Solark
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About me
Welcome to my wall of text! You have my absolute blessing to not read this if you don't care or if you also have a short attention span. I just wanted a place to be overly verbose and it was starting to get really difficult to trim my bio below 4000 characters.

On Steam I play a lot of singleplayer, as well as a couple that I play both alone and with friends like Don't Starve (and/or DST) or Valheim, and a few that technically have a solo option but which basically demand multiplayer, like Helldivers 2 or Deep Rock Galactic.

This bit is important: I am awful at picking favorites of any kind, let alone video games. I own far too many to even attempt picking just one, and my 'favorites list' is well over 200 and constantly growing. The game that I have listed as my favorite on my profile is in fact just the game I've been obsessively playing for the past couple hours/days/weeks because I've been hooked on it. I don't really know why I do it, I just get the urge to occasionally update it (except for when I forget to, in which case you can just look at my recently played, if the "favorite" doesn't show up in those top three I probably forgor).

If I had to choose some go-to genres, they'd probably be:
- cooperative team/class based PvE horde/extraction shooters (good examples are the aforementioned DRG and HD2, and what little of GTFO I played over one free weekend (my friends didn't like it, so I returned it :meepsad:))
- metroidvanias, especially the metroid part god i can't believe Dread is already three years old,
- immersive sims (a couple favorites in no particular order being Gloomwood, Prey 2017, Dishonored, and of course System Shock (the remake obvs, I'm a zoomer),
- survival base-adaptation (and base-building too, but moreso when you can retrofit an existing location to become a base such as in) games like The Long Dark and Project Zomboid, and even more especially if that base (or part of that base (or at least a customizable vehicle or something)) gets to move around with you as you explore, à la Subnautica's Cyclops and Seatruck or Pacific Drive's... car. If you know of any other games that do that sort of thing, please for the love of god message me I hunger for more,
- Boom shoots
- RPGs, especially souls-likes or ones that don't quite fit the mold, à la Earthbound (although that game had such an impact ON the mold I almost hesitate to list it),
- automation and (some) colony-sim games, like Factorio (my beloved), Oxygen Not Included, Rimworld, Satisfactory, etc. etc.
(sorry that section was such a mess, I have a problem with parentheses)

Above all that though, niche, idiosyncratic indie games (indiosyncratic games if you will) with rough but interesting gameplay take priority for me, and will (in my opinion) always top AAA games with polished but boring gameplay. Off the top of my head, Duskers, Pacific Drive, and Receiver 2 are just a few of my favorites that i would slot into this category. There's just something about the attitude most have, where it feels like the game itself actively hates you, gives you an unforgivingly difficult task where all odds are stacked against you, and forces you to figure everything out on your own while it gleefully kicks the ♥♥♥♥ out of you over and over and over until you figure out a way to get ahead of it using its own unique mechanics and systems, even if it's just something simple like mastering the funky controls (looking at you Receiver 2, with your 500 key bindings) or movement or whatever. I have yet to find a feeling more satisfying. Unless a game with that attitude is poorly designed, then it is the absolute worst. It takes a lot of finesse to make head-to-wall bashing gameplay satisfying and not immensely frustrating (and you do often need a thick skull anyways).

I also looooove post-apocalypse or post-disaster settings. Anything from your average scorched earth post-nuclear/weird radioactive hellscape à la S.T.A.L.K.E.R. or Fallout, particularly 1 and 2 (and kinda tactics, but that isn't really my game-genre of tea so to speak), that isometric view scratches an itch in my brain (and godddddd the bulky look of the power armor, walking tank style), to more unique causes, like the First Flare from The Long Dark, the Mindkill from Receiver, or the toxic spores of The Wandering Village. I don't know if it's the lore of the civilization that came before, the cool technology, the ruined cities & landscapes, the plant and animal (and/or robot) life unique to each game, or whatever else, they're just my absolute favorite places/times for games to be set in.

(If you don't care for specs, skip this part)
I have a modified prebuilt G5 5000 with a GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER, 24GB of DRAM, and an i7-10700 as well as a 24" 165 Hz monitor, Razer Ornata keyboard, and a G502 HERO mouse. I've got the default 1TB HDD boot drive as well as a 2TB HDD from an old work computer. I also have a 2TB SSD installed that I would very much like to make my boot drive, but this infernal machine refuses to acknowledge that it's in my M.2 slot no matter what I do (IIRC (it has been a long time since I ♥♥♥♥♥♥ with it so I might be misremembering), I think I managed to get it to recognize that it was plugged in while fiddling with it, but it specifically refuses to format it and I DON'T KNOW WHY), and I've been putting off going to the shop for a few years (which is why I can't remember the details). The fans run loud, I get a lot of micro-stutters (by which I mean anywhere up to 30 consecutive seconds of being totally frozen), and the inside looks like a thousand-year-old tomb with how much dust there is. She's definitely starting to show her age, but I have absolutely no money to be spending on upgrades or, god forbid, a new rig, and she does her job well enough that I can't be bothered to try and tinker with her lest I break something.

Here are some personal facts and/or philosophies for your reading pleasure.
1) I'm really gay. people hot.
2) I describe myself as a moderately outgoing introvert. I used to be massively antisocial, and even though I've had a decent amount of social practice in the last half-decade or so, it still often shows. I'm pretty quiet until I get socially warmed up for the day, but I'm not usually shy. Instead of the "social battery" analogy, I prefer to describe it like a "social heating coil." I take a while to get going, but after that I can keep socializing until I cool down, then I immediately need to rest.
3) A few favorite hobbies of mine besides gaming, in no particular order: climbing (mainly bouldering), rafting, backpacking, snowboarding, cycling, driving, writing (in case you didn't catch that from the rest of this ♥♥♥♥-off massive block of text), and swearing
4) I wear headphones nonstop, but I find it just impossible to entirely describe my taste in music. I've tried making lists of songs, artists, genres, but they always end up woefully inadequate so I've mostly given up trying to categorize. I can at least say breakcore, synth, and late 90's early 00's style grunge and metal have almost never failed me. I like a lot of experimental ♥♥♥♥.
5) I really hate toxicity of any form in games, it just sucks any possible fun right down the drain no matter who's doing it. My avoidance of it is probably 90% of why I play almost no PvP games and vastly prefer PvE in any multiplayer I do participate in.
6) I try to never judge anyone prematurely, besides the obvious exceptions (gamers)
7) If you've ever remembered something you did and "cringed," it's because you've grown as a person. If you can look back on those days without cringing, that means you have become truly

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Comments
[NSG] shecryan 7 Apr, 2023 @ 6:40pm 
its ok i commented w
Solark 7 Apr, 2023 @ 4:31pm 
:'(
[NSG] shecryan 7 Apr, 2023 @ 6:53am 
L no comment