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- bainbridge0
Everyone has tattoos now.
I always wonder why people want things that look like clip art on their arms forever.
My coworker has an octopus on his forearm. It looks like something you’d find on a stock illustration site. He doesn’t have a good story behind it either. He just hired some random tattoo guy to do it.
- Now?i_was
- Fuck tattoos, no idea why people have thembabydick
- yep. thisshapesalad
- and beds, it's a crazy world.fadein11
- Everyone has feet now.
I always wonder why people want things that look like weird hands stuck on their legs.face_melter - now..... lolinteliboy
- Everyone is trying so hard to be different...
That they all end up look alike. Bunch of followers.utopian - ^ you anti up with a face tattoo to get more attention.hotroddy
- ^ your Care Bears with swastikas certainly are an icebreaker, for sure.face_melter
- I thought everybody already had tattoos and the thing for the past few years has been beards?microkorg
- I love getting tattooed. Just had a chest piece this weekend. One shot. Painful bout toughed it out. We like tattoos because they're cool.DaveO
- It’s because most people’s concept of “cool” doesn’t extend much past cheesy stock. I don’t think it’s a tattoo issue, i think it’s a taste issuescarabin
- hey face_palm, I think you need re-order your supply: https://cdn.shopify.…hotroddy
- Your banter is fucking woeful, rodney. Like, shit-tier woeful.face_melter
- don't forget to leave a review
https://www.suppleme…hotroddy
- BusterBoy0
This startup I’m involved in is getting pretty intense. Moving along much quicker than I thought.
One thing we don’t have is a name though!
Tossing up between a generic boring type name that explains exactly what we do...and a bit more of a modern catchy name.
It’s a mass market large audience platform.
So as an example if we were in employment (which were not) it’s the choice between something like “Specialised Contract Employment” (boring) and just off the top of my head “Speccy” as something a bit more out there.
What are the trends these days?
- 97% of all startups fail...I hope that you are working for the 3%.utopian
- We ain't gonna fail! :)BusterBoy
- Go for something Chinese sounding: The Good Fortune Specialised Contract Employment Consortium Global Subsidiarily Co. LTD.shapesalad
- jagara19
I don't know why people always complain over the lack of design content on QBN. It's a forum made up of designers. Sure, most of the time is used on deciding whether we should delete the NSFL scat facial porn thread, or discussing SimonFFM's latest work.
But if you want to discuss crushed blacks or the difference between Neutraface and Josefin Sans, you'll find plenty of people who will.
In conclusion, all designers, talking amostly bout other stuff. But ready to discuss design.
- *mostly aboutjagara
- Wait, this was a design forum?autoflavour
- let's face it, talking about design all the time is incredibly tedioushans_glib
- +1OBBTKN
- Come for the design, stay for the toilets and cats.mort_
- Well donei_was
- we're old, we complain, that's what we do.inteliboy
- Design is just how I keep the lights on.slappy
- I need a new king size mattressIanbolton
- I totally missed out on the scat facial pornbezoar
- lol, crushed blacks argument gogarbage
- But totally agree. Some of us have been here long enough that it's not just a place to talk shop.garbage
- do you guys ever get tired of arguing on the internet?pinkfloyd
- lol ianNairn
- Agreed!scarabin
- Swipe Right >>>utopian
- Wait! Where was the scat facial porn??? I missed it? :(Akagiyama
- Right after the midget-fly pornsted
- Gardener1
took a trip over to Auchtermuchty this afternoon and saw the statue to accordion legend Sir Jimmy Shand, this is his greatest hit
- Gardener3
I was only keeping up the Scottish tradition of visiting music based celeb statues, this was when I took the Highway To Hell (A932) to visit the Bon Scott's in Kirriemuir
- mg333
Help! I need a name for a list of criteria I'm using to evaluate exceptional digital work. We're evaluating based on criteria like:
Resonance: Does it inform us in a way that text-only content never could?
