Me

おたく

I am a latter day bugman. My pseudonym comes from Salvador Dalí, wali from the Arabic الولى.

I edit this site using GNU Emacs, there are no build tools used. Best way to get in touch may be via my Neocities profile.

Interests

Programming, art, cooking, 90s aesthetic, philosophy, politics, history, design, amateur mathematics, cryptography, auto-didactism, music, keyboards, video gaming, outdoorsmanship, knives, guns.

Books (top picks)

  • Franz Kafka - The Trial
  • Michel Houllebecq - Whatever
  • Fyodor Dostoevsky - Notes From Underground
  • Arthur Schopenhauer - Essays
  • David Benatar - Better to Have Never Been
  • Costin Alamariu - Selective Breeding and the Birth of Philosophy
  • René Guénon - The Crisis of the Modern World
  • Ted Kaczynski - Technological Slavery
  • Jacques Ellul - The Technological Society
  • George Tsakraklides - Unhappiness Machine
  • Thomas Ligotti - The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust

Video games

brainbot Atelic: Armored Core VI, Metal Gear Solid, Death Stranding, Grand Theft Auto V, Red Alert 2 + Mental Omega, Total Annihilation, StarCraft 1 & 2, Fallout 1 & 2, Portal 1 & 2, Half-Life series, classic Doom, H3VR.

Telic: CS2, Fortnite.

Musical artistscat

Cluster A: Amenra ⬤, envy ⬤, Alcest, pg.99, Loma Prieta ⬤3, Saetia ⬤, Orchid, Daïtro, Still Life, Suffocate For Fuck Sake, Raein ⬤2, Deafheaven ⬤3, Deftones, Heaven In Her Arms, Lantlôs

Cluster B: TR/ST ⬤4, HEALTH ⬤2, Drab Majesty ⬤2, Kontravoid ⬤, Boy Harsher ⬤, Schwefelgelb, Музыка для грузовых лифтов, LLLL, Aphex Twin, Electroforez, Zanias, Keluar, Linea Aspera

Cluster C: Whirr ⬤, Boris ⬤2, Unwound ⬤, Slint, Alice In Chains, Кино, Wisp ⬤, julie, toe, My Bloody Valentine ⬤, Slowdive ⬤, Chernikovskaya Hata, Ling Tosite Sigure

Cluster D: Erik Satie, Claude Debussy, yeule ⬤2, Chelsea Wolfe ⬤2, Emma Ruth Rundle ⬤, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Current 93, Have A Nice Life, Death Grips, Spangle call Lilli line

⬤ - seen live

Films

★ Dark City, Eyes Wide Shut, The City of Lost Children, Pi, No Country for Old Men, A Scanner Darkly, ★ American Psycho, 12 Angry Men, 回路, ★ 自殺サークル, ★ Ichi the Killer, ★ Ghost in the Shell I & II, ★ Neon Genesis Evangelion, In the Mood for Love, 2046, Training Day, Sicario, Blade Runner 2049, ★ Dune Pt. I & II, ★ Matrix trilogy + Animatrix

★ - all time favorite

Politics? L O L

civilization

Civil society is based on the fundamental hypocrisy of one set of rules for the in-group, another set of rules for the out-group.

Left or right, I'm against totalitarianism, statism, tyranny.

Education

BA, Mathematics.

ccpBirth

China, 199X.

Death

Summary execution by ████████ for refusing to behave normal style, 20XX.

PGP public key

Fingerprint: CF5C485EE823C80EC29FFB575A034C984E02ECC8

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