Datsunn makes a dope beat with it

I made all the emoticons animated. I'll see (at some point) if there's a way to allow y'all to choose from available sets. That way, y'all can choose either the static or animated set.

Not sure where this resurgence of smooth tunes came from but I love that my favorite era of game console music (Wii) is back in heavy rotation.

Oh shit, Guitar Center has a 25-minute video with Dibi!

I am impatiently waiting for these to be released so I can mod my AEK II with them.

https://kbdfans.com/products/pbtfans-g3

The first one is entitled, "laincore," I'm already sold.

I've never owned an MPC before because of cost and it seemed too complicated. I will purchase the MPC Sample though; all the goodness for $400. What a steal.



Oh, and the product page with tutorials! https://www.akaipro.com/mpc-sample/

These are some decent mixes I found:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ka6MKkvGQI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WEFMBieMXc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnmIzzCLmrU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6niPi2bTmoU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_xmPkh5iIA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgTxuNIEFlM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coZqAEkze2I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq5Q5zUtxUE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5EnxQOh2Kk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPf9xa-KwhY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGcEIGP0DmU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KaBYaQGwbs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKh5eyGE9fs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-3Fhug3sgw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYFrd7Ymcac

And here are some individual songs too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMc4kuUHmhw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNelQb4brhw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89ho2I3pLuQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3H5xGTWZrY

For an alt-root, barrier to entry is an uphill battle. By default, no one can reach the domains on your system and asking people to download some weird app that will let them access said domains is a LOT. As untrusting as people are of existing tech companies, unknown systems/companies are a major red flag for most, especially the technically-inclined. This is why alt-root systems try to work within existing ecosystems/protocols as much as possible; get potential buy-in from curious onlookers with less convincing.

Explicitly adding a new namespace is a death knell, right? Well, depends on your perspective.

On 2026.03.16, L'Oreal won a cyber-squatting case involving more than seven HUNDRED domains using their name to scam people...this is on the default web, the DNS root. You see this in other naming systems like Ethereum and Handshake too, first-movers/crypto enthusiasts who think they'll get a payday by registering domains of corporations. The reason why these particular domains haven't garnered a single sale is because there's nothing being built on those platforms. No reason to go there, no reason to invest.

With Dap, I intend to build an ecosystem of products, a refuge for folks who are sick of the existing web and the endless fear-mongering, doomscrolling, invasive privacy/tracking, &c. I foresee a future where Dap becomes a compelling internet that people choose to build and collaborate and enjoy leisure on...so when I saw that L'Oreal case, I realized I had to do more than present a Neue Internet using existing protocols. Unlike most blockchain-based alt-roots, Dap doesn't respect ICANN; no kings have reserved seating here. As such, opportunists could register .com and quickly setup shop with Fortune 100 domains and wait, giving Dap the reputation of "the squat chain."

With dap://, that possibility still exists but the financial incentive to do so dissipates. Any tech noob will see that and know immediately not to click on it because it's "scary" (different). Tech novices and advanced will understand this is something else and may investigate further.

The internet we currently have was the default and for a time, it was decent. Banner ads were all over the place and Flash widgets made sites slow but we could manage. As technology has gotten better, the internet has gotten worse and even the tech literate are giving up. This isn't the internet I wanted. Evolution happens, sure, but this shit is disgusting. The idea of "changing things from the inside" is cute in theory but will not work here. The corporations making the internet a terrible place to be fund lobbying groups to entrench themselves further through law. David vs Goliath isn't an apt analogy here, it's more like Mega Man vs a consortium of Dr Wilys and each Dr Wily has several boss underlings and those underlings have spike traps and lasers and okay this is basically Mega Man Legacy Collection. So like, not insurmountable but MAN, what a slog!

Dap is opt-in, intentionally.

This self-imposed friction is to remove an easy phishing vector and to signal that Dap is worth checking out, if only to understand WTF it is.

These are more notes to self:

- custom BBCode for Nickel videos
- file/image uploads should just work
- crisp icons for the post editor (probably just use the central icon set from iconists)
- better HTML structure (requires copying files from the default theme into this one and modifying from there)
- autoplay MMBN internet music on load that persists through navigation ala Soundcloud (not sure if this is possible)
- jack-in animation when logging in (how? idk, sounds cool)
- actually, footer text and submit buttons could probably be MMBN fonts
- dark mode (requires custom theme to be 100% first)
- make it so that uploaded avatars aren't limited to 65x65, they could be 650x650 FFS!
- remove jQuery dependency, I could rewrite all the JS in ES6