@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