The objective part is in whether it matches what the creator intended.
Sometimes they intended crisp contours, like in ClearType; sometimes they intended to add extra colors; sometimes they designed pixel perfect and it looked blurry on CRT; very rarely they used vector graphics or 3D that can be rendered at better quality by just throwing some extra resolution.
Many artists of the time pushed this tech to these limits, "objectively better" is to emulate that.
Nah, even without affiliate code shenanigans, there have been coupon sites for like forever. People REALLY want to find codes, it's the best bait to fill their screen with ads, popups, malware, and whatever.
Have you checked the examples...? I feel like we're going in circles. There are cases where the CRT looks objectively better, supporting examples have been provided, technical explanation has been provided... it's up to you to look at them or not.
If you wish to discusd some of the examples, or the tech, I'm open to that. Otherwise I'll leave it here. ✌️
All pixels are a "blur" of R, G, and B subpixels. Their arrangement is what makes a picture look either as designed, or messed up.
For rendering text, on modern OSs you can still pick whichever subpixel arrangement the screen uses to make them look crisper. Can't do the same with old games that use baked-in sprites for everything.
It gets even worse when the game uses high brightness pixels surrounded by low brightness ones because it expects the bright ones to spill over in some very specific way.
The more subscriptions people need to access the content they want, the more likely they are to pirate it instead.
Everyone is talking about "Netflix-like" and "Steam-like", while forgetting that Netflix and Steam grew big not because of their subscription plans, but because they were a single point to access all content.
The video shows an objective example where square pixels destroy the image, while rearranged subpixels restore it. There are more similar examples here around in the comments.
The good ones aren't "blur", they're "subpixel rearrange".
It takes about 4x4 square pixels to emulate the subpixels of a single round one... just like it takes about 4x4 round pixels to emulate the subpixels of a square one.
government’s plan for “democratic renewal”, launched earlier this year after a judge began investigating Sánchez’s wife, Begoña Gómez, for alleged corruption and influence peddling.
A group with far-right ties that submitted the complaint admitted it was based on unverified media reports.
For additional context:
Regional right-wing leaders, were responsible for not alerting citizens on time of the 2024 Spanish floods... then attempted to cover it over and over with unverified "news".
A judicial document in a case against the opposition's government in Madrid, was leaked to the press... and promptly unverified sources started blaming the Government, which has been proven to be false.
On the flip side, ALL politicians have started using Twitter/X, TikTok, Facebook, etc. over the last decade or so... and they will ALL have to follow these rules, since they have more than 100k followers each.
You might be able to slightly loosen the extruder, so it would chew through the filament rather than drag things around. That much force is not going to be good for the gears either.
"Bee nice" is a much better general rule of thumb than "automod reviewed your 10 year old comments and kept banning you from subreddits for half a year after you were already site-banned".
I've been Reddit-free for 1.5 years now, and when I checked it last month, there were new insults waiting for me in the inbox. No, thanks. Even Facebook is (marginally) better than that at this point (although they did ban one of my "favorites" lists for unknown reasons, likely because I forgot to make it private).
TikTokDouyin has also been blamed for promotingharmfulcontent in China... it isn't politically correct to say so in China though, so you won't hear about it on TikTokDouyin.
For reference, the CCP's policies on social media have been swinging wildly, they've made several 180 turns over the years.
This is like when the police throw the murder weapon in jail and avoid charging anyone because it's easier to find a scapegoat instead of holding parents responsible for what they teach their kids.
In Spain, living a the bottom of an apartment urbanization well, I get 2 hours of direct sunlight a day. Some people are luckier and get all the morning sun, while others get all the afternoon sun.
Installing panels may still be troublesome, since the urbanization has a requirement of "unified look"... so I'm afraid it would mean either everyone, or no one, installing a panel, and they better look all the same (had an issue with additional balcony railing, optional but single design allowed).
In the EU, not in UK, but stuff like this is why I decided to pull the plug on everything public several years ago. A single individual can't afford to risk it.
The objective part is in whether it matches what the creator intended.
Sometimes they intended crisp contours, like in ClearType; sometimes they intended to add extra colors; sometimes they designed pixel perfect and it looked blurry on CRT; very rarely they used vector graphics or 3D that can be rendered at better quality by just throwing some extra resolution.
Many artists of the time pushed this tech to these limits, "objectively better" is to emulate that.