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header: vincent van gogh, the red vineyards near arles (1888)

[gyuszuvirag]

kit / 2005 / any pronouns / hungarian

artblog: @wolfzbanez

talking tag is #chittering

hii welcome to my blog, the place where i reblog stuff and. sometimes even post stuff?? thats crazyyyy. does a twirl

terfs etc stay away

[violetsandshrikes]

Btw, you can donate to menstrual hygiene kits for Sudanese women, which I would highly recommend if you can

https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/padsforpeace/

[violetsandshrikes]

And here’s another one for IDPs in Kumba-Cameroon

https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/protect-3000-idps-in-cameroon-with-a-pad-and-a-pant/

[lambstooth]

what was going on here last night

[sami--onley11]

Even though all the headlines now talk about Syria, and even though Gaza has disappeared from the news as if it’s no longer bleeding—as if the children there are no longer burning in tents, unseen by the world—there are still those who have not forgotten. There are those who continue to insist that the siege is a crime, and that silence is complicity. Thank you, Yasmine Akar. Thank you, Thiago Ávila. Despite being arrested after your participation in the “Madelene” ship to break the siege on Gaza, you did not back down. And today, you are sailing again, on the ship “Handala,” defying oppression to send a message: Gaza is not alone. In a time of lost humanity and widespread indifference to the Palestinian cause, the Freedom Flotilla will never forget, and it will never abandon Gaza. It will continue to sail to ease the suffering of those living under siege. That’s why your donation matters more than ever. Make your donation something we will never forget—because your donation is our only hope. Stand united with the Freedom Flotilla. Donate anything you can. Our hearts can no longer bear the silence.

[grendel-menz]

Please look through their family's story and interact with the links above as things grow more expensive in Gaza.

[catcrumb]

( can you match $10 to the palestine children's relief fund? )

[cdzen]

fyi, if anyone has ever been interested in donating to doctors without borders, they are tripling the value of any donation received until may 15 (up to $500k)

[whalefill]

hi everyone!!! to bring more attention to two Gazan families in need, several artists and I have decided to open a PWYW art drive! to reserve a slot, a donation of $10 USD or higher must be sent to one of -- or split between -- the following campaigns by @falastin-iw and fatma_ruba_. (their respective fundraisers here and here.)

if you're interested in supporting these families and receiving some cool art in return for doing so, here are a number of examples of what my friends @bingobongobonko, @florenzics, @calpalsworld, and I are offering...

...and here's the full info document with everything you need to know about the commission process, as well as more info on both campaigns.

If not, simply passing this post along would be all I ask :) thank you in advance

[whalefill]

ALL slots open atm !!!! come buy our art for pennies ppl !!!

[catcrumb]

APRIL FOOLS... SUCKERS!!!!!!!!!

[staff]

for april fools we’re deleting this entire site sayonara you weeaboo shits

[fandoomed-len]

If it's possible for you, please send donations and humanitarian aids to Myanmar for the earthquakes. We don't have a good plan for earthquakes in place because the country literally is going through a civil war. Though I'm not minimizing the damage in Thailand in anyway, Myanmar's situation has been very largely ignored for the last few years so this was very hard-hitting since we were already going through so much. Mandalay is especially in shambles, and it is known as the second most populous city in Myanmar. People and businesses really suffered from this and they won't be able to rebuild this at all for the next few years because of the civil unrest. And even places not affected too much by the earthquakes, like Yangon, is facing electricity cutoffs. They were rationing electricity before and now there are not even rations. The whole grid is down. Phone lines are also still partially down. What's worse is the military junta hates the word "donation" or "charity" so sometimes they would shut down bank accounts for it and give out arrest warrants, even if the donation is not about supporting the defense forces. So we're in a bind as people who want to send money over will already have to disguise their help as something other than a donation because they don't wanna be flagged and arrested for this. Foreigners have the upper hand as they can just prove their aids truly is a humanitarian aids, while people in the country don't even get a first chance. So please send any (monetary or otherwise) help over if you can and I hope y'all can at least spread the news even if you cannot contribute to the cause.

[fandoomed-len]

See this post for updated local news in Myanmar.

[technofeudalism]

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.

[technofeudalism]

since this post blew up, i've been wanting to do an addition with all of the recommendations from the comments and tags. but there's a lot of them. some people might be crazy enough to sit down and seriously put them all in one post with descriptions. those people are honestly sick in the head.

anyway, here's all of the recommendations from the reblogs. not all of them are text-based, but it's a great mixture of styles. also don't forget the links in the second paragraph of the OP which will take you to FMHY where there are a bunch more games listed.