Delightfulness: Does it delight us as we use it?
Memorability: Will we remember it?
Usability: Is the functionality intuitive to use?
Responsive: Is the experience the same across desktop / tablet / mobile?
Enviably Great: Do we wish we had made it?I need a name for this list so I can call it "the [insert word] list." Totally drawing a blank here. Any ideas?
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Rduckseason - https://i.redd.it/k7…kingsteven
- https://static.wikia…sted
- Opportunities like this are once in a lifetime.DRIFTMONKEY
- Redrum list it ismisterhow
- MR RUDEnb
- The Murder List. I like it.dbloc
- There's a UX framework called H.E.A.R.T:
https://www.interact…
... but MURDER workskoma_ - DENNISMHDC
- koma_ - thank you! I've never seen that before.mg33
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- autoflavour0
Life in jail seems too easy for R Kelly..
Especially as he will get put in segregation
- BusterBoy8
Was just watching a video from this marketer about online document signing...she was going through how to load a document, when I saw this. LOLz
- section_0140
I was on Reddit reading a big thread on r/cars about Ferrari and Lambo wanting exceptions for themselves and other niche brands when the EU bans gas powered car production.
The thread evolved into comments about how low volume sports cars should be exempt, how so and so's vintage car won't make a difference to emissions since everything else is electric, how "I'll never give up my V8", and on and on.
Ok, I'm fine with all of that. But, nowhere in the 1000 post thread did I read how the hell they plan on getting fuel for these things. Gas stations aren't going to keep pumps running for the 0.01% of cars on the road that still use gas. The store at a gas station is the main money maker anyways. They don't make shit selling fuel (in the US, anyways).
Plus, I highly doubt local government is going to let you keep a couple hundred gallons in a tank in your back yard. So, yeah, that's great you finally got a 911 turbo, but how are you gonna drive it?
- Small planes and off-site works vehicles will still be using petrol for a while yet. Also, I imagine rich people could afford atmosphere-derived liquid fuels...Nairn
- ..which will probably become a thing, even if the finance and energy economics aren't exactly wonderful.Nairn
- Apparently someof the call for exemptions tehre is so that Italy can continue to build 'the bulk' of these things there without becoming utterly reliant...Nairn
- ..on foreign supply chains. German or Chinese batteries or electic motors or whatever will reduce the cachet of these vehiclesNairn
- This is all true. Gas stations will slowly convert to charging stations, and then there will be only the rare fuel for old cars and lawn mowers, etc.monospaced
- Frankly, given the improvements in tech, I think it'll only be oldies, enthusiasts and loud cunts that will prefer ICE vehicles in a couple of decades anyway.Nairn
- yes, that would be the natural result when ICE vehicles aren't produced for a decade anywaymonospaced
- easy... dig an oil well. Or collectively band together to keep a pump going with a mail order deliver service for those living far away.shapesalad
- Or.. put an electric engine inside, and a big speaker rigged to play recordings of the former engine in it.shapesalad
- "But I want my Lambo the way I like it" fucking whinersnb
- There are plenty of cars that aren't street legal. This will be the same. You can own one, put your gas in it, drive around your farm. But not on the streetsnb
- I am very curious how many actual ferrari and lambo owners are POSTING ON REDDIT lolnb
- Ha!
I also posted about this issue, very funny
https://www.qbn.com/…grafician - On road vehicles only counts for 35% of Oil usage.Morning_star
- @nb they're whining about quashed dreams. I imagine any enthusiast with the means can just get a few rows of gas caddies and keep them in the garage.garbage
- @nairn's first post. Work vehicles are primarly diesel, and jet fuel isn't gonna work in a car without heavy modifications. Neither of those will run an M3.section_014
- Yeah, you're right, but they share the same production pipeline, so to speak.Nairn
- eventually we'll have a proper propulsion unit - the hydrogen fuel cell (then fusion ofc). battery cars are shitty old tech holding the fort until thenhans_glib
- battery cars are driving the future and huge efforts being put into charging networksmonospaced
- scarabin0
I just noticed the resemblance. I may start calling my coffee maker Trogdor the Caffeinator
- *squintsNairn
- It basically starts and stops with the arm/handlescarabin
- Ooh, I see muscly arm now! No.
