Is it retarded to use fountain pens?
>>460543Many people will recommend Chinese brands such as Jinhao. But, I would suggest either the Pilot Metropolitan or the Kakuno (they have faces). The Pilot pens are rather inexpensive and write smooth.
>>460180It's frustrating. Almost nobody uses them IRL and the two fountain pen forums and the subreddit have a demographic that usually angers me. I think the poster above is right that this "hobby" draws a higher-than-normal anxiety enthusiasts. >>462736The most annoying thing about fountain pens is that many dry out, whether within days or weeks or months. Therefore my primary suggestion is to get one that does not do this. To achieve this, get a screw-off style cap instead of a snap on/off cap (the snap mechanism requires the cap has tiny holes in it, to prevent a vacuum that would pull ink out). The best company for this is Platinum because they have a "Slip and Seal" technology that is known to keep the nib wet, even when stored unused for months. As a beginner I would suggest buying two Platinum Preppys, in in a fine and one in a medium. This should get you an idea of what it's all about with a cheap, reliable pen that is not going to annoy you. And they come with a little bit of ink.To upgrade this order slightly, get one or two converters to go with the preppy and some ink samples that appeal to you. Much of the joy in fountain pens is in playing with different ink colors, and converters allow you to swap colors with just a bit of cleanup in between.
>>462737are the noodlers inks in some way special or good? I like their designs but never tried the product itself
>>454720It's cool if you're a big fucking deal lawyer or CEO signing shit constantly. Otherwise, you just look like a weirdo. What are you people even writing with pens besides your signature and a date?
>>454718I like em for drawing
How do I make good AI images without censorship? Don't need boobs though. I'm gay.
>>463996already curious about whether adding the irrelevant fact of you being gay will increase or decrease your chances of receiving a valuable answer
wow I guess AI wiped all you guys out. cemetery board.
mmmm polonium
Anyone got a link or torrent to pirate Toom Boom HarmonyI'm not paying 700$
yeah ME TOO
Why can't I copy this?
>>463980Because you have to have something actually selected/highlighted to copy?
>>463980lol bro it literally says do not touch
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I have a request, I'm requesting this. This thing I'm requesting is what I'm requesting: I need screenshots of old forum sites, the actual threads. I cannot find them. I can find the thread browser in old forums, I can find old forums with the new bland minimal aesthetic, but I cannot find actual threads.I've tried wayback machine for Gaia Online, WoW, FFXI and a few other sites, they have returned with heavily missing css and html. I am at wits end, some may call me witless, but whether my wits are less or more than 0, my time is being whittled to nothing. Please, lets put our wits together to which we can find old threads of forum posts from the early 2000s.
>>462418My bedroom used to be wall to wall with these
> 90/early 2000s Soul ThreadI'll bump an old thread. For anyone still interested, here's the link for aqn art collective which still hand-designs stuff with this aesthetic, no AI slophttps://www.desktopgeneration.com/
how do I learn to draw scientific diagrams? all gimp tutorials are about modifying a girl's face or somthing, I need to make pretty diagramspicrel was in my master's dissertation bte
>>463940>bte*btw
>>463941>BTFO
I would use cad software like autocad or freecad
is it the best graphic design Jumbo Josh? I have yet to see better.
>>463956sure, you prolly wouldnt know it if you saw it
AI really killed Graphic Design as a profession
>>463696In a round about way you could say yes. You need to be a “digital designer” more so than just a graphic designer nowadays. you’re able to network better when you can do graphic design, motion design, rendering, music etc. I couldn’t imagine being a successful designer now without being able to render my own assets via 3D or AI or whatever
>>463857Also this >>463856
the farm animal herd the economy supported ?
>>463696I thought that in 2023 but now people find out they can't use a 1024x1024 image as print and frustrate themselves unable to generate just a simple line of text, I think AI showed it could not replace me at least.I do cheat, I generate some elements to get the whole idea but it's inevitable, we got to work to get quality.>>463721AI users are retards. It's like someone who think they can build their house if it's just laying bricks. EASY NO SKILLS REQUIRED! Only a few grands in bricks and plasterboard, after a floor of concrete
>>463696it's going to kill people FOR REALhttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OHQRo3Uz_VQ
This might be more related to video editing, but does anyone have any idea how the tabs were put on screen like in the screenshot? Its a 16 year old video, and it sure doesn't look like your average sony vegas/premiere text tool. Something more analogue.https://youtu.be/k37XOqSDGcY
premiere has been around for a long time pali think its just that "notation" is inherently messy so it looks wonky.
