get bingled, idiot

@tumblr @support @staff

I have been waiting ~TWO MONTHS since raising a support ticket and still not received any response. You are preventing me from using communication features on tumblr including asks, chat, and replies and have not told me why.

I sent a support request on 12 February. I provided the blog name and it was sent from the associated email address, explained the problem, provided screenshots, and I've heard NOTHING back. I replied to the automated email at the start of March for a follow-up, again providing information, and nothing.

I submitted a second request on 15 March just in case the first got lost somewhere and there's still NOTHING.

I am incapable of sending/receiving messages, replying to posts (including on my own blog!), or accessing my inbox. Other users are also incapable of contacting me. This doesn't seem to be a result of being blocked, because it is applying to everyone, including those I definitely know have NOT blocked me. This affects my primary blog AND several secondary blogs linked to it -- yet not all of them. If I try to open a chat with another user it simply displays an error message. Same if I try to comment on a post, or reply to a comment on a post, INCLUDING MY OWN POSTS.

I have tried logging in and out, clearing my browser cookies/cache, etc. I do not have this problem on my other primary blog. There is NO evidence that my blog has been marked as mature, and as far as I can tell NO evidence of violation of TOS etc. There aren't even any flagged posts! If I somehow did go against TOS I NEVER RECEIVED INFORMATION about it

WHY have you not even answered my support requests? Are you even looking at them? Also, for some reason, you are describing my support request as an "appeal". Appeal for what? I mean, I guess it's an appeal for you, tumblr, to fix a bug(?), but what do you mean? This implies that YOU made a decision to prevent me from using messaging features. I'd like to know WHY. You've not given any reason for it. You are constantly changing (breaking) features of the site and have now made it more unusable for me. You want me to stick around and view ads/pay for premium? Why would I do that if I CANNOT INTERACT WITH POSTS?

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wanna give me a reason why you've immediately blocked all the social functions of this site and have hidden the post in the tags?

so then i tried "shag birds uk"

@tumblr @support @staff

I have been waiting ~TWO MONTHS since raising a support ticket and still not received any response. You are preventing me from using communication features on tumblr including asks, chat, and replies and have not told me why.

I sent a support request on 12 February. I provided the blog name and it was sent from the associated email address, explained the problem, provided screenshots, and I've heard NOTHING back. I replied to the automated email at the start of March for a follow-up, again providing information, and nothing.

I submitted a second request on 15 March just in case the first got lost somewhere and there's still NOTHING.

I am incapable of sending/receiving messages, replying to posts (including on my own blog!), or accessing my inbox. Other users are also incapable of contacting me. This doesn't seem to be a result of being blocked, because it is applying to everyone, including those I definitely know have NOT blocked me. This affects my primary blog AND several secondary blogs linked to it -- yet not all of them. If I try to open a chat with another user it simply displays an error message. Same if I try to comment on a post, or reply to a comment on a post, INCLUDING MY OWN POSTS.

I have tried logging in and out, clearing my browser cookies/cache, etc. I do not have this problem on my other primary blog. There is NO evidence that my blog has been marked as mature, and as far as I can tell NO evidence of violation of TOS etc. There aren't even any flagged posts! If I somehow did go against TOS I NEVER RECEIVED INFORMATION about it

WHY have you not even answered my support requests? Are you even looking at them? Also, for some reason, you are describing my support request as an "appeal". Appeal for what? I mean, I guess it's an appeal for you, tumblr, to fix a bug(?), but what do you mean? This implies that YOU made a decision to prevent me from using messaging features. I'd like to know WHY. You've not given any reason for it. You are constantly changing (breaking) features of the site and have now made it more unusable for me. You want me to stick around and view ads/pay for premium? Why would I do that if I CANNOT INTERACT WITH POSTS?

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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.

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.

I highly recommend watching this testimony from Aliya Rahman, the disabled woman who was dragged out of her car and kidnapped by ICE on her way to a doctor appointment in Minneapolis a few weeks ago.

