Plus, as an added bonus: You just know that some other person spent countless hours behind this, just to entertain the world.
Section I: Video Entertainment.
You all know Youtube. For those who don't: Dear Sir or Madam, are you aware that, at this moment, you have a real mouse on your desk, and are probably even touching it? Go find pest control.
Sorry. But you just can take so many calls from friends and family ("Hey, I just bought me the internets, and now it won't work." Or: "I can't access my Email." - "That's because you're on the eBay website." - "Yeah, but I can't open my Email! Duh!") before you start getting mean to the Technophobes.
Innyway. Youtube basically is one of those Gold-digging sites: You search for the nuggets, while digging through the 90 % utter crap that comprises the rest. One of thee nuggets:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk2sPl_Z7ZU
How to draw the Mona Lisa with MS Paint. Just...wow.
Or: Fun-ucationals: Trying to remember the Presidents of the USA? All 50 States and their Capitals? Or even just all countries in the whole friggin' world? The animaniacs have the answer:
Presidents:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vvy0wRLD5s8
States:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNUDDaEOvuY
Nations:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDtdQ8bTvRc
Also, if you just want a random quick flashback into the nineties? Here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjOePNFRFRU
(You can also watch the original, but why? It doesn't even have dancing hippos.)
Then: Abridged Series. These are Youtube-"Shorts" (usually five to ten minutes), retelling an episode of a selected anime or cartoon. And when I say "retell", I mean "parody", pointing out the various plotholes, inconsistencies, and make just plain old fun. In most cases, having seen the original cartoon? is entirely optional. Warning: All of them contain coarse language, some adult content, and, like, you're spoiled afterwards, DUH!
Of course, there are also about a million copycats of the good ones, most of them atrociously bad. Some of the good ones are:
Yugioh The Abridged Series
by LittleKuriboh, The guy who I think started it all. Has now started his own website hosting the stuff.
Avatar TAS
"Hold on, I'll save us by freezing us in a giant block of ice! Yeah, best plan ever." Heh.
Teen Titans TAS
Not that impressive the first minute or so, but give it a shot, it really pays off. There are other series around, I didn't watch them yet, only Chaltab's.
Yu Yu Hakusho TAS
The anime is of the more obscure variety, but the humor's still good.
Legend of Zelda - TAS
The game, in abridged format.
Sailor Moon AbridgedHeh. The best part is, it really brings out the extreme cheesiness of the original. Now with it's own website, too.
Secret of Mana Theater- Not a movie, per se, but a flash-made retelling of Secret of Mana, the SNES video game. This one's the funniest once you've played the game though (look for emulators.)
And while we're on the topic of flash - an entire world of flash games and little movies, over here, at Newgrounds.
Section II - Games
You need something more interactive to keep yourself occupied? No problem. For the internet also supplies oodles of Games, too. And, like the previous stuff: for free.
Just tossing out some examples, because I don't have the time to find all of them at the moment:
You just happened to survive the nuclear war. Now, onwards to becoming on of the post-apocalyptic World leaders! A browser game. If you like strategy, here's your genre. If you want pretty explosions and stuff, not so much.
Space4k
Browser game just as above, but this time, you're ruling space.
Anarchy Online
One of the "real environment" games. Instead of browser games, you download a game client (yes, it's biiiig. I suggest Bittorent), and log on to a 3D environment, where you can create a character fighting monsters, and other players. and stuff. Imagine the Sims. Only with guns. And dinosaurs.
Section III - Webcomics
The third, and largest section, mainly because I'm not in the mood to sort the good from the bad, so you'll just get a dump from my Favorites folder, and you'll figure it out. Hey, you're the people with nothing to do at the moment...
- :: Dueling Analogs ::
- Dueling Analogs is a color semi-weekly webcomic that lampoons the characters, culture and subtext of modern gaming and video game culture. Updates every Tuesday and Thursday.
- Ctrl+Alt+Del - Tragically l337
- GOD MODE * Mon-Wed-Fri * Gaming Comics Hilarity by Ryan Kerns
- For fans of Manga, Anime, Games, Gaming, Gamers Playstation, Nintendo, Xbox, Halo 2, PSP, Sony, Squaresoft, Nintendogs, Sonic, Final Fantasy, Advent Children, Nintendo Revolution, PS3, XBOX 360
- STAGE SELECT: When Masters Attack - Updated every Friday and Monday!
- A megaman webcomic! HAND DRAWN! Bye bye, sprite comics!
- VG Cats - Updated Mondays
- EXTRALIFE - Web comic for geeks, gamers, and stuff like that
- Penny Arcade!
