Thanks for the welcome. I´ll try to answer acordingly to skip double post:
1 - Yes, I´ve been playing Pokemon since the first gen and since the first Game Boy and Red/Blue/Green/Yellow. Pokémon was also the franchise that introduced me to my love for RPGs, and I play a lot of them, like Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts, Ys, Xenoblade, etc etc. I don´t cheat online, I only use cheats on single player games that get to hard or repetitive after a while. I love cheating. Done in the correct way it can spare you lots of time in griding and useless stuff. It helps the game not to get repetetive and helps me save time. I haven´t finished Insurgence yet, I was around the sixth gym, and yes, I was loving that game, specialy the mecha-tyranitar and Delta Pokemon. Sometimes I leave rom hacks or fan games at half stack beacause I play a lot of them at the same time and I usualy finish first the ones that get iteresting to me, but I will finish Insurgence one of these days for sure. Pokemon Rom Hacks and Fan games in general explore things that the oficial games never will, like humor and dark stuff, make some games more mature, and I love that.
2 - Metal is more than a passion to me, it´s a kind of therapy from daily life. I´ve been playing guitar since I was 12, and I also play bass and I played drums for 4 years. Drums didnd´t really get me going and bass is more like a relaxed break from electric guitar, but I love the guitar so much, I just love video games a bit more. Definitly the guitar is my type of music player. My favorite bands are Pink Floyd, Parkway Drive and Alice In Chains. I love Metalcore, it´s my favorite type of Metal meshed with what the Hardcodre/Post-Grundge scene was. It´s just metal more heavier and with more screams. I also like Rock, Blues and Jazz, but daily I´m definitlyu more of a Metal guy. I´ve watched all of the mainstream anime like One Piece, Dragon Ball, Bleach, Naruto, etc etc, and One Piece is definitly the best by far in terms of story, originality and character varaiety. You just cant compete with something that has been going on since 97 with more than 1000+ eps by now. My favorite character of OP is Luffy and my favorite arcs are Marineford, Dressrosa and Wano by now. I definitly understand keeping up recent animes like One Piece and other good stuff that has been coming out. I also watch movies and series from time to time, but this year I havent been watching too much, just the weekly ones I already began, OP included. It has been more of a playing videogames year for me than watch this or that, but from time to time I´ll make a marathon and watch everything without stop.
Hope I answered your questions. Keep em coming. :)