I'm trying my hardest to stick with Invision Community to work, but this dang thing isn't as easy as Ai told me it was going to be.

AI however did 100% get the old wordpress articles imported into Inivision Community though!

Invision Community's Pages/Articles system is very limited, and I can't get the main page to look the way I want. For Example, there is no way to show a "load more" or pagination on a custom page. I might be able to get it done through alot of hacking, and coding, but for right now the main page is just going to show a certain amount of articles. If you want to view more you'll have to goto the 'Articles' page which will show all, and have pagination by default, ha, so annoying.

I have to manually go through article by article and fix the layout and broken images. It's better than losing all the content I suppose.

I am about to just switch back to wordpress though! Wordpress was so much easier, but we'll try this a bit more. I do like having the option for a community. No one has started reusing the forums yet, but i also havent advertise anywhere really.

Many articles are missing their thumbnails, so I have to go through one by one and add them.

Messy articles that I have to manually edit

We'll get 'er done! Just a heads up if you find an unreadable article!

Marilyn Manson has released a new single called "Exit Wound".

The single will be on his next album 'ONE ASSASSINATION UNDER GOD
CHAPTER 2' which will be out on AUG 14, 2026. PRE-ORDER here.

I loved the chapter one.

Exit Wound is another toe tapper. check it out here:

Okay, lets try this again!
Recently I was browsing aged domains that were for sale, and one caught my eye: MJIFC dot com. To most this would like like total junk, but to me it was a rare lost treasure.

When the internet was newish in the late 90s and early 00's, most of us created our own personal and fan websites. Social media didn't exist, so we had to. I was a big fan of Michael Jackson as a child, so of course I made many fan sites dedicated to Michael Jackson starting in around 1998. I used free hosts because having your own server and all that seemed impossible, and I was a young teenager so I had no money for a domain. Fast forward to 2003 I was an adult and had some money. I wanted to give all my websites real domains, so for the Michael Jackson website i first had Mijac dot net, then i moved to MJHQ dot com, mostly due to being available. I really wanted MJIFC dot com, which was the original Michael Jackson Internet Fan Club domain since 1998, and site since like years before that. By then though the side was offline for years since i think early 2000, but the owner kept it as a blank page or parked ever since.

My MJ site and forum were somewhat active. I would always get annoyed with everyone and close, and reopen, and eventually sold and rebought domains back. At one time I actually owned the MJONE dot com domain, which is an official Michael Jackson domain now for their Cirque dus oleil show or whatever the hell. I had actually had the MJ sites all closed down by the time he died in 2009. I made a few attempts at reviving the site as a music site sometime in early 2010s, renaming Michael Jackson Headquarters to Music Junkie Headquarters, but meh. Sold the domains for good and moved on.

I did attempt to merge all my old forums and restore them a few times, this current merge you're seeing now was made in around 2019-20 which free speech was heavily under attack, so i merged all my old forums into one to have a starting point, but i quickly became bored of that.

Anyways, decades pass and fast forward to a couple weeks ago. I was randomly browsing domain auctions and saw the MJIFC dot com domain which instantly caught my eye. It was the cherished domain from my first years on the internet. I bid on it and won, it was finally mine.

I spent the next week building up a new Michael Jackson site, had a nice logo and everything ready to go. Figured i might as well restore the old forums too, not the merged forum though, i wanted the original MJ only forum, so i found a back up from 2008-09, and spent nearly an entire week trying to get it to upgrade to the latest versions of Invision Community. Made several attempts and finally got it working. Renewed my Invision license, and bought a $40 skin.

It was looking nice, but by then all the nostalgia wore off. I remember how I hated running the Michael Jackson site back in the day, how i didn't get along with man, but in their defense i was a mentally unstable weirdo (was before i discovered alcohol and my hormones settled down, or something, ha), and in reality, i didn't listen to Michael much before he died, and haven't listened to him all that much since.

Once the excitement wore off, I realized i didn't want to make another Michael Jackson site, at least not a community, and i don't see much of a point really. He's been dead for a while now, hype from the latest movie is going to wear off and I just don't know. I do want to make an archive of all my sites, and history with MJ and such, so maybe i'll still use the domain for that I don't know.

Anywho, I spent all this time and money on renewing the license, buying a skin, and so on, i might as well use it. Grunch is one of my most cherished domains, and it worked as my non-personal blog. I just don't write that much anymore, and it was barely ever updated, so I figure why not just move the old merged and restored forum from 2020 to it (combined almost all of my previous attempts at forums into one: MJ forum, damnidunno forum), and we'll just see how it goes.

Invision Community 5 has a site cms built in now, so I'll see if i can update the main page to look like a blog. We'll see what happens, and I'll just restore the wordpress site if it doesn't work out. no big deal.

So if you're into these old forums, want less moderation, this will be the place for you!

I am using our current logo, but going to try to work on something new.

Going to give the pure forums another go. so yippey. i'll write something longer soon. I thought that i could write an article, but my sleep shit just kicked in ,haha.

Looks pretty cool, and there are going to be two versions of the game: Standard, and Phantom.

The game will be released on October 10th, with open beta's starting next week. I hope to be streaming it.

edit: I know I said that I wasn't going to prepurchase the elite, or premium editions. But i never said anything about the Phantom Edition. haha.

Marilyn Manson just released a cover of Phil Collin's classic hit "In The Air Tonight".

In anticipation of his upcoming 2025 One Assassination Under God Tour, iconic rock legend MARILYN MANSON has revealed a cover of luminary musician Phil Collins’ seminal song "In The Air Tonight." The single has been released with the B-side track "As Sick As The Secrets Of (Sleep)" on a Maxi Single CD, which sold out in just 4 hours. The tracks are available for streaming everywhere now.

I think it's pretty good, and has more of an eerie feeling than the original. You can check it out here:

I've been searching for some new mouse cursors for windows for years now. I've been using the same o  D Yungas ones for a decade now, and want to try something new. The problem is, unlike the old days, customizing the look and feel of Windows is not a big deal to most anymore. So new skins and cursors that are actually decent rarely are created anymore. You can download the D Yungas Cursor pack here.

My Comment on the D Yungas cursors. Damn, i have been using them for over a decade :oÞ

D Yungus Cursor

After searching, and searching, I finally found some mouse Cursors that are different, yet really nice looking. Also, they are basic .cur files, so you don't need a special program like CursorXP to use them, they just work on any modern version of Windows. They are called "Gami" because they're meant to look like origami. I admit the idea does sound stupid, but they do look really nice. The colors and animations are really good. I've been using them for a while now, and thought that I should share.

You can download them from DeviantArt here: https://www.deviantart.com/raylark/art/Gami-926173327

The set comes in 3 sizes: 32px, 48px, 64px. From the page:
Description The goal of this cursor was to see if I could make a convincing origami cursor. I think it's still rough, but some of the ideas worked out really well.
Compatibility - Windows 7, 8, 10, 11 What You Get - 15 .cur files (each can scale to 32px, 48px, 64px) - 2 .ani (animated) files (for each size: 32px, 48px, 64px) - install.inf - readme.txt
How to Install 1. Download and extract [cursor].zip 2. Open the extracted folder 3. Right click "~install.inf" file 4. Click "install" 5. Navigate to Settings > Devices > Mouse > Additional Mouse Options > Pointers 6. Select the desired Scheme from drop down menu 7. Hit "OK"  

I'm really enjoying them.

Using cursor while composing this post. tee hee.