So i always dreamed of owning a Vewlix arcade cabinet but holy shit, the prices of getting a real one is insane! Like probably USD$3000+ not including shipping and taxes and fees and shit. They look like this:

I figured i’d get a Chewlix instead, a China made clone that’s the next best thing. The best i could do for now.

This popped up in my youtube feed there other day and i just got done watching it. What a nostalgia trip.

Great doc, check it out if you have the time.

I was always more of a TechTV fan than a G4TV fan. But then the G4techTV merger happened and totally fucked the TechTV side of things. TechTV was the shit.

I remember really hating Kevin Pereira. Got me thinking about the time i posted about it. And now with the old TJNR posts restored, we can go back in time and see what was said 20 years ago, along with all the original comments!

20 YEARS AGO. wtf.

How has it been 20 years? Time is a bitch.

Ok so the site is up. I got the old DLT forum (circa 2006) up.

The old TJNR boards (circa 2004 – 2006) are also back up. I posted about the other time i managed to restore it back in 2017. Check that out for a bit more info on that board.

So yeah, i think that’s pretty much it for the restoration..! The site and forum(s) are back online!

One thing i couldn’t fully restore were all the forum and board avatars. I do have a backup of all the TJNR era avatars though.

I dumped that backup into a folder and put together a little script that will display all the avatars onto a single page. You’re gonna wanna see it.

You can check it out over here. The 2000’s were something else man.

As you might remember, the site has gone through quite a number of domain names.

Started off with badinagoodway.com

Then it became thatsjustnotright.com

And now it’s dontlinkthis.net

I used to also have dontlinkthis.com but i stopped renewing and gave that one up (why did i stick with .net and not .com? i have no idea)

dontlinkthis.com is currently for sale for $3,395.. wtf.

I originally had to change the domain from BIAGW to TJNR after switching hosts because my host (solosier.com at the time) was the one that bought the BIAGW domain for me, so it was technically his and not mine, and he wasn’t willing to sell it to me after moving out.

Had to move because the site was outgrowing it’s hosting and kept bringing down his server.

So i moved out and got thatsjustnotright.com.

Solo once posted about the BIAGW domain. Somebody else wanted to take it over.

I also kept trying and asking if he would be willing to sell the domain to me every few years or so. No luck. But i kept stalking that domain for years and saw that it was eventually scooped up by some dude in China. Damn.

So i kept stalking and stalking, hoping that the registration would expire someday and the China dude would forget to renew the domain.

And that day finally came (in 2017) and i was finally able to buy back the badinagoodway.com domain name.

It’s currently point to this site, so you can get to DLT either through dontlinkthis.net or badinagoodway.com.

I wonder if i can get thatsjustnotright.com back.

Yup, that’s right. The site is back up! Managed to get the blog restored on a new server and host! Currently still working on getting the forums back up. But everything should be back to how it was before.

So back in January 2021, the site actually died (for real this time, after numerous fake and ‘real’ deaths over the years).

The server the site was hosted on suffered a fatal hardware error sometime in 2018 which left me with no access to the cpanel backend to make a backup and i had no way to move the site out. That old server was essentially abandoned by my old host over the years and it finally crapped out in January 2021.

Turns out that old hosting company got bought by another hosting company and the new management pretty much just left that server to die?

I got in touch with the them and asked if i could get a backup of the site files and databases.

$100! But you can’t put a price on 20+ years of memories.

So i paid up. Anything to get the files back.

They found it though! And i wanted everything.

Long story short, i got back everything i needed. It was just a matter of getting everything restored *someday*.

Well, turns out that day was today!

After a bunch of trial and error, setting up xampp on my PC and getting an offline copy of the site restored, i decided to buy some webhosting and see if i could restore everything for real.

And that’s where we are now!

One thing i couldn’t restore was the old layout.

That old template from 2007 just doesn’t work with the latest version of wordpress but i found something close enough, which is what you’re seeing right now. Maybe i can try get the old layout to work again? We’ll see. But this’ll have to do for now.

And you know what? Going forward, i’m gonna actually start using this thing more. I know blogs are pretty much dead and things will never be like they were in the early 2000’s but what the heck. Might as well put all this effort to good use. I’m going to start posting just random shit every now and then like back in the day.

Not having this stupid website up online these past coupla years, felt like i lost a part of me.

But now i feel whole again. Feels good man.

I’m still alive! And this site is still dead! One of the worst things about 2020 is the fact that Covid-19 made Avril Lavigne and Billie Eilish cancel their Asia concert tour dates which i would’ve totally gone to. But hey, maybe they’ll try coming around again in 2021. If everything ever gets back to normal by then.

My favorite pic of these two lovely ladies:

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So how’s everybody doing? Like really, how are you guys?

Me? I’m all good. Married, two kids, same job for the past 15 years. All is good.

Oh and i turned 40 this year. (What. The. Fuck.)

Time flies man, time flies.

If anybody’s reading this, as always, thanks for still coming around and keeping this site alive in your memories. Say hi in the comments so that i know you’re still alive.

It’s less than 30 minutes until the new year rolls over on my side of the world. Have a good new year’s eve all.

