The Quest to Skip the Great Sky Island by Timber - How glitch hunters found a way to beat Tears of the Kingdom without completing the tutorial island
Farming 10,000,000 Melons in Minecraft by rekrap2 - Attempting to farm 10,000,000 melons in 100 in game days. A unique speedrun that's more complex than it seems!!
For-Profit (Creative) Software by EndVertex - What happens when you're priced off the software you built your career on?
The Importance of Inconvenience by MeckleFrog
Simple, Non-Commercial, Open Source Notes by By Default - A guy's journey looking for a simple, no-nonsense text editor and falls into a rabbit hole about emacs. bc same
The Cinematography of "The Incredibles" by Flooby Nooby - Shot by shot analysis of The Incredibles, learned a lot about composition from this.
Draw Better Hands Now by Marco Bucci - Great breakdown of the hand's anatomy and how to draw from from reference and imagination
Male Head Lighting Reference Tool by William Nguyen
Fat Photo Ref - Volunteer-submitted fat photo pose reference library
TrueRef - Artist created pose reference/figure drawing library
Fonts in Use - An archive of typography
Color and Light by James Gurney - Great reference book for building your fundamentals in lighting. Personal Fave.
Atlas of the Human Body for the Artist - Detailed illustrations of the muscles underneath the skin and good tips for proportions.
The Moe Way - A guide and resource list for learning Japanese through immersion with anime and visual novels
asbplayer - In-browser video player that makes subtitles selectable for easy look-ups and flashcard making
Kitsunekko.net - Source for japanese subtitles for anime
Japanese like a Breeze - Beginner Anki Deck - An anki sentence deck that teaches both vocab and grammar using clips from anime and japanese tv shows. I found this more engaging than word decks, though those are useful too.
Beginner Emulation Guide by Fantasy Anime
Fantasy Anime's Links Page - More great emulation resources and many other things!
Retroarch - Open source emulation frontend. What I use :)
Cyberlab's Death to Pixels - Realistic CRT shader pack for Retroarch
Vimm's Lair - Archive for emulators, ROMs and manuals
3DS Hacks Guide - Hack your 3DS ... now !!!!
Playnite - Open source video game library manager
Rate Your Music - Great music discovery tool. User-submitted genre tags and lists.
Every Noise at Once - Genre cloud based on Spotify data, created by the guy who was in charge of genres at Spotify (who got laid off :/)
Soulseek - A P2P file-sharing network focused on music. Also this gotta be the coolest name for any software ever.
Free Lunch - Masterlist of free and open source windows apps
Adobe Alternatives - Masterlist of Adobe Alternatives
F-Droid - Android app store for free and open-source apps
SponsorBlock - Skip sponsored segments on Youtube videos
Dearrow - Crowd-sourced alternative Youtube thumbails and titles to reduce sensationalism and clickbait
Shut Up - Comment section blocker