Miyamoto said that the inspiraton for Zelda was drawn from exploring caves near his childhood home, and that the inspiration for pokemon was drawn from catching bugs as a kid. Post your country, your biome and the secret place you used to go as a kid/teen: - Australia - Rainforest - I used to go into a wild national park, walk for 2 hours through unbashed trail, hop from mosssy rock to rock over crystal clear creeks, and sit under a water fall. The air was desne and sweet, and... Read more ..read more

Before you throw rocks at me, please let me explain what I mean. For a while now, I have been observing people both in real life and online increasingly talk about "mental health", typically as if it is some sort of credit score or bank account they are responsible for taking care of. "it has negative effects on their mental health", "I'm depleting my mental health", "improving your mental health", etc. Some people even namedrop neurotransmitters and hormones like serotonin, dopamine, and... Read more ..read more

Given how travelers are, probably for a lot of us the friend-making scope is limited to the internet. So it's important to be able to find at least here some besties to enjoy the limited life experience. But i have problem doing so, so maybe is the same for a lot of others. So sharing your experiences, advices and problems (if it can be of help maybe even other platform too? I don't want to betray the road) may help fellow travelers or at least be interesting to read. I'm... Read more ..read more

Welcome to the 8th mensual Agora Road Travelogue! Initially inspired by the Bring Back Blogging movement, this is an Agora Road version to encourage y'all to WRITE STUFF! Commit to writing 2 blog posts in this month of March. Indicate, in some way, that you are participating in the Travelogue on the blog post you are submitting. Upon publishing your post, you must comment in this thread your 1) Article's title 2) Link to article. Consider joining... Read more ..read more

I recently discovered the first two videos I ever saw online archived on Youtube. They were originally hosted on a guinea pig-themed website in Flash format, and I vividly remember seeing them when I was 4-6 years old (so, 2002-2004). I'm still looking for the original site these were hosted on. There are a surprising amount of guinea pig websites in the Internet Archive, in case anyone's wondering. Anyways, I'm fascinated by Web history and silly little... Read more ..read more

I took some photos at a mostly-dead mall the other day. Dead Mall Vitnira Dec 27, 2023 4 Listening to Christmas music echo throughout the open space was weird. I've listened to plenty of Mallsoft but it's definitely something else to experience the haunting surrealism in reality. I've also seen some abandoned mall pics but there's something about this zombie mall that was even creepier. Literally the lights are on but nobody's home. The food court had two run-down businesses. The front had a Planet Fitness. (BTW... Read more ..read more

The concept is simple, i will start the thread with a open ended sentence and other posters will continue the story and we will turn it into a bookish pdf when it is done. Don't write sentences longer than 40 or shorter than 10. Wait for at least 4 other posters to reply before you add a sentence again. If the reply prior is just awful you can ignore it but quote the post you are appending to. If you want to comment, do it inside a spoiler tag... Read more ..read more

Here are the rules: Each post can either contribute or comment on the story so far - if you are making a comment, signify so with a ## at the beginning of each line, as if making a comment in code post. As for contributions, we'll do it like so- every post can have up to three paragraphs that they add to the story- and may not contradict posts already made. Each post must make sure to be consistent, and carry directly on from the post before it. Try to keep to the subject, but if you stray... Read more ..read more

Use this thread to make fiction book suggestions, general suggestions, and/or feedback about the Fiction Book Club ..read more

many of you are probably familiar with worlds.com as it faced controversy for having a cult (it dosen't) but im more curious now as to the games yall used to play that was online that is now dead and remains in a liminal like setting. or just any game that is in a state similar to worlds.com ..read more