andrew_bidlaw
@andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on How come there aren't any moral geniuses? 2 days ago:
Chances are they are logical geniuses claiming they’ve solved morals or social interactions.
- Comment on Big cool weirdo Yoko Taro may or may not be working on something that may or may not be Nier 2 days ago:
Something in the making… Non-informative but intriguing.
- Comment on This was me from 2009 5 days ago:
Oh, I know him. He’s from the Flattrapped webcomic!
- Comment on With a Nintendo Switch 2 on the way, I hope Valve make a Steam Deck 2 1 week ago:
Underspecced, but having Mario&Co. I wonder if they’d happen to go the Sega’s way, intentionally or not, becoming games and not hardware producer, letting their main franchizes flourish or fall on other’s platforms.
- Comment on Anon shares their highschool mascot 1 week ago:
And their fans are bull-stans then?
- Comment on Anon shows off Linux in class 1 week ago:
Thanks.
The thing with Photoshop is that it’s such a large software that nobody uses all of it, but every part is used by somebody.
Same with other their products. For me it’s a permanent love-hate perception of Adobe for they are making these cool tools but are very, very greedy. Yet, I still can’t really get into other tools that don’t copy them.
- Comment on Hot girl summer 2 weeks ago:
!(the Core Memory moment from Pixar’s Inside Out, 2015) [i.imgur.com/nz3J37E.jpg]
- Comment on Anon shows off Linux in class 2 weeks ago:
I loved how non-destructive placement of existing graphics works but I can’t remember when I used the shape tool in PS without going straight to AI for it’s shape-building anchor-induced shenanigans. Can you tell what use besides non-pixelated masks you’ve used in your workflow? It’s the only application I can think of, but that’s maybe because my field of use is too narrow.
- Comment on Anon shows off Linux in class 2 weeks ago:
I wasn’t writing this comment seriosly, but there’s also a shape tool, but it’s rather weird and sits at the bottom of the toolbar so I don’t feel like many professional users really care about it.
- Comment on Anon shows off Linux in class 2 weeks ago:
Circular selection, fill?
Isn’t that how you do that in Photoshop?
For a certified maniac there’s also one bump of a brush with 100% hardness and using gradient tool, radial, with no actual gradations.
And if you are feeling like killing a school bus of puppies, you can put a coin or a mug to the screen with one hand while drawing around it with the other, using a live mouse, biting you, as you move it and hallucinate the formation of the ideal circular form.
- Comment on Why do whistleblowers always do this? 2 weeks ago:
We can call them just BONK for they aren’t as good at building planes anymore as they are at hunting whistleblowers. This case’s probably not on them since it’s too unpredictable, but the last one was very suspicious.
- Comment on Anon revisits early youtube 2 weeks ago:
I was to comment that this realization came to me when I’ve found an antique but active forum about gore, that I can’t access it anymore, and I’m stuck thinking if it’s for the better.
- Comment on The prophecy has been fulfilled 2 weeks ago:
Do nut.
- Comment on Jeff Bridges Returns For "TRON: Ares" - Dark Horizons 2 weeks ago:
Hands down, he’s a last person I though of starting a cult, but here we are. I take my words back.
- Comment on Jeff Bridges Returns For "TRON: Ares" - Dark Horizons 2 weeks ago:
Did he hurt someone? Or do you mean the ‘bad shit’ is starring as a mediocre Joker and then Morbius? I briefly browsed through his biography on wikipedia and it seems I missed something important if you are so against him. For me, it seems like he is framed to be a main star for B-rated movies these companies didn’t care about anyway. I don’t think he deserves any sort of a strong opinion or remembering his name if you aren’t a 30s2M fan.
- Comment on The prophecy has been fulfilled 2 weeks ago:
Donut Don.
- Comment on Guys, think this is legit? 3 weeks ago:
Or ask him whose Canada is. It works like a charm with Crimea.
- Comment on How should I link to music so that anyone can open it? 3 weeks ago:
Clever. Didn’t thought about that.
- Comment on How should I link to music so that anyone can open it? 3 weeks ago:
In some cases it can be geoblocked or would be deleted with time if IP holders demand so. But that’s probably the case for most platforms. The pro-point for youtube is that it is embeddable in most social networks and website engines, so if you post it to your blog or chat it’d play within the page or app without coming to another resource.
- Comment on Why are SMS messages so expensive? 3 weeks ago:
It was expensive before because it’s a supreme form of communication: don’t need both parties to be online and vacant, conveys complex info in a succint form (think numbers, adresses) that’s saved on both parties’ phones like notes for later, have an option to pay for another party to answer you, could be printed and sent in secret when there’s a meeting or a lesson (with physical buttons most could’ve printed a message under the table) and it kinda had it’s own culture, with basic emoticons and shorthands for words - even if being far from how popular it became in Japan and in pager’s times.
