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Re: Official Off-Topic Thread

Reply #560 on: May 20, 2008, 02:28:21 pm
I recently found out I had a whopping 16.8 gigs of temporary files. Aren't temporary files supossed to be...well...temporary?
(Too much lesbian pr0n I guess)

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Re: Official Off-Topic Thread

Reply #561 on: May 20, 2008, 04:40:40 pm
set your browser to auto-purge and your computer will run much faster.  Connection speeds are so high that there's hardly any need for temp files after each session is done.
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Re: Official Off-Topic Thread

Reply #562 on: May 20, 2008, 08:30:57 pm
So, I ended up on a Japanese website, and decided to try and navigate it :P. Well, after a while I ended up on a Pixel Art BBS
http://may.levtex.net/cgi/levbbs/lev-bbs.cgi?bid=bbs1=&skin=skin/default/=/cgi/levbbs/skin/default/&style=0
Alot of it is mediocre but theres some good stuff on there :).


(Also, to go to the other pages hit the drop down, choose one, and hit go. Arrows don't seem to do anything.)
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Re: Official Off-Topic Thread

Reply #563 on: May 20, 2008, 08:42:34 pm
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Reply #564 on: May 20, 2008, 10:02:02 pm
That selout makes my eyes hurt ( ; 3 ;)
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Re: Official Off-Topic Thread

Reply #565 on: May 20, 2008, 10:05:53 pm
Japanese Pixel art boards are always a blast. They always call it "Dot", which amuses me. (Such as their equivalent to "Home" is "Top", "Pixel" is "Dot".)

It seems like the majority of Japanese pixel artists are better than the majority of English speaking ones, however they don't have those few pixel gods you see in English communities.

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Reply #566 on: May 20, 2008, 10:10:23 pm
It seems like the majority of Japanese pixel artists are better than the majority of English speaking ones, however they don't have those few pixel gods you see in English communities.
They all seem to work very similarly too. Selout, no dithering, relatively linear color ramps.
Kinda weird that way ???
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Reply #567 on: May 20, 2008, 10:29:11 pm
A thought on that, based on no evidence, just empirical observation: The Japanese are a very workmanship-based culture, they will emulate from videogames and anime a lot. This means the average quality of their pixel art is better than the average quality in the west, yet they do not have as many distinctive top artists, and they mostly appear to be drawing the same thing, in the same way.

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Re: Official Off-Topic Thread

Reply #568 on: May 20, 2008, 10:38:13 pm
Fear the hive-mind!
There are no ugly colours, only ugly combinations of colours.

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Re: Official Off-Topic Thread

Reply #569 on: May 20, 2008, 10:41:10 pm
A thought on that, based on no evidence, just empirical observation: The Japanese are a very workmanship-based culture, they will emulate from videogames and anime a lot. This means the average quality of their pixel art is better than the average quality in the west, yet they do not have as many distinctive top artists, and they mostly appear to be drawing the same thing, in the same way.

True, I don't think there's a single original character on the boards Sherman Gill posted.

You can never go wrong with Yoko, though.   :P