- SORE THUMBS * Mon-Wed-Fri * Insane Political Gaming Manga-Type Comics by Owen Gieni and Chris Crosby
- For fans of Manga, Anime, Games, Gaming, Gamers, Playstation, Nintendo, Xbox, Halo 2, PSP, Sony, Warcraft, Super Mario Bros.
- Press Start To Play - A Webcomic About Life, Love And Videogames. Updated Monday and Friday
- ActionTrip Comic Strip: Taking Public Relations to New Heights
- ActionTrip.com offers a great collection of gaming comics, alternative comic strips, world of arcraft comics, funny humor, and more!
- Digital Unrest - Updated at least every Monday
- Bob and George, the Comic Strip! - Discontinued, but it ran for seven years. One of the then-popular sprite comics.
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- Sinfest
- Spells & Whistles: A Comic by Tauhid Bondia and Mike Spectre
- Swordwaltzer
- The Adventures of John Witchthorn ™ and friends -- protecting the Earth from the Darknaughts who prowl the Channels of Infinity!
- John Witchthorn uses his mystic powers and supernormal abilities to protect the Earth from extra-dimensional danger!
- Unshelved - archive
- Fallen - updates Sundays
Fantasy
- SkyFallManga.com || SkyFall Online Manga
- Fantasy Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: Elves, Witches, Vikings and Beer!
- Bookelves featuring Alfheim (alv'hame) Updated Tuesday, January 15, 2008
- Fantasy-genre comics. Humor, romance, and adventure. Some mature themes, Benny Hill-style innuendo, and scantily-clad characters.
- Dumb Luck
- Sins - Updating MWF
- Edge the Devilhunter Online: The Gospel of Whoopass!
- An online graphic novel about a lewd, teenage gutterpunk conscripted by divine forces to fight the armies of hell. MA: Graphic Violence, Strong Sexuality, Adult Language
- The Gods of ArrKelaan (Consequences - Prelude [Cover])
- Drunk Duck is the webcomics community that provides FREE hosting and memberships to people who love to read or write comic books, or comic strips.
- Exiern Thursday, June 7, 2007
- Juathuur by Katie Sweet - Part of the SpiderForest.com Webcomics Network
- Juathuur by Katie Sweet - Part of the SpiderForest.com Webcomics Network
- ..:: Heroes of Lesser Earth ::..
- Heroes of Lesser Earth is a fantasy adventure on-going web comic series that has posts new comics on Tuesdays and Fridays of each week. Characters are RPG based
- Looking For Group
- -After Armageddon- Version 4.0 - Updates Mondays
- Alpha Shade Pages
- Cat Legend: Comics
- Darken
- Earthsong - by Lady Yates - Updates Mon&Thurs
- Electric Manga
- Errant Story
- Fantasy Realms
- An epic fantasy graphic novel by Clay Gardner and Niko Geyer.
- Fresh Mode Webcomic Zone: Hunt
- NNFB! Updates Mondays
- No Need for Bushido, Samurai Ronin and Ninja!
- Talismen - Return of the Exile
- Seraph Inn
- Shades of Grey
- Tales Of Pylea
- The Wandering Ones by day
- The War of Winds, by KEZ. Hosted by SpiderForest!
- A graphic novel that follows characters in the last battle of war that has lasted millennia. Updates 2x weekly.
- toothycat.net - Looking for the Sun
- http://crowfeathers.net/page.php?c=8&p=0
- Valkyrie Yuuki
- VOLG/English
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- Candi - Tuesday, July 6, 2004
- Welcome to Fish Tank!
- Odd-Fish Webcomic : Amore
- Odd-fish webcomic by Biro-art's NobbyNobody
- Emergency Exit- In your face!
- star cross'd destiny - online illustrated novel - updates MWF
- Epic saga of the five friends governed by the dark star of fate.
- In the recesses of the archives...
- The Off Chance - The Webcomic - Year Three
- A comedic tale of a pair of room mates living their daily lives with a horde of rabid bunnies and a fish trying to rule the world.
- Basic Instructions: How to Give Directions
- Little Dee by Chris Baldwin
- El Goonish Shive - Copyright & TM 2002-2007 Dan Shive
- Flint Again
- Friendly HOSTILITY
- Funny Farm - Daily Comic Strip - © 2005 R. Smith
- Factual Authentic Real True Stories
- Giant In the Playground Games
- Keenspace -- Nahast: Lands of Strife
- Knights of Vesteria by Matt Summers and Tom Fraser
- "Templar, Arizona" by Spike
- Try to think of it as AN Arizona, not THE Arizona.
