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But, if you could make the creation process easier, wouldn’t you? That’s the heart of the argument when artists clash over what creative program is superior. Pixel artists, we’re here to explain why Aseprite takes the cake, and why you need not consider other alternatives. What Is Aseprite? Aseprite is an animated sprite editor and pixel art tool for Windows, Mac, and Linux that was developed by Igara Studio—namely David Capello, Gaspar Capello, and Martin Capello (according to the “read me” file on Aseprite’s GitHub)....

Last week’s trip–which also included a stop at the Northern Ireland Assembly in Belfast, tea with the queen at Buckingham Palace and a shopping spree along London’s Portobello Road–was more symbolic than substantive. Though Clinton continued nudging the parties along the route to peace, there was little solid progress. The new Assembly still faces collapse if three issues aren’t resolved: the nature and extent of reforms to the province’s police force, the pace of British military de-escalation along the Irish border and the question of how the IRA should dispose of its weapons....

Until Nov. 7, the streets of Chicago will be filled with Beatrice Sumlins in a show of organizational force unseen in presidential elections since the first Mayor Richard Daley helped clinch John Kennedy’s victory in the state in the desperately close 1960 campaign. This time the race is almost as tight, and Illinois may be just as critical to the Democrats: by some polls, Gore’s lead statewide is down to 2 percentage points....

Despite the massive success of recent Dragon Ball Z-related fighting games, the franchise is still at risk of oversaturating the market with the same product year after year. In order to break up the monotony, future developers could look to the franchise’s roots and the early adventures of Goku as a source of inspiration. RELATED: Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 Reveals First Look at Orange Piccolo Young Goku Is Weak Enough To Work In An Open-World Title It’s hard to imagine the later seasons of Dragon Ball Z and Dragon Ball Super as a believable open-world action-adventure....

Person 1: “Why are you flood proofing the basement? It’s never flooded before. ”Person 2: “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure!” Person 1: “You better get a case for that new phone. The screen cracks easily. ”Person 2: “You’re right. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, I guess. ” Explain why you’re taking precautions against something. Tell someone to put on protection like bug spray or sunblock....

The Trump International Hotel, located just a short distance from the White House, in Washington, D.C., was this year converted into a Waldorf Astoria after the Trump Organization agreed to sell the lease on the Old Post Office building to CGI Merchant Group for a reported $375 million. Trump opened the hotel in 2016 just a few weeks before he was elected president. During his time in the White House, the hotel was a focal point for Trump’s political world, used by diplomats, lobbyists, embassy staff and meetings for the former president and his family....

Beijing 2008 Gold medalist, Abhinav Bindra, came excruciatingly close to another medal finish, losing out on a shootoff to finish 4th in his pet 10m Air Rifle event. Gymnast Dipa Karmakar has created history by qualifying for the vault finals, a first for any Indian gymnast while rower Dattu Bhokanal qualified for the quarter-finals in his event. Amidst such inspirational performances, the Indian boxing contingent will start their engagements tomorrow with middleweight Vikas Krishan the first to step into the ring....

Charlie Company “Quick Reaction Force” (QRF) sets out to rescure the embattled Rangers, stopping at the airport to assemble a ground convoy. En route, QRF column in ambushed at the K-4 Circle. The lightly armed soldiers retreat to the airport under heavy grenade fire. U.S. commanders persuade gun-shy Pakistani and Malay officers, who have tanks and armored vehicles, to organize a rescue mission. After 4 1/2 hours of deliberations, 400 troops depart from New Port....

The campaign began before Weinberger was charged with a crime. The major players were Washington attorney Robert Bennett and William Clark, former Reagan national-security adviser and interior secretary. A fellow Californian and longtime friend of Weinberger’s, Clark was the campaign’s political strategist. Bennett’s legal team first tried to head off indictment last spring by contending that Weinberger, a behind-the-scenes opponent of the arms-for-hostages swap, was actually an American hero. At 75, in failing health and with an ailing wife, he made a poor prosecutorial target, Bennett argued....

