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Hwurmp
May 20, 2005

whomst amongst ust

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Rocket Baby Dolls
Mar 3, 2006

Underneath he has a velvet, yummy tummy you wish you could just stroke and squish all day! Ahh! But on top... On top it's a whole different story... On top he is a scary stiff stabber!
I've forgotten to press the record button several times and have only realised after the session has ended. I've also recorded some videos with the mic muted and others in the wrong resolution a few times.

IGgy IGsen
Apr 11, 2013

"If I lose I will set myself on fire."

Sally posted:

whomst among us hasnt lost footage/screenshots for an LP? let them cast the first sixxer

I never lost footage.


I did however, recently, had a big project file irrecoverably corrupt with automatic backups somehow not working for that specific one.

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

Mraagvpeine posted:

What happened to that other guy, Scruffy?

Scruffy is fine and responds to chat about his favourite dr who episode “love and monsters”

TeeQueue
Oct 9, 2012

The time has come. Soon, the bell shall ring. A new world will come. Rise, my servants. Rise and serve me. I am death and life. Darkness and light.

Sally posted:

whomst among us hasnt lost footage/screenshots for an LP? let them cast the first sixxer

update 3.

and since then I've never deleted a single thing ever, ever, until I was 300% sure that all need for it was done and gone forever.

dscruffy1
Nov 22, 2007

Look out!
Nap Ghost

Namtab posted:

Scruffy is fine and responds to chat about his favourite dr who episode “love and monsters”

Can confirm.

I got sadbrain for a while, then life got busy because I got married and have a stepson now. Just haven't had the time/motivation to get back to making videos/posting on SA. Still alive.

That episode sucks.

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

Yes, he loves that episode alright

Rocket Baby Dolls
Mar 3, 2006

Underneath he has a velvet, yummy tummy you wish you could just stroke and squish all day! Ahh! But on top... On top it's a whole different story... On top he is a scary stiff stabber!
Talking about lost footage, I've just recorded a half-hour video and OBS didn't record the mouse cursor even though the setting is switched on.

Psion
Dec 13, 2002

eVeN I KnOw wHaT CoRnEr gAs iS

Vitamin Me posted:

Tbh this sounds more like a 'old website' issue..

Hm but the site shows fine on mobile, so there's some modern frontend framework involved possibly

page or two back but no, it's not a modern framework at all. I looked into the site styling a few months ago when the width question came up a previous time and it's just old code doing what it's supposed to be doing. if I remember right it's just some pretty minimal jquery and some media queries in the CSS. Which makes sense; not like forum posts are style heavy either.

what I was investigating was kicking base font size up from 14px and whether or not wider images could go in easily, and the answers seemed to be "sure" and "I'd want to ask baldurk some questions about how content is imported" at which point I didn't pursue it. nobody's asked me to update the archive, baldurk does not know or care about my opinion, I was just looking out of curiosity.

Psion fucked around with this message at 02:30 on Nov 2, 2023

Kangra
May 7, 2012

I'm thinking of doing an LP, but don't want to deal with cropping images down to size too much, but I would like to host it on LPix, and thus need to keep image size down a bit. I'd like some feedback on what people consider acceptably readable.

Here's the original png screenshot [cropped to remove pillarboxes only] (too big at 2.3 Mb):


Here's a few alternatives, with some unsharp mask applied:

PNG, resized to 1080, about 1.6 Mb


JPEG, resized to 1080, about 470 kb


PNG, resized to 960, about 1.3 Mb



I'm also considering having some shots (where text matters) be in one format, and most others not, but do people think it'd be too noticeable to switch formats/quality like that?

PurpleXVI
Oct 30, 2011

Spewing insults, pissing off all your neighbors, betraying your allies, backing out of treaties and accords, and generally screwing over the global environment?
ALL PART OF MY BRILLIANT STRATEGY!
I think the smaller shots, even the smallest, look fine.

As for "where text matters," if you're thinking of shots where only the text matters, I'd definitely say crop those down to just the text.

Jobbo_Fett
Mar 7, 2014

Slava Ukrayini

Clapping Larry
jpg 1080 looks fine to me and a good size

TooMuchAbstraction
Oct 14, 2012

I spent four years making
Waves of Steel
Hell yes I'm going to turn my avatar into an ad for it.
Fun Shoe
One thing to keep in mind with screenshots is that the reader doesn't necessarily know which part of the game you're trying to highlight. Sometimes it's obvious, but if you expect them to notice something small, like a single text message or some visuals off in a corner, then you'll want to call that out specifically, either via cropping or by mentioning it in the text of your post.

Kangra
May 7, 2012

Yeah, I think it was down to going with JPEG vs a smaller PNG. I can see a difference if I look closely but the JPEG is a significantly smaller file size, and I think I'll go with it (960-px JPEG isn't enough of a difference in file size to matter, which is why I didn't include it). As for cropping, part of the reason I want to check is that doing all the cropping on an LP is a significant time investment, and to do what I want to do with this, I'd rather work on selecting shots and using text. So most stuff will remain full-size. It's already one where I'll need to summarize & describe a lot of what happens, otherwise it'll never even get started.

