Howdy, I'm Sketch
aka highway_roadkill
i do stuff sometimes | people before profit | 22 | they/them
I'm just your friendy neighborhood possum. I dwell the internet and have for the better portion of my life. Used to go by DEGRUNGEON way back when and still do on some sites.
I'm what one would call a creative type, a creative type with an executive function disorder that is. Plenty of plans and big ideas but little to no motivation to act on. I'm hoping that in making a 'central hub' of sorts for my creative endeavors it might light a much needed spark.
My Interests
Gaming
I've been gaming in some fashion as far back as I can remember. Started out playing browser games on my dad's work computer. One of the first "consoles" I had was a Spongebob Plug-N-Play that had a few different games on it. I also often played 'Destroy All Humans' and 'Munch's Oddysee' on my sister's PlayStation 2 and Xbox respectively. Sometime around 2012 my mom got me and my brother an Xbox 360 and it was around then that I discovered 'Minecraft'. Being a Minecraft Kid, I watched a lot of Minecraft YouTube videos and eventually sometime in late 2013 YouTube recommended me the video 'Meet the Medic' where I learned about the game 'Team Fortress 2'. This sparked my journey into PC gaming and the rest is history. I learned about the rest of Valve's catalouge and things branched out from there.
Some of my favorite games are:
- Minecraft
- Team Fortress 2
- Deep Rock Galactic
- Night in the Woods
- Cult of the Lamb
- Red Dead Redemption 2
To run many of these outstanding games, my main rig is an Acer Nitro 5 laptop with a GeForce RTX 3050, Intel Core i5, with 16 GiB of RAM and a 2TB SSD for storage.
Also I use Linux, btw.
Console Collection
Born from my early exposure to video games and playing many classic consoles when they were at their prime, I now love collecting consoles, new and retro, and playing old games on their original hardware. I have had to repair some of the consoles myself, but nothing too major. Mostly just cleaning and general upkeep.
My collection consists of:
- Nintendo Entertainment System
- Gamecube
- Nintendo Switch
- PlayStation 2
- PlayStation 3
- PlayStation 4
- Xbox 360
- Xbox One
- The Steam Deck
- Oculus Quest 2
Music
My favorite genre of music is rock and punk rock. My all time favorite band is Green Day, and my favorite album of theirs is '21st Century Breakdown'. I'm also a big fan of My Chemical Romance and A Fall To Break, with my favorite albums being 'The Black Parade' and 'Divided By Tyrants' respectively. If you haven't already noticed, there's a music player at the bottom of the page with a small sample of the kinds of songs I listen to. I may add more songs to it and keep it updated, but I think the more songs I add the slower the page gets, to I'll probably cap it around 30-40 songs. A drop in the bucket compared to my 450 song Spotify playlist.