dysamoria

SpamSandwich said:

Oh, boy. This may be contributing to the sudden upward explosion of AAPL stock.

The irrationality of stock markets is the driver behind that.

WildCottage said:

Under the photo editing section you should also mention Affinity Photo. It's available for both Mac and Windows and is every bit as good as Photoshop. They also make Affinity Design, an alternative to Illustrator.

Fully agreed. It has functionality that Pixelmator does not have.

https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/photo/

unicron said:

Aren't emoji supposed to represent a thing, not actually BE the thing? I think there is an area where they are getting too specific. I think the iOS 10.2 occupation-specific people are a bit obnoxious. 

What's next: rare steak, medium rare steak, well done steak? Chicken noodle, clam chowder, and menudo soup? Ten different dog breeds? 

You got it. Emoji has gone from being a useful tool to being a style obsession. It's becoming a bottomless pit of new characters.

 I'm all for diversity. I'm progressive to the point of being a constitutional-republic-socialist. The nature of emoji having human faces invites us to consider diversity so that it represents all of its users. Ok. That's fine and good.

The bad part: The nature of the tool has changed to where it's stopped being a tool for communication and started being a decorative device. It's turning into an existence for its own sake, like when a hoarder fills their house with things they'll never use, just in case.

It seems entirely focused on its own growth. More shapes, more objects, more foods, more faces!!! It's like companies that lose their way once they go public, or activist groups that turn into self-perpetuating monolithic institutions that spend more time and money managing their mere existence than acting on their original mission...

It's difficult to know where to stop, but a standards organization is really supposed to be expert at exactly that. I've never seen a standard get revised as frequently as emoji. That is itself an indicator of bad standard management.

PS: I love redheads. And yes, those emoji aren't red. They're carrot orange. But that's actually what real redheads look like. There's variation, but "fire engine red" is dyed hair.

thewhitefalcon said:

Shouldn't gingers be working on getting souls first?

Came here to count the ginger bigot posts. Yours was number 1.

Soli said:

dysamoria said:

PS: I just spent a lot of time in Logic last night and realized my use of the tool keyboard shortcuts is done by touching of keys and the flat nonsense of the touch bar would greatly slow my usage. They should've been physical with OLED labels.

Long live physical keys!!

You mean a row of individual keys that are all separate OLED displays?

Yes, I do mean that. No doubt it's a goal for some day. The touch strip should've waited till then.