Dizzy's Bunny Hell
Links
What they don't tell you about being "terminally online" (whatever that means) is that one of the side effects is overdosing on links. I should note that I haven't looked at every single subpage of these links, and sometimes, I may not have looked into them deeply at all or I might have missed something. So. Some of these could potentially be a bit... Bad. Please let me know if that's the case!
Also, this page is under construction, always. I simply have too many links to organize. I spent three full days on this single page, and I still have a lot more links to go through. I'll update this... Very... Slowly...
First of all, I should probably show you the links to my website, huh? :P
Please host those on your own server!! Now, without further ado...
I have a lot of links! Like, a LOT of links!! So, uh, table of contents time?? :P I hope that this makes navigating this page a whole lot easier for you.
Search Engines and Directories
Google sucks. We all know that Google sucks. So... How about some alternatives? Here are some search engines that I use, and I think that you should, too!
Search Engines
- Creative Commons Search - Search for content that you can freely use and is in the public domain.
- Ecosia - This search engine donates 100% of its profits to tree-planting projects and other climate action projects!
- Feedle - A search engine where every result is an RSS feed.
- FrogFind - A search engine specifically for vintage computers. Now, I don't really use this (unless I'm using a text-based browser), but I still find it really cool!
- Kagi - An ad-free search engine. The downside is that it's paid. That, and they have results sourced from Brave.
- Marginalia Search - This is an independent search engine for non-commercial and smaller websites.
- The Old Net - Put in a website, enter your desired year, and you'll see an archived version of that site!
- SauceNAO - Easily the best reverse image search that I have used.
- Stract - Yet another independent search engine.
- Wiby - A search engine to find personal websites. This also runs on older computers!
Link Directories
- Amazon Alternatives - A directory of, well, alternatives to Amazon!
- The Amazon Pamphlet - Another directory of Amazon alternatives. Always good to have more options!
- Free Stuff Directory - Pretty much exactly what it says on the tin. A bunch of free software, fonts, resources, and more!
- Gossip's Web - A small directory of websites made by hand.
- Href.cool - A whole bunch of links to cool websites organized by category.
- Indieseek - A bigger directory for independent websites.
- Ooh! Directory - A collection of blogs about all sorts of topics.
- Curlie - This aims to be the largest human-edited directory on the Internet. You can pretty much find anything here.
- Invisible Directory - A directory of websites relating to important non-profit causes.
- Learn Anything - Kind of like a search engine and a directory? You put in what you want to learn, and you get a bunch of links related to how to learn it.
- Tiny Tools - A directory of downloadable tools for whichever project that you're working on.
- No More Google - A link directory of alternatives to Google products.
- Ichigo Directory - Directory of websites with web materials, pixel art, and adorable graphics!
- Just Delete Me - A directory of direct links to delete your accounts on various platforms.
- Responsive Web Directory - A directory of resources to make your website more responsive.
Wikis and Educational
So, if you're like me, you probably really like reading about cool and informative stuff. Or just cool stuff. Or just stuff. Here are a bunch of websites for you to waste your time on and ostensibly learn stuff!
This does not, however, cover educational material about computer stuff. That'll be in a different section.
Wikis
- Archive Team - A group of people dedicated to, well, archival!
- BreezeWiki (Antifandom) - Here's a link to the BreezeWiki frontend that I use. It makes wikis hosted on Fandom, like, usable.
- Champagne Piracy Wiki - A wiki about digial piracy.
- The Cutting Room Floor - A wiki about unused and cut content from video games.
- Data Crystal - A wiki covering ROM hacking stuff.
- Emulation General Wiki - A wiki all about emulators and emulation in general.
- Esolangs Wiki - A wiki covering esoteric programming languages.
- Equestripedia - A wiki dedicated to My Little Pony.
- Fanlore - A wiki hosted by the Organization of Transformative Works, otherwise known as those Archive of Our Own guys. This wiki is all about fandom stuff!
- Game Making Tools Wiki - A wiki about tools to make video games.
- Gaming Wiki Network - A network of independently hosted wikis, usually about video games.
- Indie Wiki Federation - Another community of independently hosted wikis.
- Libre Game Wiki - A wiki about free games.
- MasterWiki - A bunch of MasterClass lessons in WikiHow format.
- Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance - A network of independently hosted wikis relating to Nintendo.
- PC Gaming Wiki - A wiki that aims to help list fixes for compatibility issues with every single PC game.
- Playdate Wiki - A wiki covering the Playdate, you know, that little Game Boy thing with the crank!
- RationalWiki - A wiki primarily about disproving pseudoscience and conservative stupididty in all of their forms.
- Rhythm Heaven Wiki - A wiki covering the Rhythm Heaven franchise.
- Sanrio Wiki - A wiki covering Sanrio stuff.
- sona pona - A wiki about toki pona.
- Super Mario Wiki - A wiki covering the Super Mario franchise.
- Super Smash Bros. Wiki - A wiki about the Super Smash Bros. games.
- TiddlyWiki - A personal wiki software for sharing complex information.
- Toontown Rewritten Wiki - A wiki covering the very popular fanmade revival of Toontown Online.
- Transformers Wiki - I'm not even a Transformers fan and I still really love this wiki. It has everything -- Snark, truthful information, sarcasm...
- TV Tropes - Behold! The website that wasted, like, years of my life at this point! This is a wiki about various "tropes" found in all sorts of media.
- WikiBound - A wiki covering the MOTHER/EarthBound series.
- WikiHow - A wiki for how-to guides. You might know this site from all of the silly illustrations that it uses!
- Wikipedia - It's Wikipedia. It's like, the online encyclopedia. What more needs to be said?
- WiKirby - A wiki covering the Kirby franchise.
- wikipesija - lipu Wikipesija li ilo li lipu sona suli. ona li sitelen e toki pona taso. (mi sona mute ala e toki pona...)
- WikiVoyage - I think that this might be the least talked about Wikimedia Foundation project. It's basically a travel guide wiki.
Educational
- Algebra Rules - A lot of, well, algebra rules. I'm not good at math, so this is useful.
- arachnoid.com - A site made by the guy who created Apple Writer with a bunch of cool stuff, like a Unicode character search and a Wordle clone. There's a few informative/educational articles here, too.
- aslmath - Guides on signing math-related terms in American Sign Language.
- Erowind - This website is an educational resource about psychodelic drugs.
- Etymonline - Kind of like a dictionary? I guess? I'm unsure how to categorize it. But yeah, look up a word and get its etymology.
- Fedi.Tips - A guide to the Fediverse and Mastodon.
- FileInfo.com - An online database covering a lot of file formats.
- Deception Island - A website about an active volcano over in the Antarctic.
- Don Lindsay Archive - A website made by a scientist with cool pages on global warming and a list of fallacious arguments.
- Ian's Shoelace Site - One of the more niche educational sites out there. This is all about... Shoelaces. Surprisingly cool!
- Internet & Text Slang Dictionary - I think that this website was made by parents. A whole bunch of parents. Is this a good website? A useful website? Probably not! Unless you're a parent! I guess? I'm only including this here because I personally think that it's amusing.
- jpdb - A Japanese dictionary and learning system.
- Juggling Information Service - A bunch of juggling resources, if you're into learning how to juggle.
- Keeping Productive with a Tiny Zine - A guide on making a small zine to keep productive. Good if you're lazy like me.
- Learn 101 - A website where you can learn all sorts of languages. No toki pona, but they do have Esperanto!
- Let's Learn Together! - A Neocities page with a lot of educational resources and guides.
- lipu sona pona - This is a course on toki pona.
- Math with Bad Drawings - Exactly what it says on the tin. I suck at math, so I like this website.
- mun! Learn Toki Pona! - A toki pona lesson guide.
- Music Theory for Musicians and Normal People - A whole bunch of PDFs on music theory! They're all kinda like posters.
- nimi.li - An interactive toki pona dictionary.
- One Day You'll Find Yourself - Someday you'll find yourself and realize that you're beautiful! ... Okay, this website is like, an interactive book with a bunch of advice. Some more helpful than others.
- OneLook Thesaurus - This is kind of like a reverse dictionary. If you're like me and you forget words a lot, it's super cool!
- Open Culture - A whole lot of free educational media, resources, lectures, and more!
- OpenTress.org - A database of street and park trees from all around the world.
- Origami Club - A Japanese origami illustrated tutorial site. This links to the English version.
- Origami Guide - Origami photo tutorials.
- Paper Kawaii - A lot of adorable origami tutorials. A lot of them are video based, but the webmaster sells diagrams!
- Piano Tone - A bunch of resources to learn how to play the piano.
- Plot Bunny Prep School - A lot of resources and guides for writers.
- Sacred Texts - A bunch of freely accessible books about human religion. As someone born and raised nonreligious, I find this to be a pretty good resource.
- Science Explained - A website made by a scientist literally named Dr. Love. There's a lot of cool stuff here!
- Science Hobbyist - I'll admit that I haven't spent much time on this site, but it does have a bunch of cool science things.
- Small Seasons - A guide on "small seasons" that Chinese and Japanese farmers used before the advent of the Gregorian calendar.
- Soldering is Easy - A comic book about soldering. I haven't actually used the information in it yet, but it seems pretty useful!
- Super Cute Kawaii - A website all about, well, super cute kawaii stuff. This specifically links to the DIY section.
- The Spruce Crafts - It's honestly really hard to find DIY blocks that, well, aren't weird SEO sites. This one is pretty reliable, in my experience!
- tomo pi sitelen pona - A guide on learning sitelen pona, entirely in sitelen pona!
- Wayne's World - A website about natural history and science. Be warned that the web design is pretty dated.
- What is Goth? - A webpage dedicated to teaching you all about what Goth culture is.
- Wikibooks - A lot of educational online textbooks, avaliable for completely free.
- Yokai.com - An online database about Japanese folklore.
Web Development
I'll put all sorts of web development resources here. Learning, layouts, other stuff that I can find...
Some of the websites mentioned in the graphics section, as well as the personal websites sections, have themes and layouts avaliable. The list of links in the layouts section will have websites that focus exclusively on themes and layouts. Similarly, in the web development guides section, I'll only list websites that focus exclusively on web development.
Accessibility
- Access Guide - An easy to read and easy to use guide on web accessibility.
- Accessible Color Palette Generator - A color palette generator that meets WCAG standards.
- Color Contrast Tool - Check to see how well your text contrasts with your background.
- Font Selector - Here's some code to add a font selector to your site. I use this on here!
- Freezing GIFs - Here's the method that I use on my website to freeze GIFs. It's a biiiit cumbersome, but worth it.
- Randoma11y - This randomly generates two colors that go well together. I use this a lot!
- Responsive Data Tables - A method to make tables responsive on mobile devices.
- Setting Up a Screen Reader Testing Environment on your Computer - A guide on, well, setting up a screen reader environment on your PC.
- Veronica with Four Eyes - A blog written by a woman with low vision. There's a lot of accessibility things here, and not just limited to web accessibility.
- WAVE - A browser extension to check accessibility on your site.
Layouts
- Neothemes - Free layouts for your website.
- Rarebit - A webcomic template and layout using HTML and JavaScript.
- Websets by Lynn - A bunch of layouts to use on your website.
- Zonelets - A layout and blogging engine for static websites. Meant for Neocities, but you can host it anywhere.
Web Development Guides and Documentation
- CSS Diner - Learn the basics of CSS using food!
- CSS Tricks - A long-running website with a lot of cool things that you can do with CSS. There are a lot of articles about a whole lot of interesting things.
- FLEX - A cheat sheet for flexbox.
- Flexbox Froggy - An interactive game to help you learn flexbox.
- GRID - A cheat sheet for CSS Grid.
- Grid Garden - An interactive game to help you learn CSS grid.
- HTML Cheatsheet - An easy access guide for HTML.
- HTML Cheat Sheet - Another cheat sheet.
- HTML Dog - A free and online guide for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
- HTML Standard - The standards for HTML.
- JavaScript Tutorial - A simple JavaScript tutorial.
- MDN Web Docs - Mozilla's documentation on web technologies.
- The Modern JavaScript Tutorial - An easy to follow JavaScript tutorial.
- W3docs - Documentation on web stuff.
- W3Schools - The classic. I used this a lot when I was, like, eight, and it's still up and still very useful.
Code Snippets
- 90's Cursor Effects - Nostalgic cursor effects.
- Dynamic Drive - A lot of widgets and code snippets for you to put on your site.
- RV's Free JavaScript/DHTML Effects - A bunch of cool code snippets of interesting effects to add to your site.
- Surfing Waves's Free RSS Widget - Surprisingly enough, this website about surfing of all things has a pretty good feed widget creator. Put in your RSS or Atom feeds, and it'll make a cool lil widget.
- Templeterr - A website with a couple of navigational JavaScript code snippets.
Hosted Services for Static Sites
- CuterCounter - A cute and easy hit counter.
- GoatCounter - Free and easy web analytics.
- Riku - A free website that collects form responses for you. Someone fills out your form on your website, then you see their response on Riku!
- webri.ng - A fantastic webring hosting service.
Website Hosting
- Hatch - A drag and drop website builder.
- Hotglue - Another drag and drop website builder. You can either host this one yourself, or host it on their website.
- Ichi - A small service to host websites.
- itty.bitty - A tiny little website where everything is contained in a link. This makes them really easy to share (even though the URLs can get preeettty long XD).
- Marigold Town - Free webhosting with a cute town aesthetic!
- mmm.page - Another drag and drop site creator.
- Neocities - A very good static site host!
- Yay.Boo - This describes itself as a "stupid easy place to host stupid simple websites", and I'm inclined to agree.
Reading and Writing
I like to read. I also like to write. Behold! A directory of links about doing just that!
Books to Read
- Baen Free Library - A lot of free books... that I haven't read. I'll get around to them eventually.
- Global Grey - Over two thousand free ebooks!
- Library Extension - Tells you if a book that you're looking at is avaliable at your local library.
- Library Genesis - Torrents and direct downloads of many, many books.
- Open Library - An Internet Archive project where you can read plenty of books online.
- Project Aon - A collction of free Lone Wolf gamebooks.
- Project Gutenberg - A digital library of over 70,000 public domain books.
- Read.gov - The Library of Congress's website with a lot of books to read. There's a bunch of other stuff, too.
- Recommend Me a Book - This website recommends books based on the first page. Read the first page, and if you like it, then you can reveal what the book is to find out more.
- Standard Ebooks - A collection of public domain books -- reformatted, proofread, and complete with metadata. Seriously, these guys are fantastic.
Bypass Paywalls!
The following directory is gonna have a lot of articles, some behind paywalls. So...
- 12ft - Disables JavaScript on news websites, which can turn off a lot of distractions.
- Bypass Paywalls Clean - Removes paywalls from news sites.
Articles to Read
I'm not going to describe a lot of these; the headlines are usually pretty self-explanatory.
- 3 reasons local climate activism is more powerful than people realize
- 5 ways to love tech without killing the planet - I find that the headline is a biiiiit dramatic? We, as individuals, aren't killing the planet as much as corporations are, after all. Still, I appreciate a good list to help keep my carbon footprint down.
- AI spam is already starting to ruin the internet
- Audacious new schemes known as 'SEO heists' are posing thorny questions for Google
- Doom is 30, and so is Windows NT. How far we haven't come
- E3: Interview with a Guy Whose Uncle Works for Nintendo
- 'Enshittification' is coming for absolutely everything - What's with articles and having dramatic titles?? Either way, good article.
- The 'Enshittification' of TikTok - Or how, exactly, platforms die.
- Every site needs a Links Page / Why linking matters
- File over app - Apps and websites are temporary. Files are forever.
- A Formal Analysis of Metal Gear Solid 2
- How Addictive Tech Hacks Your Brain - A good analysis into addictive technology and how it fucks with your mind.
- How companies make it difficult to unsubscribe
- How does Google's monopoly hurt you?
- How to Pirate
- I Read A Book And The Book Was 327 Pages Long And The Book Was About Sailors
- iTrapped: All the things Apple won't let you do with your iPhone
- It's not your imagination: Shopping on Amazon has gotten worse
- Making a Unique Keyboard - An adorable article about a dad making a little keyboard for his daughter using her little original species.
- Man On A Mission: This Man Is Adding 'And Them's The Facts' To The End Of Every Wikipedia Article
- Moof! in mind! - An article on Apple's dogcow, which I did not know existed until I read this!
- Nostalgia Overload: Today's Throwback Google Doodle Shows A Guy In 2013 Getting Usable Results From His Google Search
- On Climate, Sobering Reality And Heartening Optimism
- Please download responsibly! - Another piracy guide. This isn't the most accessible guide out there (the quickly moving background and green-on-black text come to mind), but it's still very good.
- Roman Centurion Crawling Out Of New York City Manhole In For One Wacky Adventure
- Stop Telling Kids They'll Die From Climate Change - Please don't get riled up from the headline. I promise that this isn't one of those shitty articles denying the very real threat of global climate change.
- Tag Yourself: Here Are the Most Personal Ways Advertisers Target You
- Thank God: The Penguins In This Kids Movie Just Started A Soul Train To 'Everybody Dance Now' Which Means The Movie Will Probably Be Over Soon
- The Information Environment: Toward a Deeper Enshittification Thesis
- The Peculiar Case of Japanese Web Design - A very well written and sourced article about Japanese web design and what makes it different.
- There's no escape from Facebook, even if you don't use it
- X-Files and videotape: The early days of internet piracy
Webcomics to Read
- Brawl in the Family - A classic Nintendo comic. Kirby characters, Waluigi, it has everything.
- The Chosen Four - An EarthBound Adventure - A fantastic EarthBound comic that I have read and re-read. It's so good...
- Girls With Slingshots - This one is a bit unsafe for work, so only read if you're above the age of 18. Anyway, it's super good and has good queer representation and it's slice-of-life and go read it!
- GoComics - An online website with a whole bunch of newspaper comics.
- Home Sweet Homepage - A short comic about growing up online.
- Kid Radd - An old and interesting sprite comic.
- The Last Days of FOXHOUND - A Metal Gear Solid comic about, well, FOXHOUND! I should note that it is kiiiinda dated. There's some problematic language, Raven is white for... Some reason? The art is also nothing to write home about, but it's the writing that really impresses me.
- The Non-Adventures of Wonderella - A comic about a superhero who really, really sucks.
- Pepper & Carrot - A completely free and open source webcomic. There are, like, a billion translations, and the art is super cute!
- Rain - "A story for boys, girls, and everyone in-between". This is a very good slice of life comic about a transgender girl going through life. I should note that there is some dated language at first, but that quickly goes away. The creator is a trans woman herself, and she kind of grew and changed alongside her character.
- It Sucks To Be Weegie! - A lighthearted comic about Luigi, and how much it sucks to be him.
- Vanitas - Conversations about being online. Not really a webcomic, but hey.
- xkcd - A webcomic about stick figures and nerd humor for nerds.
Writing Tools
- Deepdwn (Paid) (Download) - I got this because I collect markdown editors like the gremlin that I am. I think that it's pretty cool! I really like the layout.
- Electric Zine Maker (Free) (Download) - A tool to make printable zines.
- Etherpad (Browser) - A Google Docs alternative.
- Garbl's Writing Center (Free) (Browser) - A website with writing resources, a style manual, guides, and more.
- JRNL (Paid) (Download) - A simple journaling program that makes daily journaling super easy and organized.
- Left (Free) (Download) - A plaintext editor without any distractions.
- LibreOffice (Free) (Download) - A complete office suite avaliable for free.
- Markor (Free) (Download) - A markdown editor for Android. I don't do much typing on Android, but Markor is pretty good to use for when I do.
- NaNoWriMo (Browser) - National Novel Writing Month. I've never actually finished NaNoWriMo, but I will someday...
- Obsidian (Free) (Download) - Easily my markdown editor of choice. It's super customizable and I use it for, like, so many things? It's basically my main writing software these days.
- Odie (Browser) - This creates a website that contains the content of a Google Doc with an Odie subdomain.
- Positive Writer (Free) (Browser) - A blog about writing that's rather inspiring and, well, positive!
- StimuWrite 2 (Free) (Download) - A downloadable writing app that adds stimulation, like emoji reactions and a moving background and typing sound effects! Really good if you're ADHD like me!
- Textreme (Free) (Download) - A text editor with effects and a rhythm mode and it's silly.
- Textreme 2 (Paid) (Download) - Textreme, but with a more colorful user interface that's somehow even more silly.
- Written? Kitten! (Browser) - A basic online writing tool that shows you a cute picture of a kitten, puppy, or bunny every one hundred words.
Video Games
I like video games. Shocker, I know. Here's a bunch of cool links about them!
Video Game Blogs, Websites, and Forums
- Alpha Beta Gamer - A blog about games in their alpha or beta stages.
- Anna Archive - Old video game media, scans, and shareware.
- Cinemassacre - The Angry Video Game Nerd himself.
- Court Records - An Ace Attorney fan site.
- EarthBound Central - An EarthBound news website with a bunch of other information about the game. Currently down as of February, 2024.
- Free Game Planet - Free video games!!! For free!!!
- GameFAQs - I mostly know this place for their damn good walkthroughs.
- GBATemp - A video game related forum that I keep meaning to be active on before not being active on it.
- Handheld Underground - I haven't really looked too much into this blog, but it appears that they look at a lot of old bootleg games, which I'm always down for.
