T.C. SottekInterview
Executive editor (The Verge), founder (The Adventure Guild)
Adapted from T.C. Sottek's interview on Uses This, published 11 January 2021. The kit is drawn from their answers and each reason is an excerpt, lightly edited. Shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full interview ↗
Is this you? Claim this kit →Hardware
In a normal world, I split my time between my tiny gold MacBook and my custom-built Windows PC at home.
GPU: An old EVGA GeForce 980 Ti...
The most reliable technology I use is a Pilot G2 retractable gel pen and a pocket-sized Moleskine.
Communication
Browser
Design
For the past three years while designing the roleplaying game Quest, I've lived in InDesign.
Media
I did finally crack open Premiere Pro a couple weeks ago when I decided to re-edit The Fellowship of The Ring.
Storage
Other
while I wait for the RTX 3090
The only thing I miss about the macOS experience is specific to laptops; I really like the three-finger swipe for switching between multiple desktops / windows.
Of all the operating systems I've used -- Commodore KERNAL, DOS, Linux, etc -- for some reason I just feel most at home in Windows.
Maybe it's because my experience with operating systems was largely forged through struggle (hello, Windows ME).