Escaygee - Tired Engineer

"right to life" is the name of an anti-choice group in Texas that introduced some of the harshest anti-abortion laws in the country. The idea that fetuses have a human "right to life" is literally killing people as they are denied medical care out of the fear that terminating their pregnancies might make doctors complicit in the death of a fetus.

I cannot begin to explain how much I am not fucking around about abortion.

i made a character sheet. free to use as you wish, feel free to change whatever you want XD open source ass thing. spent all of ~maybe an hour on it.

Credit: the text in the insert-image box comes from this video, and the text for the top three lines (intense, complex, fruity) comes from this post. The actual image was made with the free NBOS character sheet creator, which is a sort of dated but free and solid text-layout sheet maker intended for ttrpg style character sheet creation.

"Boys went to see Revenge of the Sith for the battles, girls went to see it for Anakin Skywalker 😜" well all the bad bitches went to see it for the tragedy and Bail Organa

I want you to remember:

The fascists hate you too and they just will pretend otherwise until after they've killed the rest of us, before they turn on you.

The remorseful player

Happy 9th anniversary Undertale

Read the poem and couldnt not do a little something about it !

stolen from bluesky.

Finding a colorblind friendly redesign of the rainbow flag has me happy to see a pride flag for once

When you're debugging code, there are a number of possible scenarios, in order of increasing scariness:

The code works, but with some known issues.

The code doesn't work, but I know why.

The code doesn't work, and I don't know why.

The code used to work, but I know what changed.

The code used to work, and I don't know what changed.

The code used to work, failed, and I fixed it so it works again, but now that I fixed it I'm not sure how it EVER worked before.

The code works, even though it clearly shouldn't, and I don't know why.

Just fixed a #6 issue at work so I'm a little shook.

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.