kills Dumbledore

Status: Oh no, whatever will I do?

@nerd4sale said in Nope, you eat it:

they are very difficult to chew.

That's what surprised me the most.

For shits and squigles I tried again mixing it in with normal ramen. Now, I know I usually overcook noodles, but even after boiling for about half an hour they stayed the same rubberyness and indeed when eating I found myself swallowing the noodles themselves last (thy having separated from the rest of the things I added to the noodles).

Bizarre.

@kazitor said in WTF Bites:

Today I used the GIMP. For a simple task, shouldn’t be hard. And… well, it took less than an hour and left no lasting trauma, so I hereby bestow GIMP with the ‘Less Shite Than Photoshop’ award!

It’s certainly changed a bit since I last glanced at it. The UI is no longer spread across a half dozen panels and boxes – you can just ‘move’ the ‘window’, and all the toolbars will ‘move’ with it. I wonder what ancient, sacred temples they had to defile to dig up such arcane technology.

But… you know what thread this is. Well, you do now that you’ve looked. In approximate order of discovery:

Make a selection, fine. Use the move tool, fine. Click and drag and… the whole layer moves? What was the point of the selection? Set it to ‘move selection’… and the selection does indeed move, but not the pixels within?

Okay, whatever, I’ll just cut and paste. Cutting… fills the region cut from the layer with white?

Well I still have the selection so I’ll just cumbersomely erase it out… the erase tool just paints in the background colour?! If I wanted to paint, I’d use a paint tool!

As for inpainting… apparently that’s not a feature. Something so fundamental to Image Manipulation is, of course, not available in the GNU Image Manipulation Program. Looks like there’s some plugin for it, but of course 90% of the search results involve ‘stable diffusion’. Otherwise I just saw mentions of copying some texture in yourself and warping around it. Yuck.

Finally… use the text tool, it makes a new layer / text object. Sensible enough – desirable, even. So why does using the scale tool on this text object immediately rasterise it ‽ I don’t want to play font size bingo, just give me text [ this ] big!

The end result was fine and mostly unnoteworthy, but evidently Krita would have been faster.

In summary… 4 “It’s not Photshop”s out of 5.

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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:

@Tsaukpaetra Next time, small claims court to recover the costs due to their incompetence (plus the costs associated with the case itself). Sometimes, nothing short of having bailiffs turn up will teach a large company to pay their bills on time.

I don't got time for that, but excellent idea!

@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:

Status: I think my HR gal is checked out of her job. I submitted the expense reports on time like a good doggo 3 weeks ago. The not-a-credit-card thing is due today and it looks like there's no hint of it being paid (not to mention the remittance on stuff I paid on my personal card).

Granted it's like 50 items to review (in batches of 15), but it's not like I was doing weird shit so why isn't it approved or rejected-with-comment?

Status: The expense reports were finally approved!

Too bad they were fucking late and (naturally) a late fee was assessed, which, AcCoRdInG tO pOlIcY....

(snipped by the expense approver folks)

I have responded thusly.

Anyways...

Anyone hiring a stand-up guy able and willing to be a nice little fuckboy? Or should I stay another year and see if history repeats itself?

@hungrier You must be lucky, I didn't notice it was even a video until clicking!

@error Autoplaying with audio while the embed box is nowhere near being scrolled into my screen? Hilarious. Can we fix our embed plugin to a non April Fools Day version?