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What happened to https://thedonald.neocities.org ? The site and its associated Neocities account no longer exist. What a shame -- it was quite the funny site.
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a-rok
4 years ago
I remember on later reruns of this episode (my memory's crap so I can't pinpoint when, but they'd switched to their current logo by then), the "The secret formula IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIS..." bit at the end would get cut off (even more) to something like "The secret formula III- WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK WITH MORE SPONGEBOB AFTER THIS" so they can fit about a second or two of more ads in. $$$
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lolwut
4 years ago
a-rok, I've also noticed that. Nickelodeon has gotten very bad in regards to this; it's been over a decade, for instance, since they've consistently shown the *real* end credits sequence of a show, rather than merely showing a text-only version of them stuffed to the side of the screen, next to an ad. Today the channel doesn't even properly show the end logos anymore, which are only a few seconds in length!
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frogesay
4 years ago
Stick figures were one of the most popular trends of the 2000s, and to see them die out crashing into the 2010s was unsurprising, though still interesting in how unceremonious it was. Everybody had a DSi and a Flipnote Hatena account for stick-figure sakuga. It was rediculous.
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lolwut
4 years ago
Stick figures are dead these days? I did not know this until just now. Another reason to want to go back to the 2000s, eh?
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rbuchanan
4 years ago
Thanks for itemizing nearlyfreespeech.net; I may patronize them in the future.
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clubnintendoarchives
4 years ago
Space Cadet was a classic, perhaps second only to Solitaire in the list of 'all-time classic pre-installed Windows games'.
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rbuchanan
4 years ago
Among pinball emulators, the 2600's "Video Pinball" is my first and favorite, but "Space Cadet" boasted gameplay (if not graphics) superior to most others. I've played that and Windows (Klondike) Solitaire, FreeCell, Spider, Taipei and SkiFree more often than I can recall.
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rbuchanan
4 years ago
If you're using Windows 8 or 10, you'd do well to import and play the 32-bit versions of those games bundled with 9x and XP, which play better than their contemporary counterparts and require far fewer resources.
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rip
The Neocities team have shown themselves to have a distaste for Donald Trump: https://blog.neocities.org/blog/2017/04/27/net-neutrality-plan.html I'd HOPE that they wouldn't delete people's sites just because they disagree with them, but who knows.
I just contacted Neocities with an inquiry regarding that site's deletion.
That's quite unfortunate, because in the case of thedonald.neocities.org, at least, it was very clearly a humor site pretending to support him, and not at all a serious endorsement of Trump.
Also, Robert, following your example, I will do the same.
I doubt Kyle deleted it, the person running it probably just got bored of the joke.
"We will not remove a site unless it is violating our Terms of Service or breaking the law. Chances are, it isn't. And the First Amendment of the United States Constitution defends our right to do this. If you'd like a more in-depth explanation of our policies, see our legal guide for Neocities. "
https://robertbuchanan.info/Omnium-gatherum/2020/03/23/response-by-neocities-to-inquiry-concerning-thedonald-neocities-org/
Good to hear, thanks for looking into that. I get a little paranoid about this stuff sometimes since these days damn near every site (or at least the big ones) will ban you for the stupidest reasons, such as having incorrect opinions. Serious business indeed.