Aerginous

I feel like surely people on this site would appreciate knowing that the BBC sound effect library, from which you may freely download, has 716 distinct recordings of clocks specifically https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk/

already seeing the start of the inevitable industry revisionism by which the embracer, microsoft etc layoffs become the fault of too many grappling hook games on steam. we are encouraged to grow up and resemble the financial adults in the room, never mind that those adults are currently giggling and trying to stick their fingers in the wall sockets; market logic can never fail, it can only be failed, because people are not making things that are (gestures vaguely) you know, more commercial, and unique but still have a built-in audience, and have enough budget but not too much budget, or something. they are not making money because they are not things that make money. please pay me $50,000 in consultancy fees.

Stick around to see what happens when he takes off his pants.

Aseprite is billed as a pixel art tool, but more and more I've been finding myself using it as a general image editor for all kinds of operations I struggle to do on more specialized graphic editors

• It's lightweight. If I click it, it just opens. compared with photoshop equivalents where you're waiting at least a few seconds for it to boot up, if I just want to quickly resize/crop or convert file formats, I want the faster option
• ease of use: admittedly this is partly that I'm used to it by now, but basic edits like cropping or overlaying an image over another is way more painless. harkens back to windows xp paint's usefulness where industry software is overkill
• animated gif editing! thanks to aseprite's robust animation tools, it's good at that too
• palette indexed colour editing: admittedly a niche use case, but you can edit images with indexed colour while preserving the palette, versus most software which tends to convert them to full colour
• actually opens webp files, including animations. no more headaches

this of course falls apart when you actually need the advanced photo-editing tools that industry software is known for, but if you just want to change file formats or to make a low-effort meme it works perfectly fine