Been a while since I publicly advertised it, so I wanted to mention it again for the newbies:

Cyberspace has a Directory of User Pages, which is a list of users personal websites with short descriptions on the wiki.

If you would like to see your own site added to it, let me know in a reply to this post, or in a DM, and I'll do so.

This is distinct from the 'Webring', which is simply an automatic listing of all the...

I've finally started reading Feersum Endjinn, a book I got a while because I heard that it was one of the inspirations behind Blame. And yeah, it does have its own megastructure.

So far each chapter had a different PoV character.

The first chapter was from the perspective of someone who seemingly was only just created by some mechanism, and then immediately spat out of a building wall into an open field(?). Consequently there was a lot of scattered thoughts and grasping for the right words, which...

A neat thing about learning some history

After some recent events, I've begun to put some of my time towards learning more about history, and especially the relative positioning of events and developments on the timeline. This has led to some interesting revelations of which things that I vaguely knew about in an isolated manner actually happened at the same time, or in close succession.

Alexander the Great and young Rome

The campaigns of Alexander extended almost exclusively towards the east of...

Game Report: Sanator: Scarlet Scarf & Jewel of the Monostructure

Another two short games knocked off the list. These short visual novels are part of a series that currently only has 2 parts released, with a third one in the works for a a few years now (I hope the devs are doing alright?)

Scarlet Scarf

You play as Richard Murdoch, a member of the Brotherhood of St. Elm, and a Sanator aka plague doctors (beak masks and all!). In this vaguely medieval world, plagues of varying nature are a...

Shortstory Report

Some time ago, I bought a collection of 50 short stories, each by a different author, and have been slowly working my way through those. Here's some thoughts I had on some of them.

The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe

The story is about the Red Death, a plague even worse than the black death, which is devastating the countryside. To avoid its grasp, prince Prospero prepares a castle with plentiful supplies and retires with all his friends and courtiers to it,...

Antispace

Cyberspace's evil twin

3000 men have died

you have no idea how ready you are

https://i.postimg.cc/T1LFRhFh/Antispace-0-0-1.png

*Any screenshots or in-development depictions are not representative of the final product and only serve the purpose of advertising and public information. Antispace is not responsible for any panic attacks, seizures or sudden deaths caused by exposure to its material. All rights reserved.

Fun fact: The*...

Game report: Super Drift Blade

I just finished a game I originally played some months ago, "Super Drift Blade".

It's a game where you move through a sequence of rooms organized on a grid, defeating enemies and getting powerups. All the while, you are looking for the other people on your expedition team you were separate from during a teleport. So far so good, but this game has two things that make it special:

1. There is only one input,...

This evening I played an old flash game from my child hood. I played a lot of flash games back then, but this one was special for the fact that I was never actually able to 'properly' play it. My computer at the time wasn't powerful enough, so it lagged like crazy, making it effectively impossible to play. I only just now found it again via... was it a bookmark?

'Evil Forest' is a 2d roguelike, though I only now have the term roguelike to put on it. You go through a selection of randomly assembled levels...

It's finally raining!

Finally!

After more than a week of heat.

Now I just hope the electrical grid doesn't crash...

Understimulation on Youtube

An interesting video on the way that a lot of youtube channels/creators seem to design their videos to provide an excess of stimulation to keep people engaged, as well as some examples of channels that aren't like that and how they go about things instead. Though I'd share it in part because many of the positive examples are channels about technology, including older tech, which seemed up the alley of a lot of people here....

Milestone: Cyberspace 3.0 Update

And it was in the final hours of the 24th of June, the exact counter-day of Christmas, that Khan gave the good people of Cyberspace another great gift: Cyberspace 3.0

With this update came the Grand Mural, where each member of cyberspace could etch their thoughts into eternity... or at least until someone else came and overwrote it. Such is life.

I wish you all a happy anti-christmas!

Which new features do you most appreciate since 2.0 rolled around?

DELATRUNE TODAY!

DELTARUNE NOW!

Experience report in learning Java

Over the last few weeks, I've been working my way through a text-based Java course from the university of Helsinki, while having Claude Sonnet open in another tab.

I chose a text-based course because I prefer material I can work with at my own pace, where I can freely skip back and forth to the parts I need at any moment. This was especially important here because I wasn't a beginner at programming and already had some decent...

Wiki updates:

• The 'Fun & Games' section was expanded. Before it only contained the two puzzle sequences created by cyberspace users. Now, it has a bunch of other stuff on and about cyberspace, a mix of user- and khan- created content.

• I added a full description for @digitalgrease 's cyberspace client.

• Not really a discrete update, but over time a few more people have been added to the directory of user pages.

A really good video by Hank Green.

Some of the core ideas:

• Everyone has this drawer of full of bits and pieces, experiences and skills from various parts and stages of life, and each of these is a tool that might at some point help you out.
• Most things you do, such as making contact with another person or doing something creatively, won't have any real effect on your future. But any of them have a small chance of being a big positive, so you should...

A lot of you are probably already aware of this, but the world is heading into a major oil crisis due to recent 'Events' surrounding the Strait of Hormuz.

While gasoline prices have already gone up, the full impact has yet to materialize in a lot of western countries, and will include severe price increases in everything (because everything needs electricity and/or transportation), not to mention a lot of people loosing their jobs.

Petroleum is also a precursor for fertilizer, meaning food prices will...

Nowadays everyone can link their own page on the webring just by linking it on their profile, but for those who want a description attached, the Cyberspace Directory of User Pages is still available as a complementary option for those who would like to see a description attached to their personal site or project.

Just shoot me a DM with your url if you want to be added.

Something that surprised me about Java is that it's not just "Object-oriented", it's straight up entirely class-based.

Everything in Java is written as classes, attributes and methods.

Even the main function is just a 'main' method on the programs 'main' class.

You want to define a function that just transforms something without being related to an object? Still gotta be a method on a class! (Though at least that part results in familiar syntax where you can just import that class as if it were a...

That amazing feeling when it's been hot for more than a week, and then the thunder starts to roll in and the winds begins to pick up.

Guess it's time for me to finally learn Java

Last time I was in contact with it was as a kid put into a coding course from which I learned very little and remember less. At this point, only really that we used the Eclipse editor.