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Well after all these years I've finally gotten around to doing a Let's Play for the site. Since it's my first time I'll leave a sample of the OP and first update for people to give feedback on before I start the thread.Test OP posted:
Digamma-F-Wau fucked around with this message at 02:57 on Mar 18, 2023 |
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The only thing I could suggest, and that might be a personal preference, is that for images that don't have any text or anything else between them, shove a full line break in between. I feel like it helps my brain separate things a bit better.
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# ? Mar 18, 2023 01:12 |
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In honor of the upcoming expansion for the Spirit Island board game I had it in my mind to do a Let's Play of the digital version. Unfortunately, I've run into a snag: the digital version's UI is unreadable dogshit, which isn't so much of an issue if you're experienced with the board game but is a problem for introducing it to new players. I can fiddle with better resampling & a little bit of sharpening and maybe squeeze out some incremental improvements but most of the jagginess is baked into the lovely UI. For example, the artifacting on these cards is 100% Handelabra: I've tried to do what I can anyhow using text explanations to cover the gaps in the UI's readability, but I fear it's probably a lost cause. Is it at all possible to follow what's going on here?
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# ? Mar 24, 2023 18:50 |
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I think the sampling looks ok. The fonts are going to be hard to read, especially in zoomed-out screenshots, no getting around that, but your narration fills in the gaps quite well, and as you play through, readers will get familiar with the cards you're using and not need to read the text on screen as much. Is it possible to play the game in a lower resolution that might force the text to get a little larger compared to everything else?
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# ? Mar 25, 2023 03:11 |
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I tried that and unfortunately there's no real discernible change, the supported resolution doesn't go down that low and it doesn't change the crappy scaling anyhow. It occurs to me that I can at least fix the cards with a little legwork: you can zoom in on a power card and get a full resolution view that takes up the whole screen, which is what the game natively downscales to produce the crappy aliased card views. So if I get captures of the giant size cards I can resample them in a real image editor and paste them in manually where needed to produce a spread of readable cards. I don't think I could help the scrunched up card thumbnails but this way I could at least introduce cards in with their text and symbols un-mangled.
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# ? Mar 25, 2023 05:05 |
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Yeah, showing a native-res pic of a card when you first get it or when it's important to your strategy seems like a good idea.
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# ? Mar 25, 2023 10:47 |
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If you have Tabletop Simulator, maybe that’s a better way to take screenshots of parts of the screen?
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# ? Mar 25, 2023 15:06 |
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Fat Samurai posted:If you have Tabletop Simulator, maybe that’s a better way to take screenshots of parts of the screen? Hmm, yeah, that may be the way to go. I originally went for Handelabra because I'm lazy but if I'm going to be futzing about cutting and pasting screenshots together for readability then I probably might as well do it with TTS. It's been a while since I've done SI on TTS but it looks like the good mods these days do have some HUD elements for invader board state, which was the other advantage the Handelabra version had.
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# ? Mar 25, 2023 18:59 |
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Ok, take two using Tabletop Simulator. Does this make the action any easier to follow? Text is still pretty small and fuzzy, but at least all the symbols are intact.
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# ? Mar 27, 2023 23:00 |
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This looks pretty readable to me, a couple of the cards I had to squint at, but that was it.
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# ? Mar 27, 2023 23:06 |
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Hi, I've got a new type of LP I'm trying. I'm looking for some feedback - The United States Goon Fund: Let's Play Helping Goons put stairs in their home drat, that's a cool avatar on the left! So it's kinda a fun game, but the story is actually pretty depressing, in that people are needing help and aid from people, especially in more dire economic times like the past few years have been to varying degrees and reasons. But thankfully, there's a potentially happy ending! And that happy ending requires this LP to have audience participation. So how do I help participate? That's easy! You can click the link above to be able to help be one of the "donators" if you want to roleplay as a goon with money wanting to help their fellow man in need of help with food, medicine, or keeping the lights on. Or, click the same link above but you choose to be one of the "requestors" or a goon who's in need of help and wants some help to get through a tough time. It's easy, and whichever you are right now, we are here if you ever become the opposite role! Sounds great! Any limitations? Unfortunately due to... uh, tax law (why an LP has to deal with tax law is beyond me) the Fund cannot let people from outside the USA belong to either group. But if you are still wanting to participate, please PM me and we'll try to do our best to coordinate something in case of an emergency! So please help or get some help from goons like you - just wanting to post.
