I nuked my website!

[dr4b]

"If you think this is bad, well, it's because of all of the stupid people on the net. You can help this situation by punching the next stupid person you see."

I dunno. It's mostly the pictures. I'm so sick of people on the net just taking pictures from my page and doing nasty things to them.

So I basically tar/gz'ed my entire site, downloaded it to my home computer, burned it to a CD, and then rm -rf'ed the directory on the machine it's hosted from.

I'm slowly adding some things back, like quotefile, resume, PP page, whatnot. I don't think I'm going to put many if any of the Bemani things back. The DDR cosplay is DEFINITELY not coming back. Maybe I'll update the Hasegawa page. At least you can't really do much with something like that.

But, yeah. It felt really good to nuke it. Nuke nuke!

Anyway, if you've been linking to things from my site, and something breaks for you, let me know.

Comments

[seishinbyou.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I didn't know people were mocking you and your pictures (from your (now defunct) site). I always knew I was a huge open target for people that wanted any sort of source material to mock anything DDR-wise, but just didn't (and still don't) care.

However, your piece of mind is very important, and if this incesstant mockery is a source of stress and anxiety, then you should deal with the problem in whatever means you deem appropriate.

Thanks for your website, though. I liked the pictures of you playing random Bemani. Heh, it doesn't seem like so long ago you were at Muthos.

[dr4b]

I guess you never saw the DDR Cosplay page? I had this huge page full of pictures of people dressed up as DDR characters, that I'd collected for a few years. It was actually pretty damn cool for a while and I used to get emails all the time from cosplayers and DDR players telling me how awesome it was, how they'd looked at my site to find other people's costumes to get inspiration for their own, etc, etc. I think the page had like 40,000 hits by the time I took it down.

Then out of nowhere, all the sites that like to make fun of cosplayers and DDR players suddenly started grabbing all the pictures from my site and putting them up on theirs like "Look at these pathetic losers ha ha ha." And worse, usually they were grabbing pictures of ME, which resulted in a lot of friends recently sending me IMs of "Hey Deanna, is this you?" with a link to some site dissing DDR players and a picture of me dressed up as Emi or Alice or something. Which seems to be all it was feeding anymore; I don't think people are that interested in dressing as DDR characters anymore.

So, eh. And I'm not particularly into cosplay anymore, and I don't even play DDR that much anymore either.

I'll probly be putting some of my pictures back up -- but I'm probably going to look over sets of them first to think, "Is this worth mocking?" before anything goes up... and probably try to stay away from any unflattering pictures of people at all. Or something.

My gosh, has it been almost a year since I was last in Japan? It doesn't feel that long. I really want to go back. I wonder if maybe I should start trying to look for jobs there. Is it a tough market these days, do you think?