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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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yeah this is where this was always gonna fuckin go, unfortunately

she’s 35 years old, by the way

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the moment i first understood the myth of meritocracy i think was when i read the "Eragon" books as a teenager, and it said on the back that the author had started writing them at 15 and it became a bestseller. this stressed me out so much, I also wanted that kind of success in writing at such a young age & kept thinking I should also be able to do it, that I must be doing something wrong – and then YEARS later i found out his parents had a publishing company and financed him touring through the whole U.S before the books became successful

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I’m slowly beginning to accept the reality that 2007 was not last year but in fact almost four years ago

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“Exene Cervenka is what your mother would call “different.” She has a house decorated with plastic skulls, toy skunks and dime store portraits of Jesus. She has a wardrobe of dowdy housedresses. She has a tattoo on her wrist that reads “Temptation.” She has a husband who changed his name to John Doe, on purpose. And she sings in X, a band that always performs songs about death and nausea and depression and never plays tunes you can whistle. You would think that Exene would feel right at home in the world of punk rock, where it’s considered good form to look as though you got your jewelry from the hardware store and your hairdo by playing cat’s cradle with exposed electrical wires. And in fact, Exene was informally crowned the queen of Los Angeles punk in 1977, when X and a few other bands started the movement in crummy Hollywood basements known only to the initiated … Like any counterculture movement, punk is full of phonies, fops and ersatz rebels. But not Exene. She’s no dilettante bohemian. She’s the genuine article. She’s one of the truly weird … “She’s paid dearly for being a misfit,” says her husband, X bass player John Doe. In public people poke each other in the ribs and point at her; on buses, people hound her. And though it would be reasonable enough for her to assume that the pokers and pointers are fans of her music, she says “When people point at me on the street I assume they’re making fun of me, not that I’m famous.””

From California Living magazine’s 18 September 1983 cover feature on X frontwoman and punk poetess Exene Cervenka (“Exene is not the girl next door”) by Patricia Freeman. At the time, X would have been promoting their fourth album More Fun in the New World. The article is an interesting time capsule of the assumptions the media was making about punk in the early 80s. And I’d argue you can whistle X’s tunes – they had genuinely great melodies!

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45 years ago

Exene Cervenka and drummer DJ Bonebrake of X live at Danceteria, New York City, June 1980

Photo Eugene Merinov

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I spent so many years trying to reconcile being trans with collectivism and came out of it with no other recourse than concluding that there is nothing more hyper-individualistic and solely self serving than the trans movement. cannot imagine the cognitive dissonance going on with all the TRAs that still believe they're somehow communists/anarchists or fighting individualism and capitalism or whatever

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They found the last golden ticket . So that’s just it then . Fuck my stupid horrible pathetic life. Cabbage soup for dinner again , my stupid mothtsr. Grandpa Joe said he’s sorry but I know he doesn’t really give a fuck . And who gives a fuck about the other three old people in my house . Whatever their names is. Fuck fuck fuck it’s all worthless . They even made fun of me at school for only buying like 3 wonka bars. Nepo pricks . Fuck my stupid life it’s all fucked it’s all fucked . And my last name is bucket

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I was thinking about that "Reverse Delicious in Dungeon" post again and I know I'm being pedantic but I feel like if you wanted to reverse the concept of a story about making delicious meals out of monsters then you'd need to be making powerful monsters out of food. Basically what I'm saying is that reverse Dungeon Meshi is actually

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INUYÆSHA!!! INUYÆSHA WATCH OUT!!!!

YOU IDJIT(sic)

KÆGOMEEE!!!

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🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨

The Monkey Police Special Baby Task Force is requesting the public’s assistance in locating Cloth Mother, who has reportedly abducted Baby Monkey amidst ongoing custody proceedings.

Cloth Mother was last seen at approximately 12:00pm. She is driving a Little Tyke’s Cozy Coupe (witness photo below).

Cloth Mother stands at approximately 18” tall and weighs roughly 2.5lbs, she is made of a wire frame with very very soft terry cloth covering. It is not known whether Cloth Mother is armed at this time.

Any information, tips, or eyewitness photos leading to the arrest of Cloth Mother and the safe return of Baby Monkey will be greatly appreciated.

Please help us #BringBabyMonkeyHome

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Had this file was saved as "Straight to 2nd Base".... yeah.

Did somebody order even MORE griffguts posting?