the peak was ICQ before AOL bought it and slowly killed it with cancer.

definitely don’t thank autocorrect though

doesn’t matter what you call it, collaborating with fascists must bring you to a fitting end

yeah but what i said extend to everything women and especially young women and girls like.

better Taylor than a politician.

i don’t care about it but i also find the air of superiority from people who boast about not caring about this to be worse than actually caring about it. everyone cares about stupid shit. people just talk about this because it’s more demographically aligned with women. there’s disproportionate hate towards things women tend to like because we’re taught from childhood that it’s uncool.

guarantee most of the people shitting on it here either mald about some ladder they’re unhealthily trying to climb, or have a pokemon card collection, or treat that one movie they found to be super cool as their bible or some shit.

let people enjoy what they like. don’t act you only care about the environment and world hunger.

look how much i don’t care guys, i made a monument to the things i don’t care about.

not caring about things is not a virtue. you want people to care about something else you should work on that messaging. “you’re stupid to care about this” is reddit atheist coded bullshit that has never worked in the history of mankind.

fuck yes, i was feeling sad my friends don’t like me talking about it enough. come in!

aww they were playing the futuristic game “people vs billionaires”

even if you’re a conservative shithead and don’t even want to talk about that, how hard is it to say, “it’s just a cartoon sweety”?

what is this bitch-ass complaint, from people who i guarantee don’t feel like they have to explain squat to their kids… they suddenly become a super liberal parents like “i can’t lie to my kids, and i have to truthfully address every question” like no you don’t bitch.

I think it’s time. you gotta sacrifice the strategy because 11 is old enough to know acab

are you trying to give buildings cancer

does it count as an “update” every time elon fucks with it to push some fresh nazi shit?

what a meaningless measure. why don’t i update this app one byte at a time? i can say it’s massively outpacing the competition by updating 20 thousand times in the last 4 minutes while the competition updated ZERO times, which means we’re literally INFINITELY faster and by the end of the year we will have released millions of new versions.

he’s so monumentally stupid

because it was illegal to be mixed race

well what has it been doing for the first 6 years

yeah these articles (and tv news segments) are always like

you know these machines we designated to specifically crush the average person while enriching the very worst? yeah they might not be happy with this. you’d hate that wouldn’t you?

uhh, no, I’d love that actually. whatever they hate the most, do it please. if they complain after, double it and repeat until morale improves.

oh my god… I can’t believe I’m still getting surprised by how terrible things are in the US. it is the richest, poorest country.

EDIT: holy shit i just saw a 2019 OECD report that says the us had less than 20% of its fixed internet users connected by fiber which is way below the average for the 37 countries studied in the report, which was 27%.

funny thing is i remember reading about this very report in a news article, which was about how my country was way below the average; noting countries like japan, south korea and a bunch of european countries had above 50%. but i think the number for my country was something like 22%. we’re not even in the EU and we had higher coverage than the US? that’s crazy.

what do you mean fiber “plans”? do you guys not have fiber?

i like it much better than adobe. up until a recent update in illustrator it even performed better but now AI seems to have surpassed it. but i find affinity designer’s tools much more useful, although there’s been a bug that pisses me of with the contour tool for quite a while now. but i tolerate it because overall it still allows me to design icons much faster.

in case you’re interested in specifics:

• the pixel persona in AD allows me to work on raster images without leaving the program most of the time (not all affinity photo features can be used but still having a limited raster editor mode feels much better and smoother than switching between programs). AI simply doesn’t have this in any capacity.

• AD’s corner tool instead of AI’s corner rounding with the direct selection tool is much more capable and useful because it’s nondestructive. you can change the original shape with the rounding still applied, which is something you cannot do on AI.

• AD’s contour tool, despite the bug that doesn’t properly round corners when you expand, is still much more fluid to use than AI’s extremely clunky, 1998-ass-feeling offset path. apart from not requiring entering fucking numbers into a fucking dialog box and instead allowing you to offset the path with simple scrubbing… it’s also nondestructive so it can stay on an object even as you edit its original shape. so i still prefer to do workarounds for the bug rather than dealing with that terrible experience in AI.

• gradients are so much better in AD than AI i don’t even know where to begin. it’s just easier to use and more importantly you can use transparency gradients separately from color gradients (but also can have opacity info on a regular color gradient as well). so you can have an object that goes from 100% blue on the left to 0% green on the right but also add transparency gradient that goes 80% from top right to 20% on the bottom left and see the combination as a result in one object.

• AD has “erase” as a blending mode which is small but can be very useful if you’re designing something to be exported to png. Has a couple more modes that AI doesn’t have but this one’s the most straightforward and useful imo.

• It’s nothing huge but I like the vector crop tool in AD, you can just crop anything without thinking about it.

• consistency between programs when using affinity is a great experience you don’t get to have when working across Adobe tools which even for the most closely related ones feel like they aren’t being developed within the same company but different … I wanna say planets? yeah it’s like they’re being developed in different planets instead.

• one time payment for major versions only. i bought affinity 1.0, got all the updates for free up until 2.0, which i was able to buy on discount for upgrading. now i get all the updates on 2.x for free.

there are things that AI does better and i use it when i plan to use those, and sometimes use one and copy paste to the other to use the best of each. best highlights are repeat function (Ctrl+d). now there’s also radial repeat which can be great. blend can be very useful… most of the time though i go with AD.

developer is completely different from designer. I’m a graphic designer, and I also do animations and videos. I use adobe illustrator, photoshop, indesign, premier; affinity designer, photo, blender. I use figma too which is good for prototyping for web or apps, but not graphic design in general. and certainly not photo editing. inb4 gimp–completely unusable for pro work.