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grumpfox hardmachine

9 months ago

Hey there! Thank you for the follow!

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hardmachine 9 months ago

You're welcome! I like the idea of your blog so I followed.

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9 months ago

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hardmachine 9 months ago

I have a review in progress for this month, but I got burnt out and it'll be done later than today.

hardmachine 9 months ago

I added a "new" (old) drawing, by the way.

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9 months ago

Groundhog day rules because once a year everyone pretends to care about what some fat rodent thinks, and then goes about their life.

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hardmachine 9 months ago

The other day of the year that happens is my birthday!

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fabled 9 months ago

Hey... Phil's under a HUGE amount of pressure every year. He didn't want to be the Chosen One, having to predict the weather in the weird human ceremonies. I will always stand up for Punxsutawney Phil for handling things so well. I can DEFINITELY say I would not perform as well as him as a forecaster.

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hardmachine 9 months ago

I respect him but I think he leans too hard on his family's legacy as an excuse to slack. Dude has been wrong so many times but still gets to have a silly ceremony about it...

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10 months ago

art/sparkler.html

art/2020original.html

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hardmachine 10 months ago

Hard refresh the fanart page, I updated an image.

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hardmachine updated HARDMACHINE

10 months ago

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hardmachine 10 months ago

I have a review 70% done, but I'm stuck near the end :(

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hardmachine

10 months ago

Oh dear... What's going on with things not loading 😭

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10 months ago

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runes/doobl.html

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hardmachine 10 months ago

I don't really like this new one, but I spent a whole evening writing it up and it was on my to-do list anyway.

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daughterofbilitis 10 months ago

oh, the whole story about doobl was interesting. it was pretty obvious it was fake, everything was happening too quickly, but a decent little meta story, nonetheless. i’m sad that the modern era is too cynical to truly enjoy stuff like this or ‘hogwarts school of prayer and miracles’ anymore…

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hardmachine 10 months ago

I've thought about what a modern version of a "fictional creator breakdown" would be like but it wouldn't work unless someone was a really, really dedicated troll and tried to make an online presence and fake something to get called out for, etc. It really was a product of its time...

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hardmachine updated HARDMACHINE

11 months ago

art/2020original.html

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hardmachine

11 months ago

I deleted today's update because it was literally housekeeping (fixing typos and bad grammar on old pages), but I forgot I added a new little dude on the capybara shrine: https://hardmachine.neocities.org/shrine/capybara#fictional

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hardmachine 11 months ago

I'd be lying if I said the capy didn't tempt me to buy this game on sale, but I am not a poker fan. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1912420/Sunshine_Shuffle/

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11 months ago

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links.html

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hardmachine 11 months ago

Here's my big lump of coal for all the adult children on Christmas.

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americasdecline 11 months ago

omg I recognize some of these clips from social media, but I assumed they were recent edgy social media fodder. I never would heave guessed they came from a show from the early 2000s! great read and I'd be interested to check out the show!! is it streaming anywhere?

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hardmachine 11 months ago

I watched it on archive.org but it's on Paramount+!

sakana 11 months ago

I adore Wonder Showzen and kinda treasure how hard I had to work to grab crunchy, disparate clips of the show from across the internet because it wasn't airing/licensed in Australia but all my American friends watched it. "Celebrate Our Differences" sometimes pops into my head lol.

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1964 11 months ago

I saw this show on the TV guide so many times and never watched it. I'm missing out... thank you for the write up. The second you said Xavier Renegade Angel, I knew I need to see this.

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hardmachine 11 months ago

I haven't even seen Xavier: Renegade Angel, I just know I have to now...

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11 months ago

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hardmachine 11 months ago

THE NEW ART GALLERY IS UP!!! Now it's the OC pages that are TBA...

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hardmachine 11 months ago

I realize this layout is kind of a nightmare for galleries with a lot of images, which is why I added instructions... 😭

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11 months ago

shrine/capybara.html

runes/feanime.html

runes/moshimonsters.html

about.html

links.html

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hardmachine 11 months ago

I have a new page that's 70%-80% done, but I decided to postpone publishing until Christmas. Instead I added more meat to the Moshi Monsters review since the movie turns 11 today.

hardmachine 11 months ago

I have no idea why the responsive Youtube embeds are so small, by the way. Fixing the CSS doesn't help much.

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sakana 11 months ago

Your capybara page really takes me back, and I love the gallery of your artwork. In 2022-21 I worked at a zoo that had one (name of Sophia). She was very old and her companion who she was very bonded with passed away, but she didn't end up liking the new male they brought for her. I liked watching her get fed by the keepers because she'd flop onto her side when she was being petted.

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sakana 11 months ago

Recalling this made me investigate and learn she passed away a few months ago... understandable, she was ancient. RIP though.

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hardmachine 11 months ago

Cappy was pretty old too when I visited him, he passed away after I got to see him :(

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hardmachine updated HARDMACHINE

11 months ago

runes/moshimonsters.html

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art/2020fanart.html

shrine/rarity.html

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hardmachine 11 months ago

The Equestria font broke when I made the grid layout I made a separate .css file and I have no idea how to fix it. JFC.

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hardmachine 11 months ago

.................my genius ass had two style tags without noticing, that's why. Fixed.

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11 months ago

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runes/klonoaremake.html

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hardmachine 11 months ago

I considered letting this sit to publish on Christmas, but I haven't been well and don't know what my plans are for then. Having a rune on Christmas in 2022 was a fluke u_u

hardmachine 11 months ago

I should change the Youtube embeds when I come home from work...

mrszenigata 11 months ago

Wow, Moshi Monsters! What a blast from the past! There was a very brief period where it didn't have a membership system. Originally it was like Webkinz where you could get exclusive items from toys, and then when Club Penguin got bought by Disney, it tried to emulate that system instead. It was a great, mostly free-to-play game back in the 2000's!

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hardmachine 11 months ago

This is interesting! I was already too old for it when it dropped in 2008, so my exposure was after it became a freemium game... Sad to hear it was chasing after what Club Penguin was trying to do.

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1964 11 months ago

I have never even heard of Moshi Monsters!? This was really interesting tbh. Thank you for the write up

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hardmachine updated HARDMACHINE

11 months ago

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1 year ago

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runes/problemsolverz.html

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shrine/ivy.html

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hardmachine 1 year ago

My stupid ass missed some typos...

die-verwandlung 1 year ago

FE1 sounds kind of brutal... 😭

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hardmachine 1 year ago

Trust me, it was...

hardmachine

1 year ago

I'm going through almost every old page and fixing up typos and formatting issues. I plan on publishing two new runes at once when I'm finished with them.

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hardmachine 1 year ago

The very first page I'm debating on if I should refine... I wanted to keep it as-is, but the formatting bugs me so bad.

hardmachine 1 year ago

Done. Back to working on the two new runes.

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1 year ago

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runes/drawntogether.html

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hardmachine 1 year ago

I am this 👌 close to setting up a poll asking what draft the viewers want me to finish (one is written on paper so I'd have to find it) or what show to watch to do a Drive-by Review on. I'm still on rune hiatus but editing this was in the back of my head since July.

hardmachine

1 year ago

It has been two years since the Wix-owned DeviantART introduced an on-site AI art generator and allowed "people" to post AIslop. 💔 Is this how xennials felt when Livejournal was sold to Russia?

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hardmachine 1 year ago

This is my personal 9/11. I'm mourning.

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1 year ago

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