#DAMN YOU WEBP

[handbagman]

saw a post saying to draw ur comfort character seeing the smiling friends so i Did it . this is specifically pre ludendorff thoug,h

[revon-aurora-borealis]

reblog this with at least a word and ill post some random file i have on my phone in response

dunno if this is boring or whatever cuz reddit has shit ton of posts like this but i wanna try this cuz i think itd be funny cuz i can send videos here

[bitletsanddrabbles]

This is the second time in my life I've heard the word 'codec'.

The first time was in university when one of my online friends was super into this one anime series and thought I should watch it. Please note, this was in the days when if you wanted non-dubbed anime, you needed a source of fan subs. So she made me a copy of the fan subs she'd gotten and sent it to me with the promise that 'it had the right divex codec." Or was it divix? Divx? No clue and it doesn't really matter because I didn't know what the hell it was.

We'll go with divex, since I can't remember and have never heard of it since. The important part is that having no idea what she was talking about I went "Um, okay, thanks" and tried to play the DVD on my computer.

It didn't work.

When I told her I couldn't get it to play, she was absolutely confounded because she knew she'd given me the right codec, so she tried again. And again. I finally just gave up.

Ages later, after I'd lost any and all interest in the anime in question, something occurred to me. I hit...I think Hotbot was still THE Search Engine at the time...and sure enough.

With all of her fretting over getting me the right divex codec, she'd never once thought to make sure I had a divex player.

I still don't have the first idea what a codec is, and probably wouldn't know what to do with one if I did.

one piece of Computer Guy contrairianism i can't stand is "webp isn't actually bad, the programs you use just aren't equipped to support it!" okay well. soudns like for all intents and purposes its bad then innit

[mapsontheweb]

Every skyscraper above 150 m/492 ft under construction in North America

by LivinAWestLife/reddit

That makes 146 such buildings in total! And I just noticed I spelled New Westminster wrong. Damn.

I don't know if I should be glad that there are so few in the US interior, when usually I would be happy to see more, since it made it easy to depict. Buildings on hold such as Halo in Newark and 30 Van Ness Avenue in SF aren't included, sorry :/

As always, the most correct version of my map will be in this comment - please use that one if you want to use/share it!

Errors: New Westminster, Chicago's height in feet is wrong, left Sunny Isles in RD Las Olas, wrong name for JPMorgan's new HQ, added Bellevue and Kelowna, minor adjustments

https://preview.redd.it/mwcu2gol8k3e1.jpeg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b444b0e15136bf038b68ba3d2a152499e3e05597

[spacelandz]

SO! You've seen these little things I do sometimes and you want to know the process!

It's genuinely super simple, so here goes! Apologies by the way if anything is unclear or glossed over. A lot of this is personal taste and such so I hope this can be a nice boost to create something!

RESOURCES AND THINGS TO KNOW!

To preface this little guide already assumes you have basic knowledge of color distribution, lineless art, or breaking up art into proper layers for later processing! I am also assuming that your art program has access to scatter brushes and tiling textures. Personally I use Clip Studio Paint, but this can work on other apps. Anyways, here are some good sites for this:

EZGIF - Free, easy gif maker for assembling any kind of gif*! It also has stuff like converting those damn WEBP's back into png.

*PLEASE KNOW THAT YOU CANNOT MAKE GIFS THAT ARE PARTIALLY TRANSPARENT. YOU MUST USE A SOLID COLOR UNDER ANY PART THAT IS OVER BARE CANVAS

Transparent Textures - Free to use source for HQ transparent textures that tile! Amazing for finding a paper texture for these if you commit to the paper doll look. Best results for textures that are in white or black!

So! You have a finished, prepared piece that you want to glitterfy. Well I'm not covering that right now so you can scroll down to That part if you came just for the glitter. This next section is for...

