I went back and played The Dungeon about 15 years ago and I just about cried because it was so fucking bad by modern standards lol

Doubtful

I’m not talking out my ass, a good buddy of mine worked for frantic films for decades and I myself learned 3D alongside him… We would squabble over the rendering farm too…

Anyways most of the renderers made for those early movies were custom built. And anytime you custom build, you can’t generalize to output to a different system. So it’s a long way of saying no but maybe, if you wrote a custom renderer that was specifically designed to handle the architecture of the scenes and the art and the lighting and blah blah blah

Edit oh and you would probably need the Lord of all graphics cards, possibly multiple in a small array with custom therading software

The ones that do it for family and friends get away with it, the ones that get peppy and decide to start flogging groceries, etc on Fb Marketplace get watched. It’s really not something you want to try to profit from!!

All the word games in the world don’t change the underlying truth and you know it. McDonald’s is awful it’s not even food, music is similar, most of it is not really even music, the same way McDonald’s isn’t even food, it’s hyper engineered food ingredients. I know it hurts to accept that most popular music is dog shit but that’s the truth and you know it’s true.

The guideline is 3 months but it is entirely dependent on how often you run your furnace, and how dusty or pet-filled your environment is.

I used to manage buildings, so I would deal with hundreds of filters at a time, people with pets or those who ran the circulation function continually needed 3-month replacement. Other people who did not run the fan continuously and did not keep pets, and stayed clean, you could easily get away with a year.

You have to hold the filter up to the light to know, there’s no way to judge it based on time it’s just not useful

Last year, it’s shit you’re not going to change my mind

I really don’t think I’m overstating things, I go back to the early 90s, I started with Harvard graphics and stuff like that… I have used so many damn image editing softwares, and I’ve even made a few of my own.

I’m honestly going to just plant my foot and say gimp is a misbegotten atrocious lump of shit from a UI perspective - a complete embarrassment, and a complete failure from any perspective of usability science

It is absolutely at the bottom of the pack of any piece of software I have ever used, it’s hard to pick up various bunches of shit and decide what lump smells the worst, so I’m not going to say gimp is the worst, but it’s floating at the bottom of the septic tank

I cannot believe that people continue to step up and defend it, it’s garbage.

Just take a step back and look at how you are deciding what is good before you understand the application the tool is being put to

You’re asking me to suggest alternatives… FOR WHAT? You apply tools to specific problems, you do not pick a tool and then decide it’s the best tool.

I disagree.

Just in the same way we can point to McDonald’s and say there is nothing good about it from a food perspective; that it barely even qualifies as food…

We can say the same thing about music. There is music that is so devoid of any kind of artistic output and merit, that no one could say it’s good. In 2025 are still listening to musical greats from several hundred years go but in 50 years, nobody will have a clue who Nikki Manaj is

You have proven my point, you don’t seem to understand that *nix and all it’s variants, and all the FOSS built on top of it it’s just one set of tools in a gigantic suite of available tools, and there are specific uses, and it’s totally inappropriate to ever talk about it as the best tool for anything, ever.

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Gimp is what happens when programmers think that they can design things

Omfg…

Yesssssss. Our entire family loved The Dungeon so much. My father wrote a letter to the developers and got a response, with excited descriptions of upcoming games in the series that never came to be. The producer or developer, or whoever wrote him back was bragging about how the next game would have characters you could actually see while in combat! (E: referring to The Arena)

IMO WinRAR was only ever did one useful thing and that was breaking up files into arbitrary sizes for USENET theft

Yeah gimp is atrocious in terms of UI/UX

Nobody with a clue about graphics would ever recommend gimp

It has always been a piece of sh… going back 20 years already

Quickly gets lost in definitions, but the reason men are at the “top” of all societies, is because men are biologically advantaged to do so

You’re not going to tell me 2 million years of human evolution doesn’t know what it’s doing

It does not mean that women or any other group are not valuable, it’s just that nature has slotted us in our places

People that tell you to use *nix are so limited in a technical sense, they cannot be trusted

It’s just a tool, it’s like somebody telling you that you need to use a certain brand of Philips head screwdrivers because they’re the best tool

It’s revelatory that the person does not have a robust understanding of technology really

And before you come at me, I spent more than two decades in tech, two of them were professional game developer and web startup dude, don’t even try me.

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2 to 17 inclusive or exclusive?

I’m just here to tell you that anybody that says to talk to a lawyer is a jackass and is talking out their ass.

You do not deal with these matters in regular civil court, these are handled directly through whatever tenany board is in your region. Start by contacting them and ignore all the other nonsense about contacting attorneys, it’s a waste of time because all the attorney will tell you to do is to contact the tenancy board.