That's gonna be the issue, yeah. HTTPS changed standards over time, and many sites enforcing HTTPS are unavailable on older systems.

I use GIMP, and I am one of the few unpopular people who actually really like its user interface.

Lemmy know what ones! I know on Safari it can be a bit ropy - but Id also say I tend to work on the 80% rule, if it works for 80% of people thats good enough for me

It doesn't work on LibreWolf for me, the libre fork of Firefox. It blocks non-free Javascript, maybe that's the issue.

On some browsers, previewing the texture as the background doesn't work.

I think the reason why puzzle games have such a wide appeal is because they can be enjoyed by a wide array of people without prerequisites. My mom doesn't like playing violent games, she does not have a fast reaction time, and she does not feel like getting good in a game over time. But puzzle games can be universally enjoyed and understood without these hurdles. They tease the brain as a challenge, but do not usually require video game specific skillsets or lingo to enjoy them.

Plus, they give you not a lot of reason to criticize them, unless the puzzles or presentation are fundamentally flawed.
A shooter can have plenty of mini mechanics that have to be balanced perfectly, and also can be super frustrating if done wrong. A puzzle game on the other hand is a one-and-done situation where people don't usually micro-analyze the mechanics or get obsessed with it once they've beat the game - if the solution is intuitive but requires thinking, then it's a good puzzle, period.

My website has changed rather radically because I wasn't happy with its fundamental concept.

When I first started out building Libre.Town, I wanted it to be just that: a town, a virtual world to explore in a similar manner to old text adventures. Things I would want to share would be found in places they logically would be in: my writing in the library, photos in a gallery, music in a radio tower. I planned NPC interactions, and even an ARG for the site.



Unfortunately, I found that this was a wayy too ambitious project. Every avenue opening up would require me to build an exponentially larger amount of additional "rooms" adjacent to it, and with my habit of writing static sites per hand, this grew impossible quickly. The site was littered with 404s and eventually I burnt out. This was also due to many technical issues, like keeping the CSS per-site for the lack of external style sheets. Additionally, I grew tired of its inconsistent design.

So I reworked it last Christmas, to be more visually and technically consistent. It also did not aspire to be an explorable text adventure anymore, instead I settled for content rich sites without exorbitant fluff. That way, I could actually work on content for the site instead of scrambling to fill in decorative blanks.

Aye, welcome! I love the art and writing style, honestly<<

Honestly I simply find sites via other sites' link lists, the forum's "show website" button, or rarely in web rings when I feel like it. I don't use Neocities at all.

Ooh, good idea. I'll try to condense the page a bit, clarify some guidelines and post there to make it more formal. Thank you

I also don't know if you saw but I wrote you a PM. The notification is easily overlooked.

For some reason, I felt compelled to make a cheap computer club. If anyone would like to a share photo of a cheap computer they use often, I'll add the image and a link to your site.

By the way, you can post this in Clubs and Cliques I think so more people see it!

Since my smartphone doesn't do calls anyway, I use an old Nokia sliding phone to make calls and SMS instead. It's very ergonomic and discourages using it uselessly.

As far as games go, for example the infamous Cyberpunk 2077 is very dear to my heart and every source I've read claims that it runs very clunky on Linux even through Wine (while on Windows my hardware allows it to more or less fly with no bugs even)

Hmm, that's strange, it runs without a hitch for me using Proton GE 43.

I remember playing a space game similar to how Elite or Galaxy on Fire would work, but it was neither.

You could warp from system to system, be a pirate, sell products for a profit, talk to other ships. It was an old sandbox 2D game and it having the typical 'turn around and accelerate to brake' mechanics, and 'press space to shoot' combat.

I distinctly remember a little corner radar/minimap that had red blips for enemy ships, green for allied and yellow for neutral, I think. None of the popular games had that radar.

EDIT: Wtf immediately after posting this I found it after ten years of searching! It was either Escape Velocity (graphics a bit unfamiliar) or Endless Sky (too late I think), but I am unsure. Either way: WOOOO

There a big distinction between a printing company and a publisher. A printing company is like a Xerox machine or a mimeograph - you might only do 100 copies, but there's still a cost involved (When I did my zine, I only did 10 copies and my printing company was a weird little shop run by an Indian man who laughed a lot, it cost me 8 euro!); a publisher is a WHOLE other story, and most zines are about not having a publisher as you say

Aye, fair. Where I am copy shops and printshops are practically nonexistant, so I forgot about them.

I'll have to email local companies for quotas and the process is all very unknown to me at this state. I thought digital version for free and printed with the price of printing + shipping is probably the most reasonable way to go.

Isn't the entire point of a zine to hand-copy them without a printing company involved? The reason people made zines is because they were poor and/or their topics were so radical/taboo nobody wanted to print them.