The House of Hitstun

I Want the Old Internet Back

Friday, March 13th, 2026 at 5:00 am | Image

a screenshot of the 2011 version of the House of Hitstun from the Wayback Machine; its tagline describes it as "One page, no content, tables only, Final Destination"; there are a couple broken plugins but most parts work

Hi, all. It’s been two years since my last post here, and the mainstream corporate–owned Internet sucks now. It’s ruining everything. I can’t even read the news anymore without disabling JavaScript. Even the current hitstun.net is now throwing nagging visitors to log in to Tumblr. I’d like to make a new web site at hitstun.net in PHP, free of intrusive scripts, cookies, and tracking. Msx2plus’s site is a great example. Wiby is a search engine that only indexes sites like that.

These days, I’m mostly active on PieFed, but my family and friends didn’t follow me there. I’ve switched from Android to /e/OS, from Firefox to LibreWolf, from Chrome to Cromite, from Reddit to Mbin to PieFed, from Twitter to Mastodon to Sharkey, from Authy to Ente Auth, and from Facebook to nothing. I wish Twitch and YouTube had some decent competition. I’m sure I’m forgetting some changes. Please come find me.

Source: my old web sites The House of Hitstun, archived from 2011 and PsychoMage’s Game Room, archived from 2001

Hitstun
Hitstun
@hitstun

I’m Hitstun. I run the place.

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Where’d Hitstun Go?

Wednesday, March 13th, 2024 at 9:44 am | Image

I’m OK! I’m mostly on Kbin and Lemmy and a little Mastodon and Discord. They’re like if Reddit or Twitter were general Internet services like email and not getting ruined by a dumb CEO. I don’t use other platforms much unless I’m checking on someone who only uses one platform.

Today is my birthday and people are visiting my old profiles today, so this post is for them. Family and work are keeping me plenty busy and I haven’t been keeping up with everybody else like I should. These crossposting WordPress posts are too much work and don’t really reach people anyway. Floating Is Fun is way easier to do. I really miss my weekly Twitch stream and I am planning my return as soon as my schedule allows for it. I have a lot to figure out, but I want to be there for everyone who wants to see me. Let’s play chess sometime.

Source: myself on fedia.io? I need to find a better way to do this.

CrystalForce & NutellaFrenchToast – The Concept of Plastic Love

Sunday, March 19th, 2023 at 6:29 pm | Audio

Sometimes, SiIvaGunner’s crack team of mashup artists goes beyond the memes and makes something that’s really good on its own. This one combines Hideki Naganuma’s The Concept of Love from Jet Set Radio Future, Mariya Takeuchi’s Plastic Love from YouTube recommendations, and a few other songs. This was made for the final round of SiIvaGunner’s King for Another Day Tournament, which DJ Professor K won. I keep coming back to this banger, so it’s good enough to post here!

Source: Bandcamp and YouTube via YouTube Music/Google Assistant “play some music”

Mastodon – Crack the Skye

Thursday, January 5th, 2023 at 4:00 pm | Audio

Because it’s an all-time great metal album and totally not because I just joined the fediverse as @hitstun@computerfairi.es . My posts like this one will continue to appear in all the usual places for now. But, I’m not going to stay active on a site like Twitter when an idiot billionaire tears it apart and ruins it for everyone.

Source: Mastodon via YouTube Music

Tom Scott – How much helium does it take to lift a person?

Tuesday, September 13th, 2022 at 5:00 pm | Video

About 1 liter of helium per gram of lift. To his credit, he says that right at the start, so it’s not clickbait. Anyway, I’d be remiss if I let this popular video go unmentioned here. We just found out about the Aéroplume in France which lets visitors strap into giant balloons and fly them around inside a WW1 giant airship hangar. It’s entirely powered by the user rowing themselves around with big wings like a kayak. Very simple, but I really want to own one of these someday.

Source: Tom Scott via YouTube subscription and /r/MealtimeVideos