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Exactly. There is no reason for the shortage of promoted content except somebody wants to slowly kill off the entire front page idea, and if that's the case I wish they'd just get it over with. At least let such a cool publication go out with dignity.
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Jan 26, 2018 18:53
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Harveygod posted:Yeah, that's what I was referring to. I'd offer to it, but I don't know what "it" entails. It's what brought me to the forums and motivated me to learn Photoshop. The few times one of my edits made it into the article felt really cool. That's awesome and I cannot name how many similar stories I've heard. LOTS of people came to this site for Photoshop Phriday, and while admittedly the great Fark wars are long past it isn't as though the social web no longer runs on manipulated images (and people still call the whole field "photoshop" despite all the other ways to manipulate photos that exist now). There are admittedly fewer threads in circulation but I think 1/week is still possible. As to what the job entails exactly I have no idea, but with multiple curators I'm sure it could be made volunteer-friendly. Many hands make light work. Will anyone else volunteer to group-curate new Photoshop Phridays?
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Jan 26, 2018 19:57
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That's not how publishing and entertainment business models work. Putting out anything at all is almost always better than putting out nothing because the appearance of continuity is as valuable or even more valuable than consistent quality. I know that sounds wrong but it's really important in entertainment. You know that old saw "the show must go on?". That's not just a pick-me-up for the actors, it's the core of the business. And nothing screams "fuckwit from the 90's" like an "of the day" or "once a week" feature that hasn't been updated in years. Put on anything before you put on dead air.
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Jan 27, 2018 17:16
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There is still really funny stuff happening on the forums, especially in the galaxy of subforums. We just aren't promoting it right. The front page could be shined up beautifully, if it had even a little support, from somewhere.
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Jan 28, 2018 04:51
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Pick posted:A lot of people genuinely liked the front page even though they didn't want or ever get accounts. I have, no poo poo, got real jobs because of the front page. I've worked for giant gaming companies, I've worked on feature films, but none of that impressed people as much as my SA portfolio. I'm with Pick, there's something utterly special about the front page even to people who don't know about us otherwise.
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Feb 2, 2018 02:51
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Hey everybody, over in BYOB we have a fun Valentine's day Photoshop thread going that I think could be an excellent candidate for a Phriday article. If you can find the time to contribute it would be much appreciated. Let's not let this go without a fight!
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Feb 9, 2018 08:00
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Lowtax tells me it's a priority, he's just going through medical stuff. I'm trying to get him to delegate more but it's tough when we're all-volunteer like this. Just know somebody IS working on it, the big cheese is just stubborn.
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Mar 7, 2018 19:24
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Okay! After several years of campaigning Lowtax has finally assigned me to resurrect Phridays. It's a learning process, but I'm excited and I mean to take it as seriously as such a goofy, goofy job can be taken. If anybody has recent photoshop threads they want to see featured, please PM me links or post them here. I'm trying my best to scour the forums but there's no way I'll catch everything by myself every week, so your help will be integral to reviving this feature just in time for our 20th anniversary!
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Sep 25, 2018 04:48
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Harveygod posted:Coincidentally, the last Phriday was the 2017 annual nightmare thread, which I think already started for this year. This is a fantastic idea and we're gonna go for it. In the meantime I'm going to try and feature Banker even though it's not current because holy poo poo was it funny.
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Sep 25, 2018 19:38
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Well, despite my best efforts there will not be a Phriday this week due to technical issues. I sincerely hope we can pull it together for next week though (assuming Lowtax is still alive, here's hoping). Thanks for your patience everybody.
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Sep 28, 2018 04:45
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Pardon the triplepost but here it is.
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Oct 5, 2018 17:48
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King Lazer posted:
Yeah, I'm unhappy with that aspect too but it's a matter of a very specific file format Lowtax wants and it not playing nice with monochrome (plus people made a lot of tiny originals). We've already spoken about it and I'm trying some fixes before the next installment.
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Oct 6, 2018 13:37
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Banker part 2 is up. As long as y'all are okay with a loose definition of "published on Fridays" I think I can keep this going despite bad rural internet. Not much I can do about losing power in snow storms though. Fingers crossed!
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Oct 13, 2018 04:42
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SPOOKCORE MEGGIDO posted:Nice work. Thanks! I'm trying to get part three of Nancy up today and then next week is Nightmare house, but it all depends on Lowtax actually answering his texts. Assuming that all happens this may be my next target!
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Oct 26, 2018 18:23
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Well thank you. Days like today, where I've been sitting on a new article for two weeks and still can't publish because of technical problems with this rickety legacy website, they are frustrating. It's good to know y'all are interested, if you'll also stay patient I'll be even more blessed.
