February 22, 2004, 18:12
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Originally posted by Asher
I like CGI fantasy landscape over crappy art that looks like it was drawn on a napkin with crayons. 
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I'd put it this way:
I like anything over crappy art that looks like it was drawn on a napkin with crayons.
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February 22, 2004, 18:18
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Originally posted by monolith94
Apparently, Asher has a compulsion, bordering on the obsessive, to praise and hold in adulation, all of Earth's most boring things.
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Look at your desktop and tell me how that is anything but boring. 
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February 22, 2004, 18:19
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Here's mine. State of the art Win98 with taskbar on auto-hide.
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Are you a philosophy student at the UdM?
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February 22, 2004, 18:20
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Win 2000... still not ready to commit to XP, as was mentioned above, not sure if everything I've got is supported yet. 
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If it works in 2000, it works in XP. Case closed.
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February 22, 2004, 18:33
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"Look at your desktop and tell me how that is anything but boring."
Color, composition, line, texturing, subject, everything about it is supremely aesthetic and enticing. The pure detail work makes the two dimensional aspect of the picture both paradoxical and clearly above your realm of artistic understanding.
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February 22, 2004, 18:34
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I keep on getting that message that my picture is too big. What size do you set your pictures to?
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February 22, 2004, 18:37
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Originally posted by monolith94
Color, composition, line, texturing, subject, everything about it is supremely aesthetic and enticing. The pure detail work makes the two dimensional aspect of the picture both paradoxical and clearly above your realm of artistic understanding.
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Apparently, monolith has a compulsion, bordering on the obsessive, to praise and hold in adulation, all of Earth's most boring things.
Data: 800 pixels in width is the maximum.
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February 22, 2004, 18:38
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800*600 for attachments.
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February 22, 2004, 18:39
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February 22, 2004, 18:40
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February 22, 2004, 18:42
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It's been like that for a couple weeks, but you're the first who noticed it. 
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February 22, 2004, 18:42
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Ixnay, cute! 
Thanks, folks. I did try 800 * 600. Will give it another shot.
EDIT: What is this Opera thing I saw in two or three desktops?
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February 22, 2004, 18:46
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I know I need to clean up my desktop
EDIT: Hmm when I try to resize, parts of the picture keeps on getting cut out. Ah whatever.
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February 22, 2004, 18:50
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Originally posted by DataAeolus
EDIT: What is this Opera thing I saw in two or three desktops?
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Simply the best Internet experience
(It's a browser/email client/news reader with popup blocker, spam filter and much more  )
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February 22, 2004, 18:57
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Originally posted by Oncle Boris
Are you a philosophy student at the UdM?
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No, at UQAM. I'm also teaching undergraduates.
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February 22, 2004, 19:01
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Any addresses for great desktop themes ?
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I just noticed that Asher has the Mac user group icon.
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Yeah, made me chuckle too when I noticed it
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February 22, 2004, 19:04
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The kid on the avatar looking at the symbol unhappily is just the icing on the cake.
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February 22, 2004, 19:08
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February 22, 2004, 19:21
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Nasty one!
And UT2004 demo was awesome, just downloaded it last nite.
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February 22, 2004, 19:32
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Nasty one!
And UT2004 demo was awesome, just downloaded it last nite.
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Yes, UT2004 rules. If the game lives up to what the demo promises (which I'm sure it will) UT2004 will be the best FPS DM game ever by far. I love the Onslaught mode
Oh, and as for the desktop... I figure everyone should see the lyrics to the song that guy is from, hehe.
Dr. Piranha by Dog Fashion Disco
He rose up from a toilet,
Bearing gifts and bleeding from his ass,
And from his disinfected mausoleum,
He scrubbed his hands and prepared for surgery,
Inside the operating room he screamed,
I believe this patient is already dead,
The nurse's laughter echoed through the halls,
As the doctor lit a smoke and shook his head,
I've discovered another flaw in god's sick invention,
We have built a time machine to travel through other dimensions,
The mercitron engaged the patient in,
A defenseless war against brutality,
Angered by the latest turn of events,
The doctor felt he should part company,
Upon arrival on the planet mars,
While waiting for the mothership to come,
Dr. Piranha and his faithful disciples,
In orbit searched for a baboons heart,
We are what we are,
Christ clones are imprisoned,
In slave camps on a planet of trolls,
As coal mines and tar pits,
Are filled with dead astronauts,
Malpractice in the cosmos,
The garden of stars is filled with vengeful enemies,
Assassins and hitmen eagerly await orders for research subjects to be
purchased by the highest bidder,
I will be hunted for infinity,
Detected with a DNA radar they'll watch my every move,
The voices in my head will never cease,
Mocking me over and over and over again,
We are what we are,
Christ clones are imprisoned,
In slave camps on a planet of trolls,
As coal mines and tar pits,
Are filled with dead astronauts.
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February 22, 2004, 20:41
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My current desktop craziness...
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February 22, 2004, 20:51
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I suppose I could have scaled things down a little more and not lost any detail...
Things which fail to detract attention from yourself, the job at hand, or your life are only boring if you are.
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February 22, 2004, 20:58
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Are you related to Diss??? 
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February 22, 2004, 21:02
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No, I just stole his avatar, scaled it up a bit, and put it on my desktop.
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February 22, 2004, 23:11
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this is old, but i'm too lazy to update.
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February 22, 2004, 23:14
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Hey Uber, you used digitalblasphemy backgrounds?
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Lets face it. We flamiing queers have more appeal then Pat Robertson and other religious wackos. We have shows that are really growing in popularity. We have more channels (Q TV, Logo Channel). And we help people in their style issues (Queer Eye for the Straight Guy). The last thing I saw a religious preacher did was ask for $5 in a "generous pledge" to help his bank account in Zurich, erhm, some starving kids in Zimbabwe.
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February 22, 2004, 23:25
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yeah. they rock.
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February 22, 2004, 23:26
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Lesser people like monolith don't understand the skill it takes to pull off CGI like that.
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February 22, 2004, 23:33
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CGI is certainly as valid an artform as any other, it just so happens that in its infancy, it's done little more than suck majorly. Hopefully in 10 or so years, some really interesting stuff will be done with it.
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February 22, 2004, 23:36
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I'm talking about skill. The skill it takes to pull off those beautiful images impresses me far more than color choice of crayons on napkins.
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