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.

marbles are like people had aquarium gravel to jerk off too. in my tank getting the marbles arll sticky

quick little drawing of a fun marble stuffing concept i thought of recently 💚

quick little drawing of a fun marble stuffing concept i thought of recently 💚

quick little drawing of a fun marble stuffing concept i thought of recently 💚

quick little drawing of a fun marble stuffing concept i thought of recently 💚

I’m going to be a bitch for a second, but when I’m conversing with someone newly diagnosed with MCAS/POTS post covid and they complain about “the long wait” to get diagnosed and that “long wait” is 3-4 months my entire brain blue screens.

Like on the one hand, yes those 3-4 months must have been so, so scary and I am so unbelievably glad we’re in a place where doctors know enough to reconize it now. Like truly, I am so sincere I am so happy for them.

But I’m also just like... 30 years, man.

I spent 30 years being told from the age of eight I was manifesting my allergic reactions through anxiety by health care professionals.

Fuck, five years ago when I was starving to death from how severe my MCAS had gotten an allergist told me it was anxiety.

And you got diagnosed in three months.

MONTHS

MONTHS

AND YOU’RE COMPLAINING

I’m not mad at them. I’m not. I’m just sad for myself.

But also, hey, yeah. If you come into an MCAS forum and wonder why a bunch of the old timers get upset when you complain it took months for a doctor to listen to you, this is why.

It's not that you deserved to wait longer. It's that we didn’t either and and sometimes even good changes can unearth a world of hurt.

The average wait time for a POTS/dysautonomia diagnosis pre-covid was a decade.

Now it's still a decade but that's because the wait list to see a specialist is out the fucking stratosphere because everyone got covid and suddenly that ‘anxious female’ disorder turns out to be very fucking real.

Vaccinate if you are able. Wear a mask. Wash your hands and cough into your elbow. This shit isn’t over.

There are a handful of people in my inbox currently reaching out super excited to have someone to talk to about their weird shit and wanting to complain about their treatment by doctors, which is all fine and dandy, but unfortunately they are also inadvertently triggering the shit out of me because of how they are phrasing things, so just to reiterate everything above but also to add:

I am very sorry if longcovid has left you with complex health needs. But I am going to need you to take a moment and stop talking about these things as though they were unknown phenomenons caused exclusively by Covid, when the only reason you are able to have any sort of treatment is the activism and perseverance of the people before you.

Just, please be mindful of how you are phrasing things. There is a community here already waiting full of resources and support. You don’t need to strip it for parts and pretend it’s something new just because it’s happening to you.

the reason there is treatment for long covid is because of the countless number of patients over the past two decades who used their own bodies to test out treatments with the desperate hope that some day, other patients would have it better. better than five, ten, twenty, thirty years or more of desperately fighting for accurate diagnosis and effective treatment. those are years of actively going to doctors and having test after test.

this effort has been across autonomic conditions, collagen disorders, bleeding disorders, thyroid disorders, hormone disorders, autoimmune disorders, ME/CFS, and other types of conditions so often triggered by infections such as covid-19. these types of conditions have always existed, and most research for many of these conditions is from only the ten years prior to covid-19, largely by patient-led and patient-focused groups such as dysautonomia international.

it worked. it was not an accident. it was not easy. it was a coordinated effort of awareness, experimentation, research, and education around the world. it has been physically and mentally excruciating and a lot of patients suffered through failed treatments and died waiting for the types of treatment that are now considered common knowledge.

do not fucking erase us.

For your future information, here are medical innovations younger than both the basics of HRT for trans ppl & the first gender-reassignment/gender-confirmation surgery. I put together this incomplete list earlier today bc I was bored:

In case you run into someone talking about how 'experimental' HRT is.

Uhm ☝️ what did celiacs do before. Just suffer?

We died.

The same as diabetics! We died!

There are so many things newer and more experimental than HRT. And mostly the answer to “what happened before” is simply “they fucking died”

We died, and it really fucking hurt the whole time we were dying.

When insulin was first developed, the first kids they gave it to were in the end stages of diabetic failure. People described it as like watching these children rise from the dead. Their blood was literally burning them. They were so weak they could barely raise their heads. Then, one shot of insulin, and they sat up, and their color came back.

Before the medical treatment, we simply died.

The only thing you need to know about Tim becoming Robin is that he's the protagonist of a horse girl movie and Batman is the horse.

