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yes! so i explained this in a comment a while back but i'll post it for posterity (no pun intended)

this is pretty much how it's formatted (pure markdown):

~♥~|~♦~|~♣~|~♠~
--- | --- | --- | ----
![Hover text](Link to image) | [![Image](Link)](Link to site)

the first line is table headings which is automatically centred and bold which looks nice. you don't actually need it as far as i know - only the second line

the second line is a sort of marker that says "hey this is a table with this amount of cells" to the markdown interpreter. the amount of dashes i don't think matters, but the amount of pipes ( | ) does! it tells it how many columns you have. i use four since it fits the 88x31 buttons nicely with minimal squishing

the third is your actual content, which can be pretty dense admittedly. it can support however many cells u put at the second line separated by pipes. the first item is a basic markdown image; the second is an image with a clickable link! a few of my buttons are clickable, too - some unexpectedly so....!

also a little note afterthought: 88x31s work really well in 4-item rows because they don't resize. other images may be resized in ways that don't look right - it's worth experimenting with to see what works

hope this helps, thanx 4 the ask :]

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The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will, one day, venture to the stars.

- Carl Sagan

rechosting this to read it later!

Yep, that’s me! The surge of attention it got at the time was pretty overwhelming, and for a long while afterwards I couldn’t stand people mentioning it, but I’ve now reached a point where it’s just a neat bit of personal lore :)

Here’s the write-up I did a couple years back:

i loved reading this!!! the pure joy of that community 😭🥰 incredible. amazing ❤️ archival, especially in the games industry, and especially in the digital age, is so important. i saw recently that palestine is being erased from some modifiable sources online, and so obviously paper printed atlases or safely digitally archived sources become deadly important in a way that i think really brings this kind of thing into sharp relief. our history matters, our art matters. dont let corpos fucking erase it for profit.

Found this awesome site full of old web button gifs — Link — Flashing lights warning. You can add them to your profile, by just embedding them. Word of warning about the site though, going on it has made my browser crash twice. Maybe my computer just sucks, lmao.

EDIT: I feel stupid for not mentioning this before, but if you’re sensitive to flashing lights, don’t go on the link above. Not all, but a lot of the buttons there do flash colors.