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Resources for continued web browsing.
PERSONAL SITES AND BLOGS
EVERYDAY USE
CULTURE
CINEMA/TV
GAMES
MANGA/ANIME
MUSIC
LANGUAGES
SCIENCE
TECHNOLOGY
POLITICS/ACTIVISM
FORA/SOCIAL SPACES
TIME-WASTING
RETAILERS
YOUTUBE CHANNELS THAT I LIKE
--PERSONAL SITES--
＊The Cidoku Network: Awesome website from a guy with very similar interests to me: old anime, games, Flash animation (especially), esotericism, history, and so on.
＊Dig Deeper: Primarily full of information about privacy and technology, but other articles on society and its relation to the above. Kinda schizo and I mean that as a compliment.
＊Duion: Key feature is a fully free and open-source multiplayer shooter, but there's a lot of diverse stuff on this site.
＊iwillneverbehappy: A beautiful writer who is uncommonly gifted by having a great sense both at things like mathematics and computer science as well as art and literature. Not as dour as the name might imply.
＊Koshka's Kingdom: Another Web 1.0 style website about a unique individual. The links section is especially worth checking out, because it is full of all kinds of other soulful websites.
＊Lands of Games: Libre games, music, art, writings, etc. Love the feeling of this site.
＊lolwut?: Anyone nostalgic for the pre-normalfag internet? This is a great website which is a big repository for those of us who remember what it was like and miss it.
＊luchiz's hideout!: Friend of mine who is a very talented computer tinkerer and has some exciting projects in the works. His site is a little bare-bones right now, but give him some love.
＊Luke Smith: Often has some quality articles and videos, especially on using GNU/Linux and free software. Also a very annoying cunt. Hate the teacher, love the lesson.
＊Nameless Rumia: Personal wiki with a lot of info about Japanese internet culture. Great stuff!
＊Tastyfish: A good friend with strong overlapping interests in things like freedom of expression, free software, pacifism, anti-capitalism, and so on. Very funny and very agreeable.
＊Thricegreat's Webpage: I envy Thricegreat's succinctness and brevity. These aphorisms say in a few sentences what would take me several paragraphs. An amazing thinker.
＊Watson’s WorldWideWasteofTime Page: Music and Anime: Ancient website that I found as a kid. I highly recommend the "Being Upfront" section for a thorough list of anime girls with huge racks. It was the direct inspiration for my miko list.
＊Wrongthink: Blog posts about digital freedom, privacy, and other related parts of the Kaczynski-verse.
＊Zero Contradictions: A site with thought-provoking philosophical/scientific essays. Just note that I don't co-sign everything on here. Recommended for people with open minds.
--BLOGS--
＊chum the bullet: A close online friend and an amazingly skilled, dedicated, and perceptive gamer, among other hobbies. Mostly a blog about Touhou scoring, but now abandoned.
＊David: David was a big wakeup to me who really pushed my film taste to stranger depths than I thought possible. I trawled through this journal a lot to pick up new films to watch, and the strong effect of it should still be apparent on my favorites lists to this day.
＊Film ist.: David's newer place of operation, though it's still been abandoned for some time.
＊podd machine: Another great friend and oustanding gamer, with some truly superhuman skill at arcade puzzle games and PC-98 Touhou. He also draws very well and is a great writer.
＊音夢たんと俺の愛の日記 最終目標はラブホテル: A legend in the otaku community, Nii-san blogs his daily life and adventures with his beloved Nemu-tan. Limited to Japanese speakers only, I'm afraid...
--SEARCH ENGINES--
＊Ecosia: Any search engine is better than Google, but this one is my personal preference. It puts your clicks towards planting trees. Decent results. You should be using multiple search engines anyway though.
＊OceanHero: Similar to the above, but concerned with cleaning trash out of the ocean. You might say that the small amount you contribute with these doesn't matter much, but if anything it's more of a nicebonus on top of freeing yourself from Google's boot on your neck.
