melonpan009.bsky.social
Mostly just here to follow artists and look at pretty pictures.
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It’s too bad they don’t offer something like “Photoshop Classic”, which would be feature-frozen at like CS1/2 with all dev efforts going toward optimizations and bug fixes.
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AI has made it worse, but Adobe products have been degrading this way for a while. Why improve the core product when there’s still gimmicky bells and whistles to glue on?
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Was it this, perhaps?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSkk...
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It’s been like this for many decades. The only thing that’s changed is what “making it” looks like. It used to be becoming a media celebrity, these days it’s becoming a tech mogul.
I don’t know what’s required to change the situation but it’ll probably take a long time, likely multiple generations.
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It’s not even necessarily a political thing. This aspiration is deeply ingrained in our capitalist culture which means anybody with a drive to achieve tends to get pulled in.
It’s the center of gravity in the US and so the more successful one becomes the more they get drawn in by it.
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I don’t know about South Korea, but I believe that in the US a huge factor as to why men don’t place any blame on the ultra-wealthy is because they aspire to become ultra-wealthy.
By placing the blame that way they’re condemning their own reason for getting up in the morning. That’s hard to accept.
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I think it’s just as likely that many JS heavy/required sites became that way simply because it’s easy to reach for and isn’t resisted by users.
I agree that web apps have value but there’s absolutely something ridiculous about loading tens of MB of JS to display static text and ads.
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Maybe, maybe not. Back in Flash’s heyday content-based sites generally didn’t start requiring that (exception being video sites, due to streaming video being underdeveloped).
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Could be wrong but it looks like with Marvel’s Avengers they were trying to see how many different characters they could get away with sharing a single rig between. No wonder they all look so generic, can’t vary body shape much if you’re sharing rigs!
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There’s also a group that’s adjacent to the old “idea guys” and “get rich quick” crowds that’ve been around forever. These people want the end result solely so they can sell it, and thus also do not value the process.
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I pin this primarily on social media.
It’s turned so many people into fiends for clout and internet points, which encourages this result-driven mindset. This group wants “content” to post to pull in likes and clout, and for that the process has no value.
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I felt the same way about the survival revamp, though. Didn’t feel necessary to remove one of the only 3 physical ranged specs in the game to give hunters a melee option… it could’ve just been a new spec.
Heck maybe that’s the move now; bring back old survival as a ranged “mild pet” spec.
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I get the appeal of a more “pure” ranger class, but at the same time it sucks that players who want to keep a pet out without combat being all about the pet don’t have anywhere to turn.
I would’ve been happier if either “pure marks” or “mild pet” were made into a new spec.
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Today, some 10 years later I finally have breathing room and am trying to make up lost time in those other aspects of self-development, but I’m left with this feeling of waiting for the other shoe to drop. It feels like financial doom still lurks close by in the shadows ahead, ready to pounce.
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As a mid-millennial with no degree, I’ve felt this too. The ~5 years after getting my first decent job were focused entirely on not losing it, full head down nose to the grindstone mode, at the cost of every other aspect of life.
As bare as my resume was then, I couldn’t take any chances.
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There’s also some number of “idea guys” who place all the value in the idea and none in the implementation. This group is bitter because those who can create won’t do their work for peanuts.
As a dev I’ve run into numerous people in this group. “Do all the work and I’ll give you half the profits!”
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This is my thought as well. They see big artists posting their work and getting tons of likes and get jealous. They don’t see or care about the years of sweat and blood that goes into becoming able to produce high quality art, they just see a post go up and internet points rolling in.
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Similar feelings down here in the states.
It’s technically possible for me to visit family on the opposite coast via Amtrak, but it’ll be hilariously indirect, take 3-4 days, and there will probably be delays. Absolutely no comparison to Japan (or most other East Asian countries).
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Oh woah, I wasn’t expecting to see the cover for ELO’s Twilight on my feed this evening! Will definitely be giving the playlist a listen. Thanks for sharing!
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Supporting this, a lot of the sites that break in Safari are also broken in or don’t work very well under Firefox. Anything that’s not Chrome or Chromium-based (like Edge, Opera, and Arc) gets zero consideration.
This sucks and both companies and individual devs should be called out more for it.
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Safari isn’t perfect on this front, but it’s really not that bad either. It mostly just means web devs can’t use cutting edge APIs. It’s worlds better than the mess that was IE back in the day.
More than anything it boils down to web devs not wanting to test against anything except Chrome.
