It was stated in the guidelines (2nd post last thread) people are allowed to add images, this is something so simple anyone could have done it essentially and it made us all laugh, you all have another chance, keep trying.
Never before in my life have I witnessed such an unjustified celebration of mediocrity. "We'll choose the best one or two entries". You place that winning submission next to so many others and you tell me that it is empirically the, "best". Be honest with the competitors, inform them that their best bet at winning is to submit some crap that will make a few people giggle and inspire absolutely nothing into future competitors. How about setting the bar? How about saying, "look at what this guy did, it's fricken awesome, and funny, and obviously shows tremendous effort and dedication in obtaining a key". What you did is literally a crime against hard work perseverance, and talent.
But that's asking too much isn't it? I wouldn't have looked twice at that garbage, except that it was staring me in the face like some sort of unfathomable nightmare from which I could not escape. I literally trembled with rage, and did not sleep the entire night. I kept thinking, "is this really how the world rewards hard work and talent"? "If I put my heart and soul, and 5 full days of creative thinking and editing into this submission, and it lost to what the majority of intellects would consider, "trash", is there even a point to competing further"? Can it even be called a competition? Absolutely not. In a competition, the victor claims the right of having displayed the best qualities that relate to the grounds of the established rules.
Your grounds were misleading, and your rules ultimately became arbitrary at best. To collectively vote on such an entry and feel good about it...every single one of you involved should literally be ashamed of yourselves. How long did you think about this after looking through thousands of pictures? Your explanation for the reason it won will baffle me for the rest of my years. "Anyone could do it" And therein lies the biggest reason it should NEVER have won. REWARD DEDICATION AND TALENT. Why are you rewarding something that anyone could do just because it gave you all a chuckle? You essentially turned this contest into another random drawing. In no way does it stand out from the rest and set Diablofans.com apart.
What does that winning entry do for your website? When people come in to check out the contest, do they say, "oh WOW, that's awesome! lol, pretty funny too, that person deserves a beta key for sure". ROFL, not in a million years. What about when they look at this picture?
Never will you find me in a position of unearned bragging. But I am more proud of this creation than of my recently earned business degree. I am not an artist in the slightest, nor did I own any form of picture editing software besides MS Paint before this pic contest was announced. Tell me you looked at that and said, "meh, charlie brown reference is just better overall", and I will finally lose faith in humanity once and for all.
Tell me that the charlie brown submission just looks better on your front page, tell me that the person who made it just obviously wanted a key the most, tell me that you feel good about your choice, and you think it represents what such a contest should involve when so many people would give their left arm (or 60 hours of their week and one of the greatest efforts of their life) in order to claim a key. And please tell me that this entry was just so damn good that you decided to grade on a curve, and only give out one key this week. Tell me all those things, or alternatively, delete this post, and I won't be seen around here again. But do not tell me these things unless you can fully and rightfully accept them as truths to yourself. I don't believe that any self-respecting human being should be capable of such filth. I am disgusted.
Flame me all you want for, "whining". See how much I flinch when my lesser's humiliating (and barely intelligible) attempts at a rebuttal come flying in all directions. No person of self-respect and honesty would succumb to acceptance of such an undeserving winner.
Please know that your unsolicited responses in regards to what I have stated should be avoided at all costs. It would be embarrassing for all of you to discover the exact value of your opinion's to your listener.
Looking forward to the deletion of this post, and the avoidance of what it stands for.
Gosukusan this picture isn't good to win too. It's generic, can do the same in all prints. Problem was that specify the caption and the winner has not.Who respects the rule, reasoning worked with the legend. Therefore an unjust outcome.
But gift horse don't look the teeth.
Generic? Do you know what that word means?
"Having no particularly distinctive quality or application"
Please explain where my submission lacked a distinctive quality or originality on the basis of the entirety of the idea itself, and I am very much looking forward to your explanation of how it is not properly applicable.
The work is an original interpretation of a cell-shaded and and "innocent" environment in comparison to what exists in the original screenshot. No "printscreen" is capable of such an outcome. You cannot filter a picture and give it wholly original properties. That response is ignorant. Obviously you can give a photo-realistic work the appearance of something animated, but that is OBVIOUSLY not what has occurred in my submission. If you claim it is so easy and generic, please, take some time and show me what you can do using the original screenshot and whatever filtering techniques you have at your disposal. Then, proceed to ignore the premise of the submission itself, as you have passed it off as a generic idea. Were the 30% of submissions that I didn't see all exactly like mine? I was not aware that someone had used that idea to great effect, and that I had simply stolen it and made it more appealing to a less privileged level of the masses, much like a generic drug or cosmetic product. I was not aware that my idea lacked any semblance of creativity. Cell shaded and child-oriented, dynamic transformation of a dark and violent game via a special bomb thrown by a well-known character who personifies said basis to a great degree? You're right, that is just so generic! lol
But I digress, my post was not meant to argue the validity of my submission; it was meant to accuse the invalidity of the winner. Should a truly wonderful submission have won over mine, I would accept defeat with disappointment, and try again this week. Having lost to a submission that can be described (in comparison to it's betters) as utter garbage, I have lost the will to even attempt another shot at this "random" drawing, and I am certain that my desire for a beta key is greater than 99% of the contestants who participated. Perhaps I should just think of as many stupid jokes as I can, then put one of each in each submission, and just send in like 300 entries. Would probably take about as much time as my original submission, and increase my odds of winning by about 3%.
