Last year I decided to myself to reduce reading web fictions and start reading more published stuff. Web fictions doesn’t necessarily mean web novels, to be clear, but also stuff like fan fiction, and the like. And I don’t limit what sort of published stuff I read: so long it’s published, I’ll read it.

Well, there’s one limit: it must follow fiction - nonfiction - fiction, and so on. And I generally avoid self-help; I don’t mind reading self-help, sometimes they can be enlightening, sort of lens of viewing human experience. But they tend to be a touch too self-contemplative to me.

Turns out I didn’t write as much as I thought. Whoops.

Couple days ago I researched VPS offering, and found several cheap ones, including the legendary 24 bucks a year VPS. Kind of crazy what you can get nowadays.

Anyway, I try to figure out how to do, you know, actual whole web hosting business. As you know, this site is statically generated, by Hugo. This might change by the time you read this, who knows?

“When I was a young boy-” both descriptors no longer apply, my father didn’t tell me shit on this part or about the expected stuff, so what’s to say, really? But anyway. Much like the other kids at the time, I had a little rebellious period by going Creationist. Well, it was a religious environment, so everyone was Creationists anyway. Just, like, soft ones.

The sort of US-style Creationism? That was new, and brought by Harun Yahya, as far as I knew.

Originally I’m not too keen keeping my own sites on Neocities. Nothing against them (obviously, you’re reading on Neocities likely), but having to write HTML and then uploading them manually sounds like a total pain, though I understand people back then really do it like that.

Then yeah, I found out Neocities has CLI tool. And, uh, actually it’s good? Small wonder. Okay, the dry run doesn’t quite work, the ruby modules (script?) just crashed on my end, but that’s fine. It works for actual production, which is the most important part.

Last post made me decided to delete all gacha games. Again. Just not worth it. Perhaps, one day, someone will finally extract worthwhile games out of them and priced accordingly.

It really can’t be stated enough the sheer enterprise of building them. Sure, in some way it’s no different than, well, other games - except you also need to build and build them more over time, which when you think about it, prettycrazy. Not to mention all the new stuff, too. Stuff like how quite a lot of time the events are basically new (mini)games that’s often very different genre than main game.

If you’re familiar with previous version of this site - if such thing can be considered - then there isn’t much difference, really. I’m just getting my feet wet. On the whole website making and such. Digital sovereignty and all that, albeit within a free hoster. Well, gotta start somewhere, right?

Funnily enough I do have actual web hosting and a domain. Two of them, even! They’re just, well, not much used. Maybe I will someday.