Shit, I make one of these every morning for my partner - now I'll be ruing its larger flexNairn - If you burn all the coffee you don't even need to change the namenb
- lolmonospaced
- i got me one of theseGuyFawkes
- It’s the only coffee maker i haven’t been able to drop and breakscarabin
- gugule: Pezzetti Italexpress black
it has all the design flaws fixed and you can smash the floor with it, still doesn't wants to break.sted
- i_was3
palimpsest is orzabal
- I thought that was a given.monospaced
- Orzabal is for the people and i_was is not for the people.palimpsest
- lol "orzabal"monospaced
- ^A given? not for me pretentious cunt, I don't spend my whole life here.i_was
- What was orazal banned for?scarabin
- Banned for artGnash
- palimpsest1
i_was is a cunt.
- Don't be salty. He did the research.face_melter
- LOL
I did my research too. I'm posting the data.palimpsest - You do have the admin access.pango
- Bennn is the owner though.palimpsest
- OBBTKN0
Worst autumn allergies ever. Going to doc, 2 kind of eye drops, and still nothing... Arghhh!!
- Nairn6
The other day on my walk to work I happened upon a tired-looking bumble bee in the middle of the path. I stopped, stooped over it and pulled out a piece of tissue paper from my pocket, encouraged it to hop on to it and then went about trying to help it out. I didn't have any water or sweet drink on me, so carried on down the path 'til I found a bin, which I peered into, to see if there was anything it that might sustain a bee. Nothing. Aha! Of course. I can spit! So I took the bee off the path to a secluded corner then set her down and spat onto the wall, and tried to encourage it off the tissue. Little bugger wasn't having any of this, so it took a while. Eventually I just gently pushed her snout into my spit and her proboscis probed it and she decided she'd get off the tissue and have a sup. I sat there with it for a couple of seconds more as it drank and even managed to give it a little stroke, then bid it good luck and farewell, then went about my day.
Up until writing out this schpiel, the only person I told this to (in a more concise form) was my wee daughter. I didn't suppose she really understood what I was babbling on about, but I felt a little precious sharing my quiet saintly act with her.
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Just got a text from my partner that said, simply "Good news! Our daughter isn't allergic to bee-stings".
Oops?
- The bee: ALIENS EXIST I WAS CARRIED AWAY BY ONEgrafician
- https://youtu.be/dW-…Gnash
- I'll be honest - once you'd failed to find life-saving fizzy pop, I was fairly sure the bee was going in the bin.Fax_Benson
- either that or you were going to carry it around Tesco MetroFax_Benson
- I couldn't put a bee in the bin. I just couldn't. Could anyone?
Partner says it was a random bee incident. Off the hook. Thank coincidence!Nairn - You're one of the good ones. Now next time I see a struggler I'll feel duty bound to suckle it.Fax_Benson
- I’m assuming your spit had a good amount of Irn Bru floating around in it ;)monospaced
- I thought you were an animal, insect hater.i_was
- These exist: https://www.theguard… but they feel a little over-engineeredNairn
- and, frankly, horrifically wasteful compared to the life of a single bee, as distasteful as it is to put it in those terms. "What value a bee's life?"Nairn
- SimonFFM8
Yesterday, I witnessed a crook climbing down a facade. The house is located across the harbor basin of where I live. It was a good 20ft he had to climb down but he was on the run.
I knew he was fucked, climbing down there. Because, there's no exit there, only a door with spikes on top. So he ran up and down the jetties while I was calling the police.
He grabbed a stand-up-paddle board that was lying around and jumped into the water. I told them, they should call the water police as well.
