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Mischa's Cursed Webring

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Re: Mischa's Cursed Webring

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Post by htkyoholk »

SamBam wrote: post #18
muybasado wrote: post #4

Interesting project, however it seems it has a certain bias against a peculiar demographic, unfortunately this isn't surprising at all. Culture war permeates everything.

I really didn't understand this comment, and you didn't expand, so I assumed that it must have been something obvious and I was too insensitive to notice. So I did a survey of the first 20 sites it gave me and try to categorize by "demographic/culture." Here's what I got: Unknown (math, science etc) 6 Asian 4 Christian 2 Middle America 2 Goth 1 Democrat 1 Irish 1 EU 1 Swiss 1 English 1 So... I'm still in the dark. I…

You should look at what's missing from you list.

Re: Mischa's Cursed Webring

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Post by [deleted] »

SamBam wrote: post #18
muybasado wrote: post #4

Interesting project, however it seems it has a certain bias against a peculiar demographic, unfortunately this isn't surprising at all. Culture war permeates everything.

I really didn't understand this comment, and you didn't expand, so I assumed that it must have been something obvious and I was too insensitive to notice. So I did a survey of the first 20 sites it gave me and try to categorize by "demographic/culture." Here's what I got: Unknown (math, science etc) 6 Asian 4 Christian 2 Middle America 2 Goth 1 Democrat 1 Irish 1 EU 1 Swiss 1 English 1 So... I'm still in the dark. I…

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Re: Mischa's Cursed Webring

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Post by bartread »

dookahku wrote: post #10
muybasado wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Petty.

Why are you salty?

Suspect they think it's edgy to waste everybody's time by making oblique reference to some perceived slight. I can't work out what the problem is either.

muybasado: Please, either speak plainly and explicitly or, if you're unwilling to do so, remain quiet.

Re: Mischa's Cursed Webring

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Post by bpierre »

CDSlice wrote: post #9

I'm not really sure what's so "cursed" about this website? http://www.hytechshotz.com/default.asp The website design is pretty bad but based off of the OP saying "most of them are really deep and demonstrate some sort of twisted brain that was behind each site" I'm not really sure why this one is on the list.

I don’t see how any of these is cursed really. I think it is fair to assume that most of these websites are the product of work and passion from individuals having put some time and effort into it.

One can perceive them as ugly, outdated, funny, or even pointless (I don’t, but it’s not the point). But using a domain like cursed.lol and a vocabulary like “twisted brain” or “fucked up shit” (OP’s comment) is a bit too much on the side of the mockery / disrespect / immaturity and doesn’t belong here IMO.

Re: Mischa's Cursed Webring

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Post by tonyarkles »

mattnewton wrote: post #13
CDSlice wrote: post #9

I'm not really sure what's so "cursed" about this website? http://www.hytechshotz.com/default.asp The website design is pretty bad but based off of the OP saying "most of them are really deep and demonstrate some sort of twisted brain that was behind each site" I'm not really sure why this one is on the list.

Some of these sites are just dope, like this 3d graphing software site https://cursed.llolo.lol/dpgraph.com/ But have hideous design :D

As it turns out, these are real sites that got scraped. http://www.dpgraph.com/index.html works, and it looks like the software is free to download now. I’m too much of a chicken to try though...

Re: Mischa's Cursed Webring

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Post by xook »

bpierre wrote: post #26
CDSlice wrote: post #9

I'm not really sure what's so "cursed" about this website? http://www.hytechshotz.com/default.asp The website design is pretty bad but based off of the OP saying "most of them are really deep and demonstrate some sort of twisted brain that was behind each site" I'm not really sure why this one is on the list.

I don’t see how any of these is cursed really. I think it is fair to assume that most of these websites are the product of work and passion from individuals having put some time and effort into it. One can perceive them as ugly, outdated, funny, or even pointless (I don’t, but it’s not the point). But using a domain like cursed.lol and a vocabulary like “twisted brain” or “fucked up shit” (OP’s comment) is a bit too…

This is it. I was expecting something qyestionable, or even mildly awful. Instead, they are quaint, and full of life. They are outdated only because of current UI trends, not because they are objectively outdated.

I miss the soul and work that went into sites of the 1990s where it was dense information with a point, not thousands of pixels filled with nothing.

Re: Mischa's Cursed Webring

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Post by kid-icarus »

bpierre wrote: post #26
CDSlice wrote: post #9

I'm not really sure what's so "cursed" about this website? http://www.hytechshotz.com/default.asp The website design is pretty bad but based off of the OP saying "most of them are really deep and demonstrate some sort of twisted brain that was behind each site" I'm not really sure why this one is on the list.

I don’t see how any of these is cursed really. I think it is fair to assume that most of these websites are the product of work and passion from individuals having put some time and effort into it. One can perceive them as ugly, outdated, funny, or even pointless (I don’t, but it’s not the point). But using a domain like cursed.lol and a vocabulary like “twisted brain” or “fucked up shit” (OP’s comment) is a bit too…

Respectfully disagree. I take delight in observing these artifacts, it's unfortunate you cannot.
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