Right now SMS messages aren’t used that much by individuals since it was killed by the internet+messengers+touchscreens trio so they charge extra to milk those who happen to need that. A lot of carriers at my place provide subscription plans with minutes and gigabytes, with SMS as additional paid package or with a ridiculous price for every message.
But they don’t actually earn much here, even if they charge a whopping lot. SMS providers get fed by commercial contracts with services who notify you of delivery, send you verification codes and show you your CC balance. Signal, the messenger, started to look into phone number-less accounts because their non-profit is tired to shoulder the price they need to pay for just an SMS per login. Some services now call instead of texting you and make you write the last numbers of the phone to verify your identity, because it’s cheaper for now.
I feel kinda nostalgic of times when it was popular and carriers introduced special plans for messaging enthusiasts. I hate people calling for every small thing and I’m tired of checking multiple internet channels of information. With SMS it all was simple and direct.
- Comment on Steam will stop issuing refunds if you play two hours of a game before launch day 3 weeks ago:
I would like to see this time limit extended back to maybe 30m/1hr (it may be different in ways you don’t like), but I don’t see a problem with reducing it if you’ve already experienced parts of the game.
The problem is some games don’t even start at 30m point. Interactive introes and tutorials are here to misrepresent the future gameplay. Especially with a trick like making you have all power ups before having them all taken from you to grind them back. Take Skyrim where real game starts somewhen at Helgen after a starting dungeon.
Add there games that have it’s own launchers them being a problem to log into while the timer is already ticking.
- Comment on what is my purpose rule 1 month ago:
IDDQD, if M$ were based
- Comment on Will Smith Zombie Game No One Has Heard Of Bombs 1 month ago:
I would’ve loved a proper game using his I’m a Legend fame, but it seems like even publishers didn’t care about it.
- Comment on Hasbro exec says Baldur's Gate 3 "proved for us that people really wanted great D&D games," supports Larian's plan to "take the time we need" 1 month ago:
I really disliked it for many reasons even though I had no bugs but can’t pretend it wasn’t ambitious, Guys did jump over their head with it and tried to do something entirely new for them. And they had a hard crunch to complete it. Can’t hate the product, these devs, but honestly fuck their management.
- Comment on Denuvo Unveils New Tech That Will Make It Easier for Devs to Track Down Leakers 1 month ago:
What?
- Comment on Denuvo Unveils New Tech That Will Make It Easier for Devs to Track Down Leakers 1 month ago:
The titular arguments about game leaks: that would crush our sales as it shows the version of our product not on par with our quality standards and our vision. When we see how games from Ubi\EA\Beth\etc got released this raw and untested, this argument gets rekt. Digital releases and updates, forever-beta products, raw indies and many other things enabled AAA studios to do the same and get no repercussions, but they’d still bitch if their game is leaked earlier even if they ship undercooked product.
It’s rational to assume if you play leaked pre-release, you have a deficient product on your own terms. Like Diablo 2 remaster that still has LAN play before this P2P solution was killed. It’s on gamers to be that stupid to review-bomb games based on alpha, beta versions. It’s fair if it’s a contemporary comment, but not a final judgement with a youtube title GAMENAME FUCKING FLOPS - MY FIRST UGLY MOMENTS WITH THE GAMENAME. Clickbaity, unfair and tastes like piss.
You expand this conversation to games-as-a-service mode, that is a very different beast. I like seasons and regular updates to a polished games. I dislike games who defacto employed first players as beta-testers who paid money for that.
And I like leaks, not for me being a pirate, but for seeing what’s under the hood and how things changed for my favorite titles like Stalker, the game that has a very weird development cycle and had many traces of feautures devs either couldn’t realise or didn’t have time to do right.
- Comment on Denuvo Unveils New Tech That Will Make It Easier for Devs to Track Down Leakers 1 month ago:
With games releasing as a paid pre-alpha nowadays, I don’t find worthy arguments against leaking except for piracy - that is a topic on it’s own.
- Comment on boogie worms 1 month ago:
- Comment on Please no 2 months ago:
I couldn’t even decypher that shit until I’ve read your comm. That’s not how tattoos should work I believe.
- Comment on Hear me out 2 months ago:
Redpill lifehack: Cut a hole in the bottom of a bucket to put your dick in, so your partner would occasionally find it.
Castrate results: After being uncomfortable in hot oily sharp corn nuggets, watch your partner grabbing corn without looking and trying to detach that smooth one that stuck onto something.