I was watching him with my binoculars as I was waiting for the police. They took quite a while. After around 8 minutes they were here and I explained to them that the crook had reached the wall and climbed up. I said he might have escaped through the sewerage.
They had to organize a key for the locked door and went down. But they couldn't spot him. So, they asked me to tell them more. I said, he still must be there and we went down to the jetty again to see. There was no connection to sewerage, so I told them, he still must be there.
Meanwhile the water police had arrived, but they did not believe my words and said, we don't see anyone. Maybe the witness (they were speaking about me, while I was standing next to them) did not see that he swam away.
Anyways, it was not my job but theirs. The search went on for around 30 minutes. Then they took off. And the whole thing let me sleep very bad last night. I could not understand how the guy escaped when it seemed impossible.
Today, at lunch, 20 hours after my call to the police, to my surprise, I seem the police at the same spot again.
The crook had hidden in a pigeon cave for 20 hours, over night! And he probably couldn't swim, so he had no chance but to call for help.
After they put him back on land, they released him immediately.
- Was the crook a pigeon?i_was
- I took a photo of the guy, but due to the gdpr I guess I may not post it lol.SimonFFM
- Sorry for the typos (I am really tired).SimonFFM
- Just blur his facedrgs
- Rear Windowmisterhow
- Simon, i was hearing the Mission Impossible theme music in my head while reading your story. Adrenaline pumpKrassy
- What was his skin color?babydick
- White skin. Haha mission impossible indeed.SimonFFM
- I'm asking because of the "he probably couldn't swim" part, hee heebabydick
- Purple burglars can't swim, wink winkbabydick
- Scary. I scanned the picture with Google Lens and got the exact location. Nicht zu glauben!stewart
- Recreate this story in one of your photoshootsdrgs
- Wow @google lens — my home address is on my website, too. But I agree, it’s scary tech!SimonFFM
- It's a nice place. I had a short urban holiday with my girlfriend in that city. The waterfronts, the botanic garden, art school, famous cyclingrace. Loved it.stewart
- Next time you'll come around, say hello!SimonFFM
- i_was-1
Alcoholic people should be financially helped to drink good quality beer, wine or whatever their addiction. I said.
- DrinkStamps™GuyFawkes
- CrackStamps™GuyFawkes
- loli_was
- StripClubStamps™sted
- System makes profit with cheap drinksi_was
- Portugese Dao red from Aldi is amazing and only £5.99, lovely with lamb at lunch time. #WFH benefitsshapesalad
- I just bought a beer from Aldi: "3 Monts" 8,5% alcohol typical Flemish beer, very good but it's still not what dependent people buy.i_was
- Where do I apply to become alcoholic?pango
- At your near Aldi storei_was
- grafician-8
How fast can one learn Cinema 4D?
- Depends. Do you run your own design studio?monospaced
- don't be a jerk mono
so how's the learning curve?
Days? Weeks?grafician - It’s a joke ffs.monospaced
- Maybe a month of doing courses and experimenting and you'd be able to get consistent good results. Although you could start to get decent renders...PhanLo
- ...just from a few tutorials.PhanLo
- Haven't touched 3D since 3dsmax 4 so...grafician
- loledsted
- 45min if you put the youtubes at top speednb
- You relearned AE in under a month, sooooo...monospaced
- Cinema4D is relatively easy compared to Maya, 3dsmax, Lightwave etc... me thinks, I always looked at it like a minor 3d software when I was a 3d enthusiasti_was
- You should try Blenderi_was
- don't, go with blender. In any case just break 3D down to each part and learn each one by one.shapesalad
- 1: vertex, polygons, mesh. 2:manipulation of meshes. 3: materials on mesh. 4: lighting + camera. 5: rendering. 6: motion.shapesalad
- once you understand the basic concepts behind all that, you can easily learn c4d or blender etc, as they are just tools to deal with the aforementioned.shapesalad
- Hmm thanks, those steps make sense
I should probably start a 3D thread to learn in the open...grafician - I say NO to Blender, bad UX
And there's nothing stopping them to ask for a $10 subscription or whatever & hire a good UX/UI designer to help themgrafician - Ironically, blender has as much or more developers working on it and more updates and money going in despite being free, than high price packages.monospaced
- Including developers who have just recently overhauled the UIUX for the better. You surely noticed the change with 2.8monospaced
- Never used blender, never will
thus my question about Cinema 4D...grafician - I thought it was because of the UImonospaced
- Prepare yourself for this: https://i.imgur.com/…i_was
- you can learn a tutorial pretty quickly so pick a tutorial of what you want to learn so you can quicker get your goals.AQUTE
- SimonFFM1
We live in different parts of the world, so technology-wise standards are not the same. Here in Germany for example, a lot of people prefer to pay in cash over cards or mobile payment solutions.
