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Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (1999)

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Re: Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (1999)

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Post by whstl »

RamblingCTO wrote: post #179
whstl wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You started your message complaining about this specific website. Now, the things you complain of in this reply don't really apply to it. It's still better to use than the kind of website that replaced it. My browsing habits have nothing to do with it, I just picked an appropriate apples-to-apples example for comparison. I think it's unfair to compare this to Apple's website or something. Also, you mention auto play…

Yeah I was talking more broadly. My point was that in the early days I couldn't really shape my browsing experience. Now I can because a necessity arose due to websites delivering shit (and imho this started in the early days). So now they are nice. That was my point, not really sure the delivery was on point haha. And with the demise of flash it really got a lot better. But maybe I don't visit shitty websites a lot.

> Now I can because a necessity arose due to websites delivering shit

Ah got it! We're in agreement, then. And I also can't live without those tools.

Re: Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (1999)

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Post by mostlysimilar »

ETH_start wrote: post #177
MagicalEmi wrote: post #106

Oh, hello. This is my website. I'm Emily. I saw the influx of (nice, thank you!) comments on the guestbook, so I checked to see what was up. Yes, I keep the site running and haven't changed very much about it (mostly out of laziness) but I do periodically update it when something new (music, tv. merch, game, etc)happens. So I guess it is only still being updated because the franchise keeps popping up with random new…

Thank you for creating this little treasure and maintaining it. It's a time capsule from that era! >>I do still have a lot of unfinished areas of the site that I tell myself I need to get done, but it has been 20+ years now, so you can see how well that's going (I see you, episode summary sections). Maybe ChatGPT could help create episode summaries for the Cowboy Bebop live action series? At least as a placeholder un…

I would personally prefer this beautiful piece of hand-crafted artistry not be infected with generative AI crap.

Re: Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (1999)

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Post by JeremyBanks »

ETH_start wrote: post #177
MagicalEmi wrote: post #106

Oh, hello. This is my website. I'm Emily. I saw the influx of (nice, thank you!) comments on the guestbook, so I checked to see what was up. Yes, I keep the site running and haven't changed very much about it (mostly out of laziness) but I do periodically update it when something new (music, tv. merch, game, etc)happens. So I guess it is only still being updated because the franchise keeps popping up with random new…

Thank you for creating this little treasure and maintaining it. It's a time capsule from that era! >>I do still have a lot of unfinished areas of the site that I tell myself I need to get done, but it has been 20+ years now, so you can see how well that's going (I see you, episode summary sections). Maybe ChatGPT could help create episode summaries for the Cowboy Bebop live action series? At least as a placeholder un…

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Re: Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (1999)

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Post by ETH_start »

mostlysimilar wrote: post #232
ETH_start wrote: post #177

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you for creating this little treasure and maintaining it. It's a time capsule from that era! >>I do still have a lot of unfinished areas of the site that I tell myself I need to get done, but it has been 20+ years now, so you can see how well that's going (I see you, episode summary sections). Maybe ChatGPT could help create episode summaries for the Cowboy Bebop live action series? At least as a placeholder un…

I would personally prefer this beautiful piece of hand-crafted artistry not be infected with generative AI crap.

Even if it stops being updated? The internet is replete with old sites that are still up but have long stopped getting updates. What made this unique is that it was continuously updated for over 20 years. If the price of continuing that is AI generated content, at least as a placeholder until which time the site owner can handcraft the episode summaries, isn't that a price worth paying?

Re: Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (1999)

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Post by RamblingCTO »

whstl wrote: post #231
RamblingCTO wrote: post #179

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah I was talking more broadly. My point was that in the early days I couldn't really shape my browsing experience. Now I can because a necessity arose due to websites delivering shit (and imho this started in the early days). So now they are nice. That was my point, not really sure the delivery was on point haha. And with the demise of flash it really got a lot better. But maybe I don't visit shitty websites a lot.

> Now I can because a necessity arose due to websites delivering shit Ah got it! We're in agreement, then. And I also can't live without those tools.

Glad we changed a disagreement to an agreement ;)

Re: Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (1999)

#237

Post by rchaud »

ETH_start wrote: post #234
mostlysimilar wrote: post #232

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would personally prefer this beautiful piece of hand-crafted artistry not be infected with generative AI crap.

Even if it stops being updated? The internet is replete with old sites that are still up but have long stopped getting updates. What made this unique is that it was continuously updated for over 20 years. If the price of continuing that is AI generated content, at least as a placeholder until which time the site owner can handcraft the episode summaries, isn't that a price worth paying?

Especially if it stops being updated. This was an intentional stopping point for the author, so it should remain as such.

Lots of artwork or literature exists in unfinished form. They should remain as such for historical posterity.

Re: Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (1999)

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Post by ETH_start »

rchaud wrote: post #237
ETH_start wrote: post #234

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even if it stops being updated? The internet is replete with old sites that are still up but have long stopped getting updates. What made this unique is that it was continuously updated for over 20 years. If the price of continuing that is AI generated content, at least as a placeholder until which time the site owner can handcraft the episode summaries, isn't that a price worth paying?

Especially if it stops being updated. This was an intentional stopping point for the author, so it should remain as such. Lots of artwork or literature exists in unfinished form. They should remain as such for historical posterity.

All else being equal, the later the point in time when the author chooses to stop updating the site is, the more special the site will be.

The question is, is the site more special if it stops being updated now, when it's made up of exclusively handcrafted content, or if it transitions to less labor-intensive/AI-based content generation for new updates, and continues being updated for many more years.

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