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she was neither. she died old and alone and stupid as hell.

Titanic (1997) dir. James Cameron

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everyone make sure to set out cheese & crackers for neil tonight <3

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COOPER! COOP! THE PEOPLE DOWN AT THE BUREAU ARE ACCUSING YOU AND THE SHERIFF OF SOMETHING KNOWN AS DOOMED YAOI. YOURE FUJOING OUT THEYRE SAYING. NOW I STAND WITH YOU COOP I AM A BIT OF A FUJOSHI MYSELF BUT THEYRE NOT TOO HAPPY ABOUT THIS DOWN IN WASHINGTON.

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you. yeah you. download twine. make something.

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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the replies make me glad i never watched teen titans

Finally found the legendary mountain on which the world's greatest martial arts expert is said to reside! I can already imagine him, mighty atop the summit! Unfortch there's this old crazy lady at the base of the mountain who keeps laughing at me and saying riddles, but dw, I plan to ignore her!

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daily fucking reminder that you are allowed to want attention and that does not make you a bad person.

in case no one’s told you in a while. you are valid.

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nah letters and numbers are different things

Every single odd number has an “e” in it.

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example 103843892929374939322 of why people should stop saying "reactionary" if the rest of the world thinks it means "reactive"

Paaauuusseee I'm out the loop bc wym porn addiction isn't real? genuinely asking

Porn addiction comes from religious groups and isn't a real thing, even psychologists don't think it's a thing. It has more to do with feeling shame about looking at porn - it's entirely religious. First result off google but this goes into it.

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two bob quote variants of a related idea:

"Every national border in Europe," El Eswad added ironically, "marks the place where two gangs of bandits got too exhausted to kill each other anymore and signed a treaty. Patriotism is the delusion that one of these gangs of bandits is better than all the others." -- Robert Anton Wilson, The Earth Will Shake: A Novel

"Most primates mark their territories with excretions; domesticated primates mark their territories with ink excretions on paper (treaties, land titles, etc.). From the biological perspective, every national border in Europe, for instance, marks a place where two rival gangs of domesticated primates fought until exhausted and then left a territorial mark." -- Robert Anton Wilson, The New Inquisition: Irrational Rationalism and the Citadel of Science

Regarding your addition to the pistachio post:

I don't understand the significance of straight lines on maps. Some of it is apparent from context, but I'd like to learn more about it. Could you explain further or point me towards resources on the topic?

Thank you!

Who draws Maps?

If you look at maps made by those whose eyes see the world through the lens of Science, you will find curved, jagged lines, tracing mountain ridge lines and river course ways, drawn with an attempt to accurately represent Nature and its fractal detail.

When people are rulers of their own Polities, they draw political boundaries that make sense according to local realities. These mountains and rivers that naturally congregate and separate populations are considered, and you have winding, jagged boundaries, like those found in Europe, or in the vicinity of Washington.

Cartographer is a trade name for one who draws maps, but even those who draw the maps are not typically those who set the borders. When Texas sought to enter the Union in 1845 as a slave state, federal law in the United States, based on the Missouri Compromise, prohibited slavery north of 36°30' north latitude. Under the Compromise of 1850, Texas surrendered its lands north of 36°30', rather than have a portion of the state as "free" territory. The 170-mile strip of land, a "neutral strip", was left with no state or territorial ownership from 1850 until 1890. It was officially called the "Public Land Strip" and was commonly referred to as "No Man's Land."

In Tordesillas, Spain, on 7 June 1494, a handful of men would sign a piece of paper, and in so doing recognize that half of the world belonged to Hispaniola, and half to Portugal. None of the hundreds of millions of Human Beings living and breathing and working and dying on those continents would be consulted in this matter.

If you mirrored California on the East coast of the US, it would stretch from New Hampshire to the Carolinas, and as far inland as Kentucky. I will freely confess that the autoImperialism we experience here Out West might pale in comparison to what is enforced upon, say, Africa and the rest of the Global South, but that does not make it not Imperialism.

Straight lines on maps are NOT drawn by the people who do the living and breathing and working and dying in a region. They are drawn by distant Powers, with no regard for Local Reality.

A straight line for a political border is something created for the convenience and expediency of an Imperial Administrator. Straight lines on maps are drawn by Outsiders; by people whose sole interest in a territory lies in what Natural Resources can be extracted from it.

The original post was about how a great many California farmers are wasting water trying to outcompete the Iranian Pistachio trade, instead of any number of other, better-suited-to-the-local-ecosystem crops. A choice not informed by Market Demand, or by Local Necessity, but by the political machinations of distant Washington.

This simple observation has profoundly altered the way I look at geopolitics. Once I understood who decides where the lines go; once i could see on the chart who gets to Rule Themselves and who does not, so much became clear.

I hope my words, and perspective, will also clarify things for you. Stay safe out there.

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my reblog was the 1000th note lol

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new tarot card "fuck your entire life" and its a guy being attacked by devils and flaming skulls and wild animals and screaming and fire everywhere

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2016 Lodane still watching TYT and just spiraling because of the celeb icons all dropping dead at once during the most clownish election ever, actually telling an old woman she worked with, "Trump is running as a joke, he's not actually electable." lol, lmao even

iirc this was the year when i started asking, "why did my (agoraphobic israeli) friend have to get a whole-ass medical exception to *not* serve in their army?"

it would be three more years before i wrote about the (battle-tested!) facial recognition software that they... (wait for it) ...sold to our elementary schools in my us state... you know, the really dangerous one (oklahoma lol).

the thing is, it IS going to be worse. but WE are better. 2024 me could eat 2016 me for lunch

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I hope Obama gets dragged into hell with Joe Biden for making us have to deal with this shit rather than admit Bernie was right

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i was ready to argue with you, but it checks out