Dead

It is official. DreamDB's Facebook page is a zombie now. I announced its death and pinned this to the top of the page:

Honestly, let it rot. Just look at the stats. The page has nearly 2800 likes. Okay, not all of these people will actually see what I post. But this is the real number of people who see my posts across a few months:

This is pointless. POINTLESS.

REANIMATED

Finally I found time to restore old pages from DDB, which were made years ago, depended on a really outdated piece of code. I thought the would be a pain in the ass to remake, but all of a sudden last years of coding socks and whatnot flexed their skills, shoved my fears aside and I reanimated everything in two days. And, I mean, literally reanimated. Took old assets, ported them into other software, recreated frames, rewrote code. They're all fresh and new. For now.

Something newish

Evil spirits of coding have possessed me again, we spent a few days hanging out and conjured a beast. That is the STICKER PICKER. Das right. Everything is explained on that page. Basically, I didn't expect that people would want to pick different stickers from different themes and offering only pre-made sheets was clearly limiting as fuck to you folks. So I decided to give you an opportunity to combine a sheet from whichever ones you want. You can also buy pre-combined sheets and individual stickers from that page.

Something green

I've decided to stretch my grabby arms and occupy some space on Webtoons. I hate that it allows only jpegs, and only 800 px wide. But I love how even those few pages I uploaded immeadiately got some attention. That's awesome! I started with adapting Habits, but I guess all of my stuff will be found here.

The Eyes

A couple of weeks ago an update with the eyes has been rolled out. Because I am largely disinterested in writing news properly, it was announced with a picture:

 

Always wanted to have more eyes. #art #dreamdb.com #update

A post shared by AJ (@ajcrwl) on Jan 29, 2018 at 10:32am PST

The eyes represent 1 (one) eye of every viewer cloned into the database at the moment of eye contact with any particular entry from the books or this diary.

The Moon

After the last full moon, the scent of nostalgia in the air was too thick. Something had to be done about the moon. It was a fine addition to the house and, I think, Travis was the only one who had any idea why we needed it back then, so he repaired it and put it back in place.

When the house blew up, everything was broken, the Moon shattered and became nonfunctional. This was the reason why everyone had to rely on the text based interface for awhile. Shoot me in the leg, but I have a feeling I wrote this once before.

Seeing is better than reading when you have to discern between completely different story pages which have ridiculously similar names:

*cough* jpeg *cough*

Anyway, since the Moon had always been a transceiver, it can pull latest pages from the log just fine, and in addition provides quick access to the library, and the Green. It's attached to the outside of the house, where you can see it in the open. It's accessible from within as well.

Merry belated Christmas, Happy New Year and happy holidays, everyone!

I spent quite awhile decorating things here on the website. Stayed up for nearly one and a half astronomical days from 24th to 25th. Honestly, I've no idea how I'm still awake. My computer's power adapter even died for these decorations (no kidding, I've just returned from the store with the new one).

So, I would be glad if you could come back a few times to lay your eyes upon our time-of-day-dependent winter aesthetics. Maybe you don't have enough snow? We have snow and nice winter here. Not enough holiday warmth? Come back during the night. Although, I must admit, "night" probably means "night in Omsk time zone". I have no idea how that relates to your time zones.

Also, here's the image which you can see on all social mirrors of dreamDB.

Now, who knows how long this festive spirit will stay here.. I know. Until the snow melts. As usual. Maybe a little before the time when people start taking down the last of their home decorations and throwing their festive trees out ;D

We brought back... Miller. He's now in the house. God damn it, he IS the House. He's going to manage stuff.