general resources ▽
★ catbox.moe - free online file storage★ cobalt.tools - download videos/audios/photos/gifs/etc from any website (eg youtube)
y232.live - another yt to mp3 site. with cute cat
uBlockOrigin AI blocklist - filters out AI images in your search engine
udm14.com - AI-free google search
piracy ▽
bootyguard - short guide to piracy (to get started)★ piracy megathread - long list of safe sites
★ DSi / 3DS / Wii / WiiU hacks guide - complete guides to modding these game systems
★ hShop - 3DS content preservation service. here you can download games directly to your 3DS with a QR code!
emulation general wiki - emulators for pretty much every game system
themeplaza.art - 3DS theme archive + place to share your own custom themes
Vimm's liar - almost complete archive of every single console video game
easyussr.neocities.org - actually good torrenting guide
coding ▽
★ w3schools.com - *the* place to start learning web developing or many other programming languages!sadgrl.online - another great web dev resource
mf2fm.com - cool javascript effects
7.css - css for windows 7 interface components
onionring - javascript widget for creating webrings
lilaclynx.net - guide to making your site look good on mobile
in-browser games ▽
★ ynoproject.net - play yume nikki & fangames online with friends!neal.fun - genuinely fun browser games + more
laingame.net - play the serial experiments lain PSX game in your browser
corru.observer - tbh i've not played this one yet but it looks really cool
noclip.website - explore hundreds of video game mapsin noclip
wikigacha.com - wikipedia trading card game
scrandle.com - guess which food people would want to eat more
wind waker js - play tloz wind waker in-browser
music ▽
★ everynoise.com - enormous scatter-plot of music genres, amazing for finding new sounds and artistsfreesound.org - huge database of audios/samples/recordings
boilthefrog.com - put in 2 music artists and it creates a playlist that slowly transitions from one style to the other
radio.garden - live radio stations around the world
khinsider - >26TB of video game OSTs :)
jummbox - simple online program to make beats with
learningmusic - basics of music making in very simple terms
quinn fetrow's guitar machines - handy tools to learn notes, scales, chords, etc
toneDB - library of instrument tones from existing songs
photography & editing ▽
★ photopea.com - free in-browser clone of adobe photoshoplunapic.com - another free online photo editor
open camera - good open source camera app for android
waifu2x.net - resizes & upscales images
art tools & references ▽
piskelapp.com - online editor for animated sprites & pixel artpixilart.com - online pixel art drawing tool
jspaint.app - original MS paint in your browser
posemaniacs.com - lots of pose references
paletton.com - color palette designer
color blender - put in 2 colors and it blends them (wow)
artstation.com - tool for shading faces
referenceangle.com - references for human head angles (also for animals)
kiwi.tumblr.com - long list of drawing references
syua.tumblr.com - long post of free, royalty-free elements/textures
free anatomy books - self-explanatory :)
fonts & text ▽
★ fontenddev.com - great pixel fonts★ thrashfonts.com - really sick metal fonts (they've also got free demo versions for personal use <3)
atypography.com - insanely cool abstract fonts
3dtextmaker.com - animated text 1
cooltext.com - animated text 2
glittee-graphics.com - animated text 3
textanim.com - animated text 4
demirramon.com - undertale / deltarune text box generator
web graphics ▽
★ blinkies.cafe - blinkie generator★ gifcities.org - gif search engine by the Internet Archive
texture town - interactable collection of textures
mazeguy.net - smilies from 2001
geoblinkies.html - massive blinkie archive
hekate2.github.io - 88x31 web button maker
sadthemes.tumblr.com - collection of tiny graphics
research ▽
★ sci-hub.se - database of millions of research articles and books (they've been doing some weird shit with crypto lately but it's still a really helpful resource)jstor.org - massive digital library from around the world
research rabbit - visualizes connected papers in a graph, really useful for finding sources! (alternative: litmaps)
zotero.org - save and organize citations/sources
skip google for research - list of some search engines for research (bc google scholar sucks ass)
brain-map.org - dozens of open research brain atlases and datasets
recipes ▽
★ laura's bakery - [Dutch] massive collection of accessible baking recipes (as someone who loves baking i owe laura my life ngl)my fridge food - find recipes with the food that's currently in your fridge
misc fun stuff ▽
protoweb.org - proxy server of the actual old internetpatorjk.com/ - array of web apps & tools, including a text to ascii converter, photo ditherer, etc
architectural hauntings - great haunted house media
your ai slop bores me - ask questions to other people larping as AI, or answer theirs
online museums
the malware museum - interactive, emulated collection of malware programs and virusses from the 80s/90sweb design museum - old websites, apps, and software from the 90s to mid-00s
mobile phone museum - >2000 types of old and funky phones
video game related
★ spriters-resource.com - archive of video game sprites★ yume.wiki - ultimate wiki for yume nikki & fangames
disco elysium explorer - disco elysium script explorer with audio
fayde.co.uk - more accessible DE dialogue tree explorer (but without audio)
blockpalettes.com - minecraft block color palletes
loadout.tf - test TF2 loadouts online
gjtorikian.com - earthbound battle background generator
jerma related
★ jerma.io - amazing jerma sites (seriously check these out, they're great)uquiz.com - quiz: which alternate reality jerma are you?
jerma voiceline emporium - jerma audio clip archive
jerma.org/random - random moment out of 4809 hours of jerma videos/streams
splatoon related
splat3 collectibles - database of all collectibles in splatoon 3 (titles, locker items, badges, etc)splashtag maker - splashtag creator
splatoon species list - spreadsheet of all species that canonically appear in splatoon (by rassicas)
sendou.ink - helps you analyze loadouts
splatbands sorter - rank all splatbands characters