Sand, Hell and Kittens

December 30, 2005 6:18 AM

War of The Hell. World of Sand. Hell of Sand. Cat Sledging. Java Friday. [via]
posted by empath (19 comments total)

I was very upset to find that my job was to help the souls get to heaven. I thought I had been given a whip to beat them with.

And I couldn't figure out what the Hell was the goal of the Sand ones, but they were cool. Plant eats water, Fire eats oil quickly and wax (cera) slowly, salt saturates water, ??? eats everything...
posted by TheOnlyCoolTim at 6:39 AM on December 30, 2005

They are just toys, really.

The moving thing at the bottom is supposed to be a slug. Water makes it grow, salt kills it.
posted by empath at 6:43 AM on December 30, 2005

Cat sledding is great fun!
The others are cool too. Thanks.
posted by goatfish at 7:39 AM on December 30, 2005

Some nice new additions to my games folder. Thanks, empath.
posted by meh at 7:51 AM on December 30, 2005

More proof that at any given time there are only like five or so interesting web pages on the internet, and they just make the round between all the major link sites: previously seen on Fark, Digg, and Linkfilter.

Oh hell, it deserves it anyway. For the sand game especially.
posted by JHarris at 7:58 AM on December 30, 2005

Under the right conditions, you can make a giant, flaming "slug" in the Hell of Sand game.

I've always wanted to make a giant, flaming slug.
posted by MrMoonPie at 8:17 AM on December 30, 2005

Cad sledding is awesome!
posted by furtive at 8:21 AM on December 30, 2005

Meow! Meow! Meow! Boost!
posted by JHarris at 8:32 AM on December 30, 2005

I'd say there are probably, on any given day, five or six sites that are interesting to a broad enough segment of the population to 'make the rounds' of the major link aggregators.

There are lots more that are plenty interesting to specialists, though, like the 'favorite fonts' page a few links down. I think metafilter should have a little bit of both, personally.
posted by empath at 8:36 AM on December 30, 2005

spoilers: cat "sledging" is really cat sledding.

kinda disappointing. fun nonetheless.
posted by slogger at 9:10 AM on December 30, 2005

Spoilers: A "sledge" really is just a "sled".
posted by Imperfect at 9:37 AM on December 30, 2005

World of awesome! Thanks for this.
posted by jonson at 9:56 AM on December 30, 2005

fortunately cat sledging was not what I expected.
posted by modernerd at 10:34 AM on December 30, 2005

there goes my day...the slug thing ate all my people and went nuts....
posted by stilgar at 10:34 AM on December 30, 2005

Here's a better version of the World of Sand. Gives a much bigger play area.

Shamelessly stolen from Waxy.org.
posted by addyct at 10:45 AM on December 30, 2005

Ah, I was wondering what the moving thing in World of Sand was, and why ceramics - "Cera" - was burning. Thanks. :)

No, I'm not opening that World of Sand link again. Last time I opened that I was there for three days.
posted by loquacious at 12:12 PM on December 30, 2005

When the slug thing goes nuts, apply salt just above its center point. That'll calm him right down.
posted by MrMoonPie at 4:16 PM on December 30, 2005

addyct, in that version its not nearly as fun to play "big slug, little slug".

great post
posted by es_de_bah at 5:18 PM on December 30, 2005

There goes my sleep.
posted by Anamith at 9:01 PM on December 30, 2005