My Girlfriend Told Me This Once A Night Out And It's Lived Rent Free In My Head Since

i’m making a tv show about A pair of Roommates who are the worlds most unserious Marxist and the worlds most serious Anarchist im calling it All or Nothing please contribute to my kickstarter campaign i will use all the money to buy guns

lol

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.

Meanwhile, in Italy...

"Former culture undersecretary Vittorio Sgarbi defends the girl who climbed Giambologna's Bacchus statue in Florence miming a sexual act. 'It is a transfiguration: when art is truer than life. An amorous exaltation. No real man can compete with Cellini's Perseus. A drunk girl performs a critical act, not an erotic one.'"

chevergreen

Gay Sailor Tattoos.

All documented and logged from actual seamen.

Jimmy Wright, Ice Bear

This too

I love when gothic lit men fuck around and find out

Hand and a half sword decorated with brass, silver, and ivory, Italy, circa 1490-1500

from Peter Finer

Shot in the dark, but I have this problem with Google where it keeps wanting to show these information panels when you search my name and getting the completely wrong person. I think Google doesn't have a trustworthy "about" page it can pull info from, so it just guesses a random person with a similar name?

First it was a biologist:

Then a congressman from Argentina:

And now it's a singer?

I've tried giving feedback, claiming the knowledge panel, and nothing seems to work, they just switch to a new identity... I've tried linking them to my own about page and socials but they don't take any information from there either. I guess they need some kind of external "authoritative source" for something like this?

So I'm thinking the only viable solution might be to have a Wikipedia article with a name, photo and basic info so that Google stops making me steal people's identities? I don't think this is fun to any of the people with similar names to me with their own careers who keep getting their search pages invaded by my links... It's getting pretty frustrating.

Does anyone here have any experience with editing Wikipedia and can help me through this? Thank you! (if you can help me, shoot me a DM or message on Discord @ Valdevia)