PREPARING THE PAPER DOLL

To start, your piece should already be separated into respective layers in any order you'd like! We're about to use a ton of clipping masks so Make sure you know your program before starting! So, as my example we have my oc Roy, resized to around... 1500x1500 or the nearest equivalent Smaller is better because it brings out the texture! He looks a little ah...Flat, though right now?

I'm using this guy for a couple different reasons! Those being:

Roy has translucent bodyparts! Just so you will know what to do with characters who are translucent! I'll get to this in a moment so sit tight

He has a clear, defined, and distinct palette that is easy to pick a color to slap the glitter on! This is important because I personally find balance to be the most appealing part of the finished art.

He also just has a lot of doohickeys on his design.

This is where you need your transparent texture! You can use any kind of texture and I encourage experimentation and such, but I personally use a simple paper texture. What we are going to do is go through and clip our imported and tiled texture to each applicable layer! (Make sure to just Copy and Paste the layer you do NOT need to repeatedly go through this menu...)

And... When you are done, you should have something like this:

"But why don't I just clip the texture to the entire piece through a folder? Why go through the hassle of clipping to each individual layer?"

Well that's because of the next step, where we will be adding the shadows. If we don't clip each individual layer, your shadows will look like this example on the left which sort of just ruins the 3D effect and kinda just looks icky, as opposed to this, which is nicer and smoother.

Now I'm no lighting wiz! In fact I'm rather mediocre at best but some general tips for adding the shadows:

Try to keep your shadows going all in one direction mostly! It gives the effect of one light source and generally just looks better than if you shaded around ALL edges everywhere.

Try to only shade where there are parts overlapping that need the dimension! Overdoing it can make the piece look odd. It's especially helpful to separate any details like different shades of hair, layers of hair, etc so that you can put as much volume as you want.

Once the shadows are all added in you should have something that looks like this:

Which looks good! Now I'd sometimes stop here if I can't pinpoint how I'd like the glitter to sit or if I think the piece just doesn't need it, but we're moving on to the big important steps!

ADDING GLITTER

This part is entirely up to your taste! But I'll describe how I do my glitter stuff. Firstly I start out by identifying which color I want to pop out. For Roy here I chose the red parts! For your character it may be different. Experimentation is key!

This is also, however where you need that scatter brush I mentioned earlier. Personally I just use the default CSP spray brush, but again go wild!

Make a folder above your piece, set its blending mode to glow dodge (or add, or add glow depending on what options you have), and create three layers inside of this folder. Setting the folder to clip is optional right now but will be needed later.

Then, fill each glitter layer with your choice of particle in whatever color looks good! Yes, you can do gradients and other stuff on the particles too! World's your oyster.

^ Unclipped example of a glitter layer.

Glitter tips for the early 2000's webcore enthusiast:

Use different strokes and patterns for the glitter distribution! This helps it animate better by moving around. For example this time I went diagonally for the first, horizontally for the second, and then in loose circles for the third. Particle density and stuff is also completely up to you.

Use a color that would pop against the intended area! For Roy I used an orange-ish yellow since it compliments both blue and red.

So now we have the layers! This is where clipping is our best friend once again! You're just going to go in and clip the glitter to whatever layers you want it on. Entire folder, not just one of the layers!

Once that's all done, go through and toggle the respective glitter layer for the frame, saving individual copies when done. You should end up with 3 identical images with different glitter distribution.

"BUT WAIT! JONES, THE TRANSLUCENCY!!" I hear you call! Yes, this is where we handle that! If your character is NOT translucent, you can scroll past this section.

Open up your frames all in one canvas, stacked on top of eachother (no jittering or slight displacement! ON TOP of eachother!)

Our layout should look something like this...Note how the translucent parts are rather hard to see, well if you took your frames and put them in EZgif, they'd be gone entirely! That's because you physically cannot have a partially translucent gif due to technology limitations. So an easy little cleanup thing I did was:

1. SELECT THE CANVAS AROUND THE CHARACTER WITH THE MAGIC WAND TOOL. Do not have any expansion settings on or it probably won't look right in the end.

