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thememedaddy

queerasaurolophus

@rammyrue’s tags because holy shit this is so accurate and important

slightly-gay-pogohammer

pokèmonize yourself!!!!

spin this wheel to see your pokemon type

spin this one to see how you'll look like

how did it go!!!

literally dream scenario

it's good!

i can live with that

could be better

hate. let me tell you how much i've come to hate this since i began to live.

Voting ended onFeb 18, 2025

slightly-gay-pogohammer

also smth smth reblog and tell me what you got im very curious

chaoticlovingdreamer

Water and grass dual type.

Eel.

I'm a slightly worse Eelektross.

brightlotusmoon

Psychic and Fairy dual type. Digital. I think I need to look up some things but that sounds Pretty Neat. *Marge Simpson smile*

fire-fira

I have to laugh. I freaking can't.

First wheel I got-- in order:

Fire + roll for a second type

Water + roll for a second type

Flying + roll for a second type

Rock

I'M THE FUCKING AVATAR. 😂

And then-- and THEN!-- for the second wheel I got:

A combination (roll twice)

A mollusk

Tree (or leaf or bush or whatever lmao)

What the fuck????

The picker wheels need to go home, they're drunk.

#flying grass rodent #flying is actually my favorite type and i enjoy grass types for their status effects #quad weak to ice but what can you do? at least ice types are rare and tend to be flimsy #pokemon #wheel spinner

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.

literaryreference

i get that this is something from the reblogs that OP has no experience with, but i feel the need to warn people that the ChooseYourStory community is like the 4chan of text-based games. they like to put gratuitous bigotry, sexual assault, and gory violence into their games both for "realism" and to stick it to the wokes and they have a vendetta against any other interactive fiction community they deem too woke (which for them is just, like, "groups that produce games where you can play as a marginalized person and not get hatecrimed" or "forums/servers where you will be banned if you call another user a slur"). they're also thin-skinned babies who can't stand any criticism of their own works, of course, and they like to troll, harass, and review-bomb anyone who criticizes them. i do not recommend engaging with them in any way.

anyway, IFDB isn't just text adventure games in like the Zork sense, although it started out that way. these days there are a lot of other, more accessible things listed there as well, and i definitely recommend spending some time poking around it if you're interested in free text-based browser games.

#interactive fiction #browser games

barefootdramaturg

For some reason, it never occurred to me that Project Gutenberg would have public domain old cookbooks. This is BRILLIANT. There’s a 1953 cranberry recipe pamphlet and a suffrage cookbook from 1915 and a translation of Apicus’s guide to food in Imperial Rome and a whole bunch of other fascinating old cookbooks, many pre-1800. Treasure trove!

optimysticals

I love you for sharing this!!!

ferrific

For more old cookbooks, Michigan State University has 76 of their historical cookbooks scanned and searchable at Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project.

hsavinien

For even older recipes, check out Gode Cookery. They list medieval and Renaissance cooking instructions and translate the recipes for you into measurable amounts and all.

runecestershire

I have have have to mention Miss Leslie. I learned so much about cooking from that book, even if a lot of it is outdated.

Also, Forme of Cury is great fun, if you can muddle through the Middle English (Gode Cookery has translations and adaptions of some of the recipes from this).

sarkos

I’ll always take an opportunity to remind people of Barkham Burroughs’ Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, which also contains recipes

theprofessional-amateur

Feast Afrique had pulled from a range of digital repositories to create a library of historic books on the food and cultural history of West Africa and the African Diaspora. This includes lots of historic and specialized cookbooks.

Digital Library — Feast Afrique

#don't forgot to check your local library for old cookbooks!

Honestly your comment on the fanom thing made me think about the fics that come out of Space Battles, a forum. There are people posting 100k+ self insert crossover fics there having fun, and I was thinking of doing the same due to the community there

Yeah, its like on one hand tumblr, twitter, and tiktok made fandom so accessible and mainstream, but in doing so it just murdered the sense of community.

Genuinely the last time I remember feeling like I was part of a fandom on tumblr was back when Young Justice was airing. We kind of just knew everyone else in the fandom and immediately welcomed each other with open arms. Even when we were beefing over ships it wasn't like hateful, you know? I felt comfortable posting on here and sending asks to people because I knew them. I used to make fanart all the time because people engaged with it. Now I post art and it is just a pitiful response and I just don't feel like posting it anymore. Like I know I responded to an ask awhile back asking why I didn't post art anymore and I blamed my mental health and yeah that is a huge part of it, but also why would I if I'm getting 0 notes. Makes me feel REAL shitty.

