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satyrwoud updated their site.

4 years ago

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satyrwoud 4 years ago

The magic of *video*! The audio seems to be borked on browsers other than Firefox for.. some reason, but hey, that’s why subtitles were invented.

freaksaint 4 years ago

i love the inclusion of the little transcript dropdown tab! out of curiosity, did you host the vid thru neocities or elsewhere?

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satyrwoud 4 years ago

My site isn’t hosted on Neocities anymore — it’s actually with the UK-based hosting provider Krystal, but a quirk of Neocities’ slightly broken unsubscribe function lets me keep updating here and having it automatically redirect to marijn.uk :-)

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satyrwoud

4 years ago

Funnily enough, though I've tried every text editor or "distraction-free" writing app in town, I’ve found that the best way to get a blog post or wall of text down is to just crack open a notebook, get out the black pen, and start writing, copying it down onto The Computer Box later.

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satyrwoud 4 years ago

I suspect it's because there's no backspace button; every time i write on a computer i just revise and revise over and over again until the paragraph is completely devoid of personality

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satyrwoud updated their site.

4 years ago

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satyrwoud updated their site.

4 years ago

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satyrwoud 4 years ago

Added a funky little map to the family heritage section, to help orientate the Americans

satyrwoud 4 years ago

(and, you know, anyone else not intimately familiar with the geography of small northwestern European countries and the less-famous parts of England)

satyrwoud 4 years ago

+ A slight change to the crest on my arms

satyrwoud

4 years ago

It’s amazing how people's about pages can list their every single minute demographic detail and yet still tell me absolutely nothing about the person who wrote it

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satyrwoud 4 years ago

well, okay, except that they're not fun at parties

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satyrwoud updated their site.

4 years ago

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satyrwoud 4 years ago

I also got a mechanical keyboard for Christmas. clickityclackityclickityclackity

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satyrwoud updated their site.

4 years ago

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satyrwoud 4 years ago

When i made this website i swore to myself that i would never use the stereotypical starry Geocities background. I would like to apologise to my past self, and hope that she might find this somewhat tasteful

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personally-comfy 4 years ago

welcome to the dark side

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whoishohokam 4 years ago

never apologize for the starry background. Some of us might never have moved beyond it :D

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satyrwoud

4 years ago

Merry Chrimbo!

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satyrwoud updated their site.

4 years ago

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satyrwoud 4 years ago

This isn't really in any kind of playable state yet; i just wanted to show that i’d gotten the basic “engine” (read: javascript spaghetti) to work

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satyrwoud updated their site.

4 years ago

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satyrwoud updated their site.

4 years ago

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satyrwoud

4 years ago

I have decided not to badger my artist friend until my character is more fleshed-out, and as such, will instead be doing my fursona page in the style of a choose-your-own-adventure(™) interactive-fiction thing. Have I ever programmed anything of the sort before in my life? No. Am I too stubborn to learn how to use a third-party thing like Twine? Yes. Will this stop me? No. >:)

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raelhbishop 4 years ago

Protip: You can take three routes with this. Twine works best for you probably because it has built in HTML support. Inklewriter would probably be a good place to get it organized & compiled in a draft, though it has excruciatingly limited options for decor. RenPy gives you the most freedoms but also requires you get familiar with some Python and throws you in the crowd of 'dating sim writers'.

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raelhbishop 4 years ago

If you do take the RenPy route, though, there is a channel with easy to digest tutorials I found a bit ago that might be of help. I know all this because I myself have been trying to write a work of 'interactive fiction' (with very little success, as I tend to stay in development hell).

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satyrwoud updated their site.

4 years ago

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satyrwoud 4 years ago

Turns out I actually got one more entry in my inbox than I thought I did — my apologies to our forthcoming concerned conservationist for missing them out in the first count!

satyrwoud 4 years ago

This has the side effect of bumping our final submission up to the winter solstice, which is nice

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satyrwoud 4 years ago

It occurs to me now that i’ve accidentally reinvented the Advent calendar.

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satyrwoud 4 years ago

Speaking of calendars, i’ve upgraded the table of correspondence for 2022

satyrwoud updated their site.

4 years ago

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satyrwoud 4 years ago

IO SATURNALIA! I only received four submission, but I'm quite happy with that — that's four more than I was expecting! They’ll be drip-fed through over the next couple of days

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satyrwoud 4 years ago

Oh also I added some American sports team loyalties to my about page or whatever

satyrwoud

4 years ago

Tomorrow.

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brennholz 4 years ago

ominous...

satyrwoud updated their site.

4 years ago

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satyrwoud

4 years ago

I’ve been meaning to give the site a “proper” name other than just “Marijn’s site” — catch is, of course, my site is bilingual, and a name which sounds perfectly mellifluous in one language might sound clunky and forced in the other

satyrwoud 4 years ago

I would have gone with just “The Forest”, by analogy with “The Garden”, but that was taken about a thousand times over already

satyrwoud 4 years ago

I’d post all this meta natter on The Garden but i don’t want to fall into the trap of “blogging without blogging”, as it were (http://www.dirtyfeed.org/2021/12/on-not-writing/)

saint-images 4 years ago

"Marijn's site" is perfect, for you are Marijn and this site is indeed nobodys but yours.

satyrwoud 4 years ago

I’m just future-proofing here — i’ve already changed my name once before; who says i won’t do it again in the future? :-)

brennholz 4 years ago

This bilingual issue could be solved by not thinking of your site as a location like a "forest" or whatever. Instead, think of it as a living being, since those have names that don't have to be translated, like Gregory. Like instead of "Marijn's site", it'd be "Gregory", the site of Marijn. (This is a terrible idea)

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satyrwoud 4 years ago

If Tim Berners-Lee didn't want us to think of websites as places in cyberspace, he shouldn't have called them *sites*!

raelhbishop 4 years ago

Well, sites in real life change too, not unlike living beings. Times Square in New York City looks nothing like it did a hundred years ago, or a thousand or a million for that matter. Byzantium became Constantinople became Istanbul. That being said, I feel 'marijn's site' works best as its name - it's short, it's simple, it's all-encompassing.

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bdkcorrigan 4 years ago

Most of the books I've read in translation have a different title on the translated edition! You could have a different mellifluous title for each language!

satyrwoud

4 years ago

if you know what an nft is you need to go outside

satyrwoud 4 years ago

Further more, if you know what the fuck "Web3" means, please go take a month long sabbatical in the Lake District

satyrwoud 4 years ago

They've got a pencil museum, I'm sure it'll be more fun than arguing about bitcoin on the internet

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satyrwoud 4 years ago

Or, hey, you could move there, start a pub or something. Probably a more reliable source of income than pictures of monkeys

arandomsite 4 years ago

all i know is that it means non fungible token

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proletarian-library 4 years ago

let them learn

saint-images 4 years ago

@arandomsite I don't like the "non fungi" part, I love mushrooms, why are they trying to take it away from us???

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pinkpages 4 years ago

LMAOOO ISTG I GOOGLED WHAT IT IS AND NOBODY ANSWERED

satyrwoud updated their site.

4 years ago

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cepheus 4 years ago

It’s CHARLI baby

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arkmsworld 4 years ago

Cool!

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satyrwoud

4 years ago

Six days left until your Saturnalia submissions start going up! :-) Hope everyone enjoys them

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