Make sure you do not miss any gaps! I personally missed the gap between the arm, leg, and lanyard and I had to redo this next step...

2. SELECT -> INVERT SELECTION

3. FILL SELECTION WITH THE DESIRED COLOR. IT MUST BE OPAQUE. I personally picked this cloudy gray color.

You can now save individual frames of your character with the fill so that they don't go bald when you move on to the next step! Again, you should have 3 frames.

FINISHING UP

This is nice and easy. Upload your three frames into EZGIF and wait for it to process. It'll look like this if you're in the right place.

Once things have loaded, make sure to change the settings to the following:

FRAME DELAY: 0 (this is how fast the frames move.)

DON'T STACK FRAMES: ENABLED

You can play around with this but I generally leave everything else alone because you don't need it. Just hit the make a gif button and you're all done!

Aaaand that's it! If you've read this far...Firstly thank you for dealing with my rambliness and horrible explanation skills. Secondly, I hope that this can come in handy for anyone interested! Would love to see if anyone puts this to use. n_n

[breadstyx]

I'm working on a website for a comic (those who know, know) and it gives me a good opportunity to talk about the modern web innovation that's #1 most reviled on here: webp.

I was working on image quality. See, the author made the pictures high-quality, and since they're hand-drawn it's absolutely worth it — but it means we're talking ~2500x1100px PNGs. Which means ~2-3MB per picture.

Since on the actual website they'll be displayed at 1000px width, smart old me figured a pretty quick fix to save on readers' bandwidth would be to reduce the image size to 1000px width (after all, that's over 5x smaller than the original!).

The issue though: quality surprisingly suffered. Specifically there was a notable impact to the text (but also the colours and texture, if you look closely).

So I started wondering how exactly one could get a cleaner output from my image downsizing.

Which I spent the next 5 hours trying to crack. Turns out it's not easy.

On the other hand, there is another approach: simply finding a better way to store the image. On JPEGs and PNGs you can play with various compression settings which might help you reduce that file size without compromising quality (I tried a bunch, no dice!), but you could also switch to another format. For example, you might consider webp.

Here's what it brings to the table.

"-original" files are the HD originals, "-large" files are the blurry resized ones, "-optimized" are the webp ones.

They are 13-15 times lighter at the same size. This makes them even lighter than the 1000px-wide ones. (2 to 3 times lighter! despite being 5x bigger! that's insane!)

And the output:

I couldn't tell you which capture I took from which version.

And like, damn, that's p cool.

[fanficsat12am]

dress MC would wear to a gala or ball with the brothers & datables I Leviathan, Satan & Asmodeus

Request from anonymous: What dress would you wear to a gala or ball with the obey me characters?

A/N: Hellew I'm back with another post! Super sorry this one took so long. This one needed a bit of tweaking since I didn't really feel like it captured the brothers enough. On another note, THANK YOU GUYS SO MUCH FOR 1.1K! THAT'S ABSOLUTELY INSANE LIKE WHAT?! Thanks so much for all the support and I cant wait to see what else I'm able to give you guys :> Once again, bye luvs~~

📜 𝙼𝙰𝚂𝚃𝙴𝚁𝙻𝙸𝚂𝚃!! 📜 Buy me a coffee? Lucifer & Mammon

Leviathan

- He really likes this one because you apparently look like an anime protagonist who lost hope in the kingdom they once served…he was very specific about which one he was talking about.

- During the ball, his eyes would never leave you, why would he when you look so entrancing? And just like him, as soon as the attendees have a glimpse of you, they are unable to look away, all feeling as if they were mere flies caught in your web.

- He’d get a nosebleed when he first sees you in the dress and expect his face to be absolutely flushed.

“W-would you like me to slip on your feet? I mean!- sweep your feet? Gah! One more time. Will you do me the honor of letting me sweep you off your feet? Nailed it!"

