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Nice yarn. Maybe you should make a thread about it. (That joke is dumb I'm sorry lol) Twenty Four fucked around with this message at 08:03 on May 3, 2017
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alnilam posted:Hi there BYOB I did enjoy it thanks!
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# ? May 3, 2017 07:34 |
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alnilam posted:
Holy poo poo. You sound like A.C. Newman but better. |
# ? May 3, 2017 07:54 |
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Fanky Malloons posted:Hi BYOB! I am not a talented poster, which pains me, but luckily I have this other thing I do that I'm p okay at and which I will humbly share with you, since we're having a pageant and all. I love all of these, but the bear is my favourite, especially the way the simple shape and the colouring makes it look like a medieval picture. I would pay for this!
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Fanky Malloons posted:Edit: IDK If was supposed to sign up beforehand somehow?? I just got real excited to post, so here we are, sorry if I'm doing things wrong cda!! You were, but I don't care if you sign up now. Do you want to be in the pageant? We still have swimsuit, evening wear, and questions to go. ---------------- |
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# ? May 3, 2017 22:14 |
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for my talent, it's 3D. 3d stands for "three dimensions", but what good is it? well you can do all kinds of stuff with 3d, but for byob, i use it to make avatars. i even noticed that one poster in this very thread didn't have an avatar so as a demonstration of my talent and my kindness i made hockey jockey an avatar |
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posting smiling posted:for my talent, it's 3D. 3d stands for "three dimensions", but what good is it? well you can do all kinds of stuff with 3d, but for byob, i use it to make avatars. i even noticed that one poster in this very thread didn't have an avatar so as a demonstration of my talent and my kindness i made hockey jockey an avatar wow, three dimensions what will they think of next! what an nice av |
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posting smiling posted:for my talent, it's 3D. 3d stands for "three dimensions", but what good is it? well you can do all kinds of stuff with 3d, but for byob, i use it to make avatars. i even noticed that one poster in this very thread didn't have an avatar so as a demonstration of my talent and my kindness i made hockey jockey an avatar That is incredible! I don't have a credit card right now so I will save it for later
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# ? May 3, 2017 22:45 |
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hockey jockey posted:That is incredible! I don't have a credit card right now so I will save it for later you don't have to actually use it unless you want to, but if you do like it i can hook you up with a av cert |
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I really do like it and will use it when I get a CC sorted out- I would feel a bit embarrassed to have it otherwise!
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hockey jockey posted:I really do like it and will use it when I get a CC sorted out- I would feel a bit embarrassed to have it otherwise! You are good and excellent, and if someone offers you an av cert, you shouldn't hesitate to use it!
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cda posted:You were, but I don't care if you sign up now. Do you want to be in the pageant? We still have swimsuit, evening wear, and questions to go. Yes! (Sorry for breaking the 1 post per participant rule)
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These are lovely, you are a great person. You have the perfect voice for a grilled cheese commentary and this had the double benefit of entertaining me like you wouldn't believe and also making me want a grilled cheese. vanisher posted:I make gifs sometimes they aren't always great good luck other contestants If we're doing Simon Cowell references I like to think of myself as the equivalent of the chicken farmer doing a falsetto cover of Barbie Girl by Aqua Incredible, that's so good that you can spend time doing something so awesome, everyone's so creative! These are nice, I like the way you layer colour, that skull is rad. posting smiling posted:for my talent, it's 3D. 3d stands for "three dimensions", but what good is it? well you can do all kinds of stuff with 3d, but for byob, i use it to make avatars. i even noticed that one poster in this very thread didn't have an avatar so as a demonstration of my talent and my kindness i made hockey jockey an avatar |
