Cool stuff on the ‘net

Miscellaneous other media I recommend. I intend to write a short paragraph about each when I get the time, but don’t hold your breath for that.

Other cool blogs

100r are a pair of programmers doing some impressive stuff from a boat.
- Devine Lu Linvega is one of them, and has a pretty great blog (also a talk on strangeloop about sustainable programming)
John Tromp is another prolific programmer, famous for inventing the Binary Lambda Calculus, of relevance here as he also won multiple rounds of the IOCCC, which is how I learned programming.
Ruby Klover has a personal blog here on neocities that also has an interesting link list.
NRK talks about programming
Simplifier has many interesting (non-digital) DIY projects

Random shit

trust explained through little games
teensy .elf executables
blog post about useless software
website design 101
on website obesity
six fixes for the internet
oldskool wallpapers
2d publicly editable text file
easy website accesibility stuff
JSON parsing mishaps - some notes:
These kinds of complexities are the reason I decided to use S-Exprs instead of JSON to store data in my projects
Going through the points listed in the article, I realised that even my own lisp parser was faulty in how it handled whitespace!
spectral ray tracing

Video games

Dwarf Fortress / C:DDA
Vintage Story
KSP
Postal 2
Factorio
Butterfly Soup - ok so this one is actually an incredibly cute game about a bunch of lesbians (and Akarsha, who is bisexual and a daily inspiration to chaos and mischief) growing up and playing baseball. Edit: ALSO APPARENTLY THERE’S A SEQUEL?!?
Katawa Shoujo

Youtube stuff

Books/(Web-)Novels

The Locked Tomb (by Tamsyn Muir) - the first book in the series was described in its blurb as sword-fighting lesbian necromancers explore a haunted gothic palace in space, which sounds like a sky-high bar, but damn does the book deliver. The second one was summarised in a tumblr post as Well I just finished reading 'Harrow the Ninth' and I can definitely recommend it if you want to know what it's like to be gaslit by a book (surprisingly, using the term “gaslight” correctly). It is the series that inspired me to learn how to clean bones for a goth outfit (and memorise all the bones in the (human) body). It has some of the deepest, most emotionally touching poetry you’ll ever read in your life, interrupted by the lowest yo-momma dick joke, and then followed by more poetry - somehow, the yo-momma joke is plot-relevant. You can tell that the author is one of the greatest of our generation, and you can also very clearly tell she started off with homestuck smut on tumblr - which, for the record, makes it better. I don’t know how not to keep fangirling about it more, so just go and read it - tor.com should have issues.
This is how you lose the time war (by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone) - hey, haven’t had enough lesbians yet? How about we throw time travel in the mix? If you’ve ever read “Palimpsest” (by Charles Stross) (I happen to have been obsessed with time travel fictionas a kid, ok) (remember “No Time for Nuts”? Man I had such nightmares about that) and wished it had more lesbians, this is the book for you!
Worm - I started reading this almost a week ago as of writing this, I’m a hundred chapters in, and I’ve lost so much sleep over it. It is a superhero story, written by someone who clearly knows a thing or two about people, a decade before “The Boys” or “Invincible” were a thing (though, admittedly, a couple after “Watchmen”). What happens if you’re a limitless tinkerer, able to imagine any device and figure out how to construct it, but your ADD is so severe you can not finish a single project? When you can innately understand animals, at the cost of never understanding other people? When the white supremacists gain superpowers? A web series with enticing worldbuilding and some of the most heartfelt characters I know.
17776 - being european, american football seems a bit violent and over the top. What would happen if the players were immortal - both impervious to injury, and aimless enough to spend centuries hashing over ten feet of playfield? Featuring everyone’s favorite Pioneer probes as the friendly commentators (also RIP lightbulb, I kid you not I cried at that).
Prequel Adventure, or, Making a Cat cry
Blue Sky - The must-read Portal2 fanfiction, the very one that set off tumblr’s human!Wheatley era. I read it on ff.net, which was a lot easier on the formatting, but the lifejournal version has pictures :)
*Takes off glasses and rubs temples in resignation* And last but not least, the one and only, homestuck. At the very least, I recommend doing yourself a favor and readng through Problem Sleuth, just to see what is all possible nowadays - a friend once described it as the best piece of literature of our generation, and frankly I had to agree. (I recommend checking out the unofficial homestuck collection for reading it, as it packages all of MSPA together with some much-needed flash emulators and bookkeeping software to make it all behave like it should)
Kingkiller Chronicles / Name of the Wind (by Patrick Rothfuss)
Bobiverse Series
Neuromancer

