Personal · Giftlist
I have been traditionally quite difficult to buy gifts for; I usually buy what I want for myself, and the things I don't buy are too expensive for anyone to reasonably afford.
With that being said, I am still collating this list so that I know what I want, and for anyone suitably silly with it to be aware. It is incomplete and messy; I'll update it as time passes.
The number one thing I want is time, but that, unfortunately, cannot be bought. If you have a hookup for a hyperbolic time chamber or the box from Primer, let me know!
Art
- Zetterstrand prints; I am partial to the CS ones:
- artbooks
- the second edition of Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar, should it ever come out
- Anime Architecture: Imagined Worlds and Endless Megacities
- Arcade Game Typography: The Art of Pixel Type
- Back to the Future: The Ultimate Visual History
- City of Darkness: Revisited
- Design School: Type: A Practical Guide for Students and Designers
- Futuria: Art of the Sci-Fi Age
- Hyperborea: Stories from the Arctic
- Iconic Transit Maps: The World's Best Designs
- Liam Wong: After Dark
- Making Videogames: The Art of Creating Digital Worlds
- New Page Design: Layout and Editorial Design
- Project UrbEx
- Proof of Work: Blockchain Provocations 20112021
- Tech Noir: The Art of James Cameron
- The Art and Making of Control
- The Art of Remember Me
- The Art of the Mass Effect Trilogy: Expanded Edition
- The Camera
- The James Bond Archives
- The World of Cyberpunk 2077
- Tokyo Storefronts - The Artworks of Mateusz Urbanowicz
- Waneella: Pixelscapes
- WipEout Futurism: The Graphic Archives
- Kurisu Makise ~Reading Steiner~: Okay. To be clear, I'm not a figurine guy. Don't put "Philpax is a figurine guy" in the newspaper. I just think this particular one is neat; I love its composition and how well-framed it is.
VR headsets
One of:
Media
- My Steam wishlist
- Switch games (honestly, I'd buy these on Steam, but these editions appear to be Switch exclusives):
Hardware
General
- a record player of some quality; need to do more research on this
- a decent gaming laptop with all-AMD so it has a higher chance of working with Linux
- Switch 2
- a Bambu Lab X1 Carbon 3D printer, or equivalent in quality, polish, and just-work-ism
PC
- RTX 5090 or equivalent. Preferably NVIDIA for their ML features. How else will I play Cyberpunk 2077 in VR with pathtracing? (Not a serious predicament, unless you're in a position to buy me a 5090, in which case it is.)
- open-back headphones. My ATH-M50s have served me well, but I'm ready to move on.
- good speakers, preferably with a subwoofer
Server
- another 3090 or 4090. I have two 3090s in there, but more GPUs means more VRAM and more model parallelisation. I'd like to be able to run a GLM Air model (109B) with quantisation, which should be possible with 3x24GB GPUs.
- 3x 24+TB hard drives. Can't be relying on a chonky external forever. Currently thinking about getting refurbished drives from Databricks, but they're all out of stock.
Misc
- My life would certainly be better with Fuji X-mount zoom lenses with autofocus. (It is hard to track focus with manual-focus vintage lenses.) In order of priority: