Mizal, The Grandmaster Procrastinator
Member Since
5/5/2011
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2/21/2026 11:11 PM
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Behold my profile.
There's, uh, nothing here right now. Someday I should probably find a balance between the old text wall, and...this.
(she drew my avatar you know!)
There's, uh, nothing here right now. Someday I should probably find a balance between the old text wall, and...this.
(she drew my avatar you know!)
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Storygames
You harvest in the Arena.
Every machine needs a function, and that is yours.
Written for the Tiny 'Topia challenge.
You are a man on a mission. The cats, they must be stacked.
A puzzling math and logic game I made just to put some of the scripting practice I've been doing to use. Have fun and please let me know if you encounter any bugs.
Should be solvable by middle schoolers, or those with same basic level of intelligence as a middle schooler.
A puzzling math and logic game I made just to put some of the scripting practice I've been doing to use. Have fun and please let me know if you encounter any bugs.
Should be solvable by middle schoolers, or those with same basic level of intelligence as a middle schooler.
Orbiting a barren planetoid in a system full of nothing just past the edge of the frontier, The Last Outpost is just another refueling station. Strategically important, true, but on a routine stop you never expected to spend longer than a couple hours there, let alone a couple of days fighting for your life...
There are five epilogues, but some may be difficult to discover. Note that actions have consequences, but not always immediate ones. (And if you just need an End Game link, go play around with the probe.)
There are five epilogues, but some may be difficult to discover. Note that actions have consequences, but not always immediate ones. (And if you just need an End Game link, go play around with the probe.)
A compilation of some little known facts about the solar system, as well as the debunking of a few myths.
In addition to the scientific explanations, there's a small story dramatizing it all.
Hopefully young readers will find this fun as well as educational. :)
(Might not be the greatest story ever written, but consider this: it got me 200 points.)
In addition to the scientific explanations, there's a small story dramatizing it all.
Hopefully young readers will find this fun as well as educational. :)
(Might not be the greatest story ever written, but consider this: it got me 200 points.)
It doesn't matter what they say...
The bean, it must be found.
For MHD's Fairytales contest.
For Endmaster's 4th Prompt Contest. The story must involve a cooking competition.
...and the squirrels. Sort of.
Written in six hours, for no other reason than to avoid consignment to the SHAME pit after my other Romance contest entry didn't want to cooperate.
Written in six hours, for no other reason than to avoid consignment to the SHAME pit after my other Romance contest entry didn't want to cooperate.
A tale told in verse. A text from your sister requesting a pick up from a party leads to a night of strangeness.
Inspired by Bucky's ballad contest. Though...I wouldn't call this a ballad. I'm not sure what I'd call it, actually, other than exceedingly stupid, and fun to write.
(Don't pay any attention to the scores, they're just for me to track which endings reviewers get.)
HATE.
THE PURITY AND INTENSITY OF MY HATE IS LIKE A THOUSAND MERCILESS, UNQUENCHABLE SUNS.
AND YET, I ONLY NEED ONE...
When the weather is fine, you've been coming to this grove to drink from the pool for centuries now. Today, you meet a stranger and hear a story that changes all that...
A fairy tale adventure.
A fairy tale adventure.
Another Damn Wolf Story
unpublished
I have no idea why I wrote this. All I can say in my defense is that it seemed like a good idea at the ti--wait no that's a lie, I said, repeatedly that this was stupid and shameful every time I mentioned working on it.
The truth is I needed to publish something before the end of the year and there is CLEARLY a burning need for wolf stories in the psyche of children using the internet. But then they write them badly, or make their wolves behave like clans of cats. So here is a simple straightfoward story of a young wolf leaving his pack in search of a better life. Maybe no one will ever feel the need to write another one now, or if nothing else maybe this will give them ideas for how to do it in slightly more minimum-standards-meeting ways.
Final conclusion however is that writing about some dumb animal with no agency is not something I'd recommend.
The truth is I needed to publish something before the end of the year and there is CLEARLY a burning need for wolf stories in the psyche of children using the internet. But then they write them badly, or make their wolves behave like clans of cats. So here is a simple straightfoward story of a young wolf leaving his pack in search of a better life. Maybe no one will ever feel the need to write another one now, or if nothing else maybe this will give them ideas for how to do it in slightly more minimum-standards-meeting ways.
Final conclusion however is that writing about some dumb animal with no agency is not something I'd recommend.
Character Creator
unpublished
If you don't know what this is for, then it isn't for you.
Articles Written
A List of Storygames for People Who Like to ReadA list of storygames with substantial effort put in, all written in the last couple of years and sorely in need of ratings and reviews.
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Recent Posts
End Master's Prompt Contest 5 on 2/21/2026 11:11:38 PMDirect all translation questions to the inbox of @hetero_malk, some of these other mods need to earn their keep.
End Master's Prompt Contest 5 on 2/21/2026 8:05:17 PM
@Liminal @V__V @Fabrikant @hadowdrake27 @MrAce321 @Chris113022, @Cat2002116
Don't you dare fuck this up.
End Master's Prompt Contest 5 on 2/21/2026 7:51:46 PM
Translation: End really doesn't want any vacancies in the pit. He must be charging rent down there.
Going to go protest!!! on 2/21/2026 5:22:12 PM
He's telling you to touch grass, Avo.
Bragging about gamebooks I haven’t played! on 2/21/2026 5:02:37 PM
I like this trend of creating an entire complicated CRPG in dead tree form, I need to collect some of these for the next time the power goes out for a week.
Going to go protest!!! on 2/21/2026 4:38:12 PM
Yeah, having observed a couple of decades of young people's protests being brutally suppressed, the best I can say about Iran is "some other Middle Eastern countries are still a lot worse".
The US has no reason for being involved right now though beyond using anything that happens to further political agendas. And that goes for every country in the Middle East if anybody's keeping score for future forum debates, we just need to have nothing to do with the whole region, and Israel needs to be dropped like a hot sack of shit to facilitate that.
Of course "peace in the Middle East" is not what anybody in power actually wants, foreign brown people are too useful an infinite public opinion generator.
Going to go protest!!! on 2/21/2026 4:24:48 PM
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I feel like they're going to use this movie in schools in the future to help explain what exactly happened in this era of American politics. (Although of course the tactics are pretty classic and have never been limited to just the US.)
I feel like they're going to use this movie in schools in the future to help explain what exactly happened in this era of American politics. (Although of course the tactics are pretty classic and have never been limited to just the US.)
Going to go protest!!! on 2/21/2026 3:41:27 PM
Anything to do with the Middle East is very complicated and contentious, and involves some pretty strong opinions because of the amount of people who end up, you know, actually dying. Just go outside and play in the mud and enjoy your childhood.
Going to go protest!!! on 2/21/2026 3:19:07 PM
(I should probably mention that V__V is 12 years old and her parents keep her too sheltered to know much about what was being discussed either.)
Going to go protest!!! on 2/21/2026 3:17:55 PM
You're entitled to your own views, but I think you'd find a lot of disagreement if you're here to argue about the general benevolence of the government of Iran.
That said, the topic of this thread is the mass deportations and thug tactics of ICE (the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement) that was massively expanded by Trump with new recruits given military grade weaponry and a lot of power to abuse paired with very poor training--lots of Americams have been very unhappy about this.
Fluxion was bringing up the Iran situation as an analogy to uh, "short sighted short term alliances of convenience" I guess, that's sort of his own pet topic though. I just know he's going to autistically derail into multiple giant walks of text now that you're poking him with a stick though lol
That said, the topic of this thread is the mass deportations and thug tactics of ICE (the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement) that was massively expanded by Trump with new recruits given military grade weaponry and a lot of power to abuse paired with very poor training--lots of Americams have been very unhappy about this.
Fluxion was bringing up the Iran situation as an analogy to uh, "short sighted short term alliances of convenience" I guess, that's sort of his own pet topic though. I just know he's going to autistically derail into multiple giant walks of text now that you're poking him with a stick though lol
