insomniac_lemon

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Got any advice on graphics in posts?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

As for the PNGs, that’s what you get when you paste a graphic into a post. It makes it a PNG. No choices there.

Don’t paste then? It should take whatever file you drag-and-drop or choose via file manager.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Got any advice on graphics in posts?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Full-color photography isn’t so efficient as .png, so you might want to use .jpg or try converting to .webp somehow*. Even the original photos from your camera might be better than what you’re doing with paint which is likely just increasing data for no benefit.

If you stay with .png (makes more sense for screenshots/text) it'd help to reduce data
For .png especially, color reduction (crushing) if it doesn’t destroy your image, which will greatly depend on content. With G’MIC (usable via Krita, GIMP) a quick way to do this is a filter called ordered dithering which at the max (16 colors) takes it from ~16M possible colors to just 4096. You don’t need to go this aggressive, but it’s an option. _________

Downscaling or cropping could help too, or for the future changing your camera settings down a size or two. Also, image optimizers can help further (I use Trimage, it has multiple forms of compression, it works on JPGs too but I think it does more for PNGs).

* my instance does this by default, which is kind of annoying when I did optimize my image and everything (annoying because the lossy .webp has ugly blocks)
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you could only play 10 games for the rest of your life, which would you choose?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
What does this and ‘no making your own mods’ even do for the hypothetical? I’m pretty sure most people aren’t going to solo-dev (m)any additional top-10-worthy games that they’d also consistently enjoy. Maybe for some (simple) classics, but at that point I say so what?

Even accomplished solo-devs lose motivation (also constant reminder of room for improvement is sort of its own curse), if anything I’d say paying for mods to be created probably a less of a patient-gamers thing (and probably more exploitable).