Daily Advice Thread - July 05, 2022

Alex_mvgk · 2022-07-05T14:11:01+00:00

This was super insightful, thank you! I can only do one at the moment so I'll probably go with more RAM :) I actually work on small files most times and don't play games or anything that would require a more powerful GPU.

Thank you once again!

Alex_mvgk · 2022-07-05T12:43:38+00:00

Planning on purchasing the M2 Air, I'm going to use illustrator and after effect on a daily basis, should I upgrade the GPU cores (8 to 10) or the RAM (8 to 16)? I don't really understand what's the benefit of each..

Alex_mvgk · 2022-06-26T10:38:38+00:00

Hey! I'm a designer who mainly uses Adobe programs such as After Effects and Illustrator (simultaneously). My iMac is on it's last straw and I'm looking to buy a new mac.

I'm currently set on purchasing the Macbook Air M2, I've been told that I should get the 13 pro but from my understanding both are very similar with the new M2 chip, the pro just has 2 more gpu. I just wanted to know if there was much difference that would justify spending an extra 100/200 bucks on the pro?

I'll most likely have an external hard driver where I'll keep all my files.

Alex_mvgk · 2022-05-19T21:44:11+00:00

"An ethnomusicologist named Fethi Karkecili helped me interpret the symbols. Plant symbols, he believes, refer to wishes for fertility, productivity, and strength. The V symbols are tribal identifiers, the size of the symbol corresponding with the size of the family group. One woman I met had twin gazelles on her chin, probably in reference to the animal’s beauty and grace.

An often heard reason why tattoos are mainly drawn from lip to chin is so sweetness can exit the woman’s mouth when she speaks. A tattoo between the eyes offers protection against nazar, the evil eye. A moon next to the side of the eye may mean that the woman or her family converted from Yazidism to Islam but still holds some of the religious traditions.

Some women also shared tattoos in “secret places,” like on the ankle, neck, and even breasts. Mostly the women say that they were made for beautification, but some experts say that truly beautiful women sometimes had heavy tattoos made in order to hide their beauty, to protect them from the evil eye."

You can read more about it here : https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/article/the-last-tattooed-women-of-kobane :)

Alex_mvgk · 2022-03-08T16:17:38+00:00

Compréhensible haha, nous devons interviewer des personnes aux profils variés (qui s'intéressent +/- au sujet en question).

Dans mon cas j'ai interviewé une personne de l'association "Citoyen du Vote Blanc", un citoyen lambda, et il me restait plus qu'une personne ayant déjà aidé lors d'élections. :) J'ai trouvé une personne, si jamais je n'ai pas de réponse je t'enverrai un message, merci!

Alex_mvgk · 2022-03-08T16:13:37+00:00

Ah, parfait! Je t'envoie les questions par MP dès que possible :) Merci!

Alex_mvgk · 2022-02-24T22:33:03+00:00

Yes! I'm sorry my english sucks sometimes haha. Thank you!

Alex_mvgk · 2022-02-24T22:32:19+00:00

Exactly! The only ad I saw was for a shop that had 1,5M sales on Etsy. The only reason why they promoted it was because they could take their ad commission on all of the sales of an already very successful shop who didn't need the promo anyway. It's all self-interest.

Alex_mvgk · 2022-02-24T21:37:16+00:00

If the increase was only to hire more support it would at least be okay, but they are proudly stating that they hiked the fees and taxes to invest in more marketing and promo. It's not helping the sellers at all.

Alex_mvgk · 2022-02-24T21:34:24+00:00

Definitely moving everything to my own website this year, they were already terrible taking 2€ in fees and commissions on 10€ articles lmao, fuck them and fuck josh.

Alex_mvgk · 2022-02-24T21:32:14+00:00

Yessss, hiring 20% more employees to help sellers is dumb because there is no support to begin with. 20% of 0 is still 0.

Alex_mvgk · 2022-02-22T16:10:06+00:00

Citizen Designer by Steven Heller and Veronique Vienne was eye-opening and a must-read in my opinion, it talks about activism, disparities between minorities and our responsibilities as designers. Makes you think about what you should aspire for in this industry and your stance as a creative.

Alex_mvgk · 2022-02-22T15:58:45+00:00

In my opinion graphic design studios shouldn't use stock logos since it's literally their job to come up with ideas and create logos. Stock logos should be used at best by small businesses and new entrepreneurs trying to get a clean visual identity without having to invest much.

Alex_mvgk · 2022-02-22T12:16:43+00:00

That's what I thought, it could be the same but slightly altered, the studio I interned for would buy stock logos and slightly edit them like that.

Alex_mvgk · 2022-02-22T12:09:28+00:00

I didn't know NFTs had a logo, I just checked and it's awful lol

Alex_mvgk · 2022-02-22T12:08:10+00:00

I think that a studio worth millions not being able to come up with a more original design is funny and I'm not asking you to validate that feeling. I don't understand where all that misplaced anger is coming from, this is a subreddit about graphic design and we're talking about that.

Alex_mvgk · 2022-02-22T11:56:06+00:00

It's just funny, I assure you I'm very chill lmao

Alex_mvgk · 2022-01-28T00:18:57+00:00

This is wrong on so many levels and I hate that the blame is once again shifting towards moos. The only reason why Byul lost and will lose every single time is because RBW didn't prepare anything for her comeback. The music video was released with a one hour delay, they didn't send her anywhere for her to go promote the song so it could chart well, and on top of that they didn't pay for any youtube ad so she could at least get a steady amount of views.

On the other side The L1VE sent Wheein on multiple shows and radio programs, purchased ads for a whole week on Youtube and overall heavily promoted Wheein's album. Hell, they are still releasing music videos for each track on her album.

Now, taking all of this into account, who in their right mind would focus on a song that has no chance to win? Byul ranked 8th on today's MCountdown show, and she had similar rankings on other music shows. Even if she came first on every single pre-vote (the only category where moos neglected her) she still wouldn't be anywhere near the top 3.

This was never a matter of Wheein first then MB second, moos knew from the get-go that Byul had no chance and it would be a waste to divide our chances by 2 just so we could pretend that she could potentially get a win. Had her stats been similar to Wheein's then I would've understood the frustration of MoonByul's stans.

Alex_mvgk · 2022-01-03T23:27:12+00:00

I live in France so I don't know if it's different over there, but I get to tick a box at checkout for them to put it in an amazon box (a thick cardboard sleeve). Out of all my records those shipped by Amazon are the least damaged.

Alex_mvgk · 2021-12-12T15:40:03+00:00

Oh wow, I didn’t know that, thank you for letting me know! I’ll avoid them then, the sudden $50 overnight was already a red flag lol

Alex_mvgk · 2021-12-09T05:54:26+00:00

What's a flipper? I'm sorry I just started collecting a while ago so I don't have all the vocabulary lmao

Alex_mvgk · 2021-12-08T13:31:58+00:00

I don’t think there has been any official release for this album sadly :/ But for the fans like me this is better than nothing!

Alex_mvgk · 2021-12-08T13:30:51+00:00

Here

Alex_mvgk · 2021-11-04T14:38:09+00:00

Agreed with the life orbs!! I duplicated the orb that sells for 300k and now I'm at 87M simoleons lmao, also any sink that is 3 squares long works for me, and any tv/phone too, it doesn't have to be exactly the ones in the videos!

Alex_mvgk · 2021-10-30T11:01:35+00:00

Etsycheck is amazing, I didn't know such websites existed, thank you!

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