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SlowTao ◴[] No.44449154[source]
While I love the ASCII art, yeah... thats not how the moon phase works. At half moon it should be exactly half occluded, so like it was cut in half, not just a weird circle cut out.

This is something that partially bothered me about GTA San Andreas on Ps2. They used the same trick as here but I would give them a pass because it was just a small detail on a large simulation on an already very limited system.

There are some great bones here on the site, just need to tweak the shadow and it can be a 10 out of 10.

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thih9 ◴[] No.44454424[source]
This is also the standard way to present moon phases in watch complications:

> One of the objections raised to a conventional moonphase display, which shows the visible part of the Moon via an aperture in the dial, is that it is not an accurate representation of what you see when you actually look at the Moon over the course of a month.

https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/the-beautifully-pointless-...

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Joker_vD ◴[] No.44456703[source]
Well, let's hope nobody drills a hole in the Moon (or blows the Moon up) in the next couple thousands of years, for the sake of those watches' usability.
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1. thih9 ◴[] No.44458848[source]
It’s actually safe to do that, watch owners would be distracted by global cataclysms ;)

> Tides would be much smaller (…) But the movement of tides underpins the balance of ecosystems the world over, and an impact that widespread would cause global biological collapse across oceans and, in turn, the whole Earth.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/moon-mars/a43633761/b...