THIS PAGE IS DEPRECATED AND AWFUL. Just letting you know.
I once stated that you weren't going to find bloody useless or obvious links here. As time went on, though, a number of the unusual links became common. That's the power of foresight that I possess... I can rise you up to be the King of Internet, or bring you down just the same! Mwah!
A link may be down, but I do correct or at least mark them whenever I notice. Not to say that links will be fixed instantaneously in a magical fashion right after they expire, or that I'll put up mirrors of the site, based on the pages I've crawled and hoarded before death.
Go to it, and good luck.
Pseudoredundancy
[Gaming]
[Beton]
[Entertainment]
["Comics"]
[Music]
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SHMUPS! An in-progress third iteration of a love shrine for the scrolling shooter genre that well-known titles like Gradius, R-Type or more recently Ikaruga epitomize. |
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ClassicGaming The things that make this outright miserable fucking hosting service worthwhile are the few great sites that're by some unfortunate circumistance trapped under its misshapen, grotesque wing malformations. For example, a part of the above-mentioned great shootie shrine, the name-says-it-all Castlevania Dungeon, and the soon-to-follow SC2 page are all on their webspace, which means you can barely access the sites with the host trying to block or garble and cookie your access up every turn of the way. |
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The Pages of Now and Forever Screw Babylon 5 right up its slightly overrated ass (And Farscape up its humongously overrated one) -- Star Control takes the Great Science Fiction Epic Cake without much contest. The Pages are a kind of a center of all Star Control fan activity in the 'net. Anyway, Star Control II : The Ur-Quan Masters is indeed a subject worth meeting, so do it already. One of the best games (and maybe the single best sci-fi one) ever. |
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The Ur-Quan Masters The game I just talked about, downloadable. Free of charge. Converted for SDL, playable on all popular platforms (and some less than). Now where's your excuse, fucker? |
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Lemon Here you can see through (your C-64) in the sunlight! But never in the daylight! |
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The Sardius Experience Through the Gate, Over the Deep Edge. |
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Pelikonepeijoonit Get the name right - this site is dedicated to computers and consoles of all kinds, by people own quite a couple of them. Well, take a look! Never has an egotrip of a hardware museum been made with such gusto. You'll find a huge list of machines and an informationary bit on evry one of those chunks of hardware there, how can that be beat, neh? What's that? By ganging up on it? With sticks, you say? Very large and gnarled? |
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The Patches Scrolls If you are looking for official game patches, updates and upgrades, be it old or new, this place is definitely one place to check for them. Chances are, you'll find what you were looking for, if it exists. Usually. |
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The Mega Man Home Page Linked here 'cause Rockman, in spite of all the effort Capcom puts in trying to disprove that, rocks. |
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Tetris 1D Three dimensions, that's too much. Simplify, simplify. |
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MobyGames "A grand game data archive project" |
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Bloodlust Software MRRRRWW! EAAAAAAARGH! GRRRRRRRRH! FSSSH! |
| Items you can pick up and try using on everything else |
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Free DNS Over at FreeDNS dot afraid dot org you can get a dynamic DNS service for free. So I did. It's terrific. |
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Astalavista As you might guess from the silly name, this is a search engine. But for what? Well, it is a great, great engine if you are looking for *grin* application unprotections. [Insert hypocritical anti-piracy disclaimer here] |
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The Universal Currency Converter A bloody useful contraption and the name describes it to a satisfactory degree. |
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The Wayback Machine The save state of Internet. |
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Babel Fish The old laughingstock, this translator tool produces shitty translations that could help you decipher whatever dæmonic language it is you were trying to understand. |
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Opera Opera used to be the alternative to the few large, lousy browsers that dominated the scene - priceless on several levels, stable, fast, compact and chock full of lovable features that've become must-haves for Internet exploration. Last few years, though, loads of other browsers (Mozilla derivatives, mostly) emerged, and Opera sadly proceeded to lose a grand portion of its blazing speed under heavy layers of glittering icing. Can't any longer declare a clear winner, but despite the slight flawing, Opera still complements me the most of any browser. I don't know about you, but I think full-screen tabbed browsing is only a step above having a new program window for each page. I hate it. Anyway, like in the beginning, regular desktop versions no longer cost anything - or have banners. However, the source is still closed, although here's hoping for a change in the future. One interesting point in the design of the browser is that it appears to get periodically worse and better, and occasionally an update is bound to be a letdown. |
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Dictionary.com A decent electronic dictionary database which searches several dictionaries upon a search request. Highly recommended, and almost free of charge, although the advertisement pop-ups are a pain unblocked, as always. |
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Wikipedia A thoroughly excellent freeform encyclopædia, especially when considering how people could openly terrorize it. Please spread your knowledge! |
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Ken Silverman's Utility Page Treasure trove. The former Apogee coder is a top notch programmer, and his take on the deflate (Zip, PNG) compression routine is likely the tightest one available. |
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The RAR archiver Ah, RAR. The ol' compression program of my heart, the only item in existence to prove that "Russian quality" isn't always an oxymoron. The GUI version uncompresses almost everything and RAR compression ratio generally beat everything else around. RAR and 7-Zip duke it out for the highest compression ratio, but the winner depends a bit on the files you pack, so neither one always beats the other in terms of of pure effectiveness.. for now. |
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7-Zip A very tough, free (try open-source) competitor of RAR indeed, and it's also Russian. What the hell...? Anyway, benefits over RAR: Non-proprietariness (!), excellent split/combine handling (once you've compressed the data, it's free game), optional multi-threaded compression, newer and stronger non-specialized compression routines, and editable context menu integration for Windows (can even rename the appearing commands). Bad things? Doesn't exactly save the file's every single tiny little Unix rights syllable, no. |
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PAQ Oh, by the way. This is probably the ultimate data compressor in terms of compression ratio, but it takes until the suns die into the night to get them packed. :) Still, if you're in no hurry... |
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MYAN^2 Factory Home of a great no-frills digital CD player and extraction software. Relocated. |
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ZIDRAV Experiencing data corruption? It gets irritating if it's in that three jigabyte file which you just painstakingly dragged across the globe. This program is a file patcher that's just perfect for remote fix operations. |
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MV2 Player I think that this is the best media player available for the Windows platform. Frighteningly customizable and chock full of features that're handy for once, I certainly no longer settle for any BS, or useless Classics. |
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Folding@Home Seems to be the only worthwhile distributed calculation project ever active. |
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World Wide Web Consortium Listen to these guys so you don't fuck up my browsing experience again. |
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FHI headquarters on Remora server This is the headquarters/homepage/portal of this FHI group I belong in, but you probably already know that if you've read my file. Anyway, visit there for the comics, stories, apps, reviews and rants, see the Jutska project for the soon-to-be-best review/data archive on the web! We have done a lot of stuff, and left another lot of it half-done. For now. You see, a large percentage of us are lazy. And a (different) large percentage also go to school. But go take a look! Should be worth it despite the disorganization. |
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SolidSharkey.com What an entertaining site this Scott Sharkey III person has up, as opposed to being down, which it can also be at any time. |
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Toastyfrog Um.. amusing web content for a specific group of people? Only the "old stuff" is mainly of note, though, so here's his Archive, courtesy of the Wayback Machine. |
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Joelogon's Guide to Making Women Your Platonic Friends Males! Prevent this level of unbelievable, harmful emotional baggage; Disassociate yourself of the generic female portion of the human race... or at the very least learn the theory before tripping the thing. And, explaining this phenomenon on a base level, the Intellectual Whores Homepage. ;) |
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Flat&Simple Oo. Stop this via data retention - free kiddie porn! Except that it's not kiddie porn! See, 'cause they're nekos! They're adult in cat years! =^_^=^_^=^_ |
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Jesus Christ Supercop Once, he preached goodwill. It failed. Now, he's out to fight evil... in a different way. And he isn't about to turn the other cheek. |