＊Yandex: Primary Russian search engine. You can expect that they care as much about filtering out copyright-infringing material and porn as you would want a search engine to (i.e. not at all).
＊Wiby: A search engine designed to only show Web 1.0 style websites like mine. Very good if you're looking to decentralize your web activity around specific interests.
＊Marginalia.nu: Similar to the above.
＊SearX: Meta-search engine with an emphasis on respecting privacy.
--WEATHER--
＊wttr.in: Simple way to check weather from the command line.
--RECIPES--
＊Based Cooking: A clean, straightforward cooking website to use without half of the page being choked by ads and all the other bloat.
＊Medieval Recipes: Learn how to eat like someone living in the middle ages. It's fun to LARP and it just might be easier on the environment.
--PHILOSOPHY--
＊Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: The equivalent of Wikipedia for philosophers. Informative and usually (comparatively!) easy to read.
＊Ereignis: Lots of information on Martin Heidegger. Most useful is the index of his Gesamtausgabe (Complete Works).
--RELIGION/SPIRITUALITY--
＊Shinto Portal - IJCC, Kokugakuin University: Thorough index of information on Shintou.
＊Internet Sacred Text Archive: Texts used in mystery religions and other esoteric traditions.
--HISTORY/TRADITION--
＊Chinese Text Project: Open-access library of classical Chinese texts.
＊BabelStone: Information about language, scripts, and history related to China and Central Asia.
＊Navajo Traditional Teachings: This guy's channel does pretty well on YouTube. It's a very noble pursuit: sharing the teachings of an old medicine man with the rest of the world.
＊Alaska Native Knowledge Network: Information on traditional teachings and resources related to the natives of Alaska.
--ART--
＊UbuWeb: Classic resource of avant-garde and outsider art on the internet. Lots of experimental films to watch for free.
--LITERATURE--
＊Project Gutenberg: Free books in the public domain.
＊Library of Babel: It's easy to get dulled to how amazing technology really is. If I never need a reminder of it, I look at this to see how Borges's fantastical, impossible library has been made real.
--SUBCULTURES--
＊Lolita History Gallery: Documentation from magazines, books, etc. of the history of lolita fashion.
＊Senses of Cinema: Generally very high-quality writing about cinema.
＊BLEEDING SKULL: Tons of reviews and articles about obscure trash movies. The fun never ends.
--DOCUMENTATION--
＊It's Fantastic!: Translations, scans, etc. of material related to Japanese arcades and arcade culture.
＊shmuplations: Translations from old Japanese game developers.
--STG/SHMUPS--
＊PND List: Now that RoyalFlare has closed, this is about as official as it gets for Touhou world records along with the below.
＊Maribel Hearn: The primary English aggregator for Touhou-related resources. The guy who runs it is a good guy who does a lot to help Touhou fans. It even contains a complete archive of RoyalFlare.
＊Restart Syndrome: A website meant for logging shmup high scores, sort of like speedrun.com but for shmup scores. It needs more users and interaction because the architecture is there for something truly spectacular.
＊Shmups Wiki: A centralized, standardized repository of information on arcade shooting games. Lots of great information to be found, especially on strats etc. if you're lost on a particular game.
＊STGランク一覧: A rank of major arcade STGs by consensus-agreed difficulty. Some of the entries are debatable, but this is a good resource to have an idea of the relative difficulty of most of the major classic STGs.
--FIGHTING GAMES--
＊アルカナハート３@ ウィキ: Arcana Heart 3 Wiki with combos, guides, etc.
＊Mizuumi Wiki: Wiki for niche fighting games. Good resource for Arcana Heart 3 information in English, and some stuff you can't find on the above wiki.
--RPGS--
＊RPGClassics: Beautifully designed "shrines" and guides to classic RPGs.
＊A Public Warning: FF7 Fandom: Better known as the "Final Fantasy VII House." One of the classic internet stories.
--ADVENTURE GAMES--
＊Monkey Inflation: If you've played The Secret of Monkey Island you should know exactly what this is, lol... If you haven't, go play it btw.
