Yeah I’ve been on and off dabbling in downloads for probably a solid 20 years now and it never really “died”. I frequently download things like games to avoid dropping £40+ on something that might be completely worthless before I’ll throw money at it. And I know steam refunds are pretty good now but they’re not perfect and anything out of steam isn’t affected by them. Hell my most played steam game, rimworld, I initially pirated and dropped before trying again later on and buying. I’m happy to pay for things like streaming services if they actually provide something I want and I don’t have to navigate the bs. If they can’t sort out licensing then that’s not really a me problem, it’s a them problem. After Netflix started price hikes and screwing around with recommendations I dropped it.

Better we get frustrated than kill people. If councils make money off of you being a brainlet then that’s a good thing.

The express purpose is to affect the temperature within the state borders (inside a building, which is still in the borders).

They should do, assuming they’re the right shape. The main downside is when you don’t want them to catch the wind they’re a bit harder to put away, probably.

One of my top games of all time tbh

Actually this is a public space so there’s no reasonable expectation of privacy.

Yeah I already tried shotcut and it was usable but not great, it has trouble with audio preview. Swapped to kdenlive and no issues

Yeah, self-critique is important but you can never see everything

The most impressive art is when people learn the rules well enough to ignore them.

People who are “talented” might start out at a better point in a field than others but they’ll hit a wall where they have to actually put in work to go further, that comes all at once instead of in small steps.

It really is just persistence and accepting a certain amount of “I’m so bad at art” for eternity. Just make something, draw, paint or whatever. Look for things that motivate you to make stuff and learn to do it anyway, sucking is the first step to being kinda good at something.

Arguably a priest who really cared would be morally obligated to speak up about a situation like the one being described, even if the consequence is excommunication.

For drawing/painting yeah, krita is comparable, especially if you set the presets to be similar to ps. I haven’t tried krita with photo editing much though

I wish my OCD affected me actually finishing things

Anyone can have creative ability if they actually try though. And a lot of the low tech, low quality tools can produce some fun results if you embrace the restrictions.

I don’t understand how anyone could dislike solar panels, like bro it steals free energy from the fucking sun, it’s not as fun as fission but it’s still pretty good. I know everyone loves turbines and burning things but you still have to get the things to burn with fossil fuels. Meanwhile you can just put magic squares on every surface and get free power.

Yeah, a real picture engineer worked hard on it

They’ve been using wire guided drones in Ukraine lately so directly damaging the drones is useful in cases where you’re not going to be jamming them

Not prominent or important because he was a CEO, because he was responsible for so many deaths. Prominent in complicity.

Inflation