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Oct 27, 2018 16:00
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Dogs in paintings is absolutely in the que! But right now the issue is finally ironing out technical issues so we can hit the haunted house thing tomorrow. And it's not going well hahaha 
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dreadmojo posted:Did you get hold of Lowtax? Nope! And I really tried too. But I'm not out yet, I'm going to try and put up FearFactory'18 this Friday and just not give a poo poo it's early November. I even have a third and fouth Banker.bmp completely curated and written. They're just collecting dust, waiting for the tax man to get out of his own drat way. Art is impossible without patience, mi amigos. We gotta wear him down... Edit- Also here's the tote bags I designed for the 20th anniversary drive we're supposed to be having right now. Lowtax is so distracted by his medical bills he can't be bothered to raise money for his medical bills.   We went through three revisions on these and he was very specific about his wants. Then he disappeared. Not my easiest client, I'll tell you that. BoldFrankensteinMir fucked around with this message at 03:47 on Nov 8, 2018 |
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Pardon the double post but a couple people have expressed concern to me privately about the level of frustration I've displayed here regarding the difficulties we're having. And they make a good point- I do not want to burn my bridges here. If anybody (the boss man included) is genuinely offended pm me and we'll hash it out. I'm a reasonable guy who sometimes shoots his mouth off inappropriately, I'm not unaware of that. But I've given a lot of thought and this tact really is justified and necessary. And I'll tell you why. I've been hunting down Lowtax for three years to put this plan into motion. Only in the last eight months or so have I actually made any concrete progress and even then it had been uphill all the way. Bizarre text conversations, weird phone messages, constant assurances that something will happen and then abandonment, and all along the way there are these festering nuggets of toilet humor that seem somehow designed to simultaneously repel and endear. Like some of the jokes he tells in private make me want to throw up they're so vile, but after a while I figured them and him out. It's just the language old R-Low the Bastard Legend chooses to express himself in, and I can either accept that and play ball or go home defeated. And I'm not defeated yet. I know it seems backwards or rash for me to light a fire under Lowtax's rear end with sharp ribbing and abuse but I honestly think that's how this dude works. If there's some deficit of disrespect here by all means correct it- I'll absorb whatever barbs I have to, that's perfectly fine. But from what I've learned in a career defined by working with strange, unusual or difficult clients, if I'm not willing to box in the same weight class as the maniac I'm trying to push forward then my chances of actually getting then through their own obstacles is slim. Lowtax is a ridiculous, abusive, difficult, confusing jerk who makes everything harder than it should be. I don't think we would recognize him any other way. All my instincts tell me to step up and meet him at his own game- outlandish, inappropriate energy that borders on abuse but keeps you interested. If I've miscalculated, which is very possible, then oh no I lose a pro-bono gig that is causing me no small amount of headaches right now. I'll survive that encounter. Considering how what I'm trying to do here is help a sick man pay his hospital bills he literally might not. So yeah, I know I'm being curt in this thread. It's a calculated move, and again, anybody who thinks I'm off the mark feel free to pm me, I welcome alternate theories and ideas. If the Taxman himself is offended I'll be pretty drat shocked but so be it. These are the rules to his game not mine. But I still intend to win.
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Cool man, thank you. I feel ya, it's been a hell of a year for me too. If this poo poo was easy everyone would do it.
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I think everybody is cool at the moment. When I am done with work today, Lowtax and I will get the Phriday uploded. One step at a time, thanks everyone for your patience and good humor. You guys are gonna go insane at Banker 3's crescendo, I can not loving wait.
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Nov 8, 2018 22:37
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Bam.
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Nov 9, 2018 12:14
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Dogs in paintings is excellent. Is it goldmined yet? I waited until then to cut off submissions for the last one but that was arguably too long- and I still have the end of banker waiting. I'd like to use that while it's still even remotely relevant, but I understand if you guys want "phresher" phridays?
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Nov 14, 2018 01:42
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dreadmojo posted:There are still a few subs coming in but I think a gbs mod could give last call before the goldmine and close it off in a few days maybe? That would work. I have a lot on my plate this week already so I'll do banker three, if over the weekend dogs in paintings is goldmined that gives me several days to squeeze in work on it before posting. And everybody got a chance to contribute, we have no reason to hurry that much. And speaking of no hurry, eventually we also have to visit the world of newspaper Spiderman edits. One occaisional article can cover six months of that thread, which is like two days in the strip continuity, it'll be great.
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Banker 3 is live. I'm really interested to see what the reception is, I went all-in.
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Sorry folks no Phriday this week, the holiday ended up with me even further away from civilization than usual and big image uploads just are not working. I'm lucky I can still post at all Happy Turkey day y'all, be back soon!
