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1 year ago

good news, i'm able to work on the site move again for a little bit. i'm not exactly safe right now but i'm getting to that point soon. hopefully with the time on mobile (since that's what i'll be stuck on for a while) i can commit more time to blog posts. i still won't be as active as i used to since i'm committing to school and art, but i hope you can be patient with that

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mikufan3939 1 year ago

thank you for being concerned for my well being. hopefully the slower updates won't affect my work or your enjoyment of the site. i'll do my best to keep it the slightest bit alive, and a new vsynth blog post will hopefully be on the way

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mikufan3939

1 year ago

hi. site move will be delayed for a good while and i'm on hiatus from the site indefinitely, i don't know how long yet. i "escaped" an abusive household (long story) and i didn't bring my laptop with me (it can barely run anymore so there was no point left in bringing it) and my pc remains at that house so i can't access desktop anymore. thanks for sticking with me during these long waits, i'll come back soon

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caitsith 1 year ago

wishing you the best 🫂

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mikufan3939 1 year ago

thanks. i came back to my house briefly but i was swamped with work and dread that i couldn't move anything which sucks

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resevil7 1 year ago

Stay safe

mikufan3939

1 year ago

since i wanted to put this on my site but obviously can't, i took part in a collaborative cover for tsumiki's culture for it's second anniversary! the song means a lot to me. i illustrated for miku and everyone i worked with was simply amazing, so check it out when you can: https://youtu.be/nPL03Al-qgM?si=A4hJ-qHpBFaymp5g

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mikufan3939

1 year ago

i'm starting my moving process at nekoweb https://mikufan3939.nekoweb.org/. i haven't added anything more then what was on my neocities site besides edits about my move. i'll be changing urls for my webrings and fanlistings when possible. if anyone is moving their hosts, let me know and i'll update the urls on my button wall when i can

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crtstatic 1 year ago

i'll update your link later, but i have the same username on NW!

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rhodonite 1 year ago

question, is there a specific reason lots of people are moving over there other than it having nice benefits :? I'm considering it but i feel like sending everything over there would be somewhat of a hassle for me lol

mikufan3939 1 year ago

tldr kyle drake made a blog post praising AI that a lot of people were uncomfortable with (including myself) and as such i don't really want to keep my site here anymore. i'll keep up with people who do stay but i'm simply not comfortable here personally

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birdwrongs 1 year ago

oh woof.

mikufan3939

1 year ago

ok. site is inaccessible until further notice. i'm not happy staying on a host regardless if he intends to bring genAI to neocities or not, his personal statement is clear enough for me to feel uncomfortable and not want to express myself. you can read more on my site

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visualculture 1 year ago

ngl it's kinda funny that a lot of your arguments against AI could also be made against hatsune miku xD

mikufan3939 1 year ago

i really don't appreciate this comment, it isn't funny at all. i have my thoughts on the matter you brought up but it isn't relevant to this discussion at hand, so simply: no. they aren't on the same level. i don't know how you saw my writing about how AI has affected my life and self esteem as an artist and you found that funny. fuck you

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crtstatic 1 year ago

@visualculture Vocaloid isn't AI. Miku isn't AI. FFS I'm begging people to please do their research about how Vocaloid works

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visualculture 1 year ago

@crtstatic i know it's not AI. but it's an "easy way out" for recording vocals, replacing real people who spend lots of time training to be good at singing

crtstatic 1 year ago

ok to clarify because I forgot it: Vocaloid isn't gen AI, because V6 does technically use a type of AI. I forgot to mention that part.

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crtstatic 1 year ago

@visualculture it's not even an "easy way out". Vocaloid requires literal hours of tuning and skill-crafting. It's not very user-friendly a lot of times, and it's not as easy as it may seem. It's a dreadful software to use sometimes.

