bklyn

Gift cards say, “I could have just given you cash, but I wasn’t considerate enough to also give the freedom to buy what you want. I have therefore restricted you to store of my choosing, for if I cared at all about you, I’d actually have been able to buy a suitable gift myself.”

STUART!

(for whatever reason)

If you look at their post and comment history, it’s not such a mystery as to why they were banned

That user is infamous for being a massive piece of shit. A cur.

Until you nod off in the begonias…

I don’t like saying anything nice about the woman, but she was pretty much the leading Fluxus artist in the 60s and 70s. As an artist, she’s actually quite talented.

She’s still a fucking bitch though. I met her once, and it was thoroughly unpleasant.

Apple’s prices have been more reasonable in recent years, although still above-market. and the Mac Mini is a pretty powerful little machine for a good price.

I actually have Krita. I use it for creating digital art with my tablet. I don’t really use it for editing/compositing like PS.

I do a few different types of graphic design and photo editing for some different clients, but it’s more about the workflows I’ve worked out in PS. GiMP does things very differently, and I think that’s why a lot of PS users hate it. I sure do. it took me years to master PS. I don’t want to have to go through all of that again, and I certainly don’t have the time.

I will check out the plugin you mentioned. I’ve heard of it, but didn’t think much of it before.

lol, eat me hahaha

interesting you should mention your old machine. I recently upgraded my 2016 MacBook Pro to a M4 Pro MBP. Photoshop ran fine on the old one. Great, actually. The only difference I noticed was that PS launches faster and opens files faster, buuuut… that’s about it. PS already ran fine on my 9 y/o MBP. the new machine didn’t improve much, other than the RAM, which allows me to have more large docs open at once.

my last machine only had 16GB of ram, whereas this new one has 48GB (the max for the MBP). still, the performance is pretty close-- although my old machine would probably struggle if I had a bunch of large PSDs open.

as an investment, I didn’t really have a choice-- my old MBP died (ssd fried). I love this new machine, tho. it’s very fast.

I opened Photoshop, and I left it open with no document open. Just the main window. It started at 11 GB of RAM and went up to 28 gb without me doing anything.

If there was anything that was as good as Photoshop, I’d have switched years ago. But I’ve tried the alternatives, and they’re just is nothing like it. Same for InDesign. Affinity photo is really really close, but it’s just not the same.

I’ve been using Photoshop for over 30 years. Even when the time comes, making the switch will be very difficult.

edit: I just tried opening PS again and letting it sit. it’s hovering around 3-3.5GB of ram usage. I think that last attempt was a fluke.

This movie looks incredible. I’m really looking forward to seeing it.

the robot wars have begun

Shit, my bad, I didn’t realise that using a nuclear weapon instead was that much better

he didn’t use a nuclear weapon, either.

since it changes the type of weapon from a Weapon of Mass Destruction that turns a planet inhospitable to a Weapon of Mass Destruction that turns a planet inhospitable.

turning a planet inhospitable isn’t the same as trying to kill all of the civilians living on that planet. and - yes - that does make a difference.

So… Sisko behaved with the same level of disregard for sentient life as a terrorist?

he didn’t do that, either. he very well knew the maquis could easily evacuate, and knew they had a new planet to resettle afterward. and, before he fired the torpedos, he gave them every bit of warning.

Not really. Attacking civilians is bad.

nobody’s arguing that here, and I’ve already stated - several times - that I agree.

but the argument is “is it a war crime?”. and you really haven’t made your case. I remain unconvinced.

is it a crime– I already said that it probably is. should it be a war crime. probably. but is it a war crime? maybe, but I don’t think we know enough to say. that’s a question of Federation law, and we can’t know the answer here.

Oh ok, as long as he didn’t throw the chemicals in their face, making the air they breathe toxic and fatal does not count as a chemical weapons attack.

well, Sisko didn’t use a chemical weapon-- he released radiogenic particles (trilithium) into the upper atmosphere which irradiated the planet. he also provided the inhabitants ample time to escape its effects. it didn’t make the air poisonous. technically, it was Eddington who used a biological weapon one the Cardassian planet which did make their air toxic, and Sisko was responding to that.

see, you’re treating this like a black-and-white situation when it’s all very morally gray. and I’m not arguing what Sisko did was right or moral-- I’m trying to say that you’re trying to define a complex situation through the narrow lens of a legal technicality, and that we would need to know more about both Federation law and Sisko’s intent and foreknowledge before making a judgement.

so: is what Sisko did a crime? probably. would the Federation technically consider it a war crime? I don’t think we know enough about the circumstances to say.

But think of all the wonderful harmonizing you can do together!

… using chemical weapons (which is a war crime now), on civilians (warcrime now) ,

eh… he didn’t use the weapons on the civilians, he triggered their atmosphere to change, making the planet uninhabitable to humans. the intent was never to harm any of them, just to force them off the planet. these details are important. had he used a chemical weapon directly on the civilians, with the intent to cause them harm, that would be a war crime.

see, we’re trying to apply contemporary mores and rules to a situation that couldn’t possibly exist now. so… while I agree that it was a reprehensible act, does it rise to the level of a war crime? maybe, but the fact that it didn’t - nor was it intended to - harm anyone, should be considered.

ooo… I dunno. there are a lot of factors to consider. The Ocampa situation, the interactions with the Kazon… Sisko & Co.'s proficiency in dealing with The Caretaker and his tech…

honestly? all I know is that it would have gone very differently. possibly differently enough that the Caretaker’s Array’s dself-destruct might not have gotten damaged, or, another way, that they didn’t retrieve their crewmembers from Ocompa, or were killed by the Kazon…

I would like to have seen that play out, though.

I’m talking about bombing the planet full of Maquis colonists (civilians).

well, nobody actually died (civilians), as they evacuated, and the maquis colonists and cardassians just switched planets as a result. does that count as a war crime in the 2370s in the Federation? I dunno.

Also, falsifying evidence to rope a civilization into a war.

not sure if that technically counts as a war crime. certainly a crime, but a war crime? dunno about that, either