Miles_Choularton

CPU: Intel Core i7 13700K

RAM: Corsair Vengeance RGB 32GB (2x16GB)

Motherboard: NZXT N7 Z790

Power Supply HX1500i Fully Modular Ultra-Low Noise Platinum ATX 1500 Watt PC Power Supply (UK)

PC Case iCUE 5000T RGB Tempered Glass Mid-Tower ATX PC Case — White

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GPU: MSI GTX 1060 3GB

CPU: Intel i7 6700K

RAM: HyperX Fury 16 GB (2x8GB)

Motherboard: MSI B150 M Mortar

Drives: 1TB,2TB HHDs and 256GB SSD

Power Supply: Corsair CP-9020097-UK VS550 ATX/EPS Vs Series 80 Plus Power Supply Unit

CPU Fan: Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo

PC Case: Sharkoon T9 ATX Midi Tower Case – Red

GPU: MSI GTX 1060 3GB
CPU: Intel i7 6700K
RAM: HyperX Fury 16 GB (2x8GB)
Motherboard: MSI B150 M Mortar
Drives: 1TB,2TB HHDs and 256GB SSD
Power Supply: Corsair CP-9020097-UK VS550 ATX/EPS Vs Series 80 Plus Power Supply Unit
CPU Fan: Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo
PC Case: Sharkoon T9 ATX Midi Tower Case – Red

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Razer Mouse

Monitor: LG 40WP95CP-W 5K Ultra HD

Monitor: Gawfolk 32 inch 4K PC Monitor, UHD 3840 x 2160p 60HZ Computer Monitors VA Screen for Home & Office, Support HDMI 2.0, DP 1.4 (black)

Mouse: Razer Basilisk Pro V3 White

Keyboard: Razer Huntsman Mini Gaming Keyboard (White)

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Monitor: Samsung U28E590D 28-Inch LCD/LED Monitor - Black
LG 29UM68 29-Inch Class 21:9 UltraWide FHD IPS LED Monitor

Keyboard: Corsair Strafe RGB Mechanical Cherry MX Red Switch

Mouse: Logitech G900 Wireless Gaming Mouse Chaos Spectrum - Black
Keyboard: Corsair Strafe RGB Mechanical Cherry MX Red Switch
Mouse: Logitech G900 Wireless Gaming Mouse Chaos Spectrum - Black

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Headphones Beyerdynamic DT 1990 Pro Headphones

Mic: Audio-Technica AT2020USB+

Mic Boom Stand Gator Frameworks Deluxe Desktop Mic Boom Stand

Audio Interface Audient iD4 MKII USB-C Audio Interface

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Pop Filter: Neewer® Studio black and white

Mic Arm: Racksoy

Dac: Fiio E10K (OLYMPUS2)

Nationality: British
Location: England, Surrey
Pets: Have a dog called Beau

In my spare time I watch a lot of YouTube and Twitch which has lead me to make my own content:). I have been apart of Twitch for a while as a viewer now but it's only been the start of 2018 when I started to watch it a lot more. I enjoy live streaming because it is "raw content" and i'm looking for feedback on how I improve my streams.

My Gaming Journey

My dad’s work colleague asked him if he would be interested in taking his PS1 bundle because he was upgrading to a PS2. My dad didn't want to take it for free, so he "bought it for a fiver". He then gifted the console to me, and I loved it; I remember playing Crash Bandicoot and 007.

I enjoyed it so much that I eventually got a Game Boy Advance SP, PS2, Nintendo DS Lite, Wii, and a PS3. Then I got an Xbox 360, but I couldn't get my head around why you had to pay just to connect to the internet.

At that point, my cousin Jonathan was telling me how great PC gaming was and how you don't have to pay to play online. I bought a PC for £300, but man, that PC was weak! Even so, the PC gaming experience itself was amazing. In late 2016, my cousin and I built an £830 PC using the money I earned from my job at Sainsbury's.

PC is now my favourite platform, though I also bought a Switch for £279 one year after release. Even though Argos didn't have any games in stock to go with it at the time, once I started playing, I was really pleased with the "on-the-go" experience I got for the price.

I was in Woolworths in the 2000s and there was one pack of Yu-Gi-Oh and one pack of Pokémon cards, I could only have one and I happened to pick Yu-Gi-Oh because artistic direction is aimed at an older audience, whereas Pokémon feels a bit more childish. With this in mind I got the Yu-Gi and with possibly a bit of pica mix to boot. My parents continued to buy me Yu-Gi-Oh cards throughout my childhood because it improved my reading, practice makes perfect. Yu-Gi-Oh cards were my most common gift from my parents because it was a major and sustained concern in the 2000s that young boys were not reading enough and that their literacy levels were declining.

