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Skip Google for Research

As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse.  It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms 

As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable.  As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.

Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.

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Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free

The Assorted TYPE-MOON Experience (as of 7/20/24)

Here is a link to Fate/stay night with the Ultimate Patch.

Here is a link to Fate/Hollow Ataraxia with the Ultimate Patch and the Fate/Extra sub-series.

Here is a link to various other TYPE-MOON games and manga/novels such as Kara no Kyoukai, Tsukihime, Melty Blood, and more Fate.

Some things to note:

ALL GAMES ARE PC GAMES EXCEPT THE FATE/EXTRA SERIES, WHICH IS PLAYED ON THE PSP

– Kara no Kyoukai: the Garden of sinners, Tsukihime, and Fate are all part of the same metaseries penned by Kinoko Nasu (Witch on the Holy Night is as well, but it is not included in this collection since only the enhanced version is translated which can be bought on current generation consoles and PC)

– Fate/stay night Ultimate Patch has many settings to customize your experience of the game, please play around with them and set them to your liking, but some of my recommendations are **Display > Quality > High (x2.0) [higher resolutions not included due to much larger file sizes with diminishing returns] **Language > English ReTrans (2nd beta) **Patch > [ANY] Content > [Choose "Classic" for a first playthrough if you want a more faithful experience or "Mixed" for a faithful experience with some Vita additions, but might be best for a second playthrough] **Patch > Censorship > check "Show mature content" + "Show Ecchi & Hentai + Fan-made Demosaic" for the full eroge experience or keep "Show mature content" unchecked for the all-ages experience **Patch > Movie Playback Options > check Display subtitles in movies + Movie Quality > High **Patch > Route Lock > Automatic **Patch > Title menu style > Automatic

– Fate/Hollow Ataraxia Ultimate Patch has many settings to customize your experience of the game, please play around with them and set them to your liking, but some of my recommendations are **Display > Quality > High (x2.0) [higher resolutions not included due to much larger file sizes with diminishing returns] **Patch > Censor > check "Decensor H content" for the full eroge experience or keep "Censor H content" checked for the all-ages experience **Patch > Vita Additions > uncheck "Play Vita OP in-game" and "Vita Ending Credits" to see the original versions of each for a first playthrough **Patch>Movies>check Display subtitles in movies

– Fate/Extra + Perfect Patch + CCC includes Fate/Extra, Fate/Extra Perfect Patch+ (the same game as Fate/Extra but patched to include subtitles for all Japanese voice lines, fixes some of the original translation to better match Fate canon, and bug fixes), and Fate/Extra CCC (a sequel to Fate/Extra that takes place during that game)

– Tsukihime series goes Tsukihime > Tsukihime PLUS-DISC (contains Alliance of Illusionary Eyes) > Kagetsu Tohya

– Melty Blood is a series of fighting games featuring the cast of Tsukihime (ReACT is an expansion for the original Melty Blood)

Many more games are available for purchase on PC and current generation consoles such as Witch on the Holy Night, Tsukihime -A piece of blue glass moon-, Melty Blood: Type Lumina, the Fate/Extella series, Fate/Samurai Remnant, and upcoming games such as Fate/stay night REMASTERED, and Fate/Extra Record

Obsessed with characters who portray themselves as worse than they are. Who are lying to everyone including themselves about it. People generally assume if someone's lying about themselves they're trying to look better but sometimes they're trying to look worse. They attribute agency to where they had none, add intend to accidents, try to convince everyone that this is something they did instead of something that happened to them.

some gay bantz from eddie izzard & alan carr

oh funk i wanna get my conk sunked 😩😩😩😩😩😩

Something something the visceral horror GLaDOS must feel after watching Chell for so long, only for her test subject to literally go off the rails and disappear inside of her.

It's such a fantastic reversal of power! In an instant, it changes the genre from Chell's psychological nightmare into Glados's body horror.

This whole time Glados has been creating a psychosexual connection to her lab rat, and now that rat worms its way through her body in a way she can't track.

There's almost an intimacy about the rooms Chell solves being specifically tailored for her to see. They're a dishonest facade, until Chell escapes from the predetermined path and sees what Glados truly is/looks like, and ventures all the way to the heart of her, stripping her bare.

"What if you were a massive mechanical complex and I skittered through your insides and climbed into the heart of your most private and vital organs? And we were both women?"

This too, is Yuri

Changbin couldn’t stop mixing them up 😭