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Reminder that you have until TONIGHT AT MIDNIGHT EST to post your talent Remember -- any score is better than no score, so if you don't have a talent, just do something untalented. Once upon a time a guy called Rich Kyanka did exactly that, and look at him now: owner of the world's most exclusive web forums. The following participants have posted a talent: 1.munchables - filmmaking 2. vanisher - gifmaking 3. alnilam - music 4. posting smiling - av/gifmaking 5. MrWillsauce - grilledcheesemaking 7. pig slut lisa - music 8. fanky maloons - art 10. eugene v. dabs - weaving 12. hockey jockey - crochet 15. They Might Be - music 16. N. Senada - music 17. HotSoapyBeard - boat captaining The following participants have yet to post their talent: 6. Manifisto 9. farg 11. Hogge Wild 13. Android Blues 14. King of the Beach 18. lmbo calrissian If I missed anyone, let me know. cda fucked around with this message at 16:02 on May 5, 2017 ---------------- |
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Many of you are familiar with Madison, the Official BYOB Dog: My wife and I welcomed Madison (Maddie for short) into our home in February 2014. I still remember posting my first BYOB thread about our struggles to get this nervous newcomer to make her first pee in front of our building, and the encouragement I received from Haam and Dotcom Jillionaire and alnilam and others. My wife and I fell instantly and deeply in love with this fuzzy little tailwagger who had come to us from a neglected home. One of the things I didn't realize until I got a dog is that occasionally--especially when it's past midnight and the dog is sleeping on the floor next to your feet--you'll look at her and be struck by the realization that you've just acquired a best friend whom you're going to see die (and maybe have to put down yourself). We got Maddie when she was 6 years old, and she's a very healthy dog, but even so...that day is coming, and I can't stop my brain from thinking about it sometimes. It was around this time that Jimmy Fallon left Late Night for the Tonight Show. I've never really been a Fallon watcher but I remember seeing online his last bittersweet sketch. He had the Muppets on to help him sing "The Weight" by The Band. Something about the mixture of happiness and sadness and wistfulness and other indescribable emotions really resonated with me. I also realized that the chorous--"take a load off, Fanny", etc.--had the potential to rhyme with Maddie, about whose far off but inevitable passing I knew my wife and I would also feel a mix of bittersweet emotions. That being the case, I took it upon myself to rewrite the lyrics of "The Weight" and make them about Maddie. I also reached out to a couple local musicians I know and commissioned them to provide a backing track for the song. It's my first and only time recording a piece of solo music and it was emotional given the subject matter. I wrapped production in fall 2014, about two months before our wedding. To this day I still haven't shared it with my wife. The intention was always to have her listen for the first time after Maddie eventually leaves us, but I don't know when or even if that will happen. It could be too painful. It may come a week or a month or a year after, or never at all. It may just be a gift for Maddie and me, something that she and I alone share on those late nights when my wife has gone to sleep, the dog is snoozing at my feet, and I hum a verse or two of the song I wrote for my most special friend in all the world. All of which is to say that this is overly care and not worth your attention but it's one of the most personally meaningful things I've done so if you want to listen, I will share it. It doesn't have a name since I don't have any other songs I need to distinguish it from. From me and the Official BYOB Dog, thanks for listening. Love you little dogger |
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cda posted:Reminder that you have until TONIGHT AT MIDNIGHT EST to post your talent Apparently what I thought was my entry doesn't count. I'd be more than happy to submit a digest of the beer idea I let byob vote on / name, then created/brewed/sold kits of in a store. It's much less embarrassing than my karaoke, so let me know! edit: For those that weren't there, we put doughnuts in the mash: They Might Be fucked around with this message at 15:25 on May 5, 2017 |
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They Might Be posted:Apparently what I thought was my entry doesn't count. I'd be more than happy to submit a digest of the beer idea I let byob vote on / name, then created/brewed/sold kits of in a store. It's much less embarrassing than my karaoke, so let me know! Oh drat, it totally counts, I'm sorry! I just got mixed up with how many music entries there were. You're good. ---------------- |
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# ? May 5, 2017 16:01 |
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I would like to sign up for the the talent pagent. My talent is signing up late for talent pagents. |
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Matoi Ryuko posted:I would like to sign up for the the talent pagent. My talent is signing up late for talent pagents. are you any good at folk music refrains? you're welcome to hop in on my only living boy in new york karaoke and we can submit it together like a present to mom/dad from both of us.
