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Victoria Mboko won!!!

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sheepish is a really funny word. fuck im so nervous (turns into this)

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ppl are rlly trying to defend being on your phone during a movie in the theater what is going on

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United in fun.

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being so staunchly anti generative ai while everyone around you is "i used chatgpt" and "i asked grok" and google search is useless and every company is implementing ai and every single celeb is taking ai money and partnering with ai is like... it's so jarring. why can't you see the harm like i can? why are you so lazy? why are we making society this stupid? can we please stop? it's killing people does that not matter to you?

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no, i dont lose hyperfixations. theyre just moved to a different, slightly less used, shelf in my brain.

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have realized that while i am not a fan necessarily of "people meet and immediately fall in love" i am a fan of "people meet and are immediately obsessed with each other." the love can come later but the absolute fixation should be immediate

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The only thing I like about summer is getting amazing fruit at the farmers market. Other than that summer can fuck right off.

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sorry but someone assuming you have "left a fandom" when you don't post about it a lot anymore feels like bilbo coming home to the sackville bagginses having him presumed dead and selling all his stuff. girl i was just on a little quest????

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Women athletes are insane because they'll win a race or score a goal, and the commentators will casually mention she's a licensed physician currently pursuing a PhD in chemistry or something.

Meanwhile, men athletes get called "the smart one" for finishing high school.

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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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Something terrifying about the way censorship is just straight up happening right now and they're barely trying to pretend that isn't what it is. The UK rolling out the Online Safety Act which forces anyone accessing 'adult' content (including discord, LGBT+ forums, various resources for drug addicts etc.) to share their face and ID with American third party companies, and refusing to debate a repeal in parliament despite 300,000 signatures on their own website to do so. Something fishy going on with Google docs suddenly deleting/restricting content. Itchio and Steam suddenly deleting 18+ games including both porn games and horror games at the behest of Mastercard.

Like. Truly in the past month the censorship is hitting like a truck and we're all just supposed to be fine with it. Like. It's genuinely making me feel sick.

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🩷 giving them a pep talk for WolfNichols :)

“I just think you’re putting too much pressure on yourself. It’s really not that big of a deal.”

Oliver narrows his eyes as he taps his pen against his notebook. “They’re our wedding vows. It’s a big deal.”

Josh looks up at him over the top of his laptop. “I know, I’m sorry, I was just trying to make you feel better.”

Oliver throws his hands up with a groan and Josh moves his laptop to the side so he can reach across the kitchen table. Oliver looks down at his open hand with a raised brow. 

“Why don’t you use the traditional vows?” Josh reasons and Oliver heaves a sigh. 

“Because you’re writing your own.”

Josh shrugs. “So what?”

“So,” Oliver starts dramatically, “you’re going to recite these heartfelt and deeply personal vows and I’m going to say the same boring ones that everyone else says? How would that look?”

“Okay, first of all,” Josh says, still reaching, “I think you’re giving me too much credit. I’m not a writer, you’re not getting Shakespeare level prose here. Second of all, why do you care what other people think? This is our day, not theirs.”

“It’s not about what other people think,” Oliver tells him, “it’s about what you think.”

“I know that I said yes to marrying you so whatever you say or don’t say in your vows isn’t going to change that.”  

Oliver looks away and Josh reaches across the table with his other hand as well, palms up. He clears his throat, pointedly. 

Oliver heaves a sigh and lays his hands over Josh’s. 

“I have heard you give hope to the hopeless,” Josh begins. “I’ve heard you make insurance reps cry and pull more than one intern out of an anxious spiral. You are more than capable of pulling together a sixty second speech to give at the altar.” He squeezes Oliver’s hands. “I believe in you.”

Oliver nods and slowly pulls his hands away so he can pick up his pen.