Source: https://bridesandtailor.com/product/custom-black-and-purple-wedding-dress-with-illusion-sleeves-black-wedding-dress-trumpet-black-dress-illusion-back-wedding-dress/

Satan

- You were radiant, Satan seeing you as if you were a mythical being pulled from the pages of a fairytale. Everyone knew you were human, but right now you truly looked as if you were from another world.

- He was transfixed by you, taking your hand softly and guiding you to the middle of the dance floor. He’d lean to your ear and softly whisper words of praise, seemingly unable to hold back his awe. 

- By the end of the dance, he would excuse himself for a moment and run to a more hidden spot. Once there, his composure drops, screaming into the night “WHY ARE THEY SO GORGEOUS” and quickly run back inside to you.

"A fair creature such as yourself should not be kept waiting. As long as we've got the chance, I hope you’d grace me with a bit more of your time”

“Cut the act, I heard you outside”

“...Damn it”

Source: https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/H571dba9a08ac4a32a62d83bbd5707e29N/LORIE-Light-Green-Fairy-Prom-Dresses-Appliques-3D-Flowers-Short-Sleeves-Tulle-Evening-Gown-Side-Split.jpg_Q90.jpg_.webp

Asmodeus

- Two goals:

1. All eyes on both of you

2. Look good doing it

- You both decided to match with each other and looked through hundreds of shops to look for the perfect one. You eventually found one you loved but of course, he wants only the best. So he had someone make some "simple" adjustments to the dress that he made sure you approved of as well.

- You can forget about what the ball was actually about cause now you and Asmo are the main event. He’d be parading you around the other guests as if to show them he won and you were the prize. You’d both be getting compliments left and right as well as some underlying jealousy from the other attendees.

“OMG!” he exclaims. You didn't know it was possible but there are literal stars in his eyes. 

“Gimme a twirl babe. Yas slay! You're leaving absolutely no crumbs and I’m living for it <;3”

Source: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/d4/51/33/d451333ccc5c0765b04ca4ad8be7582a.jpg

[herotome]

2021-2023 Devlog Recap

Hi-ho, Wudge here! I released the first demo in March 2021 (devlog #30), and it is now… a little over 2 years later with no updated demo just yet. :') But I've been up and at it this entire time!

Welcome to our very first devlog recap, an overview of everything we've done for Herotome since the prologue demo. Strap in, it's gonna be a doozy.

IN-GAME ART

Finished all the base Love Interest sprites (special mention to Dart's hero outfit and helmet rendered by Remnantation, and the smoke animation from @regal-bones)

"Mia is as reactive as potassium and wears her heart on her sleeve, which means she has quite a bit of range. She’s a sight to behold when she’s angry, but damn is she easy to beat at poker."

Finished rendering and coding Mia's introduction CG, including all her expressions and branches, and released a voiced video showing off her scene.

We made a great deal of progress on Griffin's CG as well, and that video will be coming out next. Nearly done!!

"Who’s this?! Our default MC is cornered by a strange man! Can we kiss him?"

Finished the first BAD ENDING - which has four variations and can be accessed through three distinct points in the game. Evil Eye will only appear to angrily kabedon the MC if you make certain choices!

Rendered Landlord, Clammy Lady, and Dog. (The humans have a full range of expressions, all coded in!)

Evil Eye actually has a finished sprite too, but I forgot to put him in this image... and he's already featured in a CG. So, oh well!

Redrew the MC profile pictures (apparently it's tradition, I've redrawn them almost every year)

I also made a new itch icon, new reputation icon, a new star power icon, and I started converting all my PNGs to WEBPs (reducing a LOT of data required on installs - my GUI folder alone was reduced from 63 MB to 21.1 MB).

... You know what, I'm gonna make this into "part one" and reblog with more. This just about covers the ART section, and we'll have STORY, CODE, and SOCIAL MEDIA incoming. See you then!