--VISUAL NOVELS--
＊Visual Novel Database: Excellent site to research, log, and rate visual novels.
--BROWSER GAMES--
＊Vector Park: I don't know if you can call these "games." They're more like the equivalent of a stress-ball, bonsai tree, or whatever. Very calming to the soul.
＊box7box: Only one real game here, but it is a similar to the above in effect.
--CREATORS--
＊henkama's animation style: doujin creator who dose some cool little indie animations. Stop-motion.
＊松山せいじのブログ3.0（仮）: The closest thing fans of Eiken will ever get to more official material.
--ANIME FIGURES--
＊すがるをとめ: Some old garage kit dealer's site. Seems defunct, but you just have to love the sheer beauty of the lightweight design of these pages, and of course the gallery pics of garage kits are to die for.
--WEBCOMICS--
＊Red Meat: A strange and blackly funny independent comic strip of sorts that's been going for quite a while. I remember there used to be a lot more archived on this site... anyone know where they went?
＊Bonequest: Previously known as Jerk City. A very strange and funny webcomic. It's been active for a LONG time.
--FLASH ANIMATIONS--
＊Dagobah: Classic website full of lots and lots of quality .swfs.
＊RateYourMusic: One of the best sites to log and find both music and film. I'm not as big a fan of the broader site culture these days, but as a tool the site will always be valuable.
＊Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives: Clean, simple, beautiful website. I wish all websites for niche interests were as much of a joy to use as this one.
＊Thulean Perspective: Varg Vikernes and Marie Cachet's official site.
＊djtguide: Indexed materials from 4chan's DJT (daily Japanese threads).
＊bretmayer: A legend-tier gaijin who has passed the highest-tier kanken and indexed a lot of his research.
＊Jimaku: Huge repository of Japanese .srt files to watch with whatever your anime (or live action) media of choice is. Excellent way to passively wean yourself off subs and increase fluency.
＊kitsunekko.net: Similar to the above, but with regular English, Chinese, and Korean subs as well.
＊Animelon: Watch anime with Japanese subtitles.
--RESEARCH--
＊sci-hub: A project that seeks to make scientific research accessible and available to all.
--CLIMATE SCIENCE--
＊Skeptical Science: A big repository of lies and fallacious arguments from global heating deniers and how to refute them.
＊Climate Feedback: Check articles related to global heating against the opinion of experts to figure out if it's reliable information.
--GAME THEORY--
＊The Evolution of Trust: Every high school student should play this little game.
--INTERNET--
＊Internet Archive: Without exaggeration, I believe this is probably the most important website on the entire internet. The history of the web depends on it.
＊Archive.today: Another archiving website which is pretty similar.
＊Archive Team: A wiki dedicated to archiving web data. The "Deathwatch" page is particularly important because it shows sites whose time is confirmed to be limited.
＊The Website Obesity Crisis: Completely essential reading if you are interested in web design and want to make your own site. But you should read this even if you are merely a reader.
--SOFTWARE--
＊suckless.org: Software designed with a focus on "simplicity, clarity, and frugality." I run the core trio of dwm, dmenu, and st and LOVE THEM!
＊Comfy.Guide: Guides for all the elite hax0r shit you'd want to do, particularly if you want to be independent and free of corporate tyranny online.
＊coom.tech: Good info on how to just fucking coom... with technology!
＊terminal.sexy: Nice color schemes for your terminal.
＊Collapse OS: Operating system designed to be implemented on improvised computers after civilizational collapse.
＊TempleOS: God's third temple. RIP Terry, the glowniggers can't get you anymore.
＊Giving What We Can: Organization designed to min-max money for good in the most autistic way possible.
＊Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression: Non-partisan defenders of freedom of expression in the US.
＊The Venus Project: A non-profit futurist organization aimed at achieving a sustainable, utopian society.
＊Good Food Institute: A non-proft organization focused on advocating for research and advocacy based around cultivated/lab-grown meat as an alternative to current practices of the meat industry.
＊Let Grow: Advocates for childhood independence and just letting kids have some fucking time alone!
＊Richard Stallman's Personal Site: If you're reading this site, Stallman probably needs no introduction.
--COMPUTING--
＊Linux Mint Forums: Forum about one of the two distributions I normally run and do most of my gaming on.
＊Arch Linux Forums: High-quality technical questions answered. Captcha requires use of the command line, which should tell you about how little hand-holding there is.
＊How to Ask Questions the Smart Way: Essential reading if you plan to ask technical questions about computing.
--GAMES--
＊Shmups Forum: Forum with many guides to STGs.
--IMAGEBOARDS--
＊2ちゃんねる: Where it all started.
＊Heyuri: Imageboard designed to recreate the feeling of ancient imageboards, especially the Japanese ones. Emphasis on original content.
＊FukuokaBBS: Another imageboard designed to recreate the style of early Japanese BBSes.
＊Channel4 BBS: Small imageboard based on creating an English-language 2chan-style board.
＊nikki!: Miniature diary platform in the style of old Japanese nikki sites.
＊Macrochan: Archive of images from golden era 4chan.
＊tanasinn.info: A wiki dedicated to archiving shitposts, copypasta, and lots of early imageboard culture. It's an archive now,but always worth checking out.
--VIDEO SHARING--
＊ニコニコ動画: A precious site which still has active users. Keep it around forever. One of the few sites I turn my adblocker off for.
＊VidLii: A video sharing platform that recreates what YouTube was like in the very very early days.
＊BitView: Basically the same as the above.
＊WatchPeopleDie: I have to support shock sites. Gore vids, etc. Not everyone who watches them does it because they're a psycho; some of us are just morbidly curious.
--HUMOR--
＊Encyclopedia Dramatica: One of the funniest sites on the damn internet. It's an important website to defend for the sake of freedom of expression as well.
＊ZOMG ZUFALL!: Ancient meme website, still pretty funny a lot of the time.
＊Cats That Look Like Hitler: Exactly what it says it is.
＊Eric Conveys an Emotion: Mesolithic website where Eric takes a picture to convey a certain emotion and then takes suggestions. It hasn't been updated since 2008 but it's always worth going back to once in a while.
＊Bunny Survival Tests: Testing the survival of Marshmallow Bunnies in various experiments. A classic ancient site.
＊Matsuoka Miu: She's so hot.
--STRANGE STUFF--
＊Time Cube: One of the great early internet legends (archived version). You probably already know about it. It deserves pilgrimage every once in a while.
＊Immortality Devices by Alex Chiu: Along with Gene Ray of Time Cube, Alex Chiu is one of the great early internet schizos. AND HE'S STILL ACTIVE! There are archived versions of the past websites here too.
＊The Official Francis E. Dec Fanclub: Outsider writer from the mid-20th century who prefigures greats like Gene Ray. This site is an archive/fansite of his stuff and is pretty hilarious.
＊Hypnagogic Archive: Kind of a hard website to explain, but it's a lot of writings/videos/etc. from old internet that are noteworthy in their oddity.
＊Urinal Dot Net: The largest collection of photographs of urinals anywhere online. Somehow, it's not the most boring thing on the internet.
＊The Cephalopod Chronicles: A guy brings his stuffed octopus around the world to different places. It's an ancient website that is just an archaeology piece at this point, but it's charming.
＊two men and a wooden duck called geoffrey: Stupid "story" I found when I was a kid, probably made by some other incredibly autistic kids. Somehow, it's still online.
＊asdf: Strange site. I still don't get it.
＊SuperBad: Predates the shitty movie of the same name. Sprawling HTML maze art project thing.
＊The Chameleon Conspiracy: Some kind of... joke? About a guy's chameleon getting stolen. I don't get it now and I didn't when I was a kid either.
＊World of Mank: A strange site with a sense of humor that goes over my head... hard to summarize.
