I think we as a community don't recognize how funny the first confrontation scene in The Foxhole Court is. Like we talk about how absolutely confused Kevin must have been and how the sudden language shift was wild and how Aaron and Nicky are just O.O over the quiet new kid losing his shit.
But Neil runs into the room (picking the lock with ease, mind you) guns blazing, threatens Kevin, calls him a slur and a "deadweight has-been", then turns and fucking runs. Like... doesn't even put up a pretense of a physical fight, just books it and slams the door closed like that's going to make a difference. The mental image of Neil Josten sprinting out the room like a thirteen year old who just pissed off his older sibling and is about to employ the kicking method is too good for us not to recognize.
more Justus and some hardlaunching in part 10
Idk I just headcanon that Neil treats his relationship like it’s no big deal and everyone knows anyways. I don’t think either him or Andrew would say “yes this is my boyfriend we are a couple” but they’d behave somewhat couple-y in public anyways because who cares (I don’t think they’d display affection constantly though, just small things here and there)
German translations:
Fuchs - fox
Ja bitte - yes please
Gib mir ein pfugs - give me a pfugs (pfugs is Fuchs spelled very wrong)
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"military time" do NOT disrespect miss 24hs she would never join the imperialist machine
pt.50!! <pt.49
changing it up a bit for part 50 (idk HOW that’s happened but here we are) by throwing Kevin off a roof. he’s fine he’s just going to run a marathon and be fine and be so fine
Seth is 100% going to throw up on this run. But he’s still going to make good time. possibly within 10 seconds of Kevin either before or after haven’t decided. actually you know what the marathon is going to be its own post
Foxes GC texts are from Dan’s phone, marathon runners chat is from Seth’s phone, then Jean’s Kevin’s and Thea’s I feel like are self explanatory
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me, unloading a fitted sheet from the dryer: *squinting* what's that you've got in your mouth
fitted sheet: nothing :)))))))
me, prying open its twisted jaws: na-ah!!! give it to me RIGHT now!!
fitted sheet: *resentfully spits out a wad of 3 very damp dishtowels, a pillowcase, and a pathetically sodden washcloth*
He was as tall as he was tall, and his eyes were the color they were. To describe his hair one would say that he had some. His face had all the features you'd expect, and none of the ones you wouldn't. "There he is," people would often say of him, but only when he was there. And they were right.
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.
Mama Mia it’s-a Wednesday
WRONG FUCKING IMAGE
HAPPY MAMA MIA ITS-A WEDNESDAY WRONG FUCKING IMAGE WEDNESDAY
i'm thrilled my tweet continues to upset new yorkers even after my twitter ban
these tags pass peer review
i cant believe there are people who still havent seen this video
I could probably recite this entire video, word-for-word, on demand.
Goddamn, this is nearly thirty years old and it fits like a glove into contemporary shitpost cadence and aesthetics, this is High Art
IT BETTER NOT BOUNCE OR YOU’RE A DEAD MOTHERFUCKER
holy shit this was made the year i was born
ALWAYS REBLOG BIG BILL HELL’S CARS!
I want non-Americans to know that this is almost imperceptible in terms of differences from actual used car sellers.
hot artists don't gatekeep
I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard
Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.
Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.
Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.
Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.
SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.
SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.
Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.
Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.
Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.
Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.
Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.
Favourite things to say before doing something incredibly stupid:
- Hey everybody watch this
- I'm God's favourite
- I'm always right and I'm never gonna die
- (Person nearby) gets my crap if I beef it
- I'm way too sexy to fuck this up
- It's okay I've done this a hundred times
- This is gonna to be on purpose
- Hello you're watching Jackass
- Check out this cool magic trick
- If I die I want you to tell people it looked really cool
- Wanna see a trick I learned in prison
- It's okay, I saw this on TikTok
- This is only illegal in Massetchuschessetts
- My dad used to do this all the time before the divorce
- If you're a cop you have to tell me or it's entrapment*
- I'm doing this as a prank
- Could a mentally ill person do THIS
- Out of two thousand possible futures this is the only way we live
- I have to. (Stupid thing I'm doing) killed my mom
- The government doesn't want you to know this is even an option
- I'm about to become so powerful you have no idea