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hyowdy!! (again...)
to put it shortly(ish) im a guy from the KAUKASIA
(fifty years old... wait no-- fiftEEN yers old)
on the internet i go by vysot or visot... or wigujm... or drunkyard or whatever the heck i think of while signing up--
but MOSTLY/mainly vysot or its alternate spellings
i like pretty much everything: history, cartography, cultures, wikipedia chess, art, linguistics, languages, game dev, music, computers, linux and some other more small interests
AHEM-- clash royale, nes/gameboy advance/dos games, old flash games, animal farm, ck2, youtube, geopolitics*, writing and finally web dev (duh)
how do i manage my hobbies? well i swap em around once in a while. like CURRENTLY (as of writing this) im learning godot, anatomy (for art), makin maps n music, also alt his, and chess... when i get bored, i guess ill start learning languages and making shty conlangs or rice my desktop
lets ahem uh, get hyperspecific on each:
HIS TORY
i LOVE history, its FASCINATING, my fav time period is post ww1 cuz its generally such underrated, chaotic (but not TOO chaotic, just the right amount of chaotic) and unexplored time period cuz its overshadowed by ww2. FUCK YOU HITLER!!!!
(btw this is ONE SMALL of MANY reasons to hate him, his ideology and actions)
i also love map games (ck2) and more modern-ish medival era... and also pre napoleonic eras-- OK TO PUT IT SHORT, i like the more niche time periods and more niche stuff
my fav figure is frederick the great
(honorable mention being zviad gamsakhurdia)
my fav historic country is the democratic republic of georgia (honorable mention being first republic of armenia)
but sometimes history can be sad... SO LETS RE WRITE IT! ALTERNATE HISTORYYYY!!! WRITE FANFICS ABOUT WHAT IF THIS HAPPENED INSTEAD OF THAT YAYYYY
i could yap about this FOR SO. LONG. trust me i am BARELY stopping myself and am trying MY ABSOLUTE HARDEST to keep this short
CARTOGRAPHIA
i have 10000000 different maps on my hard drive most of which are shitty... but STILL maps are FUN. I LOVE MAPS
and i also make maps, mostly in libresprite. i screenshot marble (btw look up marble kde its one of the greatest application ever... i know google earth is also a thing but i like this more) then trace! to give some examples... this is my animated map: here
and heres a random map from /home/downloads/lesmapes/myownmaps :3
name of european countries in georgian
yes its literally a shitpost... BUT MAP!!!1
SHESS
i used to play since i was in kindergarden. i STILL HAVE MEMORIES of the games. my strategy was to literally copy everything my opponent does, and when they think they're cooking, i suddenly stop copying them. this worked somehow-- or adults just went easy on me...
and for a while i used to play RELIGIOUSLY. study, analyse openings, play games like crazy. and play tournamments every now and then. i even have a fide profile now!
(which i wont be sharing since it contains a lotta personal information bout me ;w;)
my chess "personality" is goofy!! I LOVE sacrificing queens for 2 pieces for... no reason, at all, (cuz its kewl) i love dubious openings (allgair gambit, irish gambit...) tho i wont actually play them in rated games ;w;
but now im more of a casual. i go to my local chess club, play, come back, MAYBE study some openings or do puzzles but yea. im currently ~1660 blitz on chess.com (peak being ~1700)
and on lichess im ~1900, but lichess' rating system i hear is a bit inflated so...
LINUX
im on debian and all the computers and laptops i ever had were really fucking old and bad and linux breathes life into them! i also like ricing it (aka customising it)
my favourite desktop envoirment is cinnamon and favourite cli is ninvaders or ttysolitaire
heres my current rice :3
also i prefer x11 cause im on a trackpad and i NEED touchegg. and also the mouse is more snappy in x11 than in wayland
but nowadays im a lil more shy when it comes to linux because of all the elitism i see. like i saw some dude say switching to linux in 2006 was a "recent convert"... ?????? huh, i wasnt even born in 2006????? and just in general i see many beginners getting into linux get trashed on for no reason just because theyre new
ART.
self taught! ive been drawing ever since i was a little kid. art is THE BEST, it has helped me in life SO. FRIGGIN. MUCH. i get free grades just from my project's art being good
i am slowly beginning to post them here: school doodles and computart
heres an old sketch btw
as for style, im a simple man! i draw using kolourpaint (shoutout kolourpaint) and trackpad digitally (not joking), and basic dark pencil physically
i also do pixel art but mostly for my games (and i use libresprite for em)
it is so sad to see ai ruin such a beautiful field...
gosh whats with me ending stuff on a bad note T-T
LANG-OO-AZH
im native* in russian n georgian (the asterisk is a long story) and fluent in english. i also know itsy bitsy bits of french spanish and slovakian of all things. but i also dabbled in so many others like arabic, armenian and serbian
im very good at just... breezing thru a1 and then getting hard stuck on a2. and that's why learning languages has become kinda demotivating for me and thats why i swap languages evey 10 seconds and never commit
пссст, я скажу тебя секрет... я не магу... писат харашо... подажди не писат а... ах сука, как сказац "спелл"??
блин я болше не так часто гавару по русскам и по етаму я забил очин много слов.. и граматику... и произнишеню... И ВСО БЛИНННН
но я со равно магу понимат всо. я толка не магу спомнит слов тагда я гавару
ქართული ყველა ენას ჯობია... მეტი დასამატი არაფერია
LINGUISTICS
i feel like this should have a seperate category. i made my own lil conlangs, i love looking at different languages' phonetic charts and evolution. it's kinda like learning other languages... without actually learning them!
AND SCRIPTS мммм ᲐᲜᲑᲐᲜᲘᲘᲘᲘ. i can write in hangeul, mkhedruli, cyrrilic and latin and LIIIIL bits of arabic and armenian
as a smolll note i can WRITE in these scripts... not type.. like as in keyboard cuz... fuq. i can only type in russian georgian and english
my fav script is mkhedruli, its THE most phonetic writing script IN THE WORLD. cyrrilic is meh but its cursive is so beautiful and fun to write in i have no idea why people hate it prob just cope cuz they themselves cant learn in it. shoutout to amharic, and somali script(s) which FOR SOME REASON. arent being used????????
btw i am not a professional nor am i THAT educated in it but i still enjoy it from afar