Who ARE you?

Hello, there! You may call me proto. I got called proton once. No, that would be wrong; I am not that small. I am just overly fond of that prefix.
I come from someplace far, far away... Not that far, actually. I emigrated from the Hive blogchain (see what I did there?) though I'm not entirely done over there. Lately I just haven't gotten around to posting there. I've been with them since before the hardfork! When that happened, instead of powering up all my STEEM in the form of HIVE, I did something even better, which leads to one of our next topics!

What do you DO??

That's sort of a big question...
Although I do not post on Hive, I am still quite active. Believe it or not. I still curate and comment but mostly my transactions onchain involve dApp activities. Yes, I am a gamer!
As you can probably tell by my profile picture, I am an avid Rising Star player on Hive.

I have been playing for quite some time now and, just like with Blurt, I initially ignored the first calls but came around later. To answer your burning question from above, when I fled the STEEM blockchain I used all my previous steempower to invest in a massively underrated and ambitious game project called eXode. It is a novel sci-fi game like no other. It has been in development for a number of years now and is almost done. I also play a game called dCROPS where, just like in my real life, you play as a farmer.

I grew that beauty last year. Some of my favorite things to cultivate are beans and pumpkins, which are actually sisters. I also am still in the process of inducing mutations in the beans I grow. It already happened once... by accident.

Returning back to the virtual world, but not the crypto world, I also love JRPG and role playing games in general. As you've probably guessed (maybe, perhaps, did you??), I am a big fan of Final Fantasy. Mostly the X, XII, XIII and direct sequels, and even XIV installments. But also other classics (in my book) like Dragon's Dogma, Skyrim, and Fallout 3 + New Vegas. I'm probably forgetting about a few others...

In general, I'm just a sucker for apocalypses and very deep lore spanning thousands of years or at the very least a few centuries. That's why I love to read books like the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. This planet is too mundane sometimes so I like to get lost in other worlds.

What do you like?

The topics are getting narrower and narrower! I feel like you've known me my whole life!

I like to collect. Some might call me a hoarder. I prefer "packrat".
This is one of my favorite items from my vault:

It is a pre-Columbian artifact. The implications of this jar lid are intriguing to say the least. Native North and South Americans did not ever create art for decoration or for fun. They were not abstract either. To them they were sacred depictions of what they actually saw, did, knew, and truly believed.
Anyways....
Music is cool too. The problem is I can never find talented musicians as dedicated to the work as me. So I simply clone myself. Look here! My offshoots are growing!

I used to play in several actual bands. Great times. These days I am a one-man band.

The last hobby I will mention sort of takes into account all my other qualities and compiled skills. It takes great skill and patience to make tiny, independent, simulated worlds. I'm talking about making terrariums! One thing I hate is the way they make them on YouTube or other tutorials because when they are done, well they are finished! There's no room for growth or development so it will probably only go downhill from there. I'm not saying they suck at life... They have the right idea but the execution is terrible in my opinion. I prefer to build them with sparse vegetation, almost barren. As they go through their geologic time scale, I add more varied tiny plants, until finally they can support animal life. The first pioneering colonists are springtails. Later, I will mostly abduct and introduce minuscule beetles. I also add, with great caution, a single predator. One terrarium I dubbed "The Ark" houses a wolf spider. Another is home to a reclusive centipede that actually outgrew that habitat into its own starvation. All of the simulated environments have gone through several mass extinctions. It's a cycle, you see, just like Prison Planet Earth.

This terrarium went through a mass extinction event, as they do, as seems to be ready and primed for life again. All it needs is a little rain. It's hard reaching an equilibrium and the only time they seem stable is when everything is dead. Some creatures and plants aren't for for these worlds. Every resource within is finite, especially so in a tiny biome like the one shown. Just like in physics and chemistry, when the space is small the pressures are greater. A spectator once commented, "You put the poison in there along with the cure." Some people have a very poetic way of speaking. The animals, and even micro decomposition in the substrate, create carbon dioxide while the plants, in theory, purify the air.

All ecosystems suffer ups and downs. Hive, Blurt, Steemit. The real issue is the self filtering and correction that will eventually lead to a prosperous equilibrium! That is something that I, too, am still searching for...

Thank you for visiting me and reading my first post!

P.S.

cats

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