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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Fury on March 16, 2013, 10:09:10 am
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What websites do you follow regularly? Share with others, maybe we can pick up new interesting websites to follow.
Mine are as follows:
- http://anandtech.com/
- http://www.digitoday.fi/
- http://io9.com/
- http://kotaku.com/
- http://www.mtv3.fi/
- http://muropaketti.com/
- http://www.neowin.net/
- http://slashdot.org/
- http://taskumuro.com/
- http://www.tietoviikko.fi/
- http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/
- http://torrentfreak.com/
- http://yle.fi/
Some of those are obviously finnish sites.
Any method of following is fine, such as twitter, facebook, rss/atom feeds, etc and old-fashioned direct visiting.
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Aviation:
- airliners.net (http://airliners.net)
- leehamnews.wordpress.com (http://leehamnews.wordpress.com)
- airinsight.com (http://airinsight.com)
- aspireaviation.com (http://aspireaviation.com)
- flightglobal.com (http://flightglobal.com)
- aero.de (http://aero.de) (German)
- aerotelegraph.com (http://aerotelegraph.com) (German)
- air-journal.fr (http://air-journal.fr) (French)
IT/Linux:
- zdnet.com (http://zdnet.com)
- distrowatch.com (http://distrowatch.com)
- phoronix.com (http://phoronix.com)
- linux.com (http://linux.com)
- omgubuntu.co.uk (http://omgubuntu.co.uk)
- Ubuntu weekly newsletter (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Current)
Comics:
- xkcd.com (http://xkcd.com)
- questionablecontent.net (http://questionablecontent.net)
- darthsanddroids.net (http://darthsanddroids.net)
- foxtrot.com (http://foxtrot.com)
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lets see, this, hackaday, ksp forum, cheesburger. thats about it. im boring.
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Social
http://www.facebook.com/
https://twitter.com/
http://www.reddit.com/r/freespace/
http://www.reddit.com/r/Cynicalbrit/ - Again TotalBiscuit
Web Comics
http://questionablecontent.net/index.php
- http://fallouttoyworks.keenspot.com/ - (now stopped posting but goes into a few interesting concepts on AI and the human brain/soul)
http://www.kerbalcomics.com/ - on the rare occasion they update
Media
http://www.youtube.com/ - namely TotalBiscuit though a few others
Hobby
Here
http://www.deviantart.com/ - mainly my own watch list at my account http://headdie.deviantart.com/
http://www.livestream.com/brotherostavia - is cool to hang out with on a live stream
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http://www.theverge.com/ (http://www.theverge.com/) - tech news
http://phys.org/ (http://phys.org/) - science news
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/ (http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/)
http://www.pcgamer.com/ (http://www.pcgamer.com/)
http://www.mtbs3d.com/ (http://www.mtbs3d.com/) - VR news and forum
http://motls.blogspot.sk/ (http://motls.blogspot.sk/) - great physics blog
and of course, 4chan (/b/, /v/, /sci/, /g/) and reddit
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Mostly comics - Dilbert, Garfield, LFG, LICD... And don't forget RoosterTeeth :)
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The Great Land of The Goony Bird and manboobz.
And linkedin. :D And twitter. :nono:
'tis a wonder I get any work done.
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A lot of webcomics, like Dilbert, Garfield, US Acres and Everyday Heroes. Also plenty of military ones, for example Terminal Lance, Broadside (along with Greenside), American Airman and Air Force Blues. A bunch of forums (HLP, Bohemia Interactive, KSP, UFO:AI, Terminal Lance forums), TV Tropes (I know, I know) and FSMods.
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Space APOD (http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html)
Weather Wunderground (http://www.wunderground.com/blog/)
SPACE WEATHER! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YYtSkKtCqQ&t=0m17s) dotcom (http://spaceweather.com/)
Thinkin bout space. ApJ (http://iopscience.iop.org/0004-637X/)
Thinkin bout exoplanets. Systemic (http://oklo.org/)
Going to space. Orbiter Forum (http://orbiter-forum.com/)
Blowing things up, in space. KSP (http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/forum.php?s=89e8c1fde22fbbaaade6a0da7c308cf8)
I like space.
Some other things also.
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I **** around lots on Tumblr and HLP. I 'follow' ModDB, but I despise most of the modding community there, as it appears a lot of people on ModDB are prone to unnecessary drama and whining, so I only really go there for mods + images of stuff. I browse Imgur every now and then, but I don't really follow it. I also watch lot's of videos, so Youtube is a place I commonly visit.
I've stopped buying Lego because it's still expensive to buy lots of it, but I've never forgotten it, so I visit MOCpages as well, and occasionally check out Flickr. For the same reasons, I browse WH40K stuff there as well.
