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2:49 AM
Any of you know some girl names Jenna Citrus?
She's apparently some designer a couple years older than me from Indiana... added me on FB...
 
 
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6:52 AM
@RandyJones you sure... could have sworn otherwisr.
 
7:18 AM
@joojaa about what? the downvoting?
 
 
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12:26 PM
I should be in a user experience graphic design course next semester :D I didn't even know my school offered that in the first place
 
12:58 PM
@Ryan @RandyJones @ZachSaucier Question: Is there an easy no extra software (illustrator Photoshop) to add a character to a font. The font I'm using lacks a Unicode character and I need to add it to that font for technical reasons
 
@GiantCowFilms no idea sorry
 
ya, dunno. It'd involve editing the actual font file I'd assume
 
Figured that
 
I'm curious what reasons you have for it needing to be that font :P
 
1:01 PM
BTW, Thanks for supporting the 3D proposal, the ads reached 7, so it should start displaying on the site!
@ZachSaucier after effects
I'm writing some complicated expression to work around something to work around something.
 
ads* btw
I say that because I make the same mistake all the time :P
 
:D fixed!
 
took me a second to understand
 
I must say though it feels cool to be one of those crazy guys who writes hundreds of lines of code in a little textbox in the timeline to do somthing tottally awsome
 
1:26 PM
@GiantCowFilms Font Forge is free but rather glitchy the last time I used it
there is also BirdFont which I have not used
 
Anyway to do it in illustrator
 
no
 
you could edit the glyph in Illustrator and import it into a font editor, that's the closest you'll get I think
 
@JohnB Ah okay
It doesn't matter where I do the glyph, its litterally a circle
but silly old Open sans doesn't have a nice circle D:
 
1:28 PM
open circle? or closed?
 
closed
and no I can't jsut use another font
/scale the font at all
 
so like •?
 
Yes
But that one looks terrible in Open Sans
at least the font forge folks have decent website
I wish the blender foundation would put a download counter on the site
It would be utterly astounding
 
that must be relatively new, it was previously on sourceforge
pretty recent stable release, hopefully it's better than the last time I used it. I couldn't use it for long without it crashing
 
Probably
Now how to a find the box for this little guy
I have his Unicode address, but not much else
@JohnB How to I start to add another charicter
 
1:37 PM
downloading and installing, it's been a while
 
Found him
View>Goto
Its annoying that I can't paste into any of the text boxes, don't ask me why
Now what is the different between true type and true type (symbol)
 
that is beyond my knowledge of fonts
 
I appear to only be editing the bold copy :/
now how to edit the other weights as well
 
ask on main
 
they're separate font files, I think you'll have to open them
 
1:49 PM
oh D:
I think I've managed to add it, the next question is how to I preview it
It worked!
 
woohoo!
 
I mean the size is completely off
but it worked
 
progress
 
2:28 PM
hey @dumbledad
 
Hiya John
 
hey all
hi @dumbledad good to see you here :)
 
Hello
 
2:44 PM
hi @gburning
 
Hi! I see your still rocking the Village People theme
Love it!
you're
hangs head in shame
 
hehe, thx
It's just for a month
 
2:58 PM
wait till Halloween, lol. kinda wanna do the beach boys
 
3:12 PM
...I wanted to do a cat-o-lantern :/
 
3:27 PM
or we could all do our own cats with a lantern in them! brilliant!
 
o.o
not sure my cat would like that
 
I was more thinking of a cat with a pumpkin on its head
 
ill just put my cat in the pumpkin
 
3:43 PM
works for mee too
 
I whined to Walmart for charging me $4.97 more than necessary for shipping...they replied saying they'd issue a refund for $4.96
you win this time, guys. This must be how they are so profitable
 
I would just tell my bank to refund me
 
I'm fairly certain it was just a typo in the e-mail
 
I still think the Amazon Troy support is epic
 
mah. they really take the fun out of complaing, that way
 
3:49 PM
Amazon Troy?
 
