Cheap knockoffs in games
Can't believe Arcticstorm Studios would do that.
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Do you accept random friend requests?
Getting rejected by your fellow raiders
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Forgetting to mute your mic while gaming
When forgetting to mute your mic gets really awkward...
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Baelin on a good day
Baelin's Route without all the pesky drama and conflict
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Life on hard mode
Rowan battles through his morning routine in The Struggle. This sketch explores the often full-body struggle of depression and how sometimes the quiet act of just being there for a friend can make all the difference. Made with the support of NZ On Air.
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Bargaining for your life in Arc Raiders
When you have something important that the other person wants, will they save your life? Is there any trust left in this world?!
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"Subtle" facial cues in games
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Giving others what you cannot give yourself
Director Alan steals a rare moment amid the chaos of a demanding film set, reflecting on how freely he gives himself to others - while wondering if he’s left anything for himself. Made with the Support of NZ on Air.
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Replaying your worst memories
Rhi can’t shut off her Busy Brain. In this spooky sketch Rhi is visited by the past, present, and future version of herself. Battling against her brain, Rhi tries her best to fall asleep. This sketch is a physical embodiment of what it’s like to get stuck ruminating before bed. Made with the support of NZ On Air.
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When someone loots your key room
Rowan gets cucked, in a loot way.
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"Are You Thirsty?" | Dealbreakers | Ep 1
Gasoline and a stick of butter, what could go wrong.
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Awkward couple arguments
Alan gets caught between a tense fight in TechTown before Rowan swoops in.
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Are girl gamers real?
A stubborn customer refuses to listen to certain redshirts, so Britt and Ellie point him in Rowan's direction.
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The quick fix to depression
When young Charlie gets sad his imaginary friend Gruffles teaches him a neat new trick — Just Smile! This sketch explores toxic positivity and how hanging onto outdated coping mechanisms can hurt not help.
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Bigger = better
Rowan has BBE - big bottle energy.
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Diabolical Game Design Logic
The best (or worst!) in bad game design. Get your fill all in one go with this handy compilation...
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The world right now
In a seemingly normal suburb, Brynley goes about her day work day, but when her phone dies she’s forced to confront something truly frightening — her own thoughts! Foneface imagines a world in which our phone use has gotten very silly, and very extreme.
TW: This video may contain themes of depression, anxiety and mental health struggles.
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Rats in Arc Raiders
Come along with us as we explore the life of being a rat in ARC Raiders.
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Why I choose depression every morning
Sir Alan stars in 'The Menu' — a realistic depiction of the morning choice that we all get at the start of each and every day. Because this is how life works isn't it?
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How to avoid PvP lobbies
Adam and Rowan are looted up and about to extract when Rowan has something to reveal...
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When the quest item won't spawn
Two goblins try and strategise to avoid the death cycle.
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3 Guys 1 Deck
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The problem with being too friendly
People have such a fun time in friendly servers!
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The Viva boys become Rivals
Watch the guys play through a game of NPC Rivals!
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Late Spawn in Arc Raiders
What do you do when you spawn late in Arc Raiders?
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When you miss the prompt
You can't just wait in video games, you need to WAIT in video games. Yknow.
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How to Play NPC Rivals!
The guys give you an up close and personal tutorial of how to play NPC Rivals
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Share to Fedi Button Builder
Someone asked me if there was a share button for Friendica. I didn't really surprise me that I couldn't find one. I'd written one a while back for Mastodon, but it wouldn't connect to Friendica. I figured out why and rewrote my script so it can be extended to theoretically share to any Fediverse platform.
This is all done with JS on the client side. There's no proxy or connector service. I also set it up so you can load a minified script from a CDN.
Right now it only supports share buttons for Mastodon, any ActivityPub platform that uses the same post composer setup as Mastodon, and Friendica.
In fact, I shared this post you're reading right now using a button from the link below where you can configure buttons and grab the code you'd need to drop into your website.
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Playing with mods in Honeywood
Adam wrote this skit just to get a cobra car on set.
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Who is the best NPC?
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Spreading rumors at work
Someone (definitely not Britt) is leaving mysterious and gossipy letters around TechTown...
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Bookface 2.0 Releases!
New year, new Friendica, new Bookface!
DOWNLOAD FOR FRIENDICA 2026.01 & 2025.07-rc
DOWNLOAD FOR FRIENDICA 2024.12
If you're a server admin who is still running the previous Friendica stable 2024.12 and were pulling Bookface from either the "main" or "stable" branches of the repo please be aware those are now targeting the new stable version 2026.01, which will not work with the previous stable version. There is now a separate 2024.12 branch in the repository.
Please note that the Userstyles version has not been updated with 2.0 changes and that project is now archived. Those stylesheets will receive no further development or maintenance updates. If you're still on an instance that doesn't have the Bookface scheme available the version for Friendica Release Candidate 2025-07-rc does work with stable 2026.01.
