Cvolton

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Decided to write up a blog post about the ancient Windows Movie Maker bug where it completely messed up colors of some images. It's not exactly a scientific write up but it doesn't seem that anyone ever tried to dive deep into this, so hopefully it can be a useful starting point

Screenshot of a blog post titled: Chasing The Ancient Windows Movie Maker Hue Shift

Leading paragraph: If you’ve ever been on old YouTube, you’ve probably noticed that people didn’t exactly take care of their videos back in the day. Washed out colors, wrong aspect ratios, extreme compression with enormous watermarks – all of that was a very common sight. But there is one artifact of the past, that has always piqued my interest. That is: The Windows Movie Maker Hue Shift.

Debugging internet connectivity in GD mods is fun because what do you mean the same bug can be triggered by - Living in Spain - Using macOS - Being on a school WiFi

The next version of Misc Bugfixes will include a fix for this bug My question is - should it be enabled by default? Or should I make the user go to the mod settings to enable it...

RobTop is the only game developer who can kill the Magic tab by adding a blank level there... (it's probs trying to load a deleted level, lists have been affected by the same bug ever since they were added)

Geometry Dash level search results showing 0 levels foundThe raw intercepted request showing that instead of the data for one of the levels the server just sends nothing

How's so-obscure-it-might-as-well-be-lost media for ya? Growing up, I had this DVD of a show called Floc which was translated to Estonian (Pipp?), Latvian (Ūdens stāsts), Lithuanian (Sniegius), and Russian (Флок). (Estonian title might be wrong, that's just what's sung in the intro in place of Floc)

The front cover of the Latvian DVD release of Floc, featuring Floc, a grain of pollen, a spec of dust, a grain of sand, and a flea.  The title says Ūdens stāsts (Latvian for Water Story), as well as Floc, and Флок in Cyrillic, where the letter O is stylised with Floc itself.  The subtitle says Mazās pilītes lielais piedzīvojums (Latvian for The Great Adventure of the Little Droplet)The label of the Floc disc, featuring Floc stylising the letter O with itself on the title with a night time scenery background with building rooftops.  The disc is marked as being Regions 2 and 5, having Dolby Digital audio, and being PAL.

breaking news: RobTop just capped level search at 501 pages - loading any page over this number just loads page 501 over and over (unless you filter for rated levels only)

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CORRECTION: This button is meant to play an ad, it just doesn't work anymore Unlike the current GD spinoffs, here it seems that you don't get any rewards for doing this - you only give RobTop money This is what you were actually meant to see

A post made by Cvolton on Feb 7, 2023 saying:

"In GD Lite 1.12, an update that was only out for 14 days, there was a pink more games button when you beat a level.

It didn't do anything when you clicked on it"

Underneath it is an image showing the Level Complete screen from Geometry Dash with a pink More Games button between Retry and BackA screenshot of the "More Apps" section in the Chartboost ad SDK showing "Game of War" and "Clash of Clans" available for download (with each app showing twice as this screenshot actually comes from a bug report)

can someone help me out? I recall reading that Etzer got banned from Newgrounds and had to ask to be unbanned before he could upload his own songs - while this doesn't seem to be true, it's likely that I'm just confusing him with another GD creator/artist. Anyone know who?

A screenshot of Etzer's Newgrounds profile

Dear Friends of Geometry Dash, I would like to apologize for spreading misinformation. In my last video I said that "BP Night" was the first level to get unrated because of a secret way. This is false - it was actually "Fire Countless" by Mask (formerly 6*). BP Night only lost its rating later.

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