＊ぱんちらちゃんねる: Lots and lots of good panchira photos for the scumsucking pervs out there. This is otaku culture, yes?
I hate consumerism. Pirate from these. I don't care. At some time in the past I might have said "support these retailers" but today people outside of Japan are close to fucked for being able to support officially and no distributor is to be trusted. But you might be able to discover some quality stuff in their indexes.
--CINEMA/TV--
＊The Criterion Collection: Well, obviously. There's so many hundreds of releases now that I can't vouch for which are better or not but they're one of the pillars of great DVDs.
＊Masters of Cinema: Basically the Criterion Collection of the UK.
＊Second Run: A wonderful company that focuses on very minor, very unusual films. Lots of gems to be found here.
＊Re:Voir: One of the greatest distributors of avant-garde and experimental filmmaking on DVD. Focus largely on French and anglosphere directors.
＊Index Edition: One of the other greatest distributors of avant-garde and experimental filmmaking on DVD. Focus largely on Austrian and German directors.
＊Edition Filmmuseum: Lots of great releases, but especially of obscure silents and other very old films, usually from western Europe.
＊Blue Underground: The greatest distributor of sleaze and trash you could want. Beautiful transfers of ugly films!
＊Massacre Video: I used to watch the owner of this distributor's YouTube vlogs about collecting old ratty horror VHS tapes. Give him some love.
--MANGA/ANIME--
＊DMM: Well, start with the basics I guess. All kinds of stuff to be found here.
＊シーモア: Electronic manga, mostly.
＊DLSite: Mostly eroge and eromanga. An essential resource. Lots of VNs.
＊とらのあな: One of the essential otaku stores.
＊Melonbooks: Perhaps the second most essential otaku store. Animate is largely for fujos these days...
＊らしんばん: The above but with greater collections of figures, cards, and other stuff like that.
--BOOKS--
＊gnOme books: Strange pieces of "anonyma, pseudepigrapha, apocrypha." Books from other realms.
YouTube is horrible and I hate it and yet in order to enjoy some of the most quality content on the internet I still have to use it all the time, because we live in hell. Use the Invidious frontend or FreeTube when you can. But if you are going to use YouTube, you should at least subscribe to some of these quality channels if they peak your interest:
＊13signsastrology: I used to listen to this guy's videos around 2015-2016 because it was entertainingly crazy new age schizobabble. He seems to have only deteriorated because he looks like a literal homeless crackhead now.
＊Alex Chiu: Alex Chiu from the Time-Wasting section. Entertaining schizo rants if you're into that kind of thing... just try to stay grounded okay?
＊Anton Petrov: Great science channel explaining difficult concepts in simple terms, mostly related to astronomy, astrophysics, etc.
＊Bart Coppens: Videos from a guy with a very specific niche interest and passion: butterflies and moths. Extremely interesting stuff.
＊BRΛINΦΠΦTΣMPLΣ: One of my close friends. A great shmup player and musician who makes Berlin School/Progressive Electronic compositions.
＊Chirpeh13: A friend I knew from a lot of great videos about Touhou. He mostly seems dedicated to Genshin Impact right now which isn't my thing but he deserves a shoutout.
＊cringevenom: A channel specializing to the preservation of crazy, out-there, "cursed" Dallas public access programming that would otherwise be lost to time.
＊Dagoth2hu: A friend of mine who is one of the best western Touhou scoreplayers these days, at least of the ones I'm familiar with.
＊decino: Great videos about Doom. Interesting information on how the game operates and impressive playthroughs of difficult stunts and crazy WADs.
＊Geibuchan: YouTube Poop legend who is still active. Amazingly funny stuff.
＊GiantGrantGames: Incredible challenge runs of old RTS games, mostly Blizzard.
＊Gregory B. Sadler: Great lectures about philosophy.
＊Homura Yuri Squad: A friend of mine who does quite a lot to support Arcana Heart 3 in the west. Give him some love.
＊Isaac Arthur: Interesting speculation about future science, space exploration, aliens, etc.
