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neocities guide - why you should build your own html website

do you miss the charm of the 90s/00s web where sites had actual personality instead of the same minimalistic theme? are you feeling drained by social media and the constant corporate monopoly of your data and time? do you want to be excited about the internet again? try neocities!!

what is neocities?

neocities is a free hosting website that lets you build your own html website from scratch, with total creative control. in their own words: "we are tired of living in an online world where people are isolated from each other on boring, generic social networks that don't let us truly express ourselves. it's time we took back our personalities from these sterilized, lifeless, monetized, data mined, monitored addiction machines and let our creativity flourish again."

why should I make my own website?

web3 has been overtaken by capitalism & conformity. websites that once were meant to be fun online social spaces now exist solely to steal your data and sell you things. it sucks!! building a personal site is a great way to express yourself and take control of your online experience.

what would I even put on a website?

the best part about making your own site is that you can do literally whatever the hell you want! focus on a specific subject or make it a wild collection of all your interests. share your art! make a shrine for one of your interests! post a picture of every bird you see when you step outside! make a collection of your favorite blinkies! the world is your oyster !! here are some cool example sites to inspire you: recently updated neocities sites | it can be fun to just look through these and browse people's content! space bar | local interstellar dive bar creature feature | halloween & monsters big gulp supreme peanutbuttaz | personal site dragodiluna linwood | personal site patho grove | personal site

getting started: neocities/html guide

sound interesting? here are some guides to help you get started, especially if you aren't familiar with html/css sadgrl.online webmastery | a fantastic resource for getting started with html & web revival. also has a layout builder that you can use to start with in case starting from scratch is too intimidating web design in 4 minutes | good for learning coding basics w3schools | html tutorials templaterr | demo & html for basic web elements eggramen test pages | css page templates to get started with sadgrl background tiles | bg tiles rivendell background tiles | more free bg tiles

fun stuff to add to your site

want your site to be cool? here's some fun stuff that i've found blinkies-cafe | fantastic blinkie maker! (run by @transbro & @graphics-cafe) gificities | internet archive of 90s/00s web gifs internet bumper stickers | web bumper stickers momg | gif gallery 99 gif shop | 3d gifs 123 guestbook | add a guestbook for people to leave messages cbox | add a live chat box moon phases | track the phases of the moon gifypet | a little clickable page pet adopt a shroom | mushroom page pet tamaNOTchi | virtual pet crossword puzzle | daily crossword imood | track your mood neko | cute cat that chases your mouse pollcode | custom poll maker website hit counter | track how many visitors you have

web revival manifestos & communities

also, there's actually a pretty cool community of people out there who want to bring joy back to the web! melonland project | web project/community celebrating individual & joyful online experiences. Also has an online forum melonland intro to web revival | what is web revival? melonking manifesto | status cafe | share your current status nightfall city | online community onio.cafe | leave a message and enjoy the ambiance sadgrl internet manifesto | yesterweb internet manifesto | sadly defunct, still a great resource reclaiming online social spaces | great manifesto on cultivating your online experience

in conclusion

i want everyone to make a neocities site because it's fun af and i love seeing everyone's weird personal sites that they made outside of the control of capitalism :) say hi to me on neocities

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Hey so Tumblr kind of sucks...a lot.

So I made a Neocities site instead.

I'm not gonna do... anything else here? All my review things are up on my site, with a couple errors here and there I hope to fix.

All my audiobooks will be announced there and the reviews and anything else I do will be found there. It still has a lot of work before I'm gonna be happy with it. But it's a start.

https://blubblymedia.neocities.org/

#neocities #fuck this hellsite #im making my own

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I love RPG games. And some of the best ones were made by Squaresoft. And some of the best ones were made in the 90's

There's people out there who call it Square's golden era. Banger after banger of quality RPGs, with wonderful worlds, beautiful art and magical stories. They're still remembered to this day as some of the best in the genre

Today i bring you something that i've decided to call, The Squaresoft RPG Golden Era Legacy Collection™

25 of the best games ever made. Now ALL of them translated and available on PC

The collection contains SNES, PS1, and Gameboy games. Emulators for all 3 are included in the pack. DOWNLOAD HERE!! (3.5 GB)

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Samus in her Love Deluxe Heart Suit! 💖

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I watched - Just One Of The Guys - 1985

"People love adapting Shakespeare's Twelfth Night."

I liked this movie! Even if it was primarily because of the lead when she was cross-dressing mainly just making her look butch as hell. I haven't seen 'She's the Man', but Amanda Bynes wasn't very... styled? From the screenshots anyway. Like, no style. Maybe it's just 80's style I like more. Enough about the lead and comparisons though. The movie!

