Q: What are your pronouns?
A: I'm assigned male at birth and quite comfortable with that, so I go by he/him most of the time. My own gender isn't really that important to me, though, and I usually also include they/them as an option.

Q: How old are you?
A: I'm years old. This automatically updates now, too, so I won't ever forget to update it again!

Q: Where are you from?
A: I am from Neuss, Germany and I currently live in Neu-Ulm, Germany. I lived in Aachen, Germany for a while as well.

Q: Why are you called Ellpeck?
A: Well, it actually isn't as interesting of a story as some of you might hope. Long story short, when I was little (and was, apparently, very bad at English), I decided to make a YouTube channel called "LetsPlayEveryGames." Shortly after, I also made a Minecraft account that I was going to call the same thing. At the time, though, there was a limit for how many characters your name could have, and so I opted for calling myself "LPEG" instead. When a friend of mine came along and started trying to pronounce that name, instead of saying each individual letter on its own, he started pronouncing it like a word: Ell-Peg. ...Ellpeck. I liked that pronounciation and so I stuck with the name.

Q: What should I call you?
A: In general, most of my friends online call me Ell nowadays, which is also what I go by on Twitter and Discord in terms of my display names. My boyfriend calls me Peck online, but I generally don't like it when other people do so. If we meet in real life, you can call me Ell or Julian, the latter of which is my real name.

Q: What languages do you speak?
A: I speak German, English, Java and C# fluently. I'm okay at JavaScript, TypeScript, Python and PHP, and I can just about get something to happen in R, C and Lua.

Q: How do you make games?
A: I usually use the .NET-based framework MonoGame together with some libraries to make it a bit easier, including my own library, MLEM, which you can read about in the Projects section.

Q: When are you updating your Minecraft mods?
A: If you're asking about Actually Additions, I don't work on it anymore. If you're asking about any of my other mods: Don't. I'll do it when I feel like it.

Q: What's your job/occupation?
A: I'm currently studying Computer Science at Ulm University. I don't have a job on the side or anything, though.

Q: Are you for hire?
A: You can commission me to make a Minecraft mod for you. You can find more information on my commissions page. For other work, you can check out my page on LinkedIn.

Q: What do you use to code?
A: For Java, I use IntelliJ IDEA. For C#, I use JetBrains Rider. For anything web-related, I use PhpStorm. For most of my other projects, which are usually rather small, I use Visual Studio Code.

Q: What's your favorite programming language?
A: C#.

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