwlNKFNY

lol @ shakey dissing a mentally disabled child on this thread

shakey your contemptuous pity for this guy is totally nauseating.

-- s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, July 28, 2006 6:02 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Link

good post

dood rode the short bus - clearly got some mental disability. I wouldn't call him articulate or intelligent.

-- Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, July 27, 2006 10:43 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Link

he's read two books in his ENTIRE LIFE.

-- Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, July 27, 2006 10:44 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Link

zing!

I wonder what Shakey would say if this dude died.

are you his best friend?

-- RJG (RJG), Saturday, July 29, 2006 5:40 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Link

I sent him the one email. He replied and seems like a nice enough guy. I'll probably post on his forum that will be for helping him find bugs in his videogame, which I was going to play anyway.

you are his best friend

-- RJG (RJG), Saturday, July 29, 2006 5:58 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Link

how're them glass houses workin in the summer guyz

I've heard that just preparing for a baby can cost upwards of $500 let alone having to feed the baby and other things while it grows up.

I just spent an hour on this guy's website, being totally captivated by it. It's several kinds of beautiful.

I just frowned all the way through that "incase you were wondering"

http://www.cooper.com/alan/homonym.html

Cooper's not so impressive, but the original guy... I find his site absolutely heartbreaking. And that Youtube clip directly above, omg, that's so sad. It's making me want to cry. I want to know the guy's name.

Man, I look around http://www.ulillillia.us/aboutme/home.shtml and I keep looking and then I think: "if this were a novel, it would be a complete fucking masterpiece, albeit an often boring one."

He's called Nick. Maybe he'd be my friend because I'm also called Nick. Even though I fucking hate computer games and what he does with sample rates and bitrates basically makes me feel ill.

I find the fact that he so rarely mentions his family more upsetting than the fact that they might have neglected him; he's not aware of them, seemingly, at all.

The stuff about the words 'people' and 'person' is almost unbearable.

All the stuff about lava and blue water I kind of did myself for about 5 minutes when I was 8, or whatever, but I was always 100% aware that it was a mental game (as distinct from Nick's "mind game") and not actually a problem. I really feel for this guy.

I know you're being sympathetic Nick but is there anything on his site to indicate he's especially unhappy with the person he is?

Not directly, but I think there are plenty of clues that suggest he's not happy; the "no transport" section for instance. He also mentions being bullied on several occasions in a definitely negative sense. I think largely he's not aware of the person he is... but at the same time, to make that site, he clearly is also VERY aware too.

I dunno. It's difficult, obviously; I don't think sympathy is condescension.

Yeah, I know, I was just doing my disability rights schtick. Guy certainly reads like he's got an Autism Spectrum Condition.

wow, after spending way too long today on his site i kind of want to go to north dakota and drive him to the goddamn Y so he can go for a swim.

I end up tuning into his way of thinking writing and it starts making too much sense.

Future plans:
I need to make banners to accompany my latest design. The banners, at the moment are from version 2.x or 3.x of my site and are from around 2002! They seriously need to be updated. Negative motive prevents me, but lately my motive has gotten fairly close to neutral.

^ this is me a work but without the "fairly close to neutral" :(

He seems quite happy (or at least acceptingly inquisitive) about the person he is, but very very far from satisfied with his home/life situation.

I find the fact that he so rarely mentions his family more upsetting than the fact that they might have neglected him; he's not aware of them, seemingly, at all.

I don't know, this starts off pretty normally, but then gets technical, as usual :-)

http://www.ulillillia.us/myblog/2009mar.shtml

"#19 My parents wanted and got a Wii - what the!?: Now this is something I find very strange. Neither of my parents play video games at all. Nope, they've never played Mario, Sonic, Final Fantasy, anything. But, suddenly, they were, during the Christmas time, looking desperately for a Wii but no one in town had one. I have no interest in the console at all solely because of the controller. I'd rather put up with the defective (weak buttons) controller for my Genesis to play Bubsy than use the Wii...."

Man Scik Mouthy I am with you 100%. This man and his site have stayed with me in a very tender way.

I read a lot of his site last night. His gifs are a riot:

http://www.ulillillia.us/images/theamazingrace.gif

Unlike most animated GIFs on the web where they rarely exceed 20 frames, these animations are far longer and far more complex than most anything you'll see on the web (You should see the spreadsheets I use for the planning.). Care for an animated GIF with, say, 3000 frames? 3000 frames is near my greatest potential and the longest one here has 3444 frames (3634 if not optimized)

His Major Issues section is really sad, especially the part about both parents encouraging him to seek employment as a janitor. Right beneath that, though, I love his note about the obstacles he faces in becoming a professional accountant: "I don't know what they are or what they do"

"I don't know what an accountant is. My parents have mentioned and suggested it a few times. The skill is unknown for this reason and compatibility is neutral (which is where things naturally start) for the same reason. This same reason applies to the limitations since I don't know much about it."

yeah abbott that's exactly how i feel about him.

the guy is obviously bright and despite his many limitations could probably be doing some good somewhere. i don't know if his parents are overwhelmed or disinterested or what but he has certainly not been put in a position to succeed. i'm def not one to bash areas of the country but north dakota has got to be pretty low on the list of places in the u.s. where he could function well.

that is as good enough a reason as any not to be an accountant. he should actually become a career counselor. (xpost)

I hope one day John D. will write a song named "Talkboy tape recorder triples the variety"

This man and his site have stayed with me in a very tender way.