- MARRY ME
- A webcomic (online comic strip).
- No Pink Ponies - Friday, March 3, 2006
- Ozy and Millie
- Paradox Lost
- Penny and Aggie
- PierceLogic
- An online comic about games, computers, and the gaming industry as seen from the viewpoint of three gamers. Updated every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
- Pseudome' Studio LLC: Van Von Hunter: Hunter of evil...stuff. Comic #220 11/26/06
- Pseudome Studio presents the on-line manga, Van von Hunter. The mighty hunter and killer of all things evil, Van von Hunter, travels many an evil land, smiting many evil creatures and drinking many evil, magical beers.
- Simulated Comic Product - How bad is it?
- Something Like Life ()
- Drunk Duck is the webcomics community that provides FREE hosting and memberships to people who love to read or write comic books, or comic strips.
- Todd and Penguin--archives
- Comic strip about a cookie loving penguin who lives with a guy named Todd. My tribute to classics such as Calvin and Hobbes, Bloom County, and Peanuts.
- Ugly Hill Archives
- Ugly Hill
- Yang Child
Sci Fi
- angels2200.com
- Buck Godot Online Comics
- Girl Genius—a Gaslamp Fantasy with Adventure, Romance and Mad Science; read it now online!
- Starsomething - Solar-Comics Every Astro-Monday
- Good Ship Chronicles by Tauhid Bondia: Updates Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays
- Experiences : Nine Planets Without Intelligent Life : Bohemian Drive
- Star Traks BorgSpace 2.0 - The Assimilated Generation
- Parallel Dementia Home
- Banished: The Archives
- Ice: the comic
- Legostar Galactica version 3.0 - Friday, May 23, 2003
- Indavo
- Schlock Mercenary archives
- Welcome to Schlock Mercenary archives, where you can find six years of the web's best comic space-opera all in one place
- Special School by Andy Mason - Part of the SpiderForest.com Webcomics Network - Tuesdays and Fridays
- Special School by Andy Mason - Part of the SpiderForest.com Webcomics Network
- thefarreaches.com
- Terinu
- White Noise
- Zap! Archives
- STAR TRAKS: BOLDLY GONE...
haven't read them yet
- "GS Archives - Fans" By T Campbell, Jason Waltrip and various
- Science-fiction fans fighting for science fiction and the rights of all dreamers everywhere. Ambitious? Why, yes.
- Red vs. Blue · News
- http://hootoo.comicgenesis.com/d/20030823.html
- alterverseships1.gif (GIF-Grafik, 900x601 Pixel)
- Cooties - Tuesday, February 6, 2007
- Crimson Dark - comic
- Crimson Night by Brian Brock - Part of the SpiderForest.com Webcomics Network
- Crimson Night by Brian Brock - Part of the SpiderForest.com Webcomics Network
- Daily Archives for Clan of the Cats
- For fans of Cats, Kittens, Witchcraft, Paganism, Gothic, Vampires, Werewolves, Witches, Ghosts, X-Files, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, LOST, Dracula, Lilith, Harry Potter, Poppy Z. Brite, Anita Blake, Jonathan Strange, Terry Pratchett, Anne Rice, Anthropamorphic, Furry, Manga, Dungeons and Dragons, Vampire: The Masquerade. LARP, Ancient History, Ancient Religion, Scooby Doo, The Beatles.
- Emergency Exit-DE SECRETS!
- Flying high and low - Sunday, December 31, 2006
- Juathuur by Katie Sweet - Part of the SpiderForest.com Webcomics Network
- Juathuur by Katie Sweet - Part of the SpiderForest.com Webcomics Network
- 012.gif - The New Adventures of Bobbin!
- Love has a beat all its own... - Part of the SpiderForest.com Webcomics Network
- Sexcussions - Part of the SpiderForest.com Webcomics Network
- Marsh Rocket Comic | Act 0
- No Pink Ponies - Sunday, February 19, 2006
- Parallel Dementia - Wednesday, February 7, 2007
- Picatrix.net
- Ravenwood by Sylvia Baker - Part of the SpiderForest.com Webcomics Network
- Ravenwood by Sylvia Baker - Part of the SpiderForest.com Webcomics Network
- Six Seconds - Monday, February 5, 2007
- A webcomic about dark modern-day fantasy.
- Something Happens - Updated Tuesday, August 8, 2006
- A webcomic that will redefine your mind.
- Starlit Nights - Come hear our song...
