My aunt bought me a T-shirt.
It says:
hello
instylefit girl's
WHAT WERE YOU THANKING BUT ME PLANE.
ARE YOU GETTING ALONG GO NOT MAKE ME NERVYOUS DOING MARE
I couldn't make this up if I tried.
Posted 12 November 2013 - 02:48 AM
My aunt bought me a T-shirt.
It says:
hello
instylefit girl's
WHAT WERE YOU THANKING BUT ME PLANE.
ARE YOU GETTING ALONG GO NOT MAKE ME NERVYOUS DOING MARE
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Posted 02 July 2014 - 02:02 PM
I generally stopped giving a crap about grades because a large chunk of it doesn't involve learning anything useful or interesting.
Dopple loves you. Yes, you.
Posted 19 July 2015 - 01:45 AM
I met someone from MSN today. Nice fellow. He bought a deep fried Mars Bar, and ate it while I stared in horror.
Now I want to meet all of you!
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Posted 14 September 2015 - 01:40 AM
For once I met Therealtahu, even though we live in the same city. Hotpot was cool. Jamming on the Blazblue CS machine and laughing to tears was cool. (Hentai was there, too. He picked Iron Pubstomper, so I picked Pubstompumen, and we mashed keys until somebody died. It was stupid and great.)
But I realized why I don't hang out with my RL friends that often. If you're not hungry or interested in shopping, there's nothing to freaking do in Richmond. All the fun places are getting phased out by women's apparel stores. No more entertainment centres, just shops that sell purses and shoes. That Blazblue machine was part of an arcade area in a mall food court. If they could fit another clothing store there, they probably would've.
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Posted 15 September 2015 - 04:41 PM
I havent met any MT members in person, though I'm sure there are a few that live close to Toronto. I think Fireboar lived closeby me, though.
Posted 21 September 2015 - 02:46 PM
I'm at 3/3 cool people. Would recommend. Maybe we can meet up one day and make that four.
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Posted 11 August 2016 - 01:48 PM
"I'm not big on graphic design," I said, once upon a time.
Oh, how things have changed. Well, all design questions are interesting, so whatever keeps 'em coming, I guess.
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Posted 10 September 2016 - 01:49 PM
There are people still on this forum?
Posted 13 September 2016 - 01:47 PM
Yea? Why not?
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Posted 18 October 2016 - 12:00 AM
Some of us got Dopple a hammer and now we get to see an eldritch horror that sometimes resembles code.
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The current forum killed it, but at least Warrior's Pride died too.
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Posted 18 October 2016 - 04:06 AM
Some of us got Dopple a hammer and now we get to see an eldritch horror that sometimes resembles code.
yUDoThis();
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Posted 30 June 2018 - 10:11 PM
Funny coming back two years to this...
Some of us got Dopple a hammer and now we get to see an eldritch horror that sometimes resembles code.
Joke's on Tahu. I program for a living now.
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Posted 11 August 2018 - 06:37 PM
I've been trying to escape the gravitational orbit of graphic design. Well, the doing is alright, but that's as far as it goes. I've never really had a spark for graphic design -- I mean in the profession sense, not in the philosophical, "graphic design is everywhere is graphic design" sense that I sometimes talk about. Back when MapleTip still had the avatar and signature gallery subforum (whether it counts or not aside), you'd see a number of folks who enjoyed what they made, to the extent that they probably could've seen themselves pursuing graphic design further, if not professionally. I never did have a similar interest.
No, I don't hate it. I don't like it, either. And there are some reasons why graphic design (the profession, not the discipline) increasingly sucks.
1) People balk at paying you more than like... 40 bucks... for a piece of work. If you think that's pricey: exactly. Where I'm from, and maybe where you're from, too, $40 might let you live to see another day. $40 can also cover one month of your Adobe subscription (people do, in fact, pay for this, especially if they're going professional). What $40 ought to get is one hour of time from a freelancer -- the kind of worker with irregular income and no benefits.
2) Following 1), this also means you compete with graphic designers from places where $40 can let them live for more than one day.
3) The bar to entry in graphic design is pretty much nonexistent, so any freelancer-apparent and their dog's mum can get in on it. The field becomes a combination of saturated and very noisy. Web design is going in a similar direction, with people selling other people's WordPress templates, and occasionally calling themselves 'web developers' while they're at it. Top hilarity.
