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

Comments

[yamamanama]

You're hung up over imperfections that are only noticeable in a mirror. Ones that presumably Amy and Christina and the chimera of a woman I saw on the Red Line a few years ago and a woman from a photograph somewhere don't have.

And I can't possibly go back and change the picture once I scanned it.

Digital Secretary Sophie looks bad and I don't have to mirror it or look at it upside down.

[mauser]

It's not that they're only noticeable in the mirror. I picked them up just by looking at it. The issue is that psychologically you as the creator (I hesitate to use the term artist) are too connected to the image to see them. The use of a mirror is a tool to break that connection so that you can see the defects that are plainly visible to everyone else, and LEARN from them.

I'm not asking you to change the image, just try this so that you can see what you did wrong. Why are you resisting so much? Are you afraid of what you might see?

Although that might be pointless, because you seem incapable of seeing the wrong in anything you do, you sociopath.

[yamamanama]

Ultrarealists are so mired up in technical bullshit that they lose sense of the actual artistry.

[mauser]

Postmodernist bullshit. You are just an unending stream of excuses for your own failings, aren't you?

If you can't master the tools, you can't bring out any actual artistry. The fact that you suffer from Right Hand Bias and can't recognize it shows that you can't even operate a pencil properly.

Has nothing to do with "Ultrarealism".

Or do you think that warping a figure as if she were being sucked into a black hole in the corner of the page, unintentionally, is "actual artistry"?

You're just afraid to hold up a mirror to your own art because it might show you how much you suck.

[yamamanama]

I used a ruler to mark the position of her facial features. And Sara didn't come out perfect, but it outshines anything in Drow's gallery. Especially Digital Secretary Sophia, with its laughable anatomy and weird fixation on breasts and loins.

[mauser]

Wow, you can't even draw a straight line with a ruler! How postmodern is that!

Odd that you're complaining about Sophia's anatomy when just a moment ago you were saying that a fixation on "Ultrarealism" was invalid. How'd that go? Oh yeah: "Ultrarealists are so mired up in technical bullshit that they lose sense of the actual artistry."

Seriously, I'm very impressed that you can manage to breathe and feed yourself with that level of cognitive dissonance going on inside your vacuous skull.

I'm beginning to think that you don't like breasts on women.

[yamamanama]

Humans aren't made out of straight lines. Besides, I used the ruler to give myself an idea of the features' sizes and where they were relative to each other.

Besides, Sara wasn't done with a photographic reference, she's more like a chimaera of multiple photographs.

No, I don't like large breasts. If I knew anything about cup sizes, I'd probably say something about that.

[mauser]

*snerk* more like if you knew anything about actual breasts.

Well, clearly using rulers gives you trouble, since you put poor Sara's lips on the side of her face.

Or is she actually deformed that way? If so I'm SO sorry.

[jordan179]

Humans aren't made out of straight lines.

No, they are made out of mostly-symmetrical curves. And your art isn't even remotely symmetrical, which makes your portraits look malformed.

[yamamanama]

They only look symmetrical, but not too symmetrical, when viewed head-on.

[mauser]

But they still don't have mouths in the middle of their cheeks.

[jordan179]

Why are you so obsessed with Sophia's breasts and loins?

[yamamanama]

They were meant to be the focal point of the image. What, you think Drow meant us to look at the face? Or the weird hand? Or the knees? I guess those do stand out.

[mauser]

What's wrong with looking at breasts? Many people find that to be an enjoyable activity, and pay good money for the opportunity to do so.

For a while, when I was 28, I dated a young lady who wore a 36DD bra. Actually she approached me.

When was the last time you actually laid hands on a woman? Let me amend that to add, without a violent reaction on her part.

[yamamanama]

If you're ever on the subway, try grabbing a woman's breasts and see what happens.

I'm only saying that because I think it would be hilarious if you got maced. I don't condone sexual harassment.

[mauser]

So you are saying the only way you can think of getting your hands on a woman's breasts is by grabbing them on the subway? You must be as repellent in person as you are online.

Believe it or not, women will quite willingly let a man touch their breasts if they like him enough. I'm sure that's never happened to you, but trust me, it does happen for the rest of us.

You don't condone sexual harassment, but you go online every day to harass a small minority woman. Hypocrite.