About Largegamer — Who I Am & How to Reach Me
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My real name is Marc (or Marco, a nod to my Sicilian roots) — thanks for stopping by.
My nickname online is Largegamer, since I'm... quite a big guy, and I've been passionate about video games since childhood.
I'm also the proud father of 2 wonderful mixed-race kids (a son and a daughter).
- Born in 1979, I'm 47 as of today 👴
- I live in France, not far from Paris, in a peaceful house
- I've been working in IT for several years
- I used to be overweight, but decided to take control of my life in January 2004 — fitness and weightlifting have been hardcoded into me ever since
- I also used to box to blow off steam, which explains why I got used to wearing dark sunglasses in "the morning after" meetings 😎😁
This picture of me was edited to reflect the watercolor expressionism style used in Disco Elysium — one of the games I've loved most in my life.
Why This Site Exists
Largegamer.com has been self-hosted and independently run since 2019.
No network, no editorial board, no algorithm telling me what to write — just one guy's honest take on the games he plays, written the way he'd say it out loud. If you're after polished, consensus-approved reviews, plenty of other sites do that well. This isn't that site. Though i'll be honest on that part, i am a deep Fan of AI, Claude more specifically, and once i have completed an Article, i always ask Claude to revise and Proofread it. It helps when I let myself get carried away. 😅
In fact... much like meditation—which is excellent for keeping a clear head and banishing negative thoughts—Claude AI is a huge help to me when I get worked up about something. Before overreacting, I now consult Claude, my personal assistant; its advice has always proven brilliant in helping me gain some perspective. Claude also helps me on a LOT of other things... plugin creation, program creation, graphic design, professional projects, training in various ways, his help is Invaluable!
A Bit More About Me
To avoid boring you with details of my life you probably don't care about, here are a few toggles below.
Click them if you want to know more. If you just want to reach out, skip straight to the contact form.
A Younger Life in the Warez Scene
Yes — like a lot of kids growing up in the 90s, I had a life in the warez scene before growing out of it.
Here's the short version.
Back then, cracked games weren't a click away — you needed the right contacts. There was no internet yet, and even once it arrived in French homes, connections were too slow to download anything useful; DSL came much later. And anyway cracked games were existing long before the arrival of Internet... We would simply get together with "friends" to copy whatever there was to copy... We were kids, teenagers; we simply didn't know about the legal consequences.
At some point, my older brother (8 years my senior) bought a CD burner — a real luxury item in the 90s. Through one of the best-connected suppliers in France at the time, we started copying a lot of games — this even predates the CD burner, back when we were still on an Amiga 500.
I was still in school, my brother was at university or already working. Between the games and a pile of other expensive software — encyclopedias, utilities, you name it — we started burning CDs for people in the neighborhood. Word got around fast, and yes, we made some money out of it.
Looking back, that part wasn't okay — we were reselling other people's work for profit, plain and simple. We were young, it felt harmless at the time, and it very much wasn't. I'm not proud of that part, and I don't say this to romanticize it. It's just what happened.
It ran its course for a couple of years, then stopped — the market got more crowded, and one particular encounter (unrelated to any legal trouble, just an unpleasant person I chose to stop dealing with) made me lose interest in keeping it going. I gave away what I had left to a friend who was thrilled to receive it, and moved on to build an actual career instead. In hindsight, perhaps I should be grateful to that "unpleasant person" because that’s how my career in IT began 😏
These days, none of this "hustle" is even relevant anymore — anyone with a decent fiber connection can find whatever they're looking for in minutes, for free, with no local network needed. There's no money left to be made in it, which probably says everything about how much the world has changed since.
One semantic point I'll still defend: I think the word "pirating" gets thrown around loosely today. For me, "to pirate" a game means cracking it — doing the actual reverse-engineering work. Using a crack someone else made isn't piracy, it's just... downloading. I never did the cracking myself; at most I repackaged what crackers had already done. Small distinction, but it matters to me.
From BuilderX to LargeGamer
We need a chronological order to understand...
Parisian Nights
owner of jmelaraconte.com and then parisx.net (Gothic Community)
One night i went to the Kata Bar (which is definitely closed now), and that's where it all started. made a lot of friends in the gothic community. Going out much more than before, went to the Gothic Picnic at the Palace of Versailles where we were like 200 people sharing food and drinks (mostly drinks 😅). For the Total Nerd i used to be, it certainly was a necessary step before everything that happened the following years.
Personal Reconstruction
Still owning parisx.net but re-orienting towards fitness and weight loss.
The year where i decided to change my physical body. Due to many years focused entirely on video games and IT, but also very bad food habits... I was overweight and not just by a little. 1st January of 2004 was the point of no return! Looked at my body in the mirror and took a radical decision. I still think to this day that the supplement GenF20 that i was taking since at least 6 months in 2003, helped a great deal... But i can't prove it.
I was still playing EverQuest back then before dropping it entirely in 2005... I remember friends like Denton or Glunier—virtual people whom I never met in real life, not even once. EverQuest took up several years of my life, but I have no regrets. In fact, I even feel nostalgic for that time. My highest avatar ever was a lvl 60+ Bard and it was on a PvP server... but which one ? i think i remember Tallos Zek but i am not even sure anymore.
Helping people with modded Nvidia drivers
No more parisx.net and welcome quoimavie.com!
I tried to keep things i had written from the past website, but mainly focused on helping people with their gaming laptop, by providing modded drivers for laptop Nvidia cards, which were not supported by the official drivers. I had done so many tests during that period, that i burned my own laptop due to excessive overclock, but eventually got fully refunded as it was still under manufacturer guaranty, and got a brand new one ☺️
There is also a darker side to that period... It wasn't what one might think. I practiced "NLP applied to seduction," and although many believe it meant viewing women as "objects," that wasn't the case... It was simply a way to discover the "real man" lying dormant within me. But in the end, It is possible that I behaved unhealthily toward women back then... I certainly took full advantage of the situation, but I won't dwell on the subject.
Stressing Experience in the Web business
Owner of faircouponcode.com which was an E-commerce, where my products were 10% cheaper than the competition.
Anyone who has ever seriously committed to online business knows that improving organic search rankings (SEO) is a time-consuming and highly demanding task. I frequented the Warrior Forum and explored "Black Hat" techniques and other methods aimed at tricking Google. Although that chapter of my life is over and I have no intention of repeating past mistakes, that experience taught me patience and a sense of responsibility.
Two more Blogs before finding myself.
I owned loadmyblog.com and dadout.com before finally settling for LargeGamer.com.
loadmyblog.com was a sort of catch-all where I chronicled my life in a bit too much detail... the range of topics was vast and rather uninhibited! We all have a dark side that we tend to explore at some point or another; what matters most is what we do with it. I have flirted with my dark side all my life, which has allowed me to understand my mistakes and avoid losing my way.
Dadout.com was known as i had popularized the Time Zone Trick for Real Racing 3, an expensive video game on mobile. With the time zone trick, anyone could play this game for Free, while being granted the ability to watch an unlimited number of Ads (which limit was 5 without this trick). It was a WIN - WIN for everyone, the gamers and the developers, we could play for free and the company would receive a TON of money from the Ads.
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