oh snap meant thor..
Me: Tracking shows delivered but shipment not received
Amazon: Warmest greetings [...] my name is Thor.
Me: Greetings, Thor. Can I be Odin?
Amazon: Odin, Father, How art thy doing on this here fine day?
Me: Thor, my son. Agony raises upon my life.
Amazon: This is outrageous! Who dares defy The All Father Odin! What has occurred to cause this agony?
Me: I'm afraid the book I ordered to defeat our enemies has been misplaced. How can we keep Valhalla intact without our sacred book?
Amazon: This is blasphemy! Wherever this book has been taken to, I shall make it my duty to get it back to you! I
 
heh
 
hehe. bringing your sense of humour tends to help, even in customer service
 
I hope that one day, the state of highlighting text in web browsers is better than what's currently typical
 
4:16 PM
I kinda want to make a request to put a tagline under GD's logo that we arent tech support
 
you'd get a +1 from me
 
@ZachSaucier I smell a meta question
 
I love my music library <3
for the past few months I've deleted songs that are just meh as I come across them
so much better now
 
4:33 PM
@ZachSaucier do you have this?
 
can't listen, in class ATM
but no(t yet)
 
pure awesome imo
 
I feel like you just chat all day @Johan
 
I never chat while at work.
But a large % when not working.
 
is @joojaa lurking around?
Hey @Johan
 
4:45 PM
@JohnB @JohanLarsson @Johannes Let's have a party guys :-)
 
party of the Joh's
 
why is a separate 3D site a good idea?
Imo many sites just fragment things
 
because we can't serve the people interested
 
Tags work well on SO ime
 
4:47 PM
there simply is no real 3D community here
 
ok, that is a valid reason. Something with 3D in the name probably attracts them.
 
and it's actual relation to graphic design is... kind of iffy to me
 
The Blender site is a perfect example to answer that. We had a few questions roll through once in a while, but a separate site created a booming community
 
sure, it can be used for GD purposes, but most 3D questions are not GD related
 
3D is not closely associated enough with Graphic Design to build the community required to answer expert questions
 
4:48 PM
I worked seven years drawing 3D CAD. Formally switched to programming a couple of months ago.
 
ah, cool!
 
5:01 PM
Very engineery kind of design. Figure out how to design things so it can be manufactured & assembled with maximum accuracy.
 
I see a few CAD questions on the Engineering beta site but not many
 
is there another you can use?
 
brewing your own tear gas huh?
 
I nuked some left over chicken.. didnt think it was a big deal
and that was only with hiberno
 
@JohnB Who summoned me!
 
5:11 PM
it was I
 
Shoot
 
you shoot with a Canon, right? I've been saving up for a macro lense, trying to decide if it's worth it to go for the more expensive 100mm that has image stabilization
lots of reviews say yes
 
when you shoot macro you will use a tripod every time ime
 
what do you plan mto macro
@Johan oh no you dont
 
5:13 PM
ime (in my expeience)?
 
@JohanLarsson ok.. just showing my age there that is all
 
Well i dont know if i would have to setup a tripod every time i shoot
Anyewa
 
insects is the only thing I can think of where I would not use a tripod
 
Anyway no image stabilisation means NO handheld shots
yes thst why i asked
 
5:14 PM
nothing specific in mind, I have the kit lens and a telephoto lens and I often find myself disappointed in photographing small outdoor things like that
 
if one intends to shoot in studio then it does not matter
I dont theink the lense helps much
 
@joojaa really nice
 
uh oh, all Johs are now here..
 
i was dissapointed for quite a while before is got hang of the ods and ends
 
:21262543 Si?
 
