i think the moderators should respond to people who don't bother to compress their pictures by replacing it with a version that's been compressed to fuck, à la:
(alpacamuffalo bozzerella,
Fri 26 Oct 2012, 20:16,
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In pshop, which format image to save, uses less kbs in relation to same size pictures? And any more tips to reduce the size bar cropping, smallerness or sending the slidey bar down to Amiga levels of quality?
(robneymcplumspiced up his life on,
Fri 26 Oct 2012, 20:35,
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JPEGs are almost always the best in terms of compression ratios, unless you've got very few colours or transparency.
I find the compression wizard in PSP works better than photoshop. Try changing the colour depth as well...that might help.
(alpacamuffalo bozzerella,
Fri 26 Oct 2012, 20:46,
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I shall try this
thank you.
(robneymcplumspiced up his life on,
Fri 26 Oct 2012, 20:50,
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if you've got solid banks of colour and clear boundaries like in cartoons, use gif or png
and with png make sure you remove the alpha channel (unless you need it) and make sure it's indexed to the number of colours you want, or it'll look big and you'll join the ranks of people declaring that pngs are huge. (hint: they're not, unless you leave them with 16m colours and an alpha channel, in which case yes, yes they are.)
if you've got shading of colours and soft boundaries like in a photo, use jpg.
(Captn Hood-Butteris not dead yet.,
Fri 26 Oct 2012, 16:18,
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When, revisited
(drimblehe'd been white, he'd been black,
Fri 26 Oct 2012, 15:53,
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At least this one didn't set up a website and try to sell it.
(Doctor WhenMay your wife shat and chipper,
Fri 26 Oct 2012, 16:31,
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:D
It's Reddit you have to watch out for now, that's where the thieving cuntsprofessional creatives hang out and everything good from here ends up there
(drimblehe'd been white, he'd been black,
Fri 26 Oct 2012, 16:36,
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Thought it must have been.
Ah well...
(Captn Hood-Butteris not dead yet.,
Fri 26 Oct 2012, 16:53,
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If it's any consolation...
Yours looks more playable than mine.
(Doctor WhenMay your wife shat and chipper,
Fri 26 Oct 2012, 17:04,
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Love the idea
but I read from Go, and next square 'Squat It'... surely not chav, more pre-trust fund accommodation while going through their "difficult" political stage for the upper class and cringing "want to be alternative" middle class kids.
(@><|= w0nu!)or cunt to my friends,
Fri 26 Oct 2012, 20:51,
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(God- smiting mortals since 4004 BC,
Fri 26 Oct 2012, 15:46,
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The relentless noise of your dying dreams as you realise that suddenly you're getting older quicker and you spend every waking moment thinking about death, resulting in insomnia and the loss of all energy with which you might have a slim chance of doing something worthwhile with your life. That noise.
When the spine snaps just as you get to the vinegar thrust.
(Captn Hood-Butteris not dead yet.,
Fri 26 Oct 2012, 15:50,
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What the Fuck my tree animation was the most popular all week well beyond when the Image Challenge closed
What is it just pick your friend's images is it Happy Toast/Fraser?
I really don't know why I fucking bother.
(maidenis filmed before a live studio audience,
Fri 26 Oct 2012, 15:53,
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Not sure if you can chalk this up to HT... Don't think he writes the newsletter.
But it's a bit harsh that yours isn't in there. Was a time when the image compo was The Top Three As Voted rather than some discretionary thing like the QOTW.
(barryheadwoundMul-ti-pass? Multipass!,
Fri 26 Oct 2012, 15:59,
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It's always been the top three I've never known it to be different.
(maidenis filmed before a live studio audience,
Fri 26 Oct 2012, 16:01,
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Think lately there's been an element of subjectivity to them.
Although from my perspective it's pretty academic cos I rarely trouble the popular page these days :'o(
(barryheadwoundMul-ti-pass? Multipass!,
Fri 26 Oct 2012, 16:03,
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Oh well fuck this for a game of soldiers.
What's the point of being a b3tan if it's all for nothing? Don't bother answering that, it's time I left this site.
