TIGERM 
- Member since: 4/24/2010
- Gender: Male
- AIM: CoolGuyTiger
About
About Tiger M
Tiger M. Gales [Tiger M] is a 27 year old American DJ, Writer, Artist, Musician, Producer, Performer & Choreographer born in Albany, Georgia. He is the first son of Dr. Mahasin H.M. Majied and the late Master-Chief
[Navy S.E.A.L.] Ahmad H. Majied.
Tiger is also the fifth child of seven siblings including
four stepbrothers, a younger sister and brother.
Born Khalid Hazim Majied, Tiger legally changed his name
after his strict father’s death in March 2005.
At the early age of 3, Tiger began singing and playing the piano. Originally trained in soul and classical music, he would eventually be exposed to pop, jazz, rock, and hip-hop at an early age. This mixed exposure would eventually lead him to develop his own unique sound.
At age 5, Tiger developed a passion for the drums. In order to keep the noise down in an otherwise "quiet neighborhood;" Tiger’s parents refused to purchase him a complete "Drum Set." Instead, he was given a yellow headed bass drum and a set of drum sticks from a local Habitat For Humanity�"and he played the heck out of it! Rigorously played each day as if a snare; it would not be long before 5 year old Tiger would smash a hole through both sides of the large bass drum.
One year later; Tiger would have access to a full drum set that he’d play everyday.
At age 11, Tiger composed his first piano score: "The Descending Guillotine." The melodic composition was performed at local events in the young boy’s hometown, and he did receive much praise�"but Tiger did not desire to become a pianist.
Strictly religious, Tiger’s parents were not fond of hip-hop, rock, or otherwise "vulgar" styles of music. Instead, Tiger was directed towards his father’s colossal vinyl collection including R&B & Pop legends such as: Michael Jackson, James Brown, Sam Cook, Marvin Gaye, Gladys Knight & The Pips, Patty La Belle, Stevie Wonder, Whitney Huston, and Earth, Wind & Fire.
Ever curious, Tiger desired to hear what he was told "not to." Eventually, the young boy would sneak outside of his father’s record collection and listen to his step-brothers' "secret" contemporary music collections.
As a result, he was exposed to a broad range of popular artists including: The Sugar Hill Gang, MC Hammer, Marylyn Manson, Ozzie Osborn, Madonna, Mariah Carey, Pink Floyd, Vanessa Williams, Dr. Dre, Bone-Thugs-N-Harmony, Cher, Sade, and Korn.
After filling his young head with music his parents and brothers enjoyed;
Tiger became hungry�"hungry to hear "more."
Unable to attend sleepovers, parties, clubs, or other events where they could get into trouble; Tiger and his siblings developed an avid passion for video games. With an ever growing hunger for music; Tiger developed an interesting habit.
When no one was playing the family Nintendo Entertainment System; Tiger would put a blank cassette tape into his parents' Karaoke Tape Recorder; plug the recorder’s microphone into the recorder jack; and place the microphone in front of the television speakers to record the instrumental tracks from various Nintendo Games. Later, he would create song lyrics for the upbeat songs.
While working as a caretaker MGCM, for his stepbrother’s Music Conservatory, Tiger was introduced to the Roland Boss DR-5 Rhythm Section. He’d spend hours on the machine, and would eventually be "dismissed" from his job for often spending more than eight hours a day producing arrangements on the Tone & Rhythm Machine.
Using the MIDI instruments on Roland’s DR-5, in a single month,
Tiger would produce over 250 unique arrangements.
At 17, Tiger made a drastic change in his musical selection. Learning that PC CD-ROM games like Mindscape's Cyberspeed and Psygnosis's Wipeout could be played in car and home stereos; Tiger began purchasing PC programs and video games to learn if the discs would play in standard stereos or not. Inevitably, Fatboy Slim, Tim Wright, The Chemical Brothers, Photek, and Paul Oakenfold became major influences in Tiger’s dance-ready sound. At 18, Tiger began studying at Darton College; a small community college in Albany, GA. Tiger’s first two semesters went Undecided. Later, in order to understand Japanese video games; Tiger majored in Foreign Languages with an emphasis in Japanese. After a love relationship that ended violently; Tiger began to study Psychology.