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Six Six Five Not only since the name sounds like an utterly horrible Mew song, but also because of the fact that he looks like fucking Avatar *and* sounds mighty depressed. That's great by me. Unlike the site itself, as only a fraction of the actual content is funny or otherwise privileged, and, well -- sure, his writings suggest a God Damned idiot at times, but that holds true for the whole mankind. Bet he's really almost OK. |
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Siiveniskuja <Trilkk> Hapuli on sekaisin. Probably Finland's most intelligent woman. Possibly Finland's only intelligent woman. |
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VHEMT Populate, copulate, any fool can procreate. |
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Gekko-Zone Pages of a certain frenger. Containing curious home movies! |
| Wanna vent your frustrations? Why not write up an awful web comic! Cheaper than sniping schoolyards, but less fun and not as useful. |
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Garfield minus Garfield It'd only make sense that the reduction of Garfield strips to mere lonely old Jon would work well! I know how he feels like. |
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Exploitation Now Should you want great, strikingly sharp and unarguably dirty humour you should start reading Exploitation Now immediately. From the beginning. Because it has reached the end now. Could be a nominee for the best pseudo-manga soap pr0n indie mess for all I care. But seriously, it really is that good. Better than the proverbial next guy, or more appropriapismically the next comic, which would've in this case been Megatokyo, except that not only did I change the order of the comics, but also independently quit linking to the thing as well. |
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Sexy Losers lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol -- see, that's not very informative, is it. This particular webcomic among billions is an incredibly dirty, filthy, morbid one. That said, obviously a must-read for some types of senses of humour. To me, it's simply hilarious. Mind though - it's highly (porno)graphic by the very nature, so you'll probably get your immortal soul all soiled and corrupted through a jot of exposure. |
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Tangs Comics One of the funnier web comic artists, Tang's comics are, yes, very amusing and definitely appear a strange cake among the popular webcomics. Everyone can (and does) simply write weirdness for the sake of weirdness, but Tang's comics are somehow very honest, even the strange ones. And unlike some of his highly popular contemporaries, his style comes across as humble, which is a very pleasant contrast to the usual rock god idiots. |
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Kivaa! Life's fun, listening to Green Day and beating up anime fans. Very Finnish, and also in Finnish, so you inferior people can't read it. Not that we can read it anymore, either - evidently World of Warcraft obliterated his creative cycle entirely and no new episodes can be expected. The pages went out, and these are the ones I've recovered. :( |
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Too Much Coffee Man I suppose this one doesn't exactly fall under the definition of web comic, but it's not like the usual webcomic, either. You see, this one's pretty great. Just be intelligent enough not to wander in expecting a convenient laugh-a-minute strip. |
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The Perry Bible Fellowship Reminds me quite a lot of the caffeinated adventures above even though it's very different. A selection of extremely smart, extremely funny strips with an incomprehensibly consistent high quality. With a serious mean streak. |
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Wapsi Square Strangely interesting, sneakingly entertaining. |
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Penny Arcade They've got some amusing gaming-related comic strips (with pastel colours), and what they make is basically bubblegum situation comedy targeted towards gamers. If your sense of humour is too good, you won't find it all that funny. And as per usual, the writers have got raging Internet egos the size of Mercury. |
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Sinfest It's no sinfest. |
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Tomoyo042's room Sinfest. |
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Irritability Somewhat reminiscent of Sinfest, with the exception of not sucking. Actually, the mental universe of this comic is pretty much unlike any other. In a very positive manner. Do not stop reading it after the first few. |
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The Adventures of PENIS Umm.. I think that this is the second worst webcomic I've seen, but intentionally, so umm.. there, though it's interesting to note that this next one's on the same site too, and it's probably the best webcomic ever. Such contrast, eh? |
| So what's the worst one? Well, I'm too socially aware to throw names, but its idiocy surely can't be challenged very easily. |
