who this

HeXaGoN! (or just "hex")

he/him
(preferred pronouns)

they/them
(acceptable pronouns)

moth
(sona species)

QA for The Last Stand Update to Left 4 Dead 2! Oh and I helped design the survival levels.
Programmer. I am capable of C++ abominations behind your comprehension.
Novice 2D+3D artist. Mostly 3D but I'm trying OK? I don't have anything to show here yet tho.
Novice composer. Rarely. I mean sometimes I smash stuff together in FL Studio and it maybe works.
Aspiring game developer. If the above interests didn't tell ya.
Twisty puzzle enjoyer. But not really that fast on the Rubik's Cube (PB is around 19s)
Not a webdev. Usually. I mean, look at this mess. Would you hire me? I rotated those words!
Asexual, biromantic. wow I wonder what the color scheme's about
Guy with a moth character. Kinda sorta not really a furry. Click here if you think that's cringe.

Contact methods

Steam Best way to reach me outside Discord. Yes, they are subject to UK laws, but remember: they chose to age verify with credit cards, not IDs.
Temporary email This email is an alias to protect against bots. I will take it down later this year. If you verify who you are, you can have the real email.
Stoat The main instance partly operates in the UK. They don't have to use ID verification per se, but we don't know what their solution to the law will be. Consider self-hosting.
Matrix Federated solution. Element is the main client. There are other homeservers and clients, but I'm going to the main stuff for now. I won't be checking this much.
Discord This is not here to encourage you to use Discord to contact me. This is here for posterity's sake.
Gmail If you know my Gmail address, I can still receive emails there, but please ask me for my new email. I plan to use Proton Mail going forward.
Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp, etc. Not interested in apps that require my phone number, which may allow people who have my number to find me on the app.
Other alternatives to explore Need time to really explore everything myself before endorsing anything. Fluxer looks promising a self-hosted solution tho.

This list is incomplete and suggestions are welcome!
...but if I think I'd use it less than my email, I probably won't go for it.

Updates from me

Yes, your data could be fed to ICE (2026-02-16)

The NY times published this article recently.

Still, not an outright operational association with Discord, but still pretty bad. I mean, it's the government, they could probably already figure out who you are if they really wanted to. However, this is just going to make it easier and support an authoritarian regime that doesn't like people saying mean things about it.

Persona Identities Inc. & Peter Thiel (2026-02-14)

A friend shared this article with me. Unfortunately, after searching for information, it appears to be true (not that I'm 100% sure). While Peter Thiel seems to only be involved as an investor and not operationally, it's entirely possible that in the future Discord will be compromised and feeding your data to ICE too.

I would say this just adds to the reasons you should start being less dependent on Discord, but it might just be too late to stop your data from falling into their hands. All you can do now is stop feeding them more.

Another Update (2026-02-13)

Even though it is not yet March, some friends of mine are already reporting messages being filtered due to Discord's age restrictions and spam filters.

I won't be posting proof here, since I respect their privacy. A screenshot really wouldn't prove much anyways because anybody can fake one. So take this with a grain of salt.

It doesn't change anything above, but it shows me that Discord is lying through their teeth when they say their teen-until-proven-adult policy should hardly affect anybody.

Oh, and don't forget how they're trying to defend this all: They straight-up admitted to feeding your data to a model that predicts your demographics! Not that this is new information. For the longest time, many people were able to download their data and see that Discord was trying to guess their age & gender. Try it for yourself!

Regarding Discord's recent decisions (2026-02-12)

I've known Discord would do something stupid for years; just not this.

Today, we learn the hard lesson that lumping all our eggs in one big basket is a bad idea. I don't know what we'll ultimately end up using if we have to jump ship, but ideally it will be broken up into many small baskets. That said...

Have multiple ways to contact anybody you care about keeping around!
Don't make things hard on yourself by having only one method of contact with people you like. You're just one bad policy or change away from losing that.

Anyways, I'm going to make it easy on you to find me if you need to.