This is a Personal Web Site
I've been kind of at a loss as to what to do with this site. When I set out to make one it was really just so I could have a place on the web to put stuff, with no guiding mission statement. I like arcade games a lot, so I started out writing some reviews and an article, but this isn't specifically a gaming web site. I like to make music sometimes and I have a couple of articles related to music, but it's far from a music web site either. It's mycophobia's web site. The content dried up in a matter of months because I didn't really feel like writing a review or an essay or doing more music, but I figure what I can do, now, is integrate whatever personal project I'm working on in some way into a little feature here. Since I stopped updating the site I've made a rom hack that fixes my favorite imperfect arcade game, I've been writing little Python scripts for my streaming setup, and have been improving my piano playing a tiny bit. What I haven't been doing is writing, so what I could do is write about that stuff, and other stuff, because damn it I used to enjoy writing! After five reviews and two essays I got tunnel vision and all of a sudden I didn't even want to think about it anymore.
The site's purpose is to act as a scrapbook of things that are interesting to me, and are personal to me. Right down to the design, which outside of the Javascript table on the game reviews menu page is all hand written by me. I even have the beginnings of an extremely rudimentary CMS and markup language consisting of some Python scripts to make updating it easier, in that I don't have to write HTML tags and plug text into boilerplate pages and manually update menus, etc, etc. Hell, I could write about that too as it comes along. If I were out to do more than accomplish the incredibly selfish task of maintaining a monument to myself, I would use Wordpress or something probably. That would be the sane thing to do. But here I have total control over every aspect of the content; there are no ads and no moderation and I can do pretty much whatever I want within the bounds of the law and my host's TOS. This, ostensibly, is as personal as a web site gets.
Until now I haven't had anything on this site resembling an About Me page, and that's more or less because the personal details of my real life need to stay out of the internet as much as possible. Long ago I got rid of my Facebook and LinkedIn pages, and have mostly scrubbed anything with my real name on it, so really this site is a monument to my internet persona more than anything. My internet presence has wound up being kind of a second life with its own friends and places and activities, almost wholly separate from my real one, which is how it's been for me since I got internet access in the late 90's. In my real life I have a decent job and I have friends and family that I love and care much more deeply about than anything that's on my monitor, but these have barely anything to do with what I do or who I am on the internet. In this sense, this web site is quite impersonal.
I say all of this to say that my name is mycophobia, I'm a programmer from the U.S., I like arcade games, JRPGs and Nintendo games, I like electronic music and classic rock, I can play a bit of piano and I use Renoise to make electronic music sometimes, I prefer old school forums to social media, I like anime (particularly shows and films made by Kyoto Animation), I am a Christian Agnostic (more on that later maybe), and I like reading Wittgenstein but I don't read enough books overall. And that's me.