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Nobody asked me to build this.

I'm building a playground for Generation X.

Three places so far, all free, all mine to keep running. No algorithm deciding who sees you. No ads. No subscription. No follower count. Nobody selling you anything, me included.

REPORT IN

If it stops being fun to build, I'll stop building it. That's the whole business model.

(tap the empty paper. you remember how to doodle.)

What's built so far

drawn to scale, obviously

Things that are not here

Just rooms, conversations, and stuff to mess around with.

The Arcade

one cabinet out here · the rest are inside · nobody takes quarters

BLOCK PARTY GXA ARCADE · 1984
CREDIT 01 MOVE: FINGER / MOUSE / ← →SLIDE TO MOVE

Runs on anything, needs nothing installed, saves your score on your own machine. Same as every cabinet inside.

HIGH SCORES

BLOCK PARTY · ALL TIME

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The real board lives in the forum and resets every month. Screenshot your run, drop it in the arcade thread, get your name up. take a swing →

More cabinets, inside

these run in the forum, mostly live, mostly on a schedule

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    Movie Night triviaquestions between reels, everybody yelling in chat
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    Music Nightname that intro, first four notes, no Shazam
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    The Hot Seatone member in the chair, the room asks the questions
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    Watch partiessynced video, live chat, nobody skips ahead
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    The Classification Projectover at genx.study, get sorted, no account
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    Whatever I build nextit shows up here when it works

Who's building this

Me. One guy in West Virginia who has been making websites for about thirty years and misses when they were built by people who liked making them.

There's no team, no investors, and no growth plan taped to a wall. I build a thing, put it up, and see if anybody shows. If something here gets popular enough to cost real money, I'll look at sponsors or ticketed events. I won't be charging you to talk to other people. That was never the deal.

Everything is free, and it stays free. You can leave whenever you want and nothing will chase you.

COME MESS AROUND

— SeanSAMX / Gen X Alliance

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