CREEPINGNET'S UNOFFICIAL DOCUMENT OF ALL THE CRAP PEOPLE CARE TOO MUCH ABOUT (AND SHOULD NOT GIVE A RATS ASS ABOUT) Okay, you asked for it, an entire "webpage" (textfile actually) of the declarations of all the PC and other esoteric crap people care way too much about these days. I call it "Stupid Stuff" - because it really has no substance or bearing on the actual content on this site. This is the only place on the site to see this, and it's made intentionally old school and "hard to read" without any images to retain SOME semblance of privacy about my private life (as well as to test out plaintext files on Neocities).....so without further adieu....here we go... BASIC STUFF --------------------- - I'm married, so who cares what gender I identify as or what my orientation is but my WIFE - Despite the above viewpoint, I DO support LGTBQA+ causes, because why not, they're people too (and generally nicer than the CIS Gender Straight Population). - I am politically agnostic and have no affiliation with any groups or organizations - I am pro choice, kid's can be a life ruining proposition - I am pro gun, because it's not the guns, it's the stupid person who owns one that's the problem - I'm anti-alcohol & drugs, including pot, there goes your druggie rocker stereotype out the window - I hold Christian values, but am not religious, I believe in keeping thy religion to thyself - I am not a redneck, I just have redneck-like traits, but they're based in logic and reason and not "hold my beer" - I hate MAGA, I hate Trump, and his eggman lawyer, and the turtlehead who worked with him, and any of the other 700 club bozos he hired - I'm not a liberal either, though they get less of my disdain, because their only problem is being more concerned with LOOKING like an intellectual, than actually BEING one - Don't like my (Insert_Material_Possession_Here)!?!? - please kindly hand me the money for it, or fuck off! - Yes, I cuss and swear - did you know that people who cuss and swear are more intelligent - it's scientifically proven, google it! - Yes, I am aware there's typos all over the website. I type really fast, but accuracy is probably just above the 75% percentile. - I suck at relationship stuff, but don't ask. I'm not even sure how I got where I currently am TBH. - I probably have ASD, so yeah, I might unintentionally act like an asshole, it's not an excuse, it' s only to explain - All my life, I've been refused help when I ask for it, told to ask for help when I'm struggling, with this omnipresent cycle in my life, I've become more self sufficient than most people, realizing most people are totally full of shit and just want to be liked but don't really give a fuck about anything or anyone but themselves. - You know that guy some "kings" superlative crap shorts on Instragram talks about "he's broken, he jsut keeps to himself" - yeah, I'm that guy, it's not called "toxic masculinity", it's called "I realize the world doesn't give a fuck about anyone, including me, so I handle my own, for better or worse". - I'm a self-diagnosed misanthrope, I'm not fond of humans in general, but I have a small circle of a few who I trust - I'm also not a breeder either, I chose not to have kids, because why put more "Slaves" on the planet to suffer? - I won't expound on the two above on this site - there's just no point to it, this is my ESCAPE - I might be on the Autism Spectrum on a higher level than once thought....as if this site was not a good indication - I hate driving, but I like cars...go figure. Maybe if I had the road 100% to myself, or people could learn to read and comprehend the DMV manual, or use that grey matter between their ears (better yet), maybe I would not have such a firey temper when it comes to comandeering an automobile. - While I champion certain brand's particular products for specific and very logical reasons, I'm not a fanboy. MUSIC -------------- - I play offsets, but I'm NOT A Hipster. - Just because I own a signature guitar of someone elses does not mean I need to play THEIR Music on it all the time, I've played STP on a Hondo Paul Dean and Motley Crue on a Jag-Stang, get over it - Kurt Cobain has been dead 30 years, quit whipping a deader than dead horse already people, it's past the point it matters now, there's no justice, just more pain for people close to him - Also, I refuse to enter into the damn Sam vs. Dave debate regarding Van-Halen, I listen to Van-Halen because of Edward Van-Halen, both eras are great as far as I'm concerned - Stop whining about how it's Wolfgang Van-Halen's "Birthright" to carry on just like his dad, all of us are born to be different musicians who do different things, and thusly, let Wolfie be Wolfie - ask yourself this, would you think his dad would want it any other way? - Also, solo Sammy Hagar rocked, as did David Lee Roth - Sex, Drugs, and Rock N' Roll are a stupid farce. Sex is only relevant to who you sleep with, drugs are stupid (as is alcohol)...let's just take #3 and sit down WALDO! I speak with experience. - For the most part, I hate the 1990's. It was a nightmare decade for me. Music was alright till 94', and Ford made their best cars, the internet was better then, but that's about the best of it. But from 94-99' - you can keep your cargo pants "Hot Topic Goth" and Boy Bands - leave me to my spandex, post-punk, and flannel! I'm happy there. - The 1980's were the best decade, personally, and 1976-1979 are