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MHLoppy

@ MHLoppy @fedia.io

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Currently studying CS and some other stuff. Best known for previously being top 50 (OCE) in LoL, expert RoN modder, and creator of RoN:EE's community patch (CBP). He/him.

(header photo by Brian Maffitt)

  • I've recently turned into a blocker.

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  • What are your blocking habits?

    I made it through nearly two years and eventually caved after I made the mistake of arguing in favor of the truth, supported by video evidence and a fact check from an internationally recognized fact-checking organization only to be told to "fuck off", a second user said that they enjoyed pissing on my shoe(s) in their personal fight against truth, and some other catastrophically braindead takes. I generally don't like the blocking approach for opinions I don't agree with because everyone has differing views and also people have bad days and that's just life. However, being actively hostile to the truth and being extremely confrontational about it was a bridge too far for me and it was either blocking a few mouldy potatoes in an attempt to keep things tolerable or getting off the threadi/fediverse so I decided to give the former a whirl.

    If you do block a lot of people, has that affected your experience?

    Thankfully haven't felt the need to block many, so the only thing I've really noticed is that occasionally one of the blocked users comments in the thread for something I've submitted (which I don't get a notification for and can't see) - but then someone unrelated replies to them and then I get a notification for a comment chain which I can't actually load. It took me a while to even figure out why I was getting these "ghost" notifications.

  • What's the first thing you'd do with a Star Trek holodeck?

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  • Science has gone too far

  • Advent | "Your Idol" | Hololive x KPop Demon Hunters (animation)

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  • Calli has clearly fucking ruined me because when I heard the rapping section I just thought that she was doing it

  • The powerful death (by Mikururun)

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  • Fun image processing / compression trivia: I'm pretty confident this is the least compressible fanart I have ever come across let alone submitted.

    The original is 23.18 MiB (losslessly compressed) with a res of 2800x4218. Normally given those dimensions and the subject matter, I'd halve those dimensions, recompress the image using WebP quality 8085, and the resulting file size for fanart at similar settings averages out to 200 KiB (give or take - approaching 300 KiB for larger or visually complex images like this one, but lower for smaller or visually simple images). This is more respectful of server storage/bandwidth costs and the load times for anyone who gets served the same image I submit and not one that's further recompressed by their instance (the latter being what lemmy normally does, the former being what Mbin normally does). Even for complex images I usually don't struggle to hit a max size of 300KiB, and when I do it's usually because of film grain / digital noise which can be reduced prior to compression to improve the file size vs perceived image quality tradeoff, or at most it's high-complexity detail which gets simplified down to something more manageable with a more aggressively lowered resolution (like targeting a step down from ~full HD instead of ~full HD resolution).

    In this case going down to 50% dimensions at my preferred quality target of 85 with WebP compression still results in a file size of 900 KiB! Even when going down to 40% dimensions and only going for quality 80 (the lower limit of my preference instead of my preferred target of 85) I'm at 490 KiB, and still 440 KiB at 33% dimensions at quality 80, still bigger than anything other fanart I've encountered because it has so many fine details that aren't film grain / digital noise and so can't be reduced with some light denoising. Trying to balance my preference between image quality and server resources / end user bandwidth and load times, I ended up dropping down to 40% dimensions at quality 72 to get ~300 KiB (broadly speaking in the context of digital fanart, for maximizing image quality vs file size, extra resolution with more aggressive compression beats lower resolution with less aggressive compression).

    Can anyone tell the difference in quality while casually browsing? Well, probably not 😅, which is why stuff like lemmy will recompress it even more than what I've done here - but professionals have standards damn it.

    Tune in next episode for more uselessly specific fanart image compression trivia.

    Edit: since I last investigated this, it looks like lemmy's behaviour regarding recompression of images has changed; on lemmy.world, sh.itjust.works, and aussie.zone I'm now seeing the original image submission without the extra layer of recompression, making it actually slightly more relevant what I choose to do lol

  • Space battle games for casual player?

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  • I'm a very casual gamer, and not looking for an mmo, or anything particularly challenging.

    Putting aside anything else, I doubt FTL meets the requirements just because it's firmly on the hard side of things. Might be a good suggestion to check out for some others reading the thread though!

  • Space battle games for casual player?

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  • but the combat is a bit too hard for me

    I haven't really played since I was at most a teen so maybe the later battles aren't actually as hard as I remember, but if this is a bottleneck then OP may find later sections of the game's main story frustrating. I think the game itself is a good vibe fit and has broadly aged well, but something to keep in mind for OP!

  • Intel’s next-generation Panther Lake laptop chips could be a return to form

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  • Missed this when I CTRL+F'd for "Xe3" 😅

    edit: omggg I took a glance and thought it was the same content so I deleted the submission on Xe3 but it's actually different lmao

  • AOMedia Will Be Talking More About The AV2 Video Codec Later This Month

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  • "for life" covers that eventuality :P

  • AOMedia Will Be Talking More About The AV2 Video Codec Later This Month

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  • What about AV2 + Opus though!?

  • Struggling to heat your home? Try 500 Raspberry Pi units

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  • If you don't have enough GPU power to meet your heating needs, there's a capital cost to get more (and depending on your existing setup, likely even more capital costs for other components to be able to run it in a separate system).

  • Give me a single reason why Sora2 should exist.

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  • It's a bit excessive for my taste as well. Traditionally if you felt the need to cut this much just to make the sentence come out the way you want, you'd just do another take instead of making this many cuts in post. Over-cutting of spacing also makes the pacing a bit too "word-vomit" rather than "polished" imo.

    I imagine this is more normalized in stereotypically "zoomer" presentation of video content, but it might also just be this guy (or their editor's) style.

  • Struggling to heat your home? Try 500 Raspberry Pi units

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  • I think the implied point of comparison is (edit: e.g.,) heat pumps, which are effectively more than 100% efficient (as mentioned elsewhere in the thread), making ~100% efficiency relatively inefficient by comparison.

  • Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?

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  • It's not the intended effect, but this just made me sad:

    That really matters. Not because the internet is the most important issue facing us today. Far from it. Compared with the climate emergency, genocide, inequality, corruption, democratic backsliding, authoritarianism and sustained racist, homophobic, misogynist and transphobic attacks, the internet is just a sideshow. But the internet is the terrain upon which these fights will be waged. It is the communications medium we will use to organise to save our species and planet from their imminent eradication. We can’t win these fights without a free, fair and open internet.

    It's become increasingly difficult to imagine the sort of wide-scale change needed to achieve that vision actually happening.

  • Biboo rejects law & order (animation)

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  • Gigi with no jacket looks so weird lol

  • [Level1Techs] AMD visit and tour! Featuring the ROCm 7 and AMD Instinct

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  • (there is much less "tour" than I expected)

  • Calli's revenge on Gigi (animation)

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  • VTuber Mori Calliope’s Anime Dream Came Full Circle In Creating Gachiakuta’s New Theme Song

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  • I love VTubbers

  • Gigi Murin - Confessions of a Rotten Girl (song cover MV)

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  • Gigi partially upskirting genderbent IRyS in "official" art was not on my bingo card

  • Shine on, forever (by 黒い稲妻)

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  • I think I just forgot to put it in (lol whoops ), but in the past updating the image doesn't federate the change so it's basically useless to fix it directly.

    HOWEVER it looks like that's since been updated :D and now the updated image federates!!!