Technical books

Structure and Implementation of Computer Programs (aka “The Wizard Book”) - this one is quoted occasionally in the lisp article, and for good reason - it goes through most of the basics of programming, and was quite enlightening on a lot of topics. Plus, it was (almost) my introduction to Lisp, and I do understand now why people believe it to be the centennial language. I’m almost tempted to agree.
GoF’s Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software. Now, I’m not exactly a fan of OOP, I see it for the misguided attempt at emulating a mix of closure-based state encapsulation combined with a misunderstood message-passing paradigm. Nonetheless, if we ignore its shortcomings and inconveniences, it can be a very useful model, and our four chaps have compiled a reference in various useful ways to apply it.
Operating System Design and Implementation. [smth seems like it should be simple but theres a lot of debate and no one has a definite answer, except subverted]
Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid is not exactly a “scientific” or “technical” book, nonetheless it is quite enlightening on a lot of topic, inspirational on others, and overall quite entertaining.
WLF NKS

Cartoons / TV series / Movies

The queer selection:

RWBY
She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
Hazbin Hotel / Helluva Boss
The Owl House
Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts
Harley Quinn the Animated Series
Scott Pilgrim Takes Off

The less kid-friendly selection (I mean, not that the Harley Quinn series is very ‘kid-friendly’, but ykwim):

Trese - Filipino necromancer and her two henchmen solving mysteries in nighttime Manila.
Psycho-Pass - Oh, a classic. Sci-fi cop drama that manages to stay true to the spirit of sci-fi and deliver not only stunning tech, but also very deep and insightful social and philosophical commentary.
Black Lagoon
LOVE DEATH + ROBOTS
Hammer&Bolter
Pantheon

The misc selection, aka “shit I wached with my partner/flatmate and/or idk where else to put it”:

Venture Bros
Invader Zim
Aggretsuko
Bee and Puppycat
Over the Garden Wall
Steven Universe
Blue-eyed Samurai
Dungeon Meshi
Battlestar Galactica (this is not even remotely a cartoon, but still)
Gunsmith Cats
Hazbin Hotel / Helluva Boss
Kid Cosmic
Scavengers Reign
Scott Pilgrim
Supercrooks

Movies:

9
Spiderman / The Amazing Spiderman / Spiderverse
Big Hero 6
Chronicle
Constantine / City of Demons
EEAAO
Event Horizon
Fantasia 2k
Gits
Akira
How to Train your Dragon
The Incredibles
Indiana Jones
Ip Man
Jealous Gods
Johnny Mnemonic
Judas & Jesus
Kung Fu Panda
Lilo and Stitch
Mardock Scramble
Master and Commander
Maze Runner
The Mummy
Parada
Penguins of Madagascar
Pirates of the Carribean
Point Break
Postal
Predestination
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
Rush Hour
Scott Pilgrim
Shrek
Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Star Trek the Motion Picture
Sunshine
Superman III
The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Schwartz
Nicotine Bees
Seder Masochism
The Lego Movie
Aristocats
The Wonderful World of Arriety
Arthur and the Invisibles
Bolt
Finding Nemo / Finding Dori
Flow
Gulliver’s Travels
Howl’s Moving Castle
Into the Woods
Minuscule: la vallee des fourmis perdues
Moana
Princess Mononoke
Monsters Inc
Robots
Neko Atsume no Ie
Over the Hedge
Princess and the Frog
Spirited Away
A Turtle’s Tale
Zootopia

Horny stuff (click to reveal)

Webcomics

Videogames (horny edition)

Lust Doll Plus (remake of the original (also check out Elf Jail is one of those games that keeps presenting you with kinks you didn’t know you could be into
Corruption of Champions 2, aka “the game that has every single kink in existence”
Lilith’s Throne - good luck getting this one to work lol. The windows release running under wine (a wrapper in a wrapper in a wrapper) seems to be the most stable one available.
Degrees of Lewdity (wiki), one of the main inspirations for ExhiBotanist
Dreamcutter is low on horny and high on action
Summertime Saga - (the one w/ the trans gal)
A Town Uncovered
At the Mountains of Friendship
The Coffin of Andy and Leyley, aka “the cannibal incest game” on twitter - which is a surprisingly apt description, though the incest is less “sexual” and more “toxic codependence”. Take this one for a fun game that will get a lot of people very judgemental.
Barely working - “freeuse kink at the workplace the game”. Nice art, nice mechanics, do be warned that it is still a game about a workplace and you will have to keep track of time etc.

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