Favorites

This is a collection of links to various websites and projects that I follow or support.

(Financially or participated in creation)

FEDAnet – a friend-to-friend darknet project, free of corporations, governments, and censorship. Built on sane technologies, without bloat or overcomplication.
Wonderful Body Wanted – a hybrid visual novel about a pedagogical university student doing their internship. As always, schoolgirls start missing from the town…
Vinora Engine – the visual novel and interactive fiction industry is suffocating under monstrous engines.
Dozens of programmers keep offering garbage Drag-n-Drop, unreadable XML-like code, or even worse, wrappers over programming languages.
I am convinced that you can create visual novels on a 20-year-old laptop without knowing how to code and without suffering through Android Studio and Xcode.

Rebuild the World! – the modern IT industry is shit. It’s time to start fixing it – find out how here.
World Future Fund – an organization that attempts to predict future crises by analyzing the past. Useful for its massive archive of speeches and photos from 20th-century totalitarian regimes.
wttr.in – the weather right in your terminal.
S60Youtube – a lightweight interface for YouTube.
Xcancel – a lightweight frontend for Twitter.

NB: I haven’t been playing many games over the last two years, so my skills are likely a bit rusty.

0 A.D. – an open-source strategy game in the vein of “Age of Empires”. I’m absolute love for it, usually playing as Carthage through merchants.
RimWorld – a sci-fi colony story generator on the rim of the galaxy. I usually play as a mechanitors here.
Hearts of Iron IV – a 4X strategy game about World War II. I dropped it because the AI stopped posing any threat to me, while multiplayer is filled with sweatlords against whom I stand no chance.
IL-2 Sturmovik: 2001 – one of the most realistic flight simulators. That’s exactly why I play like a total scrub on my keyboard, but I still keep coming back for the nostalgia – it’s the very first game I ever played.

(“I’m telling you, visual novels IS literature!” :3)

Cycle of Struggle: Ardengrad – the story of a university political science club in a South Slavic country on the brink of civil war.
Katawa Shoujo – a bishoujo story set in the fictional Yamaku High School for children with disabilities. The main character, Hisao, collapses one day from heart pain – discovering that, overnight, he has become a person with a disability.

– He killed 20 million people, what’s “so cool” about that?
– Umm, the edits?

Le Poete – edits about historical figures.
Mental Resilience – edits about thinkers and philosophers.
German WW2 archive – a huge archive of video footage and speeches by German politicians from the Second World War.
Scott Buckley – channel of an Austrian composer featuring copyright-free music.
Сергей Ланьков – channel of a well-known North Korea historian.
Tsoding – recreational programming sessions.
David Revoy – a comic artist, creator of a free and open-source webcomic about the little witch Pepper and her cat Carrot.
Spirit of the Revolution – epic instrumental performances of leftist marches.
Odoevsky Duke – an archive of many rare rightist marches.
Wlassow Action – an archive of video footage of general Vlasov and the ROA.
ScorpioMartianus – videos about Latin, Ancient Greek, and Ancient Egyptian.