- Hideo Kojima Game Gallery - A website with pictures and box art from video games that Kojima developed during his time at Konami. Well, video games up to, like, 2004ish.
- Itch - An indie game storefront.
- Kirby's Rainbow Resort - A (presumably defunct) Kirby fansite.
- Metal Gear Series - A lot of information relating to, well, the Metal Gear franchise -- Specifically the video games themselves.
- The Mushroom Kingdom - A Mario fansite.
- Parappa Party - A fan website for Parappa the Rapper.
- Rock Paper Shotgun - A gaming journalism site that I enjoy.
- ROMhacking.net - A website hosting lots and lots of ROM hacks. There is also a forum, and a lot of helpful guides.
- Starmen.net - An EarthBound fan website and forum. There's a lot of stuff here -- ROM hacks, fanfic, fanart, guides...
- Scott the Woz - A video game
- SNES Central - A website documenting loads of SNES games -- Even bootlegged ones!
- Steam - A video game storefront.
- Stop Skeletons from Fighting - An incredibly underrated and amazing YouTube channel with a lot of documentaries covering cool, stupid, and/or obscure video games. Please, do yourself a favor and watch these guys!
- TamaNOTchi - Create a virtual pet. You can place your pet in forum signatures 'n' stuff!
- VGMuseum - A virtual video game museum. There's a lot of screenshots, ads, and much more.
- Video Game Music - A lot of video game soundtracks for you to listen to and enjoy.
- Vinesauce - A variety streaming group.
Video Game Creation Tools
- Bitsy (Browser) (Free) - A little engine for little games.
- Flickgame (Browser) (Free) - Create a small point and click adventure with a small MS-Paint like user interface.
- GB Studio (Download) (Free) - A drag-and-drop game creator for making Gameboy games!
- Inform (Download) (Free) - A natural language based programming language for creating interactive fiction.
- microStudio (Download) (Free) - A game engine that's pretty useful if you want to learn programming.
- mosi (Browser) (Free) - A tiny game engine and creation tool. You can also use this on mobile devices!
- Tiny Choice (Browser) (Free)
- Twine (Download) (Free) - A very good and well documented tool for creating interactive and text-based stories.
Emulators and ROMs
- Dolphin - Emulates the Wii and GameCube.
- DOSBox - Emulates the MS-DOS.
- DOS Haven - Homebrew games for MS-DOS.
- DuckStation - Emulates the original PlayStation.
- Flycast - Emulates the SEGA Dreamcast.
- Ruffle - Emulates Adobe Flash.
- hShop - Archive of the Nintendo 3DS eShop.
- Kirby 'n' - The absolute greatest ROM hack of all time, Kirby 'n' removes the words "Tilt" and "Tumble" from a different ROM hack of Kirby's Tilt 'n' Tumble that removes the whole, you know, tilting. And tumbling.
- MAME - This emulates pretty much everything, but you and I probably just know it as an arcade emulator.
- melonDS - Emulates the Nintendo DS, with DSi emulation being worked on.
- Mesen - Emulates the NES, SNES, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, PC Engine, Master System, and Game Gear.
- mGBA - Emulates the Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance.
- My Abandonware - Many, many, many old games from 1965 to 2012, avaliable for free.
- PCSX2 - Emulates the PlayStation 2.
- Pokemini - Emulates the Pokémon mini.
- PPSSPP - Emulates the PlayStation Portable.
- /r/Roms Megathread - Collection of links to a lot of ROMs.
- RetroAchievements - Adds achievements to emulated retro video games.
- Rosalie's Mupen GUI - Emulates the Nintendo 64.
- SameBoy - Emulates the Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Super Game Boy.
- ScummVM - A virtual machine originally made for games running SCUMM. Now, it runs all sorts of old adventure games! The website also has a collection of freeware that you can play on ScummVM.
- SNES9x - Emulates the SNES.
- Vimm's Lair - Has ROMs for many old video games.
Free Video Games
- 2048 (Browser) - Join the number tiles to get to the number 2048. Two and two make four, four and four make eight, and so on.
- Adventure Game Downloads (Download) - Freely avaliable remakes of the first three King's Quest games and Quest for Glory II. There are a couple of paid games here as well!
- Birdland (Browser) - A story about a girl in summer camp, birds, and discovering herself.
- Charm Studies (Download) - A very cute picross game about two young witches.
