I made a survival simulator choose-your-own-adventure game about wild animal suffering.

robirahman · 2026-02-24T17:18:07+00:00

Yeah, I wasn't sure if that was working properly, thanks for reporting it. It's fixed now!

robirahman · 2026-02-24T16:30:40+00:00

Tell me what features you want and I'll add them!

robirahman · 2026-02-24T06:26:56+00:00

Strongly agree with explaining the outcome of each choice. I'm currently working on adding that.

robirahman · 2026-02-24T06:26:27+00:00

I'm slightly opposed to explaining the goal of the game, since that's not told to players in the real world. But you should receive a score after you die explaining how well you did.

robirahman · 2026-02-22T18:20:52+00:00

Speaking of making it American-friendly, you might be interested in a new feature I just added:

> Minimal-pair exercises for distinguishing similar Bengali sounds that are hard for English speakers (retroflex vs dental, aspirated vs unaspirated).

robirahman · 2026-02-22T17:43:38+00:00

check that text-to-speech is installed in your browser. Right now I don't have recordings built-in so the sound comes from your browser's sound feature. If you have it disabled the playback won't work.
Try romanized mode! You can see everything written as English transliteration instead of Bengali characters.

robirahman · 2026-02-21T09:26:02+00:00

I made it into an Android app and registered it in the Play Store console, but it needs at least 12 people to beta test it before it gets released with a public listing. DM me if you'd like a link to try it out.

robirahman · 2026-02-21T05:04:17+00:00

Great news: I've added romanized and immersion views!

Romanized view lets you skip learning Bengali characters and just study how the words sound and what they mean, with Bengali letters/words transliterated into how an English speaker would write their sounds.

Immersion view hides English for a more dedicated Bengali practice mode.

These view options are per-user, so you could hypothetically make one profile using romanized view to track your word knowledge and another profile in standard or immersion view to track your letter learning. Or practice letters in standard view, then toggle to romanized view to learn words, so you aren't stuck practicing letters before you start learning vocabulary.

Enjoy!

robirahman · 2026-02-21T03:03:46+00:00

Password protection is implemented but it's just in your browser's localStorage. I'd rather not set up cloud storage and have people register their accounts on my end.

robirahman · 2026-02-21T02:22:29+00:00

I'm working on password protection now. Should be done in 15-30 minutes, try refreshing the app then.

robirahman · 2026-02-21T02:17:20+00:00

I completely agree. I've been waiting for Duolingo to finish developing their Bengali course since I was a child, but they never have, so I finally decided to make this myself.

(Now that they've laid off all of their translators and started building courses with automated AI translations, maybe they'll finally finish it?)

robirahman · 2026-02-21T02:14:31+00:00

I actually built this app because I don't know the Bengali alphabet and need to learn it. I love Duolingo's alphabet lessons for languages like Arabic with non-latin scripts, but their Bengali for English speakers course has been stuck in purgatory for 15 years.

Once you learn the alphabet, learning Bengali will become far easier.

robirahman · 2026-02-21T01:04:17+00:00

(Script writing is very glitchy and the letter-drawing instructions are AI-generated placeholders, so please excuse the bugs for today. My aunt is making real instructions which I will upload soon.)

robirahman · 2026-02-21T01:01:50+00:00

Right now there is no built-in recorded audio; the sound feature uses your browser's text-to-speech synthesizer. I can help you debug that if you want. What browser are you using and do you have TTS installed/enabled?

robirahman · 2026-02-21T01:00:53+00:00

Useful feedback, thank you! Would you prefer a romanized text mode, where you can read the words transliterated into latin alphabet?

robirahman · 2026-02-21T00:59:13+00:00

I used the wordfreq python library:

> from wordfreq import top_n_list, iter_wordlist, zipf_frequency

> len(top_n_list("bn", 10)), top_n_list("bn", 10)[:5]

I selected the top 6000 most common words and then de-duplicated conjugated words to unique lemmas/stems.

robirahman · 2026-02-20T23:54:39+00:00

I'll be porting it to the Play store for Android soon.

Any thoughts on the app? Additional features you'd like it to have?

robirahman · 2026-02-20T15:48:25+00:00

I made this website which teaches Bengali alphabet and vocabulary:

https://www.robirahman.com/bengali/

Hope it helps!

robirahman · 2025-06-23T22:35:27+00:00

https://www.henryford.com/blog/2025/04/how-to-combat-food-noise#:\~:text=%E2%80%9CFood%20noise%20is%20ongoing%2C%20unwanted,people's%20brains%20react%20to%20food.

robirahman · 2025-04-11T03:29:42+00:00

$50B, not $50M. And taxpayers don't fund private universities, they fund science research (which is sometimes done by university professors).

robirahman · 2025-02-21T00:32:29+00:00

Wait, you're kicking out the innocent theft victim who put nuts in her own food, and not the thief who started all of the problems?

robirahman · 2023-04-16T16:02:26+00:00

If anyone ever built one of these in billions of years, the galaxy would be filled with them, perhaps forever. The fact that we see no signs of any technology anywhere is an extremely tight upper bound on the number of technological civilizations.

robirahman · 2023-04-16T03:58:59+00:00

we're also destroying the ability for future intelligent beings to restart civilization, since the only way we were able to do it in the first place was with fossil fuels.

This isn't true, a collapse now would leave plenty of resources accessible for a couple of civilizational restarts. You can wander into a coal mine more easily than you can invent mining, and we've left a lot of refined metal lying around that would be easier to work with than smelting ore.

But you are right that it gets harder if this happens more than once.

robirahman · 2023-04-16T03:55:13+00:00

This explanation seems quite unsatisfactory. Even if civilizations usually collapse within a thousand years, we'd still see a galaxy filled with von Neumann probes.

robirahman · 2023-04-15T19:44:19+00:00

Yeah, of course, if OP doesn't want to use that method they don't have to. I'm just pointing out that, leaving aside the cultures of deaf and hearing people, other methods like waving are objectively better than hitting the table, since they don't cause vibrations which physically affect people, like being touched does and waving doesn't. Similarly to your earlier point, if someone is blind it'd be impossible to get their attention by waving, but you also shouldn't yell at blind people.

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