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hardmachine 8 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 8 months ago

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

mrszenigata 8 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 8 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 8 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

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hardmachine 9 months ago

My stupid ass missed some typos...

die-verwandlung 9 months ago

FE1 sounds kind of brutal... 😭

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hardmachine 9 months ago

Trust me, it was...

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9 months 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 9 months 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 9 months ago

Done. Back to working on the two new runes.

hardmachine updated HARDMACHINE

9 months ago

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hardmachine 9 months 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

9 months 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 9 months ago

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

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hardmachine updated HARDMACHINE

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hardmachine 9 months ago

I wish I had a scanner, otherwise I'd upload even more old art.

hardmachine 9 months ago

Uh oh, the recent uploads don't work. Give me a moment...

hardmachine 9 months ago

................HOW DID I FUCK THAT UP?

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10 months ago

I'll post the link when I refine things more, but I started using my Toyhouse account again. If you've drawn art for me and have an account, let me know so I can credit you as an on-site artist.

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hardmachine 10 months ago

Vice versa if I've drawn for you and you want to credit me.

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10 months ago

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vivarism 10 months ago

glad youve got something fun to look forward to!!!! i havent played any of these games but i am still bumping "engage the enemy" 10+ years later lol. i hope you'll enjoy playing X again!!

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hardmachine updated HARDMACHINE

10 months ago

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hardmachine vilaa

10 months ago

Thank you for archiving these!!! Karabiner's Digimon fanart is a sight for sore eyes.

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vilaa 10 months ago

such a talented artist!! too bad they decided to nuke everything in 2019 😭

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hardmachine 10 months ago

I figured that was the case, I knew he wanted to move on to 3D in 2010 but I assumed the domain expired :(

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hardmachine 10 months ago

Today I Learned: I draw a lot of My Little Pony fanart.

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fabled 10 months ago

I agree with you on many significant points here. I myself have no plans to leave this site, having just arrived (on 4/20, no less!). I would say my perspective on the situation is the same as yours. Since the blog post by this person is a year or so old, I am surprised there's a "situation" about this at all, but I guess it is a good discussion to have.

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hardmachine

10 months ago

I'm not leaving Neocities because staying on here isn't any different from how everyone is glued to worse shitholes like Twitter, but feel free to share other free alternative hosts besides Nekoweb/Leprd + have an RSS feed on your new sites so I can continue following.

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hardmachine 10 months ago

I had pretty extreme schizo-tier opinions on AI in 2022, but now I've just accepted it as an evil that needs to be regulated instead of gone completely. Drakey wakey already had a Daria-themed AI chatbot for April fool's this year, so I kinda been knew he's okay with AI. As long as our sites aren't going to be scraped by him (not Google, it already does that) I can't really care.

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hardmachine 10 months ago

I'm also still on hiatus so ofc I only found this out from checking my feed and seeing people talk about leaving 😭

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helianthus-fields 10 months ago

wait whats going on?

angeleyesprings 10 months ago

@helianthus-fields https://kyledrake.com/writings/ai Some are leaving because of this blog entry

hardmachine 10 months ago

Peoplr just now discovered Kyle Drake's (old) post that's optimistically supportive of AI and jumping ship. https://kyledrake.com/writings/ai

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chantolove 10 months ago

wait, THIS post is what people are talking about? this is like two years old

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mrszenigata 10 months ago

Neocities has felt very odd lately ever since that article resurfaced. Personally, I agree with you that it's something that needs to be regulated, but as much as we try to deny this tech it's always going to exist. I'm going to keep my site here, unless something happens where they implement some kind of code generator onto the platform that was clearly built on the hardwork of the users. (1)

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mrszenigata 10 months ago

I am so tired of site owners acting like all user-based content belongs to them. I don't understand why the developers of this technology don't use royalty free or public domain content, anyone can use that! (2)

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gildedware 10 months ago

re:hosts there's Teacake as well!

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hardmachine 10 months ago

My personal 9/11 (joking) was when DeviantART introduced AI and initially had everyone's art opted-in for training, I hope NC never gets evil but that's my personal straw. Drake's a techbro so he's going to have a positive view on AI for other usages besides "art"/writing. I don't love the post but it's an optimistic curiosity than "art theft and deepfakes are cool" bullshit.

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hardmachine 10 months ago

Also, I thought Teacake was invite-only? I know one person migrated there by asking, so it can't hurt.

sakana 10 months ago

Oh man, DeviantART... I spent so many years batting for them. It was the only active place on the web that was ACTUALLY optimized for art (I had gripes with artists posting exclusively to social media and forcing me to look at compressed, muddy versions of their art sandwiched between posts that eroded my faith in humanity). I don't like the opinion expressed in the post, but if there are no plans to introduce >

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sakana 10 months ago

< generative AI tools on here, I'll live.

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hardmachine updated HARDMACHINE

10 months ago

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hardmachine 10 months ago

I haven't been able to type away or code but I have a review 60-70% written. How hard would yall kill me if I finished it despite not being able to beat the last boss?

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ocrevol hardmachine

10 months ago

CAPY ALWAYS WINS. CAPY WILL PREVAIL

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hardmachine 10 months ago

*Meowth voice* Dat's right!

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