For After All, The Best Thing One Can Do When It Is Raining Is Let It Rain.

Female characters appreciation, Part 4  |  Pt. 1 x, Pt. 3 x

“In chess, the Queen is the most powerful piece on the board, as it can do whatever it wants, whenever it wants. The King is more important to the game, as you need it to win, but it is pretty useless compared to the Q U E E N.“

I HATE feeling like an outcast. I HATE feeling like an alien. I HATE having to try hard to appear as normal. I HATE how my way of thinking makes me so strange. I HATE feeling and being different. I HATE feeling and being alone. I HATE being autistic.

Are you saying it's okay to take the life of another human because you can chose whether to kill it or not?

Hi anon!

Thanks for the input :) There’s no easy answer, I’m afraid. It depends what model of ethics you follow (deontology, consequentialism), but it is never black or white, sadly.

Have you ever heard of the trolley problem?

Imagine this: A train is running uncontrollably down the tracks. No brakes. Sadly, there are 5 people chained the tracks, who will be killed unless you flick a switch, which will change the train onto tracks that have 3 people chained to the tracks.

Either 5 people get killed, or you become responsible for the death of 3 innocent people by flicking this switch.

So, is it alright to take the lives of these humans because you can choose whether they are killed or not? Is it logical to spare some lives by killing 3 people instead of 5?

There’s no easy answer, I’m afraid :( Should you be allowed to decide what happens to your body? Absolutely. Is it wrong to abort babies, essentially killing them? Some people think so. There’s no easy answer, but I believe that we should be allowed to decide what happens to our bodies. Perhaps the answer is educate youngsters on sexuality and pregnancies, but in some cases, pregnancy will occur no matter how much protection you use - these are the cases that I think abortion should be acceptable for, being the next step from emergency contraceptives.

I hope this helped at all :)

Thanks for the question, anon! :)

Being like. Post-suicidal is so strange. Like hiiiii everybody im new I spent a good chunk of my life languishing and have like 3 or 4 lived experiences. But now I'm ready to fuck and party or whatever. Can we be friends. Im so happy to be here. Can we be friends

Black women take over

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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.

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the big three questions of media analysis: what the author wanted to say, what they actually said, and what they didn’t know they were saying