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My name is Kevin (Kev). I'm a 6'2 pasty white Colombian. There's a quite high probability - on top of ADHD, chronic severe depression, and general anxiety disorder - that I'm autistic.

Yes I think trains are cool. Yes I think compsognathus is the best dinosaur.

No, a STRIPED Hyæna (Hyæna Hyæna, my fav and my OC)
is not the same as a SPOTTED Hyæna (Crocuta Crocuta, the laughing one).

musical stuffs

I started making music when I was around 17 or 18. I started with general MIDI using Aria Maestosa, learning how to use piano rolls n shit. Then I experimented with Caustic (when it was actually good...and free) and learned by re-creating songs I liked. I also messed with Budgerigar for a bit but then (again) that became a paid app. I then discovered trackers and fell in love with making chiptunes.

Fast-forward a few years and I found an app called SunVox. It has everything I'd been looking for for years, all in one. It's a tracker but with a modern interface, it's a sequencer but without the annoying fluff, and it's a modular system that isn't DRAMATICALLY over-complicated. It's byotiful, it's easy (for me) to use... and it's FREE, with a BSD license (at least for the underlying engine).

gaming stuffs

I was introduced to games through my siblings' SNES with Mario Kart. My memory with that is vague, but I remember playing Yoshi or Toad a lot. I then remember watching my brother play Dark Cloud on PS2. We were in a different city at the time, and I was only around 3-4 years old I think.

When I reached 1st grade in elementary/primary school, I finally had my own system, which was a PSOne (yes spelled like that; specifically the tiny round-cornered white one). My very first personally owned games were Disney's The Emperor's New Groove (one of the ONLY GOOD Disney games holy shit), Spyro the Dragon, and Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back (thank fuck i skipped 1, that one was horrible). Eventually I also had Resident Evil: DX and SPAWN™ (granted they were meant to be my sister's but that changed), CTR: Crash Team Racing, and Syphon Filter 2 & 3.

When I was 10 I was introduced to a lot of games and systems back-to-back, so my memory is cloudy; I had TLoZelda: Twilight Princess on Wii, I played gamecube stuff, I played Xbox360...there was a lot. You do not recognize the bodies in the water. What really shaped my game preferences though is very very bizarre, cause there's no way this would've happened to a normal 10-year old. My brother - who I lived with for a couple years - had a niche friend group. They were into anime and more obscure games, but also happened to sail the seven seas (kudos to them, the seas are lovely ouo). I was introduced to stuff I didn't know could exist, like a JP copy of a sort of open-area third person shooter Gundam game (which was fucking cool).

They also played a lot of FPS games, so I got to try that out very early... and it definitely stuck with me. The weird thing though is that I didn't get into FPS games cause of PC - my first FPS was played on Dreamcast with Southpaw controls, and it was Half-Life: Blue Shift... I know, VERY weird, but it was good ouo. I then also played Unreal Tournament on the same system. At some point I was allowed to play stuff on PC, like Medal of Honor, Battlefield 2142, etc.

A couple years later, I had a PS2 Slim. I had SSX Tricky, Choro Q, Dark Cloud 2 (much better than 1 imo), and a bunch of others that I don't remember off the top of my head. While it wasn't as influencial a time for me, it still shaped my love for early 2000s gaming. Fast-forward some time and I eventually have my own Steam account, Half-Life 2, Portal... you get the idea. All the good shit. Garry's Mod also helped with my creative side.