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What Are Some Things You Regret Buying or Bought but Never Used? (lemm.ee)
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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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[โ€“] 24 points 2 years 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.

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 2 years 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.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)
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  • [โ€“] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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