ALSO! OHMYGOD I ALMOST FORGOT. The main character's acting is stilted in such a way that makes it more charming? Like. I feel like a rare instance of the not-best-acting adding to the performance. Anyway.

The overall plot kind of ditches it's premise in favor of just being a rom-com. Terri is going to do shenanigans to get into the local paper. Needs to write a better article, so needs to keep going to a different school until it's written. Then the article just is never brought up until the end?

The character's main and side are great. There are weird nerds that are meant to be the butt of the joke clearly. But no one is actually mean to their face, and they get dates to prom. So they're just, unique cool people. Terri's brother, Buddy, kind of sucks. Dude is 15 and the horniest person I've ever seen. Every inch of this man's bedroom is coated in nude posters and every other thing he says is about how he wants to bang women. Wild. The love interest is cool, he likes good music.

Also it doesn't really do anything transphobic? At least not how I perceived it. Like, Buddy makes a joke about Terri being transexual and getting 'the surgery'. But no one disputes it with any disgust. Terri's reveal of "being a woman the whole time" by showing her tits to the love interest is met with fucking. "Where do you get off having tits?" And an instant before that he was guessing Terri was gay instead, with again, not really any judgement.

For a movie from the 80s? Kind of owns.

#first time #movie #just one of the guys #february 2024

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I played - Celeste 64 - 2024

"LOOK AT THAT BEAN!"

I love Celeste, played it, 100%'ed it, I got a tattoo of a strawberry with wings on me. I also 100% this. I have less qualms about being nitpicky a piece or two since it was a game jam kind of thing in the first place. I want to be positive first though.

The translation from 2 to 3 dimensions worked generally pretty well! Various mechanics made concessions to function but those worked. Gay Madeline!!! Fun little conversations with various characters. Great difficulty for having B-sides work like the Mario levels or whatever (never really played Sunshine enough to know what they are, that act as quick asides where there is less punishment for failing.

I think the only piece of this puzzle that didn't click was climbing. Specifically camera adjustments and edges. Changing the angle would send me in directions I didn't want. And the interaction with the top edges meant I'd often be trying to climb to the top even when I didn't want to.

Go try this! It's free! It's fun to be a party to experimentation from a dev team in some way. The playfulness with ideas in a third dimension.

#january 2024 #celeste 64 #game #3d platformer

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I watched - Evil Dead 2 - 1987

"A campy horror movie who knows it's camp but not in a bad way."

I like this franchise, like in the, "I've seen the original trilogy and some of the TV show". I'd recommend this movie to people, 1 is take it or leave it and Army of Darkness if you enjoy the slapstick nature. I like A Wounded Fawn for the same kind of reason I like this movie. It's just, "let's torture a guy for the majority of the runtime".

That being said, I don't have much else to say about the movie itself. But I have a lot of thoughts about what I'm doing with these and my critical lens below.

I keep plugging along on these little review things as a sort of diary I think. I'm not actually sure. I've tried diaries and it never works. But this is consistent (at least on a keeping the queue logged so I can come back to it later). If I ever choose I can compare how I view a movie one viewing to another, or just get my general viewpoint from a certain time.

The other reason is much smaller, I figure if anyone takes a longer look at the things I like to watch/read/play, and finds enough similarities they could appreciate other things I enjoyed. Also the fact I limit myself to Games, Movies, TV shows, and Books. Like, comparitively it's a fraction of what I'm doing. It doesn't cover the hours of youtube I watch. Or the games I partially play. Or the music I listen to.

Part of the reason is music, I just enjoy what I listen to and don't have much to say about it. I like it, it's good. Partially played games I can't in good conscience put out material on. Either because I didn't like them in which case there is no reason to put negativity out there without at least trying to leave good feedback. Or because it's hard to speak on only a portion of the story (which is mostly what I play for). Youtube doesn't get any blurbs not because it isn't chock full of effort. Moreso because I can't devote that much time to doing "I watched" on that many videos. And all that doesn't even touch on the small amount of multiplayer things I do. I've been playing Stardew Valley modded and Monster Hunter Rise!

Writing out my thoughts on this was useful because I'm thinking maybe I keep a monthly, "Here are a handful of things I've been interacting with that don't warrant a deeper dive." Moving forward thing I guess.

Or maybe my critical writing is just so prolific and interesting that it demands attention. Speaking of...

I have no idea what my lens looks like. Outside of the fact that 6 and 7 out of 10 media has more to talk about for me. A lot of times how I interact with media feels lacking. I've probably typed out a variation on that sentence before. There's a game I'm playing right now that I have a lot to talk about (but later). But I don't have much to say about Evil Dead.

