- Tilon in Hebrew means "murmuring" or "small walk"; Gil is Old Greek for "happiness" and Hebrew for "shining, bright promise, small goat, joy".
- Summary: I'm a middle-aged kid who's neurodivergent: autism, depression, possibly bipolar and/or PTSD. I've been gaming on PC since about 1989. I like retro and horror media, FLOSS and fitness, heavy metal and so many things Japanese -- including non-metal anime/idol music. I'm a non-denominational Christian with Protestant, Baptist leanings.
- My first games were Apogee sharewares downloaded via BBS onto MS-DOS. Briefly I was on console (SNES, PS1, PS2) but went back to PC full-time. Haven't been much of a gamer lately (mostly because my current Linux box limits my options; I run MX Linux with LXQt currently) but I've been playing Minecraft quite a lot. Current favorite Minecraft modpack: Better Minecraft (Fabric) with the addition of Origins. Had a passion for Dungeons & Dragons v3.5 despite having no one to play with; I made tons of monsters and NPCs; I hated 4e and never investigated 5e.
- Favorite games: Morrowind, Black & White, Final Fantasy 6, FF Tactics, FF7, Doom 2, Postal 2, Diablo 2, Borderlands 2, Twisted Metal 2, Gladiator, Walls of Bratock, Spyro, Yoshi's Island, Super Mario RPG, Donkey Kong Country, Legend of Dragoon, Legend of Legaia, the 7th Saga, Amnesia: the Dark Descent.
- Favorite TV series: Not much western TV (other than the usual Star Trek: The Next Generation and sometimes nature/science/history documentaries) but loads of anime like Madoka Magica, Fate/Zero, Lyrical Nanoha, Aria, Love Live! and tons of similar SoL when I'm not watching magical/fantasy action series. Nowadays I mostly watch YouTube videos and Twitch streams.
- Favorite foods: Just about everything, especially the strange and exotic. Mexican and Chinese are top-tier. Love sushi and chimichangas equally. Eggs, cheese, and red meat are my best friends.
- I'm a former religion-hating science worshiper who turned "spiritual" thanks to Alan Watts opening that door for me. I then became temporarily Buddhist with Zen and Taoist tendencies but then trying to "stick with the original" of Theravada mostly thanks (again) to Watts and then discovering Pure Dhamma and Access To Insight.
- But in the middle of a bad situation after months of bad situations with bad depression and autistic burnout, I had a religious experience after I told myself, "God wouldn't burden me with more than I can bear". So now I am happy to call myself born-again! Though I suck at Christianity, sad to admit. Too much time doomscrolling Twitter & Discord, not enough time reading my King James Bible!
- My relationship with politics is "complicated": I'd probably be called a centrist with right-wing conspiracy nut leanings by many (and/or a crazed Christian nationalist by those who get their entire personality filtered through TV talking heads and resultant political memes) though I don't think I'm educated enough in any political system -- not to mention the likes of anthrology, sociology, and psychology -- to plant flags with confidence. Lately I've been giving brief glances into Third Way and Third Position politics; so far all I know is that they both reject communism and capitalism, which sounds fine to me.
- I've filled out hundreds of job applications only to survive the interview less than a dozen times (all were entry-level McJobs, though), most of which I was eventually fired from for not masking my social disability well enough. In other words: I struggle at being an adult. 😢 Nowadays I'm a game-and-Internet-addicted shutin, though I've gotten much better at talking with people, going out and as the kids say "touching grass", going to the gym, going to the church, and overall learning to be less sad and hateful, thereby more accepting of myself and others as Jesus has accepted me: a sinner. ✝
- The 🌦 I put next to my name in most places represents a lifetime of darkness but now there's light seeping through. It also means how much I like the aesthetics of both, especially together -- for example, my love for Christian heavy metal.
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