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[What is a Photoshop Phriday?]

What is a Photoshop Phriday?

Photoshopping isn't drawing a completely new image -- It's editing images to create a new image, such as editing one image or combining several images.

Also, you don't have to specifically use Photoshop -- Paint Shop Pro, MSPaint, or any other programs can be used.

See this link:
http://www.somethingawful.com/photoshop/

And for other examples, see here:
http://www.worth1000.com/

The two above websites should give a fair idea of what is involved.

Also, make sure your image doesn't exceed the width of the screen -- If it does, I will delete it.

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What do I have to do?

This week's Photoshop Phriday is: "If Popstars Made Adventures..."

This one is kinda tricky -- recreate game as if it were inspired by Kelly Clarkson, Britney Spears, Michael Jackson (heaven forbid!), or any other creator of such disposable music.

SO JUST BEAT IT!

Pitfall on the old Atari console.

You just wasted your time posting the server unavailable message from Tripod when, if you'd look closely at my signature, you'd find a handy-dandy link to my new website where you can download all my games.

You get a big fat zero for detective skills, Sherlock Holmes!  

But they have got fingers.

You just can't see the rest of them because they're all behind the little finger at the front.

(Yes, that's should hold them off for a while)

Hello again DG,

Which game is better, Grand Theft Auto 3 or Grand Theft Auto: Vice City?

I have both, but wanted to know your favorite.

GREAT SCOTT, GHORMAK -- http://www.bash.org/?122856

oh by the way, what do you think of the movie The Princess Bride?

"Just one last question..."

I'll wait for his balls to drop first

I think you two should arm-wrestle to decide this one!

Yeah, but I'm going to make up the list from the games in Announcement's forum -- so as long as your game is there, then there's no need to worry about your game not being included in the AGS Awards.

If your game is on the Announcements page (Which, from my memory, it is) you have nothing to worry about.

Soon, I'll compile a list of all AGS Games and Demos so we have an idea of what we can vote for.

Holy shit -- it actually scares me when c.leks says stuff like that.

Mr. Macphee, sorry for resurrecting such a boooooring thread, but, I have this question that's being killing me for ages and...

That's okay -- I really love answering such boooooring questions.

If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends???

It's just like you hanging around your friends -- you make them look better.

dear Dirt Golem,
supposing one well surpassed the measurements one long aforementioned chart, like pg 2. would said person then have the right to gloat?
also
I was recently declared a diety by an attractive female of the species, however she has a boyfriend. how should i kill him? should I summon thunderbolts? shall i strangle him with a wet shoelace in a public restroom stall?
also also
supposing i were to take over the world, what percentage of income should I demand of peasants as "breathing Joel's air tax"?
Joelman, hes not taking over the world i swear

I think you should close your browser and get back to school.

Christ, why can't 14 year olds just stay in school instead of getting high and writing about their "measurements" on (out of all things) an adventure game forum?

Shit, if you really had the measurements you describe and are actually taking over the world, what the fuck are you doing hanging around here, genius?

I'd at least be porking girls and demanding ransom from the President of the US.

Thats why you are not a diety, but a liar.


WOO -- 200 POSTS!!

This has been posted before.

LOCKY LOCKY!

Is that a dog humping Grundislav???

"There's only two things in this world I can't stand.  Those who are intolerant of other people and their cultures ... and the Dutch."

Hehehe -- very funny, but the only problem is I'm half Dutch!

You oppressive bastard!

[exploitation]

DGM - You make some (as usual) good points.  But as Yak said:

Comics are hardly an issue of debate when discussing racism

And I agree with that also.

But you were the one who brought it up as an example on discussing racism.

How can you agree with Yak, when you were the one who used comics as an issue of debate on racism?

And as far as I can see, there is no racism in stand-up -- just a bunch of people pointing out the craziness of the world.

I wish this were 100% true.  I think it should be like this but I think a lot of commedians use the stage as a political soap-box.  While they might disguise their routine as just commedy there's a little more going on behind the scenes.  (just my opinion)

Politicians get on soapboxes -- That's because they are directly involved in the political process.

