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Which sites do you use?

posted by PMYA on AskPhuks

I stopped using Voat, and there isn't enough content here at the moment for it to be a 24/7 stream of different topics, so I've been frequenting different sites a lot more over the past couple of months.

Aside from the usual youtube, twitch etc. I like to browse a few small boards on 8chan like /cyber/, which unfortunately has a tiny amount of traffic. Lainchan.org is kind of similar and has a little bit more traffic, but is still very small.

I have inadvertently stopped watching videos over the past couple of weeks due to my taternet being quite slow through the day. This has a bizarre effect where I have actually started to read and learn valuable things on the internet, a bad habit which I need to get out of.

When I was researching decentralised sites, I stumbled across a number of file sharing/social media sort of hybrids that I had never heard of before too.

On a side note, maybe one of you can solve this. I wasn't able to. Use page down to fast scroll down to line 6660, move along to the right and find the "21". Replace the 2 with a 0. That's your starting point.

This journey into the interwebs has made me realise I haven't actually searched for new stuff for quite a long time. Maybe we should have a sub for this kind of thing. Not a /s/InternetIsBeautiful, maybe just a /s/Internet.

I stopped using Voat, and there isn't enough content here at the moment for it to be a 24/7 stream of different topics, so I've been frequenting different sites a lot more over the past couple of months. Aside from the usual youtube, twitch etc. I like to browse a few small boards on 8chan like /cyber/, which unfortunately has a tiny amount of traffic. Lainchan.org is kind of similar and has a little bit more traffic, but is still very small. I have inadvertently stopped watching videos over the past couple of weeks due to my taternet being quite slow through the day. This has a bizarre effect where I have _actually started to read and learn valuable things on the internet_, a bad habit which I need to get out of. When I was researching decentralised sites, I stumbled across a number of file sharing/social media sort of hybrids that I had never heard of before too. On a side note, [maybe one of you can solve this.](http://www.skullcode.com/) I wasn't able to. Use page down to fast scroll down to line 6660, move along to the right and find the "21". Replace the 2 with a 0. That's your starting point. This journey into the interwebs has made me realise I haven't actually searched for new stuff for quite a long time. Maybe we should have a sub for this kind of thing. Not a /s/InternetIsBeautiful, maybe just a /s/Internet.

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[–] TheRedArmy 6 points (+6|-0)

Except for v/playbypost, I've also abandoned Voat.

Reddit is useful for some for niche things I enjoy, and can surf it reliably at work.

There are two forums dedicated to the Three Kingdoms period in China to go to, both rather un-populated.

I go to the Steve Jackson Games forum as well; they've removed their General Chatter, but Geek Culture, Roleplaying in General, and the GURPS specific forum all have interesting bits from time to time.

Obviously Youtube for entertainment, education, and other things. I could share a number of channels for some subject; there's only a few I am subscribed to, really.

And a massively informational blog about so many different subjects that's rather small - The Scholar's Stage. I always take everything Mr. Greer says with serious consideration, even if I must eventually dispute any assertions he makes.

[–] SilverBanana 1 points (+1|-0)

You are into Three Kingdoms? What book should I read to have some general overview? Is there some reputable, but popular history?

[–] TheRedArmy 1 points (+1|-0)

You can find free sources online in the right places. For specific individuals, their Wikipedia pages are actually rather accurate, for the most part, and pick out the fiction that was included in the novel by Luo Guanzhi from the actual history.

The best source available is the Sanguo zhi (SGZ), a primary source written by Chen Shou, a scholar of the period. In the SGZ, he compiles biographies of every notable figure of the age in several books and 3 volumes. The ZhiZong TongJian (ZZTG)

The novel Romance of Three Kingdoms, is a decent starting point, although you have to realize that some fiction is included. But it does lay out most of the major people, events, and chronology of the period.

I'll link more for you another time.