About me

updated 2024/08/14

Brief introduction

I'm Trevor. 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. It's just another way of lying in a beautiful way, something for adults to use and tell their tales.

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.". Put like that, it reeks and you will certainly be less interested into me, but it probably makes sense at least. That's how the Internet works. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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. I worked a bit with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, C, C++, C# with Unity, Java, JavaFX and Lua, and with all that considered I'd favor C++ in terms of speed and power.

I have average skills generally. 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.

I also like to translate English works into French whenever I feel it.

Preferences

My favorite color is teal. I like spending most of my time alone, music, spaghetti, Darknuts 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

I have yet to showcase anything I've done, and I'm hesitating about whether I should use the Galleries page or this About me page.

I created a few Roblox places and almost all of them can be seen on my profile page. The most notable place 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 museum than a front-page simulator.