Here’s to a better 2021!

If you’re seeing this, it means the site is somewhat still functional. Posting still works, and i’m pretty sure commenting still works too. It just takes a really long time for comments to go through (just give it like half a minute), because the server the site is hosted on is just broken beyond repair.

Contacted my host multiple times about it and they haven’t done jack shit to fix things. They don’t care, and i guess i don’t really care either lol. I can’t even remember when i last paid for the hosting. The back end is so broken, i can’t even get into the payment portal thing to send payments even if i wanted to. Host doesn’t seem to care either.

Unfortunately, this also means i’m unable to make a proper backup of the site if i ever wanted to move to another host. But eh, i guess having the site still up for free (albeit in a broken state) is better than nothing (or at least better than paying to keep a dead website up).

Anyhow, nothing much to report on. I still love Avril (waiting for her next tour in Asia), Titanic is still my favorite movie (I’ll never let go) and i’m still bummed Winona Ryder never properly got her boobs out.

Do me a favor. If you’re reading this, try leaving a comment. Ask me anything or whatever. I just wanna see if commenting still works for anybody else.

(I’M PRETTY SURE IT STILL WORKS, IT JUST TAKES A LONG TIME FOR COMMENTS TO GO THROUGH)

You could almost say it was a fappening.

I lazily posted about it here and this was one of the initial list of names rumored to be involved in the leaks:

Aly and AJ Michalka, Aubrey Plaza, Abby Elliott, Avril Lavigne, Amber Heard, Brie Larson, Candice Swanepoel, Cara Delevigne, Emily Ratjakowski, Farrah Abraham, Gabrielle Union, Hayden Pannettiere, Hope Solo, Hillary Duff, Jenny McCarthy, Kayley Cuoco, Kate Upton, Kate Bosworth, Keke Palmer, Kim Kardashian, Kirsten Dunst, Krysten Ritter, Lea Michele, Lizzy Caplan, Mary Kate Olsen, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Rihanna, Scarlet Johansson, Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, Wynona Ryder, Alison Brie and Dave Franco.

I bolded the one that i really wanted to see. And pretty much all of them except for Selena Gomez and Winona Ryder got leaked. Still bummed there was no Winona Ryder stuff. SO BUMMED.

Anyhow, one of the hackers is going to jail for his efforts. What a hero. Thanks for all the faps.

But now, i have all 5 of them!

And i still don’t have a record player!

I now await her sixth album and its eventual release on vinyl.

Will i actually ever own a record player?

Probably not.

I really like Avril Lavigne. More than any other artist out there. She was the only artist i had on my itunes music library back in 2011 and she’s still the only artist i have on my phone right now in 2018.

Went to see her show in Kuala Lumpur in 2012. I had this to say about it in the comments of that linked post:

i’m back home. concert was great.

some chick standing next to me actually fainted. lol.

i took her spot after her friends carried her off.

avril was hot. tight leather pants, visible bra.

i dreamt about her that night after the concert.

i love you avril lavigne.

i’m gonna buy some posters of her off of ebay, frame them and hang them on my wall.

I actually did buy a poster of her off ebay too.

And the point of this post: i recently got all her albums on vinyl. And i don’t even have a record player!

Actually i’ve been collecting a lot of vinyls lately, mostly videogame stuff and i recently got the alien sountrack on vinyl (cover artwork is awesome), but Avril’s are the only ones i have of actual music artist people.

And look at these things! So beautiful!

Just waiting for her 5th album to drop on vinyl and her eventual 6th one.

Remember the time when people thought that i was Avril Lavigne on the internet?

I used to get stupid amounts of IMs (RIP AIM) and e-mails from people thinking i was her because i had pictures of her all over my site’s layout at one time.

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To: psykotik@gmail.com
Subject: What up!
From: RIDEEMBULLS69@aol.com
Date: Thu, Jul 18 2002 6:50:58 AM EDT

just wanted to say whats up and that I really like your music write back

David

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To: psykotik@gmail.com
Subject: fan
From: Lilbigin04@aol.com
Date: Fri, Jul 26 2002 1:33:39 AM EDT

hey my name is bill i’m 18 years old i jus want to say i think your cute and i like you music

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To: psykotik@gmail.com
Subject: re
From: Irving Hughes hyperthunder2003@yahoo.com
Date: Sun, Aug 4 2002 12:42:42 AM -0700 (PDT)

u don’t know me but u are just like me don’t give a shit what the fuck other peoples think ’bout the way i am. just e-mail me anytime. i’m also 16 and single.

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To: psykotik@gmail.com
Subject: yo Avril
From: “chelly” chelsea_rox67@hotmail.com
Date: Mon, Aug 19 2002 2:33:53 PM -0600

Avril am I actually sending u an e-mail. Iknow u probaly hear this alot but i’m your #1 fan i tell u .I know everything about u .Didn’t u see me there when u were at the MMVAs .I saw u I put my hand out with a paper but u didn’t even see me when I was screaming your name out.I went there only to see u.Cause I don’t really like the other singers besides Sum41 .Still I don’t like thrm better than you .I am a memeber of all your fan sites .Anyway I saw that contest that you have ,I entered it I hope I win.