[boydholbrookfanpage]

Update: Good news and bad news. The good news is that I will have about double the amount of gif icons of Clement Mansell for the gif pack, thanks to @boydholbrook-fan - Thank you, Kamila! <333 She has allowed me to edit some of her gifs to provide y'all with more Boyd content, which is awesome! I only have access to so much, but I did also manage to find and gif three more clips from the show that I didn't have access to until now! So about double what I had been attempting to get made. The bad news is that...

1) I had to save about 100 under a .webp format and then change them all to .gif before I could edit them and it's taking me A LOT longer than I thought. And 2) on top of that, my body hates me rn. I might be going to the doc's on Monday, if they can fit me in. Tests will determine if I have to have surgery or not, but I'll need to get checked out first. I'll be alright, either way, but until things get sorted out, I'm sort of in pain. I've got some pain meds, but it's not helpin' a whole lot. But no worries. It's nothin' too serious. I may just need my reproductive parts taken out, which I'm totally okay with. I already had two kids and am happy to get them yoinked outta me. Lol! Just... I'd appreciate it if my system didn't kick my ass so damn hard. Lol!

All that bein' said, I apologize for the delay with the gif icons. I was aiming for Monday night, but it may be more like Wednesday or Thursday, depending on how I'm feeling. Possibly later, but I'm really tryin' to get them done asap.

Thanks for your patience! But hey, y'all will have a good 250+ gif icons of Clement Mansell so that'll be awesome! I'll even use some for my own muse, eventually.

Take care and much love! And a HUGE thanks again to Kamila for allowing me to edit some of her amazing gifs!

-BHFP

[writingsofwesteros]

https://www.tumblr.com/writingsofwesteros/738233006132740096/httpswwwtumblrcomsnaksforcats735573363543719?source=share

Continuation of this post:

https://64.media.tumblr.com/daf6baf2991af2603461877a367ce44d/5bc3807f27b5836a-3d/s400x600/21bfbe48f4c406e9496b2749c6fb01633c036d7f.gifv after Jace and his sister's (unknowing) show, their neighbors are surprised to find them JUST cuddling... until the sister starts rubbing her ass against his covered cock too much

https://64.media.tumblr.com/0a300be5e9434711645b6ff49919e251/tumblr_pnybtyraro1vnsp7o_500.gifv she loves being pounded into her bed by her brother, but they both have an unspoken understanding that fucking in their mom's bed is what really gets them out of control meaning most times are spent there

https://64.media.tumblr.com/25f283c71f01b807342585d2f744c604/64239289204987b9-ce/s400x600/971b1821876fc045cf70d5fc7e1f3aba3a7a05b3.webp jace can't keep his hands off her after she gave him that first taste out by the pool, so now the neighbors have enough porn material to last them a lifetime and they never have to worry about the live fuck show not being on when they're in the mood to fap because the siblings are always going at it in their many windowed, CURTAINLESS house.

https://64.media.tumblr.com/9e9842bf7dc44fc8c5d6f29c287b1126/181f93829b486f24-29/s500x750/15a47e443a83d4b3effa58572266f6fb3e479765.gifv while they noticed his love for being balls deep in his sister's pussy, the neighbors didn't expect to see him be so tender towards her... almost as if he was stepping in to be her boyfriend or husband if you went off how he seemed to find an excuse to cum inside her no matter what

https://64.media.tumblr.com/97e73d055f0a4c200d6e40b2d77e6094/75ff677269c460b1-f2/s400x600/a61f63d99c9fcf7150c9d1a32e70eb3fc1b305e9.gifv she's not innocent in all this, being the one to always wake him up in the middle of the night when she's too wet or purposefully baiting him by going around naked or only in tiny panties and a tight tank top, both of them not realizing her horniness was added to by their new forbidden love child that they were still unaware of

— 👑💀

!!!!!!!!