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# ? May 5, 2017 16:13 |
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Tom....get your plane right on time....I know your part'll go fine... |
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Matoi Ryuko posted:Tom....get your plane right on time....I know your part'll go fine... even better, you just need to fill the middle minute and a half or so with "ahhhhh-ah-ahhh" and just one "here I ammmmm-mmmm" They Might Be fucked around with this message at 18:53 on May 5, 2017
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Matoi Ryuko posted:I would like to sign up for the the talent pagent. My talent is signing up late for talent pagents. Well, I'm sold!
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phew, out of kitty jail in time to make an entry! hello byob and thank you for this opportunity to be elected god-emperor of this forum! for my talent I am going to argue that "faking craftiness" is a thing. I am not actually particularly crafty, but with time and a certain amount of research and stubbornness I can sometimes make things that vaguely resemble what I set out to create. example #1 is some ultralight hiking gear I sewed a few years back. I got materials and patterns from online shops and made a tent (really a sort of tarp-tent with a bug net enclosure and solid floor), a sleep quilt, and a backpack. this involved marking and cutting bolts of material and a surprisingly large amount of sewing, something I'd basically never done outside of a few miserable failures in middle school home ec class. tarp tent (with just a tiny corner of the quilt visible on the floor): backpack: a few things made this harder and therefore a bit more of an achievement (to me). one is that a lot of the material I was sewing was silnylon, which is extremely slippery and thus not the easiest thing to sew, especially with small seam allowances. the other is that the sewing machine I was using was pretty basic/cheap, and thus hardly a precision instrument. this took many weeks. I got to know the seam ripper quite well. the good news (for me) is that the stuff actually works. the tent tents and the quilt quilts, I have spent a few nights in them in the wilderness, and the backpack has been used on many hikes. All this stuff is ridiculously light and the tent and quilt pack down nice and small. my other example of faux-crafting is a halloween mask I made a while ago. I got it into my head that I wanted to dress up as the Horned King from the Lloyd Alexander Prydain books (anyone remember those? anyone?), who was painted like this on the cover of the edition I had as a wee lad: to execute this concept, I bought a book called "how to make masks" by Jonni Good (which I recommend to anyone interested in such things) which discusses a versatile papier-mache technique using "shop towels" (basically very strong paper towels). I made a model of my face and head to build the mask on. I built up the features using modeling clay (and aluminum foil for the horns), then built the papier-mache mask by layering shop towels and plaster/glue over top of the clay. this took a good while, and painting the thing in a way that sort of satisfied me took a lot of coats and a bunch of trial and error. it went over pretty well on halloween, although I hadn't reckoned on what a huge pita those horns would be. walking under trees and through doorways suddenly became a huge logistical challenge. in summation, I believe I have effectively demonstrated the talents I set out to illustrate: using bullshit justifications to tie together unrelated things, and waiting until the last minute to do stuff. good luck to all the other contestants, I look forward to your concession speeches!
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hello byob posting pageant judges, audience members and fellow participants! my name is City of Glompton aka Siluvayne, and my talent is talking sexy for your listening pleasure I have recorded a monologue called Quiche Isn't Sexy: in case you're not convinced, another example of my talent resides in the byob goldmine, where I read Math Debater's post, Prisons are Sexy: thank you for your consideration
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e: somehow this ate the start of my post where I said nice things about the other entries too. they were really great! N. Senada posted:Hello and thank you for your time. I love acoustic guitar HotSoapyBeard posted:Hello there my name's HotSoapyBeard nice to meet you. what can I say but wow, that is soothing Eugene V. Dabs posted:oh hi so. i'm bad at participation and just noticed this so participation is definitely not my talent hahah! omg make me clothes ok? Fanky Malloons posted:Hi BYOB! I am not a talented poster, which pains me, but luckily I have this other thing I do that I'm p okay at and which I will humbly share with you, since we're having a pageant and all. fanky malloons you are very talented! alnilam posted:Hi there BYOB alnilam this is beautiful, it's stuck in my head now (in a good way). let's do a duet Munchables posted:Here are some things I made that don't have a lot of revealing personal info: very cool! posting smiling posted:for my talent, it's 3D. 3d stands for "three dimensions", but what good is it? well you can do all kinds of stuff with 3d, but for byob, i use it to make avatars. i even noticed that one poster in this very thread didn't have an avatar so as a demonstration of my talent and my kindness i made hockey jockey an avatar excellent and I would expect nothing less from you pig slut lisa posted:Many of you are familiar with Madison, the Official BYOB Dog: you sir are a master Manifisto posted:phew, out of kitty jail in time to make an entry! that is a very handy talent and I am impressed!
