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: When I was little, I decided to make a YouTube channel with the grammatically questionable title "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. Some people tried to pronounce that name as if it were a normal word rather than an acronym. I liked that pronunciation, and so I turned it into a 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 and Python, and I can just about get something to happen in R, C, PHP and Lua.

Q: How do you make games?
A: I usually use the .NET-based framework MonoGame together with some libraries, including my own, MLEM.

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: I generally try to keep them updated to the most recent major Minecraft version. It might take me a few months to get there, though.

Q: What's your job/occupation?
A: I'm currently studying computer science at Ulm University, and I work there part-time as a research assistant. Other than that, I make money through Tiny Life sales, as well as Modrinth and CurseForge monetization from my Minecraft mods.

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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