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Unicorn Jelly

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Excellent stuff! Reading with integer scaling. For those who don't know, you can 2x integer scale your desktop on Nvidia cards by setting scaling to Integer Scaling under "Adjust desktop size and position", and adding a custom resolution that's half each axis of your monitor. For example, I use a 1920x1200 monitor, so I added a 960x600 resolution, which I can switch to in display settings, giving me huge, crisp pixels at 1x DPI scaling. Effectively 800x600 but 16:10 wide. On 4k monitors this gives you crisp 1080p with no UI scaling, for example.

That's a blast from the past I wasn't expecting to see today.

The internet used to be filled with thousands of these.

It was magical, serendipitous, and wonderful.

People's creativity hasn't disappeared, but it lives in corporate-owned distribution platforms now.

It's nice that people don't have to spend so much effort building websites, but we definitely lost something in the experience. We did gain convenience for creators and consumers (but also gained ads, tracking, etc.)

There are plenty of highly talented people publishing on YouTube, TikTok, and beyond, but we lost something with the loss of personal websites being popular and the loss of formats like Flash, platforms like NewGrounds, etc.

The old web felt like stepping into someone's personal atelier. Bespoke, intimate, crafted, and intentionally curated.

I thought it was about that tiny little smartphone. I have the first generation of it. But it's the unihertz jelly lol.

I'd never heard of this manga. Cool!

UJ on tvtropes: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/UnicornJelly -- The detailed alternate physics is quite a piece of work.

This looks very cute! Is there a way to disable the little dancing unicorn jelly at the bottom of the page? I have such a hard time reading text if there is motion so close to what I'm trying to read

Ad blockers typically have an option to select something to disable, like a single image URL.

I'll warn that it quickly becomes not very cute. But a very good webcomic nonetheless!

It is an animated gif. You used to be able to just press escape to pause them, but Firefox and Chrome have both removed that behavior. Instead you can install a plugin, or in Firefox you can set `image.animation_mode` to:

`once` - play once on load then stop.

`none` - do not play on load

`normal` - loop forever if the gif says to

With the popularity of animated "emoji" on some forums these days, I couldn't function without some way to globally disable animated gifs.

I just resized my browser window, so the bottom of the window is above the GIF, but below the NEXT button.

This uBlock Origin rule will do it for you:

  ||unicornjelly.com/images/unianil.gif

An idea the website could borrow from video games is removing elements after a while, like _n_ page views. (You can store the state in cookies, LocalStorage, or perhaps track server-side by IP+useragent.) The reader enjoys the dancing jelly for a few pages, and then as it gets old, it goes away automatically.

(On Gwern.net, we call this 'demo mode', and we use it to hide some UI elements after a certain number of interactions or page-views, under the theory that if you've, say, uncollapsed a collapse region a few times, you've gotten the idea, and you no longer need a big obtrusive text label saying 'click or hover to uncollapse'.)

This really is a classic. I'm glad its still online.

Is there a way to get this as a cbz file or something similar?

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