Transcript
A comic in four panels:
Panel 1: The gothic sorceress, dressed in dark, flowing robes, stands in the middle of a desolated land. She gazes at the colorful mechanical parrot flying near her shoulder: the Avian Intelligent Parrot. The sorceress asks with a hint of curiosity.
Gothic sorceress: "Hey, Avian Intelligence, what's the incantation for summoning a fireball?"
AI Parrot: ":sparkle emoji: The correct incantation for a fireball is "IgnisMe"."
Panel 2: The gothic sorceress cracks a wicked smile, her eyes shining with anticipation as she raises her hands in front of her, fingers spread and ready to cast.
Gothic sorceress: "Alright, let's give it a shot... IgnisMe!"
Panel(small insert in previous panel): Only the eyes of the gothic sorceress are visible in a large flame.
Gothic sorceress: "?!!"
Panel 3: The gothic sorceress is burnt, her face contorted in a mix of shock, anger, and pain. Flames and smoke dance around her, her dark robes burnt and tattered, revealing exposed parts of her anatomy.
Gothic sorceress: "You #*$%@& bird! You gave me a self-immolation spell instead of a fireball spell!"
Panel 4: As the sorceress facepalms, the Avian Intelligent parrot replies with stoicism.
AI Parrot: ":sparkle emoji: You're absolutely right! The correct incantation for a fireball is "PyroBolus"."
So pixelated I can't read the words.
This is how it looks on Voyager
Pretty sure it's a jpegxl and, in my case, using brave as my default browser and Voyager as my Lemmy app produced the same thing (a low quality picture). Tracking down the url of the pic in brave yielded the same results, however, the identical url in Firefox yielded the full definition picture. Jpegxl uses the same container .jpg and can serve a lower definition of itself as it loads in full. The rollout for that codec and adoption is happening like right now. So that's my guess.
Weird, I'm in Voyager on fast internet and it's super pixelated for me. Going to the link looks great, but Voyager looks like it's trying to load a thumbnail as a full size image.
I'm also on Voyager on mobile data that may as well be dial up. It took a minute to load, but came in clear for me.
Looks fine on my end
Are you sure it's not slow internet which resulted in the photo to not finish loading?
Gave it plenty of time to load on my gigabit internet.
This one is fine for me, but I've had others with the same issue. I assumed it was a quirk in the app I use (Boost).
Click image, Top right click HD. Boost tries to save bandwidth on some images but I haven't noticed a real trend behind what images it chooses to downscale or not.
Thanks, I'll try that next time I see one.
Yhea my boost sometimes also seem to make things blurry. Dowloading it does show it is a clear one. But I didn't had problems with this one
Which client?
Just using firefox and old.lemmy
Odd, does not do that for me.
But it could be an extension or flag requesting a bandwidth optimized image.
That's weird. I tried https://old.lemmy.today/post/42532735
And even inspecting the page source (on Firefox), all I get is an embed of the ibb.co image.
You got served a lemmy.today cache image though... Are you on mobile, by chance? Or using any non default configs/extensions?
No mobile, no weird extensions. No idea why it's so pixelated or why that offends others for me to mention it.
I'm seeing the same thing in Summit, I had to open the link to read the comic. Not sure why you're being downvoted tbh.
Same here
People are down voting but it's true for me too on Jerboa.
Same in Jerboa and I've never had this happen before
Same in Sync