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pixel shiftinged adj. Drunk by the third round, and imperceptibly relocating the conversation until nobody could say how it had changed. Dremon got pixel shiftinged and moved the discussion from trains to childhood without warning. pixel trackinged adj. Drunk by closing time, and monitoring everyone’s movements closely enough to report which advert they had glanced at. pixel-huntinged adj. Drunk, with the result that every insignificant detail becomes a difficult hidden-object puzzle for everyone present. Taejohn became pixel-huntinged and asked the party to find his spectacles while wearing them. pixel-peepered adj. Drunk to the extent of judging photographs at impossible magnification and sharing the verdict with the room. pixelation ratioed adj. Of a drinker: maintaining large gaps between friends while each remaining gesture occupies excessive space. Solmaira woke pixelation ratioed, waving across the kitchen as though everyone stood several streets away. pixelationed adj. Still drunk, and rendered socially blocky: recognisable in outline, though every finer distinction has disappeared. Aqsah remained pixelationed, greeting three colleagues as one broad and interchangeable acquaintance. pixelatored adj. Having drunk enough to turn photographs, faces and finally companions into indistinct blocks. pixelered adj. You have drunk enough to edit people at close range, correcting their appearance without invitation. Ashyah got pixelered and adjusted a friend’s profile picture while he was still using the phone. pixelinged adj. You are drunk and making the room coarser by enlarging every minor disagreement until companions can no longer see the detail. pixelisationed adj. Of a drinker who has enlarged every small social detail beyond resolution, giving the room a grainy appearance. pixelizationed adj. Describing a drinker who makes every face and gesture prominent while losing the surrounding context. Neveya was pixelizationed, making every gesture prominent while losing the surrounding context. pixellationed adj. Too drunk to preserve conversational detail, leaving companions with a coarse outline of what was intended. Saamiya got pixellationed and reduced her explanation of the evening to several broad movements. pixellatored adj. Having drunk more than the evening could accommodate, and converting every social distinction into a soft square. Jamiah became pixellatored and addressed the entire table as though it were one large icon. pixelled (/ˈpɪksəld/) adj. You are drunk and reduced to the smallest visible unit of a larger, poorly rendered scene. Bobbi-jo was pixelled, appearing intermittently behind the houseplant and a glass. pixellinged adj. Of a drinker: broken into broad, manageable shapes, so that friends can identify the trouble without its particulars. Niome was pixellinged by midnight, reduced to a coat, a glass and a determined expression. pixelmapped adj. A drinker who assigns every person and object a fixed place, then forgets the map when asked to leave. Daaniyal got pixelmapped and labelled the tables by friendship before losing his own seat.