::Opus suddenly appears out of a cloud of black smoke::

Greetings, bar patrons. I am Opus.

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It seems like I'm always talking about how I wish there was a version of neocities that had fewer children. Then I think it through and realize that's like saying, "I wish there was a version of Nickelodeon that had fewer children." It doesn't really make sense. The early years of neocities where it was all nerds from HN was always going to be temporary.

Meanwhile there are small web services that are intrinsically more appealing to adults where we could be connecting with others. Bear blog reminds me of a stripped down, non-corporate, FOSS inspired LiveJournal for the 2020s.

I've only just started messing around with it but here's some links:

Main Site: https://bearblog.dev/

Discover Blogs: https://bearblog.dev/discover/

I started one, although there's nothing there yet except bad omens. https://nobo.bearblog.dev/

I'm going to try to update this thread with links to interesting bear blog posts so feel free to do that if you want.

but when I do, I wake up feeling fresh. how are you sleeping?

These guys are awesome. It's historically accurate that ninjas and pirates both had their faces eaten off by dinosaurs. In TV and movies they like to portay the dinosaur in a fantasy way, like not grinding rails on skateboards and other things that dinosaurs were known to do.

No need to explain. No need to point us to the front page of anything. Just give us the most random thing on neocities/nekoweb/whatever. It can be your page. It can be someone else's page.

https://goeshard.nekoweb.org/picard

https://goeshard.neocities.org/getout

You try.

it's this status updating website that you can post to anonymously. Statuses will auto delete in 48 hours. It seems like its very new and not a lot of people know about it yet. Could be fun to mess with it.

https://aether.meadow.cafe/

I went through a phase of playing random games on my retroarch emulator machine and just taking screenshots of everything. There's a folder full of stuff. I'll try to upload some of it here.

Some of these are official classic games. Some of them are romhacks of classic games. And others are unlicensed roms that are floating around the Internet but were never released on cartridges.

If you're wondering why many of the screen shots look like a filter was run on them, it's because it probably was. I was often playing with filters while playing the games.

in the backyard

That's the "codename" for this project. I've been working on it again lately. This is probably what most of my hobby coding attention is going to start being on.

If you don't know what this is you can read about it on the blog.

most recent update: https://goeshard.org/2025/07/22/a-summer-of-gamedev-burn-out/

first post about project: https://goeshard.org/2025/04/30/untitled-adventure-in-cute-fantasy-farm/

It's an open source ascii dungeon crawler in vanilla javascript with some visual enhancements. It was made by users on Agora Road. It's pretty compelling for what it is.

You can play it here:

https://milklounge.wang/tardquest/

Code Here:

https://github.com/packardbell95/tardquest

I recommend putting all your starting points into attack so you don't die

Exhaustion and frustration replace his usual determination, each jump and death blending into a blur of punishing obstacles. Every trap and invisible block now haunts him, his mind stuck in an endless loop of brutal challenges.

Mario prays for death to take him.

Post video game stuff here (if you want).

I am leaking Nobo's advent feedback request version early.

https://advent.goeshard.org

Questions:

How high was your egg count when you stopped playing?

What did you think of the egg collection?

How often did you feel like hits that should have landed did not?

What do you think would be important to improve about the sword swinging?

Do you have any other questions?

I don't have an exact date yet, but I'm most likely going to be shutting down the board.

Something I've told myself for a while is that it doesn't hurt to keep it up. But it's a bit of sunken cost fallacy, because there's no benefit to keeping it up either. It was a cool thing I made but even if I don't work on more features for it, I have to maintain the server it's on. I have to keep up with CVEs. I have to install updates. And every ounce of energy that goes into this board is energy that is not put into my other projects. Another layer of this problem is that even if I leave it in the background while focusing on other tasks, it's eventually going to distract me and lure me back into working on it again, since that's just how I am.

I'm not just going to shut it off over night. I want to get it into a state where I can make static copies of the entire site and then preserve the archives. Keeping at least that as a memento online is how I'm going to justify the work I put into this thing and also turn away from it.

The blog at goeshard.org will stay up so I'm not going anywhere.

sad but Bandcamp is now blocking my cors proxy server that I've been using to generate the embeds from URLs. They most likely are not blocking my server specifically but rather sweeped it up with an ASN block.

I'm not particularly inclined to investigate getting around it, since it would be an uphill battle if they aren't content to just let me do it.

