I guess what I'm trying to ask is... how do I know/decide how big I should make stuff? And is there a way to use the 150% upscaling without images looking blurry and hazy? All pixel art looks like shit.

I think there's no specific standard for how many units you should make something. it will just depend again on what you think or what's convenient for you. this is also a demonstration of how screen responsive design is not only for making sites look right on phones, it's also for making things look right on really big screens

and for the pixel art, the property you may need is image-rendering. I recall having to do ratio/proportions math to figure out the aspect ratio to make the pixels stay square shaped but maybe there are better ways to do it

Yeah, when you got non-integer scaling, pixel art will look bad unless you got "big" pixels.

Thank you for the responses, they at least point me in a direction to get more info! "image-rendering" is exactly what I needed to ameliorate the second issue.

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https://repth.neocities.org/theme Repth's themes are quire flexible. Many of my pages are based on their themes with some heavy personalization.

@capstasher Thank you very much for the suggestion, this isn't a page I've seen before.

This is perfectly fine and perhaps necessary for the art and creative ecosystem anyway, creations need observers/an audience that will appreciate them. Everyone can create, not everyone has it in them to "be a creator".

You cannot help but be unique simply by virtue of existing. Therefore, what you have to share is irreplaceable.

To say some people are NPCs would imply some people are main characters. A bit silly, don't you think?

I understand what you're saying but I just have a gripe with NPC/media terminology. Life isn't a video game or movie, we all have a place in this world. All we can do is make the best of it.

@letslearntogether Factually true and this is a frame of mind I hold honest respect for. However, my perspectives aren't meaningfully different from any other highly sheltered Westerner with a similar cultural context. I am very siloed and isolated and even though I spend most of my free time trying to expose myself to art and reading history and philosophy, I think the fact that I'm cut off from other people is >

< preventing me from understanding things and expanding my mind.

@yourdevilfriends I understand the objection to the terms, I'm trying to use (admittedly controversial) shorthand to gesture to the idea that those people who can really rock the boat with their ideas are one in a thousand and I am one of the other 999.

@sakana Yeah, I understand. For all my opinion's worth, I think being an average Joe and finding peace with that fact is quite beautiful in its own way.