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This was made with a python script I wrote that automatically changes the graphics data in an NES ROM to look like a lower resolution. If you'd like to try it out, you can find it here:

patreon.com/posts/22735126

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US tax product suggestion 

W-2s and 1099s are due out today! When you get them, try freetaxusa.com/ instead of turbotax. free version is full-featured, support & audit defense upsell is only $7, and the UI is way snappier.

It can't try to import your income forms, but turbotax is bad at that anyway and I already have to do a bunch of manual corrections because (by law) employee stock sales are misreported on the 1099-B in a way that makes you pay too much tax if you don't. Thanks Intuit.

(boosts appreciated)

How do you pronounce this word?
Minor differences can be ignored. Just choose the one closest to how you say it.

HEGEMONY

Videogame music "restoration". 

@noiob Another friend of mine sent a link to a couple of these "restored" tracks, and while it's kind of fascinating, I felt as described in that article.

Another novelty that could be mistaken for "restoration" is the NCSF format for DS music. Some music benefits greatly from having top-notch sample interpolation... and some falls flat because the samples that were relying on a lack of interpolation to keep them sharp (chip-style sounds especially) become a muddy mess. Fascinating, but definitely not how it was "meant to be heard".

I just discovered that someone I went to grade school with – and had kind of a crush on, because she was definitely smarter than me – has gone on to become an astronaut. Seriously.

Hunh.

Adobe Photoshop CC and niche configurations. 

At first, Photoshop worked fine.

After an upgrade, I started having the weirdest performance issues. It would seem to take forever to start up, but if I brought up the Task Manager, it would instantly jump forward to normal operation. The same would happen for dialogue boxes, including Preferences. Drawing a marquee would seem to stall, then eventually work... and then dragging anything around would happen at about one frame per second.

I won't go through the many, many steps I took to squash the problem, but here's what works:

- showing on notebook PC's built-in display
- showing on extended desktop on external monitor via HDMI
- showing on extended desktop on external monitor via USB→DisplayPort adapter

Here's what doesn't work after the update:

- showing on extended desktop on external monitor via USB→DisplayPort adapter while variable-rate refresh (GSync and the like) is enabled

At least I found an easy fix; I could have been banging my head on that one for a long time!

So hey I made functioning tiny guillotine necklaces.

Like the blade will actually drop if you hold it upright and let go.

Chop chop.

shop.sevenishmagpies.com/

Steam makes you feel like a loser for selling 1000 copies of your game but Itch makes you feel like a champion for selling 10, and that's reason enough to support it

Today's peeve: Cartoon horse tint. 

The careful observer will see that Rarity's coat color is not white, but in fact very pale grey.

The careful observer with good color vision will see that Princess Celestia's coat color is not white, bit in fack very pale pink.

Perhaps I consider this a little too important, because I grumble just a little every time I see either of them rendered with a pure white coat.

true enlightenment comes when you accept 'war is bad' AND 'wow cool robot' earnestly into your heart

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For whatever reason I can't run my ancient copy of Photoshop on my Win 10 box. So this is my first attempt to color a using Clip Studio Paint.

Table cat becomes a song 

imgur.com/gallery/QSe9Lt7

description:
A short piece of playful music is heard. The bottom of the video is the "table cat" meme – a still image of a cat with an expression of disgust at a plate of salad greens. Above that is a piano-roll display showing a timeline of the notes being played. The music has been cleverly composed such that the piano-roll resembles line art of the meme.

So I have a TikTok account now and I sometimes make things like this completely accurate portrayal of meetings when you're self employed. tiktok.com/@ohhadiwings/video/

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