Wombat games

my favorites:

Daniel JrStetch (fitness)

Frilancy Hoyle (fashion)

EarthtonesGirl (knitting)

https://youtube.com/@reesewaters?si=OOV1cQllMSoYhKx_

TL Yarn Crafts (crochet)

Charm City Ewenicorns (knitting)

Cole_oo

KOMONO

Lukisa Art

kgann

ItzLoveth

Sims 4

Ashley Plays

DumplinSiims

SimOllyon Says

Vtubers

belbeeps2

T9

lovmura

Video Essays & Media Analysis

Shanspeare

Yhara zayd

F.D. Signifier

Earth to Nellie

Tee Noir

Thafnine

Princess Weekes

Pillboy

Veridis Joe

Kat Blaque

Indie Music

Zoofles

xXPurpleQueenXx

Ani Meida

Etc.

Kennie J.D. (Movies/TV reviews, occasional deep dives)

One Mic History (Short videos on Black history in the USA)

MacDoesIt (Reaction videos and vlogs)

mōri (makeup)

Minnemi (Vocaloid fandom videos)

JakariaASMR (Hair ASMR that isn't just straight hair)

my favorites:

Daniel JrStetch (fitness)

Frilancy Hoyle (fashion)

EarthtonesGirl (knitting)

https://youtube.com/@reesewaters?si=OOV1cQllMSoYhKx_

TL Yarn Crafts (crochet)

Charm City Ewenicorns (knitting)

Prince Kyle - Trans positivity/discussion

Alden Boudy - Cooking

Anisa Nandaula - Comedian

Bento Club - Japanese life

Big Head Justice - Natural Black hair ed

Catluminati - CATS

Epicurious Expeditions - disability recipes

instructor_bensei - cool weapons

JOSHUACGRACE - Homesteading

Kira- crochet

LJ- Food reviews

Not Your Mommas History - History

Ron Funches - comedy

Commentary/ pop culture

Foreign Man in a Foreign Land

CerosTV - commentary

DyQuell Dontae - commentary

Kat - Popculture history

Kat Blaque

Intelexual Media - Culture History

Olurinatti - culture

Qing Da- commentary

Fandom!

[HelloNexus]

Alley Dreamer

Ella Pastoral

Malli

Nysclip

ordinarydreamer

Musicians!

Dj Latet gh - DJ

flowerovlove - Musician

Apollo Flowerchild - Trans Musician

Giselle

Labrinth

Leon Bridges

Masego

Mon Rovîa

Cynthia Area - Social Commentary

Madisyn Brown - Creativity (with a lot of great social commentary video essays in the past catalogue)

Myocore - Vlogger and Book Content

SewRew -Historical Sewing and Life

Shanspear - Political and Social Commentary

Sierra Ann - Vlogging about Cooking, Motherhood and Fitness

Sweet Impact - Baking

Tinysey - Social Commentary

Wisdom Kaye - Fashion

WURLD -Social Commentary and Comedy

Let’s play the biggest game of kick the can on the internet.

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.

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This is the quiz and I did not come up with it, credit goes to @iswearbyalltheflowers on this post.

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fred wants to grow into a beautiful tree, but sadly has no branches

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In life you're going to encounter ethical questions that you've never considered before or you'll find reasons to question ethical questions that you always thought that you knew the answer to. And when that happens, you have to be comfortable thinking the whole things thru from all angles, even though your gut instinct tells you to settle for the easy answer that makes you comfortable.

You have to be able to ask questions like 'but is anyone harmed by the thing that disgusts me?', 'is this about improving the world or just about punishment'?, 'what if my assumptions about why people do this thing are wrong'?

You have to be comfortable not being sure yet what your conclusion will be. You have to be comfortable exploring opinions that differ from what your friends think. Thought experiments teach you this.

I work the door at a feminist club sometimes. We've got a big sign at the door in bold letters reading "No touch of any kind without consent, you will be kicked out". When new guests show up, we point out the rule and ask them to confirm that they'll follow this rule.

Every night, there will be a few guys whose response to this is to immediately put a finger somewhere on my body, like my shoulder or my arm, and ask "not even this?". If those guys are allowed to enter the club, they ALWAYS end up groping people. Their response to a boundary that was put in place to prevent harm, is to immediately push it, test it, see if they can do a little bit of harm, see how much harm we will tolerate. That's what that finger and "not even this?" shows.

In this club, little innocent touches without prior consent definitely happen. It's loud and it can get crowded on the dance floor and around the bar. Shoulders touch, people tap each other on their arm to signal that they want to get through the crowd. No harm is done. But "No touch of any kind without consent" stays up at the door because its an effective filter to keep out the predatory guys.

Social conventions around the n-word are a lot like that. While it is technically true that the sound of the n-word does no harm on its own and it's the intent that makes a slur into a slur, to point that out is to misunderstand why the "don't say the n-word ever" social rule is there. It's a test, like our "No touch of any kind without consent" rule. People who see that rule and respond by pushing its boundaries are telling on themselves. They're showing that they want to explore how much harm we will tolerate.