Now every fandom is just so incredibly huge and it is impossible to know everyone. And is it just me or did BNFs kind of just die out too? I can't remember the last time I participated in a fandom and even knew of a celebrity-type fan.

But if you go on a small discord or fansite with a forum, and oh man it is like old fandom. Everybody is having fun and supporting each other and gushing about the stuff being created.

It is just so much harder to be a silent lurker when you see the same names over and over again chatting about stuff you're interested in. You start to feel like you know them and WANT to engage. Versus a random post appearing in a poorly managed tag on tumblr by someone you've never seen before.

I think as creators we need to go back to fandom roots and start up small communities again. Fandom is too mainstream for tumblr to work anymore, and it barely worked as a place for fandom in the first place. Creators need more control over their work and people need to actually see each other as people and not random usernames so we stop trying to cut each other's heads off and acting like asshats.

#fandom

maaarine

Why aren't we talking about the real reason male college enrollment is dropping? (Celeste Davis, Oct 6 2024)

"White flight is a term that describes how white people move out of neighborhoods when more people of color move in.

White flight is especially common when minority populations become the majority. That neighborhood then declines in value.

Male flight describes a similar phenomenon when large numbers of females enter a profession, group, hobby or industry—the men leave. That industry is then devalued.

Take veterinary school for example:

In 1969 almost all veterinary students were male at 89%.

By 1987, male enrollment was equal to female at 50%.

By 2009, male enrollment in veterinary schools had plummeted to 22.4%

A sociologist studying gender in veterinary schools, Dr. Anne Lincoln says that in an attempt to describe this drastic drop in male enrollment, many keep pointing to financial reasons like the debt-to-income ratio or the high cost of schooling.

But Lincoln’s research found that “men and women are equally affected by tuition and salaries.”

Her research shows that the reason fewer men are enrolling in veterinary school boils down to one factor: the number of women in the classroom.

For every 1% increase in the proportion of women in the student body, 1.7 fewer men applied.

One more woman applying was a greater deterrent than $1000 in extra tuition! (…)

Since males had dominated these professions for centuries, you would think they would leave slowly, hesitantly or maybe linger at 40%, 35%, 30%, but that’s not what happens.

Once the tipping point reaches majority female- the men flee. And boy do they flee!

It’s a slippery slope. When the number of women hits 60% the men who are there make a swift exit and other men stop joining.

Morty Schapiro, economist and former president of Northwestern University has noticed this trend when studying college enrollment numbers across universities:

“There’s a cliff you fall off once you become 60/40 female/male. It then becomes exponentially more difficult to recruit men.”

Now we’ve reached that 60% point of no return for colleges.

As we’ve seen with teachers, nurses and interior design, once an institution is majority female, the public perception of its value plummets.

Scanning through Reddit and Quora threads, many men seem to be in agreement - college is stupid and unnecessary.

A waste of time and money. You’re much better off going into the trades, a tech boot camp or becoming an entrepreneur. No need for college. (…)

When mostly men went to college? Prestigious. Aspirational. Important.

Now that mostly women go to college? Unnecessary. De-valued. A bad choice. (…)

School is now feminine. College is feminine. And rule #1 if you want to safely navigate this world as a man? Avoid the feminine.

But we don’t seem to want to talk about that."

#this is fascinating #i wonder how much of it is misogyny and how much of it is how women are raised #like women are far less likely to change careers or do something risky because of how they are raised #so when we start to see the writing on the wall that something is over saturated and difficult to get high paying work or over priced #women stick to the less risky path and men gamble on something high reward like a career switch or a non-traditional path #because in my experience if men want to stay somewhere and dont want women there they make it hostile for women #rather than packing up and leaving #not to say this is a one thing or the other scenario just wondering how much each part plays into it #the devaluing after male flight is straight up misogyny for sure but the actual flight is interesting

dimensionhoppingrose

You know what’s really disturbing to me? The culture that seems to have sprung up around fanfiction. Writers spend weeks and months working on a story – I think my record is six months on A Place For Us To Dream. And so many times readers expect to just be given a chapter even if they don’t give anything to the writer in return.

