I'm Tarkus, and if it wasn't obvious, I play a lot of video games.

I'm a university student, but I'm not attending any classes yet as once COVID hit, I had to do my courses online and I didn't want to do that. The sabbatical from courses has more or less gone on indefinitely as my career has pivoted to streaming and YouTube now that I've seen some success. I will go back one day and complete my Linguistics degree.

I once worked in film as a boom operator, and as an assistant director/producer, however I had a falling out with one of my film friends that resulted in me not really wanting to work in film anymore. I still have a passion for film, both Hollywood and Bollywood though, and love discussing films. In recent time, I've been considering picking movie work back up, we'll see. I live in Vancouver so there's always movie work to be done.

I speak English, French, and Spanish at nearly fluent levels, and I'm happy to respond to chat messages in these languages. I know bits and pieces of all kinds of European languages, but I can't promise fluency in anything else than the 3 above.

Imagine giving money to a streamer EZ Clap

If you give money, you're a G, but definitely single digit IQ, just saying.

You're much better off just subbing, for ad-free viewing, and cool emotes.

Well, I play games that I would like to consider "mechanically deep" be that in their execution at a motor level, or in thought.

Crusader Kings 3, and Victoria 3 are the most common games on stream currently. I go through phases of which games I like playing, which is reflected on the stream. You'll usually see something like CK3 for a couple weeks or months, then Vic 3 for a while, then EU4, etc. It's rare that I completely lose interest in map games.

I'm going to try doing some variety here and there for the stream, but to be completely honest, I don't like to do variety much because I get self-conscious about playing games I'm not extremely good at on stream.

My favourite game franchises are, in no particular order:

Metal Gear Solid Civilization Endless Space/Legends Demons' Souls/Dark Souls Mount and Blade Ninja Gaiden Starcraft Devil May Cry Elder Scrolls Metro Wasteland X-com Warcraft (the RTS, not the MMO)

While this once was an extremely niche Crusader Kings 3 community, it's somewhat expanded out to the Victoria community, and general Crusader Kings audience. In terms of other communities, we definitely welcome any sort of G A M E R (tm) but the Paradox community is the dominant section for sure.

You can find my playlist on my Discord, but it's basically just various videogame OSTs from my favorite franchises over the years. I occasionally trim from it or add to it depending on if songs on YouTube/Twitch get copyright struck or if new music enters my tastes, but that's pretty rare.

I don't take music suggestions just because if I take one, I've gotta take them all, and that's a huge pain.