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It's Quick, It's Easy and It's Free: pouring river water on your laptop
https://tiiimezombie.neocities.org/

tiiimezombie's site hit me like opening someone's locker in high school and finding an entire world taped to the inside of the door. The title alone sets the tone: "It's Quick, It's Easy and It's Free: pouring river water on your laptop." That's a Tumblr meme for a site name. You know exactly what kind of person built this, and you're either already grinning or you will be within two clicks.

So what is it? It's a personal homepage in the truest sense. There's an about page, a now page, a changelog, a content map. There are pages for tabletop RPGs this person has written (dozens of them, many under 200 words, some tagged "faggames" after a manifesto about unapologetically queer game design). There's a full wiki-style autobiography page formatted to look like a Super Mario Wiki article, complete with "Personal tools: Not logged in" in the sidebar. There's a page about vtubers with custom fan art and a randomized Star Wars crawl of insults originally made as a Twitch chat punishment. There are recommendation lists, flash game memories, and a surprisingly thorough history of being a wiki admin at age 15.

What really got me, though, was the page called "OOPS! Trans Gengar." It's tiiimezombie's account of realizing they're trans, written with the kind of honesty that only works on a personal website. They talk about avoiding mirrors, about reading gender-bender webcomics as a kid and not understanding why the protagonist would be upset about suddenly being a girl, about knowing the exact cost of Runescape's gender-change wizard (30k gp). They mention making a "gamer girl" Xbox avatar that was "very quietly what I wished I could look like. Flared jeans, green gamer tshirt, curled hair, small silver hoop earrings." It's raw and funny and tender, and it sits right there alongside meme collections and a TF2 shrine with over 1800 hours logged.

The site is built with jQuery and hand-written HTML, and it shows in the best way. Pages load markdown files through a custom text viewer. The homepage has webrings, a link-back button, a "Would You Rather" poll, and a birthday countdown. There's an adblock detection notice that just says "ublock origin is literally free?" The content warnings up front are honest without being precious: "This website is by me and for me (and people like me). I swear freely, talk about mature topics in my poetry/ttrpg's, and there may be marked links to external NSFW content."

I loved clicking through the TTRPG index. They've been writing micro RPGs since 2023, many for a 200-word game jam. Titles include "Sex with GLaDOS," "Don't Wake Cthulhu," "Chekhov's Unused Peace-Makin' Silver Single-Action Sixes," and "Door To Door Delivery to Dracula." Each one has a self-rating, tags, and notes. Some are marked "bitter" for vent art. Some are marked "spicy" with a gentle content note. The whole table is this beautiful window into someone's creative practice over three years.

The flash games section on the user page is pure nostalgia archaeology. They list games by website (PBS Kids, Veggietales, Candystand, Nitrome, Armor Games) and include memories like the Veggietales donut hockey game and a Lifesavers pineapple adventure game that was "essentially a boy and his blob." If you were a kid with dial-up and a browser, you probably share at least a few of these memories.

There's so much more I haven't mentioned. The anime recommendations with real opinions ("Cowboy Bebop: It's really stylish but like, it feels like it doesn't land for me"). The game dev career history that starts with a Visual Basic summer camp in 2005. The earnest note buried in the vibes page that says "anyone who reads this is welcome to dm me on any of my socials... I've read these kinds of messages and been like 'oh they don't mean me they mean cool people'. I mean you, the person reading this. I like your shirt."

Go poke around. Click whatever looks cool. That's what the navbar is for.


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