About Me
Hey there, I'm Driftini and welcome to my website!
I'm an Italian guy who's got a bunch of hobbies which I like a little too much.
The number 29 has been haunting me throughout my life since the very moment I was born.
My interests
This is likely the one hobby dearest to me out of all the ones listed here.
I used to draw characters from old cartoons back in around 2018-19, then gradually started building my own artstyle starting from 2020 and began drawing characters from Touhou and whatnot in the same year. Around 2022, I started making digital art way more often as well. Right now, I’m finding my bearings in digital painting to work on backgrounds for my high-effort art faster and better.
Definitely a huge part of my life as well, I listen to all kinds of stuff during most of the day.
Timeframes for music I like weirdly change depending on the genre: for Japanese music it’s nearly all 2016-17 onwards, for pop, rock, hip-hop and other more “mainstream” genres it’s usually 2014-15 or older (going as far back as the 90s except for a couple albums). Other genres I like are Eurobeat, instrumental/ambience and some game soundtracks.
Now, for some artists I really like roughly ordered by music genre:
Non-japanese music with lyrics: Green Day, Jamiroquai, Cyne, Finger Eleven, Bop Alloy, Michael Jackson, Ne-Yo.
J-pop/j-rock/vocaloid: Inabakumori, Zutomayo, Yama, Tsukuyomi, Yorushika, Reol, Ado.
Eurobeat: Ken Blast/Odyssey/Mortimer (…), Ace, Manuel, Leslie Parrish.
Ambience/instrumental: Nujabes, Chris Christodoulou, Boards of Canada.
Now you can check out more about what I listen to on Last.fm!
Gaming
Shouldn’t come as a surprise. I’m a huge fan of character action/hack and slash games to the likes of Devil May Cry, roguelikes such as Dead Cells and Risk of Rain 1 & 2, but from time to time, I also play (modded) Doom and other FPSes.
I used to be an enormous Metroid fan as well, but after years of near-total radio silence on the franchise in the past, my interest for it has kind of died out.
All I’ve been playing lately though is Yume 2kki. Exploration and finding cool worlds there is just really addicting, not to mention said cool worlds tie really well with my interest in art.
Special mention here to Katana ZERO. I very strongly recommend playing it, because of the plot that really pulled me in, amazing soundtrack, snappy and fun gameplay and really cool visuals.
Tech
If it’s related in any way to technology, I probably like it. What I do not like though, is who just can’t help but brag about their choice of Linux distro to use, especially if the latter is Arch.
With that said, I do admittedly dualboot Windows and Arch, but rather than bragging rights, my reason to use this distribution is mostly the enormous amount of packages the AUR offer. That, and to have a blank canvas to build a fancy setup upon.
I also spend a lot of time on web - but on and off, also on game - development, the former of the two blending really well with my next interest in this list.
Design
You might’ve guessed it from this website’s visual direction - I enjoy designing and coding graphical interfaces making use of old UI design tropes like skeuomorphism, what I like to call “1px details”, compact layouts and so on.
Nonetheless, I’m also a big fan of a few particularly great modern themes such as KDE’s Breeze and, to a lesser extent, Numix and Wine’s new light theme.
I have kinda dropped this hobby over the last few years, but if I ever find myself outdoors and around a pretty scenery, I am going to take a couple pictures of it, more likely than not. The few pictures I take that I deem good enough make it to my desktop as wallpapers.