JohnnyEnzyme @ JohnnyEnzyme @lemm.ee

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Yeah the code you’ve mentioned is the standard for posting images within a comment.

Actually it's a little more than just that. It's a way not just to show the image auto-scaled down to the comment, but to create a popup option that can display a full-size version of that same image when clicked. Notice the hotlink option as you hover over the image, due to the image URL being listed twice, not once. I've rarely seen that method used on Lemmy, hence the share in case it was useful to anyone reading.

Anyway, I'm very interested in what you're saying, so this will just be a drive-by comment for now.

If possible, maybe I can help you test and ponder this stuff so that at the very least, we can better-shape an efficient suggestion to add to the GitHub for a future Lemmy. Cheers for now.

Thanks, got it!
I personally hate it, but it's always great to have options.

Btw, I was initially confused, and the code I mentioned above works inside posts, not from the list view.

This is how I've been doing it all along:

[![](https://i.imgur.com/tF1IMJV.jpeg)](https://i.imgur.com/tF1IMJV.jpeg) *Nightlife in Prague*

Could you tell me what the new method is?
@axus@lemm.ee

Haha, I think maybe I feel you on that.
Filmation worked so much better when it came to shades of comedy & farce, and for me, there was a tonne of understated comedy & farce in He-Man, hearkining back to lots of H-B farce. (never watched Godzilla personally, have no interest at all, sadly or unsadly)

So Filmation to me were mostly disappointing (and again, the damn limited budget) when it came to TAS, but they also had to walk a sort of line, just like Rankin-Bass with The Hobbit, and then the "Return of the King."

The first one was fairly charming (and the songs were absolutely awesome), based on a children's book, but the latter?

Yeah, that shizzle just didn't work for a serious fantasy epic. Okay, I'll admit it had its points, but Rankin-Bass was so not* the animation studio to do RotK, other than bringing back the super-charming... Glenn Yarbrough (sp?) as the narrator-singer.

Interesting... thanks for the comprehensive answer!

It’s a bit of a pain if you are doing anything legacy.

I can understand that in terms of simple defaults set up by various software / web packages, but is there some kind of technical format issue about WEBP that's hurting it..?

So I randomly bumped in to this thread and at first was going to riff one of my favorite little 'evolutionary scenarios'-- that one day we might see a bear chasing a deer on a shoreline, and nearby in the water, a deer-descendant (like a killer whale) chasing a bear-descendent (like a seal)! @fossilesque@mander.xyz

Then I saw my buddy's comment about WEBP, and am duly curious. AFAIK it's a much more modern & efficient format than JPG, and I'd be using it myself here if Imgur.com actually accepted it. So yeah, I'm curious as well what its flaws are! @Nacktmull@lemm.ee

I both liked and disliked this series. I thought it so impressive that they got most of the original cast back together, had DC Fontana running it, and had some really top-notch writing talent. Also, with animation, there was the promise of doing all kinds of interesting special effects that weren't possible with TOS.

The problem is that the animation budget was so limited! I didn't mind that sections of scenes were recycled, something which also happened here and there in the original series, but that the Filmation art & technique was just so mediocre. As in, not nearly as interesting as some other studios were putting out, such as Depatie-Freling. Even some H-B series had far more interesting art & backgrounds, like Scooby Doo.

Another problem is that the weak budget meant that poor Jimmy Doohan had to voice virtually every male character outside of the core cast. Similar with Nichols & Barrett having to do all the extra female characters. It got pretty identifiably ridiculous even just a few episodes in, and was a shame, because Hollywood's always had an amazing stock of versatile voice actors that worked surprisingly economically. (Mark Evanier's blog is a good place to read about that sort of thing)

OTOH, I sort of enjoyed the animation bloopers, and there were many. One of my favorites was the way background characters would sometimes be larger than foreground characters. So, interesting to read that many of such 'bloopers' were in fact by design:

"There were also only so many layers you could use before the colors started changing. Sometimes, you'll see a missing leg or something like that. It's not always a blooper, it's just that they only had so many cells that they could use."