Me too. His new photo is hitting that tender place even harder, too. The old photo was a dark blurry pic of a startled-eyed hairy overgrown kid crouched over a computer. The new picture is of a skinny indie-looking geek dude who looks a lot like an old friend of mine. I hope it's just the resemblance which is kicking me in the gut, and not just some kneejerk expectation that a guy who writes like this must look obviously other somehow, but... not sure.

I was hoping the vacation picture + not many updates recently meant he'd turned his life around a little, but the blog suggests things are much the same.

Sorry to double-post, but another friend of mine was a super-bright programmer but became schizophrenic. He's now largely unemployable but works on 3d graphics programming unpaid all day and all night. A very different condition, though, and my friend is lucky enough to have supportive family and govt assistance funding his place in live-in communal youth healthcare schemes which have seemed a really positive influence for him.

But this friend has a dream of having a company to round up all the IT geeks who've burnt out in one way or another and finding some kind of work scheme for them to use their skills which are being wasted now, so they can be made to feel (and be!) productive but have their mental health issues understood/supported/worked around too. A pipe dream, of course, but I just wished a little harder something like that could happen.

"I was otherwise very normal before I became 4 years old"

^^^ should be ilm board description.

This site is pretty poignant. From a computer game geek perspective the fact that he's obsessed with a game as shit as Bubsy on the Genesis adds to the poignancy.

I too really wonder about the level of his parents' involvement. There was a recent post about finally fixing a square foot hole in sheet after dealing with it for months and months.

I know I come off like a dick on this thread but... this guy's life and story still seem pretty depressing. he sounds pretty bored and frustrated and cut off from the rest of humanity in a fairly bleak way. (ie, yeah why the fuck are they keeping him holed up in the middle of nowhere in North Dakota?! His family seem pretty disengaged/uninterested in his wellbeing)

1.4.3 Meat trick - This was removed as it is very unwise to do.

This did give me a chuckle.

http://www.ulillillia.us/images/2006ricelake02.jpg

http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/the-legend-of-the-10-elemental-masters/7691432

The Legend of the 10 Elemental Masters
by Nick Smith
* * * * * (37 Ratings)
Paperback, 258 pages

£8.12
Ships in 3–5 business days
Nick Smith (aka ulillillia) writes a captivating story with many unexpected turns. Based on the concept of RPGs (role playing games), follow Knuckles, a powerful, spell-casting wizard, as he investigates a mystery of supernatural proportion. A powerful evil presence seeks after the elemental masters. Knuckles tracks the force's every move as he works on fulfilling his greatest dream. It is unknown what evil act the force has planned. (Note: the cover is brightness-adjusted, enhancing print quality.)

By eric.r.pfeifer
This novel is sheer genius. Nick Smith boldly reinvents the literary form, creating a gestalt blend of fantasy, insanity, mathematics, and narrative. Without a doubt this is the most innovative book I have ever read. A must own for anyone interested in avant-garde outsider literature.

You can preview the first few pages online.

http://i47.tinypic.com/2r2yj6f.jpg

purchased.

I wonder if his parents are kind of surprised that so many people are buying his book? I realize it won't exactly be a best seller, but when he starts getting monthly checks for several hundred dollars they're going to be O_o

It's kinda hard to find on his site, but here's the page about The Legend of the 10 Elemental Masters

http://www.ulillillia.us/stories/10elementalmasters/home.shtml

http://i47.tinypic.com/10za6bo.jpg

Holy shit, if you zoom in on the cover, Knuckles is reading a screen that gives the stats for the blue ball/elemental master he's looking at.

http://i45.tinypic.com/2vwgx3k.jpg

Apparently the blue ball is a Level 5624

tbh that first page does make it seem very readable

except when you have to stop and check color values

The Legend of the 10 Elemental Masters really is a book that could only exist right now. It's the product of a mind completely overwhelmed by the statistical organization of RPGs. Pen and paper RPGs have been around for a long time, but they included a social component, because you needed to interact with friends in order to play. In contrast, the RPGs Nick was obsessed with when he was playing 10+ hours a day for a couple of decades catered to his instinct for isolation. The other big factor is that the internet has allowed him to gain any sort of audience in the first place, and to self-release his book. His audience wouldn't have been possible 20 years ago, and he probably wouldn't have been able to get his book published even 5 years ago.

it's a shame he had to be born in North Dakota - if he had gone to a better hs, he'd be a math phd by now

rad post Z S +1

rpgs are the art of organized randomness

ok i think i'm going to buy this.

