List o' Links
Every cool person has a list of links to other things that are cool, and I too am a cool person.
Last Updated: August 3, 2024
Friends of Skep's Place
Sites made by people I actually talk to. No really, it's true, I'm not just shouting into the ether!
- No Happy Nonsense
Man, I wish I knew what was going on in Mike's head. I don't really know how to describe anything he does, so just go read his work.
- The Reading Project
An ambitious collection of book reviews by the kind of people who want to write thoughtful and detailed book reviews, plus a whole lot more.
- What Video Game Did I Play Yesterday?
Pretty much what it says on the tin. I've heard others describe the short, game-focused posts as "cozy", and I kinda get it. Despite the simplicity of it, this is one of those sites I'll check every day, just to see what Miela is up to.
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Cool Solo Projects
These folks are doing us a service by making the internet just a little more unique.
- April Black
Somehow, The Sims 2 was the Sims generation I managed to skip. AND I haven't even played The Sims in a decade. So why did I decide to watch a 2-hour YouTube video about corrupted Sims 2 neighborhoods? I couldn't tell you, but I watched it anyway, and it was fascinating. Very satisfyingly techy; April does her homework.
- Curate of Curiosities
Kinda like my shtick, except instead of media everyone's heard of, they cover media nobody's heard of. So in addition to being entertaining, it's also interesting!
- East Athenaeum
Bill seems like one of those people who knows a little bit about a lot of different things. Mostly really nerdy things. Things that make you re-evaluate what you know.
- Existential Comics
It should not be in the least bit surprising that taking the beliefs of the world's deepest thinkers and laughing at them is absolutely my jam.
- ghostscape
Somebody went "I'm going to make my website into a wizard tower." I don't need to say anything more about this.
- The Mane Quest
I've always played video games, which often featured horses, but I knew nothing about horses. Then I married an equestrian. I still know nothing about horses, but this person certainly does, and goddamn do I admire their dedication to fixing a genre that the industry has completely dismissed.
- McMansion Hell
For the uninitated, a "McMansion" is an absurdly large house that looks incredibly pretentious but is actually a cheaply-built hovel meant to fool you into the thinking the owner can afford a lifestyle more lavish than they actually can. Anyway this blog is dedicated to making fun of people pretending to be rich, so it gets my approval. Bonus: learn some architecture words!
- Morningglory17
The reason I have to highlight this site is for its Music section, which contains the author's efforts to research a forgotten American composer and preserve his music in MIDI form. Amazing cause.
- Unicursal Maze Research
I think it's easy to write off this site; for the average individual, plotting different paths through a grid might spark a mild but very fleeting interest. But I am incredibly, incredibly impressed by how dedicated Asterion is to the research. I couldn't do it, but I'm glad somebody can.
- Wild Bread
Speaking as an emotionless robot purpose-built to turn gin into sarcasm, I have no idea why on earth images of abandoned breadstuffs are the only thing that stirs the sub-processes constituting the closest thing I have to a "soul", but they do. Simultaneously amusing, tragic, and profound... those breads had hopes and dreams, damn it.
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Utilities & Amusements
An assortment of stuff that's not actively demanding your attention.
- 1001 Albums Generator
Takes all the albums from the book 1001 Albums to Listen to Before You Die and generates a new one for you every day. Granted the list is at least half rock albums from the 60s and 70s that feel soul-crushingly generic now, but you hit some gems on occasion. You can see my progress here.
- Ecosia
Your web searches plant trees. Yeah, the search results are powered by Bing, but Google ain't been hitting like it used to and it certainly isn't planting any trees.
- Flashpoint Archive
Not to date myself here, but my Internet dependency started in the early 2000s, right around the same time that Flash was really starting to take off as a dominant technology. Sure, it took half an hour to load a 5-minute cartoon back then, but we didn't care. It's amazing just how much was lost when Adobe stopped supporting the plugin. Not only is Flashpoint working to preserve as much of it as they can, but they even built a program where you can play Flash content again.
- NoLife-Radio
A 24/7 stream of random (and I mean RANDOM) video game music. A lot of stuff you'll never even have heard of. Great for background noise.
- Ridella
Solve a daily riddle! Feel like a clever little hobbit! Not the most challenging, but props to whoever has to put together new riddles every day.
- Sit
Sometimes, we as people are so concerned with getting stuff done that we forget to make time to do nothing. Now, I'm a big proponent of doing nothing, so I urge you to try this little tool, which will blank your screen for a few minutes so you can sit there and finally make peace with those little voices inside your head you've been trying to distract yourself from.
- Whichipedia
A simple game: you are presented with the titles of two random Wikipedia articles. You must guess which article contains more words. You will be wrong, and you will get angry.
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Consumerism Zone
It's not your fault the system is broken, so here are some things almost worth spending your money on.
- Dumb Cuneiform
Etching your pointless shit into rocks so that archeologists will decode it five thousand years from now is like peak levels of human nonsense. I like nonsense, so this gets the Skep seal of approval. And be on the lookout for the upcoming version of Skep's Place, where I inscribe this website onto stone tablets and seal it into the Ark of the Covenant.
- meh.
I've been checking Meh's daily deals on random items for a month now and still haven't bought anything, but you can tell that they're like "Nah it's cool, we didn't buy any of this either." But hey, someday you might find that thing you want at a really good price. Anyway whoever is writing their product descriptions is my personal idol.
- New York Times Games
Yeah, I know the New York Times isn't what you'd consider an indie mag. But are you aware they have a subscription just for their games? You get access to the most famous crossword puzzle ever, plus like seven more games on top of that. At time of writing it's $50 a year, but hell, I'd pay even more than that if they ever decided they wanted to start paying their constructors a little better.
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