Turret 3471

Turret 3471 is one of the main members of Remixing Shack. He is a part of the group's original formation in 2017 and remained very active the following years.

General Information
Turret 3471 was born on March 6, 2000 in Arizona, and still lives there today. He grew up with a very simple life, being raised in a Christian family, playing video games and with LEGOs, and was always waiting for the next day to see his friends. There was always a sense of "spoiled" behavior when he was much younger, but growing into his teen and young adult years, he's taken the time to mature and improve on what kind of person he should be. Before he was even 3 years old, movies and tv show episodes would be memorized and reenacted within days apart of each other, something that would carry on for the rest of his life as he still enjoys voice acting, doing impressions of countless characters, and hopes to find a job in the business someday. As for music, what he's most well known for, he's always enjoyed listening to music his whole life, but never started taking anything seriously and forming proper tastes until the 2010s, and would discover his hidden talent in creating musical work himself in 2013-early 2014.

The Internet Life
Turret's earliest experiences with the internet start in the mid to late 2000s, mainly with kids websites shown on commercials like LEGO, PBS Kids, Nick Jr., etc. Becoming a YouTube user was an extremely slow process, but he eventually found certain types of content to view regularly, though the computer didn't take up his entire days' time just yet.

In early 2014, he introduced himself to the world of Miiverse, Nintendo's "family friendly" social media website/app (he got banned the same day he joined due to naive homophobia). Oblivious to what was going on, this where most of his immaturity would be unleashed online, at least as far as Nintendo would allow. At some point, he would find a "girlfriend" from Australia, but with both of them being so young, proper behaviors were never shown, and with bans going on with both accounts off and on over the next year, it made it even more difficult to maintain their friendship. Eventually after having used Miiverse for quite a while, Turret got falsely permabanned because another user sent mass reports to keep him from talking to some other person they were both friends with. Turret would proceed to create a new account and find out what happened, while also using Miiverse as much as he could before losing interest after the Summer 2015 Update was released. There, he would remain mostly silent, posting rarely, but mainly going out and finding "Bad Miiverse Posts," one of the biggest trends at the time which was made easier during the update as more posts deemed cringe worthy would be promoted more often. Of course, as nothing was meant to last, Miiverse would soon shut down on November 7, 2017, replacing it's main page to a giant mural of Thank You drawings by fans that formed a picture of the Miiverse logo and one of the stock Miis used in various Miiverse promotional works, until in more recent years the site would shut down completely. According to Turret, he currently has over 300 Miiverse posts saved to his computer, though this collection, sadly and obviously, won't be growing any bigger anytime soon.

On July 16, 2014, Turret's YouTube channel was created. Not much was going on due to the lack of proper equipment, such as a low-end Windows XP computer, no video editing programs, and bandicam (which took up too much space on his hard drive). After being introduced to FL Studio in late 2014 and making a couple remixes, he started uploading said remixes to his channel, using Screenblast ACID 4.0, a music mixing program that is now owned by Sony, as a "video editor," dragging in a song and one image to go with it (ACID could only support one image per project). Of course, as time went on, everything improved. Turret started using more audio resources in his music projects like soundfonts, samples, plugins, etc., he started using Sony Vegas, took the time to make his own graphic design look good, and even made a Sonic Fan Character with his username to fit in with the community. Now as of Jan. 23, 2022, he sits at nearly 18k subscribers, over 700 public videos, and 13 million total channel views.