BisbyWorl
Jan 12, 2019

Knowledge is pain plus observation.


Keep in mind that while LPix just wants less than 2MB, the LP Archive has a cap of 900px wide if you want it archived after you're done.

Vitamin Me
Mar 30, 2007


My faith has been rewarded

anilEhilated
Feb 17, 2014

But I say fuck the rain.

Grimey Drawer
Praise baldurk!

Rocket Baby Dolls
Mar 3, 2006

Underneath he has a velvet, yummy tummy you wish you could just stroke and squish all day! Ahh! But on top... On top it's a whole different story... On top he is a scary stiff stabber!
I haven't checked my emails in a couple of weeks so I may have missed the boat on the archive update.

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

I keep saying believe in baldurk and im right 100% of the time and should be LP mod and king

TitusGroen
Sep 30, 2021

In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

I dunno if others are the same as me but if I see a post in the new LP announcement thread without any context whatsoever, like this one, I'll never click on it just on principle.

Rocket Baby Dolls
Mar 3, 2006

Underneath he has a velvet, yummy tummy you wish you could just stroke and squish all day! Ahh! But on top... On top it's a whole different story... On top he is a scary stiff stabber!

TitusGroen posted:

I dunno if others are the same as me but if I see a post in the new LP announcement thread without any context whatsoever, like this one, I'll never click on it just on principle.

That is the new LP announcement thread and that is my announcement of a new LP.

TitusGroen
Sep 30, 2021

In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

Rocket Baby Dolls posted:

That is the new LP announcement thread and that is my announcement of a new LP.

I didn't want to clutter up the announcement thread. Have fun with screaming/yelling guy game.

anilEhilated
Feb 17, 2014

But I say fuck the rain.

Grimey Drawer
I guess it depends on if you're in the know, since the picture is pretty internet-famous. I saw it and immediately went "hooray, RBD is doing Mystery of the Druids!"

Commander Keene
Dec 21, 2016

Faster than the others



Yeah, I didn't really know anything about the game itself, but I was able to tell it was Mystery of the Druids just from Screaming Dude Face there.

Carbon dioxide
Oct 9, 2012

Who cares???

If someone decides to not add a text description to a new lp announcement and people decide not to click on it because of that, that's their loss, right?

As long as people don't do stuff that's not allowed such as porn games, let them be. You're not legally required to interact with them.

Mega64
May 23, 2008

I took the octopath less travelered,

And it made one-eighth the difference.

Carbon dioxide posted:

You're not legally required to interact with them.

We should change the laws then

Mega64
May 23, 2008

I took the octopath less travelered,

And it made one-eighth the difference.
Click every last god drat LP

BisbyWorl
Jan 12, 2019

Knowledge is pain plus observation.


The evolution of :justpost:, Just

Commander Keene
Dec 21, 2016

Faster than the others



Just :five:

Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011



I have never read the LP Announcement thread, so that's not a problem for me. :smuggo:

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

Kheldarn posted:

I have never read the LP Announcement thread, so that's not a problem for me. :smuggo:

:same:

Leal
Oct 2, 2009
But if you don't read that thread, how will you know when a new LP is posted?

Sally
Jan 9, 2007


Don't post Small Dash!

Kheldarn posted:

I have never read the LP Announcement thread, so that's not a problem for me. :smuggo:





what the heck we spent so much time making sure that thread catered specifically to your two needs!!

Sally
Jan 9, 2007


Don't post Small Dash!
this is why i quit modding

Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011



Leal posted:

But if you don't read that thread, how will you know when a new LP is posted?

I don't have to be in on the ground flood of an LP. Every week or so, I go to the LP subforum, and sort by newest threads.


Sally posted:

what the heck we spent so much time making sure that thread catered specifically to your two needs!!

I'm sorry you had to find out like this…

nine-gear crow
Aug 10, 2013

Sally posted:

this is why i quit modding

I quit modding because Lowtax beat the poo poo out of multiple women and I didn't want to be a part of this site's "leadership" anymore :v:

Mraagvpeine
Nov 4, 2014

I won this avatar on a technicality this thick.

Kheldarn posted:

I don't have to be in on the ground flood of an LP. Every week or so, I go to the LP subforum, and sort by newest threads.

I'm sorry you had to find out like this…

How do you sort them?

Sally
Jan 9, 2007


Don't post Small Dash!
very carefully

Carbon dioxide
Oct 9, 2012

I use either the announcements in the discord, or, yes, the unofficial rss feed for new threads.

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Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011



Mraagvpeine posted:

How do you sort them?

Click on the words Title (Pages) at the top of the list of threads.

By default, threads are sorted by last reply, with stickied threads getting priority. Clicking that sorts by date created, and doesn't give priority to sticky threads.

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