u/thegreatestpitt

Disclaimer, I’m a 95% noob to ttrpgs.

So I did a quick 5 min research and here’s what I found. Cyberpunk red has a solo book I could use but one reviewer said it was basically ass because it didn’t provide enough help in certain aspects like balancing difficulty and stuff like that.

Then I discovered the mythic game master emulator second edition which allegedly can help any player play any rpg alone without the need to rewrite rules or anything.

So what I’m thinking is that if this mythic gm emulator is legit, I could play the normal cyberpunk red, not the solo mode, using the mythic emulator.

What I’m asking here is if you guys think this would be a good idea based on cyberpunk red works, and if you have any tips or tricks to achieve my goal of playing cyberpunk red alone.

Any help would be appreciated:)

I'm looking for a monitor that can do all these things. I'm just trying things at the moment, trying my hand at video editing and graphic design and other creative stuff, but I want something that will allow me to work with color accurately straight from the box without having to calibrate, and that is good enough that I can keep using until I NEED to get better gear because maybe I'm now getting paid for the job, or because my skills delve into more intense advanced color correction for films or high level graphic design stuff.

so, yeah, would this monitor be a good "beginner" monitor that won't hold me back as I increase my skills in graphic design and video editing? or is it not that good?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Hi everyone. I'm looking for some resource (YT video ideally) that could help me learn how to optimize FCP. For example, I once had a library that started to grown in size like a motherf*cker and I think it was because I had a setting on by default that made it so that FCP made copies of my files into the library instead of just using the files without making copies.

Things of that nature are what I want to learn. Which settings to turn off, which to turn on, and any other tip and trick to have the best most optimized workflow possible in general, and I feel like most newbie Tut0rials don't touch on those things. also, learning about some must have free plugins could be great. I generally wish to use as little plugins as possible but if there are any that are extremely must have, I'd like to know about them.

Also, I'd be working with FCP and Logic Pro in tandem. Logic would be used for all things audio mixing (I do have experience there), so any resources that could help me improve the workflow of editing then sending to logic for audio mixing and back, would be a HUUUUUGE plus. things like how to make the files be better compatible between each other if that's even possible, or how to optimize the roundtrip, or how to avoid having duplicate files or unnecessary copies during the roundtrip, or any other optimization things between FCP and Logic.

Thank you so much for reading and thanks in advance for any help! 🙂

Hey everyone. gonna try to keep this short but it's a long story so bear with me.

TLDR: my bf, who is a sweetheart 90% of the time, has had slip-ups and idk if I'm playing dumb by staying with him or not, which in turn makes me wonder if I'm having some sort of codependency issue or not. PLEASE read the full thing as there's a lot of nuance that a TLDR doesn't convey.

So I met my bf over 3 years ago and it was a bumpy relationship at first because of various things. one of those things was that really early in the relationship, I asked if my bf would be up for a threesome with an old fuckbuddy I used to have. he said no and I respected it and never saw that old fuckbuddy again. he didn't ask, I just did it.

fast forward a bit and we started having trouble because he was friends with 3 of his exes. an ex of 7 years, an ex-fuck buddy that was nothing more than that, and another ex-fuck buddy who my bf did want to date but the ex-FB didn't so they left it as just friends.

I learned of this and at first I was weirded out but fine. then something happened. we went to a concert with his 7 year ex and they went to buy food and when I said that I wanted to come, my bf just went like "no, you stay back". allegedly it was so I wouldn't leave the ex's friend alone, but I didn't know the guy, we didn't talk at all during the time my bf and his ex were gone, and over all it was just weird to me. they came back and after a while, when the main artist came on, the ex started dancing. then he asked my bf to dance with him, and by "with him" I mean like, next to him, looking at the artist, not hand in hand or anything like that. my bf did but didn't ask me to dance with them. I got mad, told him about it later during the show and he apologized and behaved differently for the rest of the show. making me feel more at ease. Also, this ex had been quite emotionally abusive to my BF in the past, which I didn't know at the time, which definitely weirded me out even more 'cause I was like "why are you friends with a guy that treated you so bad".

as for the fuckbuddy that was nothing more than that, turns out he was my bf's best sex, and my bf still talked to him as friends. I got super self conscious about it, and super insecure because it felt like a competition between me and the guy, although that was only happening in my head since my bf cares for more than just sex and it's not like we didn't have good sex. (just so you know, I asked who my bf's best sex was, he didn't tell me out of the blue). anyway, I later found out that the guy would sometimes hit him up like "hey handsome" although, to my bf defense, he, as far as I know, always told him like "dude, don't call me handsome, you know very well you're doing it flirtatiously, and I have a boyfriend".

as for the last fuck buddy, I actually met the guy and he's chill af. I don't feel worried about that guy particularly, because I can feel the romantic and sexual disinterest between the two of them. they really are just friends, or at least it feels that way.

so. here's the tipping point. my bf had a twitter account for watching porn and shit, which I was ok with, but my bf never allowed me to see said account. one day, for some toxic reason, I decided to grab his phone and check. he had a naked picture of himself as his profile pic. no face though, just his torso and legs. also, you couldn't actually see the genitals cause it's a profile pic, but you could very well tell he was naked. my heart sank. I checked his messages and he didn't have any conversations with anyone, but he had left 2 comments under some porn videos a while ago where he said things along the line of "that's so hot. I'm a bear in -insert city name- versatile for other bears" and the other comment was just like "that's so hot, I want it" as well, but without the invitation so to speak.

