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Elementary Shoppin – Nova’s Guide To Decent Header Banners
I was quite pleased when my IRC client’s aggregator finally reported a new post on OEG. I was getting worried that the guys had already called it quits. Anyway, the latest OEG round made me uncomfortably aware of how full of fail some blogs are in regards to their visual appearance. Now, as a fellow nerd I do understand that the external appearance might not always be the priority no.1 to a whole lot of you, but some blogs just have so inexcusably bad header images that something has to be done about it. Thus I decided attempt helping my fellow bloggers make their sites look better. Unfortunately I don’t know jack about webdesign, CSS and shit like that (I count on JTFish on that), so my only option was to share the little knowledge I have in making decent-looking header banners.
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Image Site Rage Act III – Failing, are they? Failing, are they? Well, let ‘em fail!
It’s been a couple months since I last posted my shitlist and I think it’s time to once again take a look at what the winter has brought to us avid consumers of online image sites. Broken English, zoom layers, horrific extraction and one-click texture effects welcome you to the wonderful world of anime-themed wallpapers once more!
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Image Site Rage Act II – Full Spectrum Fail
Time to post some continuation to my previous rant on how some people just don’t get it when it comes to posting anime-themed high-res art and wallpapers. The post racked a surprising number of views so I decided to keep saving all kinds of horrors I encountered since then and round them up for a Hall of Shame-post. Now I believe the time is right to check out some monstrosities that ended up on my hard drive. Let’s start off the shallow end with some basic screwups from moe.imouto and konachan.
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Lernin 2 Booru – How to Not Look Like a Twat on Image Sites
This is why we can’t have nice things. Also note the tag.
People, I don’t know what you’re thinking when you upscale a random H-game CG, proceed to upload it onto a danbooru-type site of your choice (ignoring each and every uploading rule and guideline) and call it a wallpaper. I honestly do not. But nevertheless I see it happen all the time no matter how any reasonably sane person should be able to understand what can or should be uploaded onto a specific site and what can / should not. No matter how clearly the guidelines and rules are stated, it seems that people just don’t get it. So for the good of public education and welfare I composed this handy post for you to refer to whenever you decide to make a moron out of yourself on a booru.
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