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it's very cool to see all the designs you can make with crochet. i love the little bears. can't say i've heard of this before, but you seem very good at it. nice. that's a good song. this one is giving me stage fright. i like how the clipping in the cthulu one makes it sound like you're being accompanied by an angry beast. that's a rad boat, it must be fun to drive. that's an incredible skill. those machines look very complicated. these have a very cool look. i especially like the skull one. this sounds really good. is the sort of bass drum sound from stomping your foot? the explosions one is a visceral aural experience. that's way over my head, op, but it seems like it deserves a trophy or a medal at least. best one yet. loved every second. that mask is cracking me up. the camping gear is rad too. camping is rad. nice. i never thought about quiche like that before, but now i'm thinking about it a lot. |
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^^what they said, sorry i haven't replied to every one cause i mostly phone post these days but I've really looked at or listened to each entry and really enjoyed them all thank u all it's like when you come to a thread and youre like "pretend i empty quote the whole thread" |
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HI im King of the Beach and for my Mx. BYOB Talent submission I decided to share something ive been getting into increasingly over the past few months... I like to take snaps of things...in particular birds, landscapes, skies, really anything that calls to me and asks to be digitally immortalized on the netcloud rather than simply be just a brief, random, lost and/or absurd convergence of space and time that happens to be aesthetically pleasing to someone (me) for my submission i give u this sampling: now that its nice again im planning on branching out some more and exploring new places on my motorcycle to chill at, wander around, observe and just snap away as i please...so far im really enjoying this and look forward to where it takes me, stay tuned~
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Hey byob and pageant queens, I am an abstract artist and I've been interested in so in high school. My talent is that I make multicolorful animal portraits - not just animals or just portraits, but to narrow down a single thing that I can do that's presentable, I guess its this. Anyway I started in HS in painting class when we first did "pointillism", and ever since I carried some of it bc I think its nicer than mixing paints, which is why I'm not trying to work in art rn. I made animal portraits as gifts for friends, whether its their pet, or an animal I think represents my friend's personality, cause I like animals and they're naturally a subject that allows for the most explosion of color while having dynamic shapes. You can argue plants but This is a pug wearing a scarf, his name was T-Bone and he was my friend's pug. This was done with acrylic I think, and tried to go for a chinese lion-esque, psychedelic feel These are my latest, a deer in crayola I did this week, and a work in progress ibis like bird in paints. They make for very personal sentiments as gifts and suppose they represent my personality, and gayness. Is that byob? Is fun tho! lmbo calrissian fucked around with this message at 05:04 on May 6, 2017 |
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Matoi Ryuko posted:I would like to sign up for the the talent pagent. My talent is signing up late for talent pagents. Hmm. Alright, let's see it. Now, this competition's rules are rather lackadaisically implemented, sure. But basic causality says you cannot participate in a contest before you join it. The talent portion is ongoing, but your talent demonstration post can't occur before you actually entered the contest. So in order to fulfill your talent, you will either have to find another talent pageant and through your determination, charm, and sheer talent at the process, enter it late and show you have a valid entry. I look forward to seeing how you hoodwink them! |
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hockey jockey nails the first entry in the talent contest with an entry that displays both craftmanship and a big heart. I particularly liked all the crocheted foods, and Goldilocks is adorable. I gotta say this also speaks to me as a teacher; I've made a large collection of Shakespearean-character sock puppets to teach Shakespeare plays over the years for when we do in-class readings. The fact that these are being done to help out little kids who are working with English as a second language is also a huge plus. My Score: 10/10 ---------------- |
