Okay so you know those website adopts where it's just lovingly drawn lil guys who you can put on your site in your lil adopts collection with a link back or sometimes even without? I mean, that's a rethorical question.

Well, if you're one of those people who collects adopts like those, then hi, I've just put up a page on my website with personally drawn adoptees for you to potentially pick from (should you want to, of course). Nothing fancy, not exclusive or interactive, just cute kind fun.

The whole concept behind the page is somewhat personal to me, so I've been wanting to do this for a while You'll see what I mean.

  Here's the link!

I've been seeing people creating separate pages on their personal sites to fill them with quiz/personality tests results.

But, as my luck goes, now that I actually made a website of my own, I can't for the life of me remember which sites inspired me (and subsequently can't go there and spy some quiz links).

U-quiz and buzzfeed make it sort of harder to look for these old-school quizes, so, while I'm doing my own research, I thought I'd ask:

Anyone got any favorites? Or maybe you're one of those people with quiz results pages and you could let me snoop around?

Been surprisingly decently discussing this in a dangerous place called "YouTube comments" and, considering that the residents of Melonland are much better at such discussions, I'm here to hit a hornets' nest with a bat out of sheer curiosity.

So, Life is Strange 1, the original that started the series, and its infamous last choice.

Spoilers. Obviously.

Feelings on whether that choice is disappointing gameplay-wise and choices-mattering-wise aside... What was your choice and what's your reasoning behind it?

I'll start: I'm a big time "sacrifice Arcadia Bay"/"Bae over Bay" truther. That's not only just because I'm uselessly gay. Well, it was back when I first played the game. Having very recently replayed the remaster though, I'm having some much more defined opinions. Namely:

1. I feel like both choices ultimately make this a story of acceptance and maturity. However, "sacrifice Chloe" is more of a "accept that sometimes you can't change things/save everyone" story, and "sacrifice Arcadia Bay" is more of a "sometimes you're gonna mess up big time even with the best of intentions and you have to learn to live with the consequences" story. I choose the latter moral. ":grin:omg: as you must and come what may".

2. I despise stories where a character kicked down the most by the narrative has to die in misery at the end. And Chloe might be a difficult character who got on a lot of people's nerves (not mine but still), but she is that very type of a miserable character.

3. As far as fiction goes I find more catharsis in selfish love and burning the world down to stand together atop the ruins. Self-explanatory, I think.

4. And finally I'm just annoyed by the idea of erasing all the events of the game by going back and making no one but Max remember them? I was given a power and I've spent five episodes thoroughly effing up space and time with it, let it damn show! (Also if 'rewind bad' then how's it the answer to...rewind one more time? Meh!)

There's an obvious argument of "Killing a whole town of innocents for one punk girl is BAD", yada-yada, trolley problem, but I think I made it rather clear that I personally don't measure fiction by real-life standards. You're welcome to, though!

So what do y'all think, dear gamers? I'm geniunely curious, it fascinates me that this game still can fascilitate discussion this many years later!

Okay here's the deal, I've read a metric ton of those "10 games with best character creation!" articles that Google gives you, and all of those games on the list I've either played already (read: AAA and AA RPG games from Mass Effect to Greedfall to Baldur's Gate to Dragon's Dogma) or are online games which are just not my cup of tea (see: Monster Hunter). I've also been around the "character customization" tag on Steam, but there are a bunch of games on Steam and I'm running out of patience to scroll them all (and the top of that list is the same names and online titles anyway). Kinda same with itchio.

So I'm turning to peer recommendations, all hopeful and such.

I'm very big on character customization. I'll build a character and I'll play the game and I'll make a bunch of screenshots of every cutscene (if there are cutscenes) and then I'll build a bunch of backstory and headcanons for them on top of the game material and then at some point I will want to create again but whoops I'm out of games till next installment comes out.

So does anyone maybe know some indie or overlooked games, RPGs or fighting, etc etc (I'm not big on stuff like Animal Crossing and Stardew Valley tragically, even if they're very cute)?

I play on PC, but a good game would be worth considering an emulator. It also doesn't have to be fantasy - in fact I'd love me something urban or sci-fi or cyberpunk-ish. I'm an urban kid through and through.

