TL;DR: I’m KisanoWasTaken, and I am a boy who wants to feel alive
I’ve been putting this off way too long, due to me trying to think of the best way to make a good impression, because I’m scared of being rejected from this community for saying something wrong, but to be honest, it’s better try and lose a game, rather than never knowing if you’re good enough so…hey.
Who are you?
Name’s KisanoWasTaken and I do a lot of things. I’m a boy of many interests, especially loving rhythm games, niche computer nerd things and above all, Jesus Christ. I’m based in the British Isles, and wish to not elaborate too much further than that. Also, I’m a minor (13 < x < 18), so watch out. Also, I rarely ever am on forums, so if there’s any forums etiquette that’s associated with this kind of place, please let me know. Also, dogs and ferrets are cool and you won’t change my mind.
Why are you here?
To be honest, with the ongoing corporatism and ens***tification of the internet, I felt…empty. Every interaction was focused on “how do I get people to like my posts so big number goes up and dopamine hits” rather than “how do I communicate genuine information to people and have real interactions”. Twitter was a hellscape and bluesky, not much better (at least bsky didn’t try to promote you know what). Along with that, I didn’t feel comfortable with the idea of every word I say, every script I make, every meme post I give out would be fed into some artificial “intelligence” machine. Yes AI, has its uses, like training doctors and making crippled people walk once more, but I don’t need it to do all my coding and art for me, even if I suck absolute cheeks at them
. So I decided to switch gears and make forum accounts instead, currently on NG and here. I want to create without having a constant need to poison everything I make. I want to express, not limited by a small block of words. I want to live once again, having that same excitement for the internet as I did before
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So, what do you do?
While the only thing I have to show for my supposed programming skills is a barely decorated website on the neocities project, I know a bit of everything, choosing to specialise in multi purpose languages (python), art generative languages (HTML shipped with CSS and minimal JS, when I learn it) and low level (C/C++). I aspire to strike a balance between working a decent job and programming games for fun, whether it be a horror game for modern PCs or a short, sweet story on a fantasy console or an earthbound rom hack
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When I’m not losing all hope trying to code in C++ and python, you can usually catch me playing rhythm games, bullet hell and story driven games. Maybe an older game here and there. These days, I usually play Stepmania on pad and occasion, Unnamed Sound Voltex Clone and osu! (all either open source or coming to be). I’m currently also trying to beat Touhou 6 and 7, with my record stages being 5 and 3 respectively (5 and 2 if you only count stages I’ve beaten, not reached) and have recently beaten FreeDoom Phase 2 on GZDoom. For games I especially love, I try to create levels and simfiles for them (although, not a single one is either finished or has left my hard drive, which is honestly disappointing of me). Right now, I’m working on beating portal and Mirror’s Edge. I’m also rushing to finish something before the end of valentines (might fail anyway haha)
Listening to music from many amazing musicians, ranging from more laid back jazz from Casiopea to Song That Plays When You Are About To Dislocate Both Hands In A Rhythm Game type beats from Kobaryo (speedcore is actually so cool, when you get through the mess of tracks) inspired me to make my own tracks. My DAWs of choice are LMMS and OpenMPT, but choose what works for you! The kind of music I plan on making is just whatever comes to my head, honestly, which is right now old-school Happy Hardcore, breakcore, harsh noise and OpenMPT “chiptune”. Like my gaming projects, nothing has been released just yet, but here’s hoping by the end of spring I have something!
As I mentioned earlier, even though I’m bad at it, I’m taking up drawing as a skill. I don’t wish to use AI generated images, even if everyone else is. I prefer the feeling of making something with your own hands.
Until there’s a safe way to transfer money anonymously, for now, I won’t accept donations or commissions, and likely won’t for the foreseeable future (since none of what I do is worth it anyway lol)
that’s me. If you were to give me any longer I shall take up this page! I’ll continue ig requested
ps: you are very cool.
ps: hardcore tano*c, if you see this, please bring back WACCA.