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So, I love looking through your game recs, and all of them look so interesting!

The only problem is that I have zero money at the moment, or at least zero that can be spent of games.

I don’t suppose you know any good/enjoyable games that are free or have a demo?

(There is only so much time you can spend doing housework or looking for work and I’ve replayed and replayed the games I’ve already got so many times)

It’s funny you should ask. Folks often ask me how the hell I have thousands of games in my Steam library, and the answer is, well, a substantial chunk of them are free to play. Many of them are very, very bad, but there are exceptions – I’ve placed links to the 120 or so that I’d actually recommend to other people under the cut.

A lot of these games are quite short (i.e., average playing time in the five to fifteen minute range), but they're free, so really that's good value for your money! Note: owing to the length of this list, I will not be including descriptions or content warnings – be sure to check the writeups and reviews.

I’ve marked my personal top dozen with asterisks (*). These aren’t necessarily the most approachable or well-constructed titles on this list, mind – just the ones I had the most fun with.

prokopetz

So, I love looking through your game recs, and all of them look so interesting!

The only problem is that I have zero money at the moment, or at least zero that can be spent of games.

I don’t suppose you know any good/enjoyable games that are free or have a demo?

(There is only so much time you can spend doing housework or looking for work and I’ve replayed and replayed the games I’ve already got so many times)

It’s funny you should ask. Folks often ask me how the hell I have thousands of games in my Steam library, and the answer is, well, a substantial chunk of them are free to play. Many of them are very, very bad, but there are exceptions – I’ve placed links to the 120 or so that I’d actually recommend to other people under the cut.

A lot of these games are quite short (i.e., average playing time in the five to fifteen minute range), but they're free, so really that's good value for your money! Note: owing to the length of this list, I will not be including descriptions or content warnings – be sure to check the writeups and reviews.

I’ve marked my personal top dozen with asterisks (*). These aren’t necessarily the most approachable or well-constructed titles on this list, mind – just the ones I had the most fun with.

p1anetmouth

insect fairies…these were super fun I think my favorites r Goliath beetle and leaf roller moth…I’m selling all these characters!! Message me if you’re interested 😊 (60usd each, or 90usd for the character + full body )

p1anetmouth

damselfly was sold! Goliath beetle and Luna moth r on hold!

undasura

lip sync test for real this time. rali morning routine. juicy goss interview.

undasura

i forgot to mention the voice is done w synthv eri and then i threw some funny fx on it.... my rali become real

undasura

bellaswans-khakiskirt

You could all just make your own thing instead of putting up Caitvi Kinktober posts to make fun of. I thought y'all were against that sort of behavior. No body is forcing anyone to interact. just as bad as "antis"

yeah no me and the proshipper council got together and decided that everyone has to watch the caitvi kinktober hall of the mountain king vid and if you don't you'll get arrested

syngularitysyn

Can you explain what happened to the kinktober drama? I’m kinda scared to look it up i saw some posts referring it

I don't wanna get involved in the mess and I'm not active on twit so I don't know the people behind this event and I'll try to keep it short.

The drama from the last few days was over the rules of the Caitvi Kinktober event that were restrictive and looked more like a legal document with lots of stipulations for what is allowed and even had a template for how certain things should be written. The themes were rather tame and yet some of them also conflicted with their own rules. They did this instead of saying 'XYZ is banned cause we don't like it, so if you do write XYZ we won't promote it', and had an overall puritan/fandom policing/corporate vibe that just doesn't match with an event that's supposed to celebrate kink, and for that they got criticized.

Unfortunately it breached containment so non-Arcane/Caitvi people started clowning on them. I wish I could say they were listening to actual criticism before that happened about the rules, but from what I've heard the account was blocking a lot of Caitvi writers who write kink (I believe they even blocked people who write kink without interactions/reason given).

I read the rules a few weeks ago and decided the vibes were off, especially with the creatively limiting scene requirements where you would break the rules if you came up with a more elegant way of including consent. I do feel bad for the people behind it for being clowned on en masse cause I don't think anyone deserves that (and also that it's unhelpful and inflammatory with one side (fandom outsiders) saying 'this is why F/F fic isn't popular', and the people defending the rules going 'sorry you freaks can't disguise rape kink behind CNC'). But I don't understand how they didn't realize ahead of time or during the creation of the event that they weren't the right people to run it, or realized their version would work better as a private event ran on a discord server rather than a public event.

