© TGS 2026 | Built for people who think in systems.
~ T G S ~
Every generation gets one shift that changes what humans can do. Steam. Electricity. The internet. We are living in the next one. TGS was built by someone who takes that seriously, and wants to be in a room with people who do too.
What is The Great Stag?
The Great Stag (TGS) is a curated hub for people who work in ops, automation, marketing, data, or tech more broadly - and who also have a serious gaming background. Members build software or webapps, share real workflows, and engage at a depth that most professional or gaming spaces never reach. The entry filter is behavioral, not a job title. The work is real: community, builds, and select professional engagements. The game is automation. Everything else follows.
Why TGS exists
Most communities are too junior, too generalist, or reset to basics every time a new member arrives. And the gaming communities have no idea what to do with someone who spent 8,000 hours in competitive games and also builds automation workflows, designs system architecture, or crunches data on weekends.
TGS was built to close that gap. The baseline here is already high. Sharing a workflow or a build is the minimum, not an unusual act. Gaming is a legit part of the identity here - not a caveat, not an icebreaker. And the curation is real: not everyone gets in, which is exactly the point.
If you have ever had to pick between your professional identity and your gaming identity, you do not have to here. Both are real. Both are useful. That is the point.
01 - People
And who can evaluate what you are building. No cheerleaders. Contribution is the currency.
02 - Conversations
The kind of conversations where someone finishes your sentence and takes it somewhere better.
03 - The Lab
Personal projects, community builds, real work in progress. Built by people who could not leave a problem alone.
04 - Gaming
It is the shared language. Challenges, private servers, Minecraft, Valheim, TF2. The long game - literally.
The Lab
Part personal portfolio. Part community showcase. Every project you see there was built by someone who could not leave a problem alone until it was solved - or at least running.
It grows as TGS grows. Come back often.
Who built this
I work in growth and marketing ops while finishing a Master's in Digital Marketing. I have also logged somewhere north of 20,000 hours across a multitude of games - For Honor, LoL, RL, Brawl Stars, TF2, PUBG, CS, Hunt: Showdown, Valheim. And a few thousand of those hours in Minecraft, where I spent most of my time not actually playing but building systems inside it.
I did not realize until much later that I was doing the same thing at work. The same brain. Different medium.
I spent years looking for a room where both parts of that identity were real at the same time. The work and the gaming. Not as a fun fact. Not as a metaphor.
I care about the internet staying worth using. I use an ad blocker. I avoid platforms that treat attention as a resource to strip-mine. I have no patience for slop - content that exists to fill space, game algorithms, or extract clicks without giving anything back. The dead internet theory is not just a meme to me. It is a real drift I actively push against.
That includes how I think about AI. I am not skeptical of it and I am not neutral about it. I think artificial intelligence is one of the most meaningful shifts in human capability that has ever happened. Not a tool you pick up and put down. Something closer to a superpower - one that deserves to be treated seriously, used with intention, and made available to everyone.
TGS reflects both of those things. No ads. No slop. No content that exists just to exist. And a genuine belief that AI, used well, raises the floor for everyone in the room.
I work in growth ops and digital marketing, currently at a B2B professional kitchen integrator in the Bordeaux region. Before that: ecommerce, sales, database administration and QA. I learn by doing things that break and then fixing them until they don't.
The project I am most proud of professionally is MCNAFSCAN - a B2B prospecting pipeline that filters 30 million company records from the French national business database, enriches them across 6 layers, and outputs warm leads automatically. Built in Python, runs in CLI (planning a UI interface), integrated with many services via API.
Outside of work I build things. Automation pipelines, data workflows, marketing ops systems. TGS itself was built from scratch in parallel with a full-time job and a Master's degree.
Twenty thousand hours across a multitude of games. For Honor, League of Legends, Rocket League, Brawl Stars, TF2, PUBG, CS, Hunt: Showdown. Competitive and creative, mostly. The kind of player who studies how the game actually works - the meta, the mechanics, the edge cases - rather than just playing it.
A few thousand of those hours were in Minecraft. Vanilla survival, but not really. Redstone. Automated farms. Village halls. Intricate minecart networks. Systems inside a sandbox, for the sake of making them work.
Gaming was the first layer. It is where the systems brain got its first reps. The rest followed from there.
The creators, engineers, and storytellers that shaped how I think. Some I have followed for over a decade. All of them are worth your time.
Science
VeritasiumThings you might not know, explained with meticulous care and quiet wit. One of the most honest voices to ever do it on YouTube.
Engineering
Colin FurzeBuilds things that should not exist. Proves that engineering and chaos are not opposites.
Engineering
Stuff Made HerePrecision engineering meets refusal to accept good enough. The obsession is the point.
Engineering
Mark RoberApplied engineering for people who think the real world is an interesting constraint, not a limitation.
Tech
LTT - LinusThe standard for honest, high-volume technical content. Proof that you can scale without losing the signal.
Fiction
LostMythology architecture at scale. What happens when you build a world with real internal logic.
Fiction
Avatar: The Last AirbenderA story with real stakes made for everyone. Proof that depth and accessibility are not opposites.
If you are reading this and something feels familiar - the combination of the systems brain and the gaming history, the isolation of not finding peers who get both - that is who this is for.
Come build something.
Have a problem worth solving? Let's talk.
Live projects
Two live TGS projects. Both built from scratch - with AI as a collaborator, not a crutch. Open, real, and growing.
A thinking style quiz that maps how your brain actually operates. Not a personality test. Not a corporate framework. A behavioral filter. Ten thinking styles, 135-question pool, multilingual. Built on Webflow, Supabase, and a Cloudflare Worker proxy.
Take the quiz →A free Windows utility that switches your audio output with one keypress. Works with Razer Synapse, Logitech G Hub, AutoHotkey, Stream Deck. No tray icon. No bloat. Anticheat safe. Built because the problem was real and every existing solution was overcomplicated.
Get it free →TGS is curated. That filter is not gatekeeping for the sake of it. It is what keeps the quality inside worth protecting.