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The High Voltage SID Collection You suck if you haven't heard some of the best tunes of the Commodore 64 era. This is a gargantuan collection that tries to contain all the C64 music ever made. Some of them are just fantastic - the problem, though, is the matter of finding those most excellent ones from the thirty thousand of 'em. This problem, though, is usually circumvented by only listening to the few good ones you know already, which isn't a bad thing, mind you, and only human. I mean, if you try to listen to every single one tune the collection has to offer, you'll likely be dragged off to an insane asylum several percents into the thing. |
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The Sisters of Mercy How many fuckin' great bands tell you to go play IF games? |
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Miska 'Crux' Natunen Miska Natunen, alias Crux - one of the more talented module musicians Finland spawned before it exploded into a skull-resembling atomic cloud and shattered with a nifty KRAK into a ten pieces Bomberman's still trying to unite. While (t)his site is basically unworking crap and features less than fifty percent of his modules, it does serve as a taster while you decide if you want to hunt down the rest. Actually, seeing his abysmal representation in the Internet, I might shrine his sound up soon. |
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Jogeir Liljedahl's Homepage Jogeir's a musician whose instrumental tunes have been among us for years. Wow, no more pop-ups at his site, either. Way to go, mate. |
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Cubic Demos, music and Gun Kata, that's what those guys were all about. Maybe. |
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GameMusic.com Well, their name just about sums it up.. game music. So this is a place to look at when you desire game soundtracks. Notice though that you shouldn't view any of the user reviews a least bit credible... About every CD I checked had at least one buyer calling it the best CD ever or somesuch. |
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synSONIQ Records Another fine CD retailer specializing in, but not en-ti-re-ly limited to, game soundtracks. Good indeed, especially if you live in Europe. You can also order CDs cash-on-delivery, and if you buy more than five CDs at a time, there are no shipping charges, so.. I applaud them. Theoretically, that is what Internet-based shopping should be. |
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The music of Bjørn Lynne Ever heard about Bjørn Arild Lynne? Dr. Awesome? Divinorum? Well, he's a musician. Sells CDs, too. Other ones than just his own as well. Like the Wanderer. See it. Listen to it. I'll stop talking Death Rally way, now. Anyway, as for a hilarious tidbit, he used to have this evil mailinglist popup at the site, which he then replaced with a full evil page (complete with his grinning head) to click through. Boy, it really said "Haha! I'm Lynne, bitches! And I fuck you over!" .. Thankfully, he finally came to his senses and discarded all that vile shit. Damn, this was the longest entry yet, wasn't it? He should pay me. In any case, I really like portions of his music. |
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Gracenote The end-all-be-all database of CD track information. Most of the CDs that have audio tracks on them can be found here, but too many of the listings are overly obscure and generally lacking in quality. |
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Mark Prindle reviews He's a bit of a musician (Feh. Who isn't.) and a hard bastard of a music reviewer (Feh. Who isn't. 2). And pretty critical, obviously. But never clinical - note that the reviews employ some kind of an entirely new technique for making them look like.. uh, well not like reviews. Don't bother if you're stupid. But I'm not going to go into the matter of credibility, when the guys that write there say that it's all for entertainment. So, uh.. I guess it is, huh. Well, I don't trust anyone who reviews stuff by default, since, well, people aren't very smart (!). |
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UKIN-musiikki A Finnish (Language too!) music shop, they deserve this link for being such great chaps, having a decent website (Albeit hordes of icky typos and whatnot exist), a decent amount of CDs, competitive prices and a less than clinical approach which means that you can arrange deals on an unusually personal level with them if you like. This is what gained them a link from me. Shops are usually a lot more strict. Note though, that other people have apparently had some really bad experiences with this company, while I've had none. I don't know what's up with that, but be careful. |
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Scenery Channel A fairly young and not too well known Finnish progressive rock group, they definitely sound a little too close for comfort like Dream Theater, but still deserve this link. Here's hoping for a rapid lyrical maturation. |
That's it, but there's the distinct chance that a link
launches you off to an unknown quadrant of the galaxy...
...from which you may never return...
...or recover.
...ellipsis...
So, we do understand if you're reluctant about it. Go home and cry alone.
Also remember - down and not across.
I'm just too scared Jim, let's get back.