ALL OF THIS! too damn hot ! Fucking in Rhaenyra's bed is mouth watering; they love it when they have the house to themselves !!

[saltedangels]

TAYLOR SWIFT AI images issue is just so upsetting! I mean just look at all these horrible images... Taylor Swift kissing that woman who played Wonder Woman (she's from Israel ya know!), Taylor Swift with Kermit (jealous) in a room full of IDK gross guys, just sick. Clearly she is not dressed for the weather in that one! Hard working kids are spending countless hours in Photoshop trying to come up with stuff and this is the sick depraved crap AI makes!

Taylor Swift aside from being a singer is also just a person who has hopes and dreams and aspirations, and these people are losing their damn minds because she does not want what they are selling. She has a right to have her political opinions and share them how she feels. What happened to all this 1st amendment stuff? Oh wait, not when it's a young girl, not when it's a popular person quietly saying something against you don't like.

The more people that vote, will help the majority win.

VOTE!

[kodicraft]

Actually you know what, my real thoughts on webp are way less nuanced.

I believe that every single program that "doesn't support" webp just fucking lies to you because its devs are idiots.

Discord doesn't let you upload emoji as webp however all emoji are stored as webp on the server and shipped to you as webp because webp is a good fucking format.

In fact almost every website worth a damn already does this because webp is just so much better than png and jpeg in literally every way and webm outperforms gif so fucking hard it's not even funny. It's literally zero effort to ship webp because it's literally supported by every single browser except Internet Exploder and you can easily convert your images to webp with free and open source tools.

This also goes for all desktop apps too, you already use imagemagick and ffmpeg stop lying to yourself. Webp support came free with your fucking using a good library. If you use mime-types correctly like you fucking should, you can already tell what files are images and you can just handle those automatically. Stop fucking hard-coding image formats you're not even doing anything with the actual formats.

We're already moving onto better formats like AVIF and your lazy ass can't even fucking add a (\.webp) to your regex. You should be fucking thankful mozilla are cowards and dropped working on jpeg-xl because otherwise I would have fucking ripped you with my teeth already and offered your flesh and blood to Tim Cook.

[magicalgirlmindcrank]

Anyways here's the greatest letter ever written online in text form because I need people who haven't seen it yet to be aware and I CAN'T SAVE A WEBP AS A FUCKING JPG OR PNG ON MY PHONE So-

Regarding Twilight Sparkle

Dear Kevinsano,

This may the be the strangest message you'll ever receive but I do hope you'll take the time to read it and consider what I have to say. To put it simply, I would really appreciate it if the next time your birthday comes around you would request that your clop artist friends (who like to give you sexually oriented pony art as gifts) draw some pony other than Twilight Sparkle for you.

The reason I ask this is that Twilight is my fiance, and we're planning on getting married next June or July should everything go as planned financially speaking. And yes, I have actually found a wedding chapel that will let me marry someone that most people would consider a fictional character. Now before you go thinking “This guy is either completely crazy or just screwing with me." please hear me out on this.

You see, I'm totally head over heels in love with Twilight Sparkle. I have been for about 11 months now and at this point I'm in a committed relationship with my Twiley. By that I mean I don't date anyone else, I don't sleep with anyone else, and I have zero interest in having any kind of relationship with anyone other than the mare I adore. I love her with all my heart and I'm 100% committed to that love. To express my love in a real tangible way I have a beautiful hand made custom Twilight Sparkle plushie that I can hug, kiss, cuddle up in bed to go to sleep with at night, and take out on the town to do all the fun things together that normal couples do. I take her out to eat at nice vegetarian restaurants, we go shopping together, I take her out for coffee, we do social activities together like hanging out with friends, seeing movies, etc.

