What The Innies Know And Don’t Know About The World Is Still So Fascinating To Me

wasp haters will cry and cry about how you "can't exist anywhere near a wasp" and how "they're aggressive" as if i didn't get right up in this Polistes dominula's face to get a good look at its little severed antenna with no trouble whatsoever. they could technically also cry about how it's "clearly a male anyway due to its yellow mandibles, relatively pale eyes and curly antennae" and "therefore harmless due to lacking the modified ovipositor that constitutes the stinger" but they refuse to learn anything about the things they hate, so they won't

floppy (August 28th, 2024)

hey. me again.

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.

amyways some images i made a bit ago to be used in your melic appreciation posts . at your leisure

happy yuri night everybody

Don’t a let a little thing like being a boy keep you from being a girl

the severance season 2 speedy squad of six

rypite koldan flag + stand for it. kneel for it. NOW !!!!! 😇

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Metric Paper Wasp (Polistes metricus), taken April 18, 2025, in Georgia, US

A beautiful, sleek wasp in the afternoon sun! This individual was an extremely good sport and let me get in very close for photos! Typically, paper wasps are a bit skittish and prefer to keep their distance, but this one just seemed curious. It's always a good day when a wasp stops buzzing around and lets me get some nice pictures! They're usually so busy that it's impossible to get anything!

nick told me to repost this because i dont know how tumblr works . season 2 makes me INSANE