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Aaron Mahler@vga256 @ThreeOhFour Thanks for sharing this! Had no idea there was a short that preceded that marvelous series (which I’ve watched end to end at least twice now). What the hell were Max and now Netflix thinking NOT renewing it for a second season!? And both have raised their prices on me how many times lately?
@halfpress it's interesting how much the emotional tone and story changed between the short and the series. i've been saying for years that it's the only good thing hbo has broadcast in the past 5 years. i just wish they'd at *least* release a bluray.
@vga256 The same company that touted MAX as the comprehensive home of the Looney Tunes collection, then whacked it all. Why?!
Yeah, a tone change, but unquestionably the same creative DNA. Not quite as visually lush as the full series, but no less captivating. I appreciated the pacing of the series… brooding and not afraid to hold a shot. Patently the opposite of the exhausting pace of YouTube content where people jump cut every single breathe or pause so it’s one big run on sentence.
Ben Chandler@vga256 Oh lovely. Did I tell you that I bought the DVD set of Scavengers Reign after your emphatic endorsement? I look forward to it greatly.
@ThreeOhFour weird - i hadnt realized there were pirate companies putting out dvds! afaik, it still has yet to receive an official release
@vga256 Interesting! Quite easy to find for purchase online. It may be illegitimate, but the day I sign up for a TV streaming service is probably still a long way off, sadly.
@ThreeOhFour haha same. my copy came from usenet
@vga256 Funny how eager they are to push people back to piracy heh.
@ThreeOhFour yes. i have never paid for a streaming service in my life, and i’ll be in a cold pirate’s grave before i do.
@vga256 Same for software subscriptions. You think I want to rent a hammer? Idiots.
@ThreeOhFour haha. i was SO happy when i could just *buy* Affinity. i made the mistake of subscribing to Adobe CC exactly once in my life and never again.
@vga256 Adobe have done a wonderful job proving that subscription fees don’t pay for fixing things like memory leaks, they pay for adding in crap you will never use.
@ThreeOhFour *shudder* i absolutely loved CS2-CS4. and then CC was this hulking monster of useless tools. in a way it was great that it pushed a lot of us out of the adobe.* environment and into lots of job-specific tools. it’s how i found asesprite
@vga256 It’s telling that I’m so used to using Krita/CSP/Aseprite now that at one point last year when I had to use Photoshop for a very specific layer masking job it was a weird shock to go back to. Used to be my daily driver, now it’s my “Oh, if I HAVE to I guess” last resort.
@ThreeOhFour haha i uninstalled it entirely years ago and i’ve never felt freer. i DO miss having an all-in-one program though. affinity is great at almost everything except pixel art.
@vga256 I haven’t actually installed it on my new PC. I am sure I can live without it now. But I also never treated it as an all in one, before Aseprite I had GraphicsGale for years.
@ThreeOhFour wow! i hadn’t thought of GG in a long time. then again i never really learned how to animate sprites
@vga256 It was a strange program, with a baffling UI, but once I got to learn it I found it quite usable. Aseprite is better in a number of ways, though.
@ThreeOhFour haha yup. i was quickly overwhelmed by it the one time i tried. aseprite is super quirky owing to its roots in Allegro MS-DOS which i *believe* still lurks in the source, but it does such a fine job of being almost PS-like
Lunar 🛸 ♾@ThreeOhFour @vga256 People on the old Game Maker Community forum used to swear by GraphicsGale. (The rest of us used the in-built sprite editor)
@lunarloony @vga256 Yeah! I used to evangelise it here and there before Aseprite got a bit more feature rich. I probably used GraphicsGale for 8 years or so.