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Just tried to play an ancient flute and it started filling the room with this awful miasma that wont go away

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Just found out there's a group on inaturalist dedicated to showcasing the silliest observations

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capybara

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Model Malgosia Bela by Luigi & Iango for Exhibition Spring  Summer 2016

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cage constructor

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ERASER@YepWn

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And so Pacific Rim passes from futuristic sci-fi to alternate historical fiction...

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Winter in Sequoias National Park, California.

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Terracotta bust of Demeter or Persephone, c. 450-400 B.C. MFA Boston. 97.353

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just got jumpscared at work today

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i think the near-extinction of people making fun, deep and/or unique interactive text-based browser games, projects and stories is catastrophic to the internet. i'm talking pre-itch.io era, nothing against it.

there are a lot of fun ones listed here and here but for the most part, they were made years ago and are now a dying breed. i get why. there's no money in it. factoring in the cost of web hosting and servers, it probably costs money. it's just sad that it's a dying art form.

anyway, here's some of my favorite browser-based interactive projects and games, if you're into that kind of thing. 90% of them are on the lists that i linked above.

A Better World - create an alternate history timeline

Alter Ego - abandonware birth-to-death life simulator game

Seedship - text-based game about colonizing a new planet

Sandboxels or ThisIsSand - free-falling sand physics games

Little Alchemy 2 - combine various elements to make new ones

Infinite Craft - kind of the same as Little Alchemy

ZenGM - simulate sports

Tamajoji - browser-based tamagotchi

IFDB - interactive fiction database (text adventure games)

Written Realms - more text adventure games with a user interface

The Cafe & Diner - mystery game

The New Campaign Trail - US presidential campaign game

Money Simulator - simulate financial decisions

Genesis - text-based adventure/fantasy game

Level 13 - text-based science fiction adventure game

Miniconomy - player driven economy game

Checkbox Olympics - games involving clicking checkboxes

BrantSteele.net - game show and Hunger Games simulators

Murder Games - fight to the death simulator by Orteil

Cookie Clicker - different but felt weird not including it. by Orteil.

if you're ever thinking about making a niche project that only a select number of individuals will be nerdy enough to enjoy, keep in mind i've been playing some of these games off and on for 20~ years (Alter Ego, for example). quite literally a lifetime of replayability.

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floral patterns inside the shrine of Hazrat Masoumeh, Qom, Iran

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The Selkie - oil painting by Kai Carpenter

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Collection of me turning into random objects

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The Crocodile Mom

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I wish we could teach each other how to love the way we can teach animals that aren’t supposed to be able to feel it.