Games

A Dark Room - text-based science fiction role-playing game.

corru.observer - science fiction adventure web game.

Improbable Island - old-school text adventure game.

Candy Box 2 - incremental clicker game that evolves into RPG.

Arcanum - open source wizard clicker game.

sandspiel, Powder Game, Powder Game 2, The Powder Toy - more sand physics games.

Orb.Farm - fishtank simulator.

Façade - experimental game with a real-time interactive narrative where you try to fix a failing marriage.

The Catacombs of Solaris - trippy art game.

Yume Nikki Online - online version of the surreal classic plus fangames.

The Barncle Goose Experiment - combine element/alchemy game based on antique theories of abiogenesis.

Fallen London - free-to-play text-based open world RPG.

Nested - very unique text-based universe expanding game. described as possibly @orteil42's favorite thing he's ever made.

The Process of Elimination - interactive web novel (by @hypertextdog)

Discworld MUD - multiplayer, text-based, online game (a MUD, or text MMORPG) based on the Discworld books.

Horse Master - surreal text game about training a horse.

EYEZMAZE - flash (RIP) or HTML5-based puzzle games.

You Are Jeff Bezos - text game. spend Jeff Bezos' fortune.

The Password Game - challenging puzzle game where you have to meet password requirements (by neal)

Universal Paperclips - incremental paperclip making game.

Half-Earth - planetary disaster planning game where you try to save the world using socialism.

ChooseYourStory - community-driven website centered on CYOA style story games.

PhD Simulator - random event based text game. make your choice each month and see if you can graduate on time.

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup - open source roguelike.

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead - turn-based survival roguelike set in the modern day.

Nethack - open source roguelike originally released in 1987.

FarmRPG - simple, mobile-friendly, text-based farming RPG.

Kingdom of Loathing - browser-based community MMORPG.

PokeRogue - browser-based Pokemon roguelike

Tools

Text Game Builder - works in your browser, with just a little bit of Python (by @grumpygandalf)

Twine - great (free!) tool for making text-based games quickly.

Ink - scripting language for interactive fiction (also free)

Flashpoint Archive - a community effort to preserve games and animations from the web.

PICO-8 - fantasy console for making, sharing and playing tiny games and other computer programs.

Non-Games

Library of Babel - interactive illustration which attempts to simulate what it might be like to browse The Library of Babel.

Superbad - technically not a game, sprawling website full of secrets.

17776 - serialized speculative fiction multimedia narrative about football in the far-future. beautiful, creative, legendary. created by Jon Bois, a legend and one of my favorite writers of all time.

Choice of Games - text-based, choose-your-own-adventure games (interactive fiction). some free-to-play, others can be bought like an ebook.

The Deep Sea - scroll to the bottom of the ocean. encounter the humble squid and his friends (by neal)

Space Elevator - like The Deep Sea, but up instead of down. you can equip your avatar with a scarf (by neal)

Internet Artifacts - an interactive history of the early internet (by neal)

If The Moon Were Only One Pixel - scroll through an accurately scaled model of the universe.

r/incremental_games - reddit community for incremental games.

r/WebGames - reddit community for web games in general.

thank you to everyone who contributed and the creators. please be sure to show them some love where possible.

[queer-scots-geordie-dyke]

More than 1000 people have been killed in a horrific 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Myanmar and Thailand, and the devastation is enormous. To help survivors:

World Central Kitchen are en route to the affected areas.

MSF/Doctors Without Borders also have teams on the ground to aid the injured.

[aropride]

come play blorbos with me

we can do tghis. our touy

[memorycycle]

in dark souls 4 you will be able to squirt a little extra honey onto the cheerieos if u dont think its sweet enough on its own

[shaggydyke]

[memorycycle]

extra honey onto the cheerieos if u dont think its sweet enough on its own

[eebie]

i miss everyone

[eebie]

[recklessmoss]

Hi! Sorry I haven't posted a lot recently, but unfortunately my partner's kitty passed away 2 weeks ago and he has just received the cremation bill, which as you can imagine turned out to be a little more than anticipated;; If you are able to help out with even a little It's greatly appreciated <3 here's his Ko-fi Link ! you can also consider buying some of his adopts on his page too <3

[metfell]

guy who gets increasingly confused when an 80’s song fades out so he turns it up louder and louder and gets blasted so hard by the next song starting that he dies