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Monody
@rancore202.bsky.social
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They/Them. Metaphysical entity.
Makes video game videos, constructed alphabets, and other little fun things. Total space and sci-fi nerd.
LGBTQIAζ+ welcome.
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Enjoy silly variants of this that I had fun making. #elitedangerous
A smooth, high-resolution version of the pixel art minerals chart from the original post. A version of the minerals chart from the original post, with the text replaced with 3x5 pixel Shavian. A version of the minerals chart from the original post, missing the header portion and with the text replaced with Trunic from the game Tunic.
August 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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v1.1 to fix a spelling mistake. >_<
August 22, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Did a bit of mission mining in #elitedangerous yesterday and was struck with inspiration. Have a "Where/how tf do I mine this?" reference sheet.
A pixel art quick reference guide for all of the minerals that can be mined in Elite Dangerous, using icons and colors to indicate which ring types and methods of mining each mineral is available in, as well as which minerals can have hotspots.
August 22, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Here's a status report I DM'd my friend, because someone here might find it interesting/useful. Also it's an AVIF because it's funny and Bluesky doesn't support HEICs.
A Discord screenshot of a message sent by Monody, reading: Well the encoding speed and compression ratio phase of the testing is concluded. Before I move on the the visual quality phase, here are some interesting findings: 1: VP9 sucks. Not only was it fairly slow and had bad compression compared to the others, but based on my earlier testing with these codecs' respective image formats, I'm fairly confident it would lose the quality contest as well. Is it better than the previous-gen codecs? Sure. Is it better than VP8? Fucking absolutely. But it's taking the L in this lineup. 2: There is a ridiculous speed disparity between the AV1 encoders. SVT-AV1 has a huge range of speeds, and at its fastest it's able to compete in the same space as x264's "veryslow" preset which is what I've been using. AOM-AV1 at its fastest is about a sixth of that speed. ...and as for RAV1E... I didn't bother filling in all of its framerate fields on the spreadsheet. I just left the first one as "Slow". 3: 10-bit has unexpected effects. When I experimented with 10-bit YUV color, I expected to see a small increase in encoding time and a significant increase in filesize. For some reason, the opposite is true. The files are only very slightly larger, but there's a fairly consistent ~30% reduction in encoding speed. Very strange.
January 24, 2025 at 1:09 PM
rancore202.bsky.social
Having some fun theatrically dramatizing my video encoding experiments.
A Discord screenshot of several messages posted by Monody. "Oh boy. I have peeped the madness I knew of for years but feared to investigate. It was true for x264, and so too does it appear to be true for x265. (Spoiler tagged:) The slower presets... produce /larger files./" "I can offer no explanation. My sanity dwindles." "WTF even is this nonsense" (A screenshot of a spreadsheet filled with video encoding test statistics, generally indicating that lower presets produce files of a similar or smaller size at the same quality setting despite being several times faster.) "I have been enlightened to the truth of video encoding. Things are not as simple as we once thought. RF equals quality... Preset equals speed... /What a FOOL we were! All things are intertwined, and none are all-encompassing."
January 20, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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"This creature has such... familiar eyes."
A screenshot of the game Garrysmod taken on the map gm_excess_construct_13 showing a Sangheili from the Halo game series holding the popular "Maxwell" tuxedo cat model and staring into its face, highlighting that they both have yellow slit-pupil eyes.
January 10, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Don't you just love #Earthbound music? :)
December 29, 2024 at 1:06 AM
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Poof.
So long and thanks for all the- ...not much, actually.
A screenshot of the Twitter account deactivation success page.
December 18, 2024 at 9:28 PM
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Some E:D exploration screenshots from around the end of November / start of December. Found some pretty atmospheres.
A screenshot of the game Elite Dangerous. It shows a dark landscape on a planet with a blueish atmosphere illuminated by a bright sun just below the horizon. A Scarab SRV sits a short distance from the camera, looking towards the sun. Farther away there is a landed Imperial Clipper. A screenshot of the game Elite Dangerous, showing space. A black Imperial Clipper is in the foreground, angled towards a rocky planet with a blueish atmosphere backlit by an L-type brown dwarf in the background. A screenshot from the game Elite Dangerous. It shows a shiny dark purple Imperial Clipper with blue thruster exhaust in a planet's teal-to-green gradient atmosphere, flying up into space.
December 3, 2024 at 1:54 AM
rancore202.bsky.social
Recently learned about the Shavian alphabet, an attempt to create an optimized script better for writing English than the Roman alphabet. I have some nitpicks with it, but overall it's pretty cool!

...So naturally it didn't take long for me to make a tiny pixel font of it.
An image containing a full set of 3 by 5 pixel Shavian characters, followed by a pangram using all of them. It is labeled as version 1.0, dated 16th of November 2024, and credited to Monody.
November 16, 2024 at 3:48 PM
rancore202.bsky.social
Oh come on. XD
A screenshot of a conversation in Discord. Monody: I just noticed the HTML code is just (The word "RED" in a small bold font.) Monody: XD Fox: YEP Fox: lol Fox: Pay up An image of a section of the wiki page for the glory kill mechanic in DOOM 2016. It has been HTML edited to say "...indicated in an red highlight...". Monody: D: Monody: [Italicized] Wait a minute... Monody: >:[ Fox: lol Fox: I was a little hasty
November 11, 2024 at 9:37 AM
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Plot twist.
A screenshot of a conversation in Discord. Fox reposts an image from earlier in the conversation, showing that the highlight effect on an enemy in DOOM 2016 is orange and not red; the image has been crudely edited with MS Paint to make the color dialog show red. The HTML notation even reads "RED" in bold font instead of an actual hex code. Fox: donno what to tell you Monody: XD Monody: I love that the entire value/saturation space is just bright crimson.
November 11, 2024 at 9:22 AM
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This represents our dynamic so well. XD
A screenshot of a conversation in Discord. Monody: The "red" in question. :P A screenshot from a Discord stream of DOOM 2016, showing an enemy with an orange highlight. Fox: Red tho Monody: I'm going to shit your ass. A screenshot of the previous image in GIMP with an area color sampler tool on the enemy. The color selection dialog is open, showing the sampled color is a bright orange.
November 11, 2024 at 2:23 AM
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Not going to add too much to the noise right now; it's pretty obvious from the date what prompted the move over here from Twitter.
I'm just going to take the opportunity to post this image again because it's great.
A screenshot from the game DOOM 3: Resurrection of Evil. A character is sitting on the floor in the fetal position under red lighting. Their head is missing and in its place there is a missing model generic black cube intersecting the top of their body. The word "DOOM" from the game's logo is at the top of the image, with the letters rearranged to spell "MOOD".
November 7, 2024 at 4:49 AM