I'm dot_lvl. You already know this if you're here, but in case you somehow found this page at random (maybe neocities has some sort of discoverability engine, beats me), I'm a retro game streamer on Twitch.

I happened to catch some climate doomerism at the exact wrong time on Twitter the other day and it really made me reevaluate my use of social media, whether it's worth stressing out over, etc. I came to the conclusion that, as much as I hate Twitter, I have a social media habit at this point, and I think it's only proven to be so hard to kick because I lead the rockstar life of an immunocompromised freelance creative and would absolutely lose my mind without some sort of non-Twitch social outlet. I'm not leaving Twitter yet or anything, but it's a genuinely terrible platform for sharing anything of substance, so I've decided I'm going to try to make an old-fashioned homepage on neocities where I can talk about things I actually care about.

I used to have a real job and am a published Japanese-to-English translator, but that industry is so unbelievably fucked that even though I wrote well over the word count of War and Peace every single year and my work both sold like crazy and earned accolades, I'm better able to keep a roof over my head playing Transformers: Convoy no Nazo for a small audience of generous viewers than I ever was in the manga business.

I would like to conclude by recommending a few retro games to you. I loved all of these games to death and have played them all to completion. Some of these are wonderful and some of them are atrocious, but if you try them out for at least twenty minutes each, I think it'll go a long way toward understanding how my brain works.