As someone who spends way too much time on YouTube, I often stumble upon things that I wouldn’t otherwise have found. The “recommended videos” in the sidebar often leads down a rabbit hole of randomly unconnected videos (and occasionally into the “weird” part of YouTube).

However, one of the types of videos I’m always recommended to watch for no apparent reason is videos on “how to hydro dip.” There are all of these people out there devoted to “hydro dipping” everything you can imagine. Shoes, gaming controllers, even their various favorite sporting equipment. Basically, hydro dipping (also known as water transfer printing) is a process where you can apply different color patterns or graphics onto just about any object. You do this with the use of a special hydro film that sits on top of water into which you dip objects. And since it’s all over the internet, someone obviously made a game about it.

“Dip Master” is exactly what it sounds like. There isn’t much else to say – it’s a hydro dipping simulator that takes you through 20 different levels where you hydro dip various objects in any way, color and/or design that you like. As you hydro dip each object, you are graded on your end product and you move on. Your goal is to become the “dip master.” That’s it!

This game was an extremely relaxing experience. You get to be both artistic and creative with the various items and the colors you can mix, as well as pretend to do something that I now want to try on some objects of my own. Thanks a lot video games and YouTube – now I’m into hydro dipping.

“Dip Master” is free to download on the Android and IOS stores.

If you’ve ever played a text-based adventure game, you know that you play through a story where there are choices you make along the way; these choices eventually lead to one of multiple endings based on your influence. But what if the story never ended or just kept evolving into something that doesn’t even utterly make any sense anymore?

That is the joy, comedy and frustration of “AI Dungeon.”

“AI Dungeon” is controlled by an artificial intelligence (oh no, not Skynet!) that creates and adapts an adventure story based on what you type in. It’s like talking to a chatbot on a business website, except that this one writes you fun stories instead of telling you it can’t solve your problem.

You start off by selecting a story genre ranging from fantasy to apocalyptic to science fiction to anything you can think of with a “custom” option. From there, the AI takes over and crafts you the beginning of a random adventure, seeking your input for each encounter.

In my first playthrough, I was aboard the USS Enterprise as the captain of the vessel, encountering the invasion of a planet by Klingons. By the end of the story, I somehow was a ruthless galactic tyrant who was helping the Cylons from “Battlestar Galactica” enslave humanity.

Based on your input, a story can deviate and go completely off the rails; if you are unsatisfied with the direction a story is going, you can either type “/revert” to go back and try a new input or you can just start over. Playing this game was like doing improv with a partner, except your partner is either super into the story or just completely drunk and spewing out hilarious nonsense.

“AI Dungeon” is absolutely a blast if you want to waste your time, and hey, what more can you ask for from a game that lets you survive the zombie apocalypse with your best friend Indiana Jones while catching Pokémon in the wild?

“AI Dungeon” is free to download on the Android and IOS stores!