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 that isn't Discord. Only issue is text chat isn't logged or searchable, which means it won't be good for collaboration or sharing stuff.
• 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, so treat it as a temporary solution. Self-hosting is possible and should be considered the long-term solution.
• Matrix Element is their main client. There are others out there, but I'm going to use this one for now. I won't be checking it as much as the other stuff though.
• Discord The very platform I am going to be weaning off of now. I'm not going to completely abandon it, but I encourage you to seek other methods of contacting me.
• 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.

Regarding Discord's recent decisions

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.

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!