ABOUT // TQ ROOSTER

I’m Adam Neary — better known online as TQ Rooster. I’m a dad of five, a lifelong gamer, a martial artist, a field service engineer, and the creator behind the #SagaNetwork.

My life has always lived at the intersection of machines, movement, and rebuilding — fixing what breaks, learning from the failure, and trying again with a little more wisdom and a little better airflow. The Saga Network is where all of that finally comes together.

Early Gaming & The First Real PC

I grew up between two homes after my parents divorced when I was around five. No matter which house I was at, games were the constant thread. The NES and Super Nintendo raised me on Final Fantasy, Final Fantasy VI, Chrono Trigger, Castlevania, Mega Man, Zelda, Battletoads, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and a long list of worlds I could disappear into when everything else felt loud.

Around 1995 my father brought home my first real PC — a small beige Hewlett-Packard tower running Windows 95. It wasn’t a family computer; it was mine. I loaded it with Command & Conquer, Red Alert, early tactical shooters, and anything I could get my hands on.

By 1999–2000, that little HP was struggling to keep up. Instead of giving up on it, I upgraded: first a Sound Blaster 16, then a 3dfx Voodoo3. Those parts weren’t just “better graphics” — they were my first proof that a machine could evolve. They were the upgrades that let me step into Diablo II and really feel what PC gaming could be.

The tower overheated so badly in the summer that I pulled the side panel off and pointed a full oscillating fan straight into the motherboard. Crude, but effective. That hack taught me more about cooling, airflow, and problem-solving than any manual ever could.

Growing Up Tall & In Motion

I hit a growth spurt early and kept going until I reached 6′7″. I come from a family of giants — uncles over seven feet, cousins pushing the same. Our family gatherings felt like pickup games waiting to happen.

From childhood through high school, basketball and baseball were a constant rhythm: summers of back-to-back leagues, practices, and games. I eventually focused on basketball and played through high school before walking away near my junior year — a choice that stings a little in hindsight, but opened the door to everything that came after.

Martial Arts Path

Martial arts showed up in three big waves in my life.

In early childhood, before the divorce, I trained in karate for a few months. It wasn’t long, but it planted the seed for structure, posture, and awareness.

In my teenage years, I moved into Pi Lum Kung Fu, training for around two years from late middle school into my junior year of high school. That’s where I started building real conditioning, body awareness, and respect for practice.

Years later, I came back to martial arts as an adult at the Asian Martial Arts Academy. Our school hosted a seminar to raise funds for a Sanda / Shuai Jiao trip to China, and that’s where I met Great-Grandmaster David Lin Chin. He weighed maybe 110 lbs, but with a simple wrist-lock, he threw a 6′7″, 250-lb version of me flat onto the mat and laughed the whole time. That one moment convinced me that internal martial arts were not just theory — they were very real.

Today I train under Grandmaster Robert, and I assist at the school alongside my school brother Jason, who has stepped into the lead instructor role while Grandmaster Robert remains our guide. I keep training, teaching where I’m needed, and working steadily toward my third-degree black sash.

Family & Real Life

Outside the dojo and the workshop, life is full. I married my wife on 11/11/2006 — 19 years and counting. We’re raising five kids now, spread across two chapters of life — two boys and three girls — each with their own rhythm and reason for being here.

They’re the reason I fight to keep moving, keep rebuilding, and keep finding a way forward when things break. The chaos of parenting, work, and long nights rebuilding systems is where #ManagedChaos comes from — the honest overlap between life, hardware, gaming, and the days when nothing goes according to plan.

Streaming & The Saga Network

I first stepped into streaming around 2017–2018 under the name Rooster Gaming, playing titles like Kingdom Come: Deliverance and PUBG. My hardware wasn’t built for it, so I used NDI to offload encoding to a second PC and squeezed every frame I could out of aging parts. Eventually, that setup hit its limit — and the next wave of rebuilds began.

The nickname Rooster came earlier in life on construction sites, after a phase of bright red and blue hair that faded into wild colors under the summer sun. A coworker took one look and said I looked like a rooster — and the name stuck. TQ later joined as a nod to turquoise, the color I keep circling back to for calm and balance.

Now, under the TQ Rooster banner, all of it ties together: the builds, the streams, the martial arts, the parenting, and the long-form project called the Saga Network.

Current Signals

Hashtags I operate under

• #SagaNetwork — builds & progress, systems, and long-term projects.
• #ManagedChaos — life / work / parent / gaming chaos moments between the big milestones.
• #RoosterLive — the live-side identity when boots hit digital dirt.

This isn’t just “content” for me. It’s a long, messy, disciplined rebuild of a life — documented one chapter, one system, and one stream at a time.

The Saga Network Philosophy

The Saga Network is a living story universe built from real lives, not fiction. It is made of rebuilds, recoveries, close calls, quiet wins, and the long, messy work of trying again when everything says you should quit.

#BuildSaga is my branch of that universe — the hardware arcs, rebuild logs, upgrades, failures, and comebacks. #ManagedChaos is the mindset that keeps it all moving — discipline inside the storm instead of pretending the storm isn’t there. #SagaNetwork is the shared space where everyone’s chapters live together.

Some sagas are loud: new builds, fresh tech, big plays on stream. Some sagas are quiet: rehab exercises, late-night journaling, small victories no one else sees. Both matter. Both belong here.

The philosophy is simple: we break, we learn, we rebuild. Sometimes that means repairing a PC. Sometimes it means rebuilding a body, a routine, or a sense of self after everything goes sideways. Either way, the work is the same — piece by piece, step by step.

This space exists for people who refuse to stay broken. If you’re in the middle of a rebuild — physical, mental, financial, creative, or technical — you’re already part of the Saga Network. Naming it just gives the journey a place to live.

What You’ll Find Here

This space isn’t about perfection. It’s about process — the real saga behind rebuilding a life, a machine, a mindset, or a future.

• PC builds and rebuilds — hardware arcs, diagnostics, failures, fixes, and full overhauls logged like chapters.
• Martial and mindset work — lessons pulled from tai chi, martial practice, and learning to move through pressure instead of breaking under it.
• Recovery and resilience — navigating injury, setbacks, and long rebuilds without sugarcoating the hard parts.
• Streaming and games — Battlefield, chaos, teamwork, and the stories that spill out of late-night sessions.
• Signals and logs — reflections, Codex-style entries, and quiet transmissions from the edge of the algorithm.

If any part of your life feels like a rebuild, you’re already in the right place. The Saga Network is just the name we give to the path forward.