And I talk about her as if she is Twilight, because to me she very much is. When I look at her I see Twilight Sparkle. When I talk with her I'm talking to Twilight. When I hold her in my arms and kiss her there are no doubts in my mind that it's the mare I love who's lips are pressed against mine. And every morning when I open my eyes and see her head on the pillow next to mine, with her gorgeous violet eyes staring back at me, I can't help but wonder how I ever got to be so lucky as to have a partner as smart, funny, beautiful, and all around wonderful as her.

All my friends and the people who know me well say that my love is a thing of beauty and quite admirable, but from the outside perspective of someone who doesn't know me you're probably going “Wow. That's pretty damn crazy." and wondering why I don't just go get a real girlfriend. The truth is I've had plenty of real relationships and sexual partners in the 27 years I've been around. A few short relationships, one that lasted 7 years, and a total of 6 different sexual partners. So my love for Twilight isn't out of a lack of real world intimacy or relationships, I just fell in love with her and my heart didn't give me much of a choice in the matter. But you know what? I'm totally happy with my love and my relationship. It may seem weird to you, but it fills me with joy every single day of my life and I've never been happier. So what if it's weird? If it makes me happy and it doesn't hurt anyone then where's the problem? I don't think there is one, and anyone who knows me well will tell you the same.

Now your probably wondering why I'm telling you all this and how it concerns you. To you I'm sure Twilight Sparkle is just a cartoon character you think is really hot, so I imagine you wouldn't think anything of having your friends draw sexually explicit art of her as birthday gifts for you. And hey, I think she's really attractive too so I get where you're coming from there. I often go on e621.net and Rule34.Paheal to see what new erotic art people have drawn of her. But to me she's more than a cartoon character who's sexually attractive, she's my fiance who I love with all my heart and soon to be my wife. So it's been bothering me lately every time I go on those sites and see a dozen or so pieces of art people have drawn depicting my girl in various sexual situations with the same person over and over, and that person happens to be you.

Don't get me wrong here though, this isn't a jealousy thing. I'm very secure in my relationship. I know without question that Twilight is just as faithful to me as I am to her, she's actually sitting on the couch next to me reading while I type this. She's very real to me and I know she's not sneaking out in the middle of the night to go have kinky sex with some famous artist. And I do respect your talent as an artist and an artist's creative freedom to draw whatever they want, that's cool. What bothers me is that in all these birthday images you've been getting Twilight is always depicted as if she was your sexual plaything, drawn wearing a collar with your name on it or with a speech bubble saying something that would somehow suggest she was your property. And I know quite well that Twilight Sparkle is not your plaything nor your property, she's my fiance. So that bugs me a bit. What I find really loathsome though is your pension for degrading my partner in both your art and the fan art you've been receiving lately. Twiley is a sweet and fairly vanilla little mare who I treat with the utmost love and respect, and she definitely does not deserve to be portrayed as some kind of sexual slave who likes being dressed up in sleazy attire, wearing a collar, getting sodomized, and having her face ejaculated on. She's not into that kinda stuff and the fact that there's someone out there in the world such as yourself who would desire to treat Twilight that way, and have his friends support and validate his desires to demean and mistreat my partner by drawing pictures of him doing so, really does bother me. I don't take any issue with people having kinky sex as long as both parties consent to it and enjoy it, but I know quite well that my Twiley has no desire whatsoever to be treated like that.

So next year, when your birthday comes around, keep in mind that Twilight Sparkle isn't just a lifeless cartoon character to objectified for your sexual gratification. She's the partner of someone who loves her very much, and by that time their wife. So both myself and Twiley would greatly appreciate it if you'd pick someone else to request erotic art of for your birthday. Based on the very large amount of different ponies you draw art of I imagine there has to be many other ponies you find sexually attractive. I assume you'll probably just dismiss this message as the ramblings of a crazy person and likely ignore it, but if by some chance you do take what I've had to say to heart, well... we'd appreciate it.

