I honestly couldn’t tell you as far as their far-reaching reliability reputations go, since like you I haven’t really looked at the market intently (seeing as how I just tend to have access to WACOM stuff haha). From working as a teacher I can tell you that a lot of students I encounter have started going to…

But your expression of control still mostly depends mostly on you, doesn’t it? The thought in the comic is “You upgraded your tablet, so that equals an upgrade in the quality of your product, right?” Well no, not necessarily. As you yourself said, it’s practice. Better tools can make practice easier, but they don’t…

Oh don’t get me wrong, I agree that they’re very reliable. Of course I’ve moved on from it, but other than a frayed wire that can sometimes make the USB connection iffy (which is just from wear and tear), my Intuos 3 works just fine 15 years later.  I’m just saying they’re not the only reliable choice these days.

Corpse Run is on point. A lot of people do have the perception that upgrading your tablet means you’ll make better art, but the tablet is just your tool. It can help you work more efficiently, but that doesn’t necessarily translate to a better end product. I’m not automatically going to become a better swordsman just b…

Exactly. Though WACOM also gets a lot of help just from that brand name and recognition, because some alternatives are essentially just as good today from what I’ve heard from a lot of other artists and my housemate, who used to work for WACOM (and he was saying this even when he worked for them). When a lot of…

They’re right in my case. I didn’t even know about ‘latest’ until fairly recently, and would just begrudgingly slog through the mess of a main page, thinking about how it used to be laid out better and more coherently (though I won’t lie, that mess did turn me on to some interesting articles that I probably wouldn’t…

I’m starting to think the key may actually be to not care that much or try that hard haha. I’ve heard/said it said jokingly before, but it seems like most people I know with one weren’t intently following alerts or trying really hard to get a PS5. And that includes myself; I never put any real energy into getting one…

Sure, and this is all anecdotal, but I don’t consider that a “glaring” or special reason; that’s baseline. A new console should perform significantly better than its predecessor, we should expect at least that. It’s generally the software, not hardware, that gives consoles that “must-have” tag, and these are widely…

It really does feel like we’re in last gen or at least we’re half a gen up. And it’s pandemic and supply issues, but also the fact that there still isn’t a glaring reason for many to own any of the new consoles yet other than because they’re new consoles (and this is coming from someone who has a Ps5, Series X, and…

Nice, this is perfect timing. I found an ant in my kitchen yesterday and I thought “Boy he looks bored, wish I had some way to entertain him”

Seriously, they belong on the value menu at a buck-fifty max. 

I totally agree with the “It’s not that serious” sentiment and I’ve always found the camping out in line thing silly, but I’m seriously wondering how long it’ll actually be before you can easily get these things. Back when they released I would’ve been pretty confident that by now it wouldn’t be much of an issue, and…

My housemate went out to Best Buy this morning at 5am to try and get one and was met with a blockade of cars, tents, and a line wrapped around the building. I’m not and never have been about that life haha.

Oh no doubt, overall they’re historically full of bad decision making haha. Just saying that maybe what made the earlier 2K Sports games great had something to do with being under Sega Sports, so when that changed things might have changed for the worse regardless of the developers being the same. Could be important…

While it has been Visual Concepts developing the entire series, the publisher and parent company shift can make a significant difference since they often have such a huge say in what the final product represents. And not to mention all the other divisions of the company that have been opened and companies that have…

All I took away from this was that the Xbox is 20 years old, which means I’m old as shit. Thanks for that. 

Ah, the good ol’ “Russian draw.” Never play chess without it haha. 

SNAKE! SNAAAAKE!!

Putting the “pro” in prophylactic with these bad boys. 

Every game should have a dedicated kick button. I’m talking Animal Crossing, chess, Microsoft Flight Simulator, dating sims, everything.