＊Jaakko Järvinen: Hard to describe this channel exactly. It's very very Finnish.
＊Jade Vine: This is me! ヽ(´∇`)ノ
＊Jaimers: Amazing shmup player who has excellent videos about literally any kind of STG you could imagine or want!
＊Jartopia: Awesome videos about ecospheres, terrariums, aquariums, and other controlled ecosystems.
＊Just Background Noise: Cool challenge videos, mostly about Morrowind.
＊kael070: A friend I had when I streamed on Twitch more regularly. Mostly posts random clips and stuff but he's a good guy so I wanted to give him a shoutout.
＊kenny lauderdale: Great videos about obscure oldschool anime, Japanese lost media, etc.
＊KirbyComment: Another friend. He does a ton to shill the most underrated Touhou games, namely the photo games and PC-98 stuff.
＊KroboProductions: YouTube Poops simply do not get better than this.
＊lasagnacat: One of the most amazing YouTube projects ever made. More of an archive at this point but you have to go back and marvel over it once in a while.
＊LazyPillow (Yotam Perel): Old animator I followed since the days of Newgrounds. He's still a very funny guy.
＊MandaloreGaming: Very good reviews of PC games that are often obscure, forgotten, weird, etc.
＊Mental Outlaw: Well-known for videos about computer/web security, decentralization, open-source software, etc. Not everything he says is agreeable, but there's a lot of value on this channel.
＊Mino: Semi-retired Touhou superplayer who made quite a legacy as being one of the best western survival players, period. Has a number of great let's plays that are very informative and helpful for new players.
＊NamibiaCam: A webcam of a watering hole in the Namibian desert. All sorts of animals meet here, from ostriches and cheetahs to zebras and giraffes.
＊neoxaquas: Great videos about difficult old games, mostly arcade shmups and retro platformers, but a ton of interesting random one-offs too.
＊NotEntirelySure: Cool little channel of challenge runs of difficult games and crazy ROM hacks.
＊Pearl | ASE-PRL: A friend of mine who makes good videos about various arcade and doujin games, mostly shmups.
＊PigeonVoyageur: Primarily a channel that aims to showcase hidden gems in the endless rabbit hole that is Touhou fangames. I know the owner of the channel and he's a good dude.
＊prayerchum: YouTube channel of chumlum, the author of the chum the bullet blog from the personal section.
＊protopod: Vlogs from some random middle-aged guy who might be autistic. The kind of thing YouTube should be full of.
＊Saint: A strange alien of a man who plays games from other dimensions.
＊Sakurei1: Long-term world record holder for Extra stage of Touhou Eiyashou 〜 Imperishable Night. Retired now but he's a good guy and a friend so I have to give him a shoutout.
＊Saul Vancaserkin: Audiobook versions of greentexts from 4chan's /x/ board and related sites. Great stuff if you have a soft spot for paranormal/unexplained phenomena stories like me.
＊Shooting Game Weekly: Very nice show that shows off shooting games via discussions and replay watchings with experts.
＊Sick Animation: Another guy I've watched for years and years and years. Still very funny stuff.
＊Silver Star: Another friend from when I streamed more commonly on Twitch. Good shmup videos.
＊SsethTzeentach: MandaloreGaming's evil twin and one of the funniest game reviewers on YouTube. Watch uncensored and deleted videos on his personal site too.
＊Tetsuya: Similar to Saul Vancaserkin, but more on the schizo/conspiracy side of things. Entertaining if you don't take it too seriously.
＊thplayer635: Great channel about Touhou in general. Funny jokes and impressive plays... often in the same video! It's great for fans of any level.
＊Vysethedetermined2: Tons of obscure, strange Japanese games to look into.
＊Zero Master: Some of the most amazing Doom speedruns I've ever seen, which means close to some of the most amazing speedruns I've ever seen, period.
＊ZillionBrain: YouTube channel of the owner of the podd machine blog from the Personal section. Lots of awesome plays mostly of PC-98 Touhou, but increasingly Twinkle Star Sprites.