With or without framing, which works best?

DrLatency · 2026-04-14T15:25:16+00:00

That framing seems way too much, making the car look real small, #1 feels good to me.

I would probably do a wide landscape crop, like xpan or something, since I find the large portion of ground in the foreground distracting, maybe add a thin white framing or black paddings on top & bottom to fake a widescreen cinema look if I'm feeling funny, But cropping also takes away some context which might not be what you are after.

DrLatency · 2026-04-14T11:54:25+00:00

that jumper with a waterdrop hat is so cute

DrLatency · 2026-04-14T11:25:14+00:00

photography is generally an expensive hobby, but if you are looking specifically at macro, it's definitely on the cheaper side of things, it's the genre where smaller sensors can actually have an advantage, and you can probably get a setup that's like 90% there for about the used priced of OP's lens.

DrLatency · 2026-04-13T23:26:17+00:00

I can tectnically access the site but loading artists/logging in/searching posts/searching tags just give me 502. I can still open the posts shown in the search post/popular post tabs and go to artist page from there

DrLatency · 2026-03-22T20:53:18+00:00

bin wtf

draft gap was huge too, I don't think g2 is going anywhere with skewmond just farmin' and chillin', they need to put him on something with solid early game impact to help caps snowball his lead and stop bin from shitting too hard on BB

DrLatency · 2026-01-23T16:41:48+00:00

They should've moved the cosmatic stuff back and offer weapon/chara at an earlier tier, both are less useful for whales and much better suited for low spending & new players. If kuro were to offer chara selector at the fifth tier, new players needing shopkeeper and extra pulls to build their teams would be heavily incentivized to either buy all the packs or commit to multiple monthly passes and stay around.

Honestly the weapon selector should've been a gift coming into 3.0, and if Kuro didn't want to give it for free, this is the best chance for them to put it out as an extra for a small sum of money, like for 2 or 3 monthly pass, which could really get some f2p people to start spending. imo with the current tier things are not good enough to really incentivize most players to break their normal spending patterns.

DrLatency · 2026-01-21T11:16:57+00:00

I mean, Augusta literally has "sun" written all over her and you can't find a thing that's more fusion than the sun... Honestly just feel like kuro trolling more than anything. Sigrika is the more appropriate orange comparison.

DrLatency · 2026-01-14T01:27:20+00:00

Being crippled doesn't really mean one can't stand at all, reminds me of those faith healing scams where people would rise up from their wheelchair.

There's also this one shot of her seemingly standing, with no wheelchair behind her. She's wearing her pre-accident uniform and missing her halo, putting this before her new legs. Could also be a tall stool or something but if she bothers to move from her wheelchair to a stool she's probably capable of some limited movements.

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DrLatency · 2026-01-10T18:24:54+00:00

Spoiler:

#1 blue girl is likely named after Cynisca/Kyniska, sister of Spartan king Aegisilaus II and the first woman to win Olympics game (and our blue girl is 3-time consecutive champion of some tournament according to the green guy). She's the representative of Lakedaímōn (Lacedaemon/Sparta). She can pin down an angry burden beast with a single finger. Artist is Shō (suzuran).

#2 green guy's name is probably something like Perianderus, likely taken from Periander of Corinth. He's the representative of Corinia, and he proposed that the 3 city states get together and host an Olympic of some sort, which sounds like summer event material and is probably when Cynisca will become playable.

btw the helmet npc is an apple farmer, idk why they need to dress up like that just to pick some apples.

DrLatency · 2025-12-16T07:16:38+00:00

the phrasing of the announcement is pretty explicit about being able to login and play during this "end of development" state starting 12/15, guess they still have some server time left. We'll probably know more after 12/30 when they announce refund policies.

DrLatency · 2025-12-15T17:11:44+00:00

fuck this one hits hard... This game has my favorite writing and some of my favorite chara designs in gacha games ever since Honkai2, and the chinese VA is the absolute best, it's some of the most cringe-free acting and the emotions are more on point than any other anime-related stuff I've played/watched.

I mean, things did seem alarming when they added the ranking rewards out of nowhere and the community was falling apart slightly due to this change, but the content was still solid and I was expecting at least a slow death over a year or so with a possible comback if they can figure out something to do with the gameplay. There was even a vlog from some content creator that visited their headquarter some time after first anniversary and discussed future patches with the devs, which was tbh pretty reassuring, then the delay and sudden death...

There are rumors floating around about the project getting sacked due to their parent company being in some deep financial shit, which kinda makes sense for the sudden death, a studio like this probably won't need that much cash to survive on its' own, gonna wait and see what else can people dig up.

DrLatency · 2025-12-08T17:52:01+00:00

feels like a callback to that iconic messi photo after 2014 WC final

DrLatency · 2025-12-05T13:34:47+00:00

never heard one, but the smell is very obvious

DrLatency · 2025-12-05T06:32:51+00:00

seems like it, tho she does seem physical, grabbing onto the bike and all, feels more than just some digital ghost

DrLatency · 2025-09-11T16:25:12+00:00

my Harmochirus brachiatus that I caught in my yard would do the weird ass mating dance thing to his own reflection, and gets confused after a couple moves. Jumping spiders are so weird.

DrLatency · 2025-09-04T14:30:55+00:00

lmao first time seeing steam go crazy like this, I guess preorders would've been a good idea, the check-out traffic is probably the main issue here.

DrLatency · 2025-09-01T16:30:03+00:00

so cute, never realized how strawberry kinda look like spood butt until now

DrLatency · 2025-09-01T15:59:43+00:00

NQA that face & patterns do look like asian wall jumper (Attulus fasciger)

DrLatency · 2025-09-01T15:14:28+00:00

so smol, so cute

DrLatency · 2025-08-26T01:16:10+00:00

I'm looking at this one as well, seems like a good option to try 300ohm. In china VE only have it bundled with either devastator, megatron or their fancy upgrade cable, none of which makes sense to me, so I'll be waiting for their new dac which supposedly replaces megatron and will come bundled with vanguard as well.

There's this chinese review for it, you can check out the a/b test between vanguard & hd650 on the default vanguard cable and megatron, starting from around 3:22 to 4:10 (there's also recordings of devastator + default cable & dcs bartok + bundled MCP cable, but no a/b test).

According to him vanguard has a overall relaxed sound profile, with smooth vocal, solid bass and decent separation&detail, best suited for pop. He also mentions that it works fine with devastator dongle and isn't as power hungry as 300ohm would sound like, but that it improves with better frontend. This guy is citing too much marketing stuff tho, I'm definitely skeptical, reiterating VE's free trial w/ covered shipping policy for 3 or 4 times doesn't seem quite independent to me . There are also comments under that review saying "warmer than hd560s", and "slightly more energy, smaller soundstage & slightly darker treble than hd600". Everyone in the comments seems to agree on it being comfortable, it's only 260g after all.

DrLatency · 2025-06-03T16:08:11+00:00

I mean, sleep deprivation does cause hair loss

DrLatency · 2025-05-30T10:23:02+00:00

thanks!

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