the marimba ate my gender :(

Thank you so much Reef, these are fantastic!! Barry having insomnia and staying up on their phone while Gadget is out cold wrapped around them feels really accurate LOL.

NOT YOUR FAULT BUT MINE

And it was

YOUR HEART ON THE LINE

I really

Request: Sonic and Shadow wearing cute outfits!

I love making cute clothes and outfits so I had do much fun with this piece!

For everything we do here, please be sure to be careful with what you edit, and restart your computer to lock things in. If you don't have access to the Group editor, (likely to happen if you're on base windows) you can do this as well by opening your Registry Editor app, then inputting this after your 'computer' or whatever the initial segment is. (Mine is computer. If I just try and paste the below string it gets SO mad at me)

\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsCopilot

Navigating to your "turnoffwindowscopilot", hit modify, and set the value data to 1.

If done correctly, it'll look like this.

While we're at it, you can also get rid of the integrated search, (or that thing where it searches the web when you search anything, whether or not you want it to) and such through regedit as well.

Integrated search will have you going to

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer

Navigate to your "DisableSearchBoxSuggestions" bit, if you don't see it, you can make it by right clicking and creating a new registry D-Word key of that exact name. Edit the key, set it to 1. It'll look like this if you do it right!

To get rid of Windows Spotlight, (The thing where it pulls up ten billion pages on windows start page, shoving ads in your face and cluttering everything) we go to

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\DesktopSpotlight\Settings

And set "Enabled State" To 0. If you do it right, it'll look like this!

Disabling edge on startup will also help a fair deal with processing speed and the like. This you can do in all sorts of ways, the easiest being turning it off entirely on startup through settings in the like.

If you want to kill it *entirely*, though? :)

In regedit, run along to Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft

Navigate to your MicrosoftEdge key subcategory. If you don't see it, you can make one! Note, this is a KEY, not a d-word. *inside* that subcategory, we want to either make or find the D-Word key of PreventLaunchEdge and set that to 1 in the same way as all the others. It'll look like this.

Aaaand while we're here, I'd HIGHLY recommend shanking Killer Networking Services. It's just bloatware. (Ostensibly it's supposed to monitor your network bandwidth and even things out, but that really means it's constantly monitoring and pinging things, which eats up the bandwidth you DO get, and also chunks your computer's processing power.) Getting rid of it entirely is borderline impossible, since it's set to redownload on regular updates and intel is very pushy with its updates.

This you can do by opening your Services.msc, which basically shows you all the background stuff that Windows does. Find Anything with Killer in the name, right click it, go to properties, and disable startup. It should look like this, if done successfully. It will probably reenable itself in time/in later updates for windows, but it's a quick fix. I'd also check your TaskScheduler app to make sure that nothing's scheduled to open up there, either.

If you CAN completely kill Killer services through uninstalling and the like, I would warn that at very least for my computer, the only ethernet/lan support applications that are available ARE Killer's. When you download updates, you really do have to do it manually and ONLY download the ethernet services, or just be cool with not having Lan functionality.

One last thing, not a shit application but is a shit service. If your computer's constantly overheating or just warm, you likely have Turboboost enabled. (Default setting that you can't change) If you want to be able to turn it off and drop your temps by like 40 degrees, in Regedit go to

Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\PowerSettings\54533251-82be-4824-96c1-47b60b740d00\be337238-0d82-4146-a960-4f3749d470c7

(Note- This isn't the string copy paste from the reddit thread, this is mine that does the same thing. If my string doesn't work for you, check the reddit thread string. If that doesn't work either, you can follow the path and find it pretty easily. Probably has like, one letter of difference somewhere. The bits all start the same, though, so it's easy to find.)

and go to "attributes". Set the value from 1 to 2, and now in your advanced Power Plan settings in control panel, you'll be able to *see* turbo boost and turn it off.

It'll look like this, and in power options, a successful disabling of boost should look like this.

Turning off quick startup's also a good call, since that basically stops your restarts from actually shutting things down properly.

🌈 HAPPY PRIDE!!!! 🌈

First designs of a Sonic dance AU I’ve been working on, where all characters fight using dance moves! Tails and Sonic breakdance :)

Big thank you to @itz-pandora for designing Sonic’s fit!! (I hope you don’t mind me mentioning your blog-)

Synopsis of the AU under the cut! Heavy inspiration from the Love Nikki games 🌟

"Mission Street, a popular destination for business and shopping, overlooks the full moon in the starry sky.

From this peaceful city lit by warm lights, a single shadow stood out, as if it had been cast out.

It was so small that no one paid it any attention… but the “moon” overlooking the bustle of this city seemed to watch over that shadow forever and ever."

Current silly project to waste my nonexistent free time on!

Ever since I was a little kid, I've been obsessed with the "World of Color" nighttime show at Disney's California Adventure theme park. The show uses colorful water jets, projections on mist screens, lasers, fog, fire, and all sorts of other effects synchronized to music, which to me is like, the coolest thing ever. I always thought about how awesome it would be to be able to make my own simulated World of Color show using whatever music I wanted.

Well, yesterday I came across a project someone made on GitHub where he partially recreated the water cannon grid for World of Color in Unity and made it programmable through a JSON API. Although it unfortunately isn't finished (it only implements the basic vertical cannons on the grid, and is missing all the other features like the rotating cannons, mist screens, and special effects) and it hasn't been updated in 7 years, it is INSANELY COOL to me that someone took the time to make this and share it!! I immediately downloaded it and figured out how to set up Unity to get it working. After some trial and error figuring out how the JSON interface works, I was able to choreograph a 15-second clip of the song "Endless Possibility" from Sonic Unleashed! (It's a little rough around the edges and if I come back to it later I'll probably make the final bit less frantic lol)

I haven’t touched this in a bit, but hopefully I’ll come back to it at some point in the future. Lately I’ve been very busy because I was invited to be a guest performer in my former band director’s final concert before he retires. It was a lot of work but the concert two days ago went really well and I’m so grateful that I got to participate in it!

FUCK romantic rarepairs, I be making platonic Rarepairs up in here, dare I say FOUND FAMILY rarepairs