Hi.
WHO TF AM I?
Welcome, individual. Let's not get any formalities involved because they make me feel awkward. People call me stuff: Saladin, which is the name on my official documents; Salah, used by the few humans I interact with offline; Jackor, my digital footprint; and Jack, the abbreviated version. I, however, refer to myself as J7. You're welcome to use any of them. Most people on the internet go with Jack, which works out since that's primarily where I exist. Am from Egypt. It's a... Place I guess. Let's move on before this gets too personal.
LIKES 'N DISLIKES N STUFF
Here is a meticulously cataloged list of stimuli, categorized by the neural response they typically elicit. One list contains things that make existence slightly more tolerable. The other... Doesn't.
- The void of space. It's pretty.
- Rewriting historical events, but the ones where I can commit atrocities.
- STARSET. Good songs.
- My country, sometimes.
- Maps. All of them. Give me maps.
- Napping. A lot.
- Cyberpunk dystopias.
- Putting things off until tomorrow. Or the day after.
- Practicing writing.
- Synthwave. My ears are probably bleeding synthwave by now.
- Boring games that are secretly not boring (HOI4, CK3, EU4, etc).
- Milk with coffee or tea.
- Jokes that make you question my sanity.
- My family, I guess. They feed me.
- Becoming a vessel for coffee.
- Hannah's loaf breads with cherries on top.
- Trying hard. Ew.
- When I accidentally spill the coffee (it happens more often than it should)
- The state of being alone.
- The state of being surrounded by other humans.
- My screwed-up, hell-pit, failed-state of a country.
- The institution known as "college".
- Lack of milk.
- This list. Am running out of things to dislike.
- Me.
- The general vicinity of my home.
- The people in the general vicinity of my home.
- The crushing weight of my own insignificance.
Current biological age is clocked at 20 rotations around the local star.
SOME MORE STUFF
Sometimes I just... Poof- vanish. Gone. It's partly because I enjoy the sound of silence and my own thoughts, and partly because my internet is on a leash. Here in Aegyptus, we pay for internet by the gigabyte, like it's some rare spice or what. So I have to ration it. Don't be surprised if I disappear mid-conversation; my data plan probably just died. I try not to be offensive. Most of the time. My communication skills are a work in progress. I either say nothing or write a novel. There is no in-between- well, unless I was trying to say something cocky, this is the only instance where I will say one-liners. But usually I will just write a twelve-line monologue about why I think next year will be horrendous or I will just say "okay".
Socially, am about as smooth as a bag of rocks. But I do like people. Some of them, anyway. There are a few folks I have to talk to every day or my brain does a bluescreen. YOU KNOW YOURSELF!! In my spare time, I like to travel back in time by installing Windows 95 or so on a virtual machine and using it for a while, alongside other similar time-wasters. Am also trying to learn code. This website is the result. Please don't look too closely at the seams.
I enjoy games, or I would, if my computer wasn't powered by a sickly hamster on a wheel made of rusted iron and breaks every 2 minutes. But am working on that. I also like space though mostly on a surface level. I don't need to know the complex physics; I just like to look at pretty planets in SpaceEngine and imagine what kind of civilizations could live there. It's a beautiful piece of software, and it's where all the planet pictures for the Everglow System came from.
FINAL NOTE
So yeah, am demonstrably terrible at forming and maintaining friendships. However, this is a known bug that am actively working to patch. Though if you would like to be my friend, here is a list of a few things to keep in mind first:
1- Don't.
You can reach me on Discord:
jackorseventhen
Bye.