included in that period. Even the bad was overshadowed by the current juggernaut of pop culture back then. People could actually have fun back then. OLD COMPUTERS ----------------------------- - Old computers did it better, I've got a 40 year old Tandy that never crashes, locks up, or chokes on updates - Old computers did it better, I can turn off all the networking software on my DOS Systems with a simple batch file, rendering it an inpenetrable fortress - try that with your 24/7/365 connected Apple/PC - Old computers did it better, the lack of RAM, storage space, and fanciness in the O/S made it impossible for corporations to spy on you for marketing, and if they tried, it was obvious by the loss of system resources - Old computers did it better, hard to hack a BIOS that's not Flash capable - Old computers did it better, you activated software ONCE, and it was yours, forever (or until the next reinstall and you can't find the product key) - The old internet was better, people had "Nettiquite" back then, and lamestreamers were too stupid to join forums and cause the circle jerks and echo chambers we have now - The old internet was better, there was a bar of entry to creating content called "Hypertext Markup Language" - which people had to actually learn. Something the social media sites fail to comprehend I see. - The old internet was better, most websites were run like a personal space and not like some kind of major corporate shindig so that they could be swayed by big money - sort of like Instagram Influencers are now. - Everything was decentralized back then, you surfed on a locally built PC made of Chinese components, running a Microsoft operating system, with software from Microsoft, but also Corel, Lotus, IBM, Netscape, AOL, Yahoo!, or whatever else. Now you get everything from one source, and it spies on you. - If the internet was down, or someone was on the phone, you got offline and did something else - No Cell Phones, so nobody could pester me on my day off/sick day/while I'm out running errands - You could make a basic website using basic HTML and nobody whined about your interface and how "ugly" it is - websites were about CONTENT, not showing off your "1337 c0d1nG 5k111z" on an interface more complicated than the code behind Windows 3.1. - People met each other in public and got to know each other locally, not meet each other online and become surprised that everyone's a big fat liar/flake/moron - When HX gets good enough to run Direct X games from 1995+ - we won't need Microsoft on our old machines anymore. - I'm praying someday FreeDOS fixes FreeCOM or some other elements of the O/S to run in Real Mode enough to allow Ultima 7 to run on it, instead of throwing me "out of memory" errors when I have 600K of 640K lower DOS RAM free. Either that or a DOS port of Exult or U7DPMI. MODERN COMPUTERS/TECH ----------------------- - Seriosuly, f*** SaaS! If it can't be owned and used as I see fit, then it's not for me. - The cloud is nothing more than a glorified client/server relationship where the cloud is the server, and the clients also act half-ass as a server (local copies) - seems like a security hole to me - You don't need a $500 Ryzen Threadripper Octo-Core CPU to surf the web, do e-mail, and look at Lolcats on Facebook - We should allow free speech on the modern internet, of all types, even hate speech, to find out who the fucking idiots are, so we can point them out and silence them as a collective through logic and reason - What's holding modern tech back more than anything now are people who wear suits and ties to work and are looking to purchase another Yacht they don't need - The government needs to incentivize their workers for testing/proving in vital fields for testing software for Aviation/Healthcare/Police/Fire/other-important-life-important functions in a faster manner. One year is 10 years in computer years. - Microsoft/Apple/Google need to look at above and heed to it, ie quit with this telemetry bullshit, quick marketing, make network connections an as-needed thing, not a all-day-all-night thing, and allow administrators full access to modifying the settings and locking them down, and removing these non-essential functions from their "products" - I support OpenSource. I use FreeDOS and Linux. I'm trying to get further and further away from "commercial" stuff as much as I can as I get older. I don't need that headache on both sides of the equation. - I am not fond of "fanboys" of any pursuasion. I find most Apple Fanboys not particularly technically astute, most Microsoft Fanboys are total facist authoritarian assholes, and most OpenSource peeps tend to be elitist - I tolerate NONE of them. Hence why you will never find me at some mainstream computing site (you'll find me here instead). - How the hell is it the State of California can't manage to upgrade their systems for traffic such as Toll Booths and Parking Structures to use modern internet technologies -yet they are the land of "Silicon Valley" - seriously, there's websites out there for parts of CAlifornia still using phone calls, faxes, and Internet Explorer based Active X websites to pay their bullshit additions to some washed out politician's campaign! VIDEO GAMES ----------------------- - I like Five Nights at Freddy's for it's gameplay, I could not give a crap less about the lore - The FNaF Community, at least some parts of it, frighten/scare/weird me out, hence