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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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epic the musical is literally just the mechanisms’ 2013 album “ulysses dies at dawn” for theater kids in 2025

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my batman rp blog got marked as mature like 2 years ago because i made the pfp the bat symbol

Okay why have so many blogs randomly been marked 'mature' in the past week. I feel like this is an ill omen

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they’re saying the next popemobile will have machine gun turrets and be programmed to keep him alive at any cost

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You're about to close on your very own, suspiciously affordable and comfortable house. Just before you sign the contract, the realtor shows you the required legal disclosure: your new house is haunted by the type of presence you'll get from this spinner wheel.

Of course it is.

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What if you were a METH ADDICT, who came from an ABUSIVE HOUSEHOLD, and then you decided that you wanted to TRY AND BE GOOD (OR/AND FIND NEW DRUGS), so you went to a shady lab in MALAYSIA, and then you kinda DIED, and then you RESUSCITATED with GODLIKE POWERS, and some shady Russian blonde presented you with ADOPTION PAPERS, and saved you from your crushing evil alter ego depression with the POWER OF FRIENDSHIP-

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No but to be serious guys i didnt expect that movie to be that kind of good. I expected great fights. I expected complicated morals. I did not expect that movie to say i know everything seems hopeless but you dont get a choice, you have to try. I did not expect that movie to say when we are up against an impossible, unjust threat the only way through is freely given kindness and forgiveness. I did not expext that movie to say the real way villans win is by preying on those we’ve already decided are hopeless. I did not expect that movie to say we all have to believe we can get better. Please believe me we can all get better. Oh my god.

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Im so brave for going outside even though everyone thinks im weird and is plotting to undermine/hurt me

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Why did McDonald’s make me take a personality test through a chat bot and not even ask for my resume

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Key difference between archives and protocol

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i’m bored have an incredibly low stakes hunger games theory.

i think all the slips in the reaping balls read the same name, as they are pre-selected in the Capitol. Though, it’s not because it’s rigged. I believe the Capitol/game makers use a digital database loaded up with all the names. Each time a kid has their birthday or claims tessarae, their name is automatically added again. Once a kid ages out? All data on them is deleted (or potentially stored seperately, considering the Capitol likely planned an all ages/older tribute game). Once the reaping preparation begins, a program is run to randomly select the reaped tributes.

This theory is really just for fun, based around the impossibility of fitting every single slip of the district in a fish bowl and my own interest in databases. If the Capitol employed this method, I think they’d share with the Capitol citizens as a way to show off just how “random” their methods is, but likely not share it with the districts.

Trying to puzzle out the digital technical side of Panem is quite interesting to me.

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I really enjoy kiwi slang. love to eat my scroggin while tramping. you shouldn’t wear jandals on a tramp but you COULD wear togs I guess. I’m going to take a squiz around the corner to see where this trail goes. a rekkie if you will. aw man okay it’s steep as. I don’t want to trip and cark it. I love words

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i was reading 'The Black Cat' by Edgar Allen Poe aloud for my friend today and discovered why s1 jonathan sims immediately gets into it. its so much fun to read horror as if you are the character experiencing the horrors.

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Victorian and edwardian era ladies with their cats

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Never done a poll before but let’s see how many of my common-to-obscure vampire movies people have seen!

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what a beautiful day to not be in high school