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>>0x000003

> 30s/m/your mom's house

sorry i am not gay

30s/m/your mom's house

We didn't use the AOL ISP for very long in our house. I did everything I could do to get my mom to get us a different ISP, since everyone at the school computer club made fun of it for being "newbie Internet"

I did use AOL IM for over a decade probably though.

I do remember those RP chat rooms vaguely but that's an old memory.

>>0x00000f

yeah they probably don't have the know how to do what you're doing there.

Something I noticed among the neocities kids is they think it's really cool to use XP-era computers just for aesthetic reasons, but then when they actually pursue these machines, they wake up to the reality that it's not practical and they don't have the resources to learn to improve the machine even if they wanted to.

> OLD computers

I went to a computer show once where they had the extremely old ones, like so old I've never seen them in person ever, and they're fully restored and sparkling like in a movie. It's absolutely crazy and I'm glad someone does that because it was a worthy experience.

> turns out it was just the ram malfunctioning. wldve been nice to have had the brains to just swap the ram first and not trust people blindly lol.

This is just the type of wisdom you get with time I assume.

> thinkpads

I notice a lot of people use these that want a Linux laptop.

Personally, I hate working on small computers. My eye sight isn't good enough anymore and I'm terrible with tiny parts. I'm pretty good with software but not hardware so much. I have built a PC or two so I'm not ignorant but it's always in big, easy to work with cases. I get stressed out when the parts are tiny.

>>0x000002

> Game called ASCIIDENT

damn that looks sick. the technical know-how to do that is impressive.

also - found more ANSI art, from https://serionbbs.comwhere you can play Legend of the Red Dragon

>>0x000004

> The Bandcamp embeds work again.

yeah I didn't even do anything. Something must have been broken on BC's end and when they fixed it, it worked again.

nice site

a/s/l

das all folks

I can post a few things I have.

I used to play this MUD at phidar.org:9000 that supported ansi color and it had ascii maps with every room. It's been down for over 10 years. I wish I could post pictures of that. It probably wouldn't be impressive by today's standards but for back then...

based

https://blog.basementcommunity.com/using-ai-to-write-blog-posts/

I don't have any recent account regs. The last one was 9/5 and they successfully logged in.

I would try it again. Post in /meta/ if you can't get it to work.

>>0x000010

> At least don't expect random strangers to collaborate without some guidance, I guess. If you have a project and want collaboration, you can probably get something going with some individuals you meet online, though it can be hard to retain them if they're not aligned I guess

I've worked with a few peole on the old goeshard blog.

Dann from https://dannarchy.com/

Jade from https://idelides.xyz/

RisingThumb from https://risingthumb.xyz/

A few of my IRL friends have done a random post just from me pestering them to do it. There's also an article here with guidelines about doing it: https://goeshard.org/2025/05/07/do-you-want-to-guest-post-an-article-for-goeshardorg/

I feel like I've shilled this to the point that it's embarassing to continue shilling it. Treating goeshard.org like a magazine with a bunch of writers is an unrealistic way to approach it. It's simply never going to happen, so I'm not really doing it anymore.

> But for the board, I think it really comes down to advertisement, and reminding people that it's here.

Yeah... I'm probably not going to do that. I've done nothing but shill this website to people who I think are cool for months and months, and I'm ready to shed the image of "guy who shills his website constantly." I could do monetary ads, right... but what kind of culture would that bring really? It would be paying to spend my time getting spammed by low effort posts. Sometimes dead is better.

> Also I think the registration is broken or something since it never sends emails to people, so the lack of feedback isn't helping in either direction

Have you checked your spam? Do you want to make a /meta/ post reporting this problem with more specific issues? Other people have made accounts without problems so more information would be good. What is the account name you registered?

>>0x00000e

> Something I take away from the old blog is: Don't take yourself too seriously (and don't expect anyone to collaborate with you).

At least don't expect random strangers to collaborate without some guidance, I guess. If you have a project and want collaboration, you can probably get something going with some individuals you meet online, though it can be hard to retain them if they're not aligned I guess

But for the board, I think it really comes down to advertisement, and reminding people that it's here. Also I think the registration is broken or something since it never sends emails to people, so the lack of feedback isn't helping in either direction

This guy posted this somewhere, I can't remember where.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfe3VK7H6uI

Game called ASCIIDENT

Now he's working on an RPG and it's crazy how far he's come with this rendering style

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY3K8Ut3iLQ

https://andreifomin.itch.io/