5:16 PM
@joojaa
 
@Johannes_B looks like I'm late to the party!
@joojaa It was a typo! :p
 
@joojaa can you link me to the lens used for this?
 
its a jo revolution
 
So for about a year i tought my lense was somehow broken untill i realized the sensor on purpose softens the shot
 
@Johannes I always think you're one of the people I'm ignoring because only part of your portrait is visible (I use a dark theme for chat)
 
5:18 PM
wwaaag
 
@Johannes The party just started. Dance dance, Quack quack.
 
ah yeah that's exactly what I want to get
 
@ZachSaucier Green and white squares make up the perfect pinguin.
 
5:19 PM
please note a macro lense works as well as a telephoto too... Good for shooting squirels rats and viviparous lizards
BUT
 
@ZachSaucier I didn't even know you could ignore people.
 
a good compact camera can be better at shooting insects... because its lighter and has a amazing depth of field
 
@Johannes it's more useful on SO
can keep track of vamps that way
 
@Johannes_B (╯°□°)╯ ノ( °□°ノ)
 
yes if you ignore someone their profile pic to the right will be smaller then everyone else's
 
5:21 PM
What are vamps?
 
vampires?
 
Wasn't aware we were tracking those
 
@joojaa I still have some saving up to do, thanks for the input! I'll let you know what I end up doing
 
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A: What is a help vampire?

Anubian NoobAccording to the Help Vampire tag: The Help Vampire problem is the idea that some users will continually ask the same tired questions in the hope that someone else will do their work for them, irrespective of whether the same question has already been asked or whether they could easily find t...

 
@JohnB NP... can i be dismissed?
 
5:22 PM
yes cadet
 
@ZachSaucier haha.. there's something funny about you linking me to a question about help vamps.
 
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 
@joojaa I think this is my best pic. The tongue is nice.
It was carefully planned.
 
cool shot! quite a tongue
 
I didn't even think of escaping // things that have different meaning to devs
I feel like there should be a Twitter account for those somewhere
 
5:28 PM
haha that's a good idea
 
wow! it's all pink and stuff
 
my theme is broken :(
looks better on dark theme
 
user coloring for dark theme is still wonky here
 
it is a chrome storage bug
it doesn't effect everyone
 
5:32 PM
huh
 
I will update the options page to let you clear it
basically the chrome storage sync got borked and now some people don't get colored.
they are technically stored tho so no errors
 
How do you even get the dark theme? #HelpVamp
 
damn, beat me to it
 
went to the github page first by reflex, haha
 
5:40 PM
@ZachSaucier expect an update in the next few days that allows you to reset the memory from the options. I also need to rethink memory because chrome only gives me 8kb
or something
 
6:25 PM
hi everybody
please give me your Instagram id
my IG id: devpedia
 
@DevelopersPedia why is your name developers pedia?
you seem much more like a designer
@JohanLarsson Can't say I enjoy that. Certain aspects I enjoy, but overall not structured in a way I enjoy
 
6:54 PM
:)
 
is using GIMP blasphemy here?
 
@ZachSaucier cuz I was a dev in xda.developers.com
 
@rlemon not at all!
 
Thanks @ZachSaucier and @rlemon
 
certainly less common though
 
7:09 PM
I have CS6 suite
still use GIMP
I just like it better :/
 
@rlemon Just remember that GD is design, not tech support :) Most software questions that we get are just that - software questions - which are not really on topic most times
 
.. but.. why are you telling me this?
I'm confused
I didn't ask any questions other than if everyone hated GIMP
 
I inferred that you may have questions regarding gimp
 
nope
I could answer many tho
 
fair enough
@rlemon Take a look! I'm sure there are several open ones
 
7:17 PM
ahh I will later
I'm not into design as much as I am into messing with peoples pictures :D
I'd rather hire a designer ;) ;)
 
I know you would, haha
that's not a bad thing
 
I know my strengths and I play to them
design isn't one of them. why pretend
 
I'm certainly on the more technical than creative side of things, so you don't have to be a designer to hang out with us
 
7:35 PM
yea I'll hang out but I'll avoid your main just like I do SO main :P
 
we have some web design questions you may be able to lend your expertise on, Zach's been working hard to promote those kinds of questions
 
I'm good with js :D
and Canvas
 
Anyone used this?: astropad.com
I'm guessing "no" :)
 
looks cool
 
Just trying it out.. it is way cool.
Essentially makes your iPad like a cintique
And there's like no lag at all.
 
