u/LampaDamp

just a small rant about clips subscription plans

So I love Clip Studio, it was what I've been using since I dumped Adobe a couple of years back and I haven't looked back. The thing I've liked about Clip is that you can buy the perpetual license if you don't want to pay a subscription, which is great, because I detest subscription plans with all my heart and I do my best to avoid them whenever possible.

Well cut to a couple of weeks ago, I'm getting ready to go back to college, and I need a tablet to read my completely legitimate digital copies of my college textbooks on, and I've been wanting to upgrade my digital art setup as well. So I decide to splurge a little and get the new Wacom Movink 14 Pro. I love drawing on this thing, as someone who has been using many different drawing tablets for almost a decade now, this one by far feels the best! and the fact that you can plug it into your computer and have another monitor is great!

HOWEVER, a very sad and melancholic feel whacked me across the head as I tried to transfer my Clip Studio account to the tablet. Because the Movink is an Android tablet, it has to run the Android version of Clip. Which shouldn't be too much of a problem, but PC accounts don't sync up with it. And when I asked Clip for assistance and clarification, they said that the Android version can only use the subscription service, no perpetual licenses allowed.

I went through the five stages of grief right then and there. I checked the tos (denial) raged on reddit (anger), sulked while drawing on the tablet while being stuck in doodle mode (depression), tried to find a way to jailbreak the device so I can put windows 11 on it and transfer my data that way (bargaining), then I gave up and downloaded Krita (acceptance).

I really do hope that one day we'll see perpetual licenses show up in mobile versions of it, but I doubt it. But I will pray. I will pray.

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u/LampaDamp — 3 days ago

Hey guys, I'm very new to VR&E, so I'm not sure where to start.

I have 9 months left on my gi bill and I'll be taking classes for this upcoming summer semester. I tried to use my VR&E benefits, but was denied because I'm considered 'employable', even though I haven't been able to hold down a full time job since 2020.

What should my next step be? Is there an appeal process that I need to go through? A friend of mine recommended reaching out to the Wounded Warrior Project, but I've had little luck with them in the past. I do have a VSO that also doubles as my attorney for when I filed for comp and pen, and they handled any appeals I had going on as well, should I reach out to them

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u/LampaDamp — 17 days ago
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Hi! I just got the movink 14 pro to see if I could is it as a separate art tablet that I can take on the go, and then I saw that it had a feature that would turn it into a pen display, like a regular cintiq, and I decided to give it a go, and holy hell it was clunky as hell. It lagged, ignored pressure sensitivity, and it was super sensitive in some areas. I tried a few fixes like going into windows display settings and lowering the resolution and decreasing the size of the display, but that didn't help. I checked my graphics setting, and the art program I was using (clip studio) was using my pc's graphics card (4090) for the bulk of the artwork, but I couldn't figure out why it was so laggy on the display. Maybe it was the bluetooth/wifi signal not being strong enough, but I'm going to need to tweak things a bit here and there.

Anyone got any ideas while I troubleshoot this?

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u/LampaDamp — 21 days ago