videos
reform!
jon bois
An explanation of the rise and fall of the US Reform Party, featuring some of the strangest people you’ve ever seen in your life.
fighting in the age of loneliness
jon bois, felix biederman
The life, and death, of competitive MMA.
hell on earth
matt christman, chris wade
A podcast series explaining how a series of posts from a German madman in Wittenberg, and an international pandemic, hauled capitalism out of the corpse of the Middle Ages.
articles
the reverse-centaur's guide to criticising AI
cory doctorow
Explains the current business model behind AI, how weak that model is, why it's bad for workers, and crucially, what to do about it.
sweet and slim, greasy and grim
erin davis, liana sposto
Erin Davis read Wise Man's Fear, bless her for trying, and found a 35-page description of a fairy girl so offensive that she did data science on gendered descriptions in literature.
other websites
- Angry Metal Guy – A metal review blog.
- Topsters – Tool to create grids of your favourite media.
- A Soft Murmur – Easy background noise tool.
- YTDLP – Download Youtube videos from the command line.
- Sumo Database – Info about every sumo wrestler, ever.
- Global Lightning Map – See all the lightning on the planet.
- Pia and the Little Tiny Things – A comic about moving to the country and fitting in.
- Go Get A Roomie (note: NSFW) – Same author as Pia. My favourite comic of all time.
- Kill Six Billion Demons – Fantasy adventure comic about a white girl going to Hell.
- Therapy Worksheets – A massive resource of therapy worksheets that covers all sorts of issues; relationships, anxiety, self-esteem, what have you.
my grids
these are from topsters. apologies for image, this will be html eventually
fave games
- Noita
- Slice & Dice
- Disco Elysium: The Final Cut
- Mass Effect Legendary Edition
- The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
- Path of Achra
- Desert Golfing
- Pikuniku
- NieR: Automata
- Animal Well
- Path of Exile
- Hades
- Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker
- Return of the Obra Dinn
- The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
- Outer Wilds
fave movies
- Noroi: The Curse
- Heat
- The Lighthouse
- Oldboy
- Conan the Barbarian
- Sicario
- The Death of Stalin
- Barry Lyndon
- Mulholland Drive
- Dune: Part Two
- Princess Mononoke
- Suspiria
- Perfect Blue
- Cure
- In Bruges
- There Will Be Blood
fave music
- Havukruunu - Uinuos Syömein Sota
- Wormrot - Voices
- Moonsorrow - Verisäkeet
- Vektor - Terminal Redux
- Dimmu Borgir - The Holy Crag
- Ulver - Bergtatt
- Opeth - Blackwater Park
- Madvillain - Madvillainy
- Bathory - Under the Sign of the Black Mark
fave anime
- Patlabor 2: The Movie
- Serial Experiments Lain
- Steins;Gate
- Howl's Moving Castle
- Princess Mononoke
- Mushi-Shi
- Witch Hat Atelier
- Berserk
- Your Name.
- Steamboy
- Paprika
- Perfect Blue
- My Neighbors the Yamadas
- Akira
- Angel's Egg
- Delicious in Dungeon
- ERASED
- Bleach
- Gurren Lagann
- DARLING in the FRANXX
- Naruto Shippūden
fave books
- Joe Abercrombie - The Blade Itself
- Scott Lynch - The Lies of Locke Lamora
- Mark Z. Danielewski - House of Leaves
- Brandon Sanderson - The Emperor's Soul
- Barbara Tuchman - A Distant Mirror
- David A. Gemmell - Legend
- Liu Cixin - The Three Body Problem
- Sergei Lukyanenko - The Twilight Watch
- Boris & Arkady Strugatsky - Roadside Picnic
- Brandon Sanderson - Oathbringer
- Terry Pratchett - The Colour of Magic
- Joe Abercrombie - The Heroes
