Which program do you use for pixels?

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Yeah, I'm aware that I've made like three threads asking questions within the past two days. However, I decided not to make this a poll for obvious reasons. ^^; Plus, I honestly am curious; plus, lately I've been pulling discussion ideas out of the blue as of late...eh, yeah. Heh.

(I honestly wasn't sure if this was the correct forum; I was hoping for this thread to stay relatively semi-serious with responses, but am unsure if it fits the criteria of the "real life" board. So yeah, I put it in the GD forum. ^^; )

Anyway, without further ado, what program do you generally use for pixel art / why? At one point in the past did you use a different one?

I used to use MS Paint--for the longest time, actually--but after trying out Graphics Gale again and realizing how absolutely amazing it is, I've been using it nonstop. Although the layer transparency when you make a brand new layer really tends to fuck up for some reason, it's like a general graphic art program like Paint.NET and a precision program like MS Paint had some kind of lovechild.
Oh, wait. It must have been a threesome because if you get the full version of GG you can animate stuff. God I love Graphics Gale~

I think that the main turn-off for me on MS Paint was the update with the Windows 7. The thing that annoys me the most about Win7 Paint is this really annoying quirk: when you draw something with the line tool or pencil (I think it was the pencil...?), if you try to use the eraser trick to replace a color en masse, any of that color (that you're trying to replace) that was drawn in with the pencil/line tool won't budge. So you have to copy and repaste the image in order for it to work.

I'm aware that this question has been brought up by a few threads in the past, but none of them that I've seen are actually recent.

I guess I didn't really mean for this post to be so long-winded though. Eh.