Anyway, tldr is some people made a fandom specific prompt list and hashtag for an already established yearly Kinktober event, and then used that as a way to try to control what other people create.

mearchy

Like it really does boil down to “in the source media they have an inherently interesting morally fraught relationship where one is a wealthy cop and the other is a poor person who has been a victim of incarceration and that is something that defines and dictates the way they interact with each other romantically and sexually. And now you want everyone who engages with that source media to create a specific AU where the source conditions do not exist and the compelling and interesting dynamics have been stripped away in order to satisfy your specific need for everything fictional to represent ideal real life moral conditions.” Like I think other commentary is important but I keep coming back to the fact that like other people have pointed out it’s not just that this is kinkshaming and weird it’s that this is literally not what the original media is about. So either somehow their canon relationship is an issue for you and I suspect you don’t actually enjoy the source material at all (so why are you even here??) OR you think people can only engage with transformative works if they are held to a strict puritanical moral standard that the original creators were NOT. Which has no excuse attached I can even think of.

captainragtag

Can we include darebee.com with ao3 and wikipedia on our list of really good nonprofits with excellent services that we stan?

It's a free, no sign-up, no ads fitness resource created by professionals who view this as activism (fitness should be accessible to everyone), and it's very thoughtful and thorough.

Features I really like:

- all instructions for workout routines are diagrammed on single pages with a clean, easy to read layout

- there's 30 or 60 day programs you can follow if you, like me, don't know what to do. they take you through a rotation of workouts so you're working different muscle groups on different day for a specific purpose

- there's so much variety and there's a filter so you can find the level and your goals and type of workout you wanna do

- you don't need any equipment

- some of the programs are RPGs or adventure stories! How's that for motivation. There's also badges and achievements or something but I haven't looked that closely at how that works yet

- they're nerds. they name workouts after D&D classes. There's a Lannistrr workout, a batcave workout, a witcher workout

- I've only scratched the surface

I'm doing this really easy one to start out

Darebee, darebee, fitness, visual workouts, workouts, fitness challenges, fitness motivation, training tips, recipes, nutrition

bisexualshakespeare

If you don't understand from the picture they have an Exercise Library playlist in YouTube so you can see what all the moves look like in motion!

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQSMS0J6JbrKdSOSbyJXaQ_zN_HSSp7zZ

tigerlilypurr

The Moth Wing Capelet by Rachel (Minimal Machinist) as shared by Jasika Nicole.

The Moth Wing Capelet is a short quilted cape with upper and lower wings and was designed for playing moth dress up!This is a multisize patt

vrabia

truly from the bottom of my heart i hate the level of enshittification etsy has reached because it's still the best place to buy patterns for my hobby and every time i go scrolling through endless ai-generated bullshit to finally dig up a human-designed pattern i like, i'm hit with a deluge of 'popular!! 563 people are looking at this right now!! it's in 134632 baskets!! you must buy immediately!!!' it's a pdf file. it's a fucking pdf file. do you get off on trying to give people fomo over a fucking pdf file. fuck off. get diarrhea forever.

vrabia

and that's not even touching the ai-generated patterns with hundreds of 5-star bot reviews that are stupidly easy to spot if you know what to look for. but most beginners don't know what to look for, so they're straight-up scammed into buying based on a nice picture. then their 'hey, i made this and it looks nothing like advertised' comments get buried under hundreds of 5-star bot reviews, and this is how someone who might have otherwise discovered an interesting and fulfilling hobby drops it, thinking the pattern's fine, everyone else likes it, so it's on them for not being good enough. it pisses me off so much, you have no idea.

vrabia

anyway, here's some shops selling amigurumi (crochet soft toys) patterns fully created by crafters. i've either bought and made patterns from them or saved them for later, meaning i already checked that they aren't ai-generated. i might make a post later on how to spot ai-generated amigurumi patterns, but i wanted to give these a shout-out. go buy from them if you can, it's cool stuff and an interesting skill to learn.

straw animals design (etsy store) plushies and accessories, including some knitted patterns. beginner friendly!

green frog crochet (website store). mostly doll patterns, very pretty and totally worth the time and effort. they also sell full kits for some of the patterns, that include all supplies except for crochet hooks and fiberfill. also, youtube channel with tutorials.

moonlight crochet (etsy store). mostly doll patterns, lots of clothes you can adapt to dolls of similar sizes

yan schenkel (website store for individual patterns) has several books out that i really love. it took a bit of digging to figure out if this online store selling the pdf versions is legit and i found that the publisher sells directly through them. there are three pattern books (1, 2, 3) with animal plushies.

natura crochet (website store) has colorful animal and holiday themed patterns, plus two books of aquatic themed patterns. same publisher/seller as above.

hanichan (website store) has a distinct and minimalist style that i think is very beginner friendly. there are also useful general tutorials for amigurumi.

aquariwool crochet (etsy store). a lot of colorful and fun animal patterns. i haven't bought anything from them yet but i have a few saved and honestly just looking through the patterns makes me happy.

make me roar (website store). one of the more unique styles i've seen out there, especially these.

jo handmade design (etsy store). both plushies and more realistic toys, the patterns are very well written and illustrated.

whenever possible i linked to a store outside etsy, but not all pattern creators have one, so it's 100% worth checking them out and supporting them despite the absolute tar pit they operate in. also whatever creative hobby you're curious about, don't let an ai-generated picture discourage you from trying it. you are a god capable of summoning something out of nothing and generative ai is a pathetic little string of mathematical operations with ideas above its station.

lizardlicks

I AM GOING TO SCREAM AND SCREAM AND SCREAM to the heavens until everyone knows about the Etsy competitor goimagine!!!

