_aitchFactor

@aitchfactor.bsky.social

21! melbourne! australia!

so I've been working on a downscaler for playing 3D games that were supposed to be played at a lower resolution, but there's still some very slight imperfections that are bugging me...

A snippet of a scene from Ocarina of Time, rendered at 1440p resolution. The 3D models are pretty distinct from the pre-rendered background that they're rendered on top of.The same snippet but downscaled to match the resolution of the backdrop. The scene looks a bit more coherent. Unfortunately, the downscaling introduced a very slight blur effect to the backdrop as well.

"Have you even thought about the trees?!" "What trees?" "So you HAVEN'T!" "I don't know what's happening right now." "Hi, I'm a third person. I'm actually the worst, but I'm going to be nice about this Pikachu picture, that's pretty cute." "I like this person now I'm going to be their friend."

everything seems fairly wrong and cruel right now. i don't think either Excessive Hope or Doom are useful. neither are really considerate to the world or the people around you, it's either just ignoring everything or giving up. be real and have each others backs. take care of each other

10 games that defined me, even though they aren't even my favourite 😡 ⭐ Gimmick! 🎐 Super Metroid 🤌 Street Fighter III 🪠 Super Smash Bros. Ultimate 🌪️ Warioware Twisted! ⚙️ Mega Man 2 ⚔️ Final Fantasy VI 🍂 Super Mario 3D Land 🐺 The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess 🫵 Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney

Pixel artists! 🗣 When posting your art on here, if you don't want it completely mangled, export at 16x the original size (or a multiple of 8) because JPEG processes blocks of 8 pixels. At 16x, the artifacts are very minimal, and similar to JPEG quality of 100%, even with a quality of 20%!

Some pixel art scaled up 10x, showing the excessive JPEG artifacts introduced. JPEG quality is 80%.Some pixel art scaled up 8x, showing the less aggressive JPEG artifacts introduced. JPEG quality is 80%.Some pixel art scaled up 16x, showing the extremely minimal JPEG artifacts introduced. JPEG quality is 20%.

The engagement system on this platform feels like old Twitter. My timeline is nothing but positive messages, games, animals, and creative works. All of my posts are exploding with positive replies. Not going back. This rocks.