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ideal living situation is what i call the 'sitcom special' : having all your closest friends live in the same apartment building or neighborhood where you each have your own space but can wander in and out of eachothers homes at will, seemingly always welcome and never at bad times. and also all of you only have jobs when its important to the plot.

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if house md were running in 2024 there would be an episode with a patient who identifies as an ‘online content creator’ (cagily) where house agrees to take the case primarily because when he offhandedly refers to her as an onlyfans model both cameron and cuddy get really offended and say it’s a sexist assumption so he doubles down and becomes committed to finding the patient’s onlyfans and proving it. at some point it would be revealed that chase actually is an onlyfans model and started doing it as a stopgap after his dad died and he suddenly got disinherited but he makes so much money off it that now medicine is basically just a hobby. cameron and foreman both disagree with the concept online sex work but it turns out they disagree for different reasons (cameron thinks it’s exploitative and not-feminist, foreman finds it distasteful and thinks people should get ‘real jobs’) and spend most of their scenes together arguing about this while chase gets continually more shifty. they break into the patient’s house and there’s a full ringlight and camera setup which seems to confirm house’s suspicions. while trying to find the patient’s onlyfans house accidentally finds chase’s onlyfans instead and considers publicly embarrassing him about it like he did with wilson’s sex tape but soon realises that most of the staff at the hospital are already subscribed to chase’s onlyfans so makes fun of him for that instead. it then transpires that the reason why the patient is so cagey about being a content creator is that she’s an ASMR artist and all the soap she’s been shaving on camera has irritated her lungs. cuddy is about to make house give her 20 extra hours of clinic duty as recompense but at last minute it’s revealed that the website the patient uses for some of her bonus commissions is, drumroll…onlyfans, because she’s been banned from patreon. how does house know this? wilson is subscribed to her because the soap videos sometimes soothe him to sleep. something by cigarettes after sex plays. roll end credits.

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Paddy's Becomes a Maid Cafe.

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This promo cannot be fucking real. Please tell me its fake.

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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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Career fields for after college:

Militant anti war protestor

Ecoterrorist

Barista

Secret lover of a diplomat

Dnd player that lives in someone's attic

Unpaid fresco painter for rich people

Guy who ties people to train tracks

Guy who gets tied to train tracks

Guy who stands conveniently close to the train track switch that has people tied to both tracks

Girl

Pretentious Quebecoi with an accent

The gig economy

An exact clone of Fidel Castro

Bank teller

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She magnus on my archive til my quill gets rusty

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I just don’t trust people who don’t connect with the Mountain Goats. He has literally written songs about everything from a terminally ill woman using her relationship with god to come to peace with the knowledge that she’s dying to how much he wants to bang his girlfriend in front of the iguanas at the pet store, so if you can’t find something along that spectrum to appreciate you are beyond help.

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patrick i hope our time together at the washington monument was as romantic as this. regardless of us not being at all attracted to each other, nor drunk.

Bones 3.02, Soccer Mom in the Mini-Van, featuring a mildly drunk and very confused Agent Booth

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fun fact this was the first episode where he was officially in a thruple with the two main characters. back in 2008 it was groundbreaking polyamorous representation, already realistically showing the emotional struggles of respect and communication in group relationships.

lance sweets bones 3x15 "the pain in the heart"

aired may 19 2008

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Anne Truitt, from a diary entry featured in Daybook: The Journal of an Artist

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I would want to be a boy in the way Lemony Snicket in All the Wrong Questions is a boy

I feel like that means something, but I am yet to find out what

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I think Bones is the only show where i ship all of the canon straight ships and i think its because all the men are pathetically in love with their wives. they all become incredibly useless without their respective women and i really appreciate that in a man.

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yeah i'm ok with criticism :) just remember that my self worth is entirely based on whatever you say

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I hired those crumbs to go in your bed