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If they start selling a Lego Constitution refit kit I don’t think I’d be able to resist.
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Even worse is when shade is thrown out of hipsterism/contrarianism, where the distaste comes purely from the style being trendy or popular.
It’s so stupid. Can’t we just drop the gatekeeping and celebrate people who have chosen to create, even if what they make isn’t our cup of tea?
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We all have our pet peeves. Mine is Windows, despite making use of a custom built box daily for games. I’m grateful that there are no circumstances under which I’m expected to be productive using it!
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I dunno, nobody I know casts anything from their phone. They all use the “smarts” built into their TV or something like a Roku or Fire/Chromecast stick.
Maybe a regional thing, like how WhatsApp is huge in many parts of the world but barely used in the US.
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Like I said, has to do with the UI. TV app UI and mobile app UI are very different creatures, and so at minimum an Android app for phones and tablets will need new UI code written.
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I mean “Chromecast with Google TV” is on their list of supported devices, so the only difference is running the app on the Chromecast itself vs. casting from your phone.
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If they add an Android phone/tablet app they’ll probably write it from scratch as an entirely separate app.
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As someone whose day job is to write mobile apps (both platforms) I think the actual reason is likely technical.
The cross-platform TV app codebase is probably built with a UI designed for TVs only, which would make it borderline unusable on Android phones and ok but not optimal on Android tablets.
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Nope, the clients are official (see link below). It does look like the Android app is limited to Android TV devices specifically though, so I stand corrected there.
www.apple.com/eg/apple-tv-...
play.google.com/store/apps/d...
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Apple has actually made a pretty decent effort to make their streaming services available everywhere. They’ve got apps for Windows PCs, Android phones/tablets/TVs, PS4/PS5, and Rokus as well as for Samsung and LG TVs and Amazon Fire TV sticks among other things.
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Haven’t read it yet, but have known of it for a while. It’s on my (much too long) list.
Hoping that BONES picks it up for an anime adaptation. They handled FMA (both versions) very well and I’m sure that Daemons of the Shadow Realm is just as deserving of the treatment of an A-list studio.
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Apple Music.
It has its own warts, but doesn’t treat artists as badly, allows third party clients unlike Spotify (see Cider as an example), and its product managers aren’t constantly changing its UI design for no reason. Offers lossless without an additional fee too.
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Nice save.
If I were to start taking on clients I think I’d probably set up not just local periodic backups (e.g. Time Machine on Macs) but also something remote+encrypted like Backblaze too for an offsite backups to help deal with situations like this. No such thing as too many safety nets.
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The worst part is that it sometimes feels like no amount of de-risking is enough to really quell the anxiety fully.
Like no matter how well you manage to pad things, there’s always that worry that something will go colossally sideways and make you regret the decision you’re about to make.
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Similarly, the franchise-empire of Warcraft exists because Blizzard wanted to build a Warhammer RTS, but Games Workshop wouldn’t license the IP so Blizzard made their own.
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Affinity Designer. Not free but is a reasonably priced one time purchase (rare these days!) and has a trial.
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Apple Music because Spotify goes out of their way to not only cheat artists out of their cut, but also kill things the community has built around their service.
Apple for example allows third party clients (see Cider) while Spotify does not.
Spotify’s desktop client is also needlessly heavy.
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I’m a 90s kid, but just enough of the packaging/branding here managed to cross over into the following decade to make these ads nostalgic. Memories of childhood grocery trips…
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Pretty much the entire lineup of WB/Timm DC shows animated in the 90s and early 00s were great. Why they haven’t brought that universe back with more entires I’ll never know.
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A few years back I was working my way through all the Star Trek that existed at that point in time, watching between an episode or two every weekday evening after getting home from work.
For those few months (there’s a LOT of trek) it was really nice. I miss the rhythm of scheduled broadcasts too.
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If it weren’t for Toonami and Adult Swim in the early-mid 2000s I don’t think that I or anybody in my little circle (as in 2 other kids) of nerd-friends would’ve ever discovered anime.
Crazy contrast to today where it’s everywhere and regularly intermixed with domestic stuff.
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Aside from a few bright spots most of the work I shared wasn’t amazing, but that wasn’t a problem because that’s how it was for everybody. We didn’t curate our internet “brands” to create an illusion of perfection and hyper-competence. We were just people making things.
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Not too long ago I was going through some 15-20+ year old backups of mine and ran across artifacts of that era.
That was by far my peak in both creating and sharing creations. Back then you could put things out there without worrying too much about if it was “good” enough or not.