#yippee!! this is the update i've been working on for like. two weeks? two and a half? idk

[arcadian-vampire]

Website update!!

OLD:

NEW:

Updates include:

-Cleaned up code a bit, especially the css

-Resized every page to hopefully fit different screen sizes better

-Reorganized main page

-Made buttons fancier, waow

-New 88x31 button featuring both Candie and Kalamari

-New pages, including another art page, simplified art gallery, 'about me' page, and a page about my beloved baby boy Aither (still a work in progress)

-Filled in first page of Chai Chai gallery, yippee

-Temporarily removed music player due to copyright concerns

-Piko

-New custom cursor that's a wii controller! :3

[dirt-piper]

Just Around the Corner...

I've been waiting to say this for a very, very long time:

1.1.12 is almost here.

...Kinda. It's nearly ready for playtesting. I've got one last feature to smooth over and then it'll go out to the testers for feedback. Once the testers are happy with it (and I'm happy with what the testers are happy with), then we'll test multiplayer for a bit - and then it's time for full release.

It's been a looooooong time since NSSS last got a major update - September of 2021, to be exact. Sure, there have been tweaks and patches since then, but even then it's been over a year since 1.1.11_111-1. NSSS has been at version 1.1.11 for three years now - about half as long as NSSS has existed, period.

I'd like to think of 1.1.12 as the beginning of a return to form - wayyy back when NSSS first started, Vulpovile and I were releasing updates once every two weeks. I doubt I can maintain that pace, but at the very least I can avoid any more multi-year update droughts.

I've already got ideas lined up for 1.1.13, 1.1.14, 1.1.15, etc... - many of which I've been daydreaming about for years! I really want to finally sit down and work on these ideas, and make them reality once and for all.

There's a couple other things I'm hoping to polish up. First off - the website. I put it up a few months ago but it's been sitting semi-finished for a while now. The other day I finally dug up my FTP login credentials to actually upload the NSSS multimc instance and server jar there so I could fix the broken download links in the original forum post. Sorry for letting them sit broken for so long - I was very busy with IRL work. I'm going to be fleshing the website out a bit more soon - maybe I'll even get the in-browser applet working!

The launcher is also getting renewed attention. I figured out Oauth a while ago (so you can actually log in to microsoft accounts with it - yippee!) but was struggling to deal with https connections in older versions of Java. I think I've figured out a solution that's workable, so the launcher should finally be ready soon - here's hoping!

Lastly, the forums. Yes, there are official NSSS forums - but the URL has been somewhat hidden for a while now. I've been having trouble getting the phpBB theming to look the way I like it - if anyone has any experience with phpBB themes, please reach out! The increasing futility of trying to present information on discord has made it clear to me that it's for the best if most NSSS-related discussion were to happen on an actual public-facing website rather than a glorified IRC chatroom. The discord will still exist - but it will no longer be forced to do the triple-duty of "information repository", "public forum", and "community chat".

Let's see how much of this I can get done before 2030...

-DirtPiper

[aonoryuhei]

feeling so very aimless today so small life update @ _ @

ummm all i have literally been up to is a sad little cycle of wake up -> uni -> anguish (jk lolz... maybe) -> sleep... which was FINE except the past two weeks i have been hit by the infamous Spring Semester Burnout and the timing is booty.

so many developments have been slowly happening with lab stuff but honestly i don't wanna think about it!!!! i have my annual evaluation on wednesday and i haven't finished the silly/minor edits to my presentation because every time i boot up powerpoint i literally feel my soul leaving my body... i also don't know how that meeting is gonna go down but i'm trying soooo hard to not sweat things i have no control over (somewhat working. mayhaps). TAing has been an insane amount of work too and i have so much to say about it BUT i'll save it for the end of the semester

other than that um.... i keep forgetting to make dental and doctor appointments LOL the only times i go out are to the supermarket or like. target (i got some nice new clothes yippee). i DID go out for happy hour once with some of my cohort and it was nice..! very tiring and my one singular drink hit me so hard i didn't finish it but i'm glad i made the effort to go. other than that umm i went to some random place with my parents on friday and saw cows 🐄🐄🐄 they were sooooo cute!!!!! they're so curious, they would stand up and look at our car when we passed by hehehe and there were lil babies!!! we also saw a raccoon that was hiding just SO badly and a deer!!! with a baby!!! it did a very majestic leap over a fence.

my maka figure FINALLY arrive on thursday. y'all don't know the STRESS and ANGUISH this girl caused me.... bc why did USPS say she was delivered monday night!! TO AN INDIVIDUAL? and for days i was freaking out trying to find her and file a claim with them online BUT THE REPORT WOULDN'T GO THROUGHHHHH. just when i had almost accepted that she had gotten lost or stolen my dad saw her in our mailbox 🥹 literally fell to my knees when i opened the box like YES! MY DAUGHTER!!! AT HOME!!! thank da heavens

and ya that's basically it!! my dad also got me a smartwatch and i've been liking it... i walk a lot more at school than i thought i did lol. but also this thing has a measurement called "body battery" and bro i have not had a single day over 40% LMFAOOO idk how it calculates that but it feels real to me... been like endlessly fatigued the past couple months and idrk why but w/e cant deal with that rn!! anyway cya love ya etc etc see u in a month perchance when this semester ends