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Today is January 22nd, 2023
Happy Pixel Day tomorrow! My pixel art tutorial was actually going to include more specific techniques, such as one for a "Gameboy Camera" style aesthetic which would have used filters from the G'MIC-Qt plugin to more accurately pinpoint colours, and I didn't take out the link to the G'MIC website from the bottom page by the time I published the tutorial! Its a great plugin, of course, and I do recommend using it for several of its other features, but it doesn't have anything to do with the tutorial as-is since I only described making the image indexed and cleaning it up.
In the end the tutorial was getting too long and I needed to wrap it up.
As for miscellaneous news, I heard something interesting on NPR (public radio here) recently; scientists didn't know how swing music worked until recently, when a physicist in Germany... uh, did some stuff? I didn't understand it properly, but I think its really neat how something as normal as music can elude proper scientific understanding for decades. I'll just provide a link to the transcript since I'm not adequately equipped to explain musical stuff.
The newest page of Amazing Alligator is the saddest one I have planned for a while, I promise! I know a lot of people might be upset at me putting Theodore through something so depressing, but I want to show how he comes to terms with tragedy and grows stronger as a result.
The Newgrounds playlist for Amazing Alligator reached 100 pieces, which means I can't add any more of the pages I write to it. I'll either have to make a proper table of contents or a second playlist for the next 100 pages. Eventually it would be good for AA to become a proper series (https://www.newgrounds.com/collection/series) but I don't think its well-known enough for that to happen yet. So, I'll just continue to do my best work until it does!
I can't thank you all enough for reading this, its because of you that I'm motovated to do what I do!
e.e. McCutcheon
Today's card is Swords VI