is there a windows screenshotting utility that isn't an enormous pain in the ass?
currently if I want to snap a screen I have to
- hit Print Screen
- open GIMP/Photoshop (wait 2 minutes for this)
- create a new project and manually type in a resolution because these programs won't just default to my monitor resolution
- paste, crop
- export as an jpg or png
- upload to imgur
i feel like this process should be shortened
It can be. You can paste directly to imgur and crop/change resolution there.
wait, this works now?
i used to try this all the time and it would just sit there.
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Assuming I'm understanding you correctly, yes. P much every picture I put up on here I run through imgur so it's inside regs.
is there a windows screenshotting utility that isn't an enormous pain in the ass?
currently if I want to snap a screen I have to
- hit Print Screen
- open GIMP/Photoshop (wait 2 minutes for this)
- create a new project and manually type in a resolution because these programs won't just default to my monitor resolution
- paste, crop
- export as an jpg or png
- upload to imgur
i feel like this process should be shortened
It can be. You can paste directly to imgur and crop/change resolution there.
wait, this works now?
i used to try this all the time and it would just sit there.
THE DREAM LIVES
Assuming I'm understanding you correctly, yes. P much every picture I put up on here I run through imgur so it's inside regs.
Only problem is there is a >90% chance someone will randomly click through imgur, fund your image, and masturbate to it, no matter what it is of.
In Chrome, yeah. In Firefox it darkens everything, including the page content, so some pages are way easier to read in Firefox - but if there are colored page elements being used as buttons etc, then they are invisible in Firefox (because they've been overridden by black), so I have to open those pages in Chrome. And for popular enough sites like PA, Facebook, Youtube, Amazon, etc, there are dark Stylish plugins that give me the contrast I need without blackening out the parts of the page I need to see. So I basically have to switch between both browsers pretty regularly.
In Chrome, yeah. In Firefox it darkens everything, including the page content, so some pages are way easier to read in Firefox - but if there are colored page elements being used as buttons etc, then they are invisible in Firefox (because they've been overridden by black), so I have to open those pages in Chrome. And for popular enough sites like PA, Facebook, Youtube, Amazon, etc, there are dark Stylish plugins that give me the contrast I need without blackening out the parts of the page I need to see. So I basically have to switch between both browsers pretty regularly.
Sucks. Way better than not being able to read at all, though.
In Chrome, yeah. In Firefox it darkens everything, including the page content, so some pages are way easier to read in Firefox - but if there are colored page elements being used as buttons etc, then they are invisible in Firefox (because they've been overridden by black), so I have to open those pages in Chrome. And for popular enough sites like PA, Facebook, Youtube, Amazon, etc, there are dark Stylish plugins that give me the contrast I need without blackening out the parts of the page I need to see. So I basically have to switch between both browsers pretty regularly.
Sucks. Way better than not being able to read at all, though.
Oh, no, this is a serious improvement over this time last year when basically all I could read was PA, and that only on my phone.
Nothing on the internet is really beyond me these days, it just takes some extra clicks and inconvenience. Which, whatever.
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I kinda feel bad for Molyneux, it seems like a basic character flaw that leads to him overhyping and underdelivering, but he's just so goddamned passionate. But kickstarting anything he's in charge of is the worst idea. He literally has an unbroken track record of not delivering, why would you give that guy a pledge!? And then announcing his new thing while the current one is still unfinished is kinda gross.
If my experiences working with the partially sighted guy in our office are anything to go by, accessibility stuff generally blows
Because of disability discrimination regulations the company periodically pays for the RNIB to consult on workstation setup and their advice has consistently been that almost all accessibility software is awful and you're generally better just going with an enormous screen and sitting close to it, so he has dual 32" TVs as his monitors
They were also pretty scathing about our multi-million pound new software, which is web based but has formatting that breaks horribly outside IE or with larger font sizes/high contrast mode
They said "it's like 1997 all over again"
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That Molyneux interview was brutal. Wouldn't it be nice to have interviewers like that in politics?
Some game industry types have kind of closed ranks around Molyneux to protect one of their own from the Big Meanie, and I understand that impulse on a human level - it's no different then when I see bros who "work in Hollywood" as like, studio accountants or set dressers or janitors get bristly about perceived attacks on their tribe - but I also think it speaks to what a soft, compliant press they've come to expect
I mean, games journalism has never been my cause celebre since before gamergate or after, but some of the GODUS stuff was just so egregious and Peter Molyneux has been serially mendacious for twenty years now and I think with all that in the balance, sitting through a single uncomfortable interview is hardly a bridge too far.
is there a windows screenshotting utility that isn't an enormous pain in the ass?
currently if I want to snap a screen I have to
- hit Print Screen
- open GIMP/Photoshop (wait 2 minutes for this)
- create a new project and manually type in a resolution because these programs won't just default to my monitor resolution
- paste, crop
- export as an jpg or png
- upload to imgur
i feel like this process should be shortened
Both Photoshop and Windows paint will automatically change resolution on the project.
