Can I plant my roots in your life?

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.

Question for the larger PHM fandom. In the book we see Stratt make some hard and morally gray choices that end up having legal consequences. Like, she says she will likely spend the rest of her life in jail.

I don't think any of that was really on Grace's radar, he was so focused on the science and the administration of the project. I think it would come as a bit of a surprise to him. Stratt probably feels like this all-powerful leader in a way that makes it hard to imagine her not in charge. I think she's clearly thought of it and does what she can to protect her staff, but when he world leaders want blood she can't stop them.

If she, say, got assassinated by some kind of extremist group, I fully believe she was training up Grace to step in. Even tho that would have been a complete shock to him, im positive that all the other scientists and politcal and government people would have been like: "ok grace now what?" And hed have been like... "who me???" .

So there is potentially a universe in which instead of sacrificing his life to space, she sacrifices his freedom to take her place in making the hard choices and facing the consequences

Petrova

Fearing Rocky might be dead // The Relief of Rocky being alive Project Hail Mary (2026) dir. Phil Lord, Chris Miller

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