The beginning of Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey is pretty compelling, if not a little clunky in terms of tutorials. The game intentionally offers very minimal tutorial text or hints and really wants players to figure this all out for themselves and restart their lineage multiple times as they get better and better at the gameplay loop. In the first moments players take control of a young ape who just watched its caregiver (maybe parent, we don’t really know) get viciously torn apart by a predator....

However, players hunting down their “sus” friends and completing tasks will be doing so while dressed as Ratchet from Insomniac’s Ratchet and Clank franchise. An adorable Clank pet will be seen alongside the Lombax ears and orange suit of the PlayStation mascot, adding to the quality of this exclusive skin. While this is a great touch by InnerSloth, it would be great to see this skin only being the first of many, with several more PlayStation crossovers taking place as well....

Accessibility for disabled gamers is an issue that game developers, publishers, and hardware manufacturers have become more focused on in recent years, opening up the pastime for many who were unable to play before or making it a more enjoyable experience for those who could only play with concessions. Despite the progress in making gaming more accessible to everybody, however, potential problems are not always obvious due to the wide range and severity of disabilities....

No one deserves this particular kind of attention for the content they create on Twitch or elsewhere. One’s opinions on how another makes their ends meet either. Still, for everything Amouranth has endured, she managed to be one of the best Twitch stars of 2021. The total view count of Amoranth’s streams equaled over 38 million hours last year, and yet, she still recently opened up about the ‘unwarranted danger’ of her career....

The vote was nearly entirely along party lines: Senator Susan Collins of Maine was the only Republican to dissent, voting with all 47 members of the Democratic Caucus against the conservative Trump nominee over concerns of the proximity to the election. The final vote was 52-48. “Because this vote is occurring prior to the election, I will vote against the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett,” Collins said in a statement over the weekend....

In a lawsuit filed against investment firm Franklin Templeton on Tuesday in a Manhattan federal court, Cooper alleged that company branded her as “racist” without performing an investigation into the incident. The lawsuit states that media publicity caused the Central Park dispute to become “international news as a racial flashpoint” in which she claimed she was wrongly portrayed as a privileged white woman. Cooper alleges that Franklin Templeton agreed with that narrative without recognizing that she called the police because she was “palpably distraught and fearful of her safety,” Bloomberg reported....

Authorities immediately classified the shooting as a hate crime, adding to the shock in historically tolerant Seattle, where relations between Jews and Muslims have long been “cordial,” says Rob Jacobs of the Anti-Defamation League. Investigators believe Haq, a Washington resident of Pakistani heritage, acted alone. Press reports said that he suffered from bipolar disorder and had recently been arrested for indecent exposure. Last Thursday the FBI warned Jewish organizations to be on high alert, after Hizbullah leaders in Lebanon said the struggle should be carried to America....

Spanish police ran the print through their database of criminal suspects, but came up empty. So they turned to other countries, including the United States, for help. When the FBI ran the print through its archive, the computer unexpectedly logged a hit: the mystery print, U.S. authorities say, belonged to Brandon Mayfield, a small-time lawyer who lived in Portland, Ore. Mayfield had been fingerprinted years earlier, when he served in the U....

The arrest of the lawyer was described by federal law-enforcement authorities as a major investigative breakthrough that for the first time suggests links between an individual inside the United States and the Madrid bombing. The man was identified as Brandon Mayfield, a convert to Islam who is tangentially linked to one of the chief defendants in the so-called “Portland Seven” case–a suspected terror cell in Oregon whose six surviving members pled guilty last year of plotting to fight for the Taliban against U....

Eight minutes of magic, and the world seems a much brighter place, doesn’t it, boss? Nobody even seems to remember the obituaries that had started rolling in the minute the full-time whistle reverberated at the Stade Louis II, not too long ago. But you will know, so much better than I do, that we’ve been exactly here before, a million times over. That the rollercoaster ride we go through every season somehow lands up exactly where it always does – in the comfort of another Champions League appearance....

Commonly dubbed EQ, you can expect to spend a lot of time using EQ on the various sounds you’re working with when mixing a track. Even if you outsource your mixing/mastering, having a fundamental and basic knowledge of EQ’s importance as well as the software used to add it can only further your music production abilities. FL Studio has four stock EQ plugins, which you’ll want to have an understanding of when using this DAW....