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Prism Launcher: A free, no ads, highly customizable modded Minecraft launcher which can pull from major sources like CurseForge, ATLauncher and Modrinth.
Steam: This is the main store where to get your games. Great customer service, an insane selection of games, and often has sales and discounts on games.
GOG: DRM-free game store. Has many indie games, and old classics.
Epic Game Store: An inferior competitor to Steam, but has a rotation of free games (that you get to keep). If you're patient, some good games can become free.
Humble Bundle: Has rotating bundles of games, as well as books and software/assets.
Romhacking.net: A website dedicated to many ROM hacks and tools.
SteamRip: A shady website to download Steam games for free without a DRM. Proceed at your own risk, viruses and stuff may be present in the executables.
Steam Unlocked: Another shady website to download Steam games for free without a DRM. Proceed at your own risk, viruses and stuff may be present in the executables.
YARG (Yet Another Rhythm Game): Alternative for Guitar Hero, and (imo) better than Clone Hero.
Custom Songs Central: A place to download songs for YARG and Clone Hero.
Cockatrice: Unofficial desktop app to mainly play Magic: The Gathering for free. Has servers and you can connect or you can play with your friends directly.
Momentum Mod: Game where you can play various source-game momentum-based gamemodes like Bhop, Rocket Jump, and Surf. You can easily import existing maps, and make your own using the intergrated Strata Hammer editor.
TETR.IO: A free clone of tetris online/desktop app. I think they have ads now though.
Level Share Square: A website dedicated to hosting levels for many small Mario-related fangames such as Super Mario Builder 64, Super Mario 127, and Super Mario Flash.
Flashpoint: A dedicated Flash (.swf) game player and downloader. Has a database of all existing Flash games as well as games from other engines and programing languages.
GameBanana: A website dedicated to hosting many modded content for various games including Source games, Friday Night Funkin', and Celeste.
Equalizer APO parametric and graphic audio equalizer for Windows.
Peace: Windows Desktop interface for Equalizer APO.
Sevish Music: A microtonal music composer. Has a lot of resources, links, tips, and other stuff on his website.
Scale Workshop: Online app to make custom tunings and download these tunings in many different file formats. Made by Sevish.
MusicTheory.net: Site to practice and learn music theory. Completely free, and has a paid alternative called Tenuto on the iOS app store.
Music Bee: A Windows-only music player. Allows for custom playlists, metadata editing, many filter options, and audiobook support as well.
Reaper: A highly customizable DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) that is very good for audio recording, and mixing. You don't need to buy for non-commercial uses as the trial period of 60 days doesn't actually lock you out of using the program.
FL Studio: A paid DAW that is very well built for sequenced music with looping parts.
Guitar Pro: A paid software for creating and reading guitar tabs. It can also chart other instruments.
MuseScore: A completely free music notation software. Idk wtf happened in the last couple of years but I guess now they have paid shit you can throw at it as well.
Furnace: A versatile Chiptune music tracker to compose with.
OpenUtau: A free and open source way to make vocaloid songs. You can download a bunch of voice banks and plugins on the web with a bit of search.
Lunai Project: A Russian fork of OpenUtau that actually works for multilingual voices, as well as their own voicebanks.
Utau France: A website with some French vocaloid resources. However, I can only get all Diffsinger Millefeuille voices to render properly on the 0.1.550 Beta version of OpenUtau, or more simply by using the Lunai Project version.
NSF-HiFiGAN Vocoders: Necessary modules for some Diffsinger voices (a way to render voices in OpenUtau) to work.
VCV Rack: Plugin that emulates analog modular synthesizer. Free to use as a standalone. Paid modules and VST support.
Cardinal: A free fork of VCV Rack. Works as a plugin without needing to pay unlike VCV Rack.
TH-U: A guitar amp and effect simulator plugin.
Guitar Rig: A guitar amp and effect simulator plugin.
S-Gear: A guitar amp and effect simulator plugin.
Plugins4Free: A website which lists many freely available virtual instruments that can be used in DAWs.
Godot: A free and open source game engine. You can code in their own scripting language or C#.
GameMaker: A (currently) free game engine that specializes in 2D game development.
Pico-8: A game engine that aims to emulate retro games. Programming is in Lua.
RPG Maker series: An expensive lineup of game-making engines intended to design a very specific range of game-making. Many classics were made in this engine, including OMORI, Yume Nikki, and Oneshot. With plugins, you can really push the limits of this engine.
Paper RPG Maker: A 3D alternative to the RPG Maker engines. Is free for non-commercial use.
Krita: A free drawing program that has many functionalities like Procreate or Clip Studio Paint.
Blender: A free 3D modeling app. They also allow many many other facets of 3D (and some 2D) creation.
Pixi Editor: I haven't used it but it looks cool.
