I was going to say something about the body being an extension of the brain (a very important one), though given some of your responses I feel like it’s more relevant that many areas of our society treats commerce as a higher priority than human ecology. Even ignoring statistics.
I see the wording as even by your own logic, we’re failing (or further: meritocracy is a lie, American Dream is dead etc) similar to the “so we can take care of our own” comic.
Do you want me to get Moby Dick out again‽ Does anyone want that?
Nope, sent it here. Guess it just doesn’t work for whatever reason, despite both instance being Lemmy. (also, Kbin was my previous instance, too).
Unfortunately I’m not that social so I don’t really have any other options.
Would love to hear your thoughts if you’d like to share them. If not, that’s fine too. Either way, good chat.
I sent you a message, not sure you got it (instance issues?).
A cheap convection toaster oven not really, it is half-way between an oven and air-fryer at best.
I mean if it’s good enough, keep using it as long as possible I guess.
Today, stuff gets exported in 4k and that’s it. No need for anything more.
I don’t think it’s as ubiquitous as you think. 1080p is pretty much standard (aside from old videos), 4K is still high-end and most uploading to that on YT are probably more tech-leaning channels who actually do use it. I even see new stuff from TV corps that’s still only 1080p.
4K if you’re using a full-raster workflow is taxing at every step. Display, CPU/GPU (for software stability, filters/effects), RAM and storage, internet upload speed, also camera (and fast storage there too) where relevant. Also backups, and maybe even higher-res workflow to allow room to crop/re-frame if needed.
I imagine it must be a disappointment to actually buy a 4K monitor for content viewing, stuck watching 1080p on new videos because the creators can’t afford that workflow or just don’t care. Even stuff that is 4K might have issues with encoding quality due to cost-cutting (or requires higher subscription cost).
8K is a thing too (but even more impractical), so the problem is repeated there too.
So yeah, I would say it is a meaningful difference that vector doesn’t have this problem.
A video has sound, can be exported from the animation software to a single file, and it can be played in a standard video player.
Animated SVG does not sound like it does that, and needing new paid* software isn’t great for adoption either. And honestly, I’ve never even heard of animated SVG (I’m well aware of SVG and that it probably could be animated with CSS or JS but that alone does not make it a thing).
The fact that vector works at resolutions (even if they don’t exist yet!) without the author even needing to think about it (let alone re-export) is an advantage. It can be great for many 2D aesthetics (many cartoons even used it!), the biggest complication is Adobe (and whoever is selling a subscription to what you mentioned).
Also that people are still developing things with Flash (even if it has to be ran via Ruffle) tells me again that the issue isn’t vector, it’s that replacing a format with ingredients is not an effective strategy if you actually want people to use it.
* yeah I know Flash was expensive as well (except y’know… other ways), but communities were already using it
You know how to use the tools
I don’t know how to use blender
I’m not new with it, but I am banging rocks together when it comes to using Blender. Not good with shortcuts and often have issues with modifiers. (I preferred what I casually started with a decade ago, Maya, though it is/was bloated both in terms of size and cost)
If there was other FOSS low/medium-poly software that works well for VC (+material(placeholders)) I would be interesting in trying it. But I’m guessing Blender is as good as it gets.
Godot, fine with that but not too keen on GDscript.
I got curious and searched your username and badgers and this appeared
I was confused at first, but figured that’s what you did (search only hit because of the alt-text as well).
I also have been doing exercises, but mostly coding stuff
I am interested in coding stuff too (a specific niche language), though I struggle with project viability even more there too and have put it on the backburner.
I wouldn’t call it ‘work’ yet, more practice than anything (lost some steam being unsatisfied with idea prompts though) and refining a workflow (palette, materials, import script, Blender default file). I’m unsure on actual ideas (that are viable for me), too.
Me: <using Blender in Linux to make low-poly badger>
You: <using paid retro software in WINE inside Linux VM to make low-poly pudu>
Me: 
You keep saying ‘better’ like if heavier solutions have no downsides, like saying raytracing or gaussian splatting make all older rendering tech obsolete.
For individual animations sure data doesn’t seem to matter, but if you want to binge/download something like Homestar Runner at 1080p+ that data adds up when pre-rastered. The internet in the US isn’t always great (esp. rural, cost), even worse with upload speed.
Flash also had frame animation, with bezier curves and vector blob drawing… both of which are the big thing missing from modern solutions. Alternatives in modern engines aren’t quite the same and must be intentionally sought out, and also I don’t think that’d even be well supported by platforms (itch doesn’t even have an animation section) unless you’re fine with it being in a games section.
Newgrounds also still does Flash Forward jams. I wouldn’t say “better” things killed Flash, just that support was ripped away. There isn’t much of a choice. If you want Flash-style animation (and I don’t mean skeletal-only), it’s just Ruffle or maybe Wick Editor.
the internet moving away from
I see this as an implementation failure.
WebGL doesn’t have a container format, and a vector video format could exist (on Youtube, or played with an HTML5 video player) but doesn’t. The internet “moved away” because the key players who killed Flash didn’t implement things that would bring HTML5 to closer parity with what Flash did.
I could also see parallels made to other parts of life where the choice has been made for you many years ago.
I had some (but not much) issue back when I used Chrome (although IIRC just as much was a mime-type issue not letting them play in the browser) and still use the standalone player without issue.
I don’t think anyone is defending Flash used for websites, aside from some personal blog or portfolio maybe.
They do have Ruffle on their site (a bit slower to load IME, but functional) even for new animations (click on the HR icon, not the Youtube icon).
There are the orginal .SWFs for that, disjointed in their own way. I wish they (or someone) would’ve merged things so the old menus actually worked, if not further like each file being a season.
EDIT: they did make the games linked together on the website. And now I do see one of the main pages that links too, though the loading screens make it a bit cumbersome (it seems to be tweaked for Ruffle, or at least only the main page seems to work when the .SWF url is loaded in the standalone player …unless it just can’t do linked swfs).
I wouldn’t say it died, I remember years of people calling it dead but it still seemed to have communities up until support was forcibly removed in 2021. I’d say it was killed, in a very “bring out your dead” (“I’m getting better!”) fashion.
Like OP is saying, it wasn’t really* replaced. If vector video was in HTML5 spec to the point you could watch (non-prerastered) vector animations on Youtube (or former Flash sites similar to what Ruffle does, but with less overhead) that would still be abandoning the interactivity but I’d at least see the argument that there was some attempt to replace it.
Needing a local server and the lack of container format also makes preservation messier.
* sure, a subset of it was replaced for popular usage and even some of it is still technically possible, but good luck with that. I’m pretty sure communities around that are more dead than Flash was before the end, and maybe even still (for instance, NG with Flash Forward jams).
Can’t, I already got a titanium spork more than a decade ago.
Point me to the useful cult I can waste my life in. All of the cotton/hemp clothing, community, and eating vegetables… with none of the deities or parasitic leadership. A little bit of misguided science/testing on brain preservation(/cyborg stuff) is fine, just chalk it up to euthanasia (with extra steps) as a treat.
If it’s (not) out of the bag, then it’s (not) out of the bag. Now that is a powerful cat fact.
it works about as well as a non-confidence vote
That doesn’t seem true.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prime_ministers_defeated_by_votes_of_no_confidence
vs
Nixon resigning so he could get pardoned (that’s it).
Still gotta pay rent, for food, maybe more. The closest place to me isn’t near (for me) and charges $50 for a tour. EDIT: Can’t even seem to find that visit info online now.