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Ferrule posted:I just wanna bump this. There's been a ton of goldmined photoshop threads the last 3 months. If you need any help just ask. I know it's daunting. Oh man that would be fantastic, thank you. Here's where we're at: because of technical problems (I live in the country and can't get a static IP address) I have to get Lowtax to manually enter permissions for me every time I want access to the front page. And he is very very busy so that has proven infuriatingly difficult- I tried and failed every single week of December to post a Phriday. I'm a hard-headed, obstinate gently caress but even I have my limits, and I'm at them. If anybody who has a static IP (probably everyone but me) wants to post Phridays I will gladly assist with curating, watermarks, comments, basically anything except the actual data transfer which is just stupidly out of my reach. We'll have to get you signed up with Lowtax but it should only be a one-time deal and then it'll just work... in theory.
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What are some recently goldmined Pshop threads people have liked? Poor dogs in paintings never got in but we must soldier on.
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King Lazer posted:I liked the Adventure Hog thread. Adventure Hog is the current focus and I hope to have it done this week, I'm slammed at work. There are no rules at this point but I made the call to move on from dogs in paintings because I just didn't find it that funny. You may find my curation of Adventure Hog similarly harsh, I've already cut out all the 'shops that are just more cute animals joining the fun or have little tiny blurry boats in the background. Lowtax has been really specific that these are supposed to be funny first, so I guess that's a rule of sorts. But if you want to go back and curate dogs in paintings go for it! I'll hook you up with Mr. Pig and get you access, it would be mondo helpful.
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King Lazer posted:I'm glad the focus is on funny. It really is harder than one might think, I owe G0m and Garbageday some serious respect. I spent like an hour trying to figure out this one image of a log-flume ride from Adventurehog and eventually just had to give up, I could not figure out the joke and neither could the three people I showed it to OR Google search-by-image. Really, I learned a ton of lessons from doing Banker.bmp and I hope they'll improve this year's crop. For example I'm gonna save my art-historian bullshit for an optional last-page comments thing that always moves the conversation to "join the forums!" and I redid the watermark to use the font and logo Lowtax prefers. I'm pushing for this week, fingers crossed.
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HugeGrossBurrito posted:if you're talking about mine google kansas water slide accident. Oh, okay. Yeah, was the one, it went right over my head. Will try to get it posted after work tonight.
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Jan 18, 2019 23:09
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Cool! The Disneyland one got in I know. Duckies suffered the last round of cuts, I think? Everything's curated, I'm just waiting on access and trying to come up with comments. For the record just because I don't get a joke doesn't mean it won't get in. But I'm of the theory that if you're going to make a referencial joke you should try to make the image funny even without the reference. There weren't many bad eggs this time, but I don't mind discarding ones I don't get and are just "rowboat duck in franchise X" AND you didn't spoilertag a hint for us mere mortals, come on, help me out here... You guys are great, thank you for all the support.
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Artsygrrl posted:Should I just post write-ups of my posts here for curating purposes? Because I can list everything. I dunno, explaining all the jokes might ruin the fun. If you really care about getting into phridays just try really hard to make images that are funny whether the viewer gets a reference or not. As for 'unfunny' and 'bad egg', humor is totally subjective and I really can't give you a rubric for it. Just try to make people laugh and don't expect a low-effort image to wow anybody, we've been doing these things for what, over a decade now? I don't think I'm off base holding y'all to high expectations, especially when I'm hitting 60+ images in 8 or 9 pages for these articles. TL;DR be funny. Funny outranks everything.
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Jan 19, 2019 08:33
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None of this is me inpugning anybody in particular, mind ya.
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We could also just use this thread, I could post confusing 'shops and ask for clarification. But seriously, Phridays is aimed at general audiences. If your joke needs something explained for it to be funny, it's probably not as good as it could be.
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Jan 19, 2019 22:25
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Adventurehogs are go!
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ol yeller posted:Per admin approval, I will be handling photoshop phriday from here on out, and requests should be directed to me. Thanks for loving pupkin! Great! Here's the latest watermark:  The formatting for all images is 590 pixels wide (make sure to use best interpolation for enlarging vs shrinking, I could never get the batch function to do it right but I'm dumb) and Lowtax insists on high quality Jpgs, I do not know why but I'm sick of fighting him over it. Blue Highway is the official site font if it ever matters. Let me now if you need anything! And thank you!
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Nice piece of fish posted:Oh christ no. This is the response I was aiming for, thank you.
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A couple people have expressed concerns that I've been trolled, and that Ol Yeller is not actually taking over phridays? If that's the case then, well, good joke I guess, I don't really get it but then that's the point? ...though you could have at least made something... like just one Photoshop would have made it a substantially better troll... Anyway if there's nothing up this week I'll work on another article for next Phriday, assuming I can flag down the tax man. Or, if OY (our anybody) does want to help I'll gladly assist. Whatever it takes, you loony goons.
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