RINNISPACE Manifesto
As a child of the late 2000's - early 2010's internet, I was never exposed to old web/forum culture and social spaces. I grew up with friv, various media tie-in flash games, wholesome minecraft playthroughs, early indie horror, five minute sections of anime episodes on youtube, vine, childish wattpad stories, and tumblr textposts screenshotted and reposted on pinterest. Yeah. I was a pinterest tumblr textpost reader. Apparently that was common? I had fun, though. It was nice. An era of the internet that, much like the early web, has been lost, replaced by... Well, we all know. We're living it. ...Social media has been feeling far too much like a hostile, crowded room recently. Everywhere you turn someone is getting at someone else's throat for no reason at all, people are dividing themselves and each other into isolated camps and poking spears at anyone who isn't in their group, further separating communities that once thrived in unity. This doesn't apply to Everywhere. Duh. But... still. It sucks to see the modern model of the internet bring out the worst in people. Every thought you project outward becomes a follower count, or a like count, or a comment count, or a repost count, and if no one cares about what you have to say... ...did you even say anything at all? Were you ever there to begin with? Did your thoughts and opinions matter, or was your passion completely irrelevant to the cold, calculating algorithm you fed it to? It thinks you're just a number, after all, a pair of eyes that might land on an advertisement and generate some company a few dollars. That's a bit sad, isn't it? But it's why the web revival movement is here! It's why a shelter like this is so needed! It's the reason why a tool like Neocities is so so so Important! And I love love love that! Websites are art! People are art! People here share their passions so openly and unashamedly, and i think that's beautiful! I love seeing websites with random stickers and characters and essays plastered all over them, because I know that the people that created said sites did so as labors of love! That's what art is meant to be! In it's purest form, it's just self expression that exists just because it can! Neocities is art The internet can be art, too. I'm glad a place like this exists, that people that know this exist.
The earliest tangible inspiration for the concept of RINNISPACE that I can recall is OMORI.
One specific aspect of the world of the game, to be exact. Headspace, the second area of the game.
It's sort of a dream dimension that the protagonist uses to escape his waking life.
I liked the concept of taking my abstract ideas and making them semi-physical, making my mind a place others can travel through as they wish!
It'll also hopefully help me get my thoughts in order, because I have this nasty habit of not writing things down and forgetting important things about myself!
I completely forgot to add Pikmin to my list of interests! I Love Pikmin!!! How could I have forgotten? Doesn't matter!
I can infodump about it all I want on my website! Another influence on the site are the SEKAI from Project Sekai Colorful Stage.
They're digital worlds the characters can travel to during the story. I think I could call Doki Doki Literature Club an influence as well?
The concept of a computer program being sentient and desiring attention from someone outside of the digital realm is something that connects with me, unsurprisingly.
This message was originally written as an intriduction for the MelonLand forum.
This text will be tweaked and edited over time to better express its message.
RINNISPACE Code of Honor
RINNISPACE is firmly by earthling for earthlings. Any sort of discrimination is unnaceptable to the webmaster and denizens of the site.
Those of whom cannot fathom differing perspectives in life have no business in RINNISPACE. The site does not exist to change closed minds, only to touch open hearts.