Larry Correia hits it out of the park again.

[agilebrit]

I'ma just leave this here: The Legalities of Shooting People.

ETA: Okay, I realize that everyone is having a blast smacking Clamps around like a cheap pinata, but I'm going to bow out at this point in time. I have a Sunday deadline I'm desperately trying to hit on a story that's making me crazy

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[yamamanama]

Wait, why doesn't the collage one count? For that matter, why doesn't Fiberoptic Fireworks count either? Wait a minute, how does sorting by popularity even work? I thought it would be by views and by views alone. Is it views and comments, is it views and comments over time? Girl with Pastel Hair has 248 views and 3 favorites. There's a oil pastel tree with 336 views, a mask with 372 views, a mask with 469 views,

The hips thing can be explained by simple geometry. When she took a picture of herself, she took it around head level.
The hand I messed up. I was going for bent fingers, aside from her pinkie, and didn't want to obscure the patterns on her shirt too much.

You, however, are popular because you have bondage photography. I'm like Archer regarding that stuff: I'm happier not knowing about it. It doesn't help that very few, if any, people involved with that stuff are actually attractive.

Drow's most popular image is a pregnant elf. And that's the only reason it got 37 favorites.

[mauser]

It doesn't count because you didn't draw anything. Likewise photography, which is why I didn't count any of my photographs.

Views are the number of individuals who upon seeing the thumbnail, decide to look at the full image (The same person looking more than once only counts once). I believe the popularity ranking sorts first by favorites, and then by views.

But hey, keep making excuses for the unpopularity of your art. I'm sure you can't even consider the idea that it's because it sucks.

BTW, I didn't take the bondage photographs, a friend did. I built the gear in them. I have serious metalworking, leatherworking, and woodworking skills.

Frankly, the vast majority of humanity is ugly. You just internalize most of your ugliness.

[yamamanama]

But I composed the fragments into a work of art. You might as well say a mosaic isn't art.

I know what views are! I just want to know why the images aren't actually ordered by the raw number of views.

And frankly, you're wrong about humanity.

[werewolf_hacker]

"Composing the fragments into a work of art" has nothing to do with your drawing ability, which is what's under discussion here. I do "mosaic" stuff all the time (like in this icon), and I work hard at it so it doesn't look absolutely awful, but I don't pretend it's on the same level as someone who draws their stuff from scratch.

[yamamanama]

Um, no. Collages have everything to do with artistic ability.

And that icon's not a mosaic.

[werewolf_hacker]

You have no idea what I did to that icon to make it look like that, or what the original images were.

And I didn't say "artistic" ability, I said drawing ability. Do try to keep up.

[yamamanama]

Unless you made it out of uniformly-sized particles, it's not a mosaic.

[werewolf_hacker]

Mosaic, collage, what-the-hell-ever, I do not pretend to be an artist so I'm not up on fine fucking distinctions.

But even someone like me knows that you are (once again! quelle surprise!) laughably wrong in your definition.

[yamamanama]

That is made from uniformly-sized particles. The picture in your icon... I can't tell.

[werewolf_hacker]

o.O Then you and I have vastly different definitions of "uniformly-sized."

And, looking at "collages" on google image search, I guess my icon isn't one of those either. The point (which is still aggressively sailing over your head) being, I'm not going to compare what I did with that icon in a photoediting program (no matter how many damn layers it has; I think that one has nine) to something that someone actually drew.

[yamamanama]

They're more or less uniformly sized and they are particles, which is more than can be said about your icon.

[werewolf_hacker]

You. Are still. Missing. The point. And getting wrapped up in minutia instead. I already admitted the icon is neither a mosaic nor a collage.

It doesn't take as much effort to dink around in Photoshop and, for example, add a penguin where a lion used to be, as it does to draw a picture of a guy holding a penguin and looking sad.

[yamamanama]

Have you ever actually worked on a physical collage?

[werewolf_hacker]

In high school, longer ago than you've been alive.

And gluing bits on a piece of paper in a pleasing fashion? Still not as much work as drawing/painting a good picture.

[tlknighton]

Craps seems to willfully miss points repeatedly.

That's when he's not trolling and trying to get a reaction on shit that no one really cares about.

[yamamanama]

What point? A couple of non-artists saying that collages don't take actual skill?