Thank you members, for taking the time to be here today, and thank you staff for making this happen.

My name is Aliya Rahman, and I am a resident of South Minneapolis. I am a Bangladeshi American born in Northern Wisconsin. And I’m a disabled person with autism and a traumatic brain injury.

Not all autistic brains do this, but mine fixates on sounds, numbers, and patterns. And while what the world saw happen to me exactly three weeks ago today on video was a terrible violation it is still nothing compared to the horrific practices I saw inside the Whipple center.

So I am here today with a duty to the people who have not had the privilege of coming home, and I offer this data because these practices must end now.

On January 13th on the way to my 39th appointment at Hennepin County’s traumatic brain injury center, I encountered a traffic jam caused by ICE vehicles and no signs indicating how to get around it. I had not wanted to pull in to a blocked, chaotic intersection, but verbally agreed to do so and rolled down my window after an agent yelled, “Move! I will break your f-ing window!”

His first instruction.

Agents on all sides of my vehicle yelled conflicting threats and instructions that I could not process while watching for pedestrians.

Then, the glass of the passenger side window flew across my face.

I yelled, “I’m disabled!” at the hands grabbing at me and an agent said, “Too late.”

I felt immersed in a pattern, and I thought of Jenoah Donald, an autistic black man killed by the police during a traffic stop in 2021.

I remembered mister Silverio Villegas González, who was killed by ICE in his vehicle last year.

An agent pulled a large combat knife in front of my face, which I thought was for cutting me, and later learned was used to cut off my seat belt. Shooting pain went through my head, neck, and wrists when I hit the ground face first and people leaned on my back.

I felt the pattern, and I thought of mister George Floyd, who was killed four blocks away.

I was carried face down through the street by my cuffed arms and legs while yelling that I had a brain injury and was disabled. I now cannot lift my arms normally.

I was never asked for ID.

Never told I was under arrest.

Never read my rights.

And never charged with a crime.

Approaching the Whipple center, I saw black and brown bodies shackled together, chained together, being marched by yelling agents outdoors. I continued to hear the word “bodies”, because that is how agents referred to us:

“We’re bringing in a body.”

“They’re bringing in bodies 7, 8 at a time, where do I put ‘em?”

“We can’t use that room, there’s already a body in there.”

You have no reason to believe you will make it out alive if you’re already being called a body.

Agents repeatedly had to stop and ask how to do tasks. I received no medical screening, phone call, or access to a lawyer. I was denied a communication navigator when my speech began to slur. Agents laughed as I tried to immobilize my own neck. I asked for my cane and was told no, pulled up by my arms and prodded forward in leg irons by agents laughing and saying, “Walk! You can do it, walk.”

Agents did not know if the facility had a wheelchair.

When I was finally placed in one to be taken to interrogation an agent taunted, “You were driving, right? So your legs do work.”

I pleaded for emergency medical care for over an hour after my vision had become blurry, my heart rate went through the roof, and the pain in my neck and head became unbearable.

It was denied.

When I became unable to speak my cellmate pleaded for me.

The last sounds I remember before I blacked out on the cell floor were my cellmate banging on the door, pleading for a medic, and a voice outside saying, “We don’t wanna step on ICE’s toes.”

When I opened my eyes at Hennepin County’s emergency room, I learned I was brought there to be treated for assault.

The impacts of DHS detention on my physical, mental and financial well-being and safety have been very severe, but I do not deserve more humane treatment than anyone else, US citizen or not. And I am here today with a strong spirit and a duty to the many people who haven’t had the privilege to tell their stories or see their loved ones come home. I am extremely distressed by the pattern that violence from law enforcement has been happening to black and indigenous communities for centuries, and to DHS survivors for over 20 years.

We call ourselves a civilized nation, but we lack rules and accountability around what a person claiming to be law enforcement is permitted to do to another human being.