(maidenis filmed before a live studio audience,
Fri 26 Oct 2012, 16:08,
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I didn't know the point of challenges was to be in the top three
Nor did I know the point of posting was to be on the popular page, let alone the front page. For me that's probably a good thing since they're all well out of my fliddy reach. But then I never check the front page or the popular page and rarely pay close attention to the image challenge part of the newsletter.
I think it's all too possible to take this place too seriously.
(Ham o' Shatner-.-- --- ..- .-. / .- .-.. .-.. / --. .- -.--,
Fri 26 Oct 2012, 16:54,
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Nor is it a meritocracy
Have seen plenty of good stuff on here that barely gets any attention (I don't mean mine - I'm fully aware that most stuff I post is shit), but when a well-known name posts something it immediately garners comments and votes even if it's low in hummus. I think everything in life is like that though. It's whom you know...
(Yo 'Ho of Charliemass-market saucetrepreneur,
Fri 26 Oct 2012, 16:26,
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The whole point in the challenges is that it IS a democracy
So they shouldn't be screened by the mods at all.
(Ham o' Shatner-.-- --- ..- .-. / .- .-.. .-.. / --. .- -.--,
Fri 26 Oct 2012, 16:30,
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There was a period when " I found this I think it should win the compo "
seemed to be in the top three every week. Some of them were funny, but some were just faceswaps. I can see whoever placed 4th getting pissed off with that.
it has me scrambling for the mute button every time
(Smash Monkeylowering the tone of the whole internet,
Fri 26 Oct 2012, 16:23,
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WHY AM I NOT IN THE TOP 3!!
(prodigy69broke b3ta and made everyone leave,
Fri 26 Oct 2012, 16:30,
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OMFGWTYOAOPUTL!
Fuck yeah! I've been on here ten years, and I think that's the first time I've been in the newsletter. Frankly, I've got a semi just thinking about it.
Sorry, got a bit excited there. Just off to blow my own trumpet.
(Doctor WhenMay your wife shat and chipper,
Fri 26 Oct 2012, 16:36,
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the sound of jimmy savile fucking dead bodies
(Rattleheadall time with the gay, forever touching,
Fri 26 Oct 2012, 16:40,
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I made that Pumpkin Carving video
I carved it, filmed it(using a chair with celotaped Duplo bits to it, as a camera holder), edited it and added the sound. It should proudly be in the "What the B3ta'ns did this week" section.
If it had been made 30 years ago it would now be hailed as a classic
(drimblehe'd been white, he'd been black,
Fri 26 Oct 2012, 16:03,
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^This
Quite liked it, though didn't understand why 'Mike' had to spend his entire time in wrinkles. Also thought that they found the dead alien in the captain's chair in the first Alien film... not in an escape pod. Or maybe there's some excuse for that.
(Yo 'Ho of Charliemass-market saucetrepreneur,
Fri 26 Oct 2012, 16:36,
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I think it's probably covered off by the fact that there were 'other ships'. Like the one they left on at the end.
There's a really good bit with Mike out of Neighbours doing a seminar as a young man in the DVD extra bits. Which kind of makes more sense of him being wrinkly later.
I wondered if they were going to do some 'young' scenes... or maybe make a pre-prequel later on
I like that get-out, so that they can make the prequel plot more exciting and less predictable. I'll use it next time. "Oh yeah, it was another moon where an identical ship crashed in a similar landscape and the crew died in strikingly similar ways. Honest."
(Yo 'Ho of Charliemass-market saucetrepreneur,
Fri 26 Oct 2012, 16:45,
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The extras are worth watching.
The Weyland speech is great, although a few of the other videos are just arty bollocks.