- The Ballad Maker - Part of the SpiderForest.com Webcomics Network
- The Ballad Maker - Part of the SpiderForest.com Webcomics Network
- The B-Movie Comic
- A group of unlikely heroes tackles monsters, mutants and aliens from Hollywood's past and present. See what happens. Or they'll say you haven't seen it.
- The Man Who Hates Fun
- This week's adventure in Perth - Friday, December 22, 2006
- Tofustyle Mondays and Fridays and sometimes InBetween
- Tomb of the King : Scepter33
- Drunk Duck is the webcomics community that provides FREE hosting and memberships to people who love to read or write comic books, or comic strips.
- Undead Friend
- Valiant - Part of the SpiderForest.com Webcomics Network
- Wapsi Square by Paul Taylor - Monday, April 1, 2002
- You're currently surfing the Wapsi Square archives. The comic that deals with relationships, single life, mythical monsters, muscular women, bra shops, cigars, real ale, fantasy rpg, microbrewery, bikinis, photography, dating, guitars, music, bands, night clubs, swing dancing
- www.drhamstructo.com
- Zebra Girl - Saturday, May 6, 2000
- SkyFallManga.com || SkyFall Online Manga
- Angst is a Five Letter Word - Saturday, March 4, 2006
- Scene Language by Corey Marie
- STRIPTEASE! 700 comics, still ridiculous
- Fleen: Your Favorite Faux-Muckrakers Since 2005
- OVERCOMPENSATING: The Journal Comic With a Seething Disdain for Reality.
- REAL, TRUE STORIES OF A CARTOON HUMAN BOY.
- ryanestrada.com » Blog Archive » Ryan and the Big Kickoff
- Hey, Payout!
- Questionable Content: New comics every Monday through Friday
- Human animal roleplay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Sam and Fuzzy
- Instant Classic Entertainment
- Instant Classic Entertainment is a collection of stories, prose, comics and experiments on the topic of film, theater, music, literature and art by Brian Carroll.
- part 1 page 18
- diesel sweeties comics & t-shirts: what's the difference between a webcomic and a blog? if i called this a blog, i'd be a billionaire.
- Romantic comics starring a burnt-out, retired porn star and her robot boyfriend, Clango. Watch out for the indie rockers and metalheads! Updated every weekday.
- The Best Webcomics of 2005
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- Aldus Maycombe :: Not-dead and fruitier than ever!
- Amazoness!
- AppleGeeks 3.0
- Bruno the Bandit © 2001 Ian McDonald
- Follow the daily adventures of Bruno the Bandit and his trusty sidekick, Fiona the microdragon!
- Candi - Monday, March 5, 2007
- College Roomies from Hell!!! for Monday, November 13, 2006
- College Roomies from Hell!!! An online comic strip. If you thought college was hell, wait till you meet your roommates! This strip features three perfect strangers trying to live together without strangling each other, their cute neighbors, an evil hand puppet and a pet rock named Fluffy
- Comedity 2.0
- Dresden Codak - Absinthe Makes the Heart Grow Fonder
- Evil Inc. by Brad Guigar - A Daily Webcomic
- Fatebreaker
- Flaky Pastry
- Geek Tragedy Archives
- Girl Genius Online Comics!
- Girl Genius—a Gaslamp Fantasy with Adventure, Romance and Mad Science; read it now online!
- Go For It! Archive
- Grim Tales From Down Below, Updated Sundays
- Comics based on movies, games, music, and pop culture. Also featuring the Power Puff Girl Doujinshi, Grim Tales From Down Below, TIN: The Incompetent Ninja, and the King of Fighters Doujinshi.
- Krakow Original. Same Great Taste. Same Great Webcomic. Thursday, September 07, 2006
- Lizzy
- Misfile - A comic by Chris Hazelton - Now Updating Every Weekday
- Mystican Dreams
- A war between races on the planet Mystica. Will a beautiful princess and a servant from two different races be able to end the 1000 year rift?
- No Reason » Archive » Heroes
- A webcomic (online comic strip).
- Nuklear Power - Home of 8-bit Theater
- Parallel Dementia Home
- Questionable Content: New comics every Monday through Friday
- Real Life - The Online Comic
- Shanime.com
- Home of the webcomics 'The Peons,' 'Pigeon,' and Hero +/-'
- something positive: archive
- something positive: archive1937
- Sorcery 101
- SPQR Blues - Tuesday, February 12, 2008
- Strange Candy archives
- FOOM! The lives of six strangers change forever when they're transported from Tokyo Tower to a Strange world of cat boys, cat girls, amazons, shoujo manga, jello wrestling, love hotels, giant robots, tentacle monsters, bishounen waiters, cutthroat croquet, and idol singers.
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