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Video Game Art

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Video games are not mere time killers. They are albums of sound, aesthetics, animation and narrative.

This community is in appreciation of that. Screenshots, fanart, animations, gameplay clips. It is all welcome here.

The one common thread should be an eye for the aesthetic. This is not a place to discuss mechanics or stats, but to show off simply the artistic, expressed through the video game medium.

  1. All rules of the parent instance apply. That is, sopuli.xyz
  2. Include the name of the game your post is associated with in the post title.
  3. If your post is fanart, include a link to the artist in post body, if you can. You may also ping @[email protected] to have it attempt to find the source for you, and provide it in a comment.
  4. MARK ANY TEXT SPOILERS, as for art, do not post content that outright spoils key moments of a games narrative. Content that can only be understood with the context of having played the game, is ok.
  5. No generative AI art.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sync did an oopsie with the source image.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm not sure it's Sync, I downloaded it directly from a different machine and it's still teeny-tiny.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

How is that even possible?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Image is low res. Maybe thumbnail?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's not. I directly linked a 1440x3440 PNG file.

Instances can create and cache thumbnails for image links, so that clients don't have to load the full image when it won't be displayed at full size or to save data. But some apps can't handle wide aspect ratios and end up fetching a way too low-res file, or don't display full images even when opening them in their image viewer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Using Sync. Same result as the other Sync user.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I see you moved to another image host - looks great!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can count all five pixels

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm not sure if you're being ironic about the image's 1440x3440 resolution or if you're getting a thumbnail and mistaking it for what I actually posted.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

All I see on Sync is an extremely lo-res image, smaller than I would even expect for a thumbnail.

Edit: is my factual statement somehow invalid?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ok, what do you want me to do about it? This is the literal link in the post.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That is a link to a 180x75 image.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

No it is not. Whatever you are using to open it is screwing it up.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Google Chrome isn't screwing it up. Maybe you've got some sort of cached credentials on that site or something.

Edit: wget and curl get the same file, tested from my home server thru a VPN. Is that site being shitty about user agents or something?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Unlikely, considering I get the same file across several devices, and use this host regularly with no complaints, and other users are getting the full image just fine.

I will change to some other host.