teflocarbon

teflocarbon, 10 months ago

Hi Pips 👋

teflocarbon, 10 months ago

“shock of losing a large number of aircrew in this manner will almost certainly damage morale within the Russian Aerospace Force.”

It’s worth noting that this was the shock of losing aircrew to themselves

teflocarbon, 10 months ago

Yup, this is in the latest build. I’m planning on having the instance selection be available in the account screen in the future, although I called it hubs to make it more user friendly.

The whole idea of it was to be hopefully easy to understand for new users whilst having functionality that veterans would enjoy. Newbies will hopefully appreciate the guide and veterans should appreciate the instance selection for new and old accounts.

The background is just something I grabbed quickly from Unsplash. I’m planning on changing it in the future to something more appropriate. It was originally just supposed to be a placeholder :P

I’m quite pleased with how it’s turned out but I’m always looking for feedback on possible ways to improve it or things we should do differently.

The main focus of the redesign and the rebrand was to make things more user friendly and applicable to a larger audience. Hopefully this makes it much easier to bring new users over to the Fediverse!

teflocarbon, 10 months ago

Thank you! We all do really appreciate your positive comments and constructive feedback, we strive to make sure your experience continues to be a positive one. It’s what keeps us going :D

teflocarbon, 10 months ago

Sound mixing has gotten absolutely terrible. Vox did a pretty good video on why which explained a lot about it.

From what I can remember a few key points are

• The director has a lot more play with sound now, so they're trying to make it in their 'vision', which usually means deafening explosions and background noise and quiet dialogue.
• Microphones have gotten a hell of a lot better over time. Both directors and actors have picked up on this. Mics have gone from being huge and failure prone to something that can fit in an actors jacket, perfectly capturing everything they say. This has the unfortunate side effect of actors gaining a mumble.. usually to sound more dramatic. This has the other side effect of not being able to understand what they're saying.
• Theatres have constantly upgraded their audio equipment and some now have 128 channels of sound (Dolby Atmos). When you're watching on your television, you're likely watching with stereo, which is two channels. Even if you have a fantastic home theatre setup, you're probably going to have 11 channels at most, which is usually through a 4K Blu-ray disc. It's the job of the sound mixers to make sure that the sound is coherent over these channels, but going from the master with 128 channels to 2 channels is a difficult job.
• Audience expectations have changed and technology has changed with it. Movies have progressively become more and more focused on spectacle rather than story. It's far easier now to add some explosions or have a huge monster pick up a car and toss it, naturally you'd expect these to make some noise.. which they do. A loud noise naturally has an impact on you, it's just human nature. They want to use that to their advantage and have begun to prefer that over dialogue.

But you can combat the storm!

Closed captioning is an obvious one but there is other methods like. Dynamic range compression. This is like sacrilege to audiophiles but they're the ones who caused this in the first place so they deserve it. Effectively, it amplifies quiet sounds whilst reducing loud sounds. Explosions can still be heard but they're quieter and dialogue can be heard again. Huzzah!

teflocarbon, 10 months ago

High contrast themes have been something that I've been working on for awhile. But I don't really know much about high contrast themes, so I need to do some more research on what they entail before they're released.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/ab830417-5d58-4e37-b90e-3c0865cd9af0.png

teflocarbon, 10 months ago

My wallet has already burned through enough. The last thing I needed was a Steam Summer Sale to start.

teflocarbon, 10 months ago

Some bloke put that sign up and went. “I don’t see anything wrong with this!”

teflocarbon, 10 months ago

Absolutely love the colours in this one. Almost looks like yin and yang.

teflocarbon, 10 months ago

It took me awhile to see that they’re owls, but damn I’d kill for that during winter right now.

teflocarbon, 10 months ago

As they mention in the article they anticipated a much slower collapse and likely prepared for that. But at the rate it’s currently going, it’s quite astounding. The fragmentation and internal strife in Russia are certainly not over.

I did read one article that made a reference to this more being an “end of the beginning” rather than the “beginning of the end”. Which I agree with. It hasn’t collapsed the federation overnight, but it’s certainly weakened it a hell of a lot.

teflocarbon, 10 months ago

I’d be shocked if this was true. I would think that would be the first FSB tactic that they would’ve performed. It’s a classic one in movies as well. It’ll be absolutely insane if this is what stopped the coup.

teflocarbon, 10 months ago

The whole lot doesn't seem bright at all. Then they basically drove through to Moscow like they were having a leisurely stroll and lost one truck. Russia looks so pathetic right now.

teflocarbon, 11 months ago

Apparently the Titanic caused all the maritime laws to be rewritten for vessels. It’s very ironic that 100 years later we’re likely going to have something similar for submersibles caused by an accident at the same location with a similar name.

teflocarbon, 11 months ago

I’ve already discussed this with other users on the Discord server and I’ve agreed to switch it. The reason it’s there was for reachability when scrolling. However, feedback has shown that people prefer to have the community name over the username so it will be moved soon.

teflocarbon, 11 months ago

I’ve just tried it and it’s worked fine for me. Although I did have to restart the app. The YouTube apps PIP has always been really irritating in my experience. Sometimes it just refuses to work unless you close and reopen the app

teflocarbon, 11 months ago

We learnt from MH370 that there is a lot of noises in the ocean that are plausible for what you’re looking for but not what you’re actually looking for. The ocean is a noisy place and it’s getting much louder as well over time.

teflocarbon, 11 months ago

You’re correct. They wouldn’t have felt a thing. They would’ve been alive and then the next millisecond they were not. The pressure is insane at those depths.

teflocarbon, 11 months ago

That looks absolutely perfect.

teflocarbon, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

Not just you. Honestly, not sure why I did it that way. Will be changed.

teflocarbon, 11 months ago

I’ve used my phone for years and never noticed the show more button. Show More shows two rows instead of the expected single row, but I haven’t see three. Maybe it’s a bug?

teflocarbon, 11 months ago

Looks absolutely delicious. Very well done. I’m feeling very jealous right now.

teflocarbon, 11 months ago

I'll be honest, we're all going through withdrawal at the moment so it's full-steam ahead!

teflocarbon, 11 months ago

Hey there! Light mode has been fully mocked up and will be implemented shortly. As for the icon, believe it or not we were discussing a new icon today. I'll send you a message!

Thank you for the kind words and the offer as well, we really appreciate it.