- Cookie Consent Speedrun (Browser) - How fast can you decline all of the cookie popups?
- Cookie's Bakery (Download) - A winter themed game where you bake cookies!
- Covert Critter (Demo) (Download) - A Metal Gear Solid inspired game where you play as a gecko.
- Cute Demon Crashers! (Not safe for work!) (Download) - Seriously -- Only play this if you're above the age of 18. This game does have a very strong message of consent, so that's extremely radical.
- Deltarune (Download) - The first two chapters are free. I don't know if the rest of the game will be free as well. Anyway, it's an RPG.
- Doll Divine (Browser) - A website with a lot of dress up games.
- DoujinSoft Store (Browser) - A complete archive of WarioWare D.I.Y games, official and community-made. This website is also home to a lot of modern D.I.Y games -- The community is still alive!!
- Free online solitaire (Browser) - Exactly what it says on the tin. The website also contains Spider, Mahjong, and Sudoku.
- Flashpoint (Download) - Emulates Adobe Flash, among other related things. Flashpoint also allows you to download old Flash games to play through their launcher.
- Flappy 2048 (Browser) - It's Flappy Bird, but you play as a number block that increases by 1 whenever you successfully go through the pipe thingies. I'm not good at explaining stuff.
- Fontemon - An entire game contained in a font. I'm not kidding.
- Girl Games (Browser) - No boys allowed!!!!! Only GIRLS can play these GIRL GAMES.
- Guess my word (Browser) - Daily word guessing game. I play this, like, all the time.
- Homebound (Download) - A short WarioWare-esque game about a little girl entertaining herself during the COVID-19 lockdown.
- The Last Outpost (Browser) - A text adventure fantasy game.
- Merry Gear Solid: Secret Santa (Download) - A Christmas themed Metal Gear Solid parody. Warning: Expect Christmas puns.
- Merry Gear Solid 2: Ghosts of Christmas Past (Download) - The sequel to Merry Gear Solid. Warning: The Christmas and winter puns in this one are incredibly groan-worthy.
- Mother: Cognitive Dissonance (Download) - A MOTHER fangame that bridges the gap between MOTHER 1 and EarthBound.
- Neal.fun (Browser) - A collection of games made by some guy named Neal, I guess. I find Infinite Craft to be super addicting!
- Off (Download) - An RPG about a mysterious man named The Batter, whose quest is to purify the land.
- Picrew (Browser) - Another dollmaker.
- Pirated Games Megathread - Any game's free if you know where to look. (Just don't pirate indie games, I beg of you.)
- Powder Game (Browser) - Play with all sorts of elements in this falling sand game.
- Robot finds Kitten (Browser) - You are a robot. Find the kitten!
- Sandspiel (Browser) - A virtual falling sand game.
- Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection (Browser) - An online collection of puzzles.
- Snakisms (Browser) - A game of Snake where all of the different modes are themed after philosophical ideas.
- Telemochi - A two-player game that both does not require Internet and can still be played long-distance.
- textadventures.co.uk (Browser) - Host to countless online text adventures. My personal favorite is The Adventures of Batman: Rise of the Riddler.
- This Is Sand - A falling sand game, but like, without all the elemental stuff. The sand just changes colors as it falls.
- Toontown Rewritten (Download) - A fan-made revival of Disney's Toontown Online, and also the best Toontown private server and it's really cool and good and it's where my username comes from and and and...
- Unbeatable [white label] (Download) - A fantastic rhythm game with a fantastic style and fantastic music. Seriously, go play it!
- VOLE.wtf (Browser) - A website containing all sorts of games and articles 'n' stuff. I don't know why, but something about this feels nostalgic to me.
- Windows 7 Games for Windows 11 and Windows 10 (Download) - Yeah, I dunno how to really describe this without just reiterating the title.
- Windows 93 (Browser) - I'm a bit unsure where else to put this. This is an operating system simulator thing with a lot to do.
- You're A Computer. Can You Pass The Turing Test? - Clickhole's "Clickventures" are always fantastic, and this one is my favorite.
Music
I like music. I'll put some cool music-related links here!
Music Websites
Most of these are chiptune archives. I really like them!
- 256bytes - A chiptune archive. You'll be seeing these a lot here.
- Ambient Music - Background music for exploration games.
- AMP - Check this out! It's a chiptune archive.
- AZLyrics - A lyrics website.
