User:Cassandraleo

Note: Parts of this biography are probably really old and out of date.

I am a graduate of Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, with a bachelor's degree in political science. I'm almost done with a second bachelor's in information technology from the University of South Florida in Sarasota.

A lot of my spare time is spent developing mods for the Marathon trilogy. The most impressive mod I've worked on that's been released is probably Eternal; I'm the codirector of 1.2.1 and the upcoming 1.3. I recommend playing the most recent preview of 1.3 (or, if you're feeling particularly adventurous, grabbing the version from the "Current Build Folder" on the development page) - everything about the game is way more refined and impressive. We're hoping for the official release of 1.3 to be near the end of this year. I'm also codirector of Where Monsters Are in Dreams, which has not been released yet. We have no estimate for when it will be done. I'm also working on a re-release of Tempus Irae with one of the original developers of the game; we estimate it will be ready sometime around August or September 2022. I have my own mod called Marathon Chronicles, which I estimate to be about half-finished; however, development is currently stalled as I finish off the aforementioned projects, and it doesn't have a website. Beyond that, I've also remastered the soundtrack of Marathon Phoenix and the sounds and music of the Trojan Standalone Edition, and I've also made remastered sounds for Aleph One: Pathways into Darkness (a port of Pathways into Darkness to Aleph One), Marathon 1, and Marathon Infinity. And I run a YouTube channel, just in case that wasn't enough.

I am an agnostic, and hold political beliefs which, if they must be classified, probably qualify somewhere in the realm of libertarian socialism, with the underlying thesis that society needs to drastically transform itself before anything resembling an ideal society can be brought about (a potential which honestly seems more hopeless by the day). My views can be categorised as anarcho-syndicalist as well, though I don't argue that anarchism will be workable anytime in the near future, probably not even during my lifetime. If anyone cares, the Political Compass test has me on the bottom left corner, but it's pretty limited, considering that it doesn't ask important questions like "Should private property exist?" (Yes, just not as it's currently distributed) or "Should government be abolished immediately?" (No, abolishing government now would make the imbalances of power in society even worse), not to mention it doesn't really distinguish between free-market capitalism and corporatism.

Apart from following politics semi-obsessively and developing mods for Marathon, I am interested in music (particularly extreme metal and progressive rock), fiction (particularly science-fiction and fantasy literature), and video games (particularly role-playing games). My handle is a variation on the Mars Volta song "Cassandra Gemini," with the Leo originating from my Zodiac sign. Though I don't care about astrology at all, as I consider it pretty much bunk.

These lists have barely been updated in over a decade.