Yung Crunk Presents B-Sides, Remixes and Outtakes: Random Banter, Vol. 214

[factotum]

Second crucial distinction: Usability (unless Photoshop somehow manages to be as terrible as Gimp).

Unfortunately, you don't have a lot of choice when it comes to freebie Photoshop equivalents--things like Paint.NET are considerably easier to use (albeit Windows only) but are far less powerful than the GIMP. If we could only get the programmers of these things to spend half the time on the UI that they do on the feature set we'd be golden!

[Qwertystop]

For me, x-rays are part of my biennial dental check-ups, so I have a reason to sigh at them. Calculus removal is as well, but these two are palpable, just not fun.



Second crucial distinction: Usability (unless Photoshop somehow manages to be as terrible as Gimp). However, Inkscape, as suggested by others, is a lot easier to use than I've ever found Gimp to be, so try it out.

Honestly, I've never needed to use GIMP for very much - did I link neural-style here before when I found it? I don't do a lot of graphics - the biggest thing I've been doing with it recently is basic masking and color-balance-changing on the images I'm about to put through the above-linked network, to nudge the results a bit. For that, at least, it seems quite easy to use - even has a tool to automatically select the foreground.

[Teddy]

Unfortunately, you don't have a lot of choice when it comes to freebie Photoshop equivalents--things like Paint.NET are considerably easier to use (albeit Windows only) but are far less powerful than the GIMP. If we could only get the programmers of these things to spend half the time on the UI that they do on the feature set we'd be golden!

Given, if they spend that much time, we'd probably end up with something over-UIed, like some modern webpages tend to be with elements sliding in and out everywhere.

But yeah, GIMP is a pretty good example of both the best and the worst sides of open source software. Its feature set is humongous, but it's nigh impossible to use for a novice. And it has been developed for so long that it's too much of a mess for anyone to touch without a fat paycheck in their pocket, and no one wants to pay that money, because it's cheaper to just have every new employee spend a week or a month learning how to operate this mess.

Honestly, I've never needed to use GIMP for very much - did I link neural-style here before when I found it? I don't do a lot of graphics - the biggest thing I've been doing with it recently is basic masking and color-balance-changing on the images I'm about to put through the above-linked network, to nudge the results a bit. For that, at least, it seems quite easy to use - even has a tool to automatically select the foreground.

No you didn't, but that's cool!

[LaZodiac]

Oh man, the (semi) finale video of my Minish Cap playthrough is up. You guys should go watch it it's pretty cool.

Anyway, how is everyone doing today? Thread's been kinda quiet so I suppose you're all busy with junk!

[Lethologica]

Well...watched Birdman yesterday, that's cool. Really excellent movie. Today is still out of focus. We'll see.

[LaZodiac]

Well...watched Birdman yesterday, that's cool. Really excellent movie. Today is still out of focus. We'll see.

Ahem.

Biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiirdmaaaaaaaaaaaaaan.

I'm glad the movie is good though it looks really awesome.

[FinnLassie]

Holey poo, did the You-thread die? As in, no one's posted in there for more than 45 days. Feels weird. Just when I was about to post.

[Durkoala]

Holey poo, did the You-thread die? As in, no one's posted in there for more than 45 days. Feels weird. Just when I was about to post.

Finnlassie, please stop being creepy and posting exactly the same thing I was going to post.

(well, except for the 'about to post' bit. I wanted to ask around what sites they use for image storage. Then maybe post.)

ION: Thanks to a lot of riding my calf muscles have seized up and it really hurts. Ow.

[factotum]

Holey poo, did the You-thread die? As in, no one's posted in there for more than 45 days. Feels weird. Just when I was about to post.

The thread isn't going to get any less dead if you decide not to post in it, you know.

[Teddy]

Finnlassie, please stop being creepy and posting exactly the same thing I was going to post.

(well, except for the 'about to post' bit. I wanted to ask around what sites they use for image storage. Then maybe post.)

For me it's Imgur. I started using Photobucket, but then immediately filled it up with all my Tour pictures...