Trivia

 * Turret has a severe nut allergy, currently allergic to everything except almonds, but he never knew himself until he was about 9 years old.
 * One of Turret's greatest childhood fears growing up was the famous THX logo. He used to have nightmares about it every single night for 8 years straight, and woke up in a cold sweat several nights during that time.
 * Turret's very first video game and favorite video game of all time is Ape Escape 2, and claims he wouldn't be the same person he is today without it, as it somehow played a part in helping him love the world around him, along with other games such as Sonic Unleashed playing a part as well.
 * Turret suffers from babyface as he's looked the exact same for almost his entire life, keeping that clean unshaven face a priority.
 * One of Turret's favorite pass times as a kid was watching his dad play games like Final Fantasy X and Gran Turismo 3.
 * Turret never swears. (but that doesn't mean he hasn't in the past)
 * One time, Turret tried opening the lid on his PS2 during the intro to Ape Escape 2 to see the disk spinning inside. It stopped spinning after a bit, leaving him confused, until the TV filled with gray and let out a loud white noise frequency that nearly stunned him from how sudden it was. He closed the lid, allowing the game to return to normal, and never did anything similar ever again.
 * When Turret was about 10 years old, he took a piano class with his aunt. Currently, he's forgotten everything he was taught due to the lack of piano use over the years.
 * Turret's first experience with making music wasn't actually with FL Studio. In late 2013, he bought Rytmik Retrobits for his 3DS, and while his original work wasn't the best at the time (even back then, he knew it was bad), he still attempted the next best thing and remixed a bunch of his favorite video game tracks. His dad found out about this program, and at some point introduced him to FL Studio.
 * Turret claims to be a Megaman fan, but hasn't played a single game in the series in his life. However, he also claims the series' music serves as a huge inspiration for his own musical work, stemming from countless comments that point out similarities in how remixes/compositions were arranged, only helping Turret realize the apparent influence Megaman has on his content.
 * Turret wanted Sonic Colors simply because of Reach for the Stars alone. He got it for Christmas in 2010 and still greatly enjoys the game anyways.
 * Shortly after getting Sonic Colors, Turret discovered an orange GameCube controller in one of the bins in their living room entertainment center. He still has absolutely no idea where they got it, or when.
 * Turret has made 10 Sonic Fan characters, dropped 4, and so far has only converted 3 of his characters into their permanent human forms as he feels having human OCs rather than Sonic related ones will be more appealing to the public.
 * Sometime around 2011-2012, the Wii, all their games, and that orange GameCube controller were sold. Turret believed it was because he accidentally hacked into his parents' PayPal account to buy Minecraft on the Xbox 360 plus the first two skin packs, but years later his dad claimed it was because "no one was playing it," despite the fact that Turret was still trying to get through Colors, and him and his siblings played Wii Sports or Just Dance 1/3 every other day.
 * Turret's only worst experience at Comic Con was laying eyes on a piece of artwork that depicted a zombified Charlie Brown and Woodstock standing next to a dead, gorey Snoopy, which he then forced himself to pull his first all-nighter to prevent any nightmares he might've had of that image.
 * Turret's username originates from the Portal series, where small, sentient turrets are placed in several levels with even more memorable voice lines. As for the 3471, it's a random number, but he still has an explanation: He's the 3471st Turret made in Aperture Laboratories.
 * Turret 3471 wasn't the first original username of choice. In 2009, he had the username Colin 8 (a play on his new favorite show, Ben 10) when playing Crayon Physics Deluxe. In 2012, he attempted to create an account for Flipnote Hatena named Yellow_Man, but failed because the instructions were too confusing. In 2014, he had a Scratch account called dentltek, but wanted an account with his own name since dentltek is what his dad went by on their Xbox 360 (said Xbox account's username has been changed).
 * The original plan for Turret's channel was going to be a collaborative gaming channel a la GameGrumps titled "The Negative Miners," but after seeing his friend make his own channel, he figured it wouldn't be worth the time to make that channel and went for his own as well. The first videos he ever recorded were back in early 2014, filmed on his 3DS, where him and his friend played Slender: The Eight Pages. These can be found in a recent reaction video he uploaded.
 * Turret highly prefers the Star Wars prequel trilogy over the original and sequels. This may or may not be affected by the LEGO game, as well as the Star Wars section in Tomorrowland in Disney Land. He feels these are the perfect depictions of Star Wars history, showing off plenty of lightsaber and blaster battles, memorable characters, and an aesthetic unlike any other in the series. After watching all three prequels back to back for the first time, he still stands by these opinions.
 * Turret's all time favorite show is Bravest Warriors, and would gladly watch and rewatch every season on repeat for months on end if he wanted to.
 * One of Turret's current favorite pass times is working on Super Mario Bros. X stuff, which before that, he used another, more limited Mario level editor called Super Mario Flash. This is also where he found his love for Mario 1's All-Stars graphics.
