User:TrulyFlawed

Hiya! My name is TrulyFlawed (obviously not in real life). I'm new here to Wikipedia and probably won't make much contributions to pages outside of my areas of interest, and even then I'm not entirely expecting to make many contributions.

What are my interests? Well to keep this introductory area short, I like geography, gaming, history, politics, art, and more. Some games I enjoy playing include Terraria, Minecraft, Hearts of Iron IV, Europa Universalis IV, etc. I enjoy talking or reading about basically any point in history, because it's so interesting, but my areas of particular interest include a general time span of around 1900-1950 with some exceptions (such as my interest in Europa Universalis IV). I won't really delve into my politics, but I still find it to be a fascinating subject and it might be possible to find me lurking around those areas of the internet. As for art, I really enjoy most art, but especially painting and sketching.

Some other mildly interesting bits about me is that I'm from the United States of America, I'm potentially looking at a career in software engineering. I make maps (that are pretty low quality in hindsight, but I find them fun to make), and I have a cat (just to name a few facts about me).

Gaming
My gaming interests can be broken down into a few categories: Grand Strategy, Indie, RPGs, and couple more, but those are the main three.

For the list of Grand Strategies that I have found myself playing, we have Hearts of Iron IV, Victoria II, Victoria 3, Europa Universalis IV, Crusader Kings III, and Age of History II. I also happen to own Stellaris, but I have yet to play it. My interest in Grand Strategy boils down mostly because of my interest in politics, history, geography, and obviously gaming. These are all very much contributing factors for why I have over 1,000 hours total playtime across the Grand Strategy genre.

Some Indie games I've play include Undertale, Deltarune, Stardew Valley, Hollow Knight, Terraria, Cookie Clicker, and probably a bunch more. An Indie game I have yet to play, yet I am very excited to is Lethal Company. I think Indie games are fun because they can sometimes be really innovative and refreshing compared to lots of larger game franchises.

RPGs are a unique case in my gaming interests, I'm not huge into this area, but I do happen to know that at one point I enjoyed playing some Old School Runescape, Undertale, Deltarune, and even Minecraft Dungeons. I think my interest in the RPG genre mostly stems from the idea of getting to play as another character in another life, sort of forge your own path kind of deal. That's my assumption though, I'm not really sure what about RPGs that interest me.

Some games I have played or plan on playing in the future include Satisfactory, Red Dead Redemption 2, Subnautica, Foxhole, Cities Skylines, and more.

Politics
I won't go too far into detail on my political views for now, but you can likely find me advocating for better urban design, more government action on the ongoing climate crisis, reducing the costs of living, giving people more rights (including on the internet), etc. Although it isn't inherently political, due to the nature of current politics, I feel it relevant to list that I am an LGBTQ+ ally and rights activist.

As I continue on with my studying and snooping around the internet, I may decide to expand this part of the article to be more specific on my views, particularly around "lowering the costs of living" as that's rather vague, and really doesn't tell anybody anything.

Art
My interest in art has existed since a young age, I have old notebooks of drawings I used to make of games I used to play and other things like trees and other random objects I thought to draw. None of it was ever really good, but I've always somewhat enjoyed art, being able to make something in a way where I can express myself with just a pencil or mouse movement. I never really liked painting things myself personally, because I could never quite grasp the process and how to do it well, plus I can always erase a pencil mark, not paint.

Realistically if I could erase paint I would do painting, which is probably why I like digital art because it lets me do that easier. That being said, I don't do everything digitally, I continue to practice making traditional sketches and then porting that over into my art software (usually Paint.net, sometimes Krita) and making the line art, coloring, and shading the piece. It's fun, I enjoy it a lot.

For others' works, I really enjoy looking at paintings, they've achieved what I couldn't, and they're often so beautiful. Sketches are also really cool too, I find just looking at rough drawings and trying to imagine what a full color version would look like to be so nice. Beyond that, I really enjoy a lot of other styles of art too, except for maybe modern art. I won't kill you for making modern art, I just don't find it particularly interesting.

History
My main areas of interest in history are generally around 1900-1950, with particular focus on the late 1930s to mid to late 1940s. However I do find historical topics outside of those two time spans to be of interest too, areas such as Ancient Greece or the Aztecs. I'm looking to expand my knowledge on Native American tribes just a little further, because I want to personally avoid the stereotype of the American who knows nothing about history, let alone the history of Native Americans.

Geography
I love maps. It's that simple. Maps haven't always interested me, but I had a geography teacher that really put maps and geography on my radar of interest almost immediately. I could probably talk for a long time about how good of a teacher he was, and how he was a good example of what the education system should be achieving, but that's not what this is about.

Geography, and visualizing data throughout space (oftentimes with a map) has always seemed fascinating once I learned how useful that data is. Take population and population density data for example, two very important statistics in geopolitics. One could assume a lot of things about a place by just hearing a name, but I'm sure not very many people immediately assume that a country like Indonesia has more people in its country than Russia. That fact is true, but what's crazier is when we consider that most people in Indonesia live on the island of Java, a small island roughly 132x smaller than all of Russia, yet Java has more people living on it than all of Russia.

None of that is shocking when you understand why that's the case, but to somebody who was just learning about it for the first time, it astonished me. This, among a few other reasons was why geography caught my interest, because maps and data can give me so much more perspective on the world than I had ever thought before.