Beta Key Contest #2
Welcome to week 2 of the DiabloFans Caption Contest. Each week, we're going to have a screenshot to show and your job is to add a caption. Whether the caption be epic or completely for the lulz, we don't care! We'll choose the best one or two entries each week and they'll be granted a Diablo III Beta Key.
To edit in your caption, you can just toss this image into MSPaint or any other photo editing program, add a few thought or speech bubbles, and go to town! You can then upload your screenshot to your Gallery here on DiabloFans, or any other image sharing service you choose. This week's screenshot is...
Submissions can just be posted here and you are allowed more than one entry if you like! These will run Saturday to Saturday, every week for the next few weeks. Winners will be picked on Saturday and the next screenshot will go up.
Congratulations to Calavera666 for winning the first Beta Key caption contest.
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?