(Oh, also, an important criteria that's just my personal peeve: the ability make gender non-conforming characters. Think Saints Row or Dragon's Dogma. Because my soul cracks every time I encounter some beautiful stuff like Black Desert (yes online but I was desperate) and then the only type of a girl character I can create is the girliest girly ever with revealing armor and zero short hair options...SIGH)

I mean, I don't have many hopes riding on this, but I just have this feeling that there's gotta be something I'm missing because I'm not looking the right way

I honestly don't know how to formulate that title any better than this.

So here's the thing. There's this music player for tumblr themes and websites, SCM Music Player. Great thing, lets you choose a skin or even build your own, lets you create a playlist using YouTube videos (which means you don't have to upload mp3s anywhere), etc.

And I had this brilliant idea to have multiple of such players on a page by sticking them inside separate sections of an HTML table.

Well, what I'm quickly learning is that the script for the SCM player is coded in a way that it can only stick to the top or the bottom of the whole page, and putting the script code inside the td section of the table code does nothing to change that.

Which is where I'm faced with the brutal realization that I don't know JS that well (I'm mostly at "putting bricks of pre-made code together" stage of my website making experience…) to know how to do the thing I want to do.

For context, the code for the player looks like this:

Code

<!-- SCM Music Player https://www.scmplayer.net -->
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://www.scmplayer.net/script.js" 
data-config="{'skin':'skins/cyber/skin.css','volume':50,'autoplay':false,'shuffle':false,'repeat':1,'placement':'top','showplaylist':false,'playlist':[{'title':'VALKILLY -TOKYO RED (HUBRID Remix)','url':'[youtube]G3rLA60DVc4[/youtube] in Reverse-Zombified','url':'[youtube]MP9ELP-bjMs[/youtube] ></script>
<!-- SCM Music Player script end -->

And the corresponding script goes thusly and scares my newbie butt with its complexity.

And what I had in my head before I got the reality check looks like this (roughly mocked up; the table is borderless but basically every element is in its own section, this is a 3x2 table):



Soooo this is the point where I gesture to all of this helplessly and ask if anyone would be so kind and point me to whatever could be done with the table code or the script (suppose I could download it to tweak) to make my vision come true and squish the player in that table frame.

Or to some other way to make a YouTube powered music player that could be squished into a table more easily.

Or just tell me that I'm in over my head, that works too!

Hello there!

So, a funny thing. It's been so long since I've last been active on any forum (or maybe I was never a part of a forum like this one at all) that I was unaware it would log me out after an hour. And apparently that's how long it took me to write a post. Which I now lost. Huh.

Well, y'know what? I'm inclined to be positive about such things. I've put down the "always logged it" tick this time, let's try this again!

So, my name is Alex. Or Tarrax, or Hum or whatever nickname you'd be inclined to give me. I'm also fine with absolutely any and all pronouns, since, as far as my gender goes, I live to be completely incomprehensible.

I'm in my late twenties. Which means, I remember some of the good old web. I remember using website builders and a bunch of stolen code and html tutorials to make bright web pages with pure high contrast RGB backgrounds. About everything. About me, about my favorite anime, about my friends. It was fun. Then I moved on to social media. Then social media became all shiny and polished and utterly uncustomisable except maybe for Tumblr which in my mind is the last bastion of the old web spirit among the popular websites. Then suddenly I was weill in my twenties and I completely lost the ability to spend my free time doing anything but scrolling three same apps over and over again. That terrified me to realize.

Last year, thanks to a very enthusiastic Tumblr post, I've learned of Neocities and the Yesterweb community. I was floored to see so many people doing the very thing I mourned and buried as a gone part of my childhood. But I was also intimidated. Having your own website seemed…like too many opportunities at once. It could be anything, and I couldn't choose a thing. I've also found that without sufficient motivation my ability to stack pieces of code together greatly degraded compared to my teenage years. So I just lurked. Around the Yesterweb webring, around this forum, all over.

