u/maurimbr

I want to start learning how to draw, and I’m stuck between getting a screenless drawing tablet or an iPad + Stylus.

A screenless tablet is way cheaper, but I’m honestly worried about getting used to drawing on one surface while looking at another screen. The iPad is much more appealing to me because of that direct drawing experience.

Is this fear actually justified, or do most people get used to screenless tablets pretty quickly?

Hello! I want to create very simple 2D frame-by-frame cartoon animations, and I’d like to use Procreate because I never got comfortable using a screenless drawing tablet.

Is it viable to use Procreate only to draw each frame, and then export everything later to something like Adobe Animate to finish and edit the animations?

Sorry if this is a basic question but I’ve never used Procreate before, and I’m buying an iPad specifically for this purpose.

Hey everyone. I played WoW for almost 20 years (vanilla, retail, and classic in recent years). A while ago I asked here for recommendations for a new game because I got burned out of WoW. I got tired of the repetition and retail just doesn’t appeal to me anymore.

Out of all the recommendations, the vast majority of people told me to try OSRS. So I installed it, and yesterday I reached 75 combat.

I genuinely liked OSRS. I love the spirit of the game, the way Jagex interacts with the community, the polls, and especially the way progression feels rewarding. The exponential XP curve for skills, the huge amount of things to level, the feeling that every little thing you do matters and is permanent. Nothing feels wasted. You know the time you invest will always stay there.

While playing, I met people who have been playing for 20 years on the same character, and some of them still haven’t maxed certain skills. As a long-time WoW player, that mindset honestly fascinated me.

But even then, OSRS never fully clicked for me.

I just couldn’t get used to the point-and-click gameplay. Moving by clicking, lacking that direct “action” feeling of controlling your character, dodging things manually, moving fluidly through the world, etc. Sometimes OSRS feels more like I’m playing a dice-roll RPG than actually controlling a character in a living world, and that kind of killed part of the excitement for me.

In my ideal world, I’d want WoW’s gameplay and third-person immersion, but with OSRS mechanics, progression philosophy, community, and mentality.

Maybe I’m asking for too much.