"If they wanted to have an animation on top of whatever was happening, sometimes they'd have to sacrifice something that maybe nobody will see this," states Harvey. "At one point, Scotty's doing something and he has no legs. He's just a floating torso. For me, that's part of the charm. It's just the idea that this wasn't just like, 'Oh, we're being caught careless.' It was, 'We have to make a decision on how we're going to do this.' That was the process. That's a very abbreviated version of that process.

Fair, late-stage capitalism points. Of the two excellent channels I mentioned, I believe one monetizes by YT, and one by Patreon, but I think the latter method is indeed more popular now, perhaps for the reasons you mentioned.

Everyone should have left, yes, but considering how enormous YT's storage and bandwidth is, I'm not sure how realistic that would have been in terms of single platform. Something like Daily Motion is a nice YT alt, but it probably would have been brought to its knees trying to serve all YT's content. And/or simply bought out once again by Google or an even worse company, like Yahoo.

In what sense? To me it's been a pretty awesome source of free music, archived TV, full movies, clips, and lots of impressive channels, like Kurzgesagt and Metatron.

Mid-Gately, then.

I hate to say it, but Garfield was arguably more interesting, those days.

I'm not quite sure which period you're referring to (maybe when he and Spike were frequently getting in to slugfests?), but I think there's an argument that the way Heathcliff's borderline-automatically respected nowadays is much the result of him being a 'tough' when the strip was younger.

All the birds, people, animals and others sitting around commenting on his daily activities seem pretty in line with that.

@qooqie@lemmy.world

A rare one that makes more sense with heathcliff!

That's often my line, but I think I disagree on this one. For one-- as a Heathcliff reader, it's perfectly obvious what just happened. Second, the star on top makes it very clear what Iggy's talking about. Heathcliff adding ball ornaments is somewhat redundant to all that-- important to show for new readers perhaps, but not essential for regulars IMO.

in another place someone said they found this one more disturbing because he just leaves piles of defeated enemies around.

I love that commentary, but that does in fact capture what traditional Heathcliff is all about-- i.e., the absolute VIP and boss of the suburban animal world.

Fascinating. Thank you so much for taking the time to explain! ^^

So when you say "tamaltios," I presume it's like "tomatillos?" I also know them as Mexican ground cherries:

https://www.google.com/search?q=mexican+ground+cherries&tbm=isch

I took color theory in art school and run a thing that collects how your brain lies to you

Hmm, are you talking about a mental discipline or a technical tool?

Grab an image editor that has a color sampling feature.

GIMP is a pain to start up, so I'll take your word for it. Anyway, thanks for explaining, and I guess I* was the one fooled by an optical illusion, not that my weak eyes helped me here.

Looks like the same green to me. I think what you might be seeing is a pretty common illusion in which nearby framing colors can have a big influence in how a certain color is perceived. Examples:

https://www.google.com/search?q=optical+illusion+different+colors

What if we all go through our subbed reddits and make them here?

That's exactly what I did with a fairly niche community, and so far we've got 400+ subscribers in only four months. Pretty good for Lemmy, I think.

TBF, I think part of why it took off so well is because Lemmy's ALL stream is relatively slow enough such that small niche communities have a much higher chance of being randomly seen. Compare that to Reddit, where they'd typically be buried.

So there's a prime opportunity right now to start a community on Lemmy and have it take off relatively easily. That might not be so true in future.

SongFacts.com is great. It's got wiki-like entries on bands and songs, then users add their comments and interpretations below.

Still very active, it seems to me.

Haha, I give Gallagher grief for recycling concepts, but this one worked for me within the surreal world of his logic. Both versions worked!

I visited Paris some years back, tried to speak in my terrible tourist French whenever possible, and never found a hint of snobbery. I kinda get the impression that visitors with an attitude or who treat the city like an amusement park get the worst of the 'snobbery.'

@teft@startrek.website