My Favorite Websites
Published: March 31, 2025
This page lists some of my favorite places on the web.
Jisho
Japanese language dictionary. I don't use it as much these days since I'm not actively learning Japanese anymore, but it's still very useful when I do have the need to figure something out.
POSEMANIACS
Provides figure drawing reference for artists. Figures are devoid of skin for seeing/studying the musculature, so they look like spooky anatomy textbook people. Has mild, academic nudity.
What I love about it is the diversity of poses. The creators do not shy away from more-provocative poses, which makes it great for contemporary illustrations. So many pose references tend to stick with poses which are either unnaturally flexed or impressively heroic. Instead, this site pretty much hits everything, and there are plenty of relaxed and natural poses.
Also, the figures are presented as 3D models which you can rotate around. Very useful.
The Mod Archive
Huge collection of sample-based music tracker modules (the general type of music format I use). I use foobar2000 with the OpenMPT Module Decoder to play them on Windows.
VGMDB
Database of music albums related to video game music. Includes soundtracks, collection boxes, and doujinshi albums. The site also catalogues anime-related releases, as well as unrelated albums released by composers who have worked in the video game industry (to a degree). It is purely informative and does not host or provide any music files.
VGMusic
MIDI file archive of video game music covers/transcriptions. This was much more relevant to me when I was a kid making games in The Games Factory, as I would snag files from here to use as background music (I never released anything, it was all just for my own personal fun). Regardless, I still think it's an amazing site and is worth mentioning. It was also the only way I knew of to listen to video game music since MP3s weren't easy to get back then and I didn't know about game music formats (NSF/SPC/VGM/etc.) yet.
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