Dessa [she/her]

So Prodigy was good?

Of course they didnt assume everybody has the same setup. But they likely did make things to appear a certain way on an average setup or a range of setups that only looked good on the top 1% of monitors.

And the waterfall transparency trick doesnt make the entire game look bad. It makes one specific part look really cool and the rest just looks like a sonic game, which is to say absolutely incredible in CRT and mediocre on a modern monitor.

Looking at the color choices on old sonic sprites alone, the artists at sega would have to suck to make those decisions knowing how they look without the assumed artifacting of an LCD. And that’s not getting into the decisions they made that make the pixel grid obvious and deacrease the apparent resolution of the sprite. The sprites are clearly drawn by skilled hands but with flaws that even a newbie would avoid on a modern monitor. The only reasonable explanation is that these artists knew what they were doing and took into account the display media that the end user would experience

If that’s the case, there’s a good chance some hobbyists have made a hob for the hardware that can do it.

As for your first question, I don’t know A/V stuff that well so I have no idea. What’s a shadow mask?

Many older games were designed with CRTs in mind, and the colors and shapes don’t look so great on modern monitors without some shaders applied.

There are some pretty good CRT shaders out there. The ones used in Sonic Mania get pretty close!

Sub-struggle: CRT vs LCD? Those waterfalls used to look really different, and took advantage of the color bleed of old CRT monitors to mimic transparency

“Mr. Burns, you are the sickest man in the United States” - but there are too many germs and they all cancel each other out.”

I’m so upset that I never got the chance to not post on CTH3

I was so annoyed about that lock lol

Oh god, it’s even better than that. The original “post hog,” actually got a chud to post their hog. Somebody wore a chud down in an argument and eventually asked them to prove something-or-other by linking an image of their junk to reddit, and they went and posted their hog

Our most famous meme is that the “40% of cops beat their spouses” study first went viral on r/chapotraphouse, our old subreddit.

The tag “Genocide Joe,” referring to Joe Biden’s support for the genocide of Palestinian people, may have originated here, from @VILenin@hexbear.net . I can’t find earlier references, but it may just be one of those names that multiple people thought of at once.

Ask a better storyteller to talk about “Post hog.”

Finally, someone for Iran to target other than Spongebob