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River :3 @hamsterdamm.amsterdam · 23/07/2026

yay I'm so happy my copy of @hcnone.bsky.social's endless monday finally arrived! :3 This is such a great idea and if more of my favorite devs did this I would be in trouble xdd

a cd with endless monday: dreams and deadlines on it, together with some extra goodies that include a postcard and a special issue of endless monday monthly. The cd also has a drawing of one of the characters on it (I'm so sorry idk who aaahhh).
The text next to the drawing says "don't call me endless".

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River :3 @hamsterdamm.amsterdam · 19/07/2026

I am NOT OKAY that it says this was 9 years ago

a screenshot of a youtube thumbnail that shows the for the legend of zelda: breath of the wild that was shown at the nintendo switch presentation in january 2017. It was 9 years ago.

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River :3 @hamsterdamm.amsterdam · 21/06/2026

me hehe sweetfish.itch.io/gf

niche girlfriend who really likes a big fucking pot of pasta

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River :3 @hamsterdamm.amsterdam · 19/06/2026

it was very satisfying to put all the pieces that I made this week together. :3 making the ui, reading the data from a file, and the logic behind it. u can also add your own pallet by putting it in the game's user directory. Pallet editing and saving comes later MYAA #gamedev #godot

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River :3 @hamsterdamm.amsterdam · 13/06/2026

i know the color mask isn't made for this mesh yet but i expanded it to allow for different color variations. One small problem is that I also use the alpha channel which isn't ideal because it means that has to cover all other channels because at full transparency the rgb channels are always 0

a screenshot of a generated S bend platform piece with a color mask shader applied, which applies a green border to the platform with a dark shade, a light shade, a highlight color (in this case white) and a base color.

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River :3 @hamsterdamm.amsterdam · 10/06/2026

aaaaaa idk what I'm doing am i doing this shader thing right? this is (going to be) a shader that applies an accent color to the base texture depending on the color mask #godot

a shader graph in godot that uses two textures and a color as inputs and blends the color according to the color mask texture onto the base texture

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River :3 @hamsterdamm.amsterdam · 26/05/2026

Is it still a flag if the print is only on one side? anyway i gotta think of a way to hang it over my bed :3 i think i got it from @/starsleeps.bsky.social

a big nonbinary flag with cute bunnies on the purple stripe

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River :3 @hamsterdamm.amsterdam · 11/04/2026

damn even minecraft is telling me to stop being a scared little shit

A screenshot from the Minecraft credits that shows a quote from an unknown person: "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

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River :3 @hamsterdamm.amsterdam · 23/03/2026

IT'S THE INTEL GPU??? First picture shows a test with my 9070 XT, second picture shows one with my Intel Arc A310. I needed to switch from the Quicksync encoder to FFmpeg VAAPI, where I could select both GPUs. Does CachyOS not like it then? Because on Kubuntu that wasn't an issue at all...

a bitrate test that was done for 35 minutes. This was done with my main GPU, a Radeon 9070 XT. in the first 20-ish minutes the line is very flat at 6000 mbps, because I didn't really do anything. in the second half, I started Trackmania which is why the line starts to squiggle a bit, but nothing out of the ordinary.

this bitrate test was done with my Intel Arc A310 and is also relatively stable at 6000 mpbs, but at around 18 minutes, the bitrate nosedives to basically 0.

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River :3 @hamsterdamm.amsterdam · 22/03/2026

I have done a few test streams earlier and it seems like there is one pattern. before the bitrate dies, it seems to increase quite a bit. It's so weird tho that with enhanced broadcasting enabled (3rd picture), only the 1080p version experienced this. view alt text for more details.

Bitrate graph of a test stream with a set bitrate of 6000 kbps and a resolution of 1080p. it is mostly stable until it increases to around 7000 - 8000 kbps before plumetting to around 500, from where it doesn't recover.

bitrate graph of a test stream where the bitrate was set to 5000 kbps, and additionally the framerate was set to 30 fps and the resolution was set to 720p. despite these changes, generally the same pattern can be observed: the bitrate is a bit less stable but still around 5000 kbps, until there is a noticable increase to 6000 kbps until it plummets again down to below 1000 kbps.

Bitrate graph of a test stream where I enabled twitch's enhanced broadcasting functionality in OBS, where twitch determines the stream settings that OBS uses. It displays five lines, corresponding to the different quality levels that have been streamed to twitch. Note that only the highest quality level (1920x1080 at 60 fps) displays the same pattern as described before. It increases the bitrate of that to around 6500 kbps before it plummets to the same bitrate as the lowest quality level, which has the resolution 284x160 and a bitrate of 203 kbps. All the other quality levels are not affected by this. 720p stays at around 2500 kbps consistently, as well as 480p at 1000 kbps and 360p at 500 kbps.