I’m going to date myself a bit here, but I’ve been reading/writing fanfiction for ten years. And when I first started it was a wonderful community. There was an unspoken rule – if you read/enjoyed it, you review it. You take thirty seconds to tell an author who probably spent anywhere from three days to a week writing that chapter you just enjoyed to tell them you enjoyed it. Even if it was as simple as “Great chapter, can’t wait to see what happens next!”

Writers spend so much time on stories, and then they post it because they have this thing that they’ve invested so many hours into and they want to share it with the world. They know how they feel about the story, and they want to know how other people feel, what other people think.

And when you read it and don’t review, you know what message you’re sending that author? That they’re not worth your time, or you didn’t enjoy their story. So why should they keep posting it? Yeah they might continue working on it in their own time, for their own enjoyment, but you might never see another chapter again because you couldn’t be bothered to take thirty seconds out of your day to tell them how you feel.

I’ve written stories in eight different fandoms, ranging from very small to very big (I’ll openly admit I wrote Twilight fanfiction once. Once. It was an Alice/Jasper story and haters can hate all they want but I’m still proud of it). I took a break for a few years because I fell out of fandoms during college, and when I came back apparently it’d become the norm to just greedily consume writing without telling writers how you feel. And that is one of the saddest things in the world to me because fanfiction is where I really started getting serious about writing. It’s how I’ve honed by skills and become the writer I am today. And that was largely in part because of all the support I got when I was an itty-bitty thirteen-year-old writing crappy W.I.T.C.H. fanfiction.

Everyone keeps saying “reviews don’t matter, you should just write for yourself.” Well, you’re wrong. Reviews make or break fanfiction. Reviews tell writers whether it’s worth their time to continue posting that story online or whether they should keep it on their hard drives and never share it with the world.

Kill the attitude that reviews don’t matter. Start telling writers you like their stories. And if you don’t, if you all just continue to be invisible readers? Don’t be surprised when that writer disappears.

shotofstress

Its been almost 10 years since this post and this is still a problem that has just grow each year

adoriels-tears-if

In my darkest hours, I feel that.

kingdoms-and-empires

I feel seen

keylimepie

You know, I've thought about this a lot over the years. I started participating in fandom 25 years ago, and I do remember during the LiveJournal (LJ) and forums eras that I rarely if ever heard a fanfic writer complaining about engagement and each chapter was full of comments. Then around 2010 tumblr happened and everyone migrated from LJ to tumblr. Suddenly fanfiction writers were complaining about a lack of engagement. I think this is largely because we became so centralized and lost all sense of community. It used to be you had to sign up for a website with a forum dedicated to a very specific pairing, or you had to join a livejournal community that was very specific to your interest. And the membership might reach a little under 2k. Most of these communities were locked too, so you didn't have to worry about what you said being publicly visible to folks outside your community. You knew who you were speaking to and who could see what you were saying.

Tumblr, tiktok, and twitter are more like shouting into the void and hoping someone in the crowds of 100k people take notice of you, and that task is way easier with a pretty photo or a video than with a fic. You don't know who is going to see what you're saying, and I think most of us have either experienced or witnessed someone receiving dog-piled backlash because one person misconstrued what the OP said. So basically, not only are you struggling to get attention in a massive crowd from people with incredibly short attention spans who have no idea who you are, but if you do manage to get someone's attention they may be too scared to say anything publicly. Hell they may be too scared to DM the author because they don't know the author either and I have seen authors tear apart DMs publicly because they misconstrued something that was said and now the author's fanbase is dog-piling that person. You ever notice how so many asks to authors are anon? People are scared, and it is so much safer to just like or kudo something than put yourself out there in front of a potential firing squad.

Also just want to point out, that a lot of asks people send to creators never get addressed, either because tumblr ate it, or the creator decided to ignore it, or the creator's inbox was overflowing. And after awhile people stop sending asks to not only that creator, but other creators as well because they've been receiving negative reinforcement that their engagement is undesired.

I think I saw another one of these posts floating around where it turned out people were gushing about fics in discords but not commenting on AO3 or the author's tumblr. And this kind of makes sense to me. Discords are a lot like the forums and LJ communities of old, where it is a much smaller group and you tend to know most of the people there and you feel more comfortable speaking up.

