Posts by Alex Barnes93

Why does taking a Polaroid snapshot in VLC feel like such a quality killer? I don't think it's supposed to be like that. Honestly, VLC, which isn't even my main player—I usually stick to VLC myself—totally nails the perfect screenshot every single time.

nimbleskipper5 said:I'm not trying to act smart at all... I *am* smart. And honestly, for a tool like Mischief, $65 is basically nothing—zero, if you ask me. Someone put a massive amount of knowledge and time into this program and offered it at a super accessible, totally reasonable price. If you can't appreciate that, then just stick to Inkscape, but don't go around claiming it's the holy grail.

Look, I didn't say you were acting smart (which would mean I think you're an idiot), I said you're acting *smarter* than you actually are (which is my way of admitting you *are* smart, just not as much as you're trying so hard to pretend you are).
Since you already tripped up on that first, bolded sentence, I'll leave it to you to figure out just how brilliant you really are. Plus, you went ahead and quoted my entire post even though you're the very first person to jump in right after me, just so you could try to seal up your "intellect."

Then there's the fact that, whatever you might do in your private life, you're sticking your nose into my profession (I'm a graphic designer) and judging based on nothing but your own ego-boosted pride. You're claiming it's "obvious" I haven't heard of that underground Mischief (you can't even capitalize the name properly!) and you're hyping it up over Inkscape, which just shows a total lack of basic Inkscape knowledge.
Professionally, I use both Inkscape and Adobe Illustrator, and while I shouldn't even have to mention the latter, Inkscape can do everything your precious Mischief can do.
Anyway, congrats, man. I hit the "ignore" button on you the second I read your post, so you don't even need to bother replying (but hey, if you do anyway, just take a second to ask yourself how smart you actually are, haha).

coppersailor28 said:How could anyone possibly fall for Mischief when we're talking about vector graphics software!

Well, hey, there are definitely worse names out there, so it's not that bad. It could've been something like Rapist or something similarly crazy, lol.

Brian Moore12 said:I started working in Inkscape and immediately ran into a problem. I can't make a circle or an ellipse; instead, I just get these tiny little circles and squares, kind of like the ones that pop up when you're typing text.

Hit F5, hold down the left mouse button, and drag to make a circle. To get a perfect circle, just hold down CTRL while you're dragging it to the size you want.

Look, it’s pretty obvious you're just trying to act way smarter than you actually are.
Btw, Inkscape is totally free, while Mischief will run you $65; just a little detail you might've missed.

Jessica Gomez5 said:Hi everyone,

I won't take up too much of your time; I just really need to get this off my chest... over the last two years, my life has spiraled from being pretty idyllic into an absolute nightmare. I'm 37, single, don't have a family of my own, and I've been living on my own in my own apartment for 15 years. Up until recently, I was living a fairly quiet, bachelor-style life, and since I have a steady job, money was never really an issue. I have a brother with significant intellectual disabilities who lives with our parents and can't care for himself. Everything started hitting me all at once about two years ago. First, my mother—who was perfectly healthy—suddenly fell gravely ill and passed away so quickly that we haven't even had a chance to process the shock. Now, my father has fallen ill with a terrible prognosis and is currently hospitalized with stomach cancer. My whole world has flipped upside down in an instant. The responsibility for my brother has fallen entirely on me and a caregiver we hire to help with cooking and cleaning. To be honest, I don't have much of a relationship with him, and he feels like a massive burden. I don't have anyone to lean on because I don't have a spouse or kids, and my extended family isn't close enough to help. I'm trying my best to shut out my emotions completely because if I don't, I feel like I'll lose my mind. Looking back, I realize that things I used to take for granted weren't as simple as I thought, and I finally understand what my parents must have gone through. I'm constantly haunted by this sense of guilt—guilt over everything they missed out on, like not seeing potential grandkids or seeing me start a family of my own. Sometimes it feels like I've been cursed, though I have no idea why. I’ve always tried to be a good person and never intentionally hurt anyone. I find myself asking "why?" Why did everything hit me so hard and so fast? It's all on my shoulders now, and I have no idea how I'm going to manage this, especially if my father doesn't recover. I'll eventually have to look into placing my brother in a specialized care facility. The hardest part of all is that I have no one to actually vent to or pour my heart out to; everyone around me just offers pity, and frankly, that's the last thing I want. So, there it is... just a small glimpse into the mess I'm in. If anyone has any actual wisdom to share, I'm listening.

Look, mathematically speaking, your life can't "flip 360 degrees." That would just land you right back where you started, right? lol.

But seriously, man, that sounds heavy. You're dealing with a total nightmare here and there's probably nothing you could've done to stop it. But wait, what's the deal with your brother and this facility thing? Like, what kind of 😕

Just running the trial inside a virtual machine and boom—problem solved.

The first one is way easier to use and honestly just better overall.

Touch the untouchable, break the unbreakable... or, you know, how to successfully saw off the very branch you're sitting on.

Inkscape is freaking legendary, man. It’s the absolute GOAT.

It’s like when you see a sign warning about a minefield, so you just kick the damn thing out of the way and suddenly there isn't a mine anymore 🙂
That's a nasty way to look at things, man...

Honestly, you're way better off just starting a dedicated thread in each subforum instead of trying to cram everything together. Trying to squeeze this into the last six posts we've had? Yeah, no. There's just not enough room for everyone to chime in 🙂

Man, looks like you're the first person ever to deal with this, talk about bad luck.

Man, you guys are being so extra... we've seriously talked about the holy trinity of browsing like a million times already—Adblock Plus, NoScript, and ScriptSafe. But I guess it’s just way easier to sit here and whine on a forum than actually take two minutes to install one of them based on whatever browser you're using. Just get it done and kill all those annoying ads once and for all, instead of just complaining about how they're eating up your beer money.

https://adblockplus.org/ If you grab those EasyPrivacy + EasyList and Malware Domains subscriptions, you can finally kill off every single annoying ad out there.

Maybe just fire up AdBlock+ and they’ll finally disappear?

What’s the deal? It looks just like Microsoft Office 2013 😁

Look, buying a USB 3.0 hub isn't gonna do squat if your motherboard is stuck in the dark ages with nothing but USB 2.0 ports. And let's be real, since that rig is at least five years old, they definitely are. You can plug all the high-speed gear you want into those old ports, but you're still gonna be capped at USB 2.0 speeds. In the real world? You’re looking at maybe 30 MB write speed max, though honestly, most of the time it’ll probably crawl along at like 15-23 MB/s. It's just frustrating, man.
Anyway, I did a quick little dive on Google and found this first link for ya http://www.diffen.com/difference/USB_2.0_vs_USB_3.0

Wait, hold up—are you even plugged into a USB 3.0 port to begin with? Seriously, if you've got it sitting in a 2.0 slot, there's your answer right there...

Honestly, you’re way better off grabbing the Genius from Logia. They’re a little more "beefy," I guess, but they won't give you any grief in that department. Super comfy too, unless you've got massive ears—then they might not cover everything 😁
. The sound quality is just insane for what you're paying; seriously, it holds its own against some pretty high-end models sitting around the $100 mark.

So, from what I can gather, this guy is looking for some kind of 1 GB recommendation.
Offtopic: Man, this thread totally reminds me of this ancient post I saw back on PC Play where some dude was seriously asking if he’d actually need a brand new Voodoo2 with 8 MB just to run Quake II :P