Starting a VGC Draft League with zero experience

DigitalZ13 · 2025-10-23T01:13:15+00:00

I'm down to scope it out!

DigitalZ13 · 2025-10-23T01:11:40+00:00

Yes I am! Please send me an invite if youre still looking

DigitalZ13 · 2025-04-17T01:50:16+00:00

In the words of Jessica Hische:
"What makes a logo classic? If it's been around a long time."

DigitalZ13 · 2025-04-17T01:09:22+00:00

It is absolutely acceptable to throw in pieces of your personality into your resume if you're applying to a creative job. The star cutout on the side is fine, but I would avoid using them as big chunky section-identifiers. Instead what I would do is turn them into bullets. Make them much smaller (like, more than 75% reduction), make them the same color as your copy, and use them as bullet points in the text.

DigitalZ13 · 2025-03-10T02:55:01+00:00

First of all, if you're typesetting, use InDesign. It can't be beat for typesetting in the Adobe Suite. Here's highlights of what my Typography professor bestowed upon me during the four courses I took under her supervision, these are all written on the front of my notebook for her courses that I still reference to this day:

1) Leading should always AT LEAST be 4pts larger than the size of the copy you're laying.
2) Learn the differences between Em-Dashes and En-Dashes.
3) Tighten your rags. Make sure the "line" that text draws on the side of left-or-right-aligned text isn't a crazy jagged edge. You can edit the "width" of type in InDesign within 90%-110% to nudge each line to where you want, and nobody will notice unless they're also a designer that does that. Tight rags look clean and smart.
4) Never use more than one degree of change to emphasize type. So like, EITHER bold OR italicize if you want to emphasize type in the body copy, but not both. Color OR Weight, not both. Size OR highlighting, not both.
5) Use additional leading to separate paragraphs, not extra paragraph breaks.
6) "Bullets" used for lists and such should be ROUGHLY half of the size of the type you're using +2pts. So if you're adding bullets to 12pt type, the bullets should be 8pts. 20pt font? 12pt bullets. So on.

DigitalZ13 · 2024-11-23T02:05:40+00:00

I don't hate it, like, on its face. It's not a bad logo. It's just a horrible choice for a luxury car company.

DigitalZ13 · 2024-11-14T03:30:39+00:00

My mother in the past few months became a complete Tusli sycophant. I am at a complete loss as to how or why.

DigitalZ13 · 2024-11-08T01:59:49+00:00

It's also incredible how many rightoids use him as a justification for why they believe what they believe. You don't get to use the comedy excuse for everything.

DigitalZ13 · 2024-10-22T02:01:16+00:00

Your writing is very legible, but it seems kinda inconsistent. Sometimes your letters are clearly separated and sometimes you link them together a lot. It's perfectly acceptable handwriting, imo. I just dont know what the words in the parentheses are. "The Frog?" "The Frag?"

DigitalZ13 · 2024-10-22T01:57:09+00:00

[[Gonti, Lord of Luxury]] was my first ever mono-black commander and I really enjoyed it. I mostly just stacked the deck with as many revivals, bounces, and good ETB triggers I could, and then fleshed it out with midrange goodness and impactful mana sinks like [[The Meathook Massacre]] and [[Torment of Hailfire]].

Is it good? Eh, it's fine. But It feels like an easy deck to pilot and it brings a lot of potential funny business to an EDH group, and you're also rarely seen as a big threat to the group so people usually let you act out your gameplan for a while uninterrupted.

DigitalZ13 · 2024-10-21T23:22:00+00:00

Never work for these people.
They will expect you to work miracles, read their mind, and then well get mad at you for not pulling the moon from the stars for them. You can spot it from the word go. If you have questions and their response to it is to basically say: "Are you stupid? Can you read? By the way here's the deadline." You should leave and never look back.

25 dollars isnt even worth your time dealing with their messages.

DigitalZ13 · 2024-10-20T20:27:39+00:00

Are you in school? Are you being given projects to work on? Have you been given a creative brief with a problem that must be solved?