(drimblehe'd been white, he'd been black,
Fri 26 Oct 2012, 16:47,
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Newsletter subject line compo
if you want to be in the running make sure it's funning (sorry)
(God- smiting mortals since 4004 BC,
Fri 26 Oct 2012, 15:32,
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Special Offer Inside: 25% off NYPD Roasts
(Colostomy Bag ExplosionLubing the gears of commercialism,
Fri 26 Oct 2012, 15:33,
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All aboard, all aboard, passports please
(claptonista,the idiot boy..........,
Fri 26 Oct 2012, 15:33,
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SCROLLING IN ALL DIRECTIONS MANDATORY ON IPAD MINI
(drimblehe'd been white, he'd been black,
Fri 26 Oct 2012, 15:39,
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THAT'S IT, MAVIS, WE'RE OUT OF HERRINGS!
(Smash Monkeylowering the tone of the whole internet,
Fri 26 Oct 2012, 15:39,
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in a week john terry helped win the US election
(robneymcplumspiced up his life on,
Fri 26 Oct 2012, 15:40,
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The foulest stench is in the air
The funk of forty thousand years And grizzly ghouls from every tomb Are closing in to seal your doom And though you fight to stay alive Your body starts to shiver For no mere mortal can resist The evil of Jimmy Saville
(HappyToastGroat froth,
Fri 26 Oct 2012, 15:40,
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There must have been such a good selection of stuff this week that Rob has become too overwhelmed by it to function.
(Yo 'Ho of Charliemass-market saucetrepreneur,
Fri 26 Oct 2012, 15:20,
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mmm chocolately fish!
I haven't actually compoed this yet...
I've also worked out why this was in my mind. It' because Captain Bird's Eye is in the Cadbury Bubbly advert www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nVRntpovco 40 seconds in
(barryheadwoundMul-ti-pass? Multipass!,
Fri 26 Oct 2012, 13:29,
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a traditional christmas eve to me
is having a shower, making a hot chocolate, putting my fluffiest pyjamas on, curling up in front of the telly and watching scrooged, before having an early night.
(Smash Monkeylowering the tone of the whole internet,
Fri 26 Oct 2012, 13:32,
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Awww going to bed early so that Christmas will come sooner?
(barryheadwoundMul-ti-pass? Multipass!,
Fri 26 Oct 2012, 13:33,
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no
but i know i won't get a minute's peace on christmas day, so a good sleep is essential.
(Smash Monkeylowering the tone of the whole internet,
Fri 26 Oct 2012, 13:36,
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indeed!
I do the same, and also, I make sure that I spend just as much on myself as I have spent on all others :D
(PedroHinCome along & ride on a Flantastic Voyage,
Fri 26 Oct 2012, 13:34,
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Where's MY present?
I want it NOW
(Yo 'Ho of Charliemass-market saucetrepreneur,
Fri 26 Oct 2012, 13:33,
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you'll wait till christmas day, just like everyone else!
if you're very good, you can open one small one on christmas eve. only the one, mind.
(Smash Monkeylowering the tone of the whole internet,
Fri 26 Oct 2012, 13:34,
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Booooooooooooooooooooooooooo
(Yo 'Ho of Charliemass-market saucetrepreneur,
Fri 26 Oct 2012, 13:36,
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you're going the right way for a smacked bottom
(Smash Monkeylowering the tone of the whole internet,
Fri 26 Oct 2012, 13:40,
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Fuck you Sony with your religious holiday promotions and your dead animal sofas
(hekim66 ɐʇƐ𐐒 ʞɔnℲ uooW,
Fri 26 Oct 2012, 13:32,
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have you ever tried to watch telly on a live cow?
(Smash Monkeylowering the tone of the whole internet,
Fri 26 Oct 2012, 13:33,
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Sexeh :D
(hekim66 ɐʇƐ𐐒 ʞɔnℲ uooW,
Fri 26 Oct 2012, 13:34,
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I don't like leather sofas
Not veggie or anything like that, I just find them too slidy.
(Yo 'Ho of Charliemass-market saucetrepreneur,
Fri 26 Oct 2012, 13:35,
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horrible if you're wearing a skirt
if you stand up too fast, you can leave half your leg skin behind.
(Smash Monkeylowering the tone of the whole internet,
Fri 26 Oct 2012, 13:38,
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with a dog and small child they are a god send
as they are easy to keep clean.
(Thor_sonofodinhas done things, terrible things on,
Fri 26 Oct 2012, 13:40,
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