Current lettering practice; figuring out how to do Thanos-style word balloons in Affinity Designer. #comicsky
UncannyKyle
@uncannykyle.bsky.social
Data wrangler and dad by day, werewolf by night. I shook hands with the other guy in N'Sync once!
If I put my iPhone against Magneto, could he wirelessly recharge it?
I’m trying to figure out how to letter comics in Affinity Designer on my iPad Pro, and the masking feature is breaking my brain. IIRC, when you mask in any other program, you put an object over the layer, and it hides the image below depending on B/W balance. In Affinity, it’s the opposite.
So you can emulate a 3DS on a Steam Deck and it’ll cruise along, but it looks…awkward. You don’t want to show just one screen and miss something, but the resolution math on fitting two at once isn’t mathing.
People complain about “homework” when it comes to the MCU like one of those movies is probably on FX right now. I’ve seen “Eternals” three times at the gym. My Mom didn’t give a shit about Marvel but if she got to see Chris Hemsworth, the clicker was put on the coffee table.
Introduce yourself as what almost killed you. Hello I am wandering out too far at the lake before I learned to swim.
Retro Blast 💫@retroblastpod.com · 2w agoIntroduce yourself as what almost killed you Salmonella poisoning. I was a year old. Dr. told my parents I was going to die. I didn't.
Hey @ryanhiggins.bsky.social don’t know if you’re on Instagram, but BTS pics from the cancelled “New Warriors” show; www.instagram.com/p/Db_Yi0Kiee...
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I’m a millennial and my boomer parents partied way harder than me, to the point where they were paranoid about me partying when all I wanted was to read comics and play N64. My dad came into my room trying to smell something “hot” and I’m just trying to play Smash Bros.
jon christian@jonchristian.net · 2w agokids today are literally confused about whether "partying" was real or an urban legend
I made a joke after seeing “Batman V. Superman” that the plot of “Justice League” would be Batman saying “oops aliens are invading guess that Superman was an alright guy after all” before the movie left theaters.
Kath Barbadoro@kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 2w agoWhat is the most vindicated you have be ever been for a hot take
I got rejected for unemployment assistance today. Not even the Department of Labor wants to pay me.
Yeah at this rate I’ve told my wife I might become an electrician. If this person is right, the tech industry has shrunk and might not come back. www.inc.com/joe-procopio...
Tech's Mass Layoffs Are Hiding a Much Scarier Problem, and AI Is Uncovering It
The labor participation rate is at 1970s levels—we’re ignoring it at our peril.
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I applied for a job with the Minnesota water treatment department like a week before they got hacked. With my luck they'll reject me because they think I did it.
I get irrationally angry when I see some little boutique magazine printed out and exclusive distributed in waiting rooms, because without fail there’s always images in there that aren’t print resolution, or not in CMYK color format, or both. And I emphasize irrational because nobody else sees it.
I had an easier time finding a job out of college in the timeframe “The Big Short” was happening.
So the state of the job market today; - there are no data analyst jobs within a four hour radius of me to apply to. - I have contacted every job I’ve applied to in the last two weeks asking for an interview - the nationally available remote jobs are all dead silent. We’re all screwed.
I’ve been wondering what the appeal of Harry Potter is for decades now, and at this point I’m worried that it’s just the fantasy that you can be unremarkable but someone will come along, declare you’re the most important person who ever lived and you deserve all the good things in life.
Found a wasp nest the size of a hockey puck under my back porch, this is like 2/3rds of the dead wasps I had to clean up after spraying it. I swear these things are IRL Xenomorphs.
If I can’t find a job by September I’m gonna try to become a grocery store manager, because apparently you can make over $100k a year running an Aldi, which is like Trader Joe’s red state liberal cousin.
I just interviewed for a job and god I hope I get it. The job market is so bad my wife was turned down for a job she was asked to apply for. We need some income in this house.
I have a New Nintendo 3DS XL, the yellow one with Pikachu on it. I got it broken for $40 and had Nintendo refurbish/replace it for $100 when they still did that. It sells on the secondary market for $550 and I almost feel like I should sell it just for the $400(!) ROU.
BlueSky is like my digital detox compared to other social media. It’s the only one I’m on that defaults to a chronological feed. I open it, see what’s new and go “that’s nice” and go back to my day. Like you’re supposed to.
Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)
If I get fired a third time this year do I get free ice cream or something?
50/50 chance I get fired tomorrow, send suggestions for a “fuck this place anyway” playlist.
"Stop giving me what you think I want! Pour yourself into the story. Have a clear vision for what it means to you, and then let me decide whether I like it and what it means to me." @polygon.com added a spicy take meter just in time to ask for games to take away the player creating their own story.
Inspired by @warppoint.games , I started up a blog again, with some older posts I had on my Substack/Destructoid, analyzing GTA V MGS V, Persona 4 and more. actuallykindacool.mataroa.blog
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