@Gwideon So... there does seem to be a cohesive online presence with your username, and there's a meatspace name (or pseudonym) associated with it. If you're worried about being targeted, you may want to clean those up, if you own them.
If that's you, then scrubbing your name from the associated accounts would be a safe idea. Best not to attach meatspace names to interweb names.
(That advice applies to any humans here. Personal identifying info is relatively easy to find and piece together. Please be careful.)
I understand how you feel. Believe me, I do. I agree with some of what you say so just know that this first half of my answer isn't directed at you.
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Yeah, each of the three Affinity programs (Photo for image manipulation, Designer for raster/vector image creation, Publisher for layout design) is USD$50 for either Mac or Windows, or $20 for iOS. Compared to Adobe which would be $21/*month* for any one of the equivalent programs, or $53/month for all of them.
somehow unrelated, free rant of the day. Azure Bastion captures ALTGR+SHIFT as a combo to open the clipboard. This block any attempt to write special characters that use that combo
@Derpy I've tried GIMP out several times — downloaded it because I needed a free tool and needed to do something quickly. Every time I've been absolutely flummoxed by how to do even basic operations, like "deselect" or "move" or "resize". I've never been so stumped by an image editor.
@AGirlHasNoName I came across this just earlier and upvoted it. I just saw it's here too! Thank you for writing it!
yeah, I used it as a Photoshop replacement for a little while in college (I studied arts with a graphic design emphasis) and GIMP's interface seemed aggressively confusing.
I was worried about switching to Affinity for a similar reason, but moving into Affinity programs was as frictionless as any workflow transfer I've ever done.
@Medix2 I do it a lot. The way SE markdown works, the post appearance is "baked in" at the time you save it. Even on the occasions they have made breaking changes to markdown, posts don't change until someone edits them and saves them again thus introducing the new breakage.
I mean, I use the magical question link thing a lot.
It doesn't work in comments, only questions and answers, and only if it's on the same site (where "rpg.se" and "rpg.meta.se" are the same site for this purpose)
I think the fastest I've ever beaten the game is in like 3 hours. Doesn't come close to the 1.5 hours that speedrunners have gotten it to, but I'm still proud I got that fast.
@goodguy5 Personally, I use she/they as a signifier for Genderfluidity, but it might mean something different for someone else. It might be a representation of a non-binary gender identity for someone else (which genderfluidity is technically orthogonal to).
@goodguy5 I mean, that is the mistake god made when I was born, so I understand that confusion! But I realized a few years back that I was fully incompatible with identifying as that gender, so I've been slowly outing myself on various social media platforms, relative to how tolerant I perceive the people around me to be.
@Xirema is very obviously a immortal math elemental, from the elemental plane of math. Colors don't apply, as they are not ordered or countably finite.
heck right now not gonna lie one of the things I am looking forward to this weekend is having time to put together this kit my husband bought me, it's gummy candy shaped like Lego and you make a little train
you don't need to feel embarrassed for liking something.
There's this kids' show Octonauts. And it's really good. I only watch it with my baby (usually, I'm trimming his nails or something), but I kinda look forward to it.
Point being: no shame. like what you like, abiding by Ash's consensual hurting statement.
@Yuuki yea, the first time I got the Railways box, I was surprised for sure. In my mind, it's like a cubic foot and at least 10 pounds. but Amazon will give me the dims
shipping weight: 10.05 pounds 16x5x13 (so , a little over half a cubic foot)
@Ash It's so weird thinking about the lengths I would go to get certain things back in the day and now I'm remembering things like "jeez, I could just spend $5 and make a ton of money re-selling or whatever".
Riven had a subplot about a guy out for revenge against a planeswalking man and his sons for destroying or displacing him from his home and for interfering with his people's way of life! classic RPG storytelling
I had to take way more notes playing Riven or Revelation than I did with Myst orExile
@MikeQ yeah there were a couple long ones. Maybe it was more like an hour. I don't rightly remember, but it was a super short amount of time vs how long my original solve took
@goodguy5 At its core, it means the person who has indicated those pronouns is okay with either set of pronouns being used for them. As Xirema says, it can signify genderfluidity, or something else.
@goodguy5 Heh, don't google my username, it's basically the entire history of my life on the internet (though connecting to my IRL identity would hopefully not be easy). ((Note: This is not a challenge.))
@V2Blast I specifically use them to indicate that I don't mind being referred to as "he" or as "they." I identify as "he," but I'm flexible about how people refer to me
@goodguy5 To add a personal clarification, I'm a "he" but I'm more than happy to go by "they" as well. So he/him/his they/them/theirs are both fine. Especially online.
@Gwideon The overwhelming uncertainty that faces adults after we leave home, and the fact that all of our decisions brought us to this point; the only way forward being to make more decisions that are largely guesswork.
I use part of my actual name in my username so I'm very likely identifiable. Not sure if you can find my actual address, but probably what city I live in
I mean, I'm pretty sure I'm at the point where there's no managing anything. It's basically just keeping a three-alarm fire from becoming a five-alarm fire.
@MikeQ I mean, yes. I don't offer up additional information and personal details that much. Like, I'm not going to tell you the street I live on and whatnot, but I also understand that come of that info is already availble to people who want it. I just don't help it alongany moer than it already is
@G.Moylan I suppose most people either forget or don't know that the teeth heights on house keys are very standardized so it's incredibly easy to estimate the teeth on key based on a picture.
A Yahoo! answers user suggested that there are 5^5 possible unique configurations for a physical key, but the answer wasn't sourced. I wondered if anyone had similar numbers for how many possible key combinations there are. I ask because, it seems impossible that there can be a unique key for eve...
theoretically, with enough giv-a-dam, you could have a key with any sequence you want. 123456 which would look pretty cartoonish, but not as silly as 654321
a lot of people also don't realize that, often times, in order to more easily build entire subdivisions, contracting companies will master key entire blocks of houses during construction, for all the various people that need to come and go. The master wafers are often not removed unless you take the lock and get it rekeyed
I was in a waiting room and this dad and his daughter were in there.
She was maybe 6 and doing normal little kid things. But then she said "Dad, it's cold in here", looking at the thermometer on the wall, "It's sixty nine degrees!"
The dad and I both said "nice" at the same time and she was like "what?"
I understand how you feel. Believe me, I do. I agree with some of what you say so just know that this first half of my answer isn't directed at you.
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