At 20, Tiger "*graduated" Darton College, and began a full time job as a customer service rep for Bellsouth. Three months later, Tiger requested a termination. After explaining his situation, the request was granted.
*Shortly after marching, Tiger learned that he was 3 Biology credits short of a degree in Psychology.
At 21, Tiger majored in Theatre at Valdosta State University. It was at this time he realized he was forcing himself to be a traditional College Student. Shortly before mid-terms began, Tiger walked away from classes to focus on his True Passion:
Sharing [DJing] & Producing Unforgettable Music.
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View all comments »troy27 says:
Posted at 8:04pm on 12/9/2011
cool armatar, wat is it?
TIGERM says:
Posted at 3:59pm on 4/21/2011
Heya everyone! I spoke with a legal specialist today and it appears that what is being said is that I may empower video games by developers and write positive reviews and rate... but am unable to say what I say at the end of my writing strings which is part of who I am which essentially is being told as a North American that I do NOT have freedom of Speech and do NOT have freedom of press. Thus far it appears that I have only upset/caused a stir for one specific moderator who was kind enough to simply state his opinion instead of taking any negative action. This is good because I've decided that one reason I likely am a player of video games and essentially who I am in this world is to fight against the issue of what I am considering "cyber-bullying" by empowered individuals called Moderators. There are good mods... and I do think that cormyn meant well while reprimanding me.
However... I do think that if users do not soon start standing for their rights online that we will soon have a "1984 Thought Police" circumstance on our hands. [happened to be born in 1984 too! lol]
Even if I am "digitally killed" for it [or further along] I am willing to fight for my right to say who I am online... especially if I am taking the time out of my LIFETIME in order to write a review for a video game.
Some people do not take the time to say more than "awesome!" or "good game." I however DO. Out of the millions of players on this website many are not account holders [I personally was not for two years and finally decided to get an account to positively rate some games that I thought were underrated! =]
For the handful of users [when compared with # of players of games] who DO hold accounts--less than 10 percent [probably even less] have a website that literally is their OWN DOMAIN. Others may or may not be part of a social network and others may or may not even have an e-mail address that is checked or reffed.
With that said...
From looking at some of the conversation strings by users, mods, game developers, and writers alike...
I think it is safe to say that it should not be a problem for me to take 20 to 30 minutes to write a review completely free of any money or fee and be told I should feel guilty over saying who I am and where to find me at the very, VERY end.
From what I understand, it would be one thing if all I did was type a reference or website in as a comment.
That would be antagonizing.
However... I am not promoting a thing besides the fact that I am the writer of a review for a game I took time to honestly review and play.
I only write reviews on games that I have completed from start to finish, intend to finish or believe that I will take time to finish [unless otherwise stated].
Since this is the case... I think that if Socrates could drink hemlock for thinking and speaking freely and Joan of Arc could be killed for being born a woman desiring to serve humanity as she saw fit...
I can certainly withstand being destroyed in a digital sense in order to uphold my belief.
I will say this though... I have a VERY long string of progress in the new GemCraft Game Labyrinth and will take it VERY offensively if my account is terminated or suspended for simply saying "This is who I am and where you can find me" after I've contributed part of my LIFE'S TIME into a website that is supposed to be about having fun [video games]
I personally think that I agree with my legal specialist in that if armor games mods have an issue with me for owning my own website and saying that I do that it's themselves who should be checked... it's called a hate crime or a crime of jealousy to hold hatred or prestige against another person simply due to the fact that "you have something I want so I will judge you differently."
If Armor Games mods do not wish for certain strings of texts written--then simply disallow those words on the forum or destroy links.
