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I'd rather be in outer space 🛸
if i look back, i am lost
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art blog(derogatory)
Show & Tell
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Origami Around
Not today Justin
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@shit-for-me-to-remember
Tags:
'abusive parent shit' (tips for surviving or whatever)
;grepolis' (thats general grepolis shit)
'grepolis cities' (stuff about the cities)
'bpd coping' (tips for coping with bpd)
'to show (bpd)' (help for explaining bpd to those without it)
so here's what I've now done to make the internet usable as a person living in the UK without handing my ID and/or facial scans over to random third parties:
signed up for a ProtonVPN account
set up a tunnel from my router to a ProtonVPN server in Sweden
written a python script to query DNS servers for social media domains every 15 minutes and collate the results into a list of IP address ranges
created routing and firewall policies to block connections to those IP ranges on my normal connection and send them through the VPN tunnel instead
set up a second, personal VPN so I can make my mobile devices connect to the internet through my home network even when I'm not at home
now it's time to open source this whole thing so others can enjoy using the internet the same way they did three weeks ago
Y e s
pssssst hey. hey. free and expansive database of folk and fairy tales. you can thank me later
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.
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.
grepolis oceans
1 more city
fairy
5 more cities
paradise
Idgaf if you don't want to write essays for school. I don't care if you don't want to write corporate emails yourself. I don't care if you can't draw well, I don't care if you can't write well, I don't care if you just really really want to talk to your favorite fictional character but don't want to RP with a real person because you have social anxiety or whatever
If you're still regularly using generative ai, chatgpt or midjourney or character.ai or literally whatever the fuck, im personally blaming you when my utility prices start going up.
Why would utility prices go up because of ai?
(I am not defending the usage of generative AI/ChatGPT/Character.ai etc etc i am very much against it - I am just curious as to the correlation between using it and utility price surge please don't come at me this is a genuine question)
Happy to help.
ChatGPT uses so much energy that the US is literally reversing course on coal and gas usage to make up for it. In Santa Clara, for example, data centers used 60% of the ENTIRE CITY'S electricity.
ChatGPT uses 1-3 bottles of water for cooling for every query you put into it. This is FRESH WATER, which is evaporated and eventually mostly returns to the ocean, effectively removing a lot of it from our already dwindling fresh water supply on the planet. It also consumes 17 THOUSAND TIMES more electricity than the average American home.
The AI boom wastes so much electricity that we are very immediately risking US cities having to have rolling blackouts just to keep up with the energy demands, as early as NEXT YEAR
Gen AI's water usage is projected to hit 6.6 BILLION meters cubed by 2027
More AI use = more data centers = power drain on local cities = gas, electricity, and water utility prices rise because all of our resources are being funneled into a machine that makes garbage
Dolly ♡
"She was his doll, and dolls were made to be broken"
So uhhhhhhh im Dolly and I'm a porcelain dolllll!
I use she/it and am in the process of making the host draw me
Uhhhhhhhhh i dunno what I am in the system but Im me and yeah ^^
im friends with puppettt
ohhh also balljointed!!! ball jointed porcelain doll!!!
im small and im pretty and delicate and i tenddd to latch onto one person and make them my master until they get sick of me ^^
___ Bay - extra city, used mostly to get colony ships. all extra cities beyond the main 5 are Bays
Grepolis City Stuff
Level 30 for all land unit cities
40 for Timber and Stone in Naval cities, 30 in silver
For mythic cities, its conditional. When any one of the units is over 3000 in a resource, that resource is at level 40. Anything below is level 30. If theres none for one resource across all, that resource is 0.
Puppet on a string Watch how I sing Sing like a little bird Swing like I'm on a string
Always under some control Never being on my own If i was, I'd surely fall Cannot stand lest someones thrall
remember to turn the activity thing back on after.
go here: https://www.tumblr.com/settings/privacy
Have people heard of falling fruit? It's a map that marks off foraging locations that are accessible on public land.
It's global and crowdsourced and points you towards FREE FRUIT. (And herbs and nuts and things.) They have an app too but the app costs $2 and you can still pull up the map on your mobile browser for free.
A massive, collaborative map of the urban harvest uniting the efforts of foragers, freegans, and foresters around the world. Explore and sha
This is how I found those park cherries!
