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sometimes tiktok is actually incredibly good

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—Christy Desmet, ‘The Canonization of Laura Palmer’, from Full of Secrets: Critical Approaches to Twin Peaks. 

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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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1969 - Free Derry was a self-declared autonomous nationalist area of Derry, Northern Ireland, that existed between 1969 and 1972. 

The area, which included the Bogside and Creggan neighbourhoods, was secured by community activists for the first time on 5 January 1969 following an incursion into the Bogside by members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC). Residents built barricades and carried clubs and similar arms to prevent the RUC from entering. After six days the residents took down the barricades and RUC patrols resumed, but tensions remained high over the following months.

Violence reached a peak on 12 August 1969, culminating in the Battle of the Bogside—a three-day pitched battle between residents and the RUC. On 14 August units of the British Army were deployed at the edge of the Bogside and the RUC were withdrawn.

The Derry Citizens Defence Association declared their intention to hold the area against both the RUC and the British Army until their demands were met. The British Army made no attempt to enter the area. The situation continued until October 1969. [video]

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1969 - Battle of the Bogside. Derry, Northern Ireland [video]

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My favorite joke in Metalocalypse is how as the show goes on it becomes increasingly obvious they’re naming characters with the sole purpose of torturing Mark Hamill.

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This is the funniest fucking thing, omg.

THE SAPPHIC MERIDIAN

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Does anyone else think that it's weird how much the whole "the difference between introverts and extroverts is that introverts recharge their energy by being alone and extroverts recharge their energy by spending time with people" thing is taken at face value and treated as if it has any scientific backing?

Like "introvert" and "extrovert" probably have value as descriptive labels to categorize certain behaviors, but I've never encountered any evidence for the idea that what causes you to fall into either one of these categories is some sort of inherent ontological quality that determines whether spending time with people gives you ~energy~ or drains it from you being anything other than pseudoscience pop psychology bunk.

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time for a 

little horny posting

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Since this site seems to be quite fond of sturgeon, here's a month-old baby lake sturgeon.

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I love asking people's boyfriends how long they've wanted to be a girl, it's like a 50/50 chance you're right and it makes everyone very mad at you.

THIS POST IS A JOKE, TRANS WOMEN MAKING JOKES ARE NOT PRESSURING PEOPLE INTO BEING TRANS, TRANS WOMEN MAKING JOKES ARE NOT OPRESSING POOR MADE UP CIS MEN

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Astrology really is a fucking bear trap for transfems in queer social circles. You're telling me if I don't believe in nonsense pseudoscience that assigns me a personality at birth I am disconnected from queerness and womanhood and I sound like a nerd reddit man. How about you kill yourself?