In essence--telling me not to type "Who Is TIGER M? O.O - http://www.tigerm.net at the end of my strings is like telling me NOT to type "Awesome!" or "Armor Games ROCKS!" -- that is denying me freedom of thinking a word I want to say and typing it.
As it appears it is realized--I DO put a lot of passion and thought into my reviews and generally rate games here 10/10 if I take the time to complete them--so I think that it is fair to understand that I am not just some "bored guy" who spends "free time" to "promote a website" by typing reviews about its content..
and not expecting to at least be able
to say "this is who I am" at the end.
Speaking of at the end...
Do as you wish to deny me my freedom Armor Game mods [users and the game developers seem to be fine with who I am and how I say and present my thoughts...] but jealousy and envy have its ways of paying back.
With that said... I intend to remain who I am and if that is an issue for some I do apologize. If that is an issue for a person in power and they deny me my freedom of speech and of press by saying what I can and cannot say... then prepare to see me fight for those rights.
I desire to say what I wish to say...
which is generally very positive things. =) I'm speaking freely! =D
"Thanks for your cooperation." =)
Forever In Love With All That Which Exists (That Which Is Seen & Unseen, Known & Unknown),
-DJ, Writer, Artist, Musician, Student of Life, TIGER M [Thursday]
-3:58 PM (4/21/2011)
[Eastern Standard Time, The Biding House, U.S.A.]
Who Is TIGER M? O.O
http://www.tigerm.net
Angel Arc & Company
TIGERM says:
Posted at 10:48pm on 4/15/2011
OH! Hey cormyn JUST got your message! Thank You for being so kind! I don't come here super often but I do enjoy my time here and certainly do not wish to be trouble or a bother while here so no worries!
I know that YouTube and Newgrounds have similar policies when it comes to review writing and commenting so I will respect the digital laws set forth by Armor games ^_^
I DO have my disagreement with the likes [think it's unfair for say Con Artist games or HeroInteractive and even GamesInABottle as much as I love GemCraft--to advertise for their time spent making a game--but writers are disrespected and not respected for their time when writing a review for that very same game--as you stated--yes--I DO put a lot of heart into my reviews because I am passionate about what I write].
I suppose in essence if a review I write inspires a person to click on my name as a link anyway, they'll see the website and who wrote the review, but until today [April 15th, 2011] I did not realize that there was issue with posting who wrote the review at the end.
I hope this policy changes webwide some day because it should be taken into account [in my opinion speaking for me only!] that traditionally... writing is just as much an art as creating a game--and generally writers are given compensation [usually payment or recognition] for taking the time to write articles...
I do not think that saying at the end of a 3,000 to 5,000 word article [15 to 30 minutes in writing that could be spent doing something else] "This is who I am and this is where to find me" is all much to ask. =)
[In magazines, newspapers, journals, etc. at the end e-mail address/website and/or location and a bit about the writer is far from uncommon]
However, I will respect the website's current policies and thank you for being so kind in sharing the current state of Armorgames policy.=)
Stay Awesome and I do understand you are simply doing your job =)
I will "speed less" while driving at Armorgames from here on out! =)
Take care and God bless your kind and true heart! =)
Forever In Love With All That Which Exists (That Which Is Seen & Unseen, Known & Unknown),
-DJ, Writer, Student, Being of Existence, TIGER M ^_^ [Foo! Friday!]
-10:47 PM (4/15/2011) [EST, U.S.A.]
[The Biding house]
Who Is TIGER M? O.O
TIGER M IS... >=O tigerm...? ^^;
cormyn says:
Posted at 8:09pm on 2/21/2011
Hi Tiger M,
I like the reviews you're writing for the games, but we don't currently allow links to external sites for self-promotion like you're doing. I'm hesitant to remove them all because otherwise the content is great, but changing them all manually is a serious hassle. So I'll leave the 17 you have in the system now, but please refrain from doing it in the future.
Thanks for your cooperation.
knk2765 says:
Posted at 1:19am on 7/13/2010
Added you as a friend to! Haha thanks I will try to stay awsome and your awsome your self thanks for making me smile :)