misfiled as "Keet, Electric" @ElectricKeet@awoo.space

Positioned as a replacement for Adobe InDesign, Affinity Publisher holds several advantages:

• Much, much less expensive
• Doesn't extend tendrils into every crevice of the operating system
• User interface isn't a laggy shitshow
• Pretty good importing of the IDML format that InDesign happily exports
• Might be coaxed to work in Linux?

The biggest disadvantage I see immediately is that it lacks what InDesign calls "GREP styles" – regular expressions within paragraph styles that automatically apply character styles to matching text. I use these constantly, and they save me an immense amount of work. Doing without means a lot of applying character styles manually, which can be labor intensive but more importantly is very error-prone.

Even so, this might be the software I switch to. I want out of Adobe, and I want out of Windows. At the very least, I want the alternate options to be there, and the sooner I learn them the less painful it'll be if I have to make that move suddenly.

Oh, right, reminder to self to open up all my InDesign files and export 'em to IDML....

@Leucrotta The 18-wheeler buckle grants you +3 to all bludgeoning damage and as much _stinking cloud_ as you can cast. It has the side effect of causing addiction to _haste_ potions (actually 5-Hour Energy).

@fluffy Let's just take it as read that I am favoriting this whole thread.

Our whole house loves this show!

Once upon a time, I was a regular on several IRC channels and MUCKs. I could pop in and out anytime with zero obligations, and I was unafraid to participate.

Nowadays I'm down to small Telegram chats with folks I've known since forever, and those tend to be brief because I guess don't have what it takes to keep a conversation going anymore.

I can't seem to make myself dive into anyplace where I don't already know at least a couple folks. Even if I do know some folks I'm anxious because I feel so far out of touch and I might:
• step on toes and give myself more intrusive memories of awkward encounters;
• get overwhelmed by walls of text and then feel bad about not keeping up;
• have to deal with willfully ignorant shitheads that everyone else tolerates;
• or have to dodge popular folks that I stay away from for serious reasons.

Heck, all of this is why I don't even toot much. It feels like too much risk.

I do not know what the fuck to do.

@g1comics Best reason to be one of those little soft plastic toy ponies – head is always empty!

My current TMS provider is helpful, friendly, reliable, very easy to get to, and inexpensive.

Damn shame they're closing the clinic in three weeks.

@fluffy I liked the first season a lot. The second season... very mixed. The story pacing was even weirder, not to mention the whole really disturbing thing with Stabby.