Good luck to all in this week's competition, you're going to need it. Make sure you leave your brain at the door with your shoes and coat.
Gosukusan, the art is great, I said it before, as I explained, the problem is that you can do the same in any print, transforming some part in the "world zelda".
Gosukusan, the art is great, I said it before, as I explained, the problem is that you can do the same in any print, transforming some part in the "world zelda".
This does not apply. It doesn't matter if you can achieve a distant similarity with any print, the same could be said about EVERY submission. You cannot transform a part of the world into an original art. You can transform part of the world into what is obviously a filtered result that resembles the original print, but that doesn't make it generic, and that is obviously not what was done. Everything in my "transformation" was achieved by hand drawing items that do not exist in the original print. FILTERS CANNOT CREATE ORIGINAL WORK. Yes, you can get a drastically altered version of the original through a variety of techniques, but that is not what I submitted. I don't know how else to explain it. Again, for clarification, filtering a torn up, stylistic, and semi-photo-realistic rug cannot, and will never, result in a near exact, heavy contrast, vibrant color replica of the magic carpet with Aladdin and Jasmine riding it. Nor can skeleton bones be transformed into hand drawn and accurately and dynamically shaded grass, nor can an evil face be transformed into a happy one with a tongue sticking out, nor can a corpse be turned into a person smelling a flower.
u mad bro?
Generic? Do you know what that word means?
"Having no particularly distinctive quality or application"
Please explain where my submission lacked a distinctive quality or originality on the basis of the entirety of the idea itself, and I am very much looking forward to your explanation of how it is not properly applicable.
The work is an original interpretation of a cell-shaded and and "innocent" environment in comparison to what exists in the original screenshot. No "printscreen" is capable of such an outcome. You cannot filter a picture and give it wholly original properties. That response is ignorant. Obviously you can give a photo-realistic work the appearance of something animated, but that is OBVIOUSLY not what has occurred in my submission. If you claim it is so easy and generic, please, take some time and show me what you can do using the original screenshot and whatever filtering techniques you have at your disposal. Then, proceed to ignore the premise of the submission itself, as you have passed it off as a generic idea. Were the 30% of submissions that I didn't see all exactly like mine? I was not aware that someone had used that idea to great effect, and that I had simply stolen it and made it more appealing to a less privileged level of the masses, much like a generic drug or cosmetic product. I was not aware that my idea lacked any semblance of creativity. Cell shaded and child-oriented, dynamic transformation of a dark and violent game via a special bomb thrown by a well-known character who personifies said basis to a great degree? You're right, that is just so generic! lol
But I digress, my post was not meant to argue the validity of my submission; it was meant to accuse the invalidity of the winner. Should a truly wonderful submission have won over mine, I would accept defeat with disappointment, and try again this week. Having lost to a submission that can be described (in comparison to it's betters) as utter garbage, I have lost the will to even attempt another shot at this "random" drawing, and I am certain that my desire for a beta key is greater than 99% of the contestants who participated. Perhaps I should just think of as many stupid jokes as I can, then put one of each in each submission, and just send in like 300 entries. Would probably take about as much time as my original submission, and increase my odds of winning by about 3%.
Good luck to all in this week's competition, you're going to need it. Make sure you leave your brain at the door with your shoes and coat.
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This does not apply. It doesn't matter if you can achieve a distant similarity with any print, the same could be said about EVERY submission. You cannot transform a part of the world into an original art. You can transform part of the world into what is obviously a filtered result that resembles the original print, but that doesn't make it generic, and that is obviously not what was done. Everything in my "transformation" was achieved by hand drawing items that do not exist in the original print. FILTERS CANNOT CREATE ORIGINAL WORK. Yes, you can get a drastically altered version of the original through a variety of techniques, but that is not what I submitted. I don't know how else to explain it. Again, for clarification, filtering a torn up, stylistic, and semi-photo-realistic rug cannot, and will never, result in a near exact, heavy contrast, vibrant color replica of the magic carpet with Aladdin and Jasmine riding it. Nor can skeleton bones be transformed into hand drawn and accurately and dynamically shaded grass, nor can an evil face be transformed into a happy one with a tongue sticking out, nor can a corpse be turned into a person smelling a flower.
Are you serious?