My thoughts

Published on June 21, 2001 By Nuvem In WinCustomize Talk

Ok, time to get a bit serious here.

Two days ago Alexandrie contacted me with this 'XPutnik' wall for a joke. It was my Sputnik wallpaper modified with the XP logo and lettering. When I saw it I couldn´t stop laughing and I uploaded it as a joke to all the XP stuff we have here at Wincusto lately. After that I saw Jafo´s post and we started to fool around trying to get Nicole with the worst wall ( I won, mine is worse than his:) )
To my surprise, that wall went to 1º in the top 10, I went speechless!!! I mean, that wall is the worst thing I´ve ever made since I learned to draw a cow when I was fourteen. At first I was amused, now I feel a bit sad with all this. I have some good walls here that took many hours of work and didn´t even make the top 10 and this piece of crap gets 1º. THIS IS SAD.
From this I can make some conclusions and I´ll share them with you fellow skinners/artists just to express what I feel with this whole thing. It is not my intention to offend XP skinners or users that like and download this kind of stuff.

1- People do like swirls, lens flares and other crappy filters that only take a good graphic app and 5 seconds to do. You don´t need to have any kind of skills, and don´t need to be creative.

2- If you want to show up in the top 10, the only thing you need to do is to imitate the latest Microsoft OS look.

3- If you do this imitation in blue, the possibilities to get into the top 10 increase considerably.

4- This XP stuff is overlooking good skinners/artists that try, and are creative in their work. the chances to get into the top ten are diminished if you don´t do XP related work or aren't a very popular skinner.

5-All this XP madness is being a negative to this site and should be moderated. There is no creativity, no skills needed and as this friend of mine told me, it wouldn´t happen at old skinz.org.

6- I´ll delete my XPutnik wallpaper now, my intention was to do an ironic joke and by the number of downloads it is very clear that my point here was not accomplished.

7- Nicole is mine, she´s actually in the kitchen making us a lasagna and we´ll go to a movie later:)))))

Comments (Page 3)

Nuvem

on Jun 25, 2001

the greenreaper, forcing people to like what I think is good???? from were did you got that ideia? I´m not forcing anyone here.

If Top ten was important to me, do you find that I would have deleted the wall? the piece was at 1º and I was 1º in top skin authors pool.Now if those thing were important to me why the hell did I made that?.

This started as a joke and ended as a protest, my personal protest, that's all.

Jafo, because there are many unanswered question:P
hey, guess what, Nicole called me begging to come back....doknow, I think I´m gonna play the hard to get here;)

AJCrowley

on Jun 25, 2001

I think I mentioned this in another thread, and it still seems like a good idea on the whole. I assume that a large percentage of the people here have the full OD suite, so why not allow artists to release things in packs, or collaborate with other artists to release packs, that way, we could have a single XP ObjectBar pack with all 30 colours in, or a total XP pack with wallpaper, OB, WB, DX, whatever. This would certainly cut down on the crap, and just as a note to Jafo and Nuvem, your theory was not proven completely, though the XP-utnik received a huge response, my "Dear God, Please make the XP themes stop" wallpaper only got around 20 downloads. I have taken note for next time that some ultra L337 lens flares are in order. Hooray for photoshop filters.

Welcome Guest! Please take the time to register with us.
There are many great features available to you once you register, including:

Richer content, access to many features that are disabled for guests like commenting on the forums.
Access to a great community, with a massive database of many, many areas of interest.
Access to contests & subscription offers like exclusive emails.
It's simple, and FREE!