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capstasher cidoku

My history with Sealand goes back a long way! The summer of 2017 and the little documented 4chan Space Program (of which I think I am the only one to hold any remains of)

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cidoku 1 year ago

Tell me more...

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capstasher 1 year ago

Back in the old days, someone on the science board came up with the idea of making an amateur rocket group, with the name of "4chan Space Program"

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graybox 1 year ago

>"4chan Space Program" uhm.. WHAT?!

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capstasher 1 year ago

A few autists assembled together a Discord server for it, and the work started. I ran the propaganda department, making posters, and discussing plans with the other members.

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capstasher 1 year ago

Eventually, we reached the idea that we ought to start with a balloon, as research into amateur rocketship proved it to be an expensive endeavour

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capstasher 1 year ago

So okay, balloon it is. But we ought to make it in such a way we can earn money for the next stage of the program

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capstasher 1 year ago

So what would earn money? A sponsorship! How do we get a sponsorship? By livestreaming from onboard the balloon! But what could we stream other than the outside? Now that got us thinking

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capstasher 1 year ago

What would we put inside to make the stream engaging? It has to be something very 4chan specific.... A swastika? Nah, that would bar us from the sponsorship. (But wouldnt being a group of 4channers also block us from a sponsorship? Not necesarrily! Not if they didn't know >:] You see, 4CSP would, internally, stand for 4chan Space Program, but externally we would claim it to be 4 Corners Space Program)

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capstasher 1 year ago

(obviously, this would be to "represent just how diverse we are as a group, being from all the 4 corners of the world". Absolute bull)

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capstasher 1 year ago

Okay, so what do we put inside if not a swastika? Well, a frog of course! Lets make this /sci/entific >8 )

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capstasher 1 year ago

We shall track the vitals of the frog throughout the balloon flight! Lets say its a study of how altitude affects amphibians or something of the sort, we'll justify it post-hoc, it would just be cool to send a frog into space.

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flying-with-quills 1 year ago

@cap that's amazing

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capstasher 1 year ago

I was the opinion this would go catastrophically wrong (even made a poster to show it: https://capstasher.neocities.org/4csp-1.jpg ) but fuck it, it would be crazy if we could pull this off!

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capstasher 1 year ago

Okay, we got out plan. Some of our guys started designing models of the pressursed chamber to be taken up by the balloon ( https://capstasher.neocities.org/4csp-2.png https://capstasher.neocities.org/4csp-3.png https://capstasher.neocities.org/4csp-4.PNG )

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capstasher 1 year ago

Engineering department was hard at work! Meanwhile, our outreach team started brainstorming a very important question: Where do we even launch this from? Why, Sealand of course! So our outreach leader reaches out to Prince Regent Michael Bates. And we heard back! Sadly the last email in the chain i have is what our response was to their response: https://capstasher.neocities.org/4csp-5.jpg

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capstasher 1 year ago

Sadly, Sealand never replied after that. That was the end of our only location possibility. And slowly, as the amazing Sealand plan died, interest slowly started dying too. We had a mascot! By my own design as well! Her name was Stella (no relation to the beer). She was featured on the very first 4CSP poster! And do please keep in mind, I was like 15 when i made this in Picsart on my ANTIQUE Android

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cidoku 1 year ago

So Prince Michael agreed? LMAO. Not a lot of people even can go to Sealand; you guys journeying there when you aren't "influencers" or with the news would have been such a story to tell. I don't have such lofty ambitions as you had, but adventure calls you know.

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capstasher 1 year ago

Here it is: https://capstasher.neocities.org/4csp-6.png

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capstasher 1 year ago

And I liked the concept behind this poster so much, that i re-did it in 2022! https://capstasher.neocities.org/4csp-7.png Here it is on it's own, and here's the side by side progression: https://capstasher.neocities.org/4csp-8.png

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capstasher 1 year ago

There's other bits and bobs leftover from this, but this is about as much of the story itself that I recall. It was 7 years ago. I might make a page to document this all. End of tale for now, dear friends

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cidoku 1 year ago

Yes, definitely do document it, please. For the fun of it.

