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 * "Seeya!"
 * — Zombirate

Zombirate is a video game commentator and live streamer who started uploading videos to YouTube in 2012. He is currently 20 years of age, and resides in the United Kindom. He's quite active in uploading videos, although occasionally misses days. He lives with his family - he occasionally can't record as his parents work 9-5 jobs and bring work home with them. This leads to him either not being able to record due to noise, or staying quiet and not recording so as to leave his parents in peace. He usually makes up for missed days with longer episodes.

He currently has two series on the go (as of 16/03/2014) - The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask and Dark Souls. His most popular series so far have been his first-time blind playthrough of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, and his abandoned Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy series.*

Zombirate has previously said that his channel isn't about playing new releases or anything of the sort - he uses the channel as a way to force himself to play through games he may have missed when he was younger/is putting off playing. The only release-series he has done so far has been Crysis 3 - he had however played through Crysis 1/2 beforehand on the channel, and is a fan of the series. Ocarina of Time is a perfect example of pushing himself to play games he may have missed - as is the current Majora's Mask and to a lesser extent, Dark Souls.

He's stated many times that he is NOT running on any kind of powerful hardware, and freely lists his PC specifications on his YouTube about page. He's running a laptop with an i3 380m (with integrated graphics) and 6GB of RAM. This is why he rarely records PC games, unless they're graphically simple and/or optimised well enough. He refuses to upload anything that records at less than 30fps (or "frames per second"), stating that if he doesn't like to play at it, people won't want to watch it.

He does however own an Elgato Game Capture HD, and not only records console games from it, he streams often at his Twitch channel using it too. His preferred upload quality (if asked on Twitter he will tell you anything about uploads/specifications of videos at will) is 720p/30fps. He streams at two different settings - for PC, 480p/25fps/2.5Mbps. For console, 720p/1080p/5-8Mbps - he's stated that if he's playing a multiplayer game he reduces stream quality to 5Mbps (noticeably higher than most other casual streamers) so as not to cause ping issues.

He creates all his own artwork, including channel art, logos and thumbnails. He also edits himself - he created his own outro, and also his own intro which he recently started using. After finishing a new thumbnail he quite often shares it on Twitter.

He plays/streams often with a group of friends - most notably his recent Game Night live stream series with two other gamers named "Meteoria" and "Zerucune". He often streams with KillerFugu, most notably their L4D custom maps series, plus their Mirror's Edge speed battle. MrBillney is another regular in some of the more unannounced streams and Late Night Chillin'.