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Here are some sites I visit, programs I use, that sort of thing. Like many other parts of this site, this list is as much for myself as well as anyone who visits, it's basically a big public bookmarks list. Some sites may contain R-18 or NSFW content, and will be marked with [R18]. I may decide some sites are probably a bit borderline, and will mark those with [R15]. Imageboards and other BBSes may be attacked by spam or trolls, so you might see some unpleasantness before the site staff gets to dealing with it, you've been warned. As a result, all discussion board sites will be marked with [BBS].
I am making an effort to add feed links for sites. I prefer to link Atom feeds over RSS ones when available, and I don't mention which feed format is in use since it shouldn't actually matter for any feed reader you'd be using in 202X.
Page updated on October 31st, 2024. Links are in whatever order I feel. Links are added and removed as I see fit.
- Magical Fami (French) - a very good fan sequel to Ojamajo Doremi, one of my favorite anime series. Also available in English. An exceptional love letter to the series, it's bascially a full sequel manga. You might recognize the author's art from elsewhere! It's so good. I will absolutely write a blog entry when I am done with the last part of the story. The first two seasons are incredibly accurate in tone to the show, while the second two seasons are an excellent followup that goes into the future after Fami and everyone are grown.
- ratfactor (
feed) - Dave Gauer's personal website. Extremely good, to the point where I want to write a blog entry about it. Has quite a nice tech blog, and helped me tremendously with adding an Atom feed to my site.
- Yukinu (feed) - Yukinu's personal website. Has a good blog and a few other services. Very cool site theme.
- Marginalia (feed) - Viktor's personal site. Of particular note is the search engine for lesser-known sites, but also the extremely good blog. There's a lot to discover across the site, go check it out. I might end up writing a blog entry about this site too, it's worth a specific mention. The feed I link is the whole-site feed, several of the sections have their own targeted feeds.
- LainNet (feed) - spaztron64's personal website. Has a blog, a simple BBS to post on, and various links and downloads. Might be moving to a new domain, so I'll need to check for that at some point.
- Renoise - tracker-style DAW I use. I absolutely love it. Nearly all of my music is made with Renoise. Has a very generous free demo, with only saving audio disabled.
- Krita - free drawing program. Very featureful. I primarily use it for animation. You can find a quick primer to animating with Krita here.
- Wiby - search engine for use with old browsers that brings up sites that aren't heavily dependent on modern CSS or JS. I don't actually use it as a search engine much, but the surprise me button is amazing for finding new stuff, taking you to a random page.
- [R18] [BBS] Heyuri - fairly active imageboard I like. Very NSFW, you have absolutely been warned. It avoids a lot of modern 4chan-isms via rules that ban them. Several off-topic boards, several image dumping boards, a large area with translated Japanese CGI scripts and games (technically, it's run by a different person and runs on different servers), and an oekaki drawing board. I spend a significant amount of time on the [R18] oekaki board and [R18] Strange World sections. Heyuri CGI isn't (currently) R18, but it's still R15 at the absolute best, while the main site is extremely R18.
- [R15] [BBS] Nashi Kouen - all-ages imageboard. Has off-topic, doll/figure, and unix/programming boards, along with an oekaki drawing board. Completely SFW. The music board currently is not considered to be quite all-ages, but it isn't NSFW either. I have decided to mark this as R15 anyway.
[R15] ProDefCh - another imageboard I browse. Not quite all-ages like Nashi Kouen, but doesn't allow NSFW content. - ProDefCh is dead... RIP. I miss this place a bunch.- [R18] [BBS] Kissu.moe - yet another imageboard I browse somewhat. Not too NSFW, but still R18. I like checking out the streams they have, too. Someone will usually post when they're streaming something.
- [R18] [BBS] hikari3.ch - yet another another imageboard I browse on occasion.
- [R18] [BBS] Lainchan - another imageboard I browse. Particularly famous for the Lainchan webring started on /tech/, but there are a bunch of boards to check out. I like using /random/ to browse the board for interesting things.
- [R18] [BBS] Denpa-chan - a text BBS with a fairly relaxed atmosphere. I like it a lot here. Recently decided to enforce users being 18+ (this was typed on October 28th, 2024).
- PSDTool - web viewer for Photoshop .PSD files. Primarily useful for viewing character files that use customizable expressions/poses stored as layers (an example is provided on the site). Some are specifically configured for use with PSDTool, so it's occasionally better than opening the file in PS itself, Krita, or Gimp. Site is in Japanese.
- [BBS] Petit Note - Japanese oekaki drawing board. Very active. Blurs out NSFW stuff by default, and has a fairly strict definititon of what counts as NSFW along with a fairly tame limit for what NSFW stuff it allows. I don't post here, but I like to browse. Also has a board for middle and high school students to use, Petit BOX Jr.
- MAME BEMANI fork - a fork of MAME by 987123879113 (AKA WindyFairy) made specifically for playing the BEMANI releases (like DDR and Beatmania). Most of the work here does get upstreamed to mainline MAME, but there are a handful of extra additions here (like a hack to get the videos in IIDX to play), along with configuration for getting the timing as good as you can get it. You'll probably want to check the wiki for setup info. Naturally, this doesn't come with any of the ROMs or CHD images needed to play, although those aren't hard to find.
- IIDX.org - extremely good resource for IIDX with a focus playing through official means, such as on cabinet or through Konami's PC subscription service. Covers the whole gamut of player, from someone who has only just found out about the series to someone who has been playing for years and is looking to improve.
- Lay31415's weblog (feed) - a blog with excellent information about the 5-key Beatmania games.
- [R18] Oglaf (feed) - a very funny (and VERY NSFW) webcomic set in some kind of fantasy setting. It gets quite explicit, so again, R-18 warning. I cannot stress that enough, lol. I found out about it from xkcd. I'm not kidding, look at the "Comics I enjoy:" area on every xkcd page, Randall links there too. Speaking of xkcd, you should also read it.
- OldWeb.Today - a browser based emulator that lets you run old web browsers. Very useful for testing if things work in an old browser. My site will be kind of unreadable in old browsers due to the backgrounds and my use of a transparent content area, unfortunately -- I want to rectify this at some point.
- UFO Motion Test - site with various monitor tests. I have a crappy office monitor from like 10+ years ago, so of course I get the (expected) bad results.
- maerk.xyz (feed) - Mark's personal site and blog. Arcade stuff, pictures, links.
- Pyroclastica (feed) - a neat site with some game reviews, pictures, links, and blog entries. The feed seems to have issues in Feedbro in Firefox (possibly? I think I coaxed it into working wiht a few refreshes), but works in Feeder on Android. The feed isn't advertised directly on the page, but the site has a <link> to it in the HTML source.
- SauceNAO - extremely useful reverse image search. Makes it extremely easy to find the source of anime screenshots, manga pages, and artist pics.
- yt-dlp - the most useful media downloader script. It's most famous for downloading from YouTube, but works on a ton of other sites.
- PixivUtil2 - Piviv downloader script. I mostly use this to download my bookmarks.
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You might also want to checkout the Lainchan webring, which has more cool sites to check out!