Just in case

I’m actually going to reblog a thing just because this is really important.

As someone who has epilepsy and used to have several grand mal seizures a day, I’d also like to add that “offer help” can range anywhere from keeping the person calm to explaining to them where they are and what they were doing to even just telling them they should sit and rest for a while longer (lack or coordination is common, and it can be hard to walk straight or see clearly).

It’s okay for them to take up to a half hour to fully regain their bearings and sort out what they were doing prior to the seizure. Just answer any questions calmly and be there for support.

If they come around and you start to panic or shake them or ask them what the heck is wrong with them they are going to freak out and panic too.

I cannot stress it enough that this is bad.

If someone has a seizure and they come out of it, please. please stay calm. They are likely disoriented and confused, even if it’s only for a minute or two, and you don’t want them panicking on top of that because they can have another seizure as a result.

IMPORTANT

IMPORTANT because last year a kid in my class had a seizure, none of us even knew he was at risk for them either so just cause you don’t think you know anyone doesn’t mean you don’t 

stay safe

I have to stress how important it is to time a seizure. If it lasts more than a few minutes, call an ambulance.

DO NOT CALL THE POLICE. I’m dead fucking serious. I had a grand mal in public once and the POLICE were called and imagine coming out of the seizure, feeling like you got smacked in the head with a sack full of bricks, confused, dazed, in desperate need of some sugar to boost low blood pressure and some DIPSHIT has called the police and I was being threatened with being ‘drunk and disorderly’. It took a phone call to my doctors office to get them to back off. The police cannot properly deal with sick people. 

Offer help can be:

Why you shouldn’t put anything in someone’s mouth: they will choke. Yes, they may bite their tongue but I can assure you it’s less traumatic than cracking your jaw on someone’s greasy wallet or choking on a spoon.

DO NOT HOLD ANYONE DOWN. Example: someone pinned my right shoulder mid-seizure a few years back and how I have a permanently displaced and clicking shoulder. Let the person flail around, those muscles are out of control and restraining them does cause more damage to the patient and you.

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Torchic, Combusken, Blaziken

made by a member of AWAY and posted on their behalf with permission

reblog this shit for sample size btw. or ill get you.

Guys I just refreshed the site and everyone's profile pics went round

someone could probably make a "who do you think took your boobs?" edit out of this with discord making its server icons squarer

I think every computer user needs to read this because holy fucking shit this is fucking horrible.

So Windows has a new feature incoming called Recall where your computer will first, monitor everything you do with screenshots every couple of seconds and "process that" with an AI.

Hey, errrr, fuck no? This isn't merely because AI is really energy intensive to the point that it causes environmental damage. This is because it's basically surveilling what you are doing on your fucking desktop.

This AI is not going to be on your desktop, like all AI, it's going to be done on another server, "in the cloud" to be precise, so all those data and screenshot? They're going to go off to Microsoft. Microsoft are going to be monitoring what you do on your own computer.

Now of course Microsoft are going to be all "oooh, it's okay, we'll keep your data safe". They won't. Let me just remind you that evidence given over from Facebook has been used to prosecute a mother and daughter for an "illegal abortion", Microsoft will likely do the same.

And before someone goes "durrr, nuthin' to fear, nuthin to hide", let me remind you that you can be doing completely legal and righteous acts and still have the police on your arse. Are you an activist? Don't even need to be a hackivist, you can just be very vocal about something concerning and have the fucking police on your arse. They did this with environmental protesters in the UK. The culture war against transgender people looks likely to be heading in a direction wherein people looking for information on transgender people or help transitioning will be tracked down too. You have plenty to hide from the government, including your opinions and ideas.

Again, look into backing up your shit and switching to Linux Mint or Ubuntu to get away from Microsoft doing this shit.

there are multiple options here depending on how comfortable you are digging into your computer's registry. You can either simply disable it surface level through settings or excise it entirely from the system registry

reblogging again as a cautionary tale to please PLEASE fucking make a system restore point before you do anything. i consider myself tech savvy and still nearly bricked my computer. and make sure you know how to access safe mode

you're allowed to say "sex" on the internet. See? I just did it. Sex. Sex sex sex. You don't have to say s*x or smex or Adult Fun Times or s3x or "spice" any other variation of self-censorship on tumblr dot com you can just spell out the word SEX i am going to scream until the heat death of the universe