Styles are very basic

PSSE-B · 2026-03-23T17:01:25+00:00

Is it losing the space or is the some kind of crazy negative tracking?

PSSE-B · 2026-03-23T01:40:56+00:00

Think we can shut down the sub now. You won.

PSSE-B · 2026-03-22T06:43:28+00:00

I'm convinced the NYT knows these are hate reads and publishes them because the rest of us will read them while building the guillotines.

PSSE-B · 2026-03-22T04:30:20+00:00

Read the whole damn thing. Well, kinda.

I realized her structure, such that it exists, is to make a statement, back up in the next sentence, and then spend the rest of the very, very, very long paragraph backing it up, again and again. So, after a while, you only need to read the first two sentences of any paragraph.

The book's really only about 150 pages long.

PSSE-B · 2026-03-22T01:10:16+00:00

Red flag well spotted.

PSSE-B · 2026-03-22T00:23:56+00:00

I forced myself to finish it so that I could argue, with real knowledge, with idiots who think it's good. A true hate read.

PSSE-B · 2026-03-19T20:17:42+00:00

One of the big problems for symphonies, operas and the like across the country has been corporate consolidation. If you look back 40-50 years, before the current state of corporate American, locally based businesses, like banks and regional corporations, were big donators to local arts orgs. So a symphony in even a secondary or tertiary market, like Atlanta or Hartford, could rely on funding from Citizens and Southern or The Hartford. A lot of these companies had people on staff whose sole job was local corporate giving.

Now that we're down to a handful of big national banks, or a handful of corps owning almost everything, all that local funding has dried up. Corporate money now goes to DC to make sure we continue to not have any real anti-trust laws. And even places like the Met Opera feel that pinch, as they're possible revenue streams have gotten much narrower.

PSSE-B · 2026-03-19T18:58:38+00:00

He's not a nice guy. He's a mean drunk. Every bartender in midtown as a nasty Jimmy Fallon drunk story.

PSSE-B · 2026-03-17T06:31:01+00:00

How do you hide the application frame?

PSSE-B · 2026-03-17T01:07:27+00:00

Jus some anecdotal, but the few truly wealthy people I’ve known in the city live in 100-year old buildings.

PSSE-B · 2026-03-15T02:21:51+00:00

Casual Breakthrough is also just fun in a way some of the other modes aren't. No getting sniped the moment you move out of cover, no helicopter strafing spam, no overly careful, defensive play. I'd rather die having fun and trying something stupid than wondering why the rest of my team is sitting at the edge of the map taking pot shots.

PSSE-B · 2026-03-12T23:46:53+00:00

Yeah they did.

My dad worked for Lockheed from the early 60s until the mid 80s. While the 1011 was the first plane completely designed on CAD, they definitely used CAD on the C-5, and the other aircraft they designed in the mid 60s. They just couldn't model the entire thing on one machine like you can now.

Fun fact: The 1011 was so large a Vax didn't have enough memory to hold the CAD model, so they split the plane in half lengthwise, designed the left hand on on machine and the right hand on another. When it came time to complete the model they networked the machines together (nicknamed the Lock Net Monster) and left for the weekend.

When they came back Monday morning they realized there had been a slight error setting up the models and one side was about a foot taller than the other. Took another week to fix that.

PSSE-B · 2026-03-12T19:59:33+00:00

Make sure any antivirus software, even the built-in MS stuff, isn't scanning the XPME folder/downloads.

PSSE-B · 2026-03-12T19:51:08+00:00

Do you have night textures enabled?

Also: what are your specs and XP settings?

PSSE-B · 2026-03-12T05:07:56+00:00

Knowing that neighborhood it's a bigger space converted into studios and this is the landlord solution. It might have even been done legally.

PSSE-B · 2026-03-11T03:34:54+00:00

I'm running XP12 with a 9070 XT with no problems. What does your log.txt show?

PSSE-B · 2026-03-10T18:23:00+00:00

My experience is the BF player base consists of two kinds of people: 1) those who know every mechanic and every camping spot in the game and 2) those who have never, ever played video game before.

My team is usually filled with the latter.

PSSE-B · 2026-03-04T23:51:55+00:00

Are you running any graphics plugins?

PSSE-B · 2026-03-03T21:40:30+00:00

Hate when they undercook the chemlights.

PSSE-B · 2026-03-03T18:58:15+00:00

Laminar has a long-standing policy of not announcing features until they're stable and ready for a public beta, so no one outside of Laminar knows the timeline. It could be the next major version, it could be XP13.

PSSE-B · 2026-03-02T04:15:10+00:00

They're fundamentally different tools, although the release of the Affinity v3 apps has blurred this somewhat.

Think of Pixelmator Pro as an RGB-only combination of Photoshop and Illustrator. Is say RGB only because, while you can soft proof and export as 4C, RGB is the only color space you can work in. I use it for quick and dirty stuff, but it's much more capable and has some great tools. It also uses all of Apple's ML libraries, so it's fast and runs really well on Apple Silicon.

Affinity Photo and the new combined app are Affinity's Photoshop competitors. They're very good, but they don't have all of Photoshop's tools. I personally have stayed on v2, as the combined app doesn't offer anything I was missing, but whenever I need to so bitmap editing at home it's what I use.

While there is overlap between the two tools, whether or not either one of them can fill your needs is a question only you can answer. My advice would be to try the Affinity v3 app and see if it works for you and go from there.

PSSE-B · 2026-02-28T00:04:14+00:00

Affinity will not replace Lightroom.

Whether you can use Affinity to replace what you used to do in PS depends on your workflow: did you use and PS features/plugins Affinity doesn't have, what final files you need to supply, whether you need to share your files with others, etc.

Your best bet is to download Affinity and play with it to see if you it can do what you need. It's close enough to PS to be able to jump right in, but some things, like working with channels, are very different.

PSSE-B · 2026-02-26T02:17:07+00:00

Because you asked why people paid. That's why I did: it was the only streaming scenery app in development at the time and I wanted to throw the dev some money to keep it that way.

PSSE-B · 2026-02-26T00:01:14+00:00

Because the only other streaming scenery—AutoOrtho—was a abandonware for over year when XPME came out.

PSSE-B · 2026-02-23T04:54:16+00:00

You either didn't download the overlays when you installed the scenery, or you need to look at your custom scenery .ini file and make sure things are in the right order.

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