Consumption

This page is dedicated to media, literature and books I consume. I will probably clean this up and have them as lists later. As always this is very much a work in progress.

Games

Games have had a disproportionate influence on who I am.

Age of Empires II: Age of Kings

I think if I were to attribute my personality to a game, it would probably be this one. I first started playing this game on my Compaq system with a pirated copy from my neighbour. Each campaign in the original age of kings version had a profound impact on me and led me to appreciate the various cultures of the world, and to develop a... peculiar music taste. Thanks to AoE2 I now listen to turkic and mongolian throat singing and appreciate medieval music from the crusades and baltic folk music as well. It also ignited my interest in history and the empires of the world, particularly the mongol empire (I will write about this someday on my substack lol). I sometimes still play AoE2 competitively, though not as frequently as I used to, you can find my profile here.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Series

An all time classic. The campaign is still one of the best in any shooter. I remember trading my LEGO Ninjago comic book with a friend for a UAn all-time classic. The campaign is still one of the best in any shooter. I remember trading my LEGO Ninjago comic book with a friend for a USB with MW4, a life-changing experience and one of the reasons I have an interest in military aviation. You can probably tell by now that video games have had a major impact on me growing up. A mission I'll forever remember from this series was All Ghillied Up, where you're deployed as an SAS operative in Pripyat, Ukraine, to assassinate a terrorist. You need to understand how cool this felt to play as a kid.

DOOM

I didn't play the modern DOOM releases, I got into DOOM because I wanted to make my own DOOM style FPS game. (I never got to it, someday ;-;). However I did end up reading the Game Engine Black Book DOOM by Fabien Sanglard and learnt a lot, years later DOOM is still an integral part of my experiments with AI agents and world models, I've learnt a lot of CS thanks to this game :)

Cyberpunk 2077

I started playing cyberpunk because on a random day while I was chilling in my dorm room, my friend walks in and logs into his steam account on my laptop. Turns out he had cyberpunk 2077 on there and I always wanted to try the game. I was addicted to it and have around 700 hundred hours on that game, I was playing this on the night before my Physics finals. Needless to say, this game is a 10/10, the world building, the plot, the actions scenes everything is too perfect. I cannot wait for cyberpunk orion. The themes of cyberpunk have inspired my work and aesthetic taste I think. Mike Pondsmith is a literary genius and deserves a Nobel Prize for his work!

Music

Work in Progress!

Cinema

Work in Progress!

Books

Work in Progress!

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