Shop Handmade | Shop Local | Shop with Purpose

The founder of GoImagine refuses to go public or sell the platform: NO SHARE HOLDERS TO APPEASE!!

They have a STRICT vetting process for sellers: NO BOTS, NO AI, NO DROP SHIPPING, HAND MADE CRAFTS ONLY!!

You can narrow down stores you're shopping from by STATE! EASILY SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL BUSINESSES!!

2% of every sale transaction is donated to charity!!!

This is baked into the platform. Right now they're partnered with four different charities to fight childhood hunger, provide relief childcare for families dealing with domestic violence, end childhood homelessness, and fund art accessablity. HELPING KIDS!!!!

I have a shop there that I will be stocking soon! If you're a creator, their basic ship front is FREE and you get 12 listing slots! The next size up is only $5 a month and you get 200 listings, and the topn you're at $15 gives you 1,000 product listings and a whole ass customizable store front website. That's cheaper than anything else on the market rn.

Current downsides that will not remain downsides: they're only available in the USA but they're planning on expanding into Canada soon. And they've been mostly focused on growing their seller side, so not a lot of buyers know about them yet. But!!! That why I tell everyone I can! Shop with them! List your products with them! Use a platform that has a dedicated mission for community good and is there to support sustainable creator markets, not create endless bloated corporate growth!!!!

And dump Etsy yesterday.

#save

questions-about-blorbos

if your Blorbo were to go on trial, what would it be for?

Any form of murder

Any form of assault

Any form of kidnapping

Any form of stalking

Any form of burglary / robbery / fraud / forgery / shoplifting / tax evasion

Drugging

Terrorism

Public endangerment

Public indecency / indecent exposure

Several of the above

Something else

My Blorbo would not break any law

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squarizona

mh computer tryin to say chimichangas I give uP

zoesupreme

spotify is raising prices again here's the apk that gives you premium for free

world-of-lang

and here's the desktop version for Windows with adblock and skip-bypass BlockTheSpot

dont-look-me-in-the-eye

spot X for windows

spot X for linux/mac

epistleii

bumblebeebats

"Don't just throw ripped jeans away, you can repair them using these 10 cute Visible Mending techniques!!" unfortunately my friend the first point of failure for every single pair of jeans i have owned in my life has been the Crotch and Ass. Knees: fine, cuffs: fine; but 3 years in, and all that stands between the world and my astronaut-patterned taint is 0.5µm of denim worn so thin that every squat threatens to tear it to shreds like wet toilet paper. If the Tiktok craft community could figure out a way to resurrect jeans afflicted in such a way that doesn't involve adding a whole ass buttpatch like some sort of inverse assless chaps situation then that'd be great

mxtomituck

May I recommend the sashiko family of techniques? I’m not sure if you’ve seen this particular method but it’s one that is likely thousands of years old and is especially good for areas like the inseam or the knees that generally get more wear than other regions:

Many of the visible mending hacks one sees are designed to be aesthetic and not structural, as OP points out, but this technique is different:

1) you’ll notice that the mended area is larger than the actual damage. All of the stitched area indicates where additional fabric is added for strength.

2) the pattern of visible stitching is PRACTICAL in this work. The reason pants wear down along the inseam is that the fabric is constantly being rubbed against the other leg. Here, the stitching is what’s rubbing against itself, and the embroidery will fail first, meaning the fabric underneath will last longer.

3) this technique is very, very simple once you draw your grid, and there are plenty of places online that sell water soluble graph paper that you can sew into as a guide and then wash out.

Please please please don’t give up on home sewing and mending because of content farms - I promise there’s a whole world of incredibly simple and reliable techniques that - while perhaps time consuming - are PROVEN to increase the longevity of your clothes AND give you further opportunities to express your creativity and style!!!

dinosaurcharcuterie

You can also do this with a sewing machine, btw. Exact same principle of stitches onto a patch larger than the damage, with the damaged piece in-between. Modern sewing machine thread can handle boiling temperatures, high friction and is designed to mimic or surpass silk in strength.

Back and forth and up and down straight stitches, in a color that matches the current color of the area you are mending.

(As my mom always says: if you're torn between two colors that are close, pick the darker one.)

Not as pretty as sashiko, but flatter and quicker.

People have been mending the crotch of pants since the moment we had pants. And we had pants for a few centuries before we ever got the ludicrous idea to try and walk in them.