About me
updated 2024/10/26
Brief introduction
I was born in Quebec. French is my native language and I'm able to mentally translate English to French and vice versa. It's beautiful where I live, but not as advanced as certain European countries. I like playing video games and I try to be nice to as many people as I possibly can.
I have to warn you that right now: I hate writing. Seeing my own text that I wrote disgusts me often, and it's a way of communication I deem to be quite dangerous, and yet the safest at my reach.
Maybe you need a proof to understand that. I could replace the first paragraph of this page with "I'm a weird adult. I look like I'm 30 years old. I'm cynical and I waste time on ranting or telling stupid jokes on the net because, even though it's futile, sometimes I find it fun.". See how this bit stains me, even though I solemnly confirm to you it's true? Put like that, it reeks and you will certainly be less interested in me, but honesty is priority. Let's move on from that for now.
My screen name sucks pubes
At the age of 11 years, I made up my pseudonym by choosing the name "Drakul", capitalizing each syllable in the same fashion as "PewDiePie", and appending a random 2-digit number at the end of it.
I took "Drakul" from the video game Dracula: The Resurrection (I got a PlayStation 1 and a crap ton of games for it from a garage sale) because I wanted something that sounded kind of radical and out of the ordinary at the time. I did not know it was a Romanian word meaning "devil" or "dragon". I just didn't care about it. I captured it with my ears and then I used it without thinking twice.
As for the number 78, it really has no special meaning. It is a number between 77 and 79. It's the 6th multiple of 13. It's a semiperfect number. A Tarot deck has 78 cards. Platinum is the 78th chemical element. Swapping the 2 digits makes the number 87. However, I didn't know most of that until I looked up "78" on Wikipedia lol. I also keep seeing the number almost everywhere I go. It's weird.
In conclusion, nothing of it makes sense. Furthermore, I vowed to never change my pseudonym and I deeply regret doing that. Sure, I can just make up another name but I don't have the will. Now I don't want to think about it at all.
Professional experience
Many things are subject to my will to experiment as much as I can. Back in 2009, I downloaded a bunch of vir00s on my family's only comupter and everyone wasn't happy about it lol. This is where my curiosity for anything related to computing began. From then on, I started learning how to program things in Lua on Roblox. While majoring in computer science, I worked a bit with HTML + CSS + JavaScript (Neocities), C, C++, C# with Unity, Java and JavaFX. Right now my goal is to master using Qt, a GUI framework supported by C++ compilers.
I tend to scrutinize dictionaries to find proper translation from English to French and vice versa, and even finding better terms for English words. For example, I've made a language pack for Minecraft which renames grass blocks to "lawn", dripstones to "speleothems", uncraftable arrows to "custom arrows", and camels to "dromedaries" because they only have 1 bump on their backs (how could they fumble this?).
I've used motorized screwdrivers and hammers for building things like wooden fences.
I was taught on how to plant flowers and trees, as well as keep them safe from dehydration. Cover the ground around them with mulch to save moisture, and don't ever plant them on sand.
Moving on to less professional things, I have generally average skills. I can barely play Sarcophagi by The Mars Volta on guitar and I sing probably badly according to my recordings of myself. My KO:WO ratio averages 4:5 in most PVP games. I also fall in love with my handwriting sometimes.
Preferences
My favorite color is teal. I like spending most of my time alone, music, spaghetti, Darknuts and Iron Knuckles across all The Legend of Zelda games, swimming and running. I dislike misleading clickbait thumbnails, dubstep, video games [sic], toxic substances (such as cigarettes) and lard.
GOG, itch.io and Game Jolt are some game distribution platforms I rely on the most for getting video games.
Computer setup
The screen resolution I'll be sticking to is preferably 1920x1080, or at least anything of 16:9 aspect ratio. I have set up a laptop with multiboot for Windows (for things that cannot run on Linux) and Debian. That's all for now.
My projects
If you wish to see things I have created, please check out the Gallery.
I created a few Roblox places and almost all of them can be seen on my profile page. My most notable work there is DraKul78's Wacky World !!!, in which I make any kind of stuff I can afford to imagine and make. It is more of a virtual museum.