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# The Jerks
## Links

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#### Friends
[hemmerich.co](https://hemmerich.co)
[izzyangell.com](https://izzyangell.com)
[rawexp.dev](https://rawexp.dev)

#### Communities
[SKYN3T](https://skyn3t.in) - I hang out with these guys a lot on Mumble
[Cyberia](https://cyberia.club) - A "hacker collective" I hung out with on Mumble a long time ago back in my "[tech geeker](http://xahlee.info/UnixResource_dir/writ/tech_geeker.html)" days
[Cock.li](https://cock.li) - My junk email provider, I used to hang out on their mailing list and keep up with their shenanigans

#### Personalities I follow
[Xah Lee](http://xahlee.info) - Aside from the Emacs Lisp manual and C-h f, his website is my main resource for ELisp programming. I also like reading his philosophical blog posts, he has an interesting mix of enjoying free and open source software while criticizing it. I am also planning on digging into his book recommendations, as they seem to be solid books that would definitely expand my view of the world.
[Richard Stallman](https://stallman.org) - The originator of the Free Software and copyleft movements. His ideas on software are a bit extreme and would not work in the real world, and I disregard most of his opinions on social issues.
[Vincent Canfield](https://vc.gg) - The administrator of [cock.li](https://cock.li), his blog posts are pretty interesting but he hasn't posted in about 2 years.
[Se7en](https://se7en-site.neocities.org) - A guy I met on the [cock.li](https://cock.li) mailing list. He has interesting blog posts on pretty much anything but I disregard his more extreme opinions on the Covid vaccine.
[Videogamedunkey](https://youtube.com/videogamedunkey) - One of the only bearable YouTube personalities, his ideas on video games are very insightful and highly influenced my own ideas on what constitutes a *good* video game.
[MoistCr1TiKaL](https://youtube.com/penguinz0) - I watch his videos when I'm bored and want to see some wacky thing that happened on the internet or in real life. I mostly skip through his videos because his commentary really isn't that funny and his videos are way too long.
[Internet Historian](https://www.youtube.com/@InternetHistorian) - The authoritative source on any major recent happening. Probably the most skilled documentarian on YouTube. He rarely uploads which I really like.
[Greasy Tales (formerly SexuaLobster)](https://www.youtube.com/@SexuaLobster) - A very talented animator I was introduced to almost 10 years ago, his videos are pretty funny and he rarely uploads.
[Pea](https://pea.moe) - A guy I met on the [cock.li](https://cock.li) mailing list.
[Ed and Mari](https://web.archive.org/web/20130823160422/http://edandmari.com) - The last archive of edandmari.com, a couple's personal website onto which I stumbled when I was a kid looking for Star Wars lore. These guys inspired a lot of my hobbies, including Star Wars, root beer tasting, amateur restaurant reviewing, and pressed penny collecting.
[Terry Davis](https://templeos.org) - A schizophrenic programmer who created TempleOS. Unfortunately, [he is now deceased](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oH41gGBVpkE).

#### Stores
[Nabee Socks](https://nabeesocks.com) - Sellers of very great compressions socks. My wife - a nurse - says they really help her on the job, which requires her to be on her feet all day.
[PC Keyboard](https://pckeyboard.com) - The guys who originally manufactured the greatest keyboard ever made, the IBM Model M, have their own storefront featuring keyboards which use the patented buckling-key mechanism. I currently own their New Model M with the PS/2 port but can't use it because I spilled coffee on it.

#### Vidya
[OpenMW](https://openmw.org) - A FOSS reimplementation of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind engine.
[Tes3MP](https://tes3mp.com) - A fork of [OpenMW](https://openmw.org), adding in multiplayer.
[FreeCiv](https://freeciv.org) - A FOSS reimagining of Civilizations 1 and 2.
[FreeCivWeb](https://freecivweb.org) - A web client for [FreeCiv](https://freeciv.org).
[0ad](https://play0ad.com) - A FOSS RTS that began as an Age of Empires mod but turned into its own game. Features civilizations from the ancient world.
[GOG](https://gog.com) - A storefront selling games without DRM.
[itch.io](https://itch.io) - A storefront selling games without DRM.
[List of game engine reimplementations](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_game_engine_recreations) - Wikipedia's list of open source game engine reimplementations.
[List of DRM-free games on Steam](https://steam.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_DRM-free_games) - A common misconception is that every game on Steam is DRM-encumbered with the Steam DRM. This is not the case, and this site documents which games do not have DRM. Slightly outdated.
[Internet Scrabble Club](https://isc.ro) - The Internet Scrabble Club, a fun scrabble community.
[Project DSM](https://projectdsm.org) - A project that seeks to recreate the entirety of Des Moines, Iowa in Minecraft.
[Red Eclipse 2](https://www.redeclipse.net) - A FOSS arena shooter featuring parkour. Used to be heavily active on the game, but it has unfortunately died. It is still fun to play with friends though. Also available on [Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/967460/Red_Eclipse/).
[Xonotic](https://xonotic.org/) - A fast paced, movement-heavy FOSS arena shooter. I am terrible at the game and often ragequit, but something about it makes me keep coming back.
[Endless Sky](https://endless-sky.github.io/) - Some would call this a clone of Escape Velocity, but this supersedes the original in pretty much every possible way. A while back, I attempted to code a mod adding in multiplayer but abandoned it, I may pick it up again someday.
[Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup](https://crawl.develz.org) - My favorite FOSS roguelike. Yes, I know the greatest roguelike of all time is NetHack, I don't care.

#### Watchdogs
[spyware.neocities.org](https://spyware.neocities.org) - A software privacy watchdog I utilize heavily. Extremely outdated but still useful.
[RYF certification](https://ryf.fsf.org) - The FSF's Respects Your Freedom certification page.
[Defective By Design](https://defectivebydesign.org/guide) - A big DRM watchdog's guide on living DRM-free.

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