Neocities

1 week ago

sorry for absolute feed spam, but just curious - if you keep up with my site, is there anything in particular (e.g. writings, art, reviews ...) that draws you in the most? (this won't affect what i put on my site whatsoever, by the way)

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nicegirlslumber 1 week ago

For me it's definitely reviews, I really like how you write and talk about the books + snip the excerpts for us to see. Though your recitation of La Scapigliata left my jaw slacked and really drew me in

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cervidaze 1 week ago

i'm a text-heavy person, so if there's an article, blog post, or review that interests me, i tend to go for those first (on another note, i appreciate your reading analyses of the books you've read and will probably be adding some of them to my reading list)

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juneish 1 week ago

echoing cervidaze! i mainly come the articles but i enjoy your thoughts on your reading as well + have added a few to my reading list

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juneish 1 week ago

come... for... the articles.

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projectc190 5 days ago

hi hi ty @ngs @reyn @june for the input! seems like the people yearn for book reviews.. that's nice though, i like reading books and writing about them :-)

projectc190 updated project c190

1 week ago

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projectc190 havensworn

1 week ago

your site is very cozy; i'm looking forward to see how it grows :)

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havensworn 1 week ago

thank you, that's sweet of you to say!!

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projectc190

1 week ago

thinking my mutuals might be interested in this 5-hour documentary about debunking transphobia: https://youtu.be/JiOc0r31-Os. i am only about halfway through and am not sure if i will write on it more extensively hence the feed comment. it really makes you think how dangerous it is that outright science denial and anti-intellectualism has become acceptable; ppl can really just distort narratives however they want

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projectc190

1 week ago

currently looking through the syllabus for my honors course and i've already read 2 of the books in the curriculum.. thanks neocities

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projectc190

2 weeks ago

guess who just officially programmed a working tetris game in assembly language

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projectc190 2 weeks ago

i just ironed out a bug and it seems to be completely functional now..writeups to come later & still need to make more adjustments before i can record demo videos :')

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projectc190

3 weeks ago

writing out some chinese characters for my mahjong page background had me thinking about how u can tell who actually speaks the language by what their handwriting looks like

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projectc190 3 weeks ago

then it got me wondering about how it works in russian, which i've learned a little about before. i know people practically never write in block letters (i.e. the way cyrillic is displayed on a computer) but how people even read russian cursive is a mystery to me

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projectc190 3 weeks ago

another interesting detail is that i've hardly written in chinese by hand since the pandemic. anyone else have a similar experience? idk, just wondering

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iwillneverbehappy 3 weeks ago

russian cursive is just like english cursive :p some letters are different but the differences are consistent. for written japanese i know people often “smear”/abbreviate strokes so that some characters are only readable via stroke order and the general contour of the kanji/kana

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iwillneverbehappy 3 weeks ago

for written korean the stroke order must also be correct for handwriting to look natural. particularly in stylised handwriting, whether cutesy gel pen or archaic ink brush. i never noticed it before, but handwritten english seems much more lenient on stroke order…

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projectc190 3 weeks ago

@iwillneverbehappy i guess it makes sense it's similar to english cursive, i think i've just been spooked by seeing terrifying images like this: https://files.catbox.moe/c8uwkb.webp lol. also huh til that japanese cursive is seriously condensed: https://files.catbox.moe/u76ydp.webp. i've only ever seen anything like this in some very flowy styles of chinese calligraphy

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projectc190 3 weeks ago

it's interesting that you point out stroke order influences how characters look because now that i think about it you're absolutely right. i guess i hadn't considered it before because i've always just written (chinese) characters based on vibes, so generally left-right, top-bottom. (is my handwriting secretly shit?) i can see how writing strokes randomly would result in wonky ill-proportioned characters though

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iwillneverbehappy 3 weeks ago

the unreadable russian cursive is kind of a meme (equivalent of writing “minimum” in english cursive, sort of a worst-case scenario). top-down and left-right heuristic for chinese characters is a thing + correct me if i’m wrong, but once you learn the stroke order of a radical, that ordering will be correct for every instance of the radical in other characters, right?

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manulzone 3 weeks ago

I've had conversations about this describing the difference as between writing and drawing letters/characters (literacy in the latin alphabet comes up at my job fairly often). People will start a letter in insane places if never formally taught. I love it.

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manulzone 3 weeks ago

Very obvious when people are drawing the picture of a word instead of writing it out once you know to look for it.

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visualculture 3 weeks ago

@manulzone “drawing a picture of a word” is such a good way of phrasing it

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projectc190 3 weeks ago

@iwillneverbehappy that seems a lot more realistic lol. and about the radicals: i think so? that's how i've always taken it, anyway. though i studied the language from the same textbooks as kids in china when i was a kid i've hardly formally learned stroke order, it was always just heuristics.. or maybe i just zoned out, who knows

projectc190 3 weeks ago

@manulzone i second visualculture, drawing a character vs writing it is exactly what i was getting at!

bandaid91 projectc190

3 weeks ago

your art is so gorgeous

projectc190 3 weeks ago

thank you! : D

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projectc190 updated project c190

3 weeks ago

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projectc190 3 weeks ago

new book review & added some decor to the reading and mahjong pages as well as a couple other adjustments

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projectc190 suboptimalism

3 weeks ago

i have no idea when it went up but your notebook entry about mahjong soul is so spot on lmao. it took me a long time to get into the game ngl; i started by miserably losing in ranked, came back to it a year later and basic defense strategy finally clicked after playing on and off for a couple months

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suboptimalism 3 weeks ago

yeah i wrote that a couple weeks ago right before going to vegas, haven't really played at all since then, had a resurgence of interest in dance games instead

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projectc190 3 weeks ago

completely understandable lol

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ryanpeikou updated ryanpeikou

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1 month ago

mips tetris update for my feed dwelling neocitizens https://files.catbox.moe/ygv8qn.png

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projectc190 1 month ago

i definitely made out the project to be way more scary than it really is; this is trivial asf honestly

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ryanpeikou updated ryanpeikou

1 month ago

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1 month ago

not sure if other webmasters have this experience, but often when i reread things i previously wrote on my site i find it stiff and awkward and i revise it. ironically this means writing more means i sound more natural and then have a larger backlog of prior stiffness to rework. or maybe it's all in my head and i am insane

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projectc190 1 month ago

at this point i may as well have a meta page on my site to yammer about what it's like maintaining it

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chuhei updated CHUHEI.COM | HKG | OFFICIAL WEBSITE

1 month ago

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projectc190 meowlecules

1 month ago

hi, only letting u know as a comment on ur site because youve listed a neocities-specific email (and might not expect people to actually write to you): i sent you an e-mail recently! hope we can chat and hope youve been well

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chuhei updated CHUHEI.COM | HKG | OFFICIAL WEBSITE

1 month ago

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projectc190 chrysanthemum

1 month ago

i love your reading log page!

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projectc190 updated project c190

1 month ago

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