Adam Jury

Adam Jury

@adamjury.com

🎨 Graphic & Game Designer 🎲 Leder Games ✨ Pro Wrestling is Art πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ he/him/they/them

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Look I'm not saying that making this GANTT chart in InDesign was the best idea I've ever had, but it ain't the worst.

Nice little adrenaline spike as I had to yell at a guy who was about to walk into a moving train. I love this city, and city living.

Every time a new DesignCraft update comes out I open a very simple IDML file as a test and every single time it fails to generate a useable file in a slightly different way. And then I close DesignCraft.

Today I realized that InDesign's Script icon is an extruded S. I always through it was a weird old-style paper scroll... ☺️

The worst part of this is MM as measurements. Metric is awesome. MM are not how my brain thinks.

A young graphic designer is taught to never use the eraser tool so they can re-experience the joy of lossy erasing as an old graphic designer.

The autistic need to constantly remind myself that when someone says "they don't understand $thing" they usually understand and just don't LIKE the thing in question.

Adam Jury reposted

The right way to sort books is by color but the percentage of RPG books that have black covers means that the right way to sort RPGs is by dice size.

You sort dice pool games by smallest average dice pool to largest average dice pool. (If there's one thing Shadowrun fans want, it's what other Shadowrun fans don't want... πŸ˜…)

this or die pool size (we're looking at you, Shadowrun 3e! nobody wants to roll 24d6! they do not!!)

The right way to sort books is by color but the percentage of RPG books that have black covers means that the right way to sort RPGs is by dice size.

Made a rule that on days that I use a Lyft/uber I have to spend that ride + other transit time sketching. Sketching on a bus destroys all ego and I had none about my drawing ability to begin with.

I’ve been wearing high-heeled boots for a few years. Today I’m breaking in new ones without a heel, and I had to run in them. Is this what a baby deer feels like trying to walk?!

Sim is gggrrrrreeeeaaatttt

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DISASTER! Due to our printer accidentally dropping a hyphen, everyone at Leder Games is frantically trying to design a "56 player" expansion for Kart.

My brain: "this will go down on your permanent record." reality: touching up a 10x7 area of an image .... 10x7 millimeters.

I have not installed it and I am sure there is much πŸ“€πŸ΄. Beyond that ... the screenshots of DesignCraft contain so many layout/type problems. 😫 InDesign has some terrible defaults and the tools for solving these little problems could be a lot better. Step one: don't photocopy InDesign's defaults.

Finch dutifully saying "Wow, it looks great!" whenever I send someone a cursed pumpkin design is the energy I need right now.

Pondering a project that would involve watching a LOT of wrestling. It’s always more fun with spreadsheets.

I use a little app called Numi to do math. It's basically a text editor that computes. The most important thing is you can type anything into it, so whenever I need to do math I am greeted with: "you can't play for keeps if you never draw blood"

We get a lot of mail addressed to previous tenants at the office. OR: there's a secret apartment complex in the building and nobody has told me how much a studio costs in it?!?!?!

I hate this. I love this.

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