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GAMING & SUPERCOMPUTING

Two hobbies, one instinct: understand the system, then optimise inside it. RPG campaigns are strategy under uncertainty. High-performance builds are the same discipline in copper, silicon and airflow.

RPG Campaigns

Long-form role-playing runs treated like projects: systems to read, resources to allocate and decisions that compound.

High-Performance Builds

Machines built part by part — gaming rigs, workstations and a home compute cluster, all designed around thermals and sustained load.

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Builds & campaigns

Flagship Gaming Rig

Completed

A custom water-cooled tower built for high-refresh RPG rendering and heavy local workloads — spec'd part by part, tuned and benchmarked.

Custom Build
Water Cooling
AMD Ryzen
NVIDIA RTX
DDR5

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Home server rack with blue status lights in a dark room

High-Performance Builds

Home Compute Cluster

In Progress

A small self-hosted cluster running containers, data jobs and lab services — the personal 'supercomputer' behind the experiments.

Self-Hosting
Cluster
Proxmox
Linux
Docker

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Dark desk setup with two wide monitors showing code and dashboards

High-Performance Builds

Dual-Purpose Workstation

Ongoing

The daily driver: analytics and marketing work by day, campaigns and creative writing by night — one desk, two very different workloads.

Workstation
Ergonomics
Linux
Windows 11
SQL

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Dark fantasy scene of a lone armoured figure overlooking a ruined city at night

RPG Campaigns

Open-World Fantasy Campaign

Active

A long-form fantasy playthrough logged like a project: faction map, decision log and the consequences of every branch taken.

Open World
Narrative
PC
Modding
Ultrawide

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Neon-lit rainy cyberpunk alley at night with a lone figure walking

RPG Campaigns

Cyberpunk Narrative Run

Completed

A choice-heavy sci-fi run played for the branching narrative rather than completion — mapped as a decision tree.

Narrative
Branching Choices
PC
Xbox
HDR

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Overhead view of a hand-drawn campaign map, dice and notes lit by a single lamp

RPG Campaigns

Tabletop Campaign Notes

Ongoing

Running a table: world-building, session prep and improvisation — the most creative planning exercise I do all month.

Tabletop
World Building
Pen & Paper
Obsidian
Dice

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