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Viperman can be reached at: iamviperman@gmail.com

Things I like

• Cyberculture
• Self-referencing lists (like this one! - I love the fact that it wasn't one until I mentioned it)
• New Urbanism
• Game design and development
• Psychology
• Music theory
• Stop-motion animation
• AI
• Go/weiqi
• Anthologies of stories (Decameron, Canterbury Tales) or stories within stories (1001 Nights)
• Chiptune and trackers
• Pixel art
• Oulipo
• I would say self-deprecating humor but is not like anyone cares
• Prog and math rock
• The Twilight Zone
• Card games
• Tarkovsky
• Computer Science
• Flash animation
• Artificial life and cellular automata
• Monty Python
• Nouvelle Vague
• Computer Graphics
• JAZZ
• Myths and classic or sacred texts from any culture
• Experimental electronic music (from Mort Garson to Aphex Twin)
• Physics simulation
• Community (great TV series, and I don't often use the words 'great' and 'series' in the same sentence. Matter of fact, I barely watch series)

Things I don't like

• Pretty much everything not in the list above
• Cliché fantasy worlds
• Shops with loud music and/or bad lighting
• Shops in general
• Any kind of advertising
• Paywalls, Copyrights and Patents
• Stream-like content displaying websites
• Franchises
• The concept of franchises
• Violence as a mindlessly chosen game mechanic
• Eating meat. At all.
• BIG DATA
• You know when a site promises to teach you something in the headline,
  but they end up teaching you nothing and instead
  what you get is a page full of links to others useless articles
  or, worse yet, a link to a 'free ebook' which is utter crap and whose only
  function is getting your email so they can send you more useless content or
  letting you know about the paid courses that are the reason they have
  set up their website in the first place? Well, i hate that.
  And since that and clickbaiting are byproducts of the current way people monetize the web,
  I can't help but hate the way we monetize the web too. Heck, i hate the fact that we monetize it in the first place!

Things I do

• Work as the Oracle at YWOT
• Live my life between huge periods of procrastination
• I make music. Who knows, maybe someday I upload something here.
• Currently (not) working on a game that will probably never see the light of day but at least has an (almost complete) OST
• On my way to becoming a Psychology major
• Aspiring to be a self-taught computer scientist

Authors I like

• Georges Perec
• Jorge Luis Borges
• Douglas Hofstadter
• Italo Calvino
• Ursula K. le Guin
• Fernando Pessoa
• Dostoievsky
• Julio Cortázar
• Herman Hesse (Mostly because of the Glass Bead Game)

Video games I like

• Shadow of the Colossus
• Undertale
• Ikaruga
• Cave Story
• Kid Chameleon
• EarthBound (haven't played much)
• Chrono Trigger (same here)
• Portal
• Silent Hill (haven't played much either)
• Evo: Search for Eden
• Dwarf Fortress
• Intelligent Cube

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