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Why do people keep reblogging that photo of a goth chick in a combine harvester

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they should invent a 2025 where good things happen

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lord of the rings bigatures my beloved

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Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

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explain your gender in 10 words or less without using boring words like “male”, “female”, “nonbinary”, “masculine”, “feminine” or “androgynous”.

go!

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NO*Loza’s Lovely Sorpresa [Pedigree]

🐱 Norwegian Forest Cat

📸 Sofia Leonsen [NO*Loza’s]

🎨 Blue Tortoiseshell with White

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tinned fish rugs by h.h.hooks

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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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THERE IS. a website. that takes 3D models with seams and pulls it apart to make a plushie pattern and informs you where things need to be edited or darts added for the best effect. and then it lets you scale it and print off your pattern. and I want to lose my MIND because I've lost steam halfway through so many plushie patterns in the mind numbing in betweens of unwrapping, copying all of the meshes down as pieces, transferring those, testing them, then finding obvious tweaks... like... this would eradicate 99% of my trial and error workflow for 3D models to plushies & MAYBE ILL FINALLY FINISH SCREAMTAIL...

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high quality noise collection

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Ever since the original tape of the Wilhelm scream recording session surfaced I have been losing my mind a little bit over it

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whats a stereotype for your country that you absolutely do. mine is that i unironically go "eh" and apologize a lot and i often drink maple syrup straight

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Into The Forest- Annabell Larsh

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what's y'all's BoE name

We don't fully know how BoE names work (Tamsyn said it would be a spoiler for Alecto, but I don't know if that was pre-Nona, whatever) but simply going off Crown and Wake (the only two complete examples), the structure seems to be:

Canonical literary text (Shakespeare for Wake, Aeschylus for We Suffer, a hymn for Crown)

An anthem (national?) (NZ for Wake, Ivory Coast for Crown) (possibly in the original local language, if Nona is actually hearing Crown in French)

A pop song (Eminem for Wake, The Mutton Birds for Crown).

I'm Spanish and grew up speaking Spanish, Euskera (Basque) and English, so I've chosen my BoE name to be:

His Brain Dried Up Txoria Nuen Maite How Do You Spell Epifanny

From Don Quijote: “Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up.” (“Del poco dormir y del mucho leer se le secó el cerebro.”)

“I loved the bird” from poem/song Txoria txori (The bird is a bird): “If I had cut its wings, it would have stayed by my side, but it wouldn't have been a bird anymore, and what I loved was a bird” (“Hegoak ebaki banizkion, nirea izango zen, es zuen alde egingo, bainan horrela ez zuen gehiago txoria izango eta nik txoria nuen maite”) (It's not just about freedom and consumptive urges but about the censorship and persecution of Euskera as a language)

“MANTRA” by Bring Me the Horizon, I love that the lyric is misspelled when you read it

looking this up I found some beautiful people on reddit coming up with their own

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