Step 1. Ask the following twelve questions to help determine whether to accept or decline the feedback.
Does the person have more experience than I do in this area? YES/NO
2. Will accepting the feedback help maintain my relationship with the person giving me feedback? YES/NO
3. Will accepting the advice help me maintain or improve other important relationships? YES/NO
4. Am I discounting the feedback to purposefully displease or punish the person? YES/NO
5. If necessary, am I capable of making the changes that are being suggested? YES/NO
6. Will accepting the feedback help me steer clear of significant problems (for example, financial loss, employment difficulties, problems with the law) YES/NO
7. Was the person providing the feedback using a calm and easy manner? YES/NO
8. Does the feedback refer to the actual situation I am in, as opposed to the past or future? YES/NO
9. Am I in a long-Âterm caring relationship with this person? YES/NO
10. Is the feedback I am being given something that I have heard from others before? YES/NO
11.Am I tense or frustrated about this feedback? YES/NO
12 .Am I saying to myself, I know I am right, no matter what the other person says or how things seem? YES/NO
Daily Goals for Grepolis
+10 things for cultural levels (you have 15 cities, and some arent using any resources, should be easy)
building slots at least twice a day (so 4 going up/down per city a day)
At the very least start each island quest
Monthly Goals
+1 city a month
at least one city slot a month
30,000 abp a month(?)
Testing Your Thoughts
What is the situation?
What am I thinking or imagining?
How much do I believe it? a little / medium / a lot
How does that make me feel? mad /sad /nervous /other:
How strong is the feeling? a little strong / medium / very strong
What makes me think the thought is true?
What makes me think the thought is not true or not completely true?
What’s another way to look at this?
What’s the worst that could happen? Will I still live through it?
What will probably happen?
What will happen if I keep telling myself the same thought?
What could happen if I changed my thinking?
What would I tell my friend __ if this happened to them?
What should I do now?
How much do I believe the negative thought? a little / medium / a lot
How strong is my negative feeling? a little strong / medium / very strong
Do I Have Borderline Personality Disorder?
Here are a collection of posts to help you decide whether or not you may possibly have Borderline Personality Disorder:
The Borderline Personality Disorder Checklist
The BPD Checklist (Quiz Version)
What is similar to BPD?
I relate to ______ symptom. Do I have BPD?
I don’t have _______ symptom. Do I still have BPD?
I think I have BPD, but my therapist/psychiatrist doesn’t agree?
I experience symptoms differently from what I’ve read. Do I still have BPD?
Can I still have BPD even if I “seem normal” to other people?
Can I still have BPD even if I don’t have the more “stereotypical” symptoms?
Can I still have BPD even if have some “opposite” symptoms?
Can I still have BPD if I don’t relate to blogs about “BPD feelings”?
Can I still have BPD even if I don’t relate to the “simplified” description of it?
Sometimes I relate to BPD relatable posts, and sometimes I don’t?
Are there any REQUIRED symptoms of BPD?
I was diagnosed with BPD, but I don’t think I have it?
How can I get diagnosed?
Can I have BPD even though I did not have a traumatic childhood?
I’m a teenager. How do I know if it’s BPD or “teenage hormones”?
Can minors be diagnosed with BPD?
I can go weeks with borderline symptoms and then weeks without?
Maybe I’m just faking it?
I feel like I didn’t experience these symptoms until I read about them?
Can I have BPD if a family member has it as well?
Do I have these symptoms or am I adopting them/faking for validation?
Do I need an “official” diagnosis in order to be valid?
Does SBD support self-diagnosis?
What is the best way to self-diagnose?
Can I self-diagnose, even if I am underage?
Is it okay for me to self-diagnose even if I am able to see a professional?
Does self-diagnosis hurt those with a professional diagnosis?
20 Things Only Someone with BPD Can Understand
What do I have if I don’t have BPD?
I definitely don’t have BPD, so what is the “opposite” of BPD?
Can you still have BPD if you only experience negative emotions?
What is a Favorite Person? Do I need to have one to have BPD?
What is the difference between a Favorite Person and a Depended?
How can I figure out if this is BPD or bipolar?
Does it matter if I express my symptoms internally or externally?
I relate to blogs about BPD but not the criteria?