The thread isn't going to get any less dead if you decide not to post in it, you know.

Given, at this point, it would just turn undead (and not in the good cleric sense).

[LaZodiac]

I just watched Dr Horrible's Sing-along Blog for the first time. Went in completely blind.

Spoiler: My thoughts

Show

What the ****.

[Rawhide]

Ahem.

Biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiirdmaaaaaaaaaaaaaan.

I'm glad the movie is good though it looks really awesome.

It was terrible.

I just watched Dr Horrible's Sing-along Blog for the first time. Went in completely blind.

Spoiler: My thoughts

Show

What the ****.

It's absolutely awesome, innit? I've watched it so many times!

[DJ Yung Crunk]

Am I depressed because I listen to pop music or is pop music depressing because it emulates our experiences?

[LaZodiac]

It was terrible.

It's absolutely awesome, innit? I've watched it so many times!

Well, to each their own. I've heard mixed stuff about it.

It...it is, but I really just don't know how to feel about it.

Am I depressed because I listen to pop music or is pop music depressing because it emulates our experiences?

I...wasn't under the impression pop music had any sort of depressive feeling to it. I think it may just be you.

[FinnLassie]

The thread isn't going to get any less dead if you decide not to post in it, you know.

You do realise that thread necromancy is a thing, right? Don'tcha make me fall into that trap, feller!

[DJ Yung Crunk]

I...wasn't under the impression pop music had any sort of depressive feeling to it. I think it may just be you.

Well it's not inherent to it, granted. Certainly there are a lot of pop albums that have more a optimistic energy. The only problem is that I don't listen to them. I listen to albums like this or this or this.

[Rawhide]

You do realise that thread necromancy is a thing, right? Don'tcha make me fall into that trap, feller!

Oops. :smallwhistle:

[Durkoala]

For me it's Imgur. I started using Photobucket, but then immediately filled it up with all my Tour pictures...

Thanks. Imgur feels a bit... impersonal to me, but I might give it a try.

I just watched Dr Horrible's Sing-along Blog for the first time. Went in completely blind.

Would you reccommend it, and where can I find it?

[LaZodiac]

Would you reccommend it, and where can I find it?

Yes and I'll send you a link.

[FinnLassie]

In my previous flat I had a rather annoying problem with the heating - even if I had the thermometer set to basically zero, it would still be uncomfortably warm. The place was basically over-insulated, especially thanks to the room doors that were also soundproof (kind of redundant with the paper thin walls and floors) so you were basically extra sealed in heat. Not really a reason to move out but which I did do due to obnoxiously loud neighbours and bedbugs.

Anyways, now in my current abode, a 200m² two floor house with three other tenants, we have the opposite problem. It's usually rather cold in this house, a problem that we thought was solved earlier, it's been regular temperatures for weeks now. However today that me and another tenant had returned to the house after the weekend our the temperatures were +16°C in her room and a whopping +14°C in mine....... The landlord thankfully agreed that something's pretty damn wrong and it'll get checked out tomorrow, I think. I kind of think that the house's size is partly to blame... not only is there a lot of area, there's also high ceilings that add to the cubes, which is more significant in terms of heating.

TL;DR lived in student housing that was too hot, now live in a detached house where my current room temperature is too cold.

[Rawhide]

Oops. :smallwhistle:

Oh well, looks like no one really wanted that thread anyway.

[LaZodiac]

Oh well, looks like no one really wanted that thread anyway.

For what it's worth I told Finn I guess she was just so distracted by my "Rawhide performed the forbidden act of mod-romancy" joke that she changed her mind about posting

It was a good damn joke to.

[Feytalist]

Well it's not inherent to it, granted. Certainly there are a lot of pop albums that have more a optimistic energy. The only problem is that I don't listen to them. I listen to albums like this or this or this.

I listen to depressive music almost exclusively. But it doesn't make me depressed; in fact I find it calming. Whatever that may say about me.

I don't find any of those examples particularly depressive, but then I come from metal sensibilities, so make of that what you will.

TL;DR lived in student housing that was too hot, now live in a detached house where my current room temperature is too cold.