why I walked away - Dragon Quest > Final Fantasy - I consider Dragon Quest and Ultima even with each other, though Dragon Quest has better sequels post 1990's - Yes, I like messed up, wacky, unauthorized hacks and ports of NES Games, they are hilarious, after all, that's all video games are to me, entertainment - The above is also the same reason I like obnoxious and pointless Game Genie codes....me and the GLitch Gremlin are friends ya' see - Modern consoles are pointless, they're just glorified desktop computers anymore with a limited software addtion, except Nintendo....I'm not a fanboy, but they just know how to make something in 202x that's a PROPER console that's exclusive and does something a PC can't without stupid expensive hardware. - I like older games more because they require less time and attention in shorter spurts than some MMORPG online thing or some FPS that needs a $15/mo server fee and requires me to be on a schedule to play it MISCELLANIOUS OTHER STUFF -------------------------------- - Yes, I used to go by "Mad-Mike" as a stage name and username at forums, before that was Mike.J. I dumped BOTH names because the first one was associated with some flat-earther dumbshit, and the other was associated with the guy from Running with Scissors who played teh "Shit Demon" or whatever in Postal 2, and also a stage name that was no longer accurate. So I decided to go by "creepingnet" - my screen name from Youtube for the last nearly 20 years, and that's how that happened. - I Like old cars better, I can afford them, and they're cheaper and easier to fix myself - I don't trust mechanics, I've been basically sodomized by them figuratively speaking too much already - I don't trust Doctors, Dentists, or other "professionals" that much either...it'll be hard to fix that after my experiences - I would love to own a house, they're just too damn expensive - If I had a house, I'd mow my own lawn...that's part of the fun - Modern Vacuum Cleaners Suck - I have a 1989 Oreck XL, that thing has sucked up so much guitar-making sawdust my house smells like a forest when I clean, and it never dies, just passes out from getting clogged by 10,000 miniscule particulates. Our rechargable shark on the other hand....uh....It's more picky than a millennial chick on the rebound. - I'm not particularly fond of Millennials. I hate avacado toast, I refuse to have a moustache without a beard or goatee, sure I play Offsets, but I play 80's music on them, and while I get their plight, I've been nothing but overworked as a result of relentless creative living and am managing better than they are somehow in a lot of avenues. - Here's a fun one, if I lived in California, I'd take a old 2-stroke powered lawn mower from the 1980's on back, put an electric motor and a fog machine in the engine block, disguise it as electric start (to disuise the battery's true purpose), and put an amplifier with a speaker it of the engine running at high volume....and then proceed to irritate my neighbors with a "smokey old Lawn-Boy 2-stroke nightmare" that's actually almost zero carbon footprint! Then turn the fog machine and speaker off when the police come to investigate my supposed environmental atrocities. Maybe do the same with all my garden tools too! Give that HOA Something to think about! - Bigfoot will forever be the king of the monster trucks! - Is it just me, or is the general intelligence of America, especially our workforce, getting increasingly dumber by the minute? And I don't just mean lackies, but everybody. For the last month, I've been ordering guitar parts en-masse to finish off old projects, and I've witnessed some of the strangest routing in USPS I've ever seen. Orders going within a few hours of home, only to end up in an entirely different state on the day of delivery, what the hell? Is USPS hiring Methhead Steve (any Eric Myers fans out there?). He thinks my locking tremolo is the lochness monster? I can't order anything at a drive through without it getting screwed up. The idiots in government can't regulate that food service pays a working wage so I can stop fighting with my wife over tipping for takeout or not, and businesses can stop trying to strongarm us into doing so. Seriously...I about want to live in an abandoned part of Canada...like the Yukon, or those rock formations in the northeast! - I'm seriously beginning to not like the human race as much. While I've been on/off/on/off hiding it for the last 10 or so years, and while it's not aimed at any singular person in particular, my inner misanthropy has kind of grown worse and worse. I think the problem is our society is toxic, sick, wasteful, and totally-not-focused on anything of any substance whatsoever. People don't know how to act in public anymore, and parents don't know how to raise their children en-masse anymore either. It's beginning to affect my ability to do things such as this website and YouTube as well, because it just seems to me that a lot of people are more focused on money and avoiding having any sort of opinion on anything that rocks the boat, versus actually just being their authentic selves. - Yes, I'm a wordy motherfucker, always have been, always will be. That's just me. Take it or leave it. - And I think that's enough now.....seriously, don't you have anything better to do with your life? Any tires to rotate? Dishes to wash? A job to go to? Coffee to make? C'mon! My mom sees this website!