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JANUARY 2018
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hello friends and welcome to a very special january edition of the
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tilde.town times. the tilde.town times is a newsletter about what is
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happening on tilde.town. it publishes on or around the 15th of every month
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and is completely open to contributions! please see the section on
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contributing if you would like to help towards the next edition.
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this month the newsletter returns after a long hiatus. we say hello to
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many new members who have joined us since the last issue which was
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published in may of last year. it is a real treat to have the opportunity
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to work on this once again. I hope you enjoy the issue and that it is the
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first of a busy 2018.
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my apologies to readers disappointed with the gap in publishing the
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newsletter. last year was a difficult time for me and left me without the
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opportunity to be a part of the town as much as I would have liked.
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because of this I did not feel in a good position to write a newsletter
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about what was going on. with more time in the new year I hope to see the
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newsletter fulfill its potential in bringing our amazing community closer
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together.
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1. tilde news
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2. around the town
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3. ~ page spotlight. this month: ~joniwoni
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4. new members
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5. a note from the editor
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the news desk is taking a break this issue as including all the happenings
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since may did not seem right. look forward to its inclusion in next months
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issue.
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/ __/_/ _ `/ __/ _ \/ // / _ \/ _ / / __/ _ \/ -_) / __/ _ \ |/|/ / _ \
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MICROSCOPE GAME!
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tilde.town stalwart ~krowbar is running a game of
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microscope, open to all members of the town! in ~korwbar's words:
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"Microscope is a game about collaborative stories. Determine the scope,
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choose the narrative palate, create historical periods, then zoom in.
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Focus history's Lens to find out what Events took place in The Age of
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Enlightenment or play a Scene to answer what the Mad King gave in exchange
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for magic. You have to power to create or topple empires, people or gods -
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although they always may be revisited later. But remember, surprises are
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bound to occur. You may not know the full history yet."
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to get involved, drop ~krowbar a message on irc or alpine.
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ASCIIFARM!
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tilde.town hero ~troido has been working hard on the fantastic
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asciifarm which you should really check out if you have not seen it yet.
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~troido writes:
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"AsciiFarm is a project to make a farming rpg for the town. Play the game
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by running the `asciifarm` command in your shell, or if you want
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fullwidth, run `asciifarm -c fullwidth`. For more information and helping
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with development see: https://github.com/jmdejong/asciifarm
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Please leave feedback on asciifarm in the bbj thread, on github issues or
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by telling ~troido!"
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CENTRALFEELS
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tilde.town senior associate ~login has furnished us with some
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tantalising info on both centralfeels. they have transmitted packets
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containing the following characters:
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"centralfeels, tilde.town's latest feels in reverse-chronological order
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To make it easier to browse everyone's feels on the web, centralfeels is a
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website at https://tilde.town/~login/centralfeels that collects the latest
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feels from all users that have opted in and displayes the latest twenty.
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To opt in, just type (without quotes) `touch ~/.centralfeels` in your
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prompt. If you've just written a post and want to update centralfeels
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manually, just type (without quotes)
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`/home/login/cronjobs/update_centralfeels`. https://centralfeels.cf is a
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convenient URL that redirects to https://tilde.town/~login/centralfeels ."
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WRITO
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but that's not even all! ~login goes on to communicate:
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"viewing writo's world on the web
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~selfsame made a persistent world with no private ownership called writo.
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You can draw ASCII art with colour on an infinitely large grid. He made a
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viewer for it at https://tilde.town/~selfsame/writo.html but it's out of
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date, only in black-and-white, and doesn't display characters at negative
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coordinates. My version of writo's webview solves all these problems, and
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has a one-to-one correspondence with how writo looks on the telnet client.
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You can visit my version of writo's webview at
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https://tilde.town/~login/writo/ . If you want to update it manually, just
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type (without quotes) `/home/login/cronjobs/update_writo` at the prompt."
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thank you ~login!
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in this month's spotlight we're taking a look at tilde.town member
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~joniwoni's page which you can view at http://tilde.town/~joniwoni/.
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~joniwoni has some completely incredible little webgl bits and some lovely
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8-bit computer noises going on. the absolute highlight of their page for
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me though is this textbox demo: http://tilde.town/~joniwoni/visceral/
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the sounds remind me so much of old dos games that I used to play.
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something about those crunchy bleepy sounds reminds me of exploring CDs
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full of games, trying to decipher them without any manuals. thanks for a
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potent nostalgia hit, ~joniwoni!
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due to the sheer colume of new members since may and also due to some
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technical problems, this section is taking a break this month. huge
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apologies to all our amazing new members who have joined during that
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period. this section resumes next month.
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thank you so much for joining us for this issue of the newsletter. special
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thanks to everyone who was able to contribute something to this issue, it
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is hugely appreciated.
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the newsletter grew out of a desire to see more awareness of the amazing
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projects on the town and foster collaboration between our inspirational
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members. it therefore thrives on the contributions of you, our members.
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if you are working on anything you think people might be interested in,
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please email me. if you have published anything you think is cool or have
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seen anything on somebody else's page, please email me. if you have any
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ideas of future issues or feedback on the newsletter, I would be so happy
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to receive it.
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townies engage with our community in different ways and it is not always
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visible. so even if you have something you think everyone has seen it is
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still definitely worth letting me know.
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thank you so much for reading and for being part of this wonderful
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community.
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~jumblesale x
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