RenPy: A Python Visual Novel game engine. Games such as Doki Doki Literature Club, and Slay The Princess have been made in this engine.
Aseprite: A pixel art drawing program that is quite simplistic and neat.
Tilesetter: A program that allows you to make pixel art tilesets.
BlockBuilder: A 3d low-poly modeling. Supports many formats to help with Minecraft modding if need be. Has a browser version. I haven't used it though.
Davinci Resolve: Free and powerful video editor. You can pay for additional functionality.
Affinity: Versatile tool that competes with Adobe's line of products for raster and vector image editing, and page design. As of recently, it is now completely free without any catch, but requires a Canva login. Be sure to opt-out of data collection and other privacy stuff on the Canva account via the Canva web page directly, as they are automatically turned on.
Kenney Assets: This creator has a lot of public domain (CC0) assets. They also have a few tools for creating stuff.
Book Lib Connect: Allows you to download your library of owned book on Audible.
AAX Audio Converter: Converts Audible .aax files to other formats like .mp3
AudioBook Bay: A place to torrent many audiobooks for free.
Anna's Archive: Website to download millions and millions of e-books in many languages. One simultaneous download and wait times without being a supporter, but if you open multiple tabs, all wait times decrease at the same time. If the link is dead, then they probably changed the domain extension.
Free Download Manager: Downloads files and torrents. Very useful for large file size and downloads. You can customize and limit download and upload speeds.
ImageGlass: Alternative image viewer for Windows.
ShaderGlass: Allows you to overlay shaders on top of your monitor screens. Cool to add crt or vhs effects while gaming or watching videos.
LibreOffice: Free and open-source alternative to the Microsoft Office suite.
Obsidian: Free note taking app that uses markdown to stylise the pages. Many plugins. You can pay to sync your data across devices.
Signal: A fully encrypted and free messaging software and app. Syncs across your devices. Screen captures don't render the app.
League Display: The official software by RIOT Games to change your wallpaper and screensaver with League of Legends artwork.
Wallpaper Engine: Allows for animated and audio wallpapers. Uses Steam and its workshop.
WinRAR: A superior file extraction programs. Supports extracting many formats like .zip, .rar, .iso, and .tar.gz
Keepass: A free password manager.
Microsoft Activation Scripts: Allows you to activate many Microsoft products, including Windows and Office.
Kanji Study: A mobile app to help learn kanji; can be extended with paid addons for additional functionality and kanji.
ttsu (ッツ): Browser-based ebook and text file reader. Uses local persistent storage or outside sources like Google Drive.
Yomitan: Browser-based dictionary to help you quickly look up vocabulary.
nyaa.si: Torrent site to download a bunch of stuff (I recommend the TMW Audiobook and ebook collections.)
Jisho: An online Japanese dictionary intended for English users.
Textractor: Allows you to pull text out of visual novels. Depending on the game you have to run either the 64bit or the 32bit executable.
Japanese Locale Emulator: A tool to emulate your locale without changing your actual Windows locale.
KanjiTomo: Tool to read Japanese characters from images or your computer screen.
Thesaurus Latinus: A Google Docs document that has links to a plethora (a shit ton) of links to resources for learning Latin (some links are dead thought.)
“Latin autodidacts, you’re working way too hard!” – How to learn Latin by yourself in 2023: A neat essay about language learning (more focused on Latin), and can be a positive reality check and advice-filled read for some.
Latin reading list (Beginner to Advanced): A list of Latin reading material that is sorted by complexity.
Language Links Database: A bunch of links to many resources in many many languages.
Type It: A cool resource to type out various languages and symbols if you don't necessarily have the proper keyboard layouts installed. Also sells a desktop keyboard layout version of the functionality.
Flow: A browser-based epub reader. As of writing this, doesn't seem to handle some Japanese ebooks very well (as they are generally rendered vertically), but works fine for other books. Allows you to underline and annotate passages.
Anki: A flashcard reviewing app.
Newgrounds: A fun place where a myriad of independent content is hosted, ranging from music, games, and art.
Bandcamp: A DRM-free music platform for music artists to publish and sell their music. This is where you get lossless/high quality music from many creators.
Neocities: Affordable website hosting with no strings attached. This is where this very website is hosted.
e621.net: 18+ Furry image board
gelbooru: 18+ Anime image board, you can allow all site content in the settings
Konachan.com: 18+
rule34.xxx: 18+
rule34.paheal.net: An alternative 18+ site for rule 34 content. Dogshit search functionality, but sometimes has stuff not present on rule34.xxx
coomer.st: 18+ (domain extension might change)
kemono.cr: 18+ (domain extension might change)
nhentai.net: Pornographic Doujinshi hosting website
e-hentai.org: hentai hosting website
exhentai.org: The sad panda. Has more spicy stuff than its brother so you'll need to go in incognito mode without any cookies to even be allowed to access this one.