Okay, so what's IN it? The most noticeable change in v2.0 is that the User Menu and Notifications have been moved to the far right in the desktop layout:
Also, the Search field expands on focus to make it easier to see what you are typing, and if navigation labels are enabled alignment issues with them have been fixed, as has the alignment of the buttons themselves.
When you open the User Menu now your user name appears with your avatar at all screen sizes. Some people have multiple accounts that use the same avatar and it could get confusing as to which account they were logged into when, at some screen widths, the username would disappear due to space constraints.
There has long been an alignment issue with Event Action Buttons if the label text was too long because they were absolutely positioned. They have been changed to a flex layout now, which also increased the space for the buttons above them:
The release for 2026.01 has a dozen changes and fixes. The release for 2024.12 has nearly two dozen. See the Changelog at the end of the ReadMe file for details.
FYI, if you've already grabbed the 2.0.0 release for the new stable 2026.01 please go download it again. There was something that got missed in the Dark Mode stylesheets. I didn't bump the version since it was supposed to be part of this update, I just replaced the release with the fixed version.
This does not affect the release for the old stable 2024.12 version.
Difficult deliveries in the middle ages
A mysterious traveller turns up at ye ol Techtown.
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Channel posts can now be embedded into the timeline
Hello @Friendica Support,
that sounds like a very useful feature, but where and how can I use it?
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Channel posts can now be embedded into the timeline by annando · Pull Request #15448 · friendica/friendica
This PR adds the possibility to embed system channels and user channels to the regular network timeline. Not all channels are selectable, since not all make sense. Also this PR adds the possibility...GitHub
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local.config.php ändern oder sie stehen in der defaults.config.php?
@Michael 🇺🇦 im Log finde ich diese Warnung:
2026-02-04T14:22:53Z app [WARNING]: E_WARNING: Undefined array key "filter_channels" {"code":2,"message":"Undefined array key \"filter_channels\"","file":"/src/Module/Settings/Display.php","line":99} - {"file":"Display.php","line":99,"function":"post","request-id":"6983563d363c4","stack":"ErrorHandler::handleError (272), Display::post (99), BaseModule::run (231), App::runFrontend (595), App::processRequest (190)","uid":"cf0b9c","process_id":6512}
That one photogenic friend
Everyone at TechTown attempts to take a bad picture of Rowan in exchange for a payrise.
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Hallo,
mir ist aufgefallen, dass ich ein paar leere Beiträge in meiner TL habe. Scheinen nur Beiträge mit Bildern zu sein und betrifft nicht alle Beiträge mit Bild.
pixel.tchncs.de/p/River/922869… wird so angezeigt:
troet.cafe/@sudelsurium/115988… ebenfalls leer:
Ist das ein bekanntes Problem oder soll ich ein issue anlegen?
Gibt es etwas, dass dir helfen würde, das Problem besser zu verstehen oder nachzuvollziehen?
@Michael 🇺🇦 Merkwürdig. Der Test von heute ist auch sichtbar.
pixel.tchncs.de/p/River/923161…
Das Bild von Pixelfed oben war zunächst sichtbar und verschwand dann nach etwa 5 Minuten.
Strange new Scholar class
Mr Bettjeman keeps his party in check with the new scholar class which is definitely not completely useless.
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@Friendica Support
Habe gestern meine #Friendica Stable auf "Blutwurz" geupdated (ich musste diesen schönen Namen jetzt einfach mal schreiben) 
Ich nutzte das #bookface scheme unter Frio.
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Dabei ist mir aufgefallen, dass das ich in Desktopgröße einen kleinen Darstellungsschönheitsfehler habe.
Da steht oben jetzt einmal in english "compose" und daneben noch mal in Deutsch, "neuer Beitrag" (siehe Screenshot!). Wie kann ich das vielleicht fixen?
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Friendica 2026.01 released !
Just noticed the new friendica version has been released 
. See github.com/friendica/friendica…
For u3a.social I'll be doing an upgrade on a test instance as soon as I can and then plan for the live upgrade (I'll also want to switch to native rather than docker database).
The nice thing about test upgrades is you get to test your backups !
@U3ACommunities Computing #friendica @Friendica Support #fediverse
Release Friendica 2026.01 released · friendica/friendica
We are very happy to announce the availability of the new stable release of Friendica “Blutwurz" 2026.01. In addition to several improvements and new features, this release contains fixes for secur...GitHub
When you have no ideas left
Rowans got a new box that you can put suggestions in... this won't end well.
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Random Penguin
in reply to Random Penguin • • •Once you enter your server URL and hit the "Share!" button it will try to go to the compose window for your account on that server, under the assumption you're already logged in there in the same browser. Then it will open the bare-bones Compose window, with the page title in the title field and the link in post body. Then you can write whatever else you want, add images, etc. before you post:
One downside is the "Submit" button won't close the pop-up window. It will refresh and show you the submitted post in the full web UI, which will likely be the mobile view in that small pop-up window. If you, as a website owner, don't want that experience for your visitors, you can change the script settings to open the share dialog in a new tab instead of a pop-up window. But I set it to default to a pop-up since that's how ALL the other social media platforms do it when you hit a share button.
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