This year, however, or rather at the end of last month even, there was a shift. For the first time in the last fifteen years I've just sat. And started making something that I wanted to make. Not for a friend, not for a fandom, for myself. I took a story that has been in my mind for more than a year now and I drew 40 full-colored pages of the first chapter start to finish in less than three weeks.

Fifteen years ago, it was a book scribbled in two fat notebooks by hand. It was really a self-insert fanfic with changed names, but who cares.

This time, I'm making a comic. I'm giving life to this character who means the absolute world to me as a creator the more I work on her. I'm giving life to her world and her queer found family. I've been an emotional mess about this for weeks. Can you tell?



So when the question of "Where do I post this?" came up, my first instinct was to make a website. I had a theme laying around. I had the motivation. I made it.

And now I'm building the rest of my website around that comic like it's my foundation. Suddenly it makes sense. Suddenly I'm hyped to make the things other people are doing. So far the front page isn't nearly as obnoxious as I'd like it to be, but I'm in no hurry. I'm doing the thing.

I've yet to build the shrines, but I'm thinking about a page dedicaded to a CD collection, maybe. I'm about to start burning CDs again. Maybe when my birthday comes I'll ask my friends to make me an old-fashioned mixtape. Kinda lacked out on that part of fun when it was hot.

What I'm trying to say is, this comic, this website, suddenly they don't feel like "reclaiming the web", they feel like reclaiming myself.

So, here's my website: https://tarraxahum.neocities.org/index.html

And, for the sake of yelling "I MADE A THING!" , here's my webcomic: https://tarraxahum.neocities.org/pof.html

It's just a little bit bloody, there's lots of fighting, there's some slight creepiness to showcase a metaphorical POV, and it's just at the beginning of the story. Oh, and the logo is a placeholder for now. Work in progress, work in progress. But it's mine.



My latest pride is successfully coding a comment page following Sadness's tutorial. One small step for Tarraxahum, one big leap for Tarraxhumankind.

Oh, and here's my SpaceHey! https://spacehey.com/tarraxahum

I suck at keeping the activity up, but I'm trying to live my best edgy cringe years on there, since I've never had a MySpace. I didn't know English back then.

It's been a while since I've been actually encouraged to make a big detailed post, you know. I don't do "short" very well, never did.

So, if you're still reading, here's a bonus picture of me painted in my favorite things:

Music: Nu-metal, alternative rock and all the neighbooring micro-genres. I need my music to pound in my chest and vibrate in the soles of my feet. You won't find me in the moshpit 'cause I'm small and I want to see the singers, but you will find me by the stage. I've also developed a sudden interest in the cyberpunk flavor of synthware. Anyone got artist recommendations?

Anime: For being "the anime kid" of the class I sure haven't watched a lot of it, but I do have some favs. Gurren Lagann, Black Lagoon, Canaan, FLCL, Kill la Kill (which I genuinely watched and still watch for the plot). And Speed Racer of the 60s was my OG hyperfixation that started it all.

TV shows: As far as live action goes, I've only ever fully watched one, and that's Wynonna Earp. As far as animation goes, I adore Arcane. Also She-Ra (the new one) and the Owl House are cute.

Movies: Gunpowder Milkshake, Captain Marvel, Speed Racer. Back to the Future was the ultimate family movie at our house. As for animation - Mulan and Balto are my general go-tos.

Videogames: Mass Effect, Dragon Age (especially Inquisition, sue me) and Cyberpunk 2077. Greedfall is also good. I'm aware I should give more attention to indie games, but I suck at finding the ones I might like. Anyone knows a more obscure game with nice character customization - pls let me know, at this point I think I've seen all the bigger ones.

Plush toys: Let's spice it up, why not. I have a looong cat hugging pillow that my friend gave me as a gift. I have the IKEA shark. I have lots of plush cats 'cause I'm allergic to real ones despite loving them to bits. And I also have a doll of my favorite comic book character that I've sawn myself. I adore it still.

As you can probably guess from that media list, btw, I'm very weak for women kicking butts.

Will definitely make a website shrine out of that.

Phew, so…that looks about right for an introduction, huh?

I hope I'll stick around. And I hope you'll have me and my inspired walls of text.

Have a good day or evening or whatever your timezone brings