Also, since I'm apparently a 'fan' of bad fanfiction and laugh at stupid/badly-written fanfiction, I tend to go to Fanfiction.net for laughs. And on the plus side, an actually decent/pretty good fanfic will show up! :nervous:
There's some other places I used to frequent pretty often, but most of them have dissolved into gigantic ****storms, so I don't really go to them anymore. :nono:
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YouTube for Let's Plays and videos of liberal and conservative pundits with ridiculous stances.
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at home, not much. a few forums and facebook. occasionally go on a youtube journey, usually started by a link on a forum. i don't subscribe to anyone, ever. the lone exceptions are 3 people who are fans of a couple of the same bands as me and have recorded concerts or put up rare live videos. none of them have put anything up in years though, and one of them in fact passed away.
back when i was on 2nd or 3rd shift though, explosm, xkcd, and failblog were my go-to sites for time killing. failblog in particular killed the most time. not because of content, but because of the slow internet speed and inability to use adblock.
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Comic:
http://www.asofterworld.com/ (http://www.asofterworld.com/)
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At this point I have no clue as to how you people stay informed what is happening in the world. Most of you don't seem to follow any particular news sites of any genre.
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Follow? I don't really follow any sites.
Unless you count webcomics, of which there are many.
I also read cracked.com (http://cracked.com), and watch their videos.
And Youtube, where I have a number of subscriptions, though I don't really watch all of their things. Mostly gaming and science-y channels like Vsauce, MinutePhysics, CGPGrey, TotalHalibut, Nerd3, and stuff.
I get almost all of my news here in GenDisc, from Yahoo!, or Twitter.
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At this point I have no clue as to how you people stay informed what is happening in the world. Most of you don't seem to follow any particular news sites of any genre.
the internet isn't the only source of news. but it IS the largest source of news i don't give a flying **** about, so therefore i avoid it.
well, i take that back. one of my coworkers is the biggest source of news i don't give a flying **** about. but i can't turn him off.
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At this point I have no clue as to how you people stay informed what is happening in the world. Most of you don't seem to follow any particular news sites of any genre.
the TV is really handy lol, I also follow the local radio and yahoo news via Facebook as well as having a Yahoo email account as my main account so run into yahoo news of interest from time to time
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the TV is really handy lol
I used to live without a TV for many years, then got one two months ago. Have barely ever watched it. :p
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my wife prefers tv to computers so run into the occasional news broadcast, its also good for bg noise when i don't fancy music or youtube
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At this point I have no clue as to how you people stay informed what is happening in the world. Most of you don't seem to follow any particular news sites of any genre.
Shockingly enough, there are still these things called "television" and "newspapers" in the year 2013. :p Even with those aside, though, I find that having my homepage still set to the old Comcast landing page (even though we haven't used them for years) gives me enough of the top AP stories to generally know what's going on.
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At this point I have no clue as to how you people stay informed what is happening in the world. Most of you don't seem to follow any particular news sites of any genre.
For news I follow r/worldnews and r/news on reddit, cnn.com and some local news sites.
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At this point I have no clue as to how you people stay informed what is happening in the world. Most of you don't seem to follow any particular news sites of any genre.
Nope, that's what radio's for.
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There's reliable news sites?
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For news the best thing is twitter. When **** happens, by far the most reliable (and fastest) network
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Facebook anyone? I follow the official pages of a great many newspapers and news programmes and I monitor news on various scales, from local to global. I find it very effective.
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FB is ****ty
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FB and twitter feeds for local Radio based news, Yahoo news and BBC news covers most of my needs, though BBC TV news avoids most of the OMG... crap that internet news feeds tend to suffer from. Also the Metro (free paper distributed on public transport in the UK) sometimes picks up on interesting stories that sometimes get missed by the mainstream
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FB and twitter feeds for local Radio based news, Yahoo news and BBC news covers most of my needs, though BBC TV news avoids most of the OMG... crap that internet news feeds tend to suffer from. Also the Metro (free paper distributed on public transport in the UK) sometimes picks up on interesting stories that sometimes get missed by the mainstream
You got to love some of the spelling mistakes in the Metro, but still it is a real decent source for unbiased news
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At this point I have no clue as to how you people stay informed what is happening in the world. Most of you don't seem to follow any particular news sites of any genre.
Many IM services or email blanket sites have newsfeed options, but you can hardly say those are "followed"; they're incidentals but you see them several times a day and they get the job done well enough.
