Monody

Welp. Someone's getting turned into a very useful mask... Useful until Reed sees right through Vanity's acting. :P

Wondering if she has any connection to /the/ Masks, especially since she seems to be trying to escalate the war.

Flora's not wearing any pants and yet nothing's visible. Surely he's not THAT fluffy?
Also does he get called short in this universe, and flips out like Edward Elric? :P

I love the magic barrier. Gorgeous.

/Even the music./ It's insane how modern the soundtrack is. It was so radically different from anything at the time but now it's familiar, conventional.

It's still crazy to me how Mirror's Edge could've been released ten years later exactly as it is and would have fit right in.
A game from 2008 that looks, sounds, feels, plays... exactly like a game from 2018. And its engine was still in use by that time.

Enjoy silly variants of this that I had fun making. #elitedangerous

v1.1 to fix a spelling mistake. >_<

A pixel art quick reference guide for all of the minerals that can be mined in Elite Dangerous, using icons and colors to indicate which ring types and methods of mining each mineral is available in, as well as which minerals can have hotspots.

Did a bit of mission mining in #elitedangerous yesterday and was struck with inspiration. Have a "Where/how tf do I mine this?" reference sheet.

A farmer comes out of their house one morning to find their neighbor digging a deep hole in the farmer's yard.
The farmer asks what their neighbor is doing destroying their yard. The neighbor says "I'm digging you a new water hole.".
The farmer sighs and says "I know you mean well...".

Currently cleaning up my computer which has been accumulating various files for 10+ years.
So far I've found...
1: A folder full of duck noises(?) in a proprietary Audacity format.
2: A mysterious file in a raw image format, too small to be a photo, which nothing can open.
3: A _158MB_ .txt file!

Mmmmmmmhmmmm... Sure it was the wolves. Definitely not templar nonsense trying to escalate the conflict.

Some really creative use of panel boundaries on this page! Wow!

I have no context for this so it sounds utterly insane. XD

Eric plushie right where he wants to be.
Also why is the Reni plushie all alone over on the shelf? :c

Just saw a discussion of how slang can be very confusing when learning a new language, which made me think...

Holy shit this bull shit is bat shit. "Aw shit..." Like no shit that chicken shit dip shit did jack shit about this horse shit.

Isn't English the shit? :)

The mischievous little <ω< on Stoney's face in the last panel...

That first panel is /chilling/. Yeesh.
Fantastically creepy. Well done.

A Discord screenshot of a message sent by Monody, reading: Well the encoding speed and compression ratio phase of the testing is concluded. Before I move on the the visual quality phase, here are some interesting findings: 1: VP9 sucks. Not only was it fairly slow and had bad compression compared to the others, but based on my earlier testing with these codecs' respective image formats, I'm fairly confident it would lose the quality contest as well. Is it better than the previous-gen codecs? Sure. Is it better than VP8? Fucking absolutely. But it's taking the L in this lineup. 2: There is a ridiculous speed disparity between the AV1 encoders. SVT-AV1 has a huge range of speeds, and at its fastest it's able to compete in the same space as x264's "veryslow" preset which is what I've been using. AOM-AV1 at its fastest is about a sixth of that speed. ...and as for RAV1E... I didn't bother filling in all of its framerate fields on the spreadsheet. I just left the first one as "Slow". 3: 10-bit has unexpected effects. When I experimented with 10-bit YUV color, I expected to see a small increase in encoding time and a significant increase in filesize. For some reason, the opposite is true. The files are only very slightly larger, but there's a fairly consistent ~30% reduction in encoding speed. Very strange.

Here's a status report I DM'd my friend, because someone here might find it interesting/useful. Also it's an AVIF because it's funny and Bluesky doesn't support HEICs.

So I've been experimenting with current-gen video codecs to try and replace x264 in my current workflow. I recorded several lossless test clips that contain various challenging things for video encoding: grain, concentric lines, red text, etc… and have been re-encoding these to record the metrics.

A Discord screenshot of several messages posted by Monody. "Oh boy. I have peeped the madness I knew of for years but feared to investigate. It was true for x264, and so too does it appear to be true for x265. (Spoiler tagged:) The slower presets... produce /larger files./" "I can offer no explanation. My sanity dwindles." "WTF even is this nonsense" (A screenshot of a spreadsheet filled with video encoding test statistics, generally indicating that lower presets produce files of a similar or smaller size at the same quality setting despite being several times faster.) "I have been enlightened to the truth of video encoding. Things are not as simple as we once thought. RF equals quality... Preset equals speed... /What a FOOL we were! All things are intertwined, and none are all-encompassing."

Having some fun theatrically dramatizing my video encoding experiments.

A screenshot of the game Garrysmod taken on the map gm_excess_construct_13 showing a Sangheili from the Halo game series holding the popular "Maxwell" tuxedo cat model and staring into its face, highlighting that they both have yellow slit-pupil eyes.

"This creature has such... familiar eyes."

Oh right. That one.
That movement is antithetical to what I believe to be the healthiest and most productive path forward for zoos.
Paraphilias do need more destigmatization and do not deserve the shit they get nowadays...
But lumping zoosexuality in with them is harmful and counterproductive.

Don't you just love #Earthbound music? :)

Wait, what's with the Phoenician aleph? Is this another 'wrong flag' situation? XD

A screenshot of the Twitter account deactivation success page.

Poof.
So long and thanks for all the- ...not much, actually.

A screenshot of the game Elite Dangerous. It shows a dark landscape on a planet with a blueish atmosphere illuminated by a bright sun just below the horizon. A Scarab SRV sits a short distance from the camera, looking towards the sun. Farther away there is a landed Imperial Clipper.

A screenshot of the game Elite Dangerous, showing space. A black Imperial Clipper is in the foreground, angled towards a rocky planet with a blueish atmosphere backlit by an L-type brown dwarf in the background.

A screenshot from the game Elite Dangerous. It shows a shiny dark purple Imperial Clipper with blue thruster exhaust in a planet's teal-to-green gradient atmosphere, flying up into space.

Some E:D exploration screenshots from around the end of November / start of December. Found some pretty atmospheres.

Wait a minute... "DOOM 3: Resurrection of Evil" would've been the perfect title for DOOM 64!

It's an explicit sequel to DOOM II, and its plot revolves around all the demons having been resurrected.
And then DOOM 3 would've been DOOM 4 running in idTech 4, released in 2004.

Since this consists of two distinct characters, plus breaks, this could be used as a kind of Morse code.

Or should I say... Horse Code. :D

Wait a minute...
When you're TILTED, it means your ATTITUDE is off! :D

Genuinely thought I'd realized the origin of the term, until I looked it up.

An image containing a full set of 3 by 5 pixel Shavian characters, followed by a pangram using all of them. It is labeled as version 1.0, dated 16th of November 2024, and credited to Monody.

Recently learned about the Shavian alphabet, an attempt to create an optimized script better for writing English than the Roman alphabet. I have some nitpicks with it, but overall it's pretty cool!

...So naturally it didn't take long for me to make a tiny pixel font of it.