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confettiguts

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HGUYS I FORGOT TO UPDATE THE SITE

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confettiguts 1 week ago

SORRY...

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confettiguts 1 week ago

HONESTLY I'LL PROBABLY JUST DO IT NEXT WEEK ITS THE LAST FEW DAYS BEFORE MY BREAKS OVER AND I WANNA CHILL A LIL

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saddleblasters updated saddleblasters

1 week ago

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records.html

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saddleblasters 1 week ago

New record (about dogs, Zazen Boys and the heavenly principle) and added a section for translations (just some song lyrics for now)

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projectc190 1 week ago

cui jian mentioned....

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starry-knight updated Home - Starry's Grove

1 week ago

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my-room-links/brainrot-central.html

Home - Starry's Grove

my-room-links/fanlists.html

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espimyte updated ==ESPY.WORLD==

2 weeks ago

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log/2024/nov/[New Art] Vision.html

log/2024/nov/[New Art] Rise & Shine.html

gallery/sequential.html

gallery/scrap.html

gallery/ink.html

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starry-knight updated Home - Starry's Grove

2 weeks ago

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Home - Starry's Grove

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art-gallery-links/characters.html

art-gallery-links/monster-mania.html

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espimyte updated ==ESPY.WORLD==

2 weeks ago

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gallery/scrap.html

gallery/ink.html

gallery/illustration.html

gallery/animation.html

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obspogon updated Obspogon's Zone

2 weeks ago

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megacol/websites/index.html

blog/posts/webmentions-test/index.html

blog/posts/updates-rss/index.html

blog/posts/runman/index.html

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saddleblasters updated saddleblasters

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siqu 2 weeks ago

wondering if you ever found something as meaningful as newpants in your searchings of new music. It seems like there's a wall after a certain age where one is fated to keep playing the same tunes

obspogon updated Obspogon's Zone

2 weeks ago

blog/posts/webmentions-test/index.html

blog/posts/updates-rss/index.html

blog/posts/runman/index.html

blog/posts/next-fest-2024/index.html

blog/posts/mysetup/index.html

blog/posts/microblogging/index.html

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saddleblasters

2 weeks ago

I added a new saddle record today, though the update's been suppressed because I was editing some old posts this morning and (foolishly) thinking I wouldn't post anything else today, I'd deleted the update notification. Read it here: https://saddleblasters.neocities.org/records#twentytwo

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siqu 2 weeks ago

Games are strange to think back on for sure. That tendency to try to pull more meaning out of it is pathological probably since it was an all-encompassing presence. And that if you somehow figure it out you could recover the joy from it -- also, I wonder if there's a term for what you described: those trying to hype and slather makeup on something that feels hollow

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daliwali 2 weeks ago

i've checked out some of those bands you linked to, you have quite the interest in "no-audience underground" music. i honestly don't know much about Chinese rock beyond Cui Jian, or more recently, Chinese Football (and that is only because i'm a fan of American Football).

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saddleblasters 2 weeks ago

@daliwali thanks for looking at the bands i link to -- at least 50% of why i write on this website is to trick other people into exploring the music i like. cui jian is great, especially his lyrics, and chinese football is definitely a big part of the zeitgeist in shanghai: i feel like that's become the default sound for college students starting their first band to imitate.

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saddleblasters 2 weeks ago

i do like some popular rock bands! thanks to your comment, i spent some time today cleaning up this essay i wrote last year about New Pants, which is simultaneously one of China's most popular rock bands and is (or at least once was) very good imo: https://saddleblasters.neocities.org/essays/231130

saddleblasters 2 weeks ago

@siqu yeah, i think a lot of the issue for me is the gulf between what was once "an all-encompassing presence" for my childhood and even early 20s, and the fact that now video games have come to more or less a dead end for me emotionally. a lot of the other things i cared about as a kid did continue to grow into something that still has relevance to me now, yet video games still seem to lie dormant inside of me

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siqu 2 weeks ago

it seems like the only way to extend videogames is to make videogames, but it's just such an endeavor

saddleblasters 2 weeks ago

and that was precisely the problem I had with making games: I was ultimately just trying to turn all of that emotional investment accumulated over the years into something "valuable". By it's very nature this forced me to constantly be empathising with my previous selves, taking all their feelings seriously, which was too exhausting (though maybe this is just an excuse)

siqu 1 week ago

don't think there's anything wrong with trying to get a return on investment. it'd be cool to make a videogame, and that alone is enough justification. it's just frustrating since it's a multi-disciplinary product -- music, sprites, sounds, design, story and then the actual programming. you'd have to _really_ want to make a videogame to push through all of those roles, to where it makes more sense to invest elsewhere

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espimyte updated ==ESPY.WORLD==

2 weeks ago

character/Prime.html

log/2024/nov/Characters page is live!.html

log/2024/nov/[New Art] Teeth and Metamorphosis.html

log/2024/nov/[New Art] Rise & Shine.html

info.html

log/2024/nov/New Art [Teeth and Metamorphosis].html

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faoggot 2 weeks ago

oh why is this so cool

faoggot 2 weeks ago

u probably get this all the time but u should check out corru.observer its got a similar aesthetic

faoggot 2 weeks ago

OH never mind lol

wraithglade obspogon

2 weeks ago

Hey, I like your "MegaCollection" page. It's a good collection of retro game recommendations (I especially like original Doom 1/2 personally and even made a level for Doom 2 a long while back) and the utility links are also great as well! Nice work on all that! 🎮🎯😎