Yeah, I've been there. Sucks. We ended up getting a couple of those big gas heaters to heat the living areas - we had those big, high-ceiling rooms, as well. But we tend not to have central heating in residential buildings (being dirty Southerners, and all ), so we learn to do-it-ourselves.

Anyway, that's an option, I guess.

the forbidden act of mod-romancy

That sounds... wrong 0_o

[FinnLassie]

It seems that the heating thing-a-majick is broken. It derped, and then as it derped, the machine thought the best solution is to SHUT DOWN ALL HEATING HAHAHAHA. Landlord is coming over tonight to fix it. My room temperature is up to a lovely +16°C, so that's... alright. for now.

[DJ Yung Crunk]

I don't find any of those examples particularly depressive, but then I come from metal sensibilities, so make of that what you will.

I actually don't know what to make of it. I find that the good metal doesn't often evoke a "depressive" feel and the ones that do are comically melodramatic. I think pop's angst is a bit more restrained and nuanced. With some exceptions, of course.

[LaZodiac]

It seems that the heating thing-a-majick is broken. It derped, and then as it derped, the machine thought the best solution is to SHUT DOWN ALL HEATING HAHAHAHA. Landlord is coming over tonight to fix it. My room temperature is up to a lovely +16°C, so that's... alright. for now.

Oh dear...good luck Finn. I'm sure you can find a way to stay warm in the meantime though!

[FinnLassie]

Thankfully it's springtime, so at this time of the day the sun is almost hitting my window. So it's a tad warmer now, up to +19°C. No more freezing which is lovely. Also going to the sauna with my flatmate this evening and the thing heats up the house for a few hours, usually lasting the whole night.

EDIT:
I really need to update my avatar. Although there's still a lot of snow where I live, I want to get a more spring-like look to my avvie. Any suggestions? Probably not a flower crown this year. Maybe summer? But uh. Something... spring.

Also Cuth, where's my Banana-Chicken-motherly love?

[Rawhide]

forbidden act of mod-romancy

That sounds... wrong 0_o

She slipped into his thread and hovered over the edit button as she whispered, "Now, you're going to say exactly what I want to hear."

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She saw the size of his thread, slowly getting bigger with every post she made.

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He slid beside her and started to gently caress her spoiler boxes, slowly exposing her most intimate posts.

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...I think I'll stop now.

[LaZodiac]

Thankfully it's springtime, so at this time of the day the sun is almost hitting my window. So it's a tad warmer now, up to +19°C. No more freezing which is lovely. Also going to the sauna with my flatmate this evening and the thing heats up the house for a few hours, usually lasting the whole night.

EDIT:
I really need to update my avatar. Although there's still a lot of snow where I live, I want to get a more spring-like look to my avvie. Any suggestions? Probably not a flower crown this year. Maybe summer? But uh. Something... spring.

Also Cuth, where's my Banana-Chicken-motherly love?

That's good. And oooh, a sauna. I've never been to one and I bring that up every time you mention it and I'm still kind of impressed with how the Finnish people have this intense love of saunas.

When Cuth gets online I'll throw this post at him don't worry.

*MOD SMUT*.

It was a Necromancy joke not this my eyes my eyes aaaaaah.

[FinnLassie]

She slipped into his thread and hovered over the edit button as she whispered, "Now, you're going to say exactly what I want to hear."

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She saw the size of his thread, slowly getting bigger with every post she made.

---

He slid beside her and started to gently caress her spoiler boxes, slowly exposing her most intimate posts.

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...I think I'll stop now.

I think that was a very smart decision. Though, I have to say, I will never look at you the same way.

That's good. And oooh, a sauna. I've never been to one and I bring that up every time you mention it and I'm still kind of impressed with how the Finnish people have this intense love of saunas.

When Cuth gets online I'll throw this post at him don't worry.



It was a Necromancy joke not this my eyes my eyes aaaaaah.

There's something refreshing about being sweaty and nekkid without any sexual connotations.

CUTH SHALL FEEL MY ANGUISH.