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  1. toolMGP tracker — Gold Saucer point optimizerNEWthis week
  2. gameLex Trace: word-path puzzle, new board every roundnothing to wait for
  3. docSYSOP LOG #47 posted to documentsadmin · 2 days ago
  4. gameArtillery — turn limit raised to 30changelog
  5. tooltools board — request queue opensuggest a machine
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games — no accounts, no downloads, scores kept locally

gameon the boxplayers
Vanish Boom 3Dwalk the neon grid arcade in first person, then jack into any cabinet on the floor.1play
Vanish Boom VRthe same neon grid arcade, walked in a headset. put it on and the floor is around you.1play
Mini Golf18 holes, physics puttering. par is honest.1play
Minesweeperthe classic, three sizes, no ads on the gravestones.1play
3D Tic Tac Toe4×4×4 lattice. lines hide in the depth axis.1–2play
Neon Pool8-ball on a table that glows in the dark.1–2play
Solitaireklondike, draw one or three. cards snap.1play
Artilleryangle + power + wind. oldest math game there is.2play
Word Fretspell words down a guitar neck.1play
Lex Traceword-path puzzle. the board is shuffled fresh every round.any timeplay
Dot Matrix: XYZGlyph-grid courier run: six sectors of machine city between you and the KERNEL.1play
Strip Mine: Craft LaterPunch a tree, craft a pick, dig until the stone shows you what it was hiding.1play
Gone Fishin'Cast into the dusk pond, set the hook, and keep the line out of the red.1play
Spam Clicker: Cookie CleanerClear the cookies, register the shareware, and live with what it installs.1play
Rink of DestructionThe eternal gear argument is now a contact sport.1play
Wiki User DungeonFour hundred and ninety-nine rooms of Vanta Meridian, walkable by compass or by map.1play
Bugs: Pro ColonistAn ant colony sim: haul crumbs home to your queen, and dig your way to a colony bigger than the reds next door.1play
13-ShipsA naval lane war: outfit the hull, then hold the water long enough to sink theirs.1play
Maglev MesaTwo turbines, one tether, no brakes worth the name. League night on the mesa.1play
CAG Flight OpsA carrier air group sortie: cover four sectors, dance out of capital boss telegraphs, and keep Eden First's hull intact.1play
Tower StackA tower to run floor by floor: build it up, and keep the lifts ahead of the people riding them.1play
?????cabinet is dark. the marquee still hums.?locked

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tools — real machines for real problems, built to be bookmarked

tooldoesstatus
MGP TrackerGold Saucer point optimizer: rates per minigame per hour, tells you the fastest route to the thing you want.liveopen
Session Timerpomodoro that logs to a plain text file you own.queuedsoon
Loot Oddspaste a drop table, get honest expected-runs math.queuedsoon
Grid Paperprintable graph/hex/iso paper generator.queuedsoon

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documents — logs, notes, and papers found on the office server

SYSOP LOG #47

02:11 rotated logs. disk at 61%.
02:19 lex trace dictionary loaded ok.
02:24 someone pinged port 7777 again. no service runs there.
02:31 checked. no service runs there.
02:31 checked. no service runs there.
02:40 golf hole 9 collision fixed.
03:02 to bed. the counter can count itself for a while.

Notes on the Tapestry (draft 3)

Every good website is a building. The front page is a lobby, the nav is signage, the footer is the fire exit map. What nobody asks is whether the building has a basement.

The old web had basements everywhere — pages with no inbound links, directories you could only guess. We sanded all that off and wondered why nothing feels like a place anymore.

— draft ends here. the author never published it.

OFFICE MEMO — re: the basement

FROM: facilities
TO:   all staff

please stop asking about the door behind the arcade
cabinet. it is a utility closet. the sound you are
describing is the compressor.

do not knock on it in rhythm. it does not "answer."
it is a compressor.

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