Over all these years I've collected a large amount of these cards which have got a binder full of these small art pieces and cultural icons of pop culture. It's like collecting funko pops without the cringe. If you invite a woman over and your room is full of Funko Pops the chemistry between you too would definitely……. change after realising your room resembles a Zoomer version of your Grandma's china and porcelain figurines collection that she keeps in and on top of a wooden glass cabinet.

Usually I make the cooking time between 2 minutes and around 30 minutes because if you know what you're doing you can create a great meal in that time period. I cook chilly, boil and scrambled eggs and make pasta. I have also been eating at Asian restaurants and cooking Asian cuisine like Chinese Steamed Egg Custard because I have developed a lactose intolerance, unlike Mediterranean cuisine where you remove the lactose and the dish is not the same. Asian cuisine is built from the ground up to not contain lactose. In saying this the lactose intolerance has forced me to cook and never gain weight which is a very good thing.

I got an electric bike a couple of years ago for my birthday and I paid half and my parents paid half. I tend to ride it to Alice Holt woods and then relax near the Lodge Pond or bike around my park or go to the local shop if my family are short on ingredients.

I have a home gym which consists of a treadmill I mostly used and then sometimes I use a rowing machine and have a bench press that I barely use. I do this to keep up with my fitness and because my grandma worked as a nurse for her career she always emphasises how important it is to exercise your brain and body because she was nursing the people that didn't.

I play games almost every single day on my gaming PC which I built myself. My favourite games of all time: Witcher 3 The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Grand Theft Auto V, Red Dead Redemption, Red Dead Redemption 2, Black Ops 1, Black Ops 2, Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy, Dishonored, Far Cry 3, Wolfenstein: The New Order, Super Mario Odyssey, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess , Mass Effect 2 ,Super Mario Galaxy, Super Mario Galaxy 2, Minecraft, Battlefield 6, PAYDAY 2, Doom, Dusk, Resident Evil, Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 4.

I have listened to lots of audiobooks but most of my favourites are

24 Hodja tales by Paul Beck

24 short stories of Nasreddin Hodja that are funny and teach moral lessons.

The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe, Read by Dermot Kerrigan

It is a masterpiece in psychological horror and suspense. The main character believes the old man's "vulture eye" is evil/threatening and peers into his bedroom at exactly midnight every night building suspense. Then when he murders the man he can hear his heart beating even though in reality that is not the case, throughout the story the beating heart gets louder and louder until it becomes unbearable to the main character, this is psychological horror at its best.

Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life by Francesc Miralles and Hector Garcia

This book talks about the people of Okinawa in Japan and how there are so many people that live over 100 years old. The book also talks about the correlation between living long life and positive life habits.

Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class by Owen Jones

In this book the “Chav” stereotype is argued as a media-driven, negative caricature, used to shame, demonize, and justify the poor treatment of the working class. Jones contends that this scapegoating deflects attention from structural issues and inequality, shifting blame onto the poor to justify dismantling the welfare state and limiting social mobility. Jones compares The Jeremy Kyle Show to Victorian-era freak shows. Instead of physical deformities, however, the modern audience is invited to gawk at moral and social "defects."

Ghost Stories: Stephen Fry's Definitive Collection by Stephen Fry, Washington Irving, M.R. James, Amelia B. Edwards, Robert Louis Stevenson, Algernon Blackwood, Edgar Allan Poe, Charlotte Riddell and Bram Stoker

This collection includes:

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving (My favorite)

My reasoning behind why this is my favourite out of the collection is the descriptive world-building from Irving, here are my three examples.

• Ichabod after a day of school would spend time sitting under a tree next to a brook then combine this with the audiobook sound stage and this feels truly tranquil

• "I had wandered into it at noontime, when all nature is peculiarly quiet, and was startled by the roar of my own gun, as it broke the Sabbath stillness around and was prolonged and reverberated by the angry echoes. If ever I should wish for a retreat whither I might steal from the world and its distractions, and dream quietly away the remnant of a troubled life, I know of none more promising than this little valley." This is descriptive world-building at its best

• The Ghost of Sleepy Hollow chase scene is the most suspenseful part of the whole book then the main character (Ichabod) is getting pursued by Headless Horseman 

Lonely Hearts by M.R. James

Was It an Illusion? by Amelia B. Edwards

The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Empty House by Algernon Blackwood

William Wilson by Edgar Alan Poe

The Open Door by Charlotte Riddell

The Judge's House by Bram Stoker

Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It by Christopher Voss and Tahl Raz

Author Chris Voss has years of experience in hostage negotiation, making him a true expert in the art of negotiation. He goes through the book explaining his techniques in a digestible manner to the listener.