7:47 PM
impressive
 
Just trying it with a finger at the moment.. I'll have to break out the stylus to see how well it read that data. Really nice for $25 though
 
you got the ipad for $25?
tell me your secrets
 
No.. that app is $25 :)
 
@Scott is it output as EPS or ai?
 
25 $ :/
 
7:51 PM
It doesn't output Matt. It is merely a screen input device
 
like the desk, lol
 
Think of it like a cintiq
It connects to the mac and shows the Mac screen on the ipad.. you can then paint on the ipad and see the work on teh Mac
 
25$ without output?
 
thats pretty cool
 
$25 with universal output support!
literally no output format is unsupported
 
7:52 PM
oh built by apple engineers
 
@Scott but then I need an ipad :(
 
so its a look like a remote pen tablet ?
 
get my hopes up just to crush me :(
first day in the design community and I'm already sad :(
:hides under desk rocking slowly:
 
It's really closest to a cintiq
Or a monitor you can draw on...
 
7:53 PM
It's designed to use running software on the computer. By itself it does nothing.
 
for the price and starting out it will really cripple the cintiq market
 
I turned up the sensitivity of my touchpad and use my stylus on that
ghetto fab
I'll stop now. I promise.
 
Yeah especially if the stylus support is there. I haven't tried that yet
Anyway... I stumbled upon it yesterday...
 
man trying to get motivated lately is hard..
 
.. tell me about it... :)
I end up puttering around the house doing minor upgrades :)
 
8:08 PM
I think of all day how I want to illustrate something in AI and when I get home I blah blah blah...
 
 
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9:22 PM
flaggable as NAA, @Scott
223
Q: Your answer is in another castle: when is an answer not an answer?

Shog9I think we can all agree, this sucks: If you've been around a little while, you've probably encountered hundreds of answers like this in various forums, some of them even marked as "The Answer" by well-meaning1 forum admins looking to close a thread. We could try to enumerate the commonly-obse...

> this sort of response is not an answer. If you see this, flag it. Moderators, if you see it flagged, delete it.
complete with fruit graphics
 
eh... I downvoted it months ago. My mistake was explaining it today. Should have let him writhe in curiousity :)
 
5k rep on SO, he should know better
 
I suppose. or rather.. you would think. But it doesn't take much more than a couple decent answers then time to gain 5K on SO :) Trust me I know :)
 
true
 
So.. I have a goal.. an impossible goal... I want that rep line graph on my activities page to form an ^ shape.. so hmm... how can I massively lose 70k rep??? Tons of 500r bounties I suppose.
 
9:32 PM
only 140 bounties, 3 active at a time....it'd take a few months
 
but I gotta NOT gain any rep at the same time
 
mini suspensions?
 
heh :) there's an idea. What happens to bounties if the user is suspended though? hmmm.... of course, you lose the bounty rep regardless of whether you award the bounty or not.
 
I smell evil being plotted
 
I'm also not sure if you're restricted from gaining rep while suspended
I would assume so
 
9:37 PM
Just wondering @iKlsR :)
Actully thinking of activity rep line graph.. was curious if ANYONE has one that falls down to the right.
 
ah, yes
 
interesting
 
pretty sure someone at SE gets notified when we suspend though...Abby might have a word with me
 
lol.. so my suspension could get Mods in trouble... well hell. that's all the MORe reason :)
 
well then I nominate Matt to handle this
 
9:40 PM
You do know I was just spouting off, right.. Vincent could play it off as ignorance.. he's new
 
oooh good point. Sorry Vincent we gotta throw you under the bus here
time for me to scram, later all!
 
see ya!
 

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