I confronted him, he told me he honest to god didn't remember which I was like "well that's awfully fucking convenient isn't it". he did say sorry for the pic and said he had been thinking about deleting it but he just never got around to it. I asked him why he had that profile to begin with, which mind you, the profile name had only fans in the name to kind of keep that name "registered" if you will, in case he ever did anything with only fans, which to my knowledge, he hasn't, as he's too chicken shit to actually send proper nudes online, although he could be lying. idk. he did send me one when we were first dating. but anyway, he did apologize profusely over that incident. I cried, he cried, we hugged, etc.

anyway, the point is he allowed me to delete the twitter account myself, which I did. he also stopped talking to the fuck buddy that kept calling him handsome. he actually was going to block him in front of me only to realize the guy had already blocked him. this ex-fuckbuddy situation happened days or weeks later though. the twitter thing did happen right then and there.

as for instagram, he has it public and follows a bunch of like muscle guys and bear guys and stuff like that, but as far as I know, he's never done anything like sending messages or things of that nature. he also doesn't let me see his instagram DMs because he says that that's like a control thing, which ngl, to a certain extent I agree, I do think me checking his DMs is me wanting to have certainty and control of the situation. to make 100% sure he's not doing shit behind my back, which I do think is problematic which is why I've been trying to work on trusting him more.

anyway, I've been working hard at letting it all go because he apologized, and we've talked about it a lot, and I didn't want to break up with him so I realized that if I wanted to be with him, I needed to trust him again, or else, what would've been the point?

so, not long ago, we had one final conversation cause I was feeling shit and angry and stuff because his twitter account still showed if I searched for it, and I was like "dude, you're fucking lying, you undid the delete." well, he showed me his phone. showed me his twitter, and showed me that he didn't have the account anymore. whether he just deleted it from his phone so it didn't show, idk. but yeah. he also showed me all his email addresses under his gmail account. there were only two, his personal and his work one.

for a while, that actually calmed me down quite a bit, until today. I went on twitter, checked his old porn profile and saw that he had one more follower, which shouldn't be possible because a) I made it into a private account before deleting, and b) he says he doesn't have access to it.
HOWEVER, I'm not actually sure he DOES have a new follower. Something in my hazy memory tells me he had 10 followers, and last I checked that had gone down to 9, but today I checked and it was back to 10. BUT, maybe I had it wrong and it was that he had 11 followers and it went down to 10 and then that would check out, the problem is that I don't remember. Not clearly. I think it was 9 and today it went back up to 10 but I honestly can't be sure. I decided to take a screenshot of the account's numbers to check in the future for any movement in the followings of the account which... as I type this I'm like "I'm insane", but I'm just clawing for any source of reassurance that there's nothing going on behind my back.

with all that said, I guess I'm looking for someone's opinion, because as I wrote this, I feel like I'm playing dumb just to be with him, and like I'm allowing things that I shouldn't have allowed just to be with him, which I feel is like codependence 101. but then again, I've told this story in other subs and 70% of responses tend to be that I'm being too intense, and that it's not actually that bad, so... idk. what do you all think? am I fucking up and being a fucking psycho? am I being stupid for remaining in the relationship or am I making things bigger than they are? like, to you, how do you see this situation?

Also, let's note that the guy (my bf) is actually an absolute sweetheart 90% of the time. he's constantly taking public transport for like 2 hours to come stay at my place, and when he's over here he cooks for me and pampers me and tells me he loves me all the time, and when we're away, he sends me a bunch of messages through the day telling me he loves me or sending me reels that reminded him of me or that he thought I would enjoy or things like that. Like, the guy is really nice, this isn't a situation where the guy is beating me or some shit, like, he's constantly there for me and tries to help me out with what he can and when I have friends over and he's with me, he will often times take on the role of like the host, so like, he'll clean, or bring plates to people, or things like that, just so I can chill out with my friends, etc. etc. there's a reason why I love him despite it all and why I choose to stay with him. it's just that this uncertainty that happens in my head make me go a bit paranoid, specially after everything that happened with his exes, the twitter thing, and all. like, I know I haven't been mr. healthy relationship guy, but still it feels like I'm a little bit feeling this way because I've found out shit that my bf has been doing that he didn't deem a big deal and I'm just here like "how could you not?" but even that thought makes me doubt myself because it's like "maybe it really ISN'T a big deal for a healthy couple". Idk anymore.

Let me know what you think. thanks for reading.

Hey everyone. Just wondering how the job market is looking like with AI tools such as Nano Banana Pro and GPT Image 2 and such. I personally wish none of these tools existed because I hate seeing passionate people who had a hard time finding a job, have it even tougher now.

But yeah, just wondering, like… what’s the reality of the situation. How many of you are surviving the AI boom? Are you using AI to help with designs? Maybe generating something and fixing the issues that it comes with? Or… what?

Also, for product design, I’ve seen some solid product design from AI (I mean it’s obviously not as good as a human) so I’m wondering if some of you have been replaced or if your bosses have begun to ask you to use AI for the task, or if you’re actually lucky enough to work in a no AI job? And if that’s the case, how is the business doing by not adopting AI?

And for those of you who do things like flyers or like music festival line ups or stuff of that nature, how has AI impacted you so far?

And for those of you who do brand identities, how has it been? Do your clients ask for AI stuff? Do you use generative AI to speed your workflow in any way so you can take on more clients?

I’m sorry for all the questions, I’m just very curious and want to better understand the reality of the situation to get a better lay of the land so to speak.
I’m not much of a pro designer myself but I dabble. I do wish to work in a creative field (music) and I feel a sort of solidarity with other creatives during these trying times, and I just feel curious as how we’re all dealing with this. I feel like if we all stick together, regardless of our creative specialty, maybe we’ll have a higher chance of surviving this shit.

Thanks for reading and thanks in advance for your responses. I’m sending you all a big virtual hug. Let’s have hope that we can all make it through and survive and even thrive in this AI times.

PS. Has anyone used Pixelmator Pro for design? How do you like it?

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