RIP

I did a quick frontend update. The most obvious one is the background. But I also toned down the pushing for people to register and post under accounts. It was a noble effort to get people to consider it, but no one's going to do that. No point pushing for it anymore. Also, the latest posts link is presented in more places, since it's the best way to see what's new on the site and people should know about it.

Thanks to Opus for moving threads around for me.

Do you like the background or nah?

You ever get something funny as the captcha text? When I was adding to the dada thread I post "poster"

but they don't post their /art/ ?

I will move posts that were intended as a shit post but actually bring up a topic people could post about.

Here is an example of that: https://board.goeshard.org/thread/how-old-are-your-shoes/

only consists of the dc Emotional Hardcore scene and the late 90's Screamo scene. What is known by "Midwest Emo" is nothing but Alternative Rock with questionable real emo influence. When people try to argue that bands like My Chemical Romance are not real emo, while saying that Sunny Day Real Estate is, I can't help not to cringe because they are just as fake emo as My Chemical Romance (plus the pretentiousness). Real emo sounds ENERGETIC, POWERFUL and somewhat HATEFUL. Fake emo is weak, self pity and a failed attempt to direct energy and emotion into music. Some examples of REAL EMO are Pg 99, Rites of Spring, Cap n Jazz (the only real emo band from the midwest scene) and Loma Prieta. Some examples of FAKE EMO are American Football, My Chemical Romance and Mineral EMO BELONGS TO HARDCORE NOT TO INDIE, POP PUNK, ALT ROCK OR ANY OTHER MAINSTREAM GENRE

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I've been diving back into old emo/screamo after not listening to a lot of it for over ten years. I'm keeping a record of things I've been listening to in this thread so that maybe I won't forget all the obscure records this time around.

Ebullion Records was a 1990s label out of California that focused on hardcore punk and early emo. They released two zines, one of which HeartattaCk ran for 50 issues from 1994 to 2006.

There is an archive of these issues that is available on http://www.heartattackarchive.com/

However I noticed that issues 9 and 33 are down, as the archive relies on MediaFire to serve the files, and I wonder how many more of them will stop working over time. So I'm mirroring them before that happens.

EDIT: I found the missing issues and you can get them all here: https://archive.org/download/HeartattaCk_Zine

This is ska from Jamaica, not the British 2nd wave, or third wave punk-ska. But the original stuff. It's usually on Trojan records. For rude boys and trad skins.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9eeTKuBA38

I don't listen to a lot of it but I like some of it.

This one is cool.

https://candlelightrecordsuk.bandcamp.com/album/curse

Testswitch Isolator

love these guys sm, managed to track down a cd from them too, wish they had made more stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YS1zlr3IIX0

I'm closer to an animal than a citizen of human society. I can't expect to be treated similarly to other humans and other humans can't expect me to follow the conventions of their civilization. I'm like a rat living on the edges of the walls. People wish that they could get rid of me and others like me but they can't. A lot of subhumans like us try to walk among them as best we can but it's a waste of time.

https://youtu.be/gTUuPLNz2_U

going into another rabbit hole and found a bbs (cool) and found some ansi art i reallly love (cooler)

share some cool ansi art you've stumbled upon pls

I like the idea of restoring old computers but I don't know. I also don't want to use loud potato computer that much.

At least they look cool.

I wanted to do hoodrat stuff with my friends

I started an open source Discord bot if you want to check it out. There's also a feed of all posts to the board in the main server, so if that would help you keep up with updates it's an option.

Here's the repo with instructions for how to contribute: https://github.com/divSelector/hardbot

This should be a never expiring link to join the server: https://discord.com/invite/bkh2rbuPjc

But just in case I need to change it, I'll keep a current one at: https://this.goeshard.org/discord

It's my personal pastebin -- a modified instance of pinnwand. The uploads will automatically expire.

https://code.goeshard.org

Today I finished reading K&R all the way through! :D

I'll be working my way through a bunch of personal projects now

a roaring of tense colors, and interlacing of opposites and of all contradictions, grotesques, inconsistencies:

enjoy these scans! credit: planetnamek.com archives

refer to the transitional or transformative spaces that exist between distinct phases, states, or conditions. The term "liminal" comes from the Latin word "limen," meaning "threshold." Liminal spaces can be both physical and metaphorical, and they are often associated with ambiguity, disorientation, and a sense of being in-between.

That's why paramedics are being called frequently around this location, due to the increase in drug overdoses.

Step back in time and immerse yourself in the charm and elegance of vintage and retro fashion.

