Farewell to a keyboard
Today I say goodbye to something that has been by my side, or should I say, under my fingers: my computer keyboard.
I do not know the exact day I got it or what website it was from. I think it was in 2017 or 18. I wanted a mechanical keyboard that was fit for gaming and typing. It was the perfect fit. I love the angle I can have it at, the num pad, and how easy it is to clean (for a keyboard). Using a hand resting pad under it made it perfect. Only recently after 7 or 6 years of work, it started to have issues with keys registering. The right arrow key doesn’t even work. It’s time for it to retire in a farm upstate and totally not in a dumpster outside my apartment.
In the time I have had it it’s brought me through my second era of Sonic Wik…
Sonic News Network Mythos
The following scroll was discovered in the archives:
Once, the universe was a void only inhabited by Scientia Seminis. She desired to learn things, but there was no one to tell her anything. She proclaimed "I shall grow into a magnificent tree, so anyone can write on my branches." So she grew into the Scientia Arbor, and has grown ever since. At the end of every year, the tree's leaves fell off. This gave the soil food to grow, and men grew out from it. They saw the great tree and decided to write their stories upon in. Scientia Arbor allowed all things to be written upon her branches. Good and Evil, Truth and Lies, Love and Hate, all things are upon the tree's trunk.
Upon one branch were the followers of Erinaceus Sineco. The created and sh…
A Promise
Hello all,
I am an administrator here at Sonic News Network, but for the past year or so I haven't been committed to being one. It is my own fault, I have been occupied with other things. Some understandable, such as work, school, and church. Others more self serving, such as Twitter, Reddit, and other creative projects. I haven't edited in a meaningful way in years. I never check the discussions, read new edits, or socialize with anyone here outside of Discord. I haven't made strides to make the wiki better and instead tried to keep things the same. I am behind on what Fandom has changed, and what Fandom needs to do to make our wiki better. I have not been the best administrator I can be.
That changes today.
Today, I make a new promise to my…
Why am I a Sonic fan? A retrospective of my history with the Sonic fandom
We all have had that moment. It happens when we least expect it, and we do our best to forget it. Yet it always finds a way to pop in our heads again, reminding us about who we were and what we did.
I am talking about those moments when you remember something embarrassing from your childhood. Whether it was something you did with your family, in school, or online, everyone has done something they don’t want to remember. Many people call moments like these cringe.
I have had my “cringe” moments with the Sonic fandom. The examples are almost endless: bad fanart, stupid comments on blog posts, mediocre videos, and eye-melting fanfiction. I have gone back to delete many of these, but the memories will take longer to forget. A question still rema…
All main-space files now follow filename rules
I have been working on this project since April. I had to move over a thousand files over that time. I did this so are policies are not hypocritical. The following are gone from main-space files:
- Filenames starting with numbers
- Filenames starting with "image" or "IMG"
- Filenames starting with "pic"
- Filenames starting with "thumbnail"
- Filenames containing "tumblr"
- Filenames starting with common punctuation's
- Filenames starting with "DSC"
- Single-character filenames that are .png, .jpg, and .gif files
The following may remain:
- Filenames starting with uncommon punctuation's
- Single-character filenames that are not .png, .jpg, and .gif files
I ignored User-space files because those are rarely seen by viewers. If we were to move user-space files that violated…