Welcome to my little, very prototypical, website!
This website is 
, what's your's?
This website produces around 0,16 g of CO2-equivalents per view
Is that a lot? Well, it depends. For such a basic and trash website, it sure is not very efficient and I would guess it mainly comes from the size of the images that need to be loaded. Does it make a tangible impact? Not really. I barely get 50-100 views per day and maybe 20-30 "unique visitors". And I would guess most of these are web crawlers (do they need to load less data than real people? I would think so, but have no idea to be honest). Compare that to things like old.reddit.com with 0,09 g CO2e per view or the new reddit.com with 0,35 g CO2e per view.
Yeah, old reddit might produce only around half of the CO2e compared to my site (honestly positively surprised; I knew the old reddit was lightweight but not THAT lightweight), but even old reddit has a whoooole bunch of people who use it. And I don't have to tell you how many people visit the new reddit (if only because they don't know of the superior old.reddit.com, which - as I now know - is not only superior in usability and look but also in their carbon footprint).
Random indie pages to visit
(I'm sure they're all very cool)
The clearly very cool cliques and webrings I'm in that you verily may be a part of
I Play The: Hurdy Gurdy
The hit counter
This counts how many times this particular page has been visited. If you come here three times, it'll count up by three. No clue if this is more accurate than the built-in Neocities hit counter (according to that [state 25.08.26] I've already had more than 30.000 visits, which I don't believe have been real people looking at my site. Bots, maybe, but deffo not real peeps.)
About Me 
(I'm and currently feeling 
vs the internet's 
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Gaming
- Have I sunk around 280 hours into X4 Foundations in the past one or two months? Yes! I came back to the V9.0 Diplomacy update and it's just soooo good to have this new mechanic. Finally, can faction relations alter outside of big story-missions and you can even have a proper influence on that, too! Don't like that Split and Paranid have become friends? Sow some suspicion and, if your agent survives and succeeds, see them go to all-out war against each other. You can even instigate attacks on specific stations and, conversely, request a new station for a specific ware to be built in a sector of your choosing.
- I'm on-off playing Half Sword with increasingly difficult weapons and "permadeath" rules. My first victory against the Baron was with a long pollaxe. Then with a casted mace. Now I'm trying my hands at longsword only
- I really, really, really like Abiotic Factor. Unfortunately, I began playing Cairn probably a few dozen hours before I would've finished the game and now I need to kick myself in the butt to start it up and finish it.
- I prettie'd up my new keyboard! You can see it here!
- Play Voices of the Void!!! There really is very little I can tell you about it without spoiling most of the fun. If you like job-simulator games and sloooowburn atmospheric horror games, you'll absolutely love it. Click here If you wanna see a slight spoiler of the kind of things you can expect to experience. There's been a big update a short while ago, which heavily improved on many of the game systems. And since updates are few and far between, now is the best time to play it! Oh, one thing I can say: Get the community broadcast radio and TV channels, it's so fun to play the game, knowing that other people who play it right now as well are listening to or watching the same shit you do.
Hurdy Gurdy Stuff
This is my current instrument, which I bought second-hand. For anyone familiar with luthiers, this one was most likely made by more of a hobbyist, from what the gurdy community could figure out. I still like Count Gurdula very much, even if they have a couple quirks.
I have ordered a new gurdy and will probably get it in March 2027!
It's this Aplo from Ancestore, with added soft case for transportation and electronics (passive piezo). I wrote a more detailed thing here
The latest song I learned to play okay-ly is a/the(?) Chapelloise(sp.?). I was inspired to learn it because the medieval band we hired for our wedding played it during the group-dance and it's really catchy. You can find one rendition of the Chapelloise here on ThinePipe.
Nature things I find interesting
I found this cute painted rock while walking my dogs. It just lay there on the street, so I picked it up and gave it a nicer rest with these purple flowers. Don't worry, whoever put it there in the first place will still be able to find it. It's just a meter or so away from its original spot.
Also, check out this pretty butterfly. Apparently it belongs to the species Vanessa atalanta, also known as Red Admiral. I wasn't aware that I stood in the presence of a high-ranking officer. Probably explains why it just aura farmed instead of fleeing from me.
