Romance rejection in games
All George wants is a bit of adventure lovin
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Rowan's travel life hack
Rhi has some stern words with Rowan after he forgets to apply for leave.
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Playing a rushed game sequel
Adam and Rowan are excited to play the long-awaited release of Skycraft 2 from Arcticstorm Studios but it lacks...substance.
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We're headed to Europe!
We're going to EUROPE! 🇪🇺
We’re heading to Gamescom in Germany this August to support our brand-new game — the one Baelin just can't stop saying the name of.
🎮 More details soon on what we’ll be up to...
🗓️ Dates: August 20–23, 2025
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This week in Other People's Music: catchy folk pop, dark dronescapes, electronic sci-fi prog, fascinating guitar explorations, and a great post punk/art rock dual single. Read about it and listen here:
etherdiver.com/2025/06/27/opm-…
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@avantgardemusic
Never-ending meeting loops
Ever been in a meeting about a meeting about a meeting?
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This week's Other People's Music launches with a bang, jumping into the concept-album sci-fi electronica of Imrryr, post punk/art rock from God Ribbon, the guitartronics of @robertdallasgray_music, folk pop from Theo Kidd & soundscapey dark ambient from @gmslater!
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How resting works in games
Ever wondered how "long rests" work in video games?
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Time for some new music teasers from this week's Other People's Music! This thread offers the first line of each of the week's reviews, plus links to the music, socials and full review. Can't wait to be teased, or just don't want to? Jump ahead to the whole thing:
etherdiver.com/2025/06/20/opm-…
Boost/repost to support indie music!
B. Hamilton – “Release the Hounds”
Classic rock, or at least its spirit made sound once again, is alive and well, and songs like this are the proof.
bhamilton.bandcamp.com/track/r…
@bhamiltonwastaken.bsky.social
etherdiver.com/2025/06/20/opm-…
#Rock #ClassicRock #Music #Musodon
Patient Whales – Patient Whales Ate the Sea
A collection of amiable indie singer-songwriter folk-pop tunes.
patientwhales.bandcamp.com/alb…
@pwats.bsky.social
Monday. Back to work and the horrors of the news. Need a fresh soundtrack to face the day? Other People's Music has your back. Five fresh selections of indie music to check out, from classic rock revival to modernized kosmische.
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@folkmusic
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@experimentalmusic
How break room fights start
Adam and Britt both have their opinions about how the break room should be laid out, and they're not backing down without a fight.
Two rivals. One ridiculous grudge.
It’s the fight absolutely no one asked for – and yet somehow… everything’s on the line.
Ben VS Rowan
Premiering June 25, 9am NZT
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Regretting playing the bad guy
Bad Guy Ben faces his last task in his playthrough: execute Greg the Garlic Farmer.
Two rivals. One ridiculous grudge.
It’s the fight absolutely no one asked for – and yet somehow… everything’s on the line.
Ben VS Rowan
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Looks like I picked the wrong week to start using Friendica.
Crashes across all interfaces, takes forever to load. Maybe, if you collapsed all comments by default, just maybe it wouldn't be crunching so hard. Bluesky integration fails completely. Oh well, seemed perfect for me, in the abstract. I learned quite a lot about the potential. Think I just need to make Mastodon my one stop-shop instead.
@cantences Seems exactly like the issue. I'll keep checking it out for future use. Thanks for your input. Very much appreciated.
I'd try a different instance but nothing seemed workable, not above 95 health in the directory. Mostly non-English instances. No way of knowing which are fastest...
Techtown Compilation - Episode 362-371
Revisit some of the latest Techtown episodes back to back!
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Jake McKenzie Presents: A Developer Update...
Join Jake McKenzie as he talks the shiny Epic edition of #NiceDayForFishing available for console and Steam.
⚔️ Epic Edition (Console and Steam): Base game + Legendary DLC
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Some interesting & unusual suspects in this week's Other People's Music! We don't see much ska punk! Or slowcore! Country pop hits transformed into indie rock jams! Plus some smart electro & endearing bedroom/folk pop!
Read & listen: etherdiver.com/2025/05/23/opm-…
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Necromancy gone wrong
Necromancer Britt makes things worse for a grieving NPC mom
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Wednesday's arrived and it brings with it a tease from this week's Other People's Music. This thread will contain the first lines of each review, along with a link to the music, socials and full review.
Don't want to be teased? Read the whole thing:
etherdiver.com/2025/05/02/opm-…
#musodon #MusicDiscovery #music #OtherPeoplesMusic #MusicWriting
pyramid observer – midnight library
A gentle, dreamlike set of ambient vapor and subdued, melancholic soundscapes.
ssslowinternet.bandcamp.com/al…
@mp3neptune.bsky.social
RYA! – “Cursing Creek”
An absolute journey of a track that starts off with some banjo-led folk and makes its way thru jazz, prog and more before it’s all over.
ryamusicumea.bandcamp.com/trac…
Solving the mysterious Techtown robbery!
