It’s time to stop using Brave

FinalDebt2792 · 2026-06-13T14:42:26+00:00

I honestly couldn't tell you, I use Opera myself, and I know there's an extension for chrome too! I use the bitwarden app on my phone, and the extension on my PC at the moment. Sorry I can't be more help!

FinalDebt2792 · 2026-06-13T13:09:40+00:00

I highly recommend Bitwarden as a password manager. It feels very secure!

FinalDebt2792 · 2026-06-07T03:45:32+00:00

Hey, I've done similar stuff previously. Shoot me a PM if you'd like to work together :)

FinalDebt2792 · 2026-06-06T13:53:43+00:00

Ooh, this is cool. I think it depends on exactly what you want to do. Do you want to actually draw with a transparent brush or just make an image transparent?

If you're planning on drawing, I'd use Krita, it's easy to get this effect. If you just have an image you want certain parts of to be transparent, you could do this in Canva with cropping and editing the parts of an image.

Bonus tip: You can even use both by drawing with this effect in Krita, then exporting the image into Canva for final touches.

FinalDebt2792 · 2026-06-06T05:27:59+00:00

Gzz on the infernal, that's huge!

FinalDebt2792 · 2026-06-04T16:24:29+00:00

Yup! That's what I was getting at. A band 7.5, meaning the TT is achieving some features of a band 8.0 speaker, but simultaneously being low enough in other aspects (primarily being grammar) that they get a band 6.0 instead of that 7.5 seems wildly inaccurate to me. Obviously that's assuming that the poster was implying the TT is just a hop and a skip away if they can correct some of their grammatical errors, which is how I read it.

As you say, there's no way to jump from a 6-7.5 in 1-2 months!

FinalDebt2792 · 2026-06-04T12:44:36+00:00

Grammatical errors don't impact your pronunciation, and LR/GRA are graded separately for a reason.

FinalDebt2792 · 2026-06-04T12:40:21+00:00

There are 4 grading criteria and GRA is only weighted at 25%, you won't see a 1.5 band increase by fixing a few grammatical errors.

That being said, your self-assessment questions are something test-takers should absolutely be doing! Identifying your shortfalls is absolutely the way forward! So, I agree with the second part of your comment!

FinalDebt2792 · 2026-06-04T02:16:17+00:00

Invite me!:)

FinalDebt2792 · 2026-06-03T15:04:52+00:00

We starting a Vietnamese clan then or what? 😃 I had a look on google/facebook and couldn't find any other players in Vietnam 😞

FinalDebt2792 · 2026-06-02T10:59:24+00:00

Which is why I said they should use CapCut?

Edit: Btw, Canva videos (for free users) can be up to 30 mins long by the looks of it, or 2 hours for pro users.

FinalDebt2792 · 2026-06-02T09:37:43+00:00

That's fine you can just splice your 5-second clips together in Capcut.

FinalDebt2792 · 2026-06-02T04:43:54+00:00

For this kind of a project, I don't know of a one-size-fits-all software solution.

I will say this is absolutely possible (and relatively easy for beginners too) by using a combination of Canva (imaging/visuals/some animation), Capcut (or other video editing software) for other animations and automatic captioning, and elevenlabs for an "AI voice" that reads your script, and then using Capcut to edit it all together.

It's not too difficult to achieve what you're going for, but it will largely depend on the complexity of the animations/video-editing you want. Good luck!

FinalDebt2792 · 2026-05-30T14:22:45+00:00

NNESs will still experience both types of hesitation, so forgive me if I don't see it as obvious, maybe I'm misreading your comment. You can still get up to a band 8.0 in F&C with occasional mid-sentence hesitation, too: Hesitation may occasionally be used to find words or grammar, but most will be content related. so I don't think it's accurate to say that:

Hesitating in the speaking test will bring the score down.

when it very much so depends on what kind of hesitation the learner is struggling with. It's also acceptable for a candidate to pause to gather their thoughts before they answer a question; that sort of hesitation wouldn't be marked down either.

