I’m with you. I love paint.net. For me it’s not even necessarily the feature set, but the fact that it starts up instantly unlike others. Most of the time I’m using it to make a quick meme and having to wait for something like GIMP to open makes me feel like it’s not worth making.
Absolutely loved the first game. I’m a little biased because it’s one of my favorite kinds of settings, but it’s really good all around. Killer art direction, palpable atmosphere and tension, interesting narrative choices, high level of intrigue, and while the mechanics are pretty simple they are snappy and engaging.
I got to play the closed beta. I really wanted the game to be good, but it had one major issue and one design choice that ruined it for me.
In addition, I think the above design decision is partly fueled by their monetization scheme. Manufacturing parts in time locked and guess what - you can pay to accelerate/bypass it.
Other than that, I had only minor complaints, like the menus.
All that being said, the actual feel of the mechs and gameplay was really solid. So if you don’t mind the above, you might enjoy it.
Phonograph commits the same sin as every other player in that swipe changes tabs and is therefore a total waste of a premium gesture.
I went into the offline mobile music player rabbit hole recently too. I tried like a dozen and personally I think none of them are sufficient, including Symphony.
The most important functionality for me is queuing e.g. how it works and how easy it is to use and it’s just a horrible experience for virtually every player. So disappointing 😣
This is interesting because this word does get used in American English, but it’s pronounced like “row your boat” not like wow.
In a similar vein to deadcade’s comment, Ripcord also exists also an alternative. If this exchange had happened a few months ago I would’ve recommended it above anything - but unfortunately it hasn’t been updated in a very long time at this point and it’s starting to cause some core functionality to not work.
EDIT: It’s pretty much exclusively the Slack functionality that doesn’t work anymore. The Discord side is great and is IMO has a much more useful UI, ex: you can group arbitrary channels from any number of servers into a single group which is presented in the UI pretty much as a new server. No more server hopping to check out all of your favorite channels!
Haven’t seen these mentioned yet:
This is one of the newer shows made by Shinichiro Watanabe (Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo). Follows the crew of a small terrorist organization as they implement their various plots - lots of intrigue that makes you want to keep watching.
Follows a boxer’s journey in a semi-dystopian future. Very mature and themes of adulthood, especially season 2. And I mean real life mature, not gore and titties. I’ve never watched an anime that I found so relatable as an adult human being. Music is also extremely top tier and I’m personally a huge fan of it’s animation style.
I’ve always been of the mind that the walk is for my dog - not for me. If he wants to stop and sniff something for a long time I let him because that’s what makes the walk enjoyable for him. I will concede though that it’s easy for me to adjust the total length of the walk based on how much stopping he does but that might not be the case for everyone.