Faint

Hi there, I'm Joe! I'm the real life guy behind the FaintSpeaker persona. For all normal intents and purposes, just consider me the same person as my persona. The only difference is one of us naps and eats all day, and the other is a series of digital drawings that make me look like a cat.

I'm a software engineer in my 30s with a passion for particular hobbies including both video and tabletop gaming, the rare cosplay, and a handful of small personal projects.

I tend to fixate and obsess ove a few things at once, and either rotate to a new or previous fixation. Some things I like, in no particular order, include:

• Deltarune and Undertale. All of it. Every single part.
• The Amazing Digital Circus, Helluva Boss, Hazbin Hotel, and Knights of Guinevere. There are other animated shows, but these are generally my favorites.
• Cats, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, and Repo! The Genetic Opera. I'm not huge musical and/or theatre nerd, but these three all tickle my fancy in one way or another.

I rarely contribute to projects unless I have some personal interest in them. Generally, my code projects tend to be privately used tools or really over-scoped ideas that I don't have the free time to work on.

My writing projects are typically limited to tabletop RPGs such as Pathfinder 2nd Edition. I sometimes dabble in fiction writing, including fanfiction. As with my code, I don't tend to publish or share what I'm writing outside a small subset of my friends.