Regards

[enarei]

STOP USING RAR

rigorous discussion about comic book file formats ensuing on the manga piracy subreddit last night. I've taken the side that CBR is flawed and the only reason people continue to use it is because they're unfamiliar with the spec. there isn't a lot to know about this subject because there's very little public facing information surrounding the creation of these file formats, which originated with a program called CDisplay (that is now dead, sort of, which is a shame for how influential it has been), but at the same time, the practical information that we have available from using them is very straightforward: CBZ, CBR, CB7 and so on are different file extensions for zip, RAR, or 7z archives respectively. that's essentially it. the extension does a lot to obfuscate to most people that the "obscure" manga format they downloaded from some shady pirate website, is literally just a folder of images that has been compressed, and it's trivial to rename the file and inflate it to see its contents individually (there's a neverending stream of stupid questions relating to this).

imo this variety of options does more harm than good, because you see, the pages, the images (jpeg, gif, png, though some readers also support webp), are already as compressed as they can be, so the efficiency of the program used to create the archive does not matter – if you've ever tried to zip a folder made up only of videos or images and saw that the file size barely shrinked, if at all, that's because ironically, these file formats are already pretty damn efficiently compressed. often the compression step of the archival process is completely disabled because it only slows the time it takes to open the finished archive.

so as a format intended for media distribution, specially often bootleg, user contributed distribution on the web, you'd think CBZ should be the ubiquitous standard, as zip, regardless of its compression efficiency compared to newer algorithms, remains the standard compression utility, it's installed on literally every machine that can display images, including ones with more restrictive software limitations.

but for some reason some fucks keep sharing archives made with 7zip and WinRAR!!!! which is like. idk. it's like purposefully sharing someone's music in much more convoluted notation from what everyone else uses when there's no practical benefit to do so, and continuing doing it after someone has asked you not to and told you that is not standard. it's proprietary software that is not even useful for what people typically use it for (distributing already compressed media online!), cuz you don't get any benefit from it, it just limits the type of devices and number of hoops you have to jump through to open it. it's one of those salient points about how even mild tech illiteracy and ignorance about pernicious licensing in popular freeware software can have meaningful repercussions to media preservation. Windows users not knowing know they don't need to install an external utility to compress files has popularized CBRs to the point I've had to argue with people that wrongly assume they're the standard used in digital comics publishing.

[prismatoxic]

hello gamers. i have opened the ACNH reaction icons server up to the nitro-having public. you can find it here:

i am not tagging this for visibility bc uh... no. but invites are on and you are free to share this one. the server has a single channel and no talk perms; it is only a repository for this collection of emojis. if you join it just to get access to my DMs i will ban you from it and also block you. don't.

if it gets boosted at all, i'll add the remaining icons, maybe make some of them into stickers, and consider adding the new leaf/wild world/city folk versions. if it doesn't get boosted, that's also fine; as i said last night i added the 50 i liked best and i think they work pretty damn well as emojis.

if you don't want to join this server but do want these as emoji, then i will direct you to this collection of the images. because the nookipedia isn't on fandom wiki's framework, it doesn't automatically webp the images, and they save as pngs.

once again, here are the ones currently in the server i made:

[wari-os]

HEY YOU

yeah! YOU

do you HATE THE .WEBP FILE FORMAT WITH ENOUGH ANGER TO RIVAL THE FIRES OF THE SUN?!?!?!

what am i sayin of COURSE you do. who doesnt. barely anything supports the damn things.

and the extensions that help with them are a bit of a hassle to use.

THERES BEEN A WAY TO DEAL WITH THEM

WHEN YOU SAVE AN IMAGE THATS A WEBP.

ALL YOU GOTTA DO IS SELECT THE “ALL FILES” OPTION WHEN SAVING

LIKE THIS!!!!!!!!!

AND THEN ADD “.PNG” OR ANY OTHER PREFERED FILENAME TO THE END OF WHAT YOU WANT TO NAME THE FILE, AND IT WONT BE A WEBP NO MORE!!!!!!!!!!! I FUCKING HATE WEBPS RAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!!!!!!!!