I am CHKILROY from video games.
I stream on Twitch and chat on Discord to have fun with video game friends.
Sharing is endorsement. All views represent my employer. I am what I eat. Almost all websites are things for sale, but this website has a few things I am trying to keep.
Sometimes I play video games for an hour or two at night. I casually stream 1080p30 for fun from my 4K60 system while I play. I am happy my computer plays games well:
- CPU: Ryzen 7 9800X3D
- RAM: 64GB DDR5
- GPU: RTX 5080
My profile picture is a drawing of my player character from Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead. Thank you for your art, Hagen. I hope your family is doing well.
In my old age I recount stories of Diablo loot, clutch Counter-Strike and America's Army kills, and auction house gold making in many MMOs. But also injustices, like Microsoft deleting my Minecraft account without notifying me, and countless other developers turning their servers off leaving behind dead games.
It is great that these old games still work:
- America's Army: Special Forces version 2.5 through aao25.com has tens of people playing together daily. You will need a friend to bandage you to stop bleeding.
- Counter-Strike 1.6, it was annoying to have to get on Steam to upgrade to 1.6, but it is great that it all still works decades later.
- Rainbow Six 3 authentication servers are shut down, but the small OpenRVS patch adds community servers back and occasionally people play together.
- Return to Castle Wolfenstein holds the kernel of class based shooter that would go on to become Call of Duty. Servers have no people in them. The even number of players on many servers are bots stuck in eternal combat.
It is cool when a game has no killing:
Music from the past:
- Intro
- Tristram
- Desert
- Island
- Jein
- Scenic world
- Ankle injuries
- Youme & Meyou
- Changes
- Telecom
- Bird song 10
- New birds
- Is this love?
- San Diego
- Mexican radio
- Cumbia en la playa
- Det snurrar i min skalle
- Did somebody put sugar in my tea?
- Hollow discourse
- Summer nights
- Adam's song
- Got the life
- Psychosocial baby
- Non-stop violence
- Civilization
- Third mall from the sun
- 21st century pop song
- Русское поле экспериментов
- Funny Sticks (Alias Remix)
- Virus (Dub)
- Sure thing
- Stuntin' like my daddy
- Untitled paint job
- Be healthy
- Dennehy
- Revolve
- Metropolis
- Handpocket
- Anorak city
- Build fires
- Super rad
- Aye yay yay
- Everything is awful
- Big A little a
- Indian summer
- Ja se resetiram
- Amor secreto
- Placeholder
- Denkmal
- Home
- Sure
- OSPF
- Thirty more miles to San Diego
- Where the turf meets the surf
- San Diego national anthem
- Uncle's Sweetheart Pt. 2
- Wo fängt dein Himmel an
- Going to Port Washington
- Om hundrede år er alting glemt
- That's my way of keeping track of time
- Vision der Unsterblichkeit
Old Spotify playlists:
- 2012 in Music: These were songs that resonated with me in 2012 and some that I used in various videos around that time. Some songs are now no longer available to me on Spotify. Around that cool time DayZ made me more popular online. I had great times online, freedom to make videos, and left California for the eastern Mojave desert.
- Dunka dunka: This is some more music I was listening to from 2012 to 2014. This playlist is longer and has multiple tracks from the same artists unlike the 2012 and 2019 playlists.
- New Year's Moods 2019: I made this and then I logged off Spotify.
- Liked from Radio: I guess this is public.
Old YouTube playlists:
Some of the best Arma videos of all time:
Do not use social media:
Some good websites:
Some good phone apps:
At some point when YouTube quality got good enough and image hosting services stopped going out of business every two months, there was no longer need to host my videos and screenshots here to share them with friends on game forums. Sometimes I think of making this site a PeerTube instance containing what videos I still have and other interesting things.
As a dinosaur with a personal website instead of only social media profiles, I like do-it-yourself indieweb self-hosting ethos. Personal websites are a great place to perform yourself, ruminate, navel gaze, and amass links. Build a site today. Consider Ulillillia and Time Cube.
The moon orbits an 18.6 year cycle in the sky, and if the moon favors us and we live favorably, we may experience four cycles. I like to follow the monthly hop of the bunny on the moon.
Some of my favorite plants to grow:
- Oak, pine, citrus, fig, apple, loquat
- Herbs, beans, squash, kale, chard
- Tomatoes, potatoes, chilies, berries
- Annual wildflowers, local sage, nopal
If you were wondering who you are:
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