Something is trying to get inside.

Wiki patchnotes:

• Added info on Commands in cIRC and C-Mail to the tutorial
• Added information on the Desktop and Sacred views of Cyberspace to the 'Fun and Games' page.
• Added new page for external integration options, such as the cyberspace RSS feeds. These are also useful if you want to mirror your public posts to your own website.

I previously wrote about how I sent my PC for repairs, and how the older laptop I used instead was broken and wouldn't even turn on. Well, after opening it up, I managed to get it to where it does turn on... but the screen remains black. There was already a problem before where sometimes the screen wouldn't get signal, and I suspect that in opening up the hull, I might have exacerbated the problem.

Bah.

I'll have to try and get my hands on an expernal monitor to check if that still works. If not......

Alright, drive is encrypted with Veracrypt and computer is sent in for repairs.

Until I get it back, I only have access to a much older and slower one.

Can't say if that will make me post more due to less distraction, or less due to the computer being to annoying to use at all.

:(

I'm backing up my data since I'm sending my PC in for repair, and it looks like I accidentally deleted an obsidian folder with some of my writing.

Not much, fortunately, but some that I was working on/planning to use soon.

Hah, I suppose in the grand scale of things, that's still not that unlucky compared to what it could have been...

Game Review > Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo

What is the game about?

Paranormasight is a horror/mystery visual novel set during a night (and day) in Honjo, where 9 people unexpectedly receive the power of a curse. Each of the curses is based on one of the '7 Mysteries' (of which there are actually 9), and each has the ability to kill another person so long as a specific condition is...

A beginners guide to mischief

Some time ago I posted about going to a meetup and seeing free living bunnies in a park on the way. I went to another one in the same place today. I didn't see any on the way to, but they were there and closer to the path to the park on the way back. Unfortunately it was too dark to see clearly, but what was cute was that whenever they hopped about, you could seem a white flash from their tails/behinds....

Some short & free games for your Sunday

Went through my steam library to see whether I had any more of these small gold nuggets to share, and I did indeed fine a few. Enjoy!

Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist

You open a game to play it. There's just one small problem: Someone else is already playing the game, which puts the producer into an awkward situation when you arrive.

This game is most similar to The Stanley Parable.

Duration: ~20...

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...

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?

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...