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runes/problemsolverz.html

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hardmachine 4 days ago

My stupid ass missed some typos...

die-verwandlung 3 days ago

FE1 sounds kind of brutal... 😭

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hardmachine 3 days ago

Trust me, it was...

hardmachine

6 days 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 6 days 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 6 days ago

Done. Back to working on the two new runes.

hardmachine updated HARDMACHINE

1 week ago

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journal/nov24.html

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hardmachine 1 week 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 week 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 week ago

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

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hardmachine updated HARDMACHINE

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journal/nov24.html

art/mlpold.html

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hardmachine 2 weeks ago

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

hardmachine 2 weeks ago

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

hardmachine 2 weeks ago

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

hardmachine

2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago

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

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hardmachine updated HARDMACHINE

3 weeks ago

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journal/oct24.html

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hardmachine updated HARDMACHINE

3 weeks ago

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vivarism 3 weeks 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

4 weeks ago

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journal/oct24.html

runes/g2mlp.html

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hardmachine vilaa

1 month ago

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

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vilaa 1 month ago

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

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hardmachine 1 month 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 1 month ago

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

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fabled 1 month 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

1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago

wait whats going on?

angeleyesprings 1 month ago

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

hardmachine 1 month 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 1 month ago

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

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mrszenigata 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago

re:hosts there's Teacake as well!

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hardmachine 1 month 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 1 month ago

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

sakana 1 month 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 1 month ago

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

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hardmachine updated HARDMACHINE

1 month ago

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journal/oct24.html

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hardmachine 1 month 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

1 month ago

CAPY ALWAYS WINS. CAPY WILL PREVAIL

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