P.S your the best singer I know.G2G(gotta go )sk8er gurl.

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To: psykotik@gmail.com
Subject: whats up
From: “april” aifaas@chorus.net
Date: Tue, Aug 27 2002 8:50:57 PM -0700

hey avril ,my name is matt i just wanted to say whats up and to talk my screen name is nosinjection458 and fazzio35d my email is fazzio35d@netscape.net and/or nosinjection458@netscape.net IM me or email me plz

bye
matt

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To: psykotik@gmail.com
Subject: Keep it up!
From: Bri4dz@aol.com
Date: Thu, Sep 12 2002 10:06:28 PM EDT

I enjoy the music kiddo, keep it up…
Good luck in the future…

Brian L.

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To: psykotik@gmail.com
Subject: YOOOOOOOOOOOO
From: Rockrulez2400@aol.com
Date: Fri, Aug 23 2002 11:58:46 AM EDT

U R VERY KOOL
UR SONG ROCK
WRITE BACK
KK CUZ I GOT NOTHIN TO SAY

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people also thought i was avril lavigne on AOL instant messenger:

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Snowsurfer700: Hey, umm, sorry to ask, but who’s this?
psykotik2k: avril lavigne
Snowsurfer700: Seriously?
psykotik2k: seriously
Snowsurfer700: oh….crud…i’m sorry…one of my friends told me to im this person
psykotik2k: yeah? what did s/he say?
Snowsurfer700: He just said “Oh, im this person” i asked who it was, they said find out yourself…
psykotik2k: oh ok
Snowsurfer700: crud…this is seriously Avril Lavigne?
psykotik2k: yes this seriously is avril lavigne!
psykotik2k: sorry if it takes me a while to respond. i have like 13 people IMing me at the same time
Snowsurfer700: lol it’s no problem….how do they all know ur im n e way?
psykotik2k: it gets around

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PunKSk8eR678: hi
PunKSk8eR678: hello?
psykotik2k: hey
PunKSk8eR678: are you seriously avril lavinge?
psykotik2k: yeah, i’m seriously avril lavigne
PunKSk8eR678: is it cool to be a “big star” or does it kinnda suck?
psykotik2k: yeah, it is. well except for the fame part
psykotik2k: i have like 16 people IMing me at the same time right now
PunKSk8eR678: gotta suck eh?
PunKSk8eR678: i guess i wish i was famous just a lil
psykotik2k: yeah, you have to work it though. it doesnt happen overnight
PunKSk8eR678: i kno
PunKSk8eR678: btw why is your buddy icon say “whore”?
psykotik2k: oh. that’s just a picture of one of my BIGGEST fans
psykotik2k: i thought her icon was cute
PunKSk8eR678: oh
PunKSk8eR678: ic
PunKSk8eR678: its kinnda cool though
psykotik2k: yeah, she’s really mean though
psykotik2k: suzi onCRACK
PunKSk8eR678: im not mean!
PunKSk8eR678: lol!
psykotik2k: that’s her screenname
PunKSk8eR678: thats weird
PunKSk8eR678: can i tell your Sn to one of my friends?

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Sassykat3287: avril lavinge!!!!!!!!!!1
Sassykat3287: omg!!!!!!!!!!!11
psykotik2k: hey
Sassykat3287: ur so cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
psykotik2k: thanks
Sassykat3287: teach me how to be cool
psykotik2k: wear ties
Sassykat3287: okay i mean i bought a studded belt yesterday from pac sun… does that mean i’m punk now?
Sassykat3287: i mean yayyyyyyyyyyyy
psykotik2k: you’re almost there
Sassykat3287: omg.. thats like so totally cool i cant belive it
Sassykat3287: i listen to new found glory
Sassykat3287: n blink 182
psykotik2k: what about sum 41? and treble charger?
Sassykat3287: they’re cool too
Sassykat3287: wooooooooo
psykotik2k: yeah, they’re my boys
Sassykat3287: i named my cat deryck after deryck whibley
Sassykat3287: n my fish avril after u
psykotik2k: you named your fish after me?
Sassykat3287: totally
Sassykat3287: wat color tie should i buy avril?????
psykotik2k: red and black
Sassykat3287: THOSE ARE MY FAVORITE COLORS
psykotik2k: yeah, they’re my favorite colors too
Sassykat3287: ahhhhhhhhhh
Sassykat3287: that’s soooo cool
Sassykat3287: we’re like def soulmates
psykotik2k: sorry if it takes me a while to respond
psykotik2k: i have lots of people IMing me
Sassykat3287: i understand… i mean it must be soooo hard being so popular
psykotik2k: yeah, it is
Sassykat3287: but it’s not like i really know
Sassykat3287: i have to pretend
psykotik2k: yeah
psykotik2k: hey, i have to go now
Sassykat3287: what?!
Sassykat3287: r u saying i’m not popular?!!!!
Sassykat3287: YOU DON’T KNOW ME!!!!!111

Avril and I have a special connection.

Love you Avril.