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ms paint study from 2021

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You discover that you have control over a certain thing, as determined by spinning this wheel. We're talking full-on magical girl/superhero/supervillain/your label of choice control.

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Requested by anon

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For Years my brother has been fucking with me by periodically texting me to say Jimmy Carter had finally died. Today the bit has paid off.

The response to my reaction at work was “what do you MEAN ‘for real this time’?????”

I fucking hate it here I’m crying

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Hi!! You have a lovely blog!

Say, i've been hearing people around saying that brown birds arent pretty, and i very strongly disagree.

Can you show some beautiful brown birds? The only one i can think of rn is the golden eagle but i know there are plenty!

Oh yeah there are lots of beautiful brown birds!

Asian Dipper aka Brown Dipper (Cinclus pallasii), family Cinclidae, order Passeriformes, India

photograph by @birds_of_india

Brown or Common Noddy (Anous stolidus), family Laridae, coast of Gujirat, India

photograph by Kamruddin Alvani

Brown Wood-Owl (Strix leptogrammica), family Strigidae, Karnataka, India

photograph by Megh Roy Choudhury

Brown Lory (Chalcopsitta duivenbodei), family Psittaculidae, order Psittaciformes, found in northern New Guinea

photograph by Kow Hao Rui

Brown Parrotbill (Paradoxornis unicolor), family Paradoxornithidae, order Passeriformes, Sikkim, India

photograph by @dineshraamramakrishnan

Rufous Brown Solitaire (Cichlopsis leucogenys), family Turdidae, order Passeriformes, Reserva Mashpi-Amagusa, Ecuador

ENDANGERED.

photograph by Dušan Brinkhuizen 

Hamerkop (Scopus umbretta), family Scopidae, Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda

The taxonomic affinities of this bird have been greatly debated over the year, and now is believed to be in the Pelecaniformes.

This is the only bird in this family.

photograph by Charles J. Sharp 

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What is the most embarrassing thing that your OC owns?

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Do you ever think about how almost all of N’s Pokémon throughout the first games were one offs he released after he battled you, how he cared about them all deeply enough that he thought it would be selfish to have them battle more than necessary. And do you ever think about how this is the case with all his Pokémon EXCEPT his Klinklang in the final battle at the league, where the second to last battle he had a Klink and this Klinklang is very likely that same Pokémon? Do you think this was a visual representation of his mindset wavering from a fixed point? How that Klink refused to leave him right away and he couldn’t bring himself to force them to leave because his mind is in so many different directions? He can keep them around just a little longer until he becomes champion, it won’t be long, he can bend things some so long as he doesn’t fully stray from his path…right?

Or is that just me am I the only one willing to be insane about Klinklang of all Pokémon

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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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Dog from The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask

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Eve's weird question time: which of your ocs would you make into a plushie if you had the chance?

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The wild robot made it to the letterboxd 2024 recap cover art AND made it to the top 10 of 3 different categories ! So fucking proud of this movie man !

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Giraffe leaf-rolling weevil, Paracycnotrachelus sp., Attelabidae

Photographed in Indonesia by Nicky Bay // Website // Facebook

Shared with permission; do not remove credit or re-post!

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