Stand-up comedians are not directly involved -- so, what political soapbox have they got when they have no direct participation in the political arena?

People don't pay $20+ just to listen to some guy blather on about politics and race issues -- They actually expect to be entertained and for the guy to be funny.

From my experience in stand-up comedy, a comic is WAY more interested in finding funny material than trying to create a political agenda.

And the main reason so many comics talk about political matters is because there's so many dipshits running the world and so many stupid things happening in areas of politics.

Even Bill Hicks, one of the most political of comics, was equally critical of both Democrats and Republicans, mainly because both Bush Sr and Clinton made a lot of fuck-ups that were ripe for the picking (Bush Sr on the Gulf War, Clinton on Waco, etc).

Robin Williams was very critical of George W. Bush's presidency and yet found time to entertain the troops stationed in Iraq.

And what political agenda does Jerry Seinfeld have?

You see, people blame insignificant things (be it stand-up comics, language, or double standards) for racist attitudes -- you clearly did so when you said:

A black comedian can get on stage (Bernie Mac, Chris Rock, etc) or an Asian comedian (Margaret Cho) or an Hispanic (George Lopez) and all of them are just full of racist humor against white folk. Yet it's unacceptable for a white commedian to make racist jokes while on stage about ANY other race.

And an alien invasion will not unite whites and blacks in social harmony -- As soon as the alien invasion is over, blacks are still going to be treated the same way before such an invasion.

Look at Sept 11 2001: Racism against black people still exists even two years after the WTC fell.

Thus, an alien invasion will do nothing to help the social standing of black people (Unless the spaceships blow away all the white people! )

Paul D'Amato, a US anti-racism campaigner, writes: "In the U.S., most glaringly, Blacks are treated to worse jobs, housing and education and higher rates of unemployment and police brutality than most whites. Latinos face similar, though somewhat less severe treatment--but often face language discrimination. Women receive lower wages than men and bear most of the burden of work in the home."

(And the situation will still be the same after this hypothetical alien invasion.)

Now, you say we should forget the past and move to the future -- I disagree, because I think people need to examine the past a little more to understand the present situation.

I continue with D'Amato : He states that slavery in the US was born not out of racism but ecomonical conditions i.e. getting cheap slave labour.

The off-shoot of this was that the white working class began to resent the black working class because employers would prefer the cheap labour of the black working class, leaving a lot of white workers unemployed.

Thus, they didn't resent the employers, just the black working class.

Flash-forward to today, where all people are given equal pay for their jobs, right?

Wrong.

I posted this before, and I hope you read it: http://maddox.xmission.com/c.cgi?u=walmart

And, as you can see, angry WASP bigots are still complaining that "outsiders" are stealing American jobs.

Once again, from D'Amato: "The same logic works under capitalism today. If native-born workers can be made to believe that immigrant workers threaten their jobs, if white workers can be made to hate or resent Blacks, if all Americans can be made to think that "foreigners" or "Muslims" are the enemy, and so on, it makes it more difficult for workers and the oppressed to unite." (meaning all working class, black, white, yellow, green, blue, whatever)

"In other words, racist, sexist or xenophobic ideas do not benefit workers and the poor, whatever their race, sex or ethnicity. But they do benefit the exploiters--by making sections of the exploited believe they have common interests with their exploiters based upon having the same language or skin color."

In other words, all these exploiters turn white working class against black working class by making them believe that the result of their poor economical situation was the fault of the black working class, not the exploiters themselves -- And the white working class trusts the exploiters more cause they're white too.

Forget ignorance; the real problem is, and always has been, exploitation.

The rich will continue to exploit the poor, and turn white people against black people.

I am reminded of something you said previously:

Nobody is entitled to anything more because of skin color.

This is true.

However, it is also true that everybody is entitled to the same as everyone else despite the colour of their skin.

And, if you read that Maddox article I posted, you'll see a shitload of non-US native workers not recieving such equality.

