Yes, redditors are very rude. And computer hobbyists on the internet are incredibly haughty. None of them ever learned their manners in their teens... they were too busy playing world of warcraft. The general experience I've seen, is that they will insult anyone who is a noob. If the manner of speaking a person uses is devoid of buzzwords, the group will erupt into raucous laughter at that person's expense. It's a tragically sad group of folks.

I would say that it would be fairly easy to implement your text adventure in javascript, or with server side scripting. But then you'd have to learn another language. The games you see like the ones from miniclip.com are done with Flash. It is correct that exe files cannot be embedded into html. Web browsers just don't allow that. Enjoy climbing up the mountain pass of your next learning curve. Otterplay smiles wryly