Ben Brundage

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Kim Wolf.

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So my name is Ben.

I'm currently studying computer science over in upstate New York at Rochester Institute of Technology.

I think it probably ranges, but I think maybe hardworking, passionate, sometimes lazy too, I guess.

A mix of things for sure.

You know, I was playing a lot of online video games for like way too long, especially during like COVID.

And I started to kind of find like Minecraft super interesting.

You can build stuff in Minecraft with this programming language and add on functionality that you normally wouldn't get.

And so to me, that was like super cool and kind of drove, I think, a lot of that initial interest where, you know, I'd stay up super late, like watching Java tutorials.

How do you build a Minecraft mod?

And so it was kind of like, I think to me, like largely like, wow, like, you know, there's so much imagination that I can kind of just put it into this real world.

It's a really, I don't know how to describe the feeling, but really rewarding feeling where you can take your ideas and you can, you know, see them in fruition.

To me, that was super cool.

There's a degree of how do you get an advantage in these games, right?

I think when you're 16 years old, it's very appealing because suddenly you have an advantage over most other people.

I started out with Minecraft, but maybe a few servers over, you're entering reverse engineering, you're maybe finding a server related to malware.

It's all very interconnected, and it's very easy to be exposed to it because you meet friends with people, they're like, oh, join here, or they want to show you something, and as a result, it kind of spirals.

I think it's one of those things where people don't really think about it.