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MrWillsauce's entry showcases a mix of comfort and controversy. Nothing could be more BYOB than making a grilled cheese sandwich and the presentation is, in this judge's opinion, extremely chill. I appreciate the talent it took to make a grilled cheese with only one hand while filming with the other hand, and also Willsauce's ability to keep the patter going. I would listen to the audio of this video just to relax. At the same time, grilled cheese is a controversial subject and I have to say that, for this judge, Willsauce fucks it up majorly. First: low heat? What the hell is that about? If you butter the bread properly you don't have to worry. Which brings me to second: you didn't butter the bread? You just butter the pan? Dude. You got to butter the bread. And while we're at it. Three: what in the world kind of bread is that? Sourdough? Some sort of janky white? For this traditionalist, you go Wonderbread or else you go home. If you're going to get fancy get loving fancy, not this weak rear end Publix bullshit. Four: cheddar? Cheddar? Nuff said. Finally, in case you haven't watched the video, here's what the grilled cheeses look like when they're supposedly ready to eat: No sir. No thank you. If the talent is making instructional videos, I think Willsauce has a future. But I'm not letting him anywhere the gently caress near my bread and cheese until he gets reeducated. My score: 8.9/10 cda fucked around with this message at 14:01 on May 6, 2017 ---------------- |
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They Might Be gives us our first music entry. At first for a moment I thought he played the instruments too, but it's just the singing. First, I want to say that taste is an underappreciated part of talent, and TMB picked a really great song here, a kinda deep cut in the S&G catalog. I also like the ambition: setting yourself up against two of the all-time great singers of folk is a ballsy move. I think TMB has a really appealing voice and pulls it off. It's not professionally polished in any way and it's not always exactly in tune especially on those high notes, but it is not hard to listen to. My score: 9.3/10 cda fucked around with this message at 14:01 on May 6, 2017 ---------------- |
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# ? May 6, 2017 13:55 |
Like Willsauce, vanisher decided to go with a traditional BYOB talent: gifmaking. When you're going traditional, what matters is nailing the details, which is where Willsauce had some challenges. Here, I think vanisher hits all their marks. The animation is smooth, the images are well-composed, there's a nice lil visual joke in there with the SECRET JUDGE being called "NOT LOWTAX," and the modesty at the end is both very BYOB and extremely sneaky. The SECRET JUDGE image at the beginning looks like he wasn't cropped properly though and I'm not quite sure why Fluffie is lit from the back but the other three aren't. Those are minor quibbles, but like I said, when you're doing traditional arts, every detail matters. My Score: 9.7/10 ---------------- |
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Our second musical entry is a threefer: guitar-playing, singing, and songwriting. The quality of the recordings isn't very good, which I'm not holding against the contestant, but it does make it a little more difficult to judge the first entry because the vocals are low in the mix so I think I missed some stuff. I really like the idea of making songs based off of Craigslist ads; I think there's a whole album concept in there, or at least a fun BYOB thread. So full points for creativity on both songs. I think the songwriting is commendable. The singing and guitar playing are just ok to me. Not actively painful, but nothing I'd like to hear twice if I didn't know the guy. As a person who likes to strum the guitar and write songs myself, but isn't and never will be very good at playing the guitar or singing, I sympathize fully. I'm not a horrible songwriter, and if only God had blessed me with a good voice and manual dexterity, I'd be pulling in the groupies right now instead of judging the Mx. BYOB Posting Pageant. It takes a lot of guts to share something like this, though. I'm assuming N. Senada knows he's not the next Art Garfunkel. So full points for courage as well. My Score: 9.3/10 ---------------- |