I regularly visit here, the World of Warships forum (yeah a game that's not out yet), sectorgame although not as regularly, and harass people who don't understand writing on several small forums whose names would mean little to you.
Oh and lurking about /tg/.
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Let's see:
4chan, mostly /b and /pol (dont look at me like that)
reddit, various subreddits
HLP, duh, gendisc and gamdisc, havent been keeping up with the fs side of it
moddb, just to keep up with new releases
gog, every now and then
channelate
smbc
cyanide and happiness
oglaf (adult humour)
Encyclopedia Dramatica, only recently, just for the lulz
newgrounds and other such sites for the flash games
and any anime/manga site I can find the stuff I'm watching/reading at the moment
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Let's see:
4chan, mostly /b and /pol (dont look at me like that)
reddit, various subreddits
HLP, duh, gendisc and gamdisc, havent been keeping up with the fs side of it
moddb, just to keep up with new releases
gog, every now and then
channelate
smbc
cyanide and happiness
oglaf (adult humour)
Encyclopedia Dramatica, only recently, just for the lulz
newgrounds and other such sites for the flash games
and any anime/manga site I can find the stuff I'm watching/reading at the moment
Cyanide and happiness? I just have to go and see what on Earth that is...
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sites i follow in moment are:
FSO
HLP,freespacemod,moddb,
Rule the Rail
http://littlevilledepot.phpbb3now.com/
http://www.freewebs.com/dayledave/
http://www.freewebs.com/dayledave/
http://jamesreidrtr.webs.com/
http://ny540.webs.com/
http://www.brainbombers.com/train_game_rtr/downloads.html?PHPSESSID=89e325ad79dc862ac42daeb521234ee0
and some other RTR related sites.
Peter
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Cyanide and happiness? I just have to go and see what on Earth that is...
really? it's like, one of the most well known web comics ever.
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Cyanide and happiness? I just have to go and see what on Earth that is...
really? it's like, one of the most well known web comics ever.
cant say as I have heard of it
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Cyanide and happiness? I just have to go and see what on Earth that is...
really? it's like, one of the most well known web comics ever.
I don't do web comics. Oh, I have nothing against them, I am just not aware of them. I'm surprised how many do follow them and how many sites there are. I may have to investigate some sometime. Or just google "web comics" and see what comes out. The only one I've ever followed would be Totally Flaked. When I stumbled over that I went through them all in a matter of days.
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cant say as I have heard of it
I don't do web comics. Oh, I have nothing against them, I am just not aware of them. I'm surprised how many do follow them and how many sites there are. I may have to investigate some sometime. Or just google "web comics" and see what comes out. The only one I've ever followed would be Totally Flaked. When I stumbled over that I went through them all in a matter of days.
http://www.explosm.net/
Oh, man, just wait until you two see depressing comic week. :lol:
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cant say as I have heard of it
I don't do web comics. Oh, I have nothing against them, I am just not aware of them. I'm surprised how many do follow them and how many sites there are. I may have to investigate some sometime. Or just google "web comics" and see what comes out. The only one I've ever followed would be Totally Flaked. When I stumbled over that I went through them all in a matter of days.
http://www.explosm.net/
Oh, man, just wait until you two see depressing comic week. :lol:
I don't want to be :(
I want to be :)
Call me when positivity comic week is on. I'll take the Happiness part, not the Cyanide part, thank you :D
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I don't want to be :(
I want to be :)
Don't read this! http://www.picturesforsadchildren.com/
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I don't want to be :(
I want to be :)
Don't read this! http://www.picturesforsadchildren.com/
Okay.
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There's reliable news sites?
Ya'll gotta watch FOX NEWS! ;7
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There's reliable news sites?
Ya'll gotta watch FOX NEWS! ;7
The Onion! :D
Well hey, there's something I follow :)
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For general news I just listen to WTOP radio.
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oglaf (adult humour)
I'm a pretty big Oglaf fan too. But it's definitely NSFW most of the time.
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I follow about a dozen webcomics, my current favorites being Questionnable Content, Gunnerkrigg Court and Girl Genius. Not having an Internet connection at home has somewhat prevented me from archive binging new one lately.
HLP of course. I also pop on the WCS forum once or twice a day.
Every once in a while I take a walk on TVtropes, though that's slowed down considerably over the past year.
I still tend to visit 4chan when I get bored.
I sometimes watch animes on crunchyroll.
I don't follow that many news sites anymore, I rely friends, coworkers, HLP or Facebook or the occasional abandonned newspaper to know when stuff happens around the world.
I'm also kinda out of the loop regarding videogaming websites, although I've been visiting IGN on a few occasions lately.
I also used to hang out on acidcow when I could access the Internet at home.