Hit Print Screen
Open Paint
Ctrl+v
doesn't mspaint just save as bitmaps?
Nope. Windows 7 paint lets you save as a .jpg or .gif.
@Jacobkosh there's also the Snipping Tool in modern versions of Windows, it lets you draw a border around a part of your screen and from the little program you can then copy it, save it (jpg included) or attach it in a mail via Outlook. I use it at my work all the time, because it's crazy easy to use.
The snipping tool is so often referred to as the sniping tool at work...
I had to drive the point home by printing out a rifle and scissors.
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Well, like, here is what frustrates me about the Molyneux thing is that some people seem to be coming away with the idea that like
- Kickstarter is the riskiest thing ever! watch out! (I mean, it can be, if you're donating to John Videogames.)
- Game development is a magical mystery that can't possibly be planned for or budgeted for or whatever
- Enthusiasm excuses all sins
and like, by contrast, because I literally have the Shadowrun HK tab open right now, here are some dudes who
- have delivered two products on Kickstarter successfully and in their scheduled timeframe and communicated with people about their budget and expectations
- are enthusiastic as fuck
- have a new project that made 1000% of its initial funding goal
and it's not going to be the top story anywhere because it doesn't feed into this popular conception that GENIUSES CAN'T BE HELD DOWN BY YOUR RULES, MANNNNN
Molyneux strikes me as a brilliant creative visionary.
Of course that doesn't mean he's automatically a good manager.
That's what I'm reading of the interview... and decades of playing his games.
The idea that it is impossible to predict reasonable timescales for implementation in software strikes me as really bizarre
Especially coming from someone who ran a studio
I mean, there are people out there whose whole job is project management, if you can't do it, hire someone who can and then listen to them
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There's currently a campaign called "This Girl Can" on in the UK
It is so incredibly insulting to women. I honestly can't believe it was ever okayed at any level. I really don't think the problem of women not engaging in exercise is due to a perception that they are not allowed /able to participate in such activities.
Homogeneous distribution of your varieties of amuse-gueule
Also I suppose being overenthusiastic with your promises is somewhat forgiveable on a personal level, not realising that people are going to hold you to them when you're asking them for money seems to signify a striking lack of awareness
I sort of get the impression that molyneux has spent so long being told he's a genius that it simply doesn't occur to him that there may be aspects of what he wants to do that would be better delegated to people who are more talented in that particular area
The idea that it is impossible to predict reasonable timescales for implementation in software strikes me as really bizarre
Especially coming from someone who ran a studio
I mean, there are people out there whose whole job is project management, if you can't do it, hire someone who can and then listen to them
This should be a thing advertised in Kickstarters.
"Our game will have X and Y and tons of Z. It'll also be managed by the guy who managed these other successfully completed games."
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OH is that what those ads are? I thought they were like, nightclubs or something? Cause the only one I've seen is "sweating like a pig, feeling like a fox" and a pic of this lady dancing.
I wonder if there's a workable business in providing project management consultancy to people that kickstarted something and are now in way over their heads
Like, a lot of horror stories seem to stem from a basic lack of experience about things like "how do I make sure I'm not ripped off by this supplier", and panicky decision making
Payment up front, naturally
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JacobkoshGamble a stamp.I can show you how to be a real man!Moderatormod
The idea that it is impossible to predict reasonable timescales for implementation in software strikes me as really bizarre
Especially coming from someone who ran a studio
I mean, there are people out there whose whole job is project management, if you can't do it, hire someone who can and then listen to them
It's possible that it's not a question of Molyneux not knowing this, or not having people around him who knew this or could do that kind of management - I think there is a chance that the set of perverse incentives to overpromise (to audiences) and underbid (to publishers) was just too seductive and gave him too much short-term leverage to be easily given up to some kind of babysitter. I mean, nobody really wants to hear from the guy whose job it is to constantly go "no, you can't do that. No, it's not in the budget. No, that's literally impossible" so anyone even trying to cast themselves in that role is starting at an automatic disadvantage whenever it comes time to disagree with the boss in front of the kids.
Well wait, to be perfectly fair what she told me was that she wasn't ready to get involved with anyone right now, which I took as her letting me down easy.
I wonder if there's a workable business in providing project management consultancy to people that kickstarted something and are now in way over their heads
Like, a lot of horror stories seem to stem from a basic lack of experience about things like "how do I make sure I'm not ripped off by this supplier", and panicky decision making
Seriously, though, there are like zero video games not made by a Japanese company that didn't have their scope changed or reworked over the course of the project. Do you know how tumultuous the development of Half-Life 2 was, or the Bioshock games? It's an incredibly common thing in video games, and they are a fundamentally different animal than other software projects.
