What are your favorite sites you visit daily, besides Lemmy?
I’m surprised nobody listed troll sites…
Blackgate.com - the remnants of Black Gate magazine, which was published from 2000-2011 and then continued in digital form since. It focuses primarily on vintage literary fantasy, though occasionally the an article will be published in films or new fiction. Of particular note to nerds is the Cinema of Swords column by Lawrence Ellsworth, who fantasy fans may be familiar with as the Principal Narrative Designer for Baldur’s Gate 3. I’m not so immersed in the fantasy world that I understand most of what is discussed on the blog, but it is a nice taste of the old Internet, one which might resonate with other fediverse users.
Wow… I’m looking and post to slashdot.org, daily, since 1998 or something…
I read arstechnica.com every day for general tech news.
I read talkingpointsmemo.com most days. It’s focused on US politics, but I like that it gives a little more context coming from a perspective fairly similar to mine.
https://alliancespaceguard.com, pretty much daily. Can’t wait for it to release.
Yucata.de - online boardgames
I usually play 1 move a day in 7-8 boardgames with people all around the world.
I just gotta say… we need to bring back those 90s pages that just had a bunch of links
Ah, the web portals.
Think they were called web rings back in ancient days
I miss Fark :(
StumbleUpon toolbar
It was an era of Netscape navigator and toolbars
Very nice!
That is nice
Now this, this is a website.
I was about to agree, but they fucking disabled reader mode! No dark mode is no bueno for me.
Reader mode works fine for me
Here’s a few! While I mostly use the RSS feeds from these sites, I often read the web versions too:
- Hack a Day, wonderful place to get clued into ground-up explorations of technical topics from the outside
- BBC News, good for a world perspective that’s not fully US-centric but still in English
- OSNews, Operating System news for nerds like me who get legitimately excited for things like installing plan9 on bare metal
- Ken Shirrif’s Blog, the paragon of long-form teardown & explanation of vintage electronics, deeply insightful, terrifyingly technical but still approachable. Okay, not a daily update, but worth the wait
- Create Digital Music, solid and considered electronic music instrument news and articles, for us unreformed synthesizer geeks
Damn you’re installing Plan9 on bare metal? That’s some balls there.
Tried OpenIndiana as a daily driver yet?
I’ll admit I haven’t tried any OSes outside a VM in a while, the last was Haiku a while ago. But I am always keeping tabs!
TempleOS made for a wild weekend.
Ken Shirrif’s Blog is incredibly great!
Thank you for that last one.
unreformed synthesizer geeks
That should really be the name of a Lemmy community
That should really be the name of a Lemmy community
Be the change you want to see in the world
That’s tempting.
@pipe@lemmy.world, would you be interested?
@pipe@lemmy.world, would you be interested?
Sure, I’d join up!
Https://Rockpapershotgun.com is one of the few sites I still visit on a frequent basis. I don’t care about half of their reviews. Their writing and personality is just entertaining and the commenters are fun.
As a developer, I love https://js13kgames.com/. These masters of JS make games that are under 13k, smaller than font file!
This blog has been my late night addiction. https://crpgaddict.blogspot.com/ reviews old PC RPG games like Wizardry and Eye of the Beholder. Theyve been doing it for more than a decade.
Have you noticed any changes since ign acquired RPS and laid off some of the staff?
Yes absolutely. There’s a slight shift of tone in regards to journalism. A lot of takes definitely come off more neutered as to not offend a company or lose favor. It’s unfortunate. But then again, I’m not interested in ragebait so it wasn’t a big thing for me. And other sites (and social media) do it already.
They still go into fresh perspectives. Random things like are audio logs a good mechanism for storytelling. Or the best item in Skyrim (which is filled with such cheeky humor to invite friendly arguments)
And some of the newer hires still haven’t found their RPS voice. They’re trying “too hard” to be zany.
I am still looking for a gaming blog that takes gaming mildly seriously. Ones willing to have both AAA games and incredibly tiny indie games on the front page, sprinkled with opinionated posts about their favorite book covers in RPGs, or if highlighted interactive items is good UI.
Js13k is such a cool find! The top few games are really good for what they claim to be what de hec
couch 2048 is such a classic
GSMArena.com: phone database with lots of reviews
Nanoreview.net: Mobile phone SoC list and ranking
https://www.revzilla.com/common-tread: Daily motorcycle articles
superspruce.org: Fun card game I’m working on
Nice card game
Thanks!
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Royalroad.com Archiveofourown.org
I visit both hourly, and spend the vast majority of my time reading books on those two sites.
I’m not familiar with either. Taking a quick glance, Archive of Our Own is for fanfics, and Royal Road is for original web serials?
EDIT: No, Royal Road has some fanfics too.
Along the same lines, I’ve been reading short SF stories here to get away from social media: https://www.freesfonline.net/NewAdditions.html
Royal road has some fanfics, but not many. Most fanfics on Royal road are either pokémon or cyberpunk, at least the popular ones.
Honestly it’s difficult to say. But it would probably be some kind of cybersecurity and privacy advocacy website that call out companies and how, not only they exploit our private information for profit, but also how that information can be used against you at any point in your life, especially if a government implements a law that infringes on personal rights and freedoms and suddenly your find yourself guilty of something. These companies will gladly hand over that information to the law forces and then you’re fucked.
