I'm not sure that sizeof.cat ever understood that 4chan -- like Twitter -- has always been a shithole, the sort of wretched virtual hive of scum and villainy that made Mos Eisley look classy. Maybe it wasn't the internet equivalent of a sacrifice zone to them because for a time they felt like they belonged there. And now they no longer do.

And 4chan has always had porn: /s/, /e/, and /h/ are among its oldest and most active boards. So I'm not sure sizeof.cat knows WTF they're on about.

To me the whole premise of esoteric adult content and originality being mutually exclusive is just plain false. There were red board generals I followed made almost entirely out of OC even. Most are gone now, sadly.

Some of my paranormal blog entries from my site https://forum.marianabay.com/threads/the-hat-man-have-you-seen-him.101/ https://forum.marianabay.com/threads/memphis-rap-sigils.167/ https://forum.marianabay.com/threads/cult-of-kek-how-pepe-the-frog-chaos-magick-helped-trump-win-the-2016-election.95/

Reminds me of the Agora Road forum.

Was bit inspired by that forum yes UwU

here's my newest post https://www.rinet.biz/blog/pocky-sticks

do you have many asian groceries in the balkans? we have a lot in the US and I exclusively buy things like salmon, pork butt, sirachia, chili oil, etc, etc, etc there. They also have all the staples like Pocky Sticks too.

i was underwhelmed when i tried them for the first time. people go nuts for them, but they're kinda mid

id assume there are some in Belgrade now (back then I don't think so) however I live in a small town back home so I've never seen one.

even here, abroad, it was a regular supermarket not a "specialty" one. i guess that's why it was kinda pricy.

asian markets back home are like physical AliExpress lol. cheap-ish stuff of questionable origin

Wrote a post about me finally pulling the plug on my DeviantART account. It's been sitting there abandoned for a very long time as I hoped for the good days to return again, but it only got worse and worse and now I don't even care about redacting my decade old comments anymore to keep it going.

Interesting read. I'm no artist and so was never into DeviantART culture, but even I could tell, between the handful of times I'd visited, how awful its gotten. A shame how natural it seems for this to happen to platforms, reddit in particular is the one I hate the most, though that at least seems to have its eventual successor: https://join-lemmy.org/instances

Anyways, for any other artists interested, here are a couple more DA alternatives:

• https://www.artfol.co/discover

• https://www.artgram.co/

• https://sheezy.art/

Anyways, been converting old family home video tapes recently and decided to write about it. It's tied to 32-Bit Cafe's 'Back to School' code-jam and the IndieWeb Carnival 'Rituals' themes.

VHS to Digital

First Paragraph:

"Do you know what VHS really stands for, traveler? It’s: “Various Hurdles and Suffering”. That ain’t no contemporary definition neither. My father recently spoke to me of his experience with his home video collection from the late 70s / early 80s. He dealt with a big move and, alongside the business of everyday life, had ended up leaving the tapes unattended for over a year. When he finally returned to them, he tried to play each one to no avail. To his surprise, they’d been covered in mold and when he took the matter to a repair shop they told him he’d lost everything, including the player, and that he should throw it all away; out of concern for his, and his family’s, health. Naturally, the loss of mementos such as, but not limited to: tenderly captured fragments of my brothers’ childhoods, lead to considerable sadness..."

Copying my comment over from BlueDwarf: I was extremely lucky to have worked a summer for a TV station where my job was archiving old VHS tapes, editing them and burning them into DVD-s for storage. I didn't even finish asking but my boss already said "Yeah, sure, just don't come in with a giant stack of them.", and so our old family tapes are all digitalized now... or rather, the "family" part of our old tapes to be more accurate.

Bookmarked them, thank you very much. Fun thing about the DeviantART thing, turns out a deactivated account is still functional — you can log in, you can change your e-mail and passwords, you can delete comments, you can even post art to your Sta.sh, unpublished to the wider site but shareable via links. You might be able to buy membership even, that would be funny.