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mikufan3939 1 year ago

@visualculture again, i don't know why you attached this random thought to my very personal writing about how i feel about AI as an artist that relies on it for income. it isn't an easy way out if it's the most accessible option to access a singer, pirated or otherwise. it has rarely been an easy way out if the culture itself revolves around the inherent love of the character and the medium

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mikufan3939 1 year ago

even so, the vocaloid sense of relying on a vocalist compared to, say, someone using an AI voice generator is insanely different. you put in the effort to shape the sound, keys, pitching, and other parameters however you wish as you need, similar to working with a typical piano synthesizer. the changing of a voicebank is more similar to a plugin then it is to generating a voice

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visualculture 1 year ago

@mikufan3939 and for a lot of people AI is the most accessible option to access an artist :shrug: anyway i wasn't trying to upset you. just thought it was an interesting similarity

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mikufan3939

1 year ago

Hey what's this i'm hearing about kyle supporting ai. i don't keep up with him

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mikufan3939 1 year ago

can anyone relay this in full to me i have no idea what's going on and there's a lot of differing messages i'm seeing

mikufan3939 1 year ago

i can't really do anything significant while still feeling unwell but depending on what i find about this i may move hosts

seashrine 1 year ago

hey hope you're doing ok after the news, hope i'll be able to catch ya on nekoweb if you're moving hosts!

mikufan3939 1 year ago

@seashrine i'll be okay, just frustrated since i'm sick and can't do too much about it. it really did hurt to read but i'll still keep up with sites i like here

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mikufan3939

1 year ago

i got sick.

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reclaimedbytheocean 1 year ago

i hope u feel better soon :(

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lhfm 1 year ago

get well soon!

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mikufan3939

1 year ago

hello neocitizens. do you know any compact list or site for webrings/web cliques/pixel clubs/etc. i'm not exactly planning to join any right now but it would be appreciated

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goooby 1 year ago

https://brisray.com/web/webring-list.htm

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mikufan3939 1 year ago

I WAS LOOKING FOR THAT ONE. thank you goober i can finally bookmark it

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mikufan3939

1 year ago

wanted to update my site more this week but the window for work on my essay ended up being smaller then i thought it was and i'll have to commit to that for now. sorry

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mikufan3939 softwareangel

1 year ago

god this site is awesome. this inspires me to finish my spongebob shrine. thank you webuser

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softwareangel 1 year ago

thank you so much!!!

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mikufan3939

1 year ago

you know what time it is? websurfing

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des 1 year ago

best time of the day!

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mikufan3939 1 year ago

@des truly

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mikufan3939

1 year ago

OK. FINALLY. MY MIKU FANLISTING IS LIVE. i tried to make it as mobile compatible as possible and i hope it's easy to view!

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mikufan3939

1 year ago

OK. i'm back. power came back on while i was travelling and i hit a mental health low but i'm okay now. new page reveal in 5. think fast

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lhfm

1 year ago

smol update, I finally finished Angel Beats. It was recommended to me by holeinmyheart https://lhfm.neocities.org/my-animu-list

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sakana 1 year ago

Appropriate, since that anime will create a hole in your heart

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mikufan3939

1 year ago

i can't update my page because my power's out (hurricane storms hit hard) so i'm away from home but i am 18 now. yayyy. goodnight mikufans i will hopefully have my new page up by next week

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mikufan3939

1 year ago

birth

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lhfm updated Hifumi's Weebsite

1 year ago

my-animu-list.html

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lhfm 1 year ago

Welp, that's all for the summer season. Hope some of you enjoyed this season as much as I did. Maybe I'll write about it.

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sakana 1 year ago

Anime that I'll bang the drum on about forever is Kaiba, it's a masterpiece and only 12 episodes for the whole thing. Also you've probably already heard about this one 8326 times, but Tatami Galaxy too (same director, but this one is more visibly talked about/praised).

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lhfm 1 year ago

gomen Sakana, but I'm not cultured enough to have heard of those 😅 I'll have a look though

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mikufan3939

1 year ago

new blog post

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lhfm 1 year ago

Hope things get better for you and the hard times aren't too rough 🙂

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mikufan3939 1 year ago

@lhfm thank you

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lhfm updated Hifumi's Weebsite

1 year ago

not_found.html

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lhfm 1 year ago

New 404 page 😀

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des 1 year ago

the cutest 404 around

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lhfm updated Hifumi's Weebsite

1 year ago

my-animu-list.html

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lhfm 1 year ago

Summer animu season is coming to a close. Still got a bunch of other anime to wrap up, but overall pretty solid season.

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