Christien Rioux @dildog@mastodon.social

Time to go back to reference.

He says to himself while drawing the 100th terrible eyeball making all the same mistakes as the last 99.

Practice does not make perfect.
Perfect practice makes perfect.

Oh, and the one thing i got it for, it's actually good for. The parallax is minimal and it actually feels like drawing on a $1500 piece of paper. It does save me time in that regard.

That said, I have -heard- that using this thing on Linux actually works a lot better because the 3rd party driver work doesn't suck. I wonder how well it would work in a VM. I could totally put linux on a VM that runs JUST on the cintiq monitor. Thinking i might try that. :)

That said, the calibration system is only four point, and doesn't quite get the very corner edges right, so you're fine drawing in the middle of the tablet but the edges are going to have a slight offset. There's no way to 'tweak' the calibration after you've set it, you just have to do the whole thing all over again, ensuring that you simply switch which corner is misaligned.

And while i typed this, the thing decided to disconnect and reconnect on me.

Also, the Cintiq Pro has 'touch buttons' on the top that you accidentally touch all the damn time, and they pop up apps like the useless 'Wacom Control Center' or whatever that thing is called. You can't shut them off. And they're capacitive so you can't just put a piece of tape over them, i had to put some conductive material in between the tape to make it so the damn things wouldn't go off all the time.

The up side is the pen stylus is pretty good, and the screen accuracy is fine.

Also the 'ExpressKey Remote' is somehow worse than just using a keyboard. The little membrane keys on it suck, the trackwheel is imprecise and useless for brush sizing or whatever, and it DOESNT STAY CONNECTED. You turn the thing on and it works for 15 minutes and then loses its pairing, and won't come back for an hour of dinking around the damn thing.

I probably should have just gotten something cheaper. The premium price on this thing isn't worth it.

Cintiq

This thing has so much promise, but the implementation is shit. The hardware needs 1k-8k position samples per second and not 200. There's absolutely no reason my gaming mouse can do this but the Cintiq can't.

Also, Wacom's software is 100% crap. It's terrible. They should gut the whole 'unified driver' thing and start on something minimal for just their newer devices.

Also, after having used this device for 24 hours, I clearly am an expert on it and could build the whole thing better.

We never get to really understand how dystopias develop in them stories. The secret is that most of the people really are okay with the dystopia because they fear change in the status quo. They don't want change because it could get worse.

Making the super majority dissatisfied with the status quo and welcome change, however, is simply counter to their comfort, however, and appears to cause them to slide into dystopia themselves.

So how do we make bettering the world not a zero-sum game?

When getting to know someone's humor and when they are joking and when they are not, should be referred to as "Crossing The Sarchasm"

Molecular Gastronomy is ‘sleight of tongue’

In Ojai

@dildog i swear it’s a los angeles mental disorder doing that shit to your face

Who the fuck thought lip plumping injections was a good idea. Yuck, folks.

Good morning everybody!

@dildog “The fun never starts!”

If u are feeling blue, remember that every day is better than the next.

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It got better. :)

One of those days where not even retail therapy is gonna do me any good.

Happiness is such a fickle thing.

I will be fine. But man i am not used to this.