Jive Turkey
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The real question is why doesn't everybody use the dark theme? So much easier on the eyes.
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The real question is why doesn't everybody use the dark theme? So much easier on the eyes.
Jawmuncher
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And saves battery
longlivegaming
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The main reason why I use dark theme now is because I've started seeing floaters in my eye.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Dark text on white background is easy on the eyes, and doesn't make you look like a cave troll to anyone else in the room, if you have reasonable colour temperature settings.
And now everyone else in the thread is too
paperspace
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Bright white screens are not healthy for your eyes, people. Seriously.
HashtagLapsed
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This is true. Doing a lot of PC based study this year damaged my eyes badly. I got such bad eye strain I was getting twitching in my eyelids.
Jawmuncher
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I use dark theme, stylish to force dark themes, and a website dimmer that lets me dim or invert the colors of any website.
Works so good for any late night surfing.
Works so good for any late night surfing.
Coreda
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Thx. Guess it explains why Ruruja's tag originally was like this before being updated a tad.
It differs based on the display. On some displays light theme is fine when the native brightness can be lowered without affecting the contrast much, on others like my main monitor it's never comfortable even with f.lux since the brightness needs to be higher to maintain correct contrast/colors.
The brightness (backlight) setting shouldn't affect your contrast unless your ambient lighting is obnoxiously bright. Maybe you just need to turn up your contrast setting?
Also I hope you're using f.lux as a night mode and not as your primary method of managing a 6500K color temperature, lol.
HP_Wuvcraft
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Doesn't everyone?
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
I use about 4500K in the daytime (yellow-white whites), about 3000K in evening (yellow-orange whites), and about 2000K at night (orange-red whites)
Jawmuncher
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On iPhone I crank that shit to max orange.
Coreda
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Needs a certain minimum brightness to reduce eye strain I've found, but also so detail can be clearly distinguished so I instead use a software dimmer to adjust a pseudo-brightness on the fly when needed.
Yeah, it's just used as a night mode.
Only time I see them is looking at tiny out of focus holes in blinds when the sun is shining through.
longlivegaming
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I should clarify that floaters are very noticeable for me when I'm staring at a white screen.
That's fair.
You're sure your monitor is set to native 6500K color temperature and your contrast is set correctly? I can't imagine a monitor where brightness is set to a "comfortable" level and is at the same time uncomfortable to look at for long periods of time.
Lagom.nl helps a ton with this stuff, particularly the Contrast, Black Level, and White Saturation pages.
uncredited male
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This site takes forever to load on Opera now. Here on IE.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
It looks like ModBot hit the character limit on editing on the mega-giveaway. The stuff not marked given away is probably still given away.
Edit: I removed a bunch of stuff to try to induce it to complete the edits successfully.
Edit: I removed a bunch of stuff to try to induce it to complete the edits successfully.
Coreda
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Can distinguish all of these, but it's also a wide gamut monitor. Thing is, white themes are mostly fine but given the monitor is 1440p with a denser PPI the area of the browser and text rendering also has to be considered. With a larger browser window there is more light emanating from the screen and the text is smaller than on some other monitors, so dark themes become easier on the eyes for longer periods. I also prefer keeping GAF at 100% zoom since raster images blur when scaled.
Ah, that makes sense. Haven't had much experience with 1440p monitors.
Though shouldn't the wide color gamut be disabled most of the time? Most things on a computer are sRGB; outputting a wider gamut than sRGB means oversaturated colors.
Coreda
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For the most part it's fine. Browsers have some issues with color management though, so it can lead to things like crushed blacks. Luckily Firefox has a config option to force proper color management so colors look correct on that browser.
Oh wow that's really nice. I'm a Firefox user and I've heard about that feature, but never heard an example of it actually being useful until now, lol.
Welp, carry on then.
the_firewithin
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finished up TT Batman. Overall it was pretty good and TT at least got the episodes out quick.
Bring on that S2!
Bring on that S2!
after new TWAU
exmachina64
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the_firewithin
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i did since i kinda figured what would happen happened
the problem (well, "problem") with these short games is that most often than not, they are point and click adventures, or some sort of variation on the genre, and too many of those in a row, short or not, gets kinda old fast.
8 to go to 52 tho, and im actually into doing this again if only because it refocuses what my initial goal with the laptop was anyway, to play the sort of games I wouldnt play at home in the first place. Think ill go with The Begginer's Guide next, to break up the P&C train.
edit: yeah... I didnt like that, especially as a follow up to Stanley Parable which I loved. Shame.
8 to go to 52 tho, and im actually into doing this again if only because it refocuses what my initial goal with the laptop was anyway, to play the sort of games I wouldnt play at home in the first place. Think ill go with The Begginer's Guide next, to break up the P&C train.
edit: yeah... I didnt like that, especially as a follow up to Stanley Parable which I loved. Shame.
Shadow Tactics is hard as hell and kind of frustrating yet I keep throwing myself at it again and again. I've caught myself not managing a move for over 10 minutes, just getting spotted over and over until something works. I don't even like hard games but the lure of making an effective move is too great. And when I make a move that seems cheesy I get mad at myself. It's just weirdly compelling.
exmachina64
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Me too, just wondering what happens if you don't reveal. I haven't gone into the spoiler thread or searched around on the internet.
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Baron_Calamity
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I played about an hour today and quickly learned I had no desire to play a game like it.
What about the Gunman Clive games? Not to the same extent, but Kero Blaster is pretty short too.
Tizoc
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Kero blaster is brilliant and has a deep plot
Yeah, I need to get back to zangyō mode...
Is there a gaf group or something of those, would be cool to actually see the most of the game possible within the weekend.
I dont own kero blaster. I did finish the 2 games from the same guys earlier in the year tho. They were so short I counted both as one.
Also nobody recommended Gunpoint which makes you all terrible.
bobnowhere
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I got right to the end of Gunman Clive and then accidentally deleted my savegame from the main menu. Oops.
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Question for stump and jshackles (or any other member who is familiar with this matter). Is it possible to implement Google VR View on GAF? Now that capturing 360 photos with Nvidia Ansel is possible it would be nice if we could embed those on GAF and not just post links to them. Also if it is easier Flickr and kuula both have codes for embedding.
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
GAF hasn't even enabled native embeds for webms, so I doubt they'll do this.
You may want to check out this userscript from Coreda: https://github.com/Coreda/neogaf-html5-video and either see if you can make the changes yourself or ask him if it is something he could implement.
Edit: Or possibly try Popstar, who made this: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1274391 which automatically converts gifs into webms on gaf.
I use YTMA! Chrome extension. And it would be nice if bigger extensions would implement embedding but to create separate one it wouldn't work. VR/360 content is still not popular as gifs/webms.
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
A link to the flickr page would probably still suffice for most people.
An easy way to do it would be to make an extension that looks for a special tag like [vr][/vr] that a user could place a regular link to flickr in between and the script would automatically convert it to the proper embed script. Benefit: people without the extension still get a normal link and people with the extension get the embed. Negative: people would need to install the extension and type in the fake bbcode [vr].
There is also an issue of what to use as base for extension. If you use Goole VR View pictures need to be as software captured them not already processed in Spheres and that is somewhat easier for users who upload them. And if extension just pulls processed Spheres from Flickr/kuula then users need to prepare those photos for some of those services (for example Flickr requires "equirectangular" tag to process uploaded image to Sphere and Facebook needs Camera info to match one of those 360 cameras).
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