- Chiptune.com - This website takes the form of a mini operating system, kinda? I don't know how to explain, but its presentation is really cute and really good. Oh yeah, and it's a chiptune archive.
- Cybergrunge.net - An online label and multimedia service.
- Essential Keygen Music - Piracy used to be fun and interesting. Tracker music and the demoscene are just lovely, really. I adore this collection from the Internet Archive; it really says a lot about chiptune archives.
- FunHouse Radio - Internet radio for novelty music.
- lostmyspace.com - A collection of the half a million songs that the Archive Team managed to salvage from MySpace.
- Loyalty Free Music - Royalty free music for you to download and use.
- The Mod Archive - This is like, the largest collection of tracker music that I've seen. It's a really good chiptune archive.
- Pouët.net - A chiptune archive. Crazy.
- RainWave - Internet radio for video game music.
- Soma.fm - What's this? It's... Oh, it's not a chiptune archive. It's just a cool online radio.
Music Software
- ABC Notation - A fantastic markup(?) system for sheet music. I've archived one sheet music book using this, and I plan to do way more.
- Audacity - A free and open source audio tracker and recorder.
- Beepbox - An online chiptune editor.
- Chiptone - A tool for creating sound effects. That's related enough to music to fit here, right?
- FamiStudio - A free and open source chiptune music editor.
- Foobar2000 - A freeware audio player.
- LMMS - An extremely good (and open source) audio editor thing. I think that they have a proper name, but I don't know what it is. Anyway, LMMS is good.
- LovelyComposer - ... Okay, you do have to pay for this one, but it's super worth it if you like cute stuff and music.
- MP3Tag - Tag your audio files en masse. I fucking love metadata, so this is perfect for me.
- Pebble - A coding language for making chiptune.
- WACUP - Remember WinAmp? Yeah, WACUP is that but, like, cooler. It's still based on an old WinAmp build, but someday, it'll be its own thing.
Other Media
I'll put all sorts of things to watch over here.
YouTubers to Watch
- Abroad in Japan - I don't really watch Chris much anymore, but I really like his videos, especially his documentaries 'n' stuff.
- Ashens - This guy looks at a lot of weird items. I really like seeing bootlegs and counterfeits, so I like this channel.
- Brutalmoose - I've been a fan of Ian for a very long time, and I've only seen him get more and more into just doing whatever the hell he wants. Please watch him!
- How to Adult - A channel (that is no longer being updated) that has all sorts of videos on, well, adulting.
- Internet Comment Etiquette with Erik - I fucking love this channel. He usually mocks conspiracy theorists and right-wing assholes through the power of leaving respectful comments online.
- Jacksfilms - I've watched this channel on and off since I was very young. Jack is a variety comedy channel, and he does parodies! Music! Sketches! Other stuff! He's great.
- LGR - A retro tech channel. There are sometimes video games (The LGR stands for "Lazy Game Reviews", after all), but honestly? I know this channel better for his old tech videos.
- Michael MJD - One of the greatest YouTube channels of all time, MJD does a lot of old tech videos. And tech videos in general. He's great.
- Nostalgia Nerd - Another very good retro tech channel.
- Sharla in Japan - Another Japan-based vlogger, and Chris's partner. I actually kind of prefer her videos, lol.
Shows 'n' Stuff
Use an adblocker for these websites, please.
- ASCII Theater - Watch free movies in your terminal! This is, of course, the best way to watch these films.
- Columbo - A show about a detective who loves his wife. I haven't actually seen it yet. This is all I know.
- I Have No TV - Free documentaries.
- Movie123 - A streaming website for movies and television.
- Movies7 - Another streaming website for movies and television.
- movie-web - Yet another streaming websi-- Wait, I've actually got something to say about this one. It's easily my favorite!
- SFlix - What's this?! Could it be something unique? Nah, it's just another streaming website for movies and television.
- /sug/ - Downloads for Steven Universe episodes.
- Watch Legally - Places to legally watch shows.
- YayPonies - A lot of My Little Pony episodes and movies, and not just limited to Friendship is Magic.
- YTS YIFY Movies - Torrent download for movies to watch.
Multimedia Torrents and Downloads
- 1337x - A torrent search engine.
- Awesome Piracy - A curated list of piracy related websites.
- The Eye - A variety of cool shit.
- Manga Katana - Manga.
- Nyaa - Anime and manga.
- Rutracker - Russian forum with a lot of torrents.