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What I'm working on for the various consoles I can program for.

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The death of PayPal

I want to know why more and more online stores are not taking PayPal. What is wrong with PayPal? Is there something wrong with it? It's like my money is useless to them. It's like they don't want it. That's what I feel when I go to an online store and discovering they don't take PayPal. I don't have a credit card so I can't do Google Pay. What's more is I don't want a credit card.
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Time out on work (part 2)

I decided that since the artwork in my comic book isn't good, I had better make it in color. So that's what I did. I am making it full color. Not very much color, but color nonetheless. It took me two hours and much fighting with Photoshop to color the 7 pages I had done so far. My original plan for black and white was so I could print it without using much color, but then I thought "Why not just use the drawings I have as pages for my physical copy?" So that's what I am doing. It is hot in
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R.I.P. TV

For as long as I can remember, I've always had my trusty CRT TV with me. The sticker on it says it was made in May, 1993. I was 10 years old then. As the years grew, the TV was always there with me. In my room, all three rooms (I've moved twice since I got it). There is a huge dent in the down button on the thing. I had it right next to my bed one time for ten years and I lost the remote for it, so I started using that. In 2008, I moved where I am now and it got delegated to my retro gaming
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Sad news

Our dog is dead. We had her put to sleep. The power company may shut off our power for a few days because they have decided we live in a place that's a high risk of wildfires. Seems really dumb since I'm in a CITY and not out in some country wilderness. So I'm going to stop working on Frank the Fruit Fly or anything else for a couple of days in case they actually do shut off my power. Woke up to find the Queen died. I can't watch our US news networks any more since they can't seem to s
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Ants are stupid.

There are ants everywhere. I am drowning in an ocean of ants. If I went outside there would be less ants. I spray and spray that damn stinky Raid but they don't care. I am going to try white vinegar next since the ants won't die. Raid is false advertising. It said it would keep ants away after I spray it. WRONG. They keep coming in, even after I must have used a quarter of a can's worth of that dumb stuff that won't work. Now there are ants in my room. I make it a point NEVER to eat in my r
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I want to sit without pain

I have a doctor's appointment in 10 days for something else. But now I have something to tell him. There's a huge bumpy rash on my butt. I thought it was getting better, but it got worse again. Every time I sit down, it hurts. I've been putting all sorts of cream on it: Neosporin, petroleum jelly, nothing seems to make it go away. So I guess I'll have to tell him about it and see what he can do about it. Which I'm not exactly happy about because I hate doctors. They should only be visited when p
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Blargh (part 2)

It's been three days now where the temperature has been below freezing. I don't think once it got above 30 all weekend. And with .1"-.25" freezing rain coming this afternoon, the power may go out. So if I go missing for a week or so, that's where I am. Tomorrow it's supposed to finally get above freezing. So if the electricity goes out, we'll have no power and it'll be 50 degrees as opposed to 20 degrees. I understand that most of the country right now is below freezing, but it's really rar
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Time out on work.

I am extremely bored right now. So I've decided to tell you about my SpongeBob comic book I'm making. It will be my (the?) first e-comic book. Right now I'm up to page 10. I hope to have a 36-page regular sized comic book done quarterly. To help ease me in my quest to do this, I am making each issue black and white. There is a bit of color in the cover. This was thought up of in my sleep. I think up of stuff to do in my sleep often. The title was thought of first. Then the story came after I tho
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I'm back.

The last time I checked to get on videogamesage.com (without the s) a few months ago, it gave me some warning, so I went back to what I was doing. Today I checked my e-mails and I got a PM from someone here. So I decided to see if I could go to videogamesage.com again and I got the welcome screen. So apparently everything is back to where it was before? Nothing much has happened in the last few months. I started work on a port of my GoSub, this time on the Game Boy. I also picked up and fig
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update on the sad news.

Thanks for the support. I didn't think I'd cry as I watched my dog die, but as a matter of fact, I shed some tears. As it turns out, I was not in the affected area of power shutoff. I blame the local news media. They kept showing this map of the whole area and said "These are the places where the power will be shut off." Of course, none of the places were shaded yet because it was too early. And the fears really got cemented when the TV did its Emergency Alert System thing and told us our p
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Playing around with 32x programming

I downloaded something that will help me. I downloaded SecondBasic. Apparently it's a language that lets people make Genesis games. But it also allows people to make 32x games as well. I was impressed with that Santa Claus demo for the 32x someone was making, but unfortunately the programmer and that game dropped off the face of the earth. Impressed so much I wanted to make a 32x game. So I set the controls to compile it as a 32x game and began work. I needed an emulator. So I decided on on
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Playing around with Genesis programming

So someone told me that SecondBasic has very limited capabilities for the 32x. So I've decided to get rid of the 32x aspect of the game and instead make it for the Genesis (or Mega Drive). I added a bunch of stuff since the last time I worked on this. I woke up a couple of hours ago and put a lot more stuff in the game. It took a while to get how to put tiles on the screen. You can now change the elephant's direction by pressing left or right. But one thing is still missing: sound. Nobody has ex
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Beer-loving rabbits

Here is one. As a webcomic cartoonist of a really unsuccessful webcomic page, I really don't care if I have proper grammar or not. But I just got curious. I had made a riddle, and I decided to put it in comic strip form. But I was having trouble with the phrasing in the first panel. I eventually got this. I was wondering if it was correct or not. I needed to make sure the reader knew it was a rabbit, not some sort of really deranged cat with long ears or something. Since I can't draw a
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Stupidman issue 2

One of the things I liked to do from a very early age was draw. No matter how crappy my drawings were, it was always fun to think of characters and direct their actions like an interactive comic book. I have over 550 issues of a comic book I started when I was ten called "Bill and George." With the advent of computers brought a semi-new way of drawing for me. I could get pictures off the internet, scan my comics, and then put those pictures in my comic. Even though I could have done so for years
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