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If you're a Tool fan, there is 20+ years of blog about them, he recently "stopped updating" it, but it's a treasure trove of history on the band: https://toolshed.down.net/
Weird Stuff/Age Regression
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I don't recommend it now because it feels like a bunch of genAI stories are getting posted without seemingly any push back, but I used to enjoy finding some high quality stories on a site called ARArchive ( ararchive.com ).
The current modern site is a boring blue and white website. Replace the "www" with "old" and you get their old site/forums which was so much more lovely looking. Also, because of the forum type part of the site, alongside other features, was a bigger website.
The site itself, modern and old, contain stories centered around physical and/or mental age regression. Stories like "Boomerang" from OldStories, which is like a 4 chapter story about the misfortunes of a high schooler who gets physically regressed to 2 years old in a scenario where one day all 14-18 year olds in North America suddenly regress between 2-4 years old.
Or another favorite of mine: The Family by sumner. Follows a journalist who gets lost and has cat troubles but ends up in a town with a dark secret. Won't spoil anything past the description and very beginning of the story. 5 chapters and an interesting enough premise once you read more into it.
Its an LLM trained exclusively on the Epstein files, 9/11 archive and publicly available FBI documents. Every answer comes with like 10-20 Epstein filer links to prove or disprove a theory. Their free option is shit, but for like 20$ a month, it helps me make sense of all the videos out there.
https://crpgaddict.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_3.html?m=1
CRPG addict, writes reviews / let's plays for CRPGs. A great resource to learn about lesser known games and it's fun to read.
Especially recommend the spirit of excalibur review where they show off their knowledge on Arthurian legends
https://www.merzo.net/main.htm
A Museum of Speculative Fiction inspired Spaceships
Sadly it is no longer being updated.
https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football
17776 is a work of speculative fiction that will make your soul ache, if you've still got one.
Japanese Recordstore Database "Recoya"
https://recoya.net/en/
Browse Items · Inquire Capitalism: A Database of Company Archives
Japanese Meme Music Culture "Oto-mad" Database
https://otodb.net/
rotten.com
NostraDavid's Warcraft Credit Visualizer
I wanted to check who worked on what World of Warcraft game, so I've vibe-coded this together, over the years. Not the data though - I didn't want hallucinated data.
Anyway, turns that one person worked on all the games: Glenn Stafford - the absolutely musical legend!