Random postings [a.k.a. "HeY, look at this"]

[breakfastcowl]

Sometimes you come across something you want to share but don't necessarily want to dedicate a whole thread to it, or maybe it doesn't quite fit in with an existing topic. So drop it here! Quick shares, cool links, stray shitposts, and/or general 'stumble upons'

[breakfastcowl]

From a while back now but I got a kick out of these tie-in covers for her song "Boa"

[breakfastcowl]

Just small web things

https://gusbus.space/smallweb-subway/
- clever visualization/structure for webrings

http://tilde.town/
- internet neighborhood, ten years strong

[breakfastcowl]

One individual's personal tally (and a fairly analytic one, at that) of search engines outside the biggies:

https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/03/10/sea ... n-indexes/

They have specific criteria and give context throughout. Also Wiby mentioned

[Fruitality]

One individual's personal tally (and a fairly analytic one, at that) of search engines outside the biggies:

https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/03/10/sea ... n-indexes/

They have specific criteria and give context throughout. Also Wiby mentioned

Big dawg @malyzar ranking high on wiby for "graphic design"

[malyzar]

[breakfastcowl]

https://www.theautopian.com/for-three-d ... -on-earth/

Cool little car, and a nice little write-up on the narrative "dead end" of collecting

[Aurora]

I continue to be a giant mark for these Hyperkin reproduction Xbox controllers. I never owned an original Xbox so I don't have much playtime with this specific controller, but like that they added shoulder buttons to this while also keeping the Black and White buttons.

[breakfastcowl]

@Aurora haha something about the way they capitlize the last "S" in Duchess made me laugh and seems very fitting for gaming peripheral branding

[breakfastcowl]

Megen Cubed wrote up nearly 10,000 words on the mostly-forgotten PS2 title Galerians: Ash and gets really existential about it, maybe worth a skim.

https://buttondown.com/magencubed/archi ... in-stereo/

I'm sure we all have that one middling game our younger selves imprinted on and carried with us far longer than ever expected

[andrewelmore]

You know, I have both Galerians games and the anime on UMD and I've never once been brave enough to fire up any of them.

[malyzar]

Recently stumbled across a couple of tiny game engines. Make a game in your browser!

Bitsy: https://bitsy.org

Pocket Platformer: https://the-l0bster.itch.io/pocket-platformer

[breakfastcowl]

Lol lived long enough to see a fav NES title become shitpostified

Screenshot_20241004_200802_Firefox.jpg (392.48 KiB) Viewed 39 times

[breakfastcowl]

This may sound nuts but I never knew about this?!?

https://www.thedarkmod.com/main/

[Fruitality]

Aftermath recently posted this extensive article about internet forums which are active at the moment. Seems like some great communities in there!

https://aftermath.site/best-active-foru ... rnet-today

I wonder if they would add Famiclub if I sent them an email

edit: I sent Chris an email