DEOSTER | HELP DESK | ABOUT THIS WEBSITE

Why Website?

I love the internet. I've been using the internet for most of my life, but it's definitely been making me unhappier with time. A lot of this is because of things within myself, but most would acknowledge that the internet has gotten tangibly worse over time. I would love a more personal, decentralized internet, and making a little website can, hopefully, be part of that—it's also just a fun project! It will take a lot more than this, however, and I encourage anyone reading this (and am reminding and encouraging myself!) to do more to give the online world back its unique, personal aesthetic. Please make an effort to give up soulless addictive husks in favor of something real. Do your own thinking! Find something special to you! Engage with something taboo and scary and uncomfortable! Do something new! Make something deeply personal and share it proudly!

What Website?

This is a website for me and stuff I make. The major sections are dedicated to hosting and displaying my work. Shrines are dedicated to gushing and collecting information on things I like.

How Website?

Here are some formatting guidlines I will try to stick to:

• Color Palette: This website uses #400017 for the background, #FFFEE3 for text, #FFFB82 for links, and #FF2E62 for links you hover over.
• Dates: YYYY-MM-DD; 24-hour time; Times referenced personally will likely be in Central Time
• Language: This website is currently English-oriented. Non-English text will be followed by an English translation in square brackets; or, where it is convention, a romanization. Names of artworks will be listed in the original language first. Names of people will generally be romanized as accurately and respectfully as I can.
• Images: I agree with Amlux that the internet is best, for a confluence of reasons, as a text-based medium. Text is most often the raw "stuff" of internet communication and media, and often the visual and auditory components annexed to the text through the use of images and video distract or take away from the useful or interesting foundation rather than adding to or enriching it. Nowhere is this a more abundant and clear issue than in the space of tutorials. For this reason, I personally will steer clear of images and video on this website unless they are the focal and main point, showing or communicating something that could not be communicated otherwise. This results in a sort of "brutalist" look for this website which I personally like (and lets me be a lot lazier with writing my HTML!). I want to note, however: not all use of images, gifs, and so on, even purely for shallow, aesthetic purposes, is bad! There are quite a few beautiful websites that go all-out on decoration and look wonderful and captivating. For them, I believe, the decoration is or is at least fundamental to the "stuff" of the website. I do not preclude the possibility that there will be sections of this website in the future that center the aesthetic experience of visiting over a strict loyalty and clarity to the content on display, and you don't get to call me a hypocrite if I do that! All things in their right places; all things in their appropriate habitats; all things to nourish, enrich, or intoxicate the mind.