Once again, D'Amato: "Treating one part of society worse helps bring down the conditions of all workers. The fact that, for example, women perform necessary labor in the home--raising children, cooking, cleaning--means that capitalists can pay lower wages."

"The antagonism of whites toward Blacks has been the secret by which employers in the South have kept workers from organizing successfully. The fight against racism, therefore, cannot be separated from the class struggle as a whole."

Therefore, to say racism equals ignorance treats racial problems in a very loose-weight fashion, as the real problems stem from capitalistic exploitation.

Now before anyone accuses me of being a "dirty commie" (which I'm not -- I hate the left as much as I hate the right), consider this: I am arguing that all people should be equally  paid and, as I said previously, the majority of working class blacks, hispanics, migrant workers, and women are not paid the same as working class white men.

As D'Amato said previosuly this reduces the standing of these different groups as a whole.

Trying to change double standards won't do a damn thing.

Changing the ecomnomic scale will.

I'm happy with everything -- Damn better than my cheap and cheerful five minute photoshop job!

When a white comedian uses racial humor (at least the majority of them) it's usually self-deprecating and is actually mocking white people for their ignorance.

Not always.

Robin Williams speaks on sex advice: "If you want advice on sex, you don't want a tiny little jewish lady (Dr Ruth). You want a large black lady named Dr Roof! You say, 'Dr Roof, I have a small penis, does that make a difference?'. She'll go 'Damn straight, baby! Honey, you can't make butter with a toothpick!"



As for another film hero on the topic of racism:


"There is no racial bigotry here. I do not look down on niggers, kikes, wops or greasers. Here, you are all equally worthless."


EDIT: Once again, I'm adding Maddox to a debate, but his latest article is on racism (and it's a damn good one too):

http://maddox.xmission.com/c.cgi?u=walmart

Yet it's unacceptable for a white commedian to make racist jokes while on stage about ANY other race.

I disagree -- most well-known white comedians make jokes about black people and it's perfectly acceptable.

Lenny Bruce did a whole sketch on 'A Typical White Person's View on How To Relax Coloured Friends at Parties'. (Sample line: 'I want to invite you over to my house but I got a problem. You see, I got a sister. And I hear that you guys... Well, I'll put it a different way: You wouldn't want a jew doin' it to your sister. I don't want no coon doing it to my sister. No offence, you know what I mean.') -- People, both white and black, laughed their asses on this routine.

Robin Williams does heaps of jokes on black people. ('Golf is one of the few sports where a white man can dress like a black pimp and not look bad.') -- This line got big laughs.

Bill Hicks even said the officers that beat up Rodney King had "huge balls" for what they said on trial. (i.e. "It's all on how you look at it") -- Big laughs too!

But such white humour on blacks isn't racist as such -- it merely points out perception issues, just the same as Black humour on white, Hispanic humour on whites, gender humour on the opposite sex, gay humour on straight guys, straight humour on gay guys, etc , etc, etc

And as far as I can see, there is no racism in stand-up -- just a bunch of people pointing out the craziness of the world.

And I don't think the identification of such craziness is ignorance.

And this comes from my experience in doing stand-up, meeting other comics, and listening to comics too.



As for solving the problem of racism, there is one solution:


"All we need is a voluntary, free-spirited, open-ended program of procreative racial deconstruction. Everybody just gotta keep fuckin' everybody 'til they're all the same color."

Amen!!!

Hehe, I remember that.

As an extra note, this was the first Sim I created:



His name is Alfonzo Dude and he is the coolest guy in the neighbourhood.

The above pic is of him wailing on his guitar.

His bio reads: "I am so awesome!"

He owns a huge house with swimming pool, plasma screen TV, basketball court and outdoor gym.

He works as a Treasure Hunter.

His wife used to be married to the next-door neighbours (The Goth family) but she is now Bella Dude.

They got married and she soon gave birth to their son, Luigi Dude, in the bathroom.

This is a pic of him impressing his wife by playing his guitar in his underpants Red Hot Chilli Peppers-style.




And like father, like son:




He totally rules!