Alex Knowles

Alex Knowles (also known as Tid) is a fairly well known user on the McLeodGaming Forums, who is recognized as a Spam Section member, SSF2 Developer, and before that, an SSF2 Balancer. He joined early January 2009, and has been an active user since.

History
Tid joined on the 3rd of January, 2009. He announced that he intended to help out with the Smash Flash DOJO!!, which was unavailable due to maintenance problems at the time, and introduced himself with what is still regarded as one of the worst New User topics ever made. After that, he frequented he SSF2 section, but slowly branched out to other parts of the site and eventually got involved with the MG community, and joined the Spam Section.

As a Spriter and Developer
Since joining the Forums, Tid has always wanted to at least participate or contribute to the creation of Super Smash Flash 2. His first attempts were poor recolors of some already made stages. He, however, eventually moved on to actual spriting, and began work on Mario Circuit, his first custom stage. Progress on the stage grew slower and slower, until Mario Circuit was discontinued. However, Tid continued to help by uploading various Kirby and Bowser animations. As Tid continued learning to sprite, he realized that he was far better at stages than any other part of the game, so he began to wok on Castle Entrance, a stage that represented all of the first Castlevania game. It was originally disliked, however as more was done to the stage, general feedback became more positive. After Tid left McLeodGaming for three months, he entirely remade the stage. While this version made it into the devs section, it was eventually unaccepted. Tid realized he was getting better and continued to create two entirely unique stages, End of Time and Dream Den, both of which were accepted and liked by Cleod9. By this point, Tid had been accepted as an SSF2 Developer, and while he doesn't do much to help with character development, he consistently makes new stages for the game. It should be noted that before Tid got into spriting, he was already a Balancer for SSF2.

As a Dojo Operative
One of the first things Tid made known about himself was his will to help out the DOJO!!. He even went to the extent to make a temporary DOJO!! while the real one was down, and it was updated regularly, receiving a couple of hundred hits a day, until it was discontinued in favor of the DOJO v2 coded in Flash, which Tid frequently creates updates for. Within the DOJO!! Operative community, most agree that Tid is one of the best, if not the best, writer in the group, almost all of his updates receiving high ratings and instantly being added to the list of complete updates. He even had his detailed and helpful list of writing tips added to a sticky topic in that section.

Name Changes
As a small joke, and for something fun to do, every one or two months Tid will have his name changed to something that has something to do with his original name. These include Kyaputen Tid, Tiddlywinks, The Ironic Dude, TID+, Man-Tid, and Tidraptor.

While it has never been explained in detail, Tid claims that each one of these names has some sort of meaning behind them.

Incompetence MG comic
Tid's appearance in MG comic showed his avatar and made a reference to his Nuzlocke challenge of Pokémon Leafgreen.