we've got a life to love living.

why hasn't no one posted the kringlefucker yet. you guys used to love the kringlefucker.

fixing this injustice by slapping it on your post

Everyone reblog this. Mandatory.

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.

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

Tools

Non-Games

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

Crawling out of my hole to remind people that with this current update to Firefox (version 144) they've gone and dumped in their lot with a buncha lil AI tools, namely Perplexity as a new search engine.

So if the sound of that leaves your mouth tasting of tar, here's what you want to do:

In the url bar, type in about:config

It'll give you a big scary warning page that you might poke holes in your browser. Good. You want to do that. Click continue.

One by one, you're going to need to put each of these into the search bar in the page, not up top:

Each of these are gonna have a lil toggle icon on the right hand side that looks like a funky double-ended arrow. Click that and the value next to it should change to false. It all auto saves as you go. Some of these might already be set to false by default and that's peachy.

The next best thing you can do for yourself is to set your default search engine to udm14 or Qwant, but for now, we're just tidying the garden a lil bit.

hey man do you need something

OP I saw this and. I just had to

HELLO??????????????????

a perfect world where people go to play minigolf and say to each other "so. if this is minigolf, then whats golf?" and no one knows because golf hasnt existed for hundreds of years by that point

They reinvent golf from minigolf and what they come up with involves rolling beach balls through a theme park

Like to charge reblog to cast

Of course those D&D centric memes that are like "you rolled too well on a check and now the GM comes up with a completely absurd result that completely undermines the success" are very stupid and bad and like not only is that not how the rules work but that sort of thing is a bad fit for the challenge-based framework of D&D.

Having said that, the idea isn't without merit as something that could be designed towards. Grant Howitt's Nice Marines already does it (there's effectively a goldilocks zone of results that are Just Good, and going above them usually results in collateral damage and such) and I think for a comedic fantasy RPG that actively leaned into this trope you could easily figure out a system where players are rolling against a target that is public knowledge but there's a specific cutoff point where the results go out of control. Heck, I think there'd be a way to add a blackjack style element to it where players are allowed to gamble by rolling more dice after they've seen the first roll. You could even have these "extra" dice that represent extra effort come in varying sizes (smaller dice like d4s and d6s representing fine control, bigger dice like d20s representing going all in) and have them be a limited resource. Is this anything?

in absolute tears about the pride module at my work

HOLY SHIT GUYS, I WAS INSPIRED BY THIS POST TO TRY MAKE THE SONG AND YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE THE SCREAM I SCRUMPT WHEN I DRAGGED THE TRAINING AUDIO OVER THE BACKING TRACK AND IT LINED UP PERFECTLY

Tempted to actually put this on spotify so I can secretly stream it at work...

Tagging @batshit-auspol because as an Australian you're the only big account I know who might share (sorry).

happy first day of pride everyone

Listened to this on my way to work this morning!!

The prompt was ‘detention.’

reblogging with cute tags that make me happy <3

NEVER GIVE UP even though most people see their ships on this piece because the characters faces arent visible, this artwork sent SO MANY people looking for who the characters were, reading my comics, sending me asks, and falling in love with Sully and Caro just like me. It's been an amazing ride. DO IT! Post your ocs!

xoxo raptorjules

First thing you see after you zoom in is how you die

How you dying 👀

Prostate examination?? Hummina hummina hummina??

near death experiences. like?? yeah???? i guess???? im pretty sure dying is a near death experience?????

public transportation. i get tied to traintracks like a damsel in the early nickelodeons

“Good”

reblog to give warm bread to your mutuals

Yes yes I know this too shall pass but christ alive man it's passing like a gotdamn kidney stone