9point6 @ 9point6 @lemmy.world

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I am both

I look more like a scaled up person than a conventional tall guy

I don't think even the pope can exorcise the foul demons of malort

Pretty good, visiting my parents' place for Christmas this year

Brother is coming over with his other half and the new nephew in an hour or two for Christmas dinner.

Morning fry up was great (with some genuine, shipped from Scotland, Lorne sausage and haggis!) and we had some really nice bucks fizz from Aldi with blood orange and pomegranate in it.

Some 80s music countdown show is on the telly, as is tradish in my parents' gaff

I got some beers as part of my presents and I think it might be time to crack one of those in a moment

Imagine being so much of a billionaire brown nosing ghoul that you take a general message of compassion, apparently as a personal attack?

Well I'd lean on the shoulder of giants in terms of the actual service and not do it completely from scratch given we've got Facebook-likes in the fediverse, you could suggest to them. But basically yes from a network perspective unfortunately

Although you have given me an idea for an angle that the fediverse is perfect for: set up an instance for your local area

That allows you to also do the "screw untrustworthy big tech, keep things local with people you know" kind of angle.

Also obviously a fair bit of work, and you still have to ultimately convince people to use it, but worth highlighting regardless.

You unfortunately are coming at the problem from the wrong direction.

The only social network they will want to use is the one with all their friends on it; and for the older generations, that's basically just Facebook.

In order to get them to move you'd need to get their friends to move, and in order to get their friends to move, you'll need to get their friends to also move. It's called the network effect and it's why it's incredibly hard for any non-established social networks to gain much of a market share.

Your best bet (which is by no means a guarantee) is to wait for the latest Facebook scandal to be in the news, and chat to them about it whilst they're watching it on TV. Plus add a bit more fuel by doing the ol' "oh this reminds me of something else I was reading a couple of months ago..." And have some other recent scandals in your back pocket to fire out. Bonus points if you can already establish yourself on something like Friendica, which will allow you to say "yeah I quit Facebook a while ago, the company running it just seems skeevy, I've been using friendica instead for a bit now" or something like that

Then you have to hope that registers enough as a talking point amongst them and their friends that it sticks. But you have an uphill struggle ahead with no certainty of success.

Reminds me of the Banksy Simpsons couch gag

https://youtu.be/UUG_bg3ryB4

Bezos post telling people to give up on the idea of owning anything

Yeah I was gonna say "I wonder why the Torygraph is suddenly paying attention to events in India..."

Fair play, people's preferences are ultimately a subjective thing

I would say when it's done properly it genuinely looks like the devs have found resolution that doesn't exist in the image

Here's a good example that I think demonstrates it clearly (though this is a real deal CRT in this image versus the kind of filters I'm talking about in this thread, though the goal is the same effect)

(Via https://mastodon.social/@ponysmasher/111025666005999438)

Okay wishlisted, seems like I missed the demo by 4 days unfortunately

Ooh a roguelite I've not heard of

Thanks for the Christmas gift, I think I'll buy it

Edit: wait it's not out? wat

Well fair play then! You're probably not gonna get much out of them then haha

Bad ones are yes, I addressed that at the end

The good ones make use of the higher resolution screens we have today to render the lower resolution images using the real pixels as subpixels to mimic the effect.

1080p is possibly not enough resolution to be convincing if that's what you last looked at; but at 4K, every 240i/480i console output pixel gets something like 8-16 real subpixels to work with

If you want 1 to 1 accuracy, yes you'll only get that with an actual CRT. But the modern high quality filters are much, much more than just fake scanlines, and can be pretty effective for the games that need them. You can usually choose the signal path to emulate, choose to use an aperture grille or different kinds of shadow mask, and often even deeper tweaks.

If you've not looked at them in a while and you've got appropriate hardware to run them well, have another look.

Oh I wish we had a service like that in the UK, at least my council has finally started taking plastic recycling that isn't bottle shaped

That's actually the one I'm entirely on board with

Many retro games were designed to be viewed on a composite (or worse) signal CRT (particularly 8/16-bit consoles). They take advantage of the characteristics of those technologies to act as a final expected phase of image "processing". (It's a physical effect so not actually processing)

The games were never meant to be played with sharp, hard pixels. The lines were supposed to blur a bit to create a sum greater than the parts and create additional chroma and luma resolution that isn't possible with the console hardware in isolation.

OTOH it actually has to be a good filter that mimics these characteristics correctly, if it's just basic 1px scanlines and nothing else I'm probably not gonna use it

Some people apparently prefer it for low frame rates

I've never understood it myself

It kinda just looks like standard light pollution in the image

Perhaps it's mist amplifying the effect if it seems unusual

Significant enough to talk about

Desperation forces rational people to act irrational

If you can tell yourself you don't want something because you believe it's bad for you, when the real issue is you can't afford the treatment, it hurts less emotionally

Particularly if you happen to be in America where everyone is propagandised into thinking everything bad that happens to them is a personal failure

Thanks to the internet, conspiracies get wings, and now we have American-originated conspiracies making meaningful impact in Europe

Sure, and I was responding to the line that weirdly blamed green peace for something they had nothing to do with