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Okay okay I waited like a good boy. Now can anyone help me?

What do you mean you're playing the game? That's silly! It's just I16....

Seriously though. I think I pigeon holed this toon with the name. I love the name but for some reason it's not fitting together in my head with spines/dark I guess. I can't delete him since he just hit 50 on Sunday along with my son's first 50 a spines/fire. Heck he even wrote a school report about it.

Speaking of which I need to post some of his arts. He's 11 so it's not great but I'm a dad and just about everything he does is awesome to me.

YAY ME! I'm completely random number generatorific! And Crescent Blade cannot wait to be dominated by---er cannot wait to show Jackalynn some dominat---er get it on wit---er yeah... he'll be in his bunk for now.

so where do you see the rep comments at?

That is an hilarious toon and an even funnier sketch of him.

Ok then if that's the case I totally didn't get it.
i attributed it to Lazerus' line of "Which only leads to people who don't know that they're doing something poorly until it's too late to fix it." That is probably my reading into it more than was there.

I don't like that the quick replies don't show me who they actually replied to.

Very good point. Also if you don't like the arrows and colors showing up when you do this, hit the Save Costume button and then do the above. you will have to exit back to turn, zoom etc but you will have a cleaner image.

And I completely agree with this. But one thing I think everyone forgets is that meaning and intonation do not translate over written medium very well. You may have the best intentions in your critique but they may not come across that way.

I used the "That sucks" line as an example. I never said it has happened here, though I have no doubt it has. And I think the "coughJuggerthacough" comment proves that they are out there just maybe not as blatant as "That sucks!" but the meaning is there.

Sorry i edited my post after you quoted the old one....

But why can't I have a kickass picture of superman fighting the Hulk in those styles? That's all I'm saying. It may not be cool to you and that's fine. I totally appreciate and respect that opinion. But if I had my picture done in Dadaism(I'll have to look that up later) and you said "THAT STINKS you have no right to ever do art again." Then I don't agree with nor respect that. Again that's my opinion. But if you said "Hmmm I don't think I like that style, I'd have gone such and such route." Then that's a different ballgame.

Not sure if I said it earlier or if I did and edited it out, but there's a way to approach things that are more effective. I don't always expect people to agree with me or like me or my opinion. I do hope they respect it though and don't bash me for it. Probably I have too much hope that people can be decent. I do know, that as a general rule, they don't as witnessed on many internet forums, even these. It's why I tend to lurk instead of contribute. Oh but I will agree that you said "in the proper context" and I think that is what a lot of people forget.

I understand what you are saying about the long established techniques and agreed upon perspective etc etc. But to say there is only one right way to do that is a little silly, to me. Look around you. How much around you is the same? Not saying there aren't things but in nature things are not identical. The rules aren't always set in stone. It's art. It's subjective. For the most part I don't see anything on this site that is being done for an anatomy text book. I forget now but one person did ask for critiques on a project for their art class recently and even I put in a comment or two. But interestingly a lot of the critics saw different things that were "problems". That's odd. If there is only one set of rules, why didn't they all only see the same things as wrong? Because they are human and only certain things bothered them while others didn't.

Sorry. I'm not sure why this subject has affected me so when I am not directly affected by any of the critiques and praise parades here. I do deal with this daily at my job. I work in a photo studio and we have some Art Directors that gives us info and then hate everything we do. While others never change a thing. But of the ones that change everything, only a few convey their dislike in a fashion that is off-putting. While others can have things changed a hundred times and it's not an issue.

I guess what I took out of that was when you interact with people try to be polite and decent. I can critique something without being a jerk. Plain and simple. Some things i don't critique because I'm not at all an authority on something. I will praise something that I like because I AM an authority on what I like.

It's funny to me when I see someone look at an art piece and say "Well this is wrong and you should have done this or that." What if that artist WANTED it that way. I'm pretty sure some people didn't immediately look at Picasso's work and say "OH WOW That's an awesome place to put an eye!" BUT I guarantee you that SOME did say that.

I think I've gotten myself off-track. Criticism is different from critiquing something. When you criticize something, in my mind, you are basically just pointing out negatives. Critiquing something involves suggestions on how you would go about doing something differently. Criticism is unsolicited and critiques are usually solicited or inferred as a solicitation.

The "praise parades" that go on here are because people like what they like. Maybe it's the artist they like as a person. Maybe it is the style, color or whatever. But they like it. And usually it's easier to point out the things they like. Maybe, just maybe, they can over look the flaws they see because the positives they see out weigh them. If I came in every day and had a post about the things I didn't like that day, soon a lot of people would just quit listening to anything I said. Some of you probably have already.

Also my mom never used the "Honesty is the Best Policy" line. She knew sometimes it was better for someone to NOT know something than for it to cause uneeded damage to that person. Sometimes all it takes is a snide comment for someone to have their world crushed. That happens daily and she and I don't feel we need to add to it. So we keep our mouths closed, put our hand out and do what we can when we can.

It's late and I'm really really babbling now. Plus I realize I'm talking to the internet where anything I say can and will be twisted into some crazy thing like "PowerStream endorses eating puppies and kitties." Quote me on that please.

Well I guess based on that review:

"With that in mind, even if you like the look of the Core i5-750, you really should decide whether you can stretch to an i7-920 as things currently stand, just to make sure you're getting a good deal. Either way, our advice is to go out and buy a Core i7-920 before Intel realises its mistake and discontinues it."

I should look at the i7-920. Thanks Neo.

I'd have to agree. The effect Torroes is coming up with looks more like a Saturday cartoon than the poster effect to me. I really like the look of both but I can see where he's going with his look now and can't wait to see more.

Mouse, the caption on your poster cracks me up though!