Audible Original adaptation of Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (Born in Portsmouth where I was trained as a plumber), Marty Ross - adaptation and Sam Mendes

Oliver Twist an orphan child in the 1800s of England who puts up with/survives very poor treatment before fleeing to London. He then joins a gang of young pickpockets led by the Artful Dodger and their guardian Fagin. For the rest of the story all the characters are in high stake bets and suspense especially towards the end.

George Orwell’s 1984 (An Audible Original adaptation) by George Orwell and Joe White - adaptation

George Orwell’s 1984 is a war-torn state (Oceania), dystopian, totalitarian novel about Winston Smith, a low-ranking member of the ruling Party in London. One of the first things in the audio book is Winston using a pen and paper which is forbidden by the party. He later describes in the book how he disdains the ruling party. Winston Smith works in the Records Department of the Ministry of Truth censoring news articles to push the party's “truth”. The story continues to evolve when he meets a woman called Julia.

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (My favorite)

JoJo Part 1 and 2 were written between 1987 and 1988 in the bodybuilder era with movie like Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981), Conan the Barbarian (1982), The Terminator (1984), Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985), Commando (1985), Rocky IV (1985) and Predator (1988). Because of this time period the main character in Part 1 and the main character in Part 2 were both built as bodybuilders, in addition to this in the 80s the system would have how hard the character could punch times by the power of the magic ancient martial art the character had. This was a very simple concept leading to a story that was very one-dimensional, limiting the variety of that story. I’ll give you an example.

Good character: I’m six foot and take gear, Evil character: I’m seven foot and take twice the amount of gear, fight happens, fight has brief pause, Evil character: It’s about to be over for you, Good character: The damage has already been done, Evil character: What?! And then an evil character pops like a balloon due to the magic of ancient martial art.

When the 80s was coming to a close and the 90s were approaching the bodybuilder era was cooling off fast. Parts 3-9 (1989-Present) allowed from fresh ideas which were Stands. Stands are a spiritually manifested piece of the user's soul that can interact with the environment on the user's behalf. It's less like casting a spell in Harry Potter and more like having an extra limb that only some Stands users can see. This system of Stands allowed for the user's physical body to suddenly not be relevant and because the Stand system wasn't tied to physics/reality the stories are limitless in terms of imagination and direction.

Death Note

The story starts with a gifted student called Light. One day then Light is walking and a book called the Death Note falls out of the sky which he picks up and takes home with him. Then he opens the book and realises that whoever he writes inside the book they die in real life. With this information Kira (Light) starts to kill hardened criminals randomly but he misses one crucial point. All the killings happened within a Japanese time zone deducted by the best detective in Japan L (basically japanese Sherlock Holmes) which gives Kira away that he is in Japan. Later on the story gets more psychological and very suspenseful making it an absolute must watch anyone getting into anime.

Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters

Yugi's grandpa found an ancient Egyptian puzzle which was considered impossible to complete. He then gifts this to his grandson Yugi which takes him eight years to solve. The puzzle isn't just a toy; it's a magical catalyst. Yugi's motivation for finishing it wasn't just curiosity—he made a wish on it for true friends. Immediately after completion, he met Joey (Jonouchi) and Tristan (Honda), who became his lifelong crew. When Yugi gets into trouble, the Pharaoh contained within the millennium puzzle takes over in a body switch.

Yu-Gi-Oh! GX

10 years after the original series on a private island school owned by Seto Kaiba where students are ranked based on their grades (and their color-coded blazers). Obelisk Blue the elites, Ra Yellow the average and Slifer Red the underdogs. Jaden Yuki attends the duel academy on the island that teaches young duelists about the game of Duel Monsters. He makes new friends and rivals while pursuing to become the King of Games.

One-Punch Man

Saitama the main character is an independent, bold, bored superhero that can defeat anything effortlessly with one punch and it's searching for meaning throughout the series.

Chainsaw Man

Denji, a destitute teenager who merges with his pet devil, Pochita, to become a human-devil hybrid with chainsaw powers. After this event he gets hired as an assassin to take on monsters that pop up around the city. I CAN'T ADD ANY MORE PANELS! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE