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images:
- src: /assets/img/art/nt_sundae_spritesheet.gif
alt: Various pixel art animations of Sundae as a character from Nuclear Throne.
date: 2021-01-25
width: 1080
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images:
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alt: Front-facing bust portrait of Sundae drawn in PETSCII (bitmap/text mode artwork). His hair looks a bit ruffled up.
date: 2023-02-26
- src: /assets/img/art/petscii_sundae-redo1.png
alt: Revisioned front-facing bust portrait of Sundae. He looks closer in style to his reference/model sheet.
date: 2023-04-14
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A hybrid pixel and PETSCII portrait of sunny. I'm quite fond of both versions!
One looks more glossy and true to his model, and the other's got a cute pouty look to his face.
Color palette used: {%ai"https://lospec.com/palette-list/calm-48"%}Calm 48\*{%endai%}
\*The lime green nose is a modification and not part of the base palette.

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images:
- src: /assets/img/art/acnl_sundae.png
alt: Bust portrait of Sundae smiling at the viewer with his eyes closed, silhouette outlined with the colors of the rainbow and then a white outline around.
date: 2021-09-09
width: 320
- src: /assets/img/art/acnl_sundae-redo1.png
alt: Revisioned bust portrait of Sundae, smiling at the viewer with his eyes closed, superimposed on a rainbow flag background.
date: 2022-01-01
width: 320
- src: /assets/img/art/acnl_sundae-redo2.png
alt: hi
date: 2024-10-28
width: 320
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Originally a town flag design for my Animal Crossing New Leaf town.
<figure><img src="/assets/img/blog/acnl_town.png"><figcaption>In-game screenshot of my town hall's flag.</figcaption></figure>

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images:
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alt: Full-length portrait of Sundae propping his left leg up on his bed—which is just a mattress—with his right leg off to the side of it.
date: 2021-12-24
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alt: Poster artwork of Sundae sitting on the edge of a non-descript building's rooftop, with distant skyscrapers and fog looming.
date: 2021-07-04
- src: /assets/img/art/sundae_city.png
alt: Newer version, with more vibrancy in the color blending.
date: 2022-05-22
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Done in {%ai"https://getpaint.net/"%}paint.net{%endai%} with a mouse when I was feeling under the weather.
I used to be extremely proud of this, but since then I've noticed a lot that I could've done better.
When I was switching over to {%ai"https://gimp.org"%}GIMP{%endai%}, I re-imported the layers (with equivalent layer modes) from the paint.net project file out of curiosity, which resulted in higher contrast and more vivid colors.

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alt: Bust pixel art portrait of Sundae as a furred dragon. His eyes are closed with a relaxed look on his face.
date: 2021-08-03
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alt: Bust portrait of Sundae as a furred dragon. He's looking at the viewer with a concerned look on his face, and flopped-over dragon ears.
date: 2021-12-24
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This was supposed to be a full-length portrait of sundae's dragon form, but I had difficulty figuring out perspective, drawing dragon wings and ultimately got frustrated.
I did draw his entire body, but it had some issues, coupled with the ones above.

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images:
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alt: Front-facing portrait of Sundae focused on the right side of his face. He looks vibrant and has glossy features. His hair, nose, eye and eyelid are particularly shiny.
date: 2023-11-09
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Incredibly proud of this!
I used {%ai"https://tombofnull.itch.io/stipple-beast-brush-pack"%}TOMBOFNULL's stipple beast brush pack{%endai%}, which I'd been meaning to try out before.
Inspired by one of {%ai"https://kaitty.com/"%}kaitty{%endai%}'s avatars (specifically from their bandcamp), which I thought was really cute.
It first started out as a doodle, referencing their avatar. Although, I wasn't that happy since the colors I used were a bit flat.
I had spent the next 2 days experimenting with the brushes and color mixing, and it started to really stand out as its own piece!

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alt: Side portrait vector graphic artwork of Sundae.
date: 2023-01-17
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alt: Pixel art animation of Sundae licking the screen
date: 2025-03-18
width: 480
---
I got bored one day and I decided on a whim to make my own lick icon from {%ai"https://www.deviantart.com/sketchmichi/art/Lick-icon-base-201253097"%}Michi's lick icon base{%endai%}.
Pretty happy with it!

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alt: Reference/model sheet of Sundae with a full-length front portrait, T-posed.
date: 2025-02-11
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images:
- src: /assets/img/art/sundae_pride.png
alt: Shaded sketch of Sundae, superimposed on a pink shiny stained-glass background. The color palette is themed around the colors of the Pansexual pride flag.
date: 2023-06-03
- src: /assets/img/art/sundae_hike.png
alt: Sunny scaling a grassy hill on a windy day and holding his hair.
date: 2022-11-20
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First done in {%ai"https://www.clipstudio.net/en/"%}Clip Studio Paint{%endai%}, but I eventually settled on {%ai"https://krita.org/en/"%}Krita{%endai%} and re-drew him there.
The scope of this was originally much large. It would've been a huge undertaking to re-do the background for it, which is why I re-purposed it for pride month.
![Pansexual pride flag](/assets/img/flag/pansexual.svg)

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alt: Front-facing bust portrait vector graphic artwork of Sundae, for the backdrop of the site. The colors are warm orange tones and his eyes are closed.
date: 2023-07-17
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images:
- src: /assets/img/art/sundae_starchild.png
alt: Full-length portrait of Sundae in a glowing blue and pink form with white hair, suspended in outer space; sleeping on the edge of a blue nebula on a space gas cloud that's his size.
date: 2023-07-12
---
I was incredibly surprised to discover that I could create the space background in-program with Krita, just by using different built-in presets from the {%ai "https://docs.krita.org/en/reference_manual/filters/artistic.html"%}Halftone{%endai%} filter.
This is one of my favorite artworks that I've spent time working on!

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images:
- src: /assets/img/art/sundae.png
alt: Bust portrait pixel art doodle of Sundae in monochrome and dithering.
date: 2020-05-06
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The first doodle of the boy, done in MS Paint.
**(?)** I'm not sure when I actually made this, again due to lack of chat logs and file dates.
The earliest I could point to is during 2020, when I made a secondary youtube channel to upload [Cave Story's soundtracks](https://youtube.com/@fosstracks/videos), since at the time, there weren't any great uploads.

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alt: Half-length portrait of Sundae done in MS Paint. He's getting a head pat from a disembodied white hand.
date: 2021-11-18
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images:
- src: /assets/img/art/sundae_cs.png
alt: Pixel art avatar of Sundae as a character from Cave Story, using Sue Sakamoto's portrait as a base.
date: 2020-11-12
width: 480
---

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alt: Reference/model sheet of Sundae with full-length front and side portraits and a list of colors used inbetween.
date: 2023-03-26
---
For this, I took reference from the work of {%ai"https://twitter.com/presswer"%}Dr. Presto (18+ warning){%endai%}, specifically with how they used to create model sheets of their characters, during 2020.
They're a huge inspiration for me to start drawing, and I haven't made proper reference models until this.

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images:
- src: /assets/img/art/modular-vector-shape_bun.png
alt: Modular vector shape artwork of a white bunny wearing a trans pride hair bow, glasses and a pink and white sweater. They're holding their paws up against their face and blushing with their eyes closed.
date: 2023-09-01
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Made using {%ai"https://lvllvl.com/"%}lvllvl{%endai%}'s vector mode, with the "modular shapes" vector set.
A character that I first made in ROBLOX.
They're unnamed, because I haven't done much with them outside of this artwork.
Although, I was surprised how cute I could make an avatar that's not restricted to the default square body that I've been accustomed to for a decade.
Color palette used: {%ai"https://lospec.com/palette-list/cs112-v2"%}CS112-V2{%endai%}
![Transgender pride flag](/assets/img/flag/trans.svg)
<figure><img src="/assets/img/blog/bun.png"><figcaption>Reference screenshot the bunny</figcaption></figure>

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images:
- src: /assets/img/art/petscii_kass.png
alt: Side portrait PETSCII artwork of Kass from The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild.
date: 2023-02-23
---
A PETSCII rendition of a screenshot that I took in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, of Kass looking back at the player.
Color palette used: {%ai"https://lospec.com/palette-list/new-worlds-46"%}New Worlds 46{%endai%}
<figure><img src="/assets/img/blog/kass.jpg"><figcaption>Reference screenshot of Kass that I took in Breath of the Wild</figcaption></figure>

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images:
- src: /assets/img/art/petscii_lurantis.png
alt: Front-facing half-length portrait PETSCII artwork of Lurantis from Pokémon, but with a zig-zag mouth.
date: 2023-02-15
---
This isn't so much PETSCII as it is pixel art, but it's my first artwork that I've done using {%ai"https://lvllvl.com/"%}lvllvl{%endai%}, which is to say that this is done using a bitmap character set, despite it looking like pixel art.
{%ai"https://archives.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Category:Lurantis"%}Lurantis don't have a mouth{%endai%}, but I thought I'd give them one anyway, because they look cute with.
Color palette used: {%ai"https://lospec.com/palette-list/pastel-horizon"%}Pastel Horizon{%endai%}

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images:
- src: /assets/img/art/petscii_sue.png
alt: PETSCII artwork of Sue Sakamoto from Cave Story. The view is from behind them, sitting, looking out from the Outer Wall.
date: 2023-01-16
---
The first PETSCII artwork that I've done before knowing the existence of {%ai"https://lvllvl.com/"%}lvllvl{%endai%}, using a much less user-friendly tool.
Inspired by {%ai"https://mileshouse.neocities.org"%}kiophen{%endai%} and {%ai"https://creature0354.neocities.org"%}lati{%endai%}'s first PETSCII works!
Color palette used: Commodore 64

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alt: Klonoa done in MS Paint, drawn from the side. He's sitting on a ledge, with a hand on his knee and a leg dangling from the viewer's side.
date: 2021-11-18
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alt: Monotone sketch of Klonoa. He's standing, looking at the viewer and waving his hand.
date: 2023-02-13
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alt: Side portrait of qilin Sibuxiang from 靴下猫腰子 (Fabulous Beasts).
date: 2025-01-07
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Yeah, I read the gay chinese animal manga...

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<h1 >Hi!</h1>
<p>I'm <span id="agender">agender</span>, <span id="aromantic">aromantic</span>, <span id="pansexual">pansexual</span>.</p>
* artist
* writer
* audio and video editor
* graphic designer
* web designer

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description: What I've been up to (at the time of writing)
date: 2024-09-16
modified: 2025-05-23
blurb: <p>Invalid DateTime. ha, got you.</p>
avatar: /assets/img/art/sundae_glistening.png
---
<p aria-label="Post warning">WARNING: BORING NERD TOPIC AHOY</p>
I had mentioned on my Neocities profile that I would look into re-writing my website fairly soon right after pushing an update out. Took a bit longer than I would've liked honestly, but it's here!
Actually, it had been mostly finished for a while (since July 1), but I hit a couple of roadblocks (mainly date conversion) that demoralized me from working more on it at the time, as well as some lifestyle changes, like spending less time on the PC and exercising often.
**The most notable things about my site re-write off the top of my head are:**
* converting page elements into `.json` data tables
* rebasing large parts of the page styling
* a larger emphasis on accessibility
### I have no <s>some</s> idea what I'm doing
For starters, porting a website (at least one that's paw-written by yours truly) to a static site generator like {% ai "https://11ty.dev/"%}Eleventy{% endai %} was definitely something, having only dabbled with editing `.html` and `.css` files without hosting a local server.
Initially I went looking around for a base (as to not start from complete scratch) to use and found {% ai "https://github.com/5t3ph/smol-11ty-starter"%}Smol 11ty Starter by 5t3ph{% endai %} and set it up.
I was **very eager** to start working on it, and because I decided to do so late at night, I didn't consult any documentation and thus felt like it would be impossible to learn {% ai "https://mozilla.github.io/nunjucks/"%}Nunjucks{% endai %} (one of the [templating languages](https://www.11ty.dev/docs/languages/) used in Eleventy) got upset, settled down and slept.
### You're telling me that Java scripted this?
I still don't understand JavaScript that well, got stumped on a couple of things, and as a result I took some time off working on the re-write.
Regardless, I had ported over the base layout and most pages, which would be around 90% of the work done within the first couple of days. The last 10% that was left being: having to tackle date conversion with {% ai "https://github.com/moment/luxon" %}Luxon{% endai %}, setting custom filters for Eleventy to use them and forgetting to port a few page elements to `.json` data tables.
Currently, my filters are handled really shittily, but they work whenever I build my site.
Here's how I currently have my filters set up for dates in my `.eleventy.js` file, if you also happen to struggle with this:
```js
const { DateTime } = require("luxon");
module.exports = function(eleventyConfig) {
eleventyConfig.addFilter("postDate", (dateObj) => {
return DateTime.fromJSDate(dateObj, { zone: 'utc' }).toFormat('yyyy-MM-dd');
});
eleventyConfig.addFilter("galleryDate", (dateObj) => {
return DateTime.fromISO(dateObj, { zone: 'utc' }).toLocaleString(DateTime.DATE_FULL);
});
eleventyConfig.addFilter("readableDate", (dateObj) => {
return DateTime.fromJSDate(dateObj, { zone: 'utc' }).toLocaleString(DateTime.DATE_FULL);
});
};
```
Before you ask: No, I couldn't condense it into two filters, I tried. I'm far too stupid.
...For some unknown reason (to me) I don't know what causes the dates to get jumbled up whenever I used `postDate` for dates on my artworks, but I had to make a seperate filter that would read it as an ISO date. Vice versa with blog post dates. Genuinely clueless.
### { % endfor % }
Despite my struggles, I think Eleventy is a great piece of software, it's just that I'm not knowledgeable enough to leverage its strengths to the fullest.
The fault point here is not even Eleventy itself, but just a popular JavaScript library for dealing with time.

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description: hi
date: 2025-05-23
modified: 2025-05-23
blurb: <p>i hate luxon</p><p><img src="/assets/img/blog/luxon.png"></p>
avatar: /assets/img/art/sundae_glistening.png
---
Hi... I spent a good 8+ months not working on much of anything, really.
On a whim, I decided I wasn't happy with how my website was looking, so I've been spending the last week or so working on this as of writing.
### So, what's new?
A lot, actually. For starters, I ported the site over to a fresh build of {%ai "https://github.com/11ty/eleventy/releases/tag/v3.1.0"%}Eleventy 3.1.0{%endai%}, which was way easier than I expected, [since I originally started from a base](/blog/break-time#i-have-no-some-idea-what-i'm-doing).
I figured out that standard markdown doesn't implement header links (without manually adding in HTML with `id` attributes.), so I ended up switching to {%ai"https://github.com/markdown-it/markdown-it"%}markdown-it{%endai%} and {%ai"https://github.com/valeriangalliat/markdown-it-anchor"%}markdown-it-anchor{%endai%}.
I also switched to using {% ai "https://date-fns.org/" %}date-fns{% endai %} instead of {%ai"https://github.com/moment/luxon/"%}Luxon{%endai%}. This library is just way better documented, for someone that still sort of struggles with JavaScript.
Here's a snippet of my time filters in my `eleventy.config.js`:
```js
import { format } from "date-fns";
eleventyConfig.addFilter("ISO", (dateObj) => {
return format(dateObj, ("yyyy-LL-dd"));
});
eleventyConfig.addFilter("readable", (dateObj) => {
return format(dateObj, ("LLLL d, yyyy"));
});
```
### Smaller stuff
I decided to change the presentation of my [interests](/home#interests), previously a shelf with game cases and CD jewel cases, to instead be desktop shortcut entries.
<figure><img src="/assets/img/blog/shelf.png"><figcaption>How the shelving featuring my personal favorite games and music looked before.</figcaption></figure>

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description: Working with Linux
date: 2024-06-22
modified: 2025-05-19
blurb: <p><img src="/assets/img/blog/works-on-my-machine.png"></p><p>whatever i'm using might not necessarily work for you</p>
avatar: /assets/img/art/sundae_glistening.png
---
<section aria-label="Addendum"><p>EDIT:<time datetime="{{modified | ISO}}">{{modified | readable}}</time></p>
With Microsoft announcing that {%ai"https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-10-support-ends-on-october-14-2025-2ca8b313-1946-43d3-b55c-2b95b107f281"%}Windows 10 will stop being supported after October 14, 2025{%endai%}, I highly recommend looking into Linux if your device is on Windows 10 and you don't want to buy a whole new device that meets the system requirements of 11.
Here's {%ai"https://endof10.org/"%}a resource for that{%endai%} if you aren't sure how to proceed.
I'm not paid or anything to mention this, I just think **we shouldn't have to put up with capitalist bullshit to continue using a device.**
</section>
I've been using Linux exclusively for the past 3 months and the switch to it has been pretty fun!
My main "worries" and/or misconceptions before getting into it were:
* the supposed lack of programs and/or games
* learning the terminal
* learning the different directory structure
* issues with my Nvidia GPU
<section>
<p style="background-image: linear-gradient(to right, currentColor, transparent 40ch);background-clip: text;-webkit-background-clip: text;text-fill-color: transparent;-webkit-text-fill-color: transparent; width: max-content;">I had grown tired of Windows and Microsoft as a whole yada yada—</p>
<div style="background: linear-gradient(to right, #d005, #fc2);background-clip: border-box;margin: -3ch auto 0 15ch;background-clip: text;color: transparent;width: max-content;" aria-hidden="true"><sub style="font-size: 1rem;transform: rotate(-2deg);display: inline-flex;">blah blah blah</sub>Microsoft<sup style="font-size: 1rem;transform: rotate(2deg);display: inline-flex;">yada yada</sup><b style="color: darkorange;margin: -0.6rem 0;font-size: 1.5rem;text-shadow: 5px 5px 0 #ff8c004f, 10px 10px 0 #ff8c004f;">SNORE</b></div>
</section>
**You've most likely heard this sentiment before, and no, I'm not any more special with my reasoning.**
So... the hardest part about moving is, well, how would I move to Linux? There's so many distributions of it that I've had choice paralysis trying to decide.
### Decisions
I went to set up a virtual machine to understand what I'd want out of a "new" operating system, so I tried out {%ai"https://fedoraproject.org/#editions"%}Fedora Workstation{%endai%} at first and it felt pretty seamless, I didn't have to use the terminal for much of anything.
I tinkered with it for a couple of days before deciding to look up system/media installers for Linux distributions (that are able to be run on Windows) and coming up empty-handed, cluelessly thinking that somehow only Windows manages to offer one.
...Until I found {%ai"https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Loader"%}Debian's System Installer for Windows (win32loader){%endai%}, which I tried running under a Windows 11 virtual machine to see if it would fail to install, and it didn't!
So I just went ahead and installed it over my actual Windows partition (backing up my documents prior).
<aside>{%ai"https://www.ventoy.net"%}Ventoy{%endai%} is able to <a href="https://www.ventoy.net/en/faq.html">boot from a HDD/SSD</a> if you are willing to sacrifice one (temporarily) to install it on there.
<b>I didn't know this</b>, and I've hardly seen anyone bring up solutions, besides off-handed suggestions about using a flash drive—and every guide basically centering around that notion, but a flash drive is <em>not necessary.</em></aside>
I would <u>not recommend</u> installing {%ai"https://www.debian.org"%}Debian{%endai%} to anyone new to Linux whatsoever, or with the method I used.
Here's a little anecdote:
A number of things went wrong on my first install, like my network devices being wiped off, and as a result, being unable to update my system via apt (I thought that it was DNS causing issues or not having enough mirrors for packages), and then it was unable to boot into my desktop environment, but not before **almost deleting my entire system** because of apt deciding to delete a ton of system packages in the process of trying to get Nvidia drivers to work.
In retrospect, it's pretty fucking funny, but in the moment I was dreading the possibility of bricking my system.
...Debian! But also Nvidia's awful driver support for Linux.
I immediately started looking at other distributions after discovering that Ventoy exists and started reading about Arch.
If anything, at least I got some experience with the terminal, which I thought it'd be kinda difficult to get into hang of without guidance.
Besides Debian, so far I've tried:
* {%ai"https://fedoraproject.org/"%}Fedora{%endai%}
_(Aforementioned in a virtual machine. Overall very solid, might come around to using it again)_
* {%ai"https://manjaro.org/"%}Manjaro{%endai%}
_(Tries too hard being beginner-friendly, needed to tinker to get my Nvidia GPU to work) as of v24/Wynsdey_
* {%ai"https://endeavouros.com/"%}EndeavourOS{%endai%}
_(Works out of the box with my Nvidia GPU, minimal issues)_
And out of them, Endeavour has been the most comfortable experience for me, so far.
I've had to troubleshoot Manjaro a lot, due to system updates not being straight-forward (having to log out of my desktop environment and THEN updating packages via a terminal/tty) and having graphical artifacts whenever my computer would wake up from sleep. I still don't know what causes this.
### The cost of switching
A lot of the programs I was using under Windows over the years were stuff ported over from Linux.
It's personally been no cost to me with the hobbies I have, keyword: <u>personally</u>.
Here's a few programs I used before switching over, that didn't/won't have a Linux port:
* {%ai"https://notepad-plus-plus.org"%}Notepad++{%endai%}, replaced by {%ai"https://apps.kde.org/kate/"%}Kate{%endai%}
* {%ai"https://getpaint.net/"%}paint.net{%endai%}, replaced by {%ai"https://www.gimp.org"%}GIMP{%endai%}
* {%ai"https://www.foobar2000.org"%}foobar2000{%endai%}, replaced by {%ai"https://www.videolan.org"%}VLC media player{%endai%}
* {%ai"https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/geforce-experience/shadowplay/"%}Nvidia ShadowPlay{%endai%}, replaced by {%ai"https://obsproject.com"%}OBS Studio{%endai%}, which I achieved by toggling "Enable Replay Buffer" in the Output settings and setting up keybinds associated.
... that being said, the programs that I do miss using from Windows are:
* {%ai"https://getsharex.com/"%}ShareX{%endai%}
_(screenshotting utility)_
* {%ai"https://www.voidtools.com/"%}Everything by voidtools{%endai%}
_(fast file search/indexer)_
<aside>If you are curious about what kind of programs Linux offers, take a look at {%ai"https://apps.kde.org"%}KDE apps{%endai%}, {%ai"https://apps.gnome.org"%}GNOME apps{%endai%} and {%ai"https://flathub.org/"%}Flathub{%endai%}.</aside>
ShareX is by and large the most useful tool for taking screenshots and packed with some miscellaneous multi-purpose tools inside, both [Spectacle](https://apps.kde.org/spectacle/) and [Flameshot](https://flathub.org/apps/org.flameshot.Flameshot) felt a bit lackluster in comparison.
Despite that, I've been using Spectacle and it's pretty good if I look past that.
Everything by voidtools is just muscle memory as a result of Windows's slow search indexer.
[Dolphin](https://apps.kde.org/dolphin) can list any file I know the filename of way quicker than Windows ever could.
### GAMING
Linux can run a ton of games with {%ai"https://www.protondb.com/"%}Proton{%endai%}
I'm not super knowledgeable about its inner workings, so I'm not gonna try to sound like I do.
...yeah I don't have much to say about this at the time of writing, I've basically been shuffling 3 games whenever I do play something lately. It's not been bad so far!

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Created my Neocities account!

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title: Version 0
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* Added [Home](/home), [Gallery](/gallery) and ~~About~~
* ~~About~~ contains Pokémon boxes and a small bio
* Added header
* Added buttons to other pages
* Added a portrait of Sunny of his PETSCII avatar

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* Added sidebar
* Added buttons to socials
* Moved portrait from header to sidebar
* Changed backgrounds
* Checkerboard pattern for the outer background
* Tiled icon of Sunny for the inner background
* Attribution:
* [Terence Eden's SuperTinyIcons GitHub repository](https://github.com/edent/SuperTinyIcons) (MIT) - Social link icons, for sidebar buttons

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Working on my [Interests](/home#interests)...
* Added ~~Favorite Pokémon~~
* Moved Pokémon boxes from ~~About~~
* Changed Sunny's portrait to a new revision of his PETSCII avatar

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![](/assets/img/changelog/ver1.png)
* Changed backgrounds
* New vector icon of Sundae as the inner background
* Orange-yellow radial gradient for the outer background

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* Changed [Gallery](/gallery)
* Implemented [CSS Grid](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_grid_layout)
* Removed Sunny's portrait from the sidebar
* Drafted ~~About~~

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* Changed ~~About~~
* Added a collection of games and music that I enjoy
* Added 88x31 buttons to the footer of the page
* Attribution:
* [LaunchBox Games Database](https://gamesdb.launchbox-app.com/) Klonoa 1 & 2 box art covers

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Made a 88x31 button! [![](/assets/img/button/sunbun_a.gif "sunbun")](/)

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* Re-added and moved Sunny's portrait to my [bio](/home#bio)
* Changed [Gallery](/gallery)
* Added sections for original characters and fan art
* Changed [Home](/home)
* Added last updated date
* Added links to section headings

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Wrote more about my [Interests](/home#interests)

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Starting work on a re-design. I fixed a few inconsistencies beforehand

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title: Version 2
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Added a lot of visual flair with to page elements to look like everyday objects, with the exception being: the header, sidebar and topbar, as they're supposed to be UI.
(Examples: notes, stickers, a pin of Sunny, shelving, calendar for artworks)
* Changed [Gallery](/gallery) and ~~Favorite Pokémon~~
* Grid layout should now properly fit most screen sizes

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title: Version 3
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Some considerations were put into making page elements stand out more. I tried to remove redundant CSS rules and HTML nesting when necessary, and tried my best to conform to semantic HTML.
* Added [Changelog](/changelog)!
* Merged Sidebar and topbar into a single `JS` file
* Previously implemented with seperate scripts for each list, which meant that I still had to update every page
* Buttons are more visually distinct and don't have issues with readability
* No more shiny buttons...
* Changed backgrounds
* Converted `SVG` backgrounds to `PNG`
* This should hopefully fix most performance issues on low-end devices, like phones
* Updated my 88x31 button [![](/assets/img/button/sunbun_b.gif "sunbun")](/)

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* Changed ~~About~~
* Updated the look of the jewel CD cases in my [Interests](/home#interests)

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Fixed a couple of small issues regarding mobile view
* Changed [Gallery](/gallery)
* Artworks now work (ha) with keyboard navigation
* Added pride flag stickers to my [art notes](/blog/art-notes/)
* Attribution:
* (CC0 1.0) [treehouse.systems Gitea pride emoji repository](https://gitea.treehouse.systems/treehouse/emoji)

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* Added ~~Jukebox~~
* A page with a music player featuring a pre-defined track list from various video games and accompanying backgrounds that fade-in on track change

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* Drafted ~~Jukebox~~
* I am bad at JavaScript

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title: Version 4
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* Shiny buttons are BACK!
* Buttons now have less intense borders than previously, for readability
* Changed backgrounds
* Different color gradients for each page
* Added new fonts
* Added [Blog](/blog)
* Removed ~~Favorite Pokémon~~
* Moved back to ~~About~~ as randomized on-page-load sprites. It felt a bit excessive to have a whole page dedicated to something I don't think about that often
* Replaced all `WEBP` images with lossy `PNG` via [pngquant](https://pngquant.org/) and optimized most images with [oxipng](https://github.com/shssoichiro/oxipng)
* Fixed weird behaviour with the [`float` property](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/float) on the sidebar
* Hovering over items would sometimes reset the value back to initial. Substituted it with padding on the main and aside elements
* Changed [Changelog](/changelog)
* Changelog is now Windows 98-themed
* Changed sidebar
* Moved to the top left corner
* Moved header text for current page next to the top of the sidebar
* Moved 88x31 buttons to footer
* `SVG` text uses `CSS` rules instead of inline styling
* Changed footer
* Added a sticker to the footer
* Randomized on-page-load
* Added pride flag backgrounds to the footer
* Randomized on-page-load, and are ones that I identify with. Plus they look pretty and my pages need more than 2 colors to look at
* Changed [Gallery](/gallery)
* Centered the dates under artworks
* Updated my 88x31 button!
[![](/assets/img/button/sunbun_c.gif "sunbun")](/)
* Attributions:
* CSS
* [Jordan Scales's 98.css GitHub repository](https://github.com/jdan/98.css) (MIT)
* Footer stickers
* [Konqi thumbs up by Drakonic](https://drakonic.zone/) (CC-BY-SA)
* [Rabbit emoji by Twitter (Twemoji)](https://github.com/twitter/twemoji) (CC-BY 4.0)
* Fonts
* [Urbanist](https://github.com/coreyhu/Urbanist) (OFL 1.1)
* [Rubik](https://github.com/googlefonts/rubik) (OFL 1.1)
* [Pangolin](https://github.com/googlefonts/pangolin) (OFL 1.1)

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title: Version 5
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Re-wrote the website with [Eleventy](https://11ty.dev/). Read the [accompanying blog post](/blog/break-time/)
* Changed image directory
* If you've linked my 88x31 button on your website, it's now located under `/assets/img/button` instead of `/img/buttons/` and named alphabetically
* Navigation works without JavaScript
* [Blog posts](/blog) actually implemented
* Previously, every post was under one page
* An attempt at more accessible elements
* Renamed website
* Going forward, I'm [sunbun](https://neocities.org/site/sunbun) on here
* Changed [Changelog](/changelog)
* Made it look a lot less bootleg-y Win98. Unfortunately the text is way smaller now
* Removed randomized on-page-load stickers and backgrounds for the footer
* I can't figure out a way to change the footer's background without JavaScript's `document.write`. Help
* Drafted the different background colors from Version 4
* Changed [Gallery](/gallery)
* Removed underlined text for clarity
* Changed background
* Tiled white notebook paper lines
* Changed ~~About~~
* Added new albums to my [Interests](/home#interests), removed some old ones

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title: Version 6
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Re-wrote the site, again.
Read the [accompanying blog post](/blog/rewrite-2.0)
* Changed footer
* Merged buttons with [Home](/home)
* Added a few new buttons!
* Changed ~~About~~
* Merged with [Home](/home)
* Headers are now consistent with blog post headers
* Fixed the Pokemon box cutting off at lower resolutions
* Changed sidebar
* Sunny is sitting there, now
* Changed [Blog](/blog)
* Fixed header links not working in blog posts
* Added functionality for blog-specific avatars and image attachments to the postscript blurb
* Removed ~~Art notes~~
* Merged into gallery entries
* Changed [Gallery](/gallery)
* Artworks now direct to their own page, with artist's notes
* Previously, they were a direct link to the artwork.
* Changed [Changelog](/changelog)
* Fixed trailing nests and now processed using a linter
* Made modular with templating
* Previously, everything was written manually under one page.
* Updated my 88x31 button [![](/assets/img/button/sunbun_d.gif "sunbun")](/)
* Attribution:
* [Mat's 88x31 button crawler](https://matdoes.dev/buttons)

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