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HotSoapyBeard's entry is probably the least traditional talent on display. Don't get me wrong: driving a boat is a very traditional talent in the world at large, but it is not a traditional BYOB talent. But HSB manages to make it BYOB. Here are some things I liked about it: 1. He did not crash the boat into things, which is chill. 2. The boat did not sink, which is also chill. 3. For at least a year now I have not been able to read or hear the word "boat" without immediately thinking "And I was very impressed with the boats torture," because of BYOB, but this video did not make me think of boats torture, but instead, boats pleasure. 4. I liked that the guy with beard in his name has a beard. This helped me "immerse" myself in the world of boating and Become One With The Boat. Things I did not like: 1. We didn't get the tour. 2. I wanted more boat. Things which confused me: 1. I was angry about having to watch a man eat an ice cream when I could not also eat an ice cream, at that moment. 2. I was p. chill watching a man eat an ice cream. Result: It made me changry (chill + angry, let's make this a thing) My Score: 9.6/10 cda fucked around with this message at 15:33 on May 6, 2017 ---------------- |
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# ? May 6, 2017 14:26 |
Eugene V. Dabs gives us our second textile talent. I think it's cool that she makes clothes and scarfs and stuff (I guess it's warm, not cool), but the thing I was most impressed with was making the yarn in the first place because the yarn looks really good to me. It looks like it would taste good if I ate it. I'm not saying that I would eat it, unless that's ok? Maybe it's ok to eat yarn? I'm asking for a friend. I would never eat yarn, of course. [very serious voice] Yarn isn't for eating! Unless...maybe it is? One thing lacking here is the step where the yarn becomes tasty. I mean pretty. I feel like the dye-ing process is probably involved and interesting because how do you get all those flavors on the yarn? Did you roll the middle yarn around in a pile of berries? Or is the flavor artificial? I'm going to eat that yarn in a big bowl, like it was candy spaghetti. No. I'm not going to do that. That would be wrong. My Score: 9.6/10 ---------------- |
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# ? May 6, 2017 14:35 |
It was exciting to get a talent entry out of the blue like this and to be totally honest if the entry had sucked I probably would've said that registration was closed. But instead of sucking, the entry was dope. I can only speak for myself, but stuff like this is Extremely My poo poo and I would love to get a card or to make a card, that looked like any of the things on display here. I think the one that shows the most technical chops is the Freddie Lounds one; the hair does look really good and it's an interesting effect. The octopus in also very impressive. I like the bear the best though, because I like the bear's expression. I think this is a genuine talent. The jellyfish one has a few glue problems at the edges so just because I am a bastard I deducted for that. My Score: 9.9/10 ---------------- |
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# ? May 6, 2017 14:41 |
This, our third musical entry is guitar playing + singing, but not songwriting. I hadn't heard the original, though, so I listened to it, and I have to say I really like the way that alnilam chose to present it and fill it out with more harmonies. alnilam should get a DAW because the biggest challenge here is syncing up the harmonies, which, as he said, is just difficult to do when it's all on an external recording device. It seems to me that the rhythm is a little off at times. The guitar-playing is competent, and the singing is full of life and sweetness. The song selection was real good. My Score: 9.5/10 ---------------- |
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A video entry that's actually about the videos. That's cool. These gave me feels, remembering the videos I used to make in HS with my friends. Good times. Great times. Here's the difference though: a lot of the actual cinematography of these entries is way better than what we did, so there was actual thought put into that stuff, which I like seeing. The Bullying one didn't work for me though because 1) fake punches 2) too much emphasis on the guy just walking around being a dick in a stereotypical bully way. I think it would be better if the bully did other things, like posting PISS rear end in one of my threads, or laughing at me because I don't know the difference between the Nets and the Mets (they're both New York teams, right? What's the difference?) To conclude: the bully should do real stuff that really happens to me, because then I could relate more and you wouldn't have to fake the punches. The pain could be real, and forever. My Score: 9.1/10 ---------------- |
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