RT @AradorTD@twitter.com
Please let me know I can order one of these chairs! <33 @ChuKazoo@twitter.com (concept by them)
longish, rambling about analog video
YPbPr is a good standard but it's a bit annoying to work with
at a hardware level stuff always tends to work in RGB. YPbPr is just a rotation of RGB, which means it's able to represent exactly the same amount of detail
the advantage of YPbPr is the same as that of composite video: if you have a black and white TV, you can still get a black and white image by just plugging in the Y (luminance) cable and ignoring the chrominance altogether.
In composite video, the chrominance is superimposed on top of the luminance, modulated at a high frequency, but in S-video, the chrominance is separated out into its own signal, and in component, it's separated into two signals for the blue and red components--the green, of course, can be determined from knowing those and the total luminance.
Since S-video has to cram two chroma components into the same bandwidth as YPbPr's single chroma component per cable, it has a slightly worse video. But both are better than composite, which crams both chroma components into a very tiny bandwidth, since you always want as much bandwidth as you can spare going to your luminance.
Component gets around the whole thing by giving the full bandwidth to all three and using three communication channels, which is the ideal situation and allows for your chrominance to be equal in resolution to luminance.
specifically, we got an SNES SCART cable wired up for a north american SNES's RGB output (you can only get these aftermarket for obvious reasons--nothing in north america uses SCART) along with an RGB->YPbPr transcoder
this is needed because the SNES natively supports only composite video, S-video, and RGB, and composite video has chroma bleed, our tv doesn't support S-video (and it also has smaller amounts of artifacting), and our TV doesn't support RGB (nor do most TVs)
anyone know what happened to @Dex? haven't seen them in a while but they apparently are still around since i just saw someone post a commission they'd done for them
mh-, social-, kind of a subtoot but it's about myself
rrrgh
i do this thing, way too much, where i try to help when people didn't ask for help (which is a problem) and i don't realize I'm doing it until the person gets upset or brushes me off and then i feel really bad for doing it but i don't know how to apologize
like, i really shouldn't have tried to help because this is absolutely not something i know more about than the person asking for help, why did i try to help
explaining the joke
a 120-cell is the four-dimensional analog of a dodecahedron. like how a dodecahedron is made of twelve pentagons, a 120-cell is made of 120 dodecahedra
3D mario games are one dimension higher than 2D mario games like super mario world
thus, go one dimension higher than a dodecahedron and add the extra h from the speedrunner's moniker and you get 120chell
in case you don't know, Apicius is an ancient roman person who wrote what i'm pretty sure is generally regarded as the world's first cookbook
Plural system of three, Felthry, Alaric and Rosemary. We'll sign posts with a -F, -A, or -R.
Autistic, 20-something, anxious mess
Please introduce yourself before sending a follow request.
#FelthrysVGMSelection for my music picks.
Current avatar by @hi_cial