Yesterday, I was in France and bought some t-shirts at UNIQLO. They only had one cashier but 8 self-service counters. I really hate to scan tags from goods myself, so I stood in line for the cashier.
Then, they showed me how their self-service works: You throw all clothes in a plastic basket and it immediately shows up the total, you pay by card, done. No scanning of bar codes!
I could not identify where the RFID tag was, but at home, I saw, its glued between two sheets of paper what from the outside looks like a normal price tag.
For me this was an absolute first time experience. Is this common elsewhere in the world already?
- It's also at Decathlon in France, pretty common in France, German like to pay in cash to avoid taxes?i_was
- I assume the cash thing is to keep control of how much money you spend.SimonFFM
- Well it'll all end in tears when RFID chips manufactured in Tawian are unobtainable due to shipping melt down high inflation + China invading Taiwan.shapesalad
- Those Uniqlo bins are neat - we've had self-serve here in the UK for years, but the novelty of their approacj impressed me when I encountered them last year.Nairn
- Decathlon is doing this since 2019,
it's called RFID SCO.
@shapesalad the RFID manufacturing process doesn't requires an IC factorysted - *tag printing not manufacturing.sted
- "I really hate to scan tags from goods myself"
??? is it a tiring process, a chore for you?i_was - Anyway I don't give a flying fuck about this technology where you toss a bunch of items in a bin and they get scanned.i_was
- You find the shit, you carry that shit, you scan that shit, you pay for that shit. Fuck that shit.babydick
- There should be a bag in that bin so you don't put it in just to take it out again. Too much fucking work.babydick
- UNIQLO is where Japanese old people and dorks shop over in Japan. Also their clothes are all made in shitty China. By enslaved Uyghars.shapesalad
- Get something French since you where in France!!! https://www.hast.fr/… Made in EU, organic cotton.shapesalad
- were*shapesalad
- I've always felt Uniqlo fit is for midgetsi_was
- I'm beginning to hate this site.
I'm probably part of the problem.Nairn - The Blender foundation has 6,000 members, many of which are corporations, ALL of which are monthly donators starting at $5 a monthmonospaced
- ^ lol, continues to post a full blown dork in a white tee.inteliboy
- @monospaced Wrong thread?i_was
- They tracked you all the way home too with those rfid tags pinging via your phone. they now know where you live.microkorg
- I assume these were passive rfid tags, not active ones.SimonFFM
- lol@mono :D:Dsted
- yes they are passive, has a 1m max distance from the energy source to work. but you still need a key to read it, not just the hardware.sted
- cannonball19782
I have arthritis in my ankles and feet now. Fn painful to walk.
- Pay some huge body builder to carry you around?grafician
- How old are you? do you exercise or are you always static?i_was
- 43 desk-riddencannonball1978
- Sorry to hear. Do you know why you got it? Any tips to prevent it?Longcopylover
- kaiyohtee2
William Shatner is 90?!
- and heading to space!_niko
- Is he planning on coming back?futurefood
- Oh reminds me of the Rocketman song he performed :)Gnash