Ugh. The scariest part of that story is how quickly one company is all-too-happy to sell you out just so they can both fleece your wallet... while being completely ambivalent to how short-sighted that is. It’s all just a big racketeering frat party for corporations, isn’t it?

Oh, that’s right... I remember many of my friends fretting over Serif being purchased by Canva.

I had to do that with AOL back in the day. Tried and tried cancelling AOL service. Just roadblock after roadblock  huge.  Cancelled fee was as high as the yearly subscription.  My credit card company (Discover) also as a convenience would update the the card for AOL so they continue to change me after the card was…

This episode definitely couldn’t find its focus, and splitting its attention across 400 different threads while Morris kept nattering was annoying. Of the random interesting folks that UNIT has brought into things, Morris was not one of their best. Wesley Crusher but more annoying and less useful. In an episode…

On my new, top-of-the-line computer I got in January of this year, I have Photoshop 5.02 and Photoshop 11. I own both these programs on CDs and made sure I had a optical DVD drive in my new computer. (A friend and I have been researching a particular type of horror movie/TV/video production for 20+ years now that he…

Affinity, from Serif, remains one low-cost purchase for a perpetual license. I’ve used it for the better part of the last decade after refusing to play Adobe’s game and I love it.

With that said, Serif also said they wouldn’t touch AI and had no plans to sell, but were just acquired by Canva. Canva claims the perpetual…

I recently switched to an entirely new debit card because I had a phantom monthly charge from Adobe that, whaddya know, they couldn’t tell me what email/account/whatever it was attached to...

Oh, yeah, and I knew that was the type of shit they were going to pull the instant I heard about them switching to a subscription model all the way back in ‘11 or ‘12. Their move to subscription-based was such an obvious ploy to (1) kill any delay/resale-based cottage markets and (2) fleece any customers who would be…

Good.

I just switched from separate Adobe Acrobat and the Photography Plan subscriptions to the entire Creative Cloud because Adobe said it would be $27/month (instead of the $32 I had been paying for years). I was verbally told the price would be locked in forever. Well, the first month was $27 (because it was prorated),…

Tomorrow on Gizmodo: “These Are the Best AI Meme Animators You Can Use Right Now”

I’m sure Adobe is looking forward to their court-approved slap on the wrist fine!

The other steaming pile of shit Adobe pulls is forcing me to purchase newer versions of software I already paid for and own. They simply stopped providing me a download link for my Premiere Elements and Photoshop Elements 2019 versions. I emailed them and was told those versions were “no longer supported” and that I…

I think it’d be pretty cool to take your favorite book and have AI generate a movie honing the characters to look and sound how you imagined (or better yet, work with the author and have the characters visualized how the author intended)

Soylent Green is the self-sustaining answer to food riots.

Slow news day, eh?

Was that the 14th doctor in that promo?

The new Ultimate Universe has been amazing so far, but it’s also amazing how different every book is. Ultimate Spider-Man is “What if an older, married Peter Parker became Spider-Man?”, Ultimate Black Panther is “What if T’Challa was part of a Dune-esque prophecy,” The Ultimates completely flips the script on the…

YES, YES, YES!

Thank you my friend. I thought a lot of the olds like me would get a chuckle but radio silence. Lots of exhausted Modays in high school