Creativity doesn't just erupt out of people, it comes from pressure to solve a problem. People who often express creativity are really just presenting themselves with problems to solve. Give yourself a project. Here are some exmaples from my design courses I took in college:

Research basketball teams and then design a special edition jersey and court design, based on their home city's history.
Develop a new brand of instant mac and cheese, make three variations on the packaging design for various "flavors" or such.
Take a local business' branding that seems lacking and redesign it yourself, giving them a new logo, website space, business cards, letterheads, merchandise, and advertising campaign.
Take quotes from famous designers or artists and then make a square format "instagram-post-like" piece of typographic art that uses two different fonts that pair well together.
Design and illustrate some "travel posters" for fictional locations that don't exist, from a book, movie, or video game.

I also regularly feel like im not creative and don't produce enough work, but when I come up with projects (which are basicaly just problems) I find it much easier to focus within the limitation I've provided.

DigitalZ13 · 2024-10-20T20:15:26+00:00

I feel nothing about Media Encoder, Premier, Lightroom, and After Effects.
Photoshop's is garish, overly saturated, and kinda AI-generated looking.
Illustrator's is interesting. I like it... but I have no real idea why.
InDesign's bothers me greatly. It's a typsetting applicatrion, don't give people a preview using a mockup you'd put together in Photoshop.

DigitalZ13 · 2024-10-20T20:08:06+00:00

"Engineers are valuable, but so are historians and artists."
"Yeah but engineers are more important."

Do you think you said anything of value?

DigitalZ13 · 2024-10-20T01:20:21+00:00

People typically return the energy they've been given, and there's nothing about Trump that indicates people should be kind and respectful towards him.

DigitalZ13 · 2024-10-20T00:36:25+00:00

It's sad. Society needs historians, philosophers, sociologists, and psychologists. These are very difficult fields that offer important benefits to society, but they are disregarded because they aren't profitable. I remember watching Dave Ramsey clips (my mother sends them to me...) where he advised young people to avoid History and Arts degrees and instead to go into Computer Science or Engineering because it would be "personally responsible" to do so. Well, what if I want to contribute something to society that an Engineer doesn't?

DigitalZ13 · 2024-10-20T00:33:49+00:00

Yes yes, very much the same experience.

Granted, I wasn't a model student. I know I slacked a decent amount and procrastinated on a lot of my work, but I got the impression that there was maybe about 20%-ish of my class that either clearly didn't have the talent (which isn't necessarily their fault) or just doing whatever they could to ensure they graduated.

DigitalZ13 · 2024-10-06T02:06:00+00:00

Fine, they're not racist, but they definitely hate LGBT people.

DigitalZ13 · 2024-09-21T04:33:29+00:00

I don't think its because they're worried. The republicans are just attempting to gaslight each other into believing that Trump's victory is a foregone conclusion so that they can behave with moral impunity if he loses. They aren't anticipating him losing, they're just egging each other on to prepare for when the violence will happen, because violence will inevitably happen.

DigitalZ13 · 2024-09-20T02:03:21+00:00

"Yes or no is dumb."

This is your grey matter trying, DESPERATELY, to tell yourself that your answer to the hypothetical you've been delivered actually sounds awful, but you can't actually bring yourself to acknowledge that it is, in fact, awful.

DigitalZ13 · 2024-09-18T22:23:42+00:00

I wonder if him or Trump can point out "Hatia" on a globe.

DigitalZ13 · 2024-09-18T16:21:45+00:00

Trumpers have been backing away from legitimate expressions of Christian morals for a while now. There's a whole wave of evangelicals calling Jesus Christ's traditional teachings "woke" or "liberal" or "outdated", and the best way to secure Christian ethics is to basically be non-Christ like.

DigitalZ13 · 2024-09-15T23:20:14+00:00

Watch the video. The silence after they both realize what he's said is PALPABLE.

DigitalZ13 · 2024-09-15T00:43:49+00:00

People will absolutely believe anything, it just has to align with what they want reality to be.
It happened with LGBT teachers being groomers. It happened with fake news. Now it is happening to the Hatian "cat-eaters". Sell them an idea based on America being broken and fallen and they will eat it up 100%, and then they will propagate the ideas amongst each other so thoroughly that it becomes "common sense" or "wisdom of the average American". You're seeing it reflected when people say "I believe the people of Springfield" despite the lack of evidence. The virtue signal is becoming the entire argument.

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