/overboard/ - Overboard

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AION 2 came out today and I started playing it this evening
I'm already level 22, went through like 6 different zones, 30 cutscenes, 5 gear sets, the combat feels spammy and with little depth
Maybe that's just the way modern MMORPGs are, they play like everything is dialed up to eleven. I've been playing Valheim as well and even though it's a single player game, it kinda has that feeling old MMORPGs have, you feel like an insignificant person inside a vast world, everything happens slowly, you need to respect your enemies and grind your way to success. Another sad part is that MMORPGs aren't really social anymore, I didn't talk to a single person, didn't form any party, I joined a dungeon but got grouped automatically with other people
I'm gonna continue playing for a while, but AION 2 feels much more forgettable than when I played AION 1 many years ago

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/g/ waiting room for umigalaxy or place to discuss the creation of a new altchan that has a dedicated AI board.

I am fucking sick of the non-stop AI spam shit and will no longer take it.

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void, what do you think about picrel from 8ch?

You probably won't get raided yet because you're a tiny altchan right now.

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Shitty unoptimized garbage site

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Bongo Cat

Post a cat before proceeding.

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>bought a samsung smart TV to use as PC monitor
>it works great
>a firmware update later, the TV now loads on the fucking samsung TV crap when it turns on
>another firmware update later, the they added another ad slot when I open the menu
Fucking hell

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https://files.catbox.moe/auw8e7.txt

Primary goal: Determine compression efficiency between image codecs using a CVVDP score.
Secondary goal: Investigate diminishing returns between Webp and JXL
Currently only works with this specific input file: in.png. Only tested in Ubuntu WSL.
Replace /mnt/c/Users/1337/AppData/Local/Programs/Python/Python313/Scripts/cvvdp.exe with your CVVDP location.

CVVDP SDR display model used: standard_fhd. Scores tested: ~9.0 and ~9.5
My subjective CVVDP interpretation is that ~9.0 = medium quality and ~9.5 = high quality
Use CVVDP with photographic images only as it does poorly with Anime ones.
The display I'm using is a 27 inch 1080p monitor (~82 PPI), viewing distance is ~20 inches.

Created 9-20-2026, using the following dependents and their parameters:
ColorVideoVDP v0.5.7 (released on 08-02-2026) cvvdp -t out.png -r in.png --device cpu -d standard_fhd -m cvvdp
CJPEG version 6b (released on 03-27-1998) cjpeg -baseline -sample 1x1,1x1,1x1 -quality X in.ppm > out.jpg
libwebp v1.6.0 (released on 06-30-2025) cwebp -m 6 -af -q X in.png -o out.webp
libjxl v0.12.0 (released on 07-01-2026) cjxl in.png out.jxl -e 10 --override_bitdepth=10 -q X
libavif v1.4.2 (released on 05-26-2026) avifenc -y 420 -d 10 -s 4 -q X in.png out.avif
ffmpeg version N-125350-g3f6bf150cb-20260629

12 photographic wikipedia images being tested, resized to 50% PNGs, attribution provided in zip:
https://files.catbox.moe/te69tk.zip
https://files.catbox.moe/auw8e7.txt

Example Ubuntu WSL shell output:

JPG CVVDP= 9.54 Fsize= 178.7 KB [ cjpeg -baseline -sample 1x1,1x1,1x1 -quality 55 ]

Webp CVVDP= 9.54 Fsize= 176.9 KB [ cwebp -m 6 -af -q 78 ]

JXL CVVDP= 9.54 Fsize= 133.9 KB [ cjxl -e 10 --override_bitdepth=10 -q 78 ]

AVIF CVVDP= 9.55 Fsize= 134.3 KB [ avifenc -y 420 -d 10 -s 4 -q 60]


WebP compression efficiency relative to [ JXL:  4.0 % ] & [ AVIF: 4.1 % ]

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Ever since the first hominid decided to pick up a rock and toss it at another life form, the technological leap provided by weaponry has shaped evolution and is inseparable from humanity.

And they're simply neat!

This is the place to discuss anything related to weapons and weapon accessories.

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I found a good SVT-AV1 fork for high quality Anime encodes and made a DRAG&DROP windows batch script for it that includes SSIMULACRA2 scoring.
I also compiled the fssimu2 project for windows otherwise you have to manually convert video frames to PNG and math out the average by hand.

@echo off & setlocal
set "input=%~1" & set "outbase=%~dpn1" & set "stfu=-hide_banner -loglevel fatal"

set "av1base=--lookahead 32 --preset 4 --rc 1 --max-qp 60"
set "psy=--ac-bias 0.5 --enable-dlf 3 --noise-adaptive-filtering 4"
set "bt701=--color-primaries 1 --transfer-characteristics 1 --matrix-coefficients 1"

echo Welcome to the mini Essential SVT-AV1 2 pass drag and drop encoder, SSIMULACRA2 included at the end

:ASK
set /p bitrate="Enter 2 pass kbps bitrate: " && set /a bitrate=bitrate 2>nul || goto ASK
if %bitrate% LSS 1 (goto ASK) else if %bitrate% GTR 10000 goto ASK
echo:

ffmpeg %stfu% -i %input% -map 0:v:0 -pix_fmt yuv420p10le -f yuv4mpegpipe -strict -1 - | ^
SvtAv1EncApp-4.0.1-Essential-Windows_Optimized -i - %av1base% --tbr %bitrate% %psy% %bt701% --pass 1 -b temp1pass.ivf
ffmpeg %stfu% -i %input% -map 0:v:0 -pix_fmt yuv420p10le -f yuv4mpegpipe -strict -1 - | ^
SvtAv1EncApp-4.0.1-Essential-Windows_Optimized -i - %av1base% --tbr %bitrate% %psy% %bt701% --pass 2 -b temp2pass.ivf

ffmpeg %stfu% -i temp2pass.ivf -c:v copy -an -y "%outbase%_%bitrate%_kbps_2pass_essential-av1.webm"
echo: && echo --- calculating SSIMULACRA2 score of "%outbase%_%bitrate%_kbps_2pass_essential-av1.webm" --- && echo:
ffmpeg %stfu% -i %input% -pix_fmt yuv420p input.y4m && timeout /t 5 /nobreak
ffmpeg %stfu% -i "%outbase%_%bitrate%_kbps_2pass_essential-av1.webm" -pix_fmt yuv420p output.y4m
timeout /t 5 /nobreak && fssimu2 input.y4m output.y4m

del temp1pass.ivf temp2pass.ivf svtav1_2pass.log input.y4m output.y4m && pause

https://github.com/nekotrix/SVT-AV1-Essential/releases/tag/v4.0.1-Essential
https://github.com/gianni-rosato/fssimu2

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What is your favorite anime art style?
For me nothing beats 90s anime