A detective discovers Rowan's very useful and clever (genius) Post-It notes are key to solving a robbery in Techtown.
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Skipping an NPC's final words
Adventurer Ben tries to skip the final words of an NPC.
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Postboxes Version 1.1
The Postbox and Zen Postbox add-ons have been updated with a bunch of new styles!
* Solid Colors renamed to match HTML color names
* 24 new solid colors added
* 5 new gradient backgrounds added
* 17 new pattern backgrounds added
* 11 animated backgrounds added
* Fixed the load order so it overrides Postbox styles in Bookface if present
The previous solid color names have been mapped to the new ones, so any existing Postboxes in your feed using the old names will still look good.
The gradient backgrounds were ones that got missed from the initial release and are similar to the ones Facebook used to offer.
The pattern backgrounds all use pure CSS, no images, so they will render fast and do not incur an additional resource load from the server.
The animated backgrounds are exclusively available on servers that use either of the two add-ons. None of the animated styles are included in the Bookface scheme because some of them use SVG images. They use pure CSS animation as well, no JS code or animated GIF images.
Notice how I said the gradients were similar to the ones Facebook used to offer? Shortly after I introduced Postboxes to Friendica the backgrounds on Facebook were coincidentally(?) completely overhauled. IMO Friendica now has a nicer selection anyway and even Facebook doesn’t offer animated post backgrounds.
Zen Postbox (Adds a style button to the post Composer):
gitlab.com/randompenguin/zen_p…
Postbox (Just adds the styles, you need to manually type BBcode):
gitlab.com/randompenguin/postb…
#Friendica #Postboxes #add-on @Friendica Support @Friendica Admins
You can see a live demo of the animated ones here: randompenguin1.github.io/sampl…
They are coded to stop animating when you hover or touch them, adopting a default appearance. I did it that way because "animation-play-state" is still a bit unreliable and I liked the idea of them having a "poster" state rather than just pausing at where ever they were in the animation loop.
Bookface Version 1.7 Release
These are the changes and fixes in this release:
* Restyled “New Message” button to make it more obvious.
* Fixed Profile Pics and Cover Photos not working in old iOS browsers
* Moved Postbox styles to the end of the stylesheet
* Minified Postbox CSS.
* Restyled Item Responses
* Action Buttons you’ve interacted with before now adopt accent color.
* Fix for disabled Action Buttons to make it clear they are disabled.
* Fixed issue with slow-loading secondary toolbar in Safari
* Updated with Postbox version 1.1 styles
— names of solid colors now match HTML color names
— 24 new solid colors
— 5 new gradient backgrounds
— 17 new pattern backgrounds
Some of these will be fairly obvious. The big one is that the Action Buttons below posts and comments used to change to the accent color on hover and there was no indicator if you’d previously interacted with any of them. NOW they have a slight shift in darkness/lightness on hover and the accent color indicates you’ve previously clicked the Like, Dislike, Share, or Event buttons (the exceptions being Comment or Quote). If a post's scope is limited (not public) the "Share" and "Quote" buttons are now obviously disabled by being faded out.
Engagement Counts also now show an icon indicating the type of engagement, which should make it easier to see what kind of engagement a post or comment is getting. And if there are 2+ the individuals are revealed in a pop-over box rather than pushing the entire layout down.
The new Postbox pattern backgrounds are done with pure CSS, no images! So they’ll load and display fast and don’t incur additional server calls. Postboxes are just a nice looking way to dress up your text-only posts. Of course only Friendica users will see them, and only if they are using the Bookface scheme or their instance has installed one of the Postbox add-ons. The styling doesn’t transfer to other platforms (Note: there are still issues with Postbox posts shared to Diaspora and Hubzilla).
Thank you to everyone who gave me feedback, reported issues, and tested things for me to help improve Bookface for everyone. :D
#Friendica #Bookface @Friendica Support @Friendica Admins
Server Styles:
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User Styles:
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@Friendica Support
As for my knowledge this intended newbee speaks fluently german, englisch and spanisch, tho maybe du/you/tu is a little bit to shy to ask for help .. not sure.
What is your setup and what have you tried till now @Mina to install your #friendica server, maybe we can figure out what's your problem with the installation.
🤔
@Mina
Not sure what is the actual state of the art of the installer is. Last I "heard" and experienced is that it was broken and that the best way to install is thru the console commands detailed in the helpers page:
/help/Install#Option+B%3A+Run+the+automatic+install+script
tupambae.org/help/Install#Opti…
And yes, it's recommendable to use the git install form, that way you will be able to easily update the installation.