4) Not so hilarious is when anything visual eventually becomes absorbed by the amorphic, ever-expanding blob that is the field of graphic design. Web design is about how the website looks, so that's graphic design, obviously. HTML/CSS is about presentation, which is web design, which is, naturally, also graphic design. UX design? Well it has 'design' in the name, so graphic design it is. (I have a friend who was hired on as a UX designer, got assigned random graphic design and marketing stuff. What's the word? "Jebaited"?) And if all these things are now graphic design, what happens to traditional, print and visual asset graphic design? Becoming less adequate, less relevant. Public perception is on a steady downward trend, and the collapse has a way of sucking in everything it touches.
Dopple loves you. Yes, you.
Posted 02 September 2018 - 02:44 AM
At work, I built this feature where you can share an 'x' to online friends, and the system lets them make a copy (so whatever friends do, it only affects their own version, and you won't see the changes). I did the UI, front end, back end, whole wazoo. Happy ending, it didn't erupt in flames when it went to production. While reviewing the feature with marketing, they said, paraphrased, So you know how in Google docs, you can see what your collaborators are typing in real time? Why isn't [our feature] like that?
Um, well... if the feature were like real time Google docs, I'd be getting paid about 3x what I'm currently making, or maybe, we wouldn't have gotten the demi-graphic designer to do it to begin with.
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Posted 13 October 2018 - 01:44 AM
Essays would be in a better place if more people observed the single responsibility principle. Then we'd see less drivel like this course description that somebody was probably paid to write:
This course will help students develop and consolidate the skills required for and knowledge of different subjects and disciplines to solve problems, make decisions, create personal meaning, and present findings beyond the scope of a single subject or discipline. Students will apply the principles and processes of inquiry and research to effectively use a range of print, electronic, and mass media resources; to analyse historical innovations and exemplary research; and to investigate real-life situations and career opportunities in interdisciplinary endeavours. They will also assess their own cognitive and affective strategies, apply general skills in both familiar and new contexts, create innovative products, and communicate new knowledge. The paradox of living through times of great upheaval is that it offers tremendous creative opportunities for individual growth and collective change. Using an interdisciplinary approach (philosophy, psychology, sociology, politics, literature, wisdom, traditions and the arts), students will critically examine humanity’s creative possibilities and potential through an inquiry into historical and contemporary social/cultural movements.
> The paradox of living through times of great upheaval is that it offers tremendous creative opportunities for individual growth and collective change.
What's with all the unsubstantiated claims that it just takes for granted? Too busy trying to shovel more crap into the same sentence. Unfortunately, English classes tend to encourage donning these kinds of cute stilts. It's an epidemic.
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Posted 08 December 2018 - 02:17 AM
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Posted 27 September 2019 - 10:51 PM
Funny coming back two years to this...
Some of us got Dopple a hammer and now we get to see an eldritch horror that sometimes resembles code.
Joke's on Tahu. I program for a living now.
So this post got a little bit funnier. I've had a hectic last month prepping for my first job hop. It was horrible, but I did it. Well, I say it was horrible, but it took less effort than one might expect, being that I got snatched by the first company I interviewed at. Totally undeserved "Front-end Engineer" title, here we come. :thonking:
Learning some JavaScript and bamboozling your way into a well-paying job is a pretty solid backup plan if you need one
Moral of the story: ignore haters like TAHU
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Posted 16 July 2020 - 07:07 PM
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Posted 08 December 2020 - 01:52 PM
Fellow in a meeting: You're all professional designers here, you do this for a living...
Me:
pushing myself to do something [UX] I had a bad feeling about might give me some kicks, who knows. :'D
Just kidding! I hate graphic design, I hate "UX," I hate the broadened responsibilities (design roles require some degree of leadership) bwahaha. After I push pixels for about half an hour, I want to get up and do something else, such as go downstairs and stare into my backyard. Like right now I'm supposed to be working, but I bodged off to write this useless post instead. Then I think of my peers from school and all the "Graphic Design Is My Passion" type people who would be over the moon if they were in my place. Feels not-good, man. Not that you necessarily need passion, though it surely helps make your day-to-day life a little more bearable.
Last year, I left my first job thinking I'd chase money for a while. Lo and behold, here I stand and I feel nothing.
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