I recently purchased Affinity photo, which did most of what I used to use Adobe for. No subscription, one time purchase, and I’ll likely never need to worry about that again.

I tried gimp a few times and found it frustrating to use.

While I was going through my posts on Twitter and deleting them all, I noticed that nearly all of the were gripes or complaints about something during my day. That’s not to say I had a lot of bad days but I’d be more likely to want to vent them than just vibing through the good days in social media silence. Each person is very different, but unless I was in a space where socializing was a daily thing, my tendency was to be more negative than positive Most of the time.

I appreciate you commenting to me with full support and care for the topic at hand. It is quite educational for anyone who happens across it and doesn’t already understand how simple it is for plastics to leech their way into basically anything, and I suspect the reason most places stopped using Styrofoam containers quite awhile ago (plus how absolutely terrible it is for the environment). I’m hopeful for a plastic free future, there are some really good alternatives coming down the pipeline for now and it will be interesting to see which of the various technologies becomes mainstream. I’m rooting for seaweed personally. I also really like the work that has been done with various fungi for form fitting packing supplies.

I know it’s not really the topic you considered… But yes, I do believe every drug should be legalized. If you consider the benefits alone it should be obvious that it is the correct choice.

Drugs made by lisenced people/locations that use safe ingredients and are open to litigation if they end up making a bad batch.

The revenue collected isn’t going to some drug lord overseas, it’s going into the country which you live instead.

Dispensaries can be used secondary as a councelling/rehabilitation center.

The long and the short if it is that if people want them, they will get them. I live in a place that hasn’t legalized weed yet… But if you are around certain neighborhoods at around 9am, it starts to smell very obvious that legality doesn’t matter. While currently that’s not surprising as many states near mine have legalized, we’ll before that happened things were exactly the same.

I don’t want people to be addicted to drugs, but I don’t see why we as a society shouldn’t benefit at all from someone who is.

For me it’s not about TikTok. It’s about using whatever flimsy, poorly worded law they will make to ban a platform I don’t use to open the door for further bans and possible censorship in the future. A platform should be allowed to function if it can. If it’s horribly made, or supremely unprofitable it’ll find its own way out. I don’t use it, I don’t plan on ever using it, and honestly it doesn’t affect my daily life outside of my mother in law thinking that some of the pallet crafts on there are worthwhile and me having to explain that they’ll look good for a moment and then fall apart rather quickly.

Let me go find the youtube video this is likely referencing.

I think it’s probably referring to this video.

There’s also the various devs who are using it to shortcut making their own models, making a growing catalog of increasingly homogenous looking games.

And I assume next you’ll tell me that pouring boiling water into plastic bottles or maybe even Styrofoam cups is another way people introduce microplastics into their systems unwittingly. That’s just too bizarre.

I generally call myself a patient gamer for most titles… but the monster hunter series is not one of them. Those games release in good shape, fully formed titles that don’t really need to wait on… I guess generally I’m patient when I feel the product doesn’t match the price, but in this case, I feel it absolutely does. If there is DLC, it’s either really silly cosmetic things, or a full fledged expansion on the content by at least 2x.

What do you mean plastic mesh heated to near boiling temperatures causes a release of microscopic plastic particles? That just doesn’t make any sense at all!

I feel like this whole anime is going to be pure moments of the audience saying ‘JUST KISS’ repeatedly. They’re so compatible but a singular misunderstanding between them is the only thing causing all of the friction.

I also find it odd that a couple who was forced apart by arranged marriages decide that they need to celebrate finally getting together by arranging a marriage.

It was fun for a bit over half a season… And then it just stalled forever. From what I hear the Manga hasn’t progressed story wise. Might as well just watch the truck crash into the bollard gif. Show has the same feels at that point.

Though if you’re into awkward but kind of cute scenes on repeat forever I guess that works.

It reminds me of the ultimate game of monopoly I played as a kid (on a handheld). I had complete control over the board. I had bankrupted two of the AI’s, but in order to keep line go up, I’d have to keep the last one around. Every time it’d get low on funds I’d offer to significantly overpay for one of its’ few properties, and then sell it back for a dollar.

I got to around 30k before the game either just quit, or the battery died.

Oh man, those researchers sure will be upset when they find out how much time I ‘waste’ a week arriving to work early and then just languishing while waiting for work to start. It’s around 250 hours a year. (and even better, I’m there an hour early specifically to avoid traffic)

As much as I love the original, I must also say for a fist fight I’d rather have a slightly more system of a down feel.

Thankfully there’s always Andre to fill in the gaps.

8bitdo in general is a good stuff. I’m about to order a few spare controllers from them for multi-player stuff.

The only federal death rowers are those three. States do their own thing.

How loose we talking? Untied shoe loose? Pants a few sizes too big loose? A triple xl on a 20kg kid loose?

depends heavily on the recipe. Due to my “enthusiasm” for pasta in general I prefer to make a much smaller portion, which is very easy to do with a lasagna in a mug, the only real downside is that the noodles need to be pliable first.

From this new season, pick a random anime that has released an episode. It’s 50/50 on whether or not you got isekai’d.

I mostly read news articles in varying fields. Quantum physics is really doing some things that I can barely grasp anymore.