Shawn Nelson is a very talented video game player, who used to play StarCraft and other games with Patrick McElhiney and Josh Pope, including at ENTECH night out events that were held, usually at Turlock High School. Shawn was known as "assman", the alias he got from the Seinfeld episode. Shawn married his sweetheart, whom he met at the Ryker Ct house where Patrick lived with Shawn Nelson, Dwonne Chon, and Jason Couto, among others. They would basically go out drinking at local bars such as Tracks, and play video games all the time. Shawn was pretty good at StarCraft, and usually played with the Zerg race, whereas Patrick would usually play Protos, and Josh would play Terrain.