Adam's secret double life
Adam's resemblance to a popular Skycraft character catches Alan's attention.
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When video games have pre-sales
Our very first official video game is available to pre-order (no really, it ACTUALLY IS!). Pre-order Nice Day For Fishing and receive the Legendary DLC for free!
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Tuesday is a good day to discover some new music, so dive into this latest batch of Other People's Music and find something new to love!
etherdiver.com/2025/05/02/opm-…
Cool pop variations, vapor ambient, weird jazz folk & minimal kosmische awaits you!
@electronicmusic
@experimentalmusic
@electroacousticmusic
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#Pop #OtherPeoplesMusic #ambient #vaporwave #jazz #kosmische
Left handed super power
Rowan's selective hearing creates confusion as he discovers the powers of the left handed red shirts at Techtown.
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Ready to discover some new music? This week's Other People's Music offers some really odd pop, some less odd pop, dreamy vapor ambient, jazzy folk fusion & minimal kosmische.
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Das ist ein generischer Fehler. HTTP Status code 403 ist hier definiert: datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/…
Woher der Fehler kommt ist damit nicht gesagt. Ich vermute(!), daß eine erklärende Fehlerbeschreibung gar nicht so einfach zu realiseren ist.
Greg will remember that...
Adventurer Ben must watch his every move in Honeywood tavern...because Greg will remember it.
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It's a #BandcampFriday edition of Other People's Music! This week we have some off-kilter Plunder pop, a nice synth pop tune, dreamlike vaporwave ambient, minimal kosmische and a jazz/folk/funk journey of track.
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Library card life hack
Customer Ben returns with an elaborate scheme to try and get one over the Redshirts. This time, Manager Rowan might just be onto him...
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@Friendica Admins @Friendica Support
Hallo Leute, ich habe heute bei der Suchmaschine DuckDuckGo gemerkt, dass bei der Zwenkauer Flaschenpost überhaupt kein beschreibender Text steht.
Kann ich das irgendwie über die Admin-Oberfläche machen ? Das ist doch sonst irgendwie unvollständig ....
Trauma dumping in video games
Fireheart's back baby!
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@Friendica Support what license / terms of use is the friendica logo under?
@Fabio pointed me to the SVGs at git.friendi.ca/friendica/frien… and git.friendi.ca/friendica/frien… ; am I correct that they would be under CC0-1.0 as per git.friendi.ca/friendica/frien… ?
Are there additional term of use on the logo?
Looking at @Fabio 's laptop yesterday we may have agreed that there is an unacceptable lack of hexagons with nested Fs, and I wanted to fix this :D
Sry no SVG.
JPG-PNG are available in all sizes up to 256px I believe.
I even ulpoaded this to git friendica I think, not sure witch versions, every once in a while I retouch something.
Terms of use are CC0 (actually NC) but in the case of friendica anything goes.
The colored circular image is a svg "permafluer", published creative commons by someone else in some CC svg catalogue site. The copy left is from a SVG creative commons site. The friendica base is from a friendica logo itself.
Gimme a day and I look up all the info with links if I can.
Versions of this have been used as canvas for forum profiles, see here to get an idea:
tupambae.org/directory
btw
The image I posted is the background image of this friendica server as you may find if you visite this comment or for example our TOS page:
tupambae.org/tos
:)
git.friendi.ca/Tupambae_Org/fe…
federatedfanart/friendica/images/friendifleur/friendica-128.png at master
federatedfanart - * friendica * diaspora * hubzilla/redmatrix/ZOT * GNUsocial * mastodonFriendica
Sunday! Fun day! Let's discover some new music day! Here's five mini reviews of independent music across a wide variety of genres. Funky spaced-out guitar instrumentals, twee hop, folky pop & more!
Discover some new music this fine Saturday afternoon/evening!
etherdiver.com/2025/04/11/opm-…
This batch of Other People's Music selections includes a couple of hip-hop adjacent/influenced releases that mix in some unusual influences to end up ion weird places! Plus some folky pop, alt synthwave, guitar instrumentals & more!
Witcher Logic Season 2 Compilation
All of Witcher Logic Season 2 in one long featurette! Enjoy!
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Sales commissions gone wrong
Rowan works to motivate the red shirts by offering commission on every sale...chaos ensues.
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Friday is here and it brought some Other People's Music with it. This entry offers delicate folk pop, an apocalyptic hip hopera, industrial pop, vocal synthwave and groovy guitar instrumentals. Read and listen here:
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in reply to Ether Diver • • •hey nice to see people still blogging about music in 2025! Even if it's just a couple paragraphs, pretty sure all the artists reviewed will feel great for your appreciation :)
Btw, is there any specific requirements for the music posted in this section? Not wanna sound like begging for free promo haha, but it'd be cool to be featured there too :)