>>463832most likely a copy/paste of notepad text in larger font size
>>463832i don't see why this is hard to figure out.it was clearly done in windows movie maker.
>>463861genuinely?
>>463947https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Movie_Makerwho the fuck knowsdoes it matter?
Should I learn Photoshop or Illustrator first?I know both are practically essential, but which is better to learn first?
>>459488Learn Photoshop then Illustrator, and apply design basics knowledge while at itPhotoshop is for pixel stuff, image editing and composingIllustrator for vector graphics, so basically a lot of shit between creating icons for apps and logos to composing a full vectorial illustration, webside mockups or creating anything typography intensiveafter that go InDesign once you get into layouts and grids for dense text and multipage prints like books and mags>>462356it comes down to usability and standarization. GIMP Inkscape, and other software like Krita and even the Affinity suit i guess do the very barebones basics as illustrator and Photoshop does, and you can do most things in those. it boils down to all the extra options some which are buried behind a bunch of drop downs that those software have stacked over yearsBlend tool alone is a good reason to go for illustrator over affinity, it shits itself sometimes but good luck doing anything it does manually, saves a lot of time and allows for exploring other things with ease, no need to reinvent the wheel every single timePeople throw a fit at GIMP for its shitty UX but Illustrator and InDesign aren't much better, they're just standard and thats why they get a pass
>>463894indesign is just for repetitive multipage design
Photoshop.When, I need design and curves, I gave up Illustrator. I use MSpaint, it's just good.16 years experience as a professional illustrator and I use MSpaint from WindowsXP
>>463937Can anyone create a picture where Mamdani standing next to Charlie Kirk? Both were killed by Jews on 9/11
>>463937browtf?
Is this a good logo?
>>463441reacting to this post will always make you lose, no matter what
>>463441Fire. Keep up the good work, son
>>463441Draw a line under the letters or it looks like c, with line will look like g
I need help. My family is going through a really tough financial situation: my mom is working herself to exhaustion, my dad’s factory is about to close, and I want to go to university but I don’t know what I can work at while studying.I studied at a technical school for electronics, but I barely learned anything practical. What jobs or activities would you recommend for a student like me to start earning money now? Any realistic advice helps, thanks.
>>463684find a job in electronics from somebody hiring
>>463684Find an electrician and ask him if he'd like a gopher assistant while you learn the trade. Also selling cell phones is good starter job.
Can anyone here explain or illustrate what the hell this corporate logo is supposed to be? It's driving me absolutely insane. I only see a retarded pelican.
>>463918
>>463919Pic related began as a highly stylized almost ancient Egyptian hawk symbol and was then made more non specific and mechanical looking in order to better reflect a more high performance aerospace flight direction that is well beyond simply emulating birds but still connects to that.
>>463920
>>463921 the vestiges of the earlier star shape in the lower version's overlapping delta shapes also easily suggest higher performance "flight" in those shapes and suggestion of motion- but aren't birds or airplanes either.
>>463293Looks like some Wipeout like racing ship>>463920This is pretty, get the stealth fighter/bomber vibe out of it. The new NG logo sucks.
I don’t want to pay for adobe again (literally can’t and never should have). Any way I can pirate and still be able to edit my Photoshop files?
yes.
there is a MONkey from RUSsia that can help you
>>463854Run CS6 in a Virtual Machine.
>>463927This or in Wine, hell I have been using PS CS6 extended X64 for over a decade, I tried CC but it's trash, it's slower, and more limited in plugins.I think that's the best version to date, CS6 portable, usually clean.
Adobe CEO steps down after 18 yearshttps://news.adobe.com/news/2026/03/leadership-update
I know the discussion will be around the fact that he's a jeet but the real story here is that AI is absolutely cannibalizing SaaS, Adobe is not the powerhouse it once was.
c suite cunts can fuck off forever, useless capital extractors fluffing cocks for investors
>>463903the west will learn the hard way
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