I wonder if he chose these numbers to such precision for a reason? like, did he specifically choose strength = 23,278,101 over, say, 23,278,000 because that extra 101 makes a discernible difference in the image he is trying to evoke, or did he just want the numbers to be statistically "random"-looking and not rounded because he thinks that's more realistic?

or maybe he just created functions for each stat based on some variable like experience points and plugged in a value

I spent a few minutes reading through his blog, and this kinda stuck out for me:

#10 Christmas 2008 the worst in at least a decade: Christmas is my second favorite holiday of the year, a close second; Independence Day is in first place. However, this year was one of the worst in a long time. We had company over, something extremely rare, and both parents wouldn't let me go out of my room due to a reason that's confidential. I had a solution, a blanket (which worked before), but my parents wouldn't allow it due to a supposed "rule". This ruined this year's Christmas. As a consequence, I'm now taking counter measures for what they did - not doing things they want when they tell me to. In addition, I'm not going to get them any where near as much in the way of gifts next year, and canceling any birthday gifts. I had one for my dad, but now I'm not going to get him it because he played a role with this. At least one was friendly and had sympathy, my sister. She won't be affected by the counter measures. As a consequence, I was not able to participate in the gift-opening (I was still lucky enough to get a photo), or even the family games. Instead of doing this, with nothing else for me to do otherwise, I worked on my web site update.

This is :( on so many levels.

Still, it's heartening to learn (in other blog entries) that his parents have made some effort to draw him out of his cubbyhole. he mentions stuff like helping his dad repair his roof, doing some web design at his dad's workplace, and being encouraged by his parents to major in video game design at DeVry (though he admits that this is a long shot). he could probably make some sort of living for himself if his family didn't live in some no-name Midwestern town that's 50 miles away from civilization as we know it.

oh, iatee otm

or maybe he just created functions for each stat based on some variable like experience points and plugged in a value

i wouldnt be surprised if he had the battle and stat mechanics designed these are probably some of the easiest things to code

yeah, and it would explain the scientific notation for some of the values

or maybe he just created functions for each stat based on some variable like experience points and plugged in a value

I think that's much more likely, yep.

His taste in videogames is really unique. Stuff like Super Metroid and Super Mario World that are kind of considered universal classics get an average-to-good rating from him. Bubsy, on the other hand, a game that I don't recall anyone else talking about since the mid-90s, is pants-shitting awesome to him. And I'm pretty sure I remember reading that he claims he's listened to the level 10 music in Bubsy over ONE MILLION TIMES, and sometimes for days or weeks straight on repeat. It's safe to say he is the biggest fan of Bubsy on Earth.

I would say there is a 90% chance of that

I would say there is a level 12 chance of that

http://www.ulillillia.us/images/mountainfun.gif

Fuck, I just found his Youtube channel

This combined with Bourbon Saturday should be interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25bjSoyXlw0

Watching that video, I now realize that his character of Knuckles, from The Legend of the 10 Elemental Masters (L10EM), was probably more of a rip off of Bubsy than Sonic's Knuckles. I realize that he passionately denies the influence of Sonic at all (see the section "5: Disclaimer - the Name Knuckles" here for his argument in chart form), but he makes no mention of Bubsy, another furry character that also floats, and which he was/is completely obsessed with.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdLbUHdKTJ4

most people dream of getting sexed
my mud dreams will leave you perplexed
sky color 66-99-CC
recollection percents that sting like a bee

haha lame

CRIT-CRIT-CRIT-CRIT-CRITICAL
MASSIVE DAMAGE TO YOUR BRAIN WHEN I'M ANALYTICAL

ulillillia.us is down. :(

And he hadn't updated it for months before that.

works for me

me too, wondering where he's been

Maybe he made literally hundreds of dollars from his book and he's livin' the dream?

I hope not, his dreams seemed pretty scary, what with all the blue water.

For real though, maybe he got some help?

still uploading to youtube

April 2011 update!

Wonder if this is a serious thing:

#5 A documentary about me!? Wow!: During the summer of 2011, a film crew (sorry, the name of the company that's doing this is classified) might be coming to make a documentary about me. Details are vague at the moment, but this is definitely a first for me. It all happened by chance too. One day, I was doing my daily check as usual and, out of nowhere, I got this E-mail and it started from that.

