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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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i dont think whites understand how being white makes literally everything easier.

it effects everything.

being trans is easier when youre white.

being gay is easier when youre white.

being disabled is easier when youre white.

being a woman is easier when youre white.

being autistic is easier when youre white.

oppression is eased when you are white, as you get extra privileges, and your whiteness is seen as a positive characteristic that in some ways counter-balances your other forms of being a minority. whiteness controls everything.

you are automatically way more innocent in your own oppression as a gay, trans, disabled person because of your whiteness.

never forget this.

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*September 1st on Tumblr*

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woah mama I’ve been lacking lately

*nefarious and evil hip thrust*

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The person I reblogged this from is awesome as fuck.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY HATSUNE MIKU

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guess who’s tired ass just tried to dump a strainer full of teeth into the paper towel bin

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and then people wonder why len's homophobic/j

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Rotten Girl and Plus Boy

If I was forced to interact with either of these teenagers I would pull my hair out

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remember that 2001 disney channel original movie “luck of the irish” where the kid found out he was a leprechaun and took down the huge potato chip company to get his family’s gold charm heirloom to prevent that evil leprechaun from controlling his family which had the iconic opening scene where he was in his class taking a quiz and didnt feel like doing it so he randomly selected a bunch of answers and turned it in and the teacher was like yo i saw you you kno this class has a no guessing policy these answers are…. correct…….. i apologize… anyways so like today i was in class and i guessed on my entire math multiple choice quiz without even reading the questions and when i got it back i had a hundred AND my mom’s irish so like what i wanna say is i think im a leprechaun destined to destroy capitalism

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Chocolate guy... What the fuck!?

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that bag of chips won't save you

the pig got out

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oh what i wouldn't give to be a kind of weird slightly feminine cis man

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kelmp

You have this post till midnight September 1st 2025, you may do whatever you like with it, but afterwards reblogs will be turned off

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I love how, as well as being an absolutely stellar game changer episode, this episode is SO Brennan. Because it, on top of being Revenge, is also LARP through and through. Using his master's degree qualifications in Camp Counsellor to create the ULTIMATE LARP