Toma

## Description

**Toma** *(Toh-mah) (Ified - Tomi)* - is one of the earliest members of **Lyof's Code Constellation** and one of Lyof's closest friends. Toma is a beloved and trusted moderator in the server, commonly seen defusing arguments among the eristic members of LCC. Toma is also a very good coder, famous for his steampunk mods. Not only is Toma good at coding, he's a marvel at making music too.

## Relations

### Other Beloved Friends

Gyula, Aqu, Enq, Hamza, Anime, Ddx, Elocin, Sajevius, Neuro, Cat, iDark, Redsword, Yeo, Sculk, Joe, Duc

## Art

Toma, like his friend Lyof is obsessed with coding too. He is well-known for making a cinematic universe in his creations, known as the "Baedoor Universe", being his beloved thing.

Toma tries to be the most diverse artist to date, which means that aside of coding, worldbuilding, modding and making music, he also creates poems, stories, photography, as well as draws, still hungry to try something new.

Full list of his creations can be found here.

## List of Toma's Minecraft Mods

### Fully Created/Lead by Toma

* Wastelands of Baedoor
* Civilisations of Baedoor (🔨indev)
* Spires of Baedoor (❄️frozen, 🔨indev)
* Woodpact (Addon)
* Earth on Hell: Paths Through Forgotten Dimension (Modpack)

### Toma Participated In

* Desolat (by Dylan)
* Wild Aside (by Gyula)

## List of Toma's Music

### Albums and Projects

* Demo 2018 (Drganie)
* Night Sessions: Light Becoming Darkness (The Book of Seth)
* Will Under Love (The Book of Seth)
* Night Sessions: Oingo (The Book of Seth)
* Oneironaut (The Book of Seth)
* Νεκρόω (The Book of Seth)
* Burning Babylon (The Book of Seth)
* Sigillum Animarum (The Book of Seth)
* Εἰκών (The Book of Seth)
* Night Sessions: Towards White Cold (The Book of Seth)
* The Battle of Sancre Tor (The Book of Seth)

## List of Toma's Other Projects

### Games

* The Isle of Ansur (Text RPG game, 🔨indev)
* Ilmalaiva (game for LCC gamejam)
* Near Risk of Death (simple post-apo RPG game)

### Software

* Airship Guard (Discord bot, 🔨indev)
* Nimfire (Nim game library)
* Drawfire (Drawing app)
* Tribal (Programming language, 🔨indev)
* Librerian (Catalogue manager, 🔨indev)
* Tribalify (Nim syntax sugar library)

## Personal preferences

Toma, in general, has very broad and open-minded approach when it comes to art of any kind, so it is safe to say that in most categories here, there will be no genres boundaries for him. However, there are always some genres preferred.

### Game Taste

Toma's approach to gaming is heavily relied on immersion, thus making RPG games his favourite genre. He do loves freedom taken to the extreme which is why *Elder Scrolls* series are portrayed by him as his favourite, especially Morrowind which he often refers to as "game of his life".

He strives for games that approach very life-mimicking form of immersion, which is why he adores Morrowind's "Ashfall" mod for being probably the best survival-adding mod, mixing both realistic needs with unobtrusive handling for them. Lack of true vanilla immersive game is one of the reasons his ultimate goal is to create sim/survival-driven open world RPG game.

Despite such heavy focus on RPG genre, Toma also loves shooters and strategy games, and ones that have mixed approach for genres (such as *Mount & Blade*).

### Music Taste

Toma taste on music is very broad even if we talk about strict favourites - since even though as his Holy Trinity could be considered extreme metal, goth and industrial (with one more trinity in metal, being black metal, doom metal and death metal), he is also fanatically in love with dark/tribal ambient, trance, new age and new wave genres.

Some examples of bands loved by Toma, with more being searchable in his Last.fm account:

### Movie (& Anime) Taste

Toma is heavily loving quite opposite movie genres which are wild west movies and art movies. Despite differences at the first glances, Toma believes modern wild west movies are getting much more nuanced and psychological, which makes them even more enjoyable than old classics. One of Toma's movie favourites are *Stalker* (directed by Tarkovsky), *Ansiktet* (directed by Bergman), *Donzoko* (directed by Kurosawa), *Cobra Verde* (directed by Herzog), *The Sister Brothers* and *The Hateful Eight* (wild west movies).

Additionally, Toma is heavily favourable to animes (and Anime, too), considering them as as valuable as art movies - which can be outcome of him being picky and very focused on social-fiction genre, but he tends to say that even lighter animes like Clannad: After Story or Hellsing were at least very solid. His favourite animes consists of *Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom*, *Steins;Gate*, *Ergo Proxy*, *Psycho-Pass*, *Shiki*, *Shinsekai Yori* and *Sayonara no Asa ni Yakusoku no Hana wo Kazarou*.