It makes me wonder what I'm missing. What subtext. What prejudices. What influences. Regardless of whether I'm consuming media by themselves with no greater knowledge of their creators or themes. That doesn't mean they exist in the vacuum I'm consuming them. Counter to that. Games and Video involve a lot of people. There is so much of the world and people that gets distilled into these products. Obviously this is dependent. Indie things and books involve generally a much smaller number.

Back to the point, sometimes I feel that I can't pick these things up. Actually wait, another tangent. It's ok that I don't! That doesn't invalidate how I or other's have interacted with something. Even if I don't pick up on as many of the themes of like, Signalis, it doesn't mean I can't enjoy my time with it.

But there are times where it can matter. When either on purpose or on accident creators weave in themes that are detrimental. I want to see these things not just to demonize the works. Just being able to recognize them and point them out is enough! There are times where it's like I can only view the edge of the canvas of a piece of art I know is beautiful. But I can't shift my perspective enough to view the whole image.

So I think that's it. If you stuck with my rambling and get anything out of it, take this knowledge. Things are molded by people and those people are molded by the world around them. Regardless of their intent, they put themselves into what they make, the good, and the ugly.

#rewatch #evil dead 2 #movie #january 2024

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commission for @mitzo!! tysm ^_^

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I watched - An Eternal Combat - 1991

" 'Watched' is doing a lot of heavy lifting."

I don't know what to say. It's a Hong Kong fantasy horror movie. Horror is not doing much there. Also the DVD skipped like 30 minutes. The subtitles? Pretty broken. We had a good time though! There were a couple funny jokes sprinkled throughout. Given the opportunity, if all that changed was the DVD not skipping, I'd watch it again. But also I'm not gonna like, seek that out y'know?

#first time #an eternal combat #movie #january 2024

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I watched - Mesa of Lost Women - 1953

"The only tolerable way to watch this movie is with friends in a mocking manner."

Okay, so this movie makes okay time laughing at it, but listen to the premise. There is a mesa, somewhere in Mexico, where a doctor is giving women spider HRT. One of them has regenerative abilities and could live for centuries? Also a spider with estrogen? The actual setup for how the "protagonists" get there doesn't really matter, they don't do anything interesting other than bumble around a forest you can't see and die. If there is a monsterfucker filmmaker out there that sees this. I'm pleading, do something more interesting with it.

#mesa of lost women #movie #first time #january 2024

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I played - Asura's Wrath - 2012

"This kind of could have just been an anime...and is?"

Here's the thing. I got this because from my knowledge prior it was a pretty good beat'em'up with over the top cutscenes that only got more absurd. I got a good to okay beat'em'up with mostly that kind of power scaling. But they put the final part behind a $7 DLC! Imagine buying a show that says "almost Complete Series!" For that reason I say just go watch a longplay, honestly I didn't find the combat to be compelling enough and then you don't have to do quick-time events during cutscenes. Oh and when I played the English dub had terrible mixing? Just an aside.

#asuras wrath #first time #january 2024 #game

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I played - Kingdom Hearts 1.5 Final Mix - 2013

"This game is great! Well this bit is just okay. Oh yeah, this world... Oh I forgot about this."

To me Kingdom Hearts is distilled nostalgia. Because no matter how many times I replay it, I look back at it with fondness. Yet everytime I do dip my feet back into Destiny Island's pristine waters, piece after piece wears at me. I also blame myself for playing on Proud Mode this time around. Everything else? Under the cut.

I played this game for my nesting partner. This game just always has this heartwarming childishness to it. Unlike how other games present similar themes, this one always rings as juvenile in a delightful way. His entire "My friends are my power!" speech just goes so hard every time.

Like. The combat doesn't feel quite right. Gummi travel/shipmaking sucks. Some of the requirements to progress the story on worlds is baffling. The fact it shines in spite of little nitpicks makes it such a delight.

Also this game and series is great for making Disney characters say absolutely batshit RPG nonsense words at each other.

#replay #game #kingdom hearts #january 2024

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I played - Snakebird - 2023

"WAIT THAT WAS THE SOLUTION!?!?"

A cute puzzle game about birds that eat fruit and get longer like snake. A cute puzzle game that also hides devious little puzzles that made me want to tear my hair out. I got like 90% of the way through fine on my own. But there were a couple levels that defied my reasoning. Thankfully there are others who document puzzle games in their entirety. Oft-times I wouldn't even need to watch the whole solution. It was as simple as seeing a single movement and the rest falling into place. Other than that it was good fun!

#snakebird #game #first time #january 2024

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I played - LOVE - 2014

"Yup. As advertised."

There is something to be said about simple platformers that have. Move. Jump. This one does fun things with gimmicks here and there. but the checkpoint system is great, also the different modes. It was an excellent way to kill like 30 minutes. I personally didn't have the need to do the challenge modes.

#love platformer #first time #game #january 2023