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Victor V. Gurbo is working on putting together an RPG Maker MV game (see Victor’s earlier test project) that I helped write the script for.  He sent me his most recently updated version for testing.  I had previously tested Windows builds through WINE, but on this occasion I asked for a Linux build.  When I first tried to execute the game (an nw.js file) from the terminal, I ran into a segmentation fault related to missing default fonts. I perused several web pages for the issue and discovered that it […]

I have written several articles about hair color in anime and Japanese lite novels and games. My first two articles in the series dealt with brown hair in the Oregairu series, which includes a novel series (My Youth Romantic Comedy Is Wrong, as I Expected) and a three-season anime series based on the novels (My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU).   The first article dealt with one of the series characters, Iroha Isshiki, a Japanese schoolgirl who was portrayed as having brown hair in both the novels and the anime series.  One […]

I worked long and hard on New Years Eve and New Years Day to write a stat-filled dialogue about our 51 most-visited articles of 2022. While I hope that you give our fictional dialogue duo, Justin and Justina, a good amount of your time (it is long), it occurred to me that I did not publish a clean version of our 51 most-read articles list due to the fact that I was (A) tired and (B) pressed for time.  Thus, here you will find our 51 most-visited articles of 2022, […]

On October 10, 2020, I published an article about my struggle to set up a soundbar that had come into my possession. After trying and failing to get HDMI ARC to work consistently, I settled for connecting the sound bar to my TV with an optical audio cable.  The other day, the door on the soundbar’s optical audio port broke and became lodged inside, thus rendering it rather useless to me since, as I noted, I cannot get HDMI ARC to work for it.  I ordered a new soundbar that […]

Some of my attempts at enhancing The New Leaf Journal went a bit sideways yesterday. But all is well that ends well, and I am back to enhancing our humble site. Today’s addition is Mr. David Shanske’s Syndication Links plugin. Now, when I cross-post my content, I can add a syndication link. This is especially useful for photo posts since I often post better versions of the image to Pixelfed. Scroll to the bottom of my recent Christmas Tree report to see an example of the Syndication Links in action. […]

The New Leaf Journal had an interesting day yesterday as I tried to add several new custom post types and features — only to briefly break the site (I think one of the plugins I wrote was not quite right), causing our caching solution (caching…) to serve a compressed zip file of our site instead of the actual site.  Fortunately, with the help of the indispensable UpdraftPlus, I was able to set things in order — albeit I had to replace the images of yesterday’s article three times (yesterday’s article […]