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River :3 @hamsterdamm.amsterdam · 18/01/2026

Before generating the mesh, I calculate the points along the Bézier curve in an even distance. It takes the rotation of each point into account for the interpolations. This can make things difficult, like with this piece. Now there's an option that ensures the road's thickness stays consistent.

an s bend turn that becomes thinner in the middle

an s bent turn that has consistent width

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River :3 @hamsterdamm.amsterdam · 11/01/2026

I couldn't do a whole lot this week - work makes me tired - but at least today I managed to add some much needed *thickness* to the mesh generator :3

The track piece from the previous post now has thickness so it's no longer a simple plane.

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River :3 @hamsterdamm.amsterdam · 04/01/2026

The track piece editor is slowly taking shape. All that is ingame because I want a mapper to be able to create a transition block they desire in case one missing.

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River :3 @hamsterdamm.amsterdam · 01/01/2026

I thought it makes sense to use bézier curves to make creating track blocks easier. For testing I created... BEHOLD: a turn

screenshot of a generated mesh that forms a flat 90 degree turn to the right

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River :3 @hamsterdamm.amsterdam · 07/10/2025

No matter how many blocks I place it never feels like I'm done soon... wrrrrr please send help #trackmania

Screenshot of an RPG map in Trackmania. It is floating in the sky. The sun is standing relatively low, and the screenshot is taken against the sun, so most of the scenery is in shadows.

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River :3 @hamsterdamm.amsterdam · 04/09/2025

Have some art before silksong :3 I haven't named her yet :p

An elf character with brown straight hair with a slight red tint, she has green eyes with an iris the shape of a star with four tips, a star tattoo, freckles, glasses with an open frame at the top side. She wears a green tank top and sticks her tongue out, one eye is closed.

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River :3 @hamsterdamm.amsterdam · 30/08/2025

i have new look starting from tomorrow! and a new name! It's river! :3 Tomorrow at around 11 AM CEST, like on most sundays, I'll dive into minecraft hardcore, but I'll also discover the new maps for xpevo. i might be skill issued. stop by and get comfy! www.twitch.tv/riversidecam...

A silhouette of river's model. the most prominent feature is a big witch hat, and pointy ears. Dots are spread evenly in a diagonal pattern, colored in a gradient from blue to purple from the bottom left to the top right.

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River :3 @hamsterdamm.amsterdam · 17/07/2025

I don't see it... Create this #Picrew of yourself: picrew.me/en/image_mak... Then take this quiz: uquiz.com/quiz/eTdXoU/... and post the results to see what you’d be like as a fictional character!!!

A picrew of me. A gender ambiguous person with curly dark brown hair, pointy ears, a cat hair clip, brown eyes, glasses, a turtleneck shirt and a brown jacket with a fluffy edge. There are a big heart with the bisexual flag and a nonbinary heart floating to the left. The face is turned to the left but the gaze is focused on the viewer.

Your Result:
The Hot One

You're the one hunk that EVERYONE has a crush on. Your wit and charm is known to make fangirls faint, and half of the entire fandom's thirst posts are about you. You could eat a cookie and everyone would lose their shit. Congrats, dude.

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River :3 @hamsterdamm.amsterdam · 06/07/2025

Little steps. Tiny steps even. But I am slowly starting to get a grasp around this graph system, and this little graph executes! It prints what is written in the LineEdit! Next step is figuring out how I can put data into the green port. My brain is already fried tho. #gamedev

A screenshot of a graph with two nodes. The first node is titled "Generic Chain Node" and has a button labeled "Test". It is connected via a white line to a second node named "Print Rune". This node has a text field named "Data" with the text "meow :3". It has a second port on the left side in green.

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River :3 @hamsterdamm.amsterdam · 01/12/2024

This is how seven and a half hours on World of Wampus ended :(( #trackmania

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River :3 @hamsterdamm.amsterdam · 23/11/2024

This is why I love Pacific Drive.

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River :3 @hamsterdamm.amsterdam · 01/10/2024

help I can't complete this task on my todo list

an item on a todo list that says "be cute"

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River :3 @hamsterdamm.amsterdam · 19/07/2024

Fuck it I'm switching to the Steam version of Trackmania because the popup ad in Ubisoft Connect that appears every time I close the game is fucking annoying

Screenshot of a line of text in Steam where it says that ZaraStocher played Trackmania for the first time.

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River :3 @hamsterdamm.amsterdam · 08/07/2024

why do you have to call me out like that, spotify :((

A spotify playlist created by spotify with the title "sad girl starter pack" and the description "Sapphic songs that defined your music taste as yearning."

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River :3 @hamsterdamm.amsterdam · 12/05/2024

felt cute ✨ might colour later mhm

Lineart of a girl wearing cat ears, a beanie and round glasses. She has slightly curly hair and looks slightly to the left. She's wearing a small necklace with a triforce and a shirt.

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River :3 @hamsterdamm.amsterdam · 14/08/2023

reskeet with your profile pic

My profilepicture - it shows my chiby hype emote with confetti and arms raised and a happy expression, with a progress pride flag in the background.

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