 * One time during a Google search spree, Turret found a strange fanmade level editor that let you choose between different playable characters from Mario, Sonic, Megaman, etc., while also being able to change enemy and item sizes, health, and effects. His sister closed the tab, and since he originally didn't know how to access the browser history, he hasn't been able to find said level editor since.
 * Out of everything Flash related that Turret wants preserved, he wants the official Falling Sand games (now that the website is dead) and the entire Hoops and Yoyo website (which has also died).
 * Turret claims that Sonic R's OST is video game soundtrack perfection, but you shouldn't listen to every track in the same day.
 * Despite feeling free to speak anything to anyone online without issue, Turret is actually really quiet in person due to social anxiety. He prefers to speak only when he feels it's absolutely necessary, but most of the time he'll remain quiet to prevent himself from interrupting anyone or getting into a conversation he knows nothing about. He also has an extremely hard time keeping eye contact with someone for longer than a second.
 * Turret is currently working on a conceptual series called Arcadius, a universe that takes place entirely inside an extremely advanced virtual reality video game world. In the future, he hopes this can become an official game, cartoon, comic book collection, even a movie if possible.
 * One of Turret's biggest regrets on his channel was his "remix" of the Sonic X opening theme Gotta Go Fast, which became his most viewed video twice, and garnered more attention and praise than anything he had worked on in the past and was releasing afterwards. According to Turret, it was planned as a joke remix, with little to no effort put into making the project sound any good. The original video has been deleted, but multiple reuploads can be found across YouTube.
 * Turret has been to a furry convention, but confirmed before he attended that he is not a furry, and went to support his cousin and her artwork.
 * From July 2020 to August 2021, Turret took an IT Security class.
 * Turret has been stuck at 120 lbs for almost 4 years, except for a brief period of time in 2018 right before getting his State ID where he measured at 117. He went back to 120 within the next couple months.
 * According to Turret in his first UNO video, one of his ancestors is John Howland, one of the pilgrims on the Mayflower who infamously fell overboard and was rescued soon after. Many Americans today believe they wouldn't exist if he wasn't rescued.
 * Turret has hinted several times throughout his time on the internet that he heavily prefers larger women, evident from some safe artists he currently follows on Twitter and one of his OCs, Katy, who he designed to be larger when coming up with her human design "for the sake of being big."
 * Turret can be found across a wide variety of websites, which includes YouTube, Soundcloud, Discord, Scratch, Planet Minecraft, SMBX + PGE Forums, MFGG + Forums, SMW Central, Patreon, Steam, Casting Call Club, and BrickLink.
 * Turret and his friends went to the premiere of the Sonic the Hedgehog movie, though he had to deal with being sick the entire time, skipping work later in the week and dealing with serious coughing that made it harder to breathe (his dad had to deal with the same sickness near the beginning of the year). This was about a month before the national covid lockdown  which was supposed to last a month , where some of the reported symptoms of covid-19 were nearly identical to what he experienced.
 * May 10, 2021 would mark Turret's last day in the Shack. A discussion was held about the NoContextRemixingShack Twitter account, since Turret ran the account but hadn't posted anything in months. Originally he had just simply lost interest in running the account after being cancelled in January of the same year, but it slowly became more about "the quality of the server," since a bunch of new people had joined and showed off their personalities in the server, ultimately affecting the Shack Energy and causing new rules to be made in order to get the server back to normal. Turret hadn't caught on to these complaints and concerns from many other server members until recently, as he explained the overall server quality was decreasing, thus also affecting the quality of screenshots submitted for the Twitter account to post. After a seemingly harmless discussion, and the mention of a voting system which Turret was going to agree on, another member suddenly called him an anarchist, which ended up being the main cause of Turret's departure. While Turret has had a history of leaving the server, taking a break, then returning later the same week, he had no plans to return to the server after this event.
 * July 25, 2021, Turret returned to the Remixing Shack server. Oops.
 * On January 7th, 2021, Turret celebrated the 5th anniversary of his Twitter account by deleting it live. His livestream lasted nearly 8 hours and was mostly filled with him and his friends having fun, talking, playing games, and whatnot. His Twitter account was officially deleted on the dot of the original creation at 2:03 PM, around 2 hours into his stream.
 * Remarkably, Turret is still single. He has absolutely no experience with dating/relationships. He is sad.

Great Quotes

 * You absolute frick!
 * I'm better than Tomoya Ohtani instrument-wise
 * Baboomba
 * Anything ending with the "-ly" suffix
 * What do you mean
 * I could, but should?
 * Cease and desist or cease to exist!