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capstasher 1 year ago

Some last things left are: I actually got the specific patch Stella has on the 2022 poster, specifically to sew it on a blue hoodie. Her t-shirt is supposed to be a parody of Atari, called Atree, with the kanji for tree above it, as it was similar to the Atari logo

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keltokel 1 year ago

I really enjoyed eavesdropping on this thread.

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graybox 1 year ago

golly goodness, that's amazing.

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cidoku

1 year ago

My site is now 50% more compatible with Netscape 4. Time travelers, beware

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dc-blog 1 year ago

As of now, my personal website works almost perfectly with or without the CSS. As for Venith, it's even better as it truly works without CSS in any capacity (and on the homepage, it uses well-crafted tables so it's not even bunched up together despite no CSS).

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satyrwoud 1 year ago

My website is an elaborate trap to destroy time travellers’ computers with CSS features so new that my own daily driver doesn’t support them yet. This is not a place of honour.

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cidoku 1 year ago

@satyrwoud If your site hasn't seen any time travelers lately then maybe your deviousness is working

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cidoku bishoujo-ff

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Hello! Thanks for following me.

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Thanks for checking out my site!

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angeleyesprings 1 year ago

This is my favorite tutorial on sewing custom plushies --> https://www.deviantart.com/diffeomorphism/art/So-you-want-to-make-plushies-A-beginner-s-guide-423683194 , it might get tedious handsewing them tho! Maybe you would like crosstitching or embroidery as well?

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cidoku 1 year ago

@angeleyesprings Thank you for the link, Amy! As for crosstitching and embroidery, I think that if I do start making dolls, maybe I'll eventually need those skills for the clothing as well... wish me luck

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My mascot Shirogami travels around the world using my website's button.

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capstasher 1 year ago

Steins;Gate was similarly a strong influence on me. Without it, the website before capstasher's Corner wouldn't have existed, and as a result neither would csC

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angeleyesprings 1 year ago

Thank you for linking me and writing a little blurb about my site!

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cidoku 1 year ago

@angeleyesprings no problem, love your site! (although I'd linked to you a long time ago, haha!)

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satyrwoud cidoku

1 year ago

As requested, the Attic converter code. https://satyrs.eu/source/for/app/attic.js Bit of a bodge, but it was one of those projects where once you confirm it works you raise your hands to the sky in relief and swear solemnly never to look at it again.

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satyrwoud 1 year ago

The actual displaying of the dates is spread thin across my nightmare spaghetti of internationalisation code, so that’s a bring-your-own-beer affair for now! `signedDate` is positive for waxing, negative for waning, and 0 for the hene kai nea, month numbers are 0-indexed from Hecatombæon up, and years and olympiads are 1-indexed.

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satyrwoud 1 year ago

Living in the UK i have the luxury of always being pretty close to UTC so also this might break terribly if your time zone is far away from either Greenwich or Greece and will *definitely* break horribly if you are in the southern hemisphere.

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cidoku 1 year ago

This is awesome! It's one of those things that make programming worth it. I'll figure it out and maybe port it to C so I can have a nice companion for my planetary hours program. Thank you, divine Xanthe!

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cidoku 1 year ago

Oh, and don't worry about it breaking. Living in the southern hemisphere, I'm used to this kind of stuff breaking... but the indomitable human spirit always prevails.

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satyrwoud 1 year ago

Have fun with the moon calculations then! Last time i tried calculating astronomical positions myself (read: last week) i came to the conclusion that i should turn off the computer, give up, and back away slowly, lol

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capstasher 1 year ago

OOO what is this???

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satyrwoud 1 year ago

@capstasher Script to convert standard Gregorian dates into the Attic calendar, the moon-phase-based festival calendar used in ancient Athens

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cidoku nymphblood

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Hello! Thanks again for linking to me. I just added you to my own links page, as promised. Cheers!

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nymphblood 1 year ago

Of course ! Your site is wonderful. Thank you <3

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