Wonderment and other such expressions!
Here lies a collection of amazingly wonderful places I've come across on my journeys through the wild wild internet landscape!
I will try to keep updating these link frequently so if anything is broken just give it a day or two.
Updated: 1 year, 6 months ago
Games
- What Beats Rock?: A simple browser game where you try to beat each consecutive input with a new one.
- Eaglercraft: Minecraft that's playable on your browser.
- My Abandonware: A repository of abandoned games from 1965 to 2005.
- The Wiki Game: Jump between Wikipedia articles to get from one random page to another withing a time limit.
- Chess Variants: A collection of variant versions for chess. Finally we get a chess update.
- The Toaster Games Database: Collection of games that should run on lower spec PCs.
- Ace Attorney Online: Fanmade Ace Attorney games to be played right in your browser.
- Pokemon Showdown: Build a pokemon team and battle online with other people.
- Drench: A really simple browser game about turning all colors into one. (You'll get it when you play.)
- Authoritative Minesweeper: Minesweeper guides and leaderboards.
Speedrunning
- Speedrun.com: The official hub for all things speedrunning.
- StratDB: Strategies and tutorials for common speedrunning games.
Utility
- Based Cooking: Cooking recipes without the bloat and the ads. The site gets right into the recipes without any long expositions or sales pitches. Highly recommend if you're cooking!
- How Products are Made: Explains how a multitude of products are manufactured. Great for research or just satisfying your curiosity.
- iFixit: Repair guides for a wide variety of things, completely for free.
- LeetCode: A collection of coding problems to improve your coding skills.
- This to That: Gives the best way to glue two materials together.
- Copykat Recipes: Copycat recipes of fastfood cahin menus.
- Instructables: A collection of DIY projects with tutorials and instructions.
- Balloon HQ: Learn how to do balloon art!
- XDA Forum: Best place to get up to date information on rom hacking mobile devices.
- Looria: Reviews of how long tech products last.
- ByteMoth: Many small recipes available in one place.
Archives
- Game Detectives Wiki: A repository for internet ARGs.
- The Minecraft Archive Project: An insanely large archive of Minecraft worlds.
- WikiFlix: A collection of old public domain movies available for streaming.
- Textfiles.com: A repository of old ASCII textfiles.
- Flashpoint Archive: An archive of flash games.
- J! Archive: All of the jeopardy game show questions and answers.
- Fonts In Use: Collection of fonts and the places they're used in.
Worldbuilding/Game Dev
- Behind the Name: Gives the etymology of names. Useful for naming characters.
- Picrew: Generate portraits for your OCs or make your own generator.
- Interface in Game: User interfaces for popular games, to be used as inspiration.
- Who Sampled: Find samples in popular music.
- VGMusic: A collection of MIDI files from old games.
- The Spriters Resource: A large collection of ripped spritesheets from different games.
- A Wold Building Checklist: Detailed article on things to keep in mind when building worlds.
D&D Resources
- Medival Fantasy City Generator: Generate and edit city maps.
- Donjon: Has many different generators and calculators to help in DMing a session.
- 5eDMScreen: Quick references to 5e rules.
- Kassoon: More generators.
- Fantasy Map Generator: Generates large world maps and has many parameters to work with.
- D&D Shop Catalogue: A document for referencing shop ware.
Stardew Valley
- Stardew Valley Wiki: A mandatory companion for your Stardew Valley journey.
- Stardew Profits: Profit calculator for all crops with many parameters.
- SV Interactive Farm Planner V3: Plan your farm layout in your browser. Has layouts for modded farms as well.
- SV Crop Planner: Plan your crop rotation and get the profit calculations for each month.
Fictional Worlds
- SCP Foundation: The official SCP Founcation Wiki.
- Wanderers' Library: Sister site to the SCP Foundation; a wiki for a classical fantasy world.
- Homestuck: Best way to read the homestuck series.
- Sunset System: A post future fantasy world.
- Orion's Arm Universe Project: Another sci-fi world.
Pirating
- Easy USSR: A guide to torrenting and pirating.
- Firehawk52: List of resources to pirate music from.
- Lucida: Download music using spotify links right in your browser.
Other
- Library of Babel: Contains every possible combination of letters and words, which in theory means it contains everything to be ever written.
- Astronomy Picture of the Day Calendar: Exactly what it says.
- After the Tone: Plays random answering machine recordings.
- Astronaut: Plays random unseen Youtube videos.
- Windows93: A full on OS right in your browser.
- Archive of our Own: Probably don't need to talk about this one.
- The Unsent Project: Search your own name or just read through the archive if you wanna to have a sad day :(
- Radio Garden: Connect to any radio station around the world and listen away.
- 16colors: A collection of ASCII artworks.
- The Dumbphone Finder: List of dumbphones and where to find them.
- Awesome: More lists!!!