cause i wanna read it and get mad at adobe and others for letting a part of the internet that mattered just wither away into social media hell

So like I just shot a vid with a bit of a screw up at the end and well . . . I decided to put it up for sale anyway. Maybe light-hearted porn is my thing?

shaders are magic and i've been turned into a frog

i've been writing some custom VisualShader nodes in my current Godot project (working with v4 betas) and i've just run into a problem that seems like it shouldnt exist
where one of the bigger VisualShaders i've made just. refuses to acknowledge the (indexed/palette-based) color input

but the bizarre thing is
if i make it simpler by cutting off bits, it works fine
and it ALSO works fine if i use a color input directly rather than the indexer
but the combination of large amounts of stuff in the shader WITH indexed colours just seems to be Too Much To Handle

and it's making my brain turn inside out

Lightspeed Rescue and R.P.M. are the two versions of "maturity" in media as they could best manage to map em onto Power Rangers. RPM is the young and edgy skein of mature; it's often bitter, ironic, pointing at its own absurdity and going "that's stupid isnt it" - and above all, cool, clad in black leather and pissfiltering the moment you leave the city walls, and sporting a future-style sci-fi metalness. it's Tough and Hard, or at least as Tough and Hard as they could manage.

Lightspeed Rescue, i feel, is the other kind of mature. its Rangers are a more traditional sort of cool, a group of adults brought aboard for their practical skillsets, working in the public sector of Mariner Bay. by ranger standards what they deal with is unusually down-to-earth, focusing more on rescuing civilians and dealing with the destruction left in the wake of the monsters of the week, or events coincidental to but not caused by said monster. and when the series turns around halfway to finally indulge in the higher action and bigger intrigue and interpersonal drama, when the villains stop pussyfooting around as background mediocrity and become great and show-stealing, it feels like the series embracing its inherent absurdity in earnest the way part of growing up is embracing the part of you that, as they say, "is cringe" - the childish joy of cool guys in spandex and menacing dudes in rubber suits going at it with explosions and stock footage.

at least that was my takeaway when i watched it. it just felt natural to me in its way. like it was earned, yknow.

anyway tl;dr: RPM is a great first Ranger series, and if you have to watch any Lightspeed Rescue episode make it the bus episode. one of the top episodes in Power Rangers, period, i feel.