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What Are Some Things You Regret Buying or Bought but Never Used? (lemm.ee)

submitted 8 months ago by pineapplelover@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I see posts talking about good BIFL items but I don't hear much about the other side of products that are bad or products you bought but don't even use.

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[–] pixelscript@lemmy.ml 24 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Back in the early 10's I paid $200 for a year subscription license to Adobe Flash Pro, as I had convinced myself I was gonna learn to use it to produce sprite animations like the ones I grew up enjoying on Newgrounds. Never booted it once.

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If you're still up for some animation practice, Blender's grease pencil is fantastic, free, and integrates with the rest of Blender very well

[–] pixelscript@lemmy.ml 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Blender has got to be one of the most hilariously vertically integrated apps I've ever seen. Next thing I'll hear is it can file my taxes.

[–] cdipierr@beehaw.org 2 points 8 months ago

For a free piece of software it has no right being as good and as easy to use as it is.

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

I'm confident there's an addon for making motion graphics out of your taxes

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughts_on_Flash

[–] pixelscript@lemmy.ml 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Flash as an embedded media platform was a blight on browser security. But strictly as an animation tool, it was pretty nifty. You can even use tools like Swivel to render Flash animations to video.

In the year of our lord 2024 there are probably way better tools than Flash ever was to do this sort of thing. But back in circa 2011 it was the best tool of its kind I knew of.

[–] fidodo@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I've still yet to find a vector tool that works as well and easily as the one in flash. It was amazing. Ignoring the security, it was really way ahead of its time.