Matthew Doucette
Matthew Doucette
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Be yourself.
Male
34 years old
Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia
Canada
Last Login: 8/20/2009
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| Status: | Single | | Here for: | Networking, Friends | | Orientation: | Straight | | Hometown: | Yarmouth, Nova Scotia | | Body type: | 6' 2" / Athletic | | Ethnicity: | White / Caucasian | | Religion: | Atheist | | Zodiac Sign: | Virgo | | Smoke / Drink: | No / No | | Children: | Proud parent | | Education: | College graduate | | Occupation: | Entrepreneur / Game Developer |
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Xona.com
Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia CA
Co-owner
Software Development
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January 2003 - July 2008
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Xona Games
Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia CA
Co-owner
Game Development
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July 2008 - Present
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Matthew Doucette -- Hit me up on facebook, I don't use myspace anymore. :( Posted at 3:06 AM Sep 10, 2008
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About me:
Personal:
I wish to surround myself with positive, open-minded, productive,
and inspirational people. That's all!
Negativity, drama, and worrying are all a waste of your mental resources. There are better things to do! I have collected many quotes (inspirational, action, etc.) over the years. They were individually "hand picked", not just copied blindly from other source. I love them. They make you think and broaden your mind. This is the closest we can get to the insides of some of the greatest minds ever. Maybe browsing through them will help clarify and enact an important decision in your life. Who knows?
Background:
I have an extreme passion for technology, especially video games.
I respect them as a player and as a programmer and designer.
I have aspirations to develop my own video games from scratch and have had such aspirations since early elementary school.
So far, life, school, flawed expectations, society,
a general lack of respect for technology, and other meaningless things have got in the way.
However, I respect that everyone's current situation is of their own doing. I believe you should not blame anyone for your life but yourself. So, I have made efforts to correct all the mistakes
and remove all the barriers that have prevented me from doing what I love to do,
which is computer programming (mostly 3D graphics and game programming).
It's amazing what can be accomplished though sacrifices.
I believe success is almost entirely dependent on how much you are willing to sacrifice.
All the major failures I have met in my life are unwilling to make the simplest of sacrifices.
As you grow and gain a better understanding of what is truly important,
sacrificing becomes easy, as it is easy to give up those things that do not matter.
Anyway, now when something makes it hard for me to do what I love,
a red flag goes up. Now I try to remove everything in my way.
I am not looking for help, just freedom of choice.
In this regard, I have been changing my life around for the better over the past 3 or 4 years. (NOTE: I wrote this shortly after joining MySpace on March 2nd, 2006.)
January 2009 UPDATE: I am now working on a video game, called Duality ZF, for the Xbox 360. It will be released summer of 2009! We are known as Xona Games and it is only my brother Jason Doucette and I. This amazing change in my life started mid July 2008, when we decided to enter into a Microsoft video game contest. We did not place, but after only two months were able to create an Xbox 360 video game entry, and have continued on! Our own company. Our own video game. Our own ideas. How exciting! :)
"Be Yourself" Explained:
("Be Yourself" is my MySpace tagline.) "Being yourself" is a very simple idea, but something I find nearly impossible to achieve due to the expectations of others. It is my ultimate goal, to truly be myself.
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"Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly." - St. Francis De Sales
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I try my best to not let society guide me.
When I was a child, I did not care what anyone thought.
I did things that were unpopular at the time.
I programmed computers, designed video games, learned new math, designed characters, etc.
Math is just a tool to be used to accomplish a goal.
Math to a video game programmer is like shoes to a basketball player.
Once you understand, learning math actually seems cool.
Somehow it got engraved into me that the ignorant opinions of others mattered.
As I grew older,
I knew enough to hide my work from others
to avoid "breaking social codes" and becoming a target.
In elementary school, playing video games was cool, but designing a computer program was not.
It is a matter of perspective.
Another example, in "my world", my work and my designs were important.
However, in the "real world", homework and test marks were deemed important.
The older I grew, the more ridiculous the rules and restrictions of society became.
Once I hit junior high, I had to dress a certain way, act a certain way, and do certain things.
I was never successful at conforming to society.
I intrinsically and thoroughly rejected it.
Now, looking back, I realize there was little substance in the opinions of others.
In retrospect, my peers were mostly clueless and lost themselves in relation to their dreams.
I am now glad I did not "sell out" and conform.
I cannot take credit for my actions, as I wanted to conform on some level, but I fortunately lacked the skills to do so.
School was nothing more than a huge, meaningless, judgmental barrier.
Judgments can be devastating.
A person cannot do what they believe they cannot do.
If you destroy a person's belief in themselves, you destroy the person.
This is what school does.
I still have the occasional dream where I never studied for an exam I am about to write.
Anything else that would cause me to have dreams years after the fact would be viewed as a traumatic experience.
School is about control and obligations, nothing more.
You gain nothing by controlling someone other than destroying their freedom and diminishing their potential.
I think putting such a big emphasis on school is a flawed idea.
I realize that this view does not fit everyone and every trade.
The reality is that failing an exam is not a big deal.
I wish I failed more often, and spent that wasted energy towards my own projects.
I wish I could go back to the way I was before my mind was distorted, at such a young age, via the intellectual torture of regulated education.
It now seems foolish that I worried more about school marks than my own true education and passions, the very thing "schooling" is supposed to develop in me. Have not all parents, teachers, and school adminstrators completely missed the point?
Now, I try to "be myself" and do the things that are meaningful to me.
I greatly admire those who are who they are, and do what they love.
"Be yourself, everyone else is already taken."
- Oscar Wilde
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Favorite Quotes:
On Isaac:
"There's nothing wrong with love if it's the child you're loving rather than the fantasy of who the child should be."
- Ivor Shapiro, Today's Parent
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On myself:
"Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly."
- St. Francis De Sales
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On my career:
"It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out where the strong man stumbled, or where a doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man in the arena whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs, and who comes up short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause. The man who at best knows the triumph of high achievement and who at worst, if he fails, fails while daring greatly, so that his place will never be with those cold timid souls who never knew victory or defeat."
- Theodore Roosevelt
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On my life decisions:
"The time is always right to do what is right."
- Martin Luther King Jr.
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Social Networking Sites:
Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Hi5, MySpace, Digg
Projects:
- Duality ZF - my Xbox 360 video game
- Project X - no details yet; coming soon...
- Domain Hacks - domain hack search utility
- Xona.com™ - free non-profit technology site
- To Be Continued... - real-time 3D graphics demo (1999)
- Quotes - quote collection
- WipeOut - Reversi/Othello AI (1998; can you beat it?)
- Music - music compositions (1995-2002)
- 3D Graphics - DOS-based real-time 3D graphics (pre-1999)
I'd Like To Meet:
Personal:
People into video games & technology, at least those who can tolerate it!
I relate to: People who are positive, open-minded, productive, inspirational, etc. People who can admit they are wrong. People who are non-judgmental. People who will sacrifice to try harder before giving up.
I do not relate to: People who are negative and dramatic. People who are unable to make change. People who are ignorant and closed-minded. People who have no dreams. People who believe success is a matter of luck. Most of all, I do not relate to people who don't try.
I hate guilt trips and persuasion. They are attempts at control and obligation.
Relationship:
Someone independent. Someone who does not need me (but someone who wants me anyway). I do not want to be a solution to your problems. If you need a savior, look elsewhere... the mirror is a good place to start! I want an equal partner. It would be nice to meet someone pursuing their dreams, as I would relate to it.
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