User:OldBeane

The Story of the Old Beane
If one would have the chance of dusting off their old crusty world atlas and looking somewhere in the vicinity of the bottom, they will find a very interesting little chunk of land some believe to be called Australia. Ahhh, Australia... the country of shrimps on barbies and kanagaroo pouches as the primary mode of transportation. It was in this very country that a miracle occured. A miracle that would change the way we live forever. Twas in January 1985 that Thomas Keane was born (aka Old Beane). From a very early age, Tom was showing very clear signs of awesomeness. Factors included being multi-talented and general good lookingness. This however, magnified tenfold when the strapping young lad hit the wonderous years of puberty.

Twas in these years that young Thomas discovered the wonderous world of console gaming. After only gathering dust on his Sega Master System with but one game, he relied on his trusted PC for all gaming needs. Although Tom was enjoying the superior and masterful world of PC gaming, peer pressure took over. When most teenagers were peer pressured into such things as drugs, smokes and alcohol, Thomas was forever nagged that he was but the only lad without a Nintendo64. Luckily Tom's father purchased a new laptop around this period, which also included a brand spanking new N64. Of course, there were other choices, such as Playstation, but he knew better.

After a year of playing the game Forsaken 64 to death, Tom finally got his awesome little mits on this game that his friends had been raving about for some time. This game that strangely featured a main male character called Zelda who liked to twiddle on this ocarina thing. Of course, Tom didn't seem this name was fit for an epic hero, and thus chose the most heroic and awesome name that first popped into his brain... Tom. It was much confusion after noticing that the princess' name in the game was also Zelda. "Gee," Tom thought, "this Nintendo bunch are pretty unoriginal with names"... it wasn't after some time and serious hard and strenuous thinking that the truth dawned on Tom that the main character was not in fact Zelda at all. After this stressful ordeal Tom came to enjoy the game throughly and placed the game in his "Favourite No.1 Awesome Game" position, that was once filled with many classic LucasArts adventure games for the PC. This was heightened by the fact of playing the final boss in the middle of this really cool storm, you can't beat that. Needless to say, the world of PC Gaming became overshadowed by a larger and brighter planet by the name of Nintendo.

Skip ahead a few years to the time of 2003...

After finishing his high school the year before and making the purchase on a brand new Nintendo console, the Gamecube, Thomas get his first taste at making money in the working force... with his parents. It was one bright and shiny morning that Tom decided to log into his internet banking (the internet was the primary use for computers to Tom these days). To Tom's surpise and merriment, he notice the funds within his account were accumulating at a quite healthy rate. Oh happy days.

It was also around this time that Tom started to take notice of a new proper Zelda game on the horizon. Of course, Thomas didn't deem the game Majora's Mask a proper Zelda game as the time limit was abysmal and took away from the freedom that made Ocarina of Time so astounding. This coupled with the motivation of killing a final boss in the form of a mask was quite disappointing. So to hear about a TRUE Zelda sequel summoned up quite a bit of excitement within Thomas. So excited that he utilised his now expanded wallet and pre-ordered an American and Australian version of the game, titled the Wind Waker. At the site of Planet Gamecube, he found a wonderous place in which he could discuss his excitedness with other people around the globe... an Internet Forum. Under the alias of "The Old Beane" Thomas delightfully posted his excitement and speculation of this stunning new game. After a while on the PGC forums, another spiffing user posted a link to yet another Forum... this one based entirely on Zelda! Well, Tom had to join as soon as he could, and did just that. It was a forum soon to become his home in the realm of online communities. A forum hosted by the site Zelda Universe.

Quickly signing up to the site, and making a excessively funny, hilarious and overall awesome signature "100% Psycho. May contain traces of nut." and an avatar of the Oracle of Ages/Seasons Link, he set foot in this new found territory. Much to Thomas' delight, there were many people just as Keane... uhm, keen as he was about this new game, and enjoyed the many threads dedicated to theories and speculation, which soon became something of a hobby. This of course, was still within working hours.

It was not until July that year, the time of the infamous ZU hackings and the like, that Thomas received a Private Message from Zelda Universe's administrator, named AnakiN- at the time. Tom can not recall the excact words of the letter, but he belives it went something like this:

"Dear Mr. Beane, I have been watching you at the ZU Forums as of late and noticed your wit and awesomeness was quite a few levels above the stream of users we have frollicking around our forums. It is for this very reason that I shall ask you to be a moderator for the forums, in preparation of you taking over in my stead.

Yours Sincerely, AnakiN-"

Of course, he accepted.

And thus after getting used to his knew post and starting college soon after, he become the Beane you all know and love today.