Toma is also one of Marvel fans alongside Dylan and Cat, and unlike many, he really appreciates Phase IV of MCU. He especially loves Loki and Iron Man characters.

## Philosophy

### Approach to life & subcultures

Toma tries to find right balance between rationality and emotions, which can be seen by four philosophical alignments he believes to represent him:

 Romanticism
 Goth
 Industrialism

Despite trying to catch balance between rational and emotional forces, Toma tends to lend more into non-rationality, which may be outcome of his high interest in metaphysics and humane sciences, as well as his agnosticism.

### God and science

Toma could be considered as "critical theist", as he believes in supernatural, but does so despite irrationality of that. He also doesn't state anything particular about those supernatural topics, rather trying deeply analyse religion and esotericism, as well as philosophy and art, to understand this reality and its meaning.

Toma beliefs are highly aligned with christianity one, but differ in several cases. They focus on "voluntarily sacrificing" yourself and trying to be kind no matter what, rejecting strict rules on the other hand. A lot of those christian values are sifted through romanticism lens.

Despite his beliefs, Toma is also highly interested and appreciative towards science, thinking that these fields do not belong in exactly one sphere, thus should not be put against each other. Likes to point out that science is never "stating facts about the world", but rather "stating the most probable theses at the time" which is why it is not as conservative as radical atheists would like it to see.

Toma is interested a lot in various religions (especially early ones), magic practices (such as tarot) and esotericism, and he currently studies a bit of chaos magic, voodoo and hermeticism. He dislikes thelema and is highly adversary towards laveyan satanism.

### Technology

Toma is known to be tech-enthusiastic, but with some caveats: he rejects AI, NFTs and whole web3 concept, with explicitly strong disdain towards AI because of its biggest danger. Additionally, Toma is opposing web2 culture which is social media, streaming and minimalism - as those, in his understanding, contribute towards consumerist culture and also detach user from the product (by propagating "lending" culture instead of "ownership" one).

Additionally, Toma is believer of infoanarchism - belief that all culture should be freely and openly accessible to everyone, and also rightly preserved. That's also why Toma strongly advocates for ethical piracy, which he portrays as pirating bundled with buying, where one doesn't affect the other.

## Trivia

* Toma's original profile picture featured a menacing looking old man. It was so unnaturally weird it became a meme that was nicknamed "Tomatoes" which was an emoji of an image of his pfp. The emoji is no longer available on LCC, though.
* Toma is obsessed with steampunk aesthetics. This is why, despite his universe being very diverse, it is always portrayed by him with airships, victorian architecture and overall steampunk vibes. Additionally, this obsession is why some fan depictions of Toma (such as profile picture made by Aqu) include goggles, gears and metal.
* At the earliest days, Toma started "-i"-naming LCC members, which later became a meme, and lead to some people also using *ified names* themselves. However, Toma still remains as the most cohesive member using this naming convention.
* Toma could be called "member promoter", because he had major impact on finding and promoting people of current LCC community, such as Dylan, Enq and Speen, resulting on them joining the server and becoming influencial on its culture.
* There's disturbing meme with unknown (or rather, unchecked, because I'm lazy writing this) origin, popularised by Baron, that Toma eats women. It was distributed mainly through deepfake gif that edited message of Toma to looks believable. Later, the meme was adopted into LCC culture and even used from time to time by Toma himself.
* Even though Toma is considered as the kindest moderator of LCC server, there is also a meme popularised by Baron that was directed on LCC moderation removing messages and banning during drama era. From those situation, meme of 1984 arose, trying to point out supposed censorship of the server - and while after that time, the meme slowly died out, Toma likes to refer to it by jokingly using it in some sentences, mainly "1984+ projects". Cat also made semi-reference to this topic by calling Toma "World Moderator" from time to time, however this meme is used always in respectful way.
* On 29th December 2023, Toma was promoted as developer for Tamriel Rebuilt and Project Tamriel projects. This marks one of his longest dreams becoming true, given PTR projects were biggest inspirations and loves of Toma's gameplay of Morrowind.

## Gallery

Original avatar of Toma, depicting Lord Vetinari from Pratchett's DiscWorld universe. Drawn by Julie Dillon.One of Toma textures, used for Wastelands of Baedoor mod. Toma is known for ignoring hue shifting, yet still doing fairly okay textures in his mods. However, lately he tries to learn new things, including hue shifts and colour theory.Former avatar of Toma, made by Aqu during his session of avatar-making for whole moderator team. Deeply beloved by Toma.