Harp the Wigglytuff @wigglytuffitout@computerfairi.es

which one of these will be the reason i eventually get Cancelled(tm) online? who knows! but i'm sure the more years i putter around, it's going to just be inevitable

-cishet
-white
-mildly kinky
-religious
-tend to vote democrat in elections
-disabled, invisibly so
-enjoy lolita fashion (as a break from being a sexualized object/wearing what i wanna wear)
-order pretty purses from aliexpress sometimes
-am not vegetarian or vegan
-cool with real fur n' animal bits
-emphatically pro medical animal testing

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@maple will do, captain o7 i admit i got a bit frazzledy there.

@maple i'll be honest, i now feel much better about my pre-shower decision of seeing that post, seeing the poster had followed me today, and just sliding the user onto block instead of living with the anxiety of wondering when i would be next lol

it makes those worried shower thoughts of justifying such a policy to myself seem much easier and worries far more distant, and is a nice lifepreserver out of the But What If I Am The Asshole vortex

right, right, i should go actually take a shower instead of just glowering and being cynical.

even though it means i have to move my sleeping dog. :[

@eightbitsamurai@elekk.xyz ok i have to correct myself

i'd rather watch chair anime than be drowned in a flood of Somehow Generic Looking Bishie Boys In "The Toaster Only Goes To 2. I Know The Knob Says 11, But Never Use Anything Else" Skin Tones that are somehow supposed to be associated at some point with a disney movie

@eightbitsamurai@elekk.xyz wow we really are hurtling towards chair anime level ridiculous at every passing moment aren't we

ah yes, my shoulder's beautiful songs of CRUNCH SNAP POP CRUNCH

@InspectorCaracal you just hit exactly what finally drove me off chickensmoothie lmfao. trying to say "we're a small indie op! it's just like two people!" while also going "anyway buy our microtransaction funny money, and we're going to push events to be more and more ruthless so you'll want to buy $$ to trade for tokens..." ...yeah i pointed this out and got a bunch of torches and pitchforks lmfao.

and yes. ARTISINAL HAND-CRAFTED ADOPTABLES. FREE-RANGE!

@Alyx GOD honestly valid

i'm just amazed at how many times it's the same people doing the advertising. like, if i click to see the lipsticks, maybe i wanna look at the lipsticks you sell, daggum website, not three clicks later and two full page scrolls down to finally see The Fucking Lipsticks lmao

for a brief second i forgot SheRa was named SheRa and mixed it up with YoRha from nier and just sort of accepted the she-ra characters all "ambitious crossover, but it could work"

@Alyx GOD yeah

i kinda miss when the hotness was a tiny window of content and lush - but STATIC. - window dressing around it

tbh the last time i shopped for something at e.l.f. i got a 'take a survey!' and just went on a screed about how their web designers should feel bad, because the number of clicks and scrolls to get to a thing i clicked to see was absurd. it's like the internet is full of pushy salespeople swarming you, when you just want to look at the shelf

@Alyx same, tbh

...let's not discuss the i-frame craze that followed the great Side Frame For Navigatio Or No battle. i'm trying to forget the time in my life when i thought 300x500 px was more than enough room to read all content contained within it, with a pastel-colored scroll bar and text at negative fuckyou pixels

@InspectorCaracal yeah, it's hard 🤔 i mean i think it'd be great to do here, until i think about implementation LOL

especially because the conceit usually meant allowing the person to hotlink - like, they'd put the adopted egg on their website, then it 'growing up' would be creator changing the linked picture

making it a more streamlined system is possible, but it does lose some of the... rustic charm? like chickensmoothie is the modern solution, but also... a tad boring.

one of these days i should actually grub around up in the backups, find if we have a working zip disc reader (any of y'all remember those??? and them being a thing for like 5 fuckin minutes???? laserdiscs of the pc world lmfao), and go through my old backups

i bet that there's at least one vickimouse 'mouse house' in there, and there might be some old petz too

@InspectorCaracal me too honestly, they used to be such a huge thing... i remember i also got into the ones that were like, you adopt an egg and see what it grows into, or ones that simulated cat/dog breeding

sites like chickensmoothie are obvious inheritors to a bit of that, but i miss when it was just like small communities of single people on geocities or what have you, and weren't quite like modern adoptables on dA which are typically for cash and for a defined character

okay actually it wasn't just neopets it was more...

do any of y'all also remember Vickimouse Adoptables? possibly vikimouse, i can't remember how the name was spelled

little pixel mice anthros (or other animals), and part of "adopting" was that you went to browse through all of the pixel art that you could use to "build a house" for them

it used to be such a big thing but it's as if it's vanished, i can barely find traces of it existing but it was a huge part of my childhood

honestly the last time i felt like i knew computer science type shit and web design was when i was able to hand-code a simple webpage in notepad with all my knowledge gained from making neopets webpages.

and i'm pretty content with that being the zenith of my cs career

@wolf@sunbeam.city this is a hella good solution!

i've always been fond of < /sarcasm > tags anyway, even if it's just closing ones

(also that format means we all get to be a bit nerdy honestly. but like 2002 nerdy, when straight html was still relevant, which is great)