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# ? Mar 28, 2023 03:54 |
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really queer Christmas posted:Hi, I've got a new type of LP I'm trying. I'm looking for some feedback - The United States Goon Fund: Let's Play Helping Goons put stairs in their home I vote D: commit tax fraud and send the funds to a doomsday cult, I think that's what we really need to get the true ending.
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# ? Mar 28, 2023 03:57 |
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PurpleXVI posted:I vote D: commit tax fraud and send the funds to a doomsday cult, I think that's what we really need to get the true ending. this is the most goon ending tbf
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# ? Mar 28, 2023 04:00 |
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For those who haven't checked the Happy B-Day thread:Sally posted:To celebrate the 16th b-day, SALP now has some new LP-specific tags:
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# ? Mar 30, 2023 05:57 |
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That's very cool!
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# ? Mar 30, 2023 23:56 |
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I'm sure Cover Your Own rear end could see use in some other forum.
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# ? Mar 31, 2023 09:12 |
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Those tags are pretty cool. Good work vilkacis!
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# ? Mar 31, 2023 11:09 |
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Well poo poo I kinda forgot about those and figured everyone else did too.
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# ? Mar 31, 2023 12:13 |
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vilkacis posted:Well poo poo Just picturing astrals face when you try to upload a five meg thread tag lol
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# ? Mar 31, 2023 12:31 |
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sebmojo posted:Just picturing astrals face when you try to upload a five meg thread tag lol Unfortunately, it was only 65kb.
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# ? Mar 31, 2023 13:13 |
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vilkacis posted:Unfortunately, it was only 65kb.
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# ? Mar 31, 2023 13:17 |
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vilkacis posted:Unfortunately, it was only 65kb.
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# ? Mar 31, 2023 13:47 |
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vilkacis posted:Unfortunately, it was only 65kb. Is it too late to change to this one?
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# ? Mar 31, 2023 15:28 |
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Geemer posted:Is it too late to change to this one? Seb? Seb!?!??
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# ? Mar 31, 2023 15:40 |
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vilkacis posted:Unfortunately, it was only 65kb. You, sir/madam/[insert appropriate appelation here], are a genius. Possibly a mad one, but a genius nonetheless.
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# ? Mar 31, 2023 18:49 |
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sebmojo posted:Just picturing astrals face when you try to upload a five meg thread tag lol But seriously, do you think we could get the 65kb one uploaded? I kind of like the blank ones aesthetic-wise, especially the three talking heads to represent a group VLP... but... maybe add this one too? Seb? Seb?
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# ? Mar 31, 2023 19:16 |
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Sally posted:But seriously, do you think we could get the 65kb one uploaded? I kind of like the blank ones aesthetic-wise, especially the three talking heads to represent a group VLP... it should be uploaded but we permaban everyone who uses it for a thread that isn't a Sonic LP.
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# ? Mar 31, 2023 23:42 |
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Sally posted:especially the three talking heads to represent a group VLP... I did make a group version too (In all seriousness though don't feel like you have to use these, they're pretty silly and i feel the possible uses are probably pretty limited anyway.) vilkacis fucked around with this message at 08:13 on Apr 1, 2023 |
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# ? Apr 1, 2023 11:23 |
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seb!?!?!?!??! can we do this?
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# ? Apr 1, 2023 15:30 |
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I think Seb should only do it if Sally agrees to stay a mod for 4 more years
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# ? Apr 1, 2023 17:57 |
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Sally posted:seb!?!?!?!??! can we do this? i'll check with astral but should be fine!
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# ? Apr 1, 2023 22:38 |
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Kheldarn posted:I think Seb should only do it if Sally agrees to stay a mod for 4 more years All is good I'll upload it later today.
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# ? Apr 2, 2023 00:18 |
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Awesome! Thanks to the admins for their great service and to Sally for their great sacrifice.
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# ? Apr 2, 2023 00:32 |
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so just to be clear, do you want the one with one talking head or two? i like the double header better personally.
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# ? Apr 2, 2023 04:41 |
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Why not both
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# ? Apr 2, 2023 04:53 |
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I vote for two heads, if we can only pick one.
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# ? Apr 2, 2023 04:56 |
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Quackles posted:I vote for two heads, if we can only pick one. eh, actually why not. do you want me to remove the sad no-sonic versions and put in potently sonicized ones for both? (double head sonichu is live now)
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# ? Apr 2, 2023 05:16 |
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I have no clue if we want these but I made these tags for the Retro Games subforum when it opened but they never got added:
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# ? Apr 2, 2023 15:28 |
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# ? Apr 27, 2024 08:07 |
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seb i leave the choice of new tags to the Sandcastle. SALP, you must choose!
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# ? Apr 2, 2023 22:37 |