Expense report: GPU acquired, God defeated

I've joked about how badly my AMD Brick™ sucked a few times but it wasn't much of a laughing matter to me- it was previously a mining GPU that was artifacting more and more and had a blower fan that was clicking loudly as if it were going to shatter at any moment.  If that thing had died I would have been unable to do pretty much any of the things I need to do for my channel, and the pandemic had made it nearly impossible to find a replacement. 

After about 9 months of trying I've finally been able to get a new one, so thank you for the support that enabled me to keep the funds on-hand and ready this whole time.  I have found an appropriate home for the AMD Brick™ and it will be well cared for. 

I'm putting together the Skyward Sword HD review right now, which (probably unsurprisingly) is going to skew a little more towards how the game compares to the original in Dolphin rather than on the Wii- this should definitely be up before the end of the month.

The texture project revisions are basically done now but a GlideN64 update has broken a huge number of them; the problem seems to be that the game itself has bad mappings and GlideN64 was "fixing" them but in an inaccurate way.  Accuracy improvements to the plugin now mean that the mappings are bad again (new and accurate version on the left, which is now badly blurred). 

For the time being the pack will have to use an older GlideN64 build to avoid these issues and the auto-installer has already been configured to only download this version of the plugin.  For the final release I'll have to manually offset the textures one by one until they align again.

I'm planning for a definitely-solid-no-more-delays release for the pack in August and after the SSHD video is up I'll post another update showing examples of the texture work that's been getting done lately.  Thanks again for your support