This time all the links are from the same site! This guy Neal has created plenty of addictive content for the internet. Don’t click on any of the following links if you intend to get any work done in the next hour or so! Let’s get to it:

  • A couple of years ago the The Password Game went viral. It’s a game about increasingly complex password rules: every time you satisfy one condition, an even stricter and weirder rule appears. You thought you could make a strong password just by adding a number and a symbol? Think again!
  • I now checked what other stuff Neal has recently made besides The Password Game and found out about Infinite Craft, which I ended up clicking for way too long. You start with the basic elements: earth, wind, fire, and water. Then you combine those to get absolutely anything. The game often surprises you with the end result, but it also often makes sense too. For example, earth + earth becomes a mountain, and mountain + fire becomes a volcano. Earth + water, on the other hand, becomes a plant, and plant + fire becomes smoke. With these kinds of chains I’ve managed to eventually craft, for example, Leonardo DiCaprio! 😂
  • The third and last way for one to waste time with Neal’s creations that I want to introduce is the Stimulation Clicker. It starts as a deceptively simple page with just a button, but it soon gets pretty crazy. The “game” can be seen as clever social commentary on the attention-market the web has become: you earn and spend stimulation, and everything on the screen tries to grab your attention when you need those short dopamine hits. Can you resist finding out how/if the game ever ends??

So, these were my selections from Neal’s site, but he has created plenty of other things as well, many of them even educational. You might want to check them out at Neal.fun – but you might waste even more time if you do that, so be warned!