From the glamorous 1920s to the chic 1970s and beyond....

Let's read the cyberpunk transhumanist comic book series written by Warren Ellis and drawn by Darick Robertson; it was published by DC Comics in 1997–2002.

> In college I stayed the night at these peoples' house after a party and waking up earlier than anyone else, I didn't have much to do except read the first issue of this comic. I remember liking it but I never saw it again and didn't think about it for a long time.

I'm going to be reading here. https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Transmetropolitan

Cross over with the cyberpunk thread maybe? https://goeshard.org/main/0x000003/

This is the youtube chan of a kid who started it when he was like 17. he started with anime reviews and bad short films he made about crime. Eventually it started to morph into vids about how mamy guns he owned and then he killed his whole family when he was 22

https://m.youtube.com/user/LensCapProductions

I think theres one vid where he vlogs while "gardening" but hes actually below the camera burying animals he killed

There is going to be a new season in August. The trailer just came out today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GleTI7jDWOs

ITT public freakouts involving police. Let's at least try not to overly glaze police or alog about how terrible people that we don't know are.

We'll start with the tale of the District Attorney's Daughter, a two part series. In the first episode, she is getting trespassed from a motel room. She refuses to identify herself to the police in a way that makes you instantly dislike her.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOqgX8_AYUQ

Stay tuned for the next episode.

this movie is insane. it's stop motion but not clay. it's in a real full size house and they paint the walls and floors every frame so the animation is on the walls in a 3d looking manner and sometimes it interacts with real objects in the room (hard to explain). just watch

I noticed random vlogging from people who don't seem to be chasing popularity and following trends is making a come back. Youtube randomly suggests these people with very small audience in an attempt to confuse viewers that it's a more authentic place than it is.

The people in these videos suffer from the terminal loneliness of people today who can't find anyone to talk to. It's sometimes sad, sometimes interesting. Sometimes I think they are probably acting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3hFYjJKqtY&t=370s

Did y'all know the chick from Stranger Things was in all these old 80s movies?

Opus here. I'm going to hijack this thread because OP thought /main/ was an appropriate place to dump an http-only link to a brony imageboard with no context. I was going to /trash/ it but then I thought... you know what fuck it. Someone has to post on this board.

I'll continue in another post so you can see the OP before hijack.

here goes all I, s_p, have said and "defended", want to make things clear. Anyone here from (my former presence on) "schizoforum" will know. and those who wont, well, will be a really interesting read.

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within few offenses (cross-linking on forum, putting things in AI from forum (f.), pasting sections from f. on my few webs (about 00s-10s culture), being "annoying" (while i had "time lord victorious moment", thinking i do right/helpful/needful thing) [youtube posting, links, shitpost in chat...]. what "break camel's back" and marked me as persona nongrata was "fanfic"...

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what i wrote next (below, in quotes) is plus-minus similar-samee-sh to your e-mail. i am sorry (and i do it again...) if i cry out but i just want to let others know my point,

tho i think they heard it (in chat, before ban, at interrogation/intervention) already and i just want to put things straight,

tho i for sure wouldn't think it will change anything, because i was a snobbish arrogant fool anyway, waaaay before. But what i didn't expect was to get banned over "hehe funny thread" or "this is how i think you see me, folks" 'confession'. Maybe I still don't get it, but it is weird to see (on) "we are not reddit"-forum (to/that) delves into its dead ("normie") ("everyone i dont like is Hitler/banned!"-)era, - everybody in chat and no one on boards/in threads... (and if, it looks like #58th thread ~on some type of "metal music" offshoot~ by ####, which is funny-sad-mad to me; and newbie threads, and threads that are digged deep so they come out only when other same is made after year or three (XD)...)

about chat (phrase I remember (and bugged me,) reading) before ban - it was Vit(?), saying ~ "vwmaster(1) at least contributed art to forum" (which makes me intrigued but what should I care, right...) - and someone replied to her (or me) that they (who, i forgot/havent noticed) "[i] thought [you/he] were chill(...)" >

Recently had the chance to dive into the world of teledildonics for the first time, and I’m genuinely excited about the possibilities this technology opens up.

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You don't need to listen to the history books. Because my grandma said that Cleopatra was black.

Wanna go back in time and do everything to her. You just KNOW that her beaver was as big as this haircut. She suck she fuck. She makes Dr. Phil stick his whole fist in her every Chinese New Year. Yeah man

Now I Am Become Gay, Destroyer of Non-Wokes

https://wokeleftists.com