I just don't think huge centralized hubs are of the benefit to creators. It is fine to post stuff to tumblr or AO3 or wherever, but that isn't enough. If you want engagement you need to build up or join a community and cross-post there. If you're just flinging your work into the void and expecting engagement, then it just isn't going to work. Sure people will find it, but they wont feel comfortable enough to say anything where they have no control over who sees it. 20 years ago, we didn't have tumblr or twitter or even AO3, you had to find or start a community if you wanted to share your work. We had to make our own spaces not rely on corporate spaces, and I think that is what the difference is. You need to create a space where people feel safe to engage, and tumblr has NEVER been that. Tumblr has been terrible from day 1 for engagement, just toxic and mindless so often.

TLDR: No one is engaging because the sense of community is completely gone and been stripped away over the last 15 years. I cannot stress enough for the younger folk how much fandom these days is just not what fandom was. It has been 13 years since I last felt a sense of community in any of my fandoms, and it sucks. I can't help but think we need to decentralize again and create little pocket communities in order to return fandom to what it is meant to be.

#just my two cents on the issue #after seeing so many tumblrs shut down over ridiculous drama over the years it is hard to want to do anything off anon #I still sometimes get hate because I reblogged something 14 years go and said 'people didn't know this?' with genuine interest #and someone reblogged my reply deciding I was being condescending and tried to chase me off tumblr for it #doesn't matter if I delete my reblog because its been reblogged by other people and I have genuinely 0 control over who sees it #people so far from my chosen communities have complete control over it and that is a shitty feeling #it is why I rarely post on tumblr anymore and if I do it is usually on anon #one of the communities I'm in right now is having drama because the creators deleted their art/story but someone is reposting it all #before tumblr if you deleted your shit from the community it was just gone but now they live on in reblogs #and it is easy to just swipe stuff and repost it against the creator's consent #i genuinely think tumblr has been a huge mistake

tidescaller

@pscentral event 34: fantasy & sci-fi ZHOFRPH WR JUDYLWB IDOOV

#gravity falls

boyfriendtvcom

You can only eat 2 foods for the next 2 years (with no health repercussions)

Spin this wheel twice to figure out what they are!

Are you happy with your new food palette?

Literally a dream come true

Pretty satisfied, all things considered

It's fine I guess...

Ugh. I'm counting down the days until this ends

I FUCKING HATE THIS 😤 AAAAA

Voting ended onFeb 4, 2025

#pretzels snd white bread #totes fine actually

dairsmuids

DRAGON AGE ORIGINS ✧ ALISTAIR'S REDCLIFFE CONFESSION "Look, can we talk for a moment? I need to tell you something I, ah, should probably have told you earlier." (1) What's on your mind? (2) I'm not going to like this, am I? ↳ (3) Let me guess: you're an idiot. (4) Can it wait?

#i love him your honor #Alistair Theirin #Dragon Age

ithelpstodream

myrosecolouredgirl

Si la migra aparecen en su puerta

no abras la puerta. Estate calmado. Usted tiene derechos.

Si piden entrar, pregunten si tienen una orden firmada por un juez.

Si dicen que lo tienen, piden verlo.

Una orden de administración de ICE (formulario 1-200, 1-205) no les permite entrar a su hogar sin su consentimiento.

Si no tienen una orden firmada por un juez, usted puede negarse a dejarlos entrar

Si se fuerzan, no resistan. Dile a todos en la residencia que permanezcan en silencio.

Si usted es arrestado, permanezca en silencio y no firme nada hasta que hable con un abogado.

#politics #ice #fyi

nick-nellson

The Sound of Music (1965) dir. Robert Wise

#I was up half the night struggling to relax enough to sleep #like what the actual fuck is happening right now?

miggylol

You've been isekai'd into a fictional setting. Spin this wheel to find out which one.

How will you fare?

This is going to be a BLAST, actually! I'm thrilled!

Okay, I can totally handle this. Let's go!

There will be challenges, no doubt, but I should certainly be able to meet them

I'm definitely concerned, but with a little luck I'll be able to make it through

My odds are ANYTHING but good, but I'm still going to try

fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck

Voting ended onJan 9, 2025

#Jurassic park #I gasped and said 'OH NOOOO' out loud #I am immediately dying no doubt

Cats decided to start 2025 off by ripping open their dry food bag and hiding a huge chunk of plastic so I thought one of them ate it. Was almost out the door to take them to the Emergency Vet before I finally found the chunk of missing plastic from the bag.

Love starting my new year with a heart attack. 🙄

#pair of piggies!#Not like they have an automatic feeder that gives them dry food every 4 hours #you would think I starve them!#cats #personal key