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yessss
HOLY SHIT
Welcome to the internet
Why haven't I thought to look that up.
A-Team intro on YouTube
Shadowrun: Hong Kong on kickstarter
Peter Molyneux interview in the guardian
Some top-notch tabbery there
In Chrome, yeah. In Firefox it darkens everything, including the page content, so some pages are way easier to read in Firefox - but if there are colored page elements being used as buttons etc, then they are invisible in Firefox (because they've been overridden by black), so I have to open those pages in Chrome. And for popular enough sites like PA, Facebook, Youtube, Amazon, etc, there are dark Stylish plugins that give me the contrast I need without blackening out the parts of the page I need to see. So I basically have to switch between both browsers pretty regularly.
Sucks. Way better than not being able to read at all, though.
Oh, no, this is a serious improvement over this time last year when basically all I could read was PA, and that only on my phone.
Nothing on the internet is really beyond me these days, it just takes some extra clicks and inconvenience. Which, whatever.
Because of disability discrimination regulations the company periodically pays for the RNIB to consult on workstation setup and their advice has consistently been that almost all accessibility software is awful and you're generally better just going with an enormous screen and sitting close to it, so he has dual 32" TVs as his monitors
They were also pretty scathing about our multi-million pound new software, which is web based but has formatting that breaks horribly outside IE or with larger font sizes/high contrast mode
They said "it's like 1997 all over again"
Some game industry types have kind of closed ranks around Molyneux to protect one of their own from the Big Meanie, and I understand that impulse on a human level - it's no different then when I see bros who "work in Hollywood" as like, studio accountants or set dressers or janitors get bristly about perceived attacks on their tribe - but I also think it speaks to what a soft, compliant press they've come to expect
I mean, games journalism has never been my cause celebre since before gamergate or after, but some of the GODUS stuff was just so egregious and Peter Molyneux has been serially mendacious for twenty years now and I think with all that in the balance, sitting through a single uncomfortable interview is hardly a bridge too far.
Nope. Windows 7 paint lets you save as a .jpg or .gif.
It's a brave new world.
I had to drive the point home by printing out a rifle and scissors.
- Kickstarter is the riskiest thing ever! watch out! (I mean, it can be, if you're donating to John Videogames.)
- Game development is a magical mystery that can't possibly be planned for or budgeted for or whatever
- Enthusiasm excuses all sins
and like, by contrast, because I literally have the Shadowrun HK tab open right now, here are some dudes who
- have delivered two products on Kickstarter successfully and in their scheduled timeframe and communicated with people about their budget and expectations
- are enthusiastic as fuck
- have a new project that made 1000% of its initial funding goal
and it's not going to be the top story anywhere because it doesn't feed into this popular conception that GENIUSES CAN'T BE HELD DOWN BY YOUR RULES, MANNNNN
Of course that doesn't mean he's automatically a good manager.
That's what I'm reading of the interview... and decades of playing his games.
Especially coming from someone who ran a studio
I mean, there are people out there whose whole job is project management, if you can't do it, hire someone who can and then listen to them
It is so incredibly insulting to women. I honestly can't believe it was ever okayed at any level. I really don't think the problem of women not engaging in exercise is due to a perception that they are not allowed /able to participate in such activities.
that Valentine's Day took a sudden turn for the absolute best ever
So that Ukrainian girl who I kept thinking was super wanting my d but then told me she didn't want my d?
She actually really did super want my d the whole time, and she absolutely got it last night
Now good lord am I tired
I sort of get the impression that molyneux has spent so long being told he's a genius that it simply doesn't occur to him that there may be aspects of what he wants to do that would be better delegated to people who are more talented in that particular area
The gaming industry is an experiment to test how long an industry can survive without even mediocre levels of project management.
This should be a thing advertised in Kickstarters.
"Our game will have X and Y and tons of Z. It'll also be managed by the guy who managed these other successfully completed games."
"Adds a check-mark in the 'no means yes' column."
Still not complete. Instead of completing it he has opted to begin a new kickstarter.
Like, a lot of horror stories seem to stem from a basic lack of experience about things like "how do I make sure I'm not ripped off by this supplier", and panicky decision making
Payment up front, naturally
It's possible that it's not a question of Molyneux not knowing this, or not having people around him who knew this or could do that kind of management - I think there is a chance that the set of perverse incentives to overpromise (to audiences) and underbid (to publishers) was just too seductive and gave him too much short-term leverage to be easily given up to some kind of babysitter. I mean, nobody really wants to hear from the guy whose job it is to constantly go "no, you can't do that. No, it's not in the budget. No, that's literally impossible" so anyone even trying to cast themselves in that role is starting at an automatic disadvantage whenever it comes time to disagree with the boss in front of the kids.
Ends up last night she was ready.
Yeah I had this thought myself, honestly.
*starts to read this interview thing.*
huh.