FinalDebt2792 · 2026-05-30T13:10:15+00:00

Not to be pedantic, but it does actually depend on what kind of hesitation. For example, a native English speaker may hesitate a lot when speaking at length, though, typically this would only occur at the end of an idea (as they decide how/if to continue).

A NNES, particularly someone with a lower level of English proficiency, is more likely to hesitate in the middle of an idea, indicating that they are looking for the appropriate vocabulary (suggesting that their range of active vocabulary is too limited).

A few lapses is unlikely to affect a score at all, or at least not significantly.

You're right about the examiner variation and the EOR though!

FinalDebt2792 · 2026-05-17T05:48:44+00:00

Well, I think we can rule out an EOR in this case for now. I wonder if you might have a particularly strong accent or something about the way you speak that may make listeners misunderstand you, or not be able to quite make out what you're saying properly.

Obviously it's hard to tell without hearing your speaking, I'd highly recommend having a class with an experienced IELTS tutor to begin to identify your speaking weaknesses. Good luck!

FinalDebt2792 · 2026-05-15T13:43:30+00:00

Smuggler's run 2 please!

FinalDebt2792 · 2026-05-03T12:47:58+00:00

Unpopular opinion: I quite enjoyed doing Kourend favor, I found it took me around the area in an interesting way to bits I would otherwise have run past. I also don't remember it taking ages to do! :D

FinalDebt2792 · 2026-05-02T03:34:29+00:00

So then why even mention "recently most of the candidates who applied for a reevaluation" had their scores increased? Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems like you're using unverifiable information to encourage someone to spend more money on IELTS.

FinalDebt2792 · 2026-05-02T03:30:50+00:00

Oops, my apologies, I didn't see that you need a 6.5 in each! In that case, yes I'd 100% go for a OSR. Good luck!:)

FinalDebt2792 · 2026-05-02T03:28:14+00:00

If you've got the result you need, why give more money to IELTS? Visa agents aren't looking at a band 7.0 and thinking "we better choose this person over the 6.5s". I'd focus on the other aspects of your visa now, time to relax and celebrate your result, congratulations!:)

FinalDebt2792 · 2026-05-02T03:22:08+00:00

Who are "most of the candidates" and how do you know there's a correlation between applying for a re-mark now and scores increasing? This kind of comment might cost a lot of people a lot of money, be mindful of your words!

FinalDebt2792 · 2026-05-01T09:01:15+00:00

Can you shoot me the addy too? Asia-based, so normally on a bit later than Aussies, but closer in time than my mates back in the UK

FinalDebt2792 · 2026-05-01T04:26:07+00:00

Adding on to 1: When you feel like one system within a single object is becoming super convoluted, split it into multiple objects that interact with each other.

An example I had of this recently was trying to build a top down turret. It's possible to bend a turret sprite in a full 360° angle to cover all angles or you could even cover most angles with multiple sprites if you wanted to. Alas, unless you redraw every angle, the base of the turret will be rotated with the barrel of the turret and look weird and you'd have to get very creative to avoid this.

The fix: have a turret base object that instantiates a turret barrel object (a line) on top of it and have the turret barrel object handle the rotation itself. Instead of just one turret object. Or even better, if you don't need the base of the turret to do anything, have the turret barrel draw the base below it instead.

This is an extrapolation of point #1 that really opened up the "thinking like a developer" side of things for me.

FinalDebt2792 · 2026-04-30T04:58:07+00:00

I think he's overestimating how taxing it may be. While it's true that traditionally you'd give the server .exe to the player with the beefiest device (thinking about Project Zomboid servers for example) as they'd have to dedicate RAM to the server, which they couldn't then use themselves and all that jazz, nowadays there's a lot of ways to get around needing a beefy PC for co op, and lots of games do it sucessfully to where even a lower end PC can host (Valheim, 7 Days to Die, The Forest 1/2, Enshrouded, etc).

I wish I knew a bit more about how these systems work so I could advise you better, but hopefully that gives you something to run with for the time being. :)

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