On the other hand, wish he'd have someone to talk to about some of this kind of stuff:

#13 A yellowish-green gelantious unknown - annoying: This has been something that's been going on for about 2 years by now and it's extremely annoying. While I'm sleeping, there's about a 10% chance each sleep-wake cycle of mine that this will happen. When it does happen, I'm otherwise forced to wake up and take care of the mess. What's the problem? I wake up to a sticky, yellowish green (hue 100°, saturation 70%, value 80%), gelatinous substance in my underwear. I've been thinking I'm piddling in my underwear, much like 1-year-olds often do (only in diapers). I have no idea why this is happening. How to stop it? That I don't know either. At least it's rare, but I would like it to stop. I don't know what's different that I'm doing that's causing this to happen.

He's actually moving out!

http://www.ulillillia.us/mainindex.shtml

Also, what the Hell was this?

The Upcoming Ulillillia Documentary Has an Ulillillierrffic Trailer

Whoa.

Pizza delivery. What is pizza delivery like? I haven't had a delivered pizza where I'm at for well over a decade. The last time that happened was back when I was in elementary school, mostly unaware of solving equations.

love that picture of him in the lake.

wow, so ulillillia.us is pretty much dead, i guess. he blogs here nowadays: http://www.platformmasters.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=267

can't believe he's moving east-southeast to FARGO!

Sam's Club. There are exactly zero warehouse clubs in Minot. Yep, zero. Little did I know that it seems that Sam's Club, despite having to pay $50 or whatever for membership, offers discounts far greater than I thought. It's not 10 cents saved, it's more like 40 cents per pizza or 80 cents per 2 pack. That's WAY more savings than I thought. Given this, I could easily make up that $50 membership in hardly a month with just one item alone. Consider one of my typical items I get: Red Baron Singles Deep Dish 2 pk as the cheese (UPC 072180 637529) and 4-cheese (UPC 072180 631046) varieties. When my sister saw that a 12-pack of these (basically 6 of the 2 packs) were only $9.98 (the 2 packs are usually $2.48). This means instead of $1.24 per pizza, it's $0.83, a 41-cent savings and to think I eat 4 of those pizzas per day, that's a huge savings.

four pizzas a day! it's true though, he will realize incredible savings with a Sam's Club membership.

Just purchased his book after reading this thread.

His recent YouTube posts of his journey to Minneapolis felt like outtakes from American Movie. I like his narrative style.

"Red Baron Singles" appear to be the American equivalent (look similar, owned by same brand) of kinda disgusting CD-sized UK single-serving microwave pizzas "Chicago Town Deep Dish" but I guess probably less disgusting for the more pizza-discerning US market

http://i.walmartimages.com/i/p/00/07/21/80/63/0007218063751_300X300.jpg http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/2937/10799011h.jpg

so they're probably not full-sized, but I would still like to eat 4 pizzas a day and be as skinny as Ulillillia

btw my "whoa" earlier was re him moving, but I liked him measuring his life as Before and After Equations

this guy is my favorite and I am really happy he got to move

I don't know what's more depressing, that he won't go past a mirror even if the house is on fire (and has thought about this possibility enough to write it in a list of pros/cons of moving), or that after however many years his mother still has mirrors all over the house and apparently keeps putting more up

anyway I wish him all the best in his new place, this must be a seriously big change for him and I hope it works out

and I am really happy he got to move

So am I.

I've been a 'fan' of his for, I don't know, five years or so? I'm actually kind of worried about this, though. As rough as his home life is, I'm having a hard time imagining him being able to fend for himself out there. I guess he'll be living with his sister, but still.

His book would, I'm sure, be a great gift for any ilxors participating in any Secret Santa swap this year (I'm not).

I can't believe he's actually made it out into the world! Really, sooo happy for him!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DayNcWGMDKg

I watched this earlier, and what a treat it was. I love his voice so much, I could probably fall asleep listening to him go on about his computer hardware, how he creates his youtube videos, and other such things that no one really cares about. He sounds like, I don't know, a really, really boring, college professor or something.

At about the 15:00 minute mark of the above video, he devotes a few minutes to his penny collection (about 25,000). He goes, on and on about it of course, to the point of absurdity, even.

FUN FACT: Because he walks at an average of 3.6 mph, and most other people walk at an average of 2.8 mph, he used to get in trouble in high school because he would actually PUSH people out of his way because they walked to slow. I was extremely surprised to learn about this type of aggressive behavior of his.

Please don't take my interest in Ulillillia as something that I find as a source of amusement, or something. He fascinates me so much, because at one point in my life, I could relate to him frighteningly well.

http://www.gofundme.com/sisterillia

"This is no longer about me getting a bicycle or insurance on my vehicle; It is about living. More specifically, it is about the cost of living, and Nick's and my lack of ability to afford it at the moment."