Doomroar 2014-05-21 05:35:15

Well he was away from everywhere, and just appeared now with some recent uploads, so he may post something here too? i hope at least...

About the portal, i have my reservations, because there is a lot of submissions that sincerely if i were to open the page on campus they would go and ban NG again, i don't even know how or when they decided to drop the ban, but early this semester i was able to connect using the PCs of the main library (and i don't want to risk it).
As for quality standard i find it mixed, there are good things, and there are some doubtful things, and even among the good things a lot of them are quite generic specially when it comes to digital art, now this problem is not a thing that is proper of NG but of digital artist in general, i am not going to trash-talk anyone in particular, and even less i will use the community of NG as an example, but i need something to back up my accusations, so i will use the commercial submissions to the workshop for The International 4 http://steamcommunity.com/workshop/browse/?appid=570&section=merchandise is currently around 70 pages long, but it doesn't really takes that much to go through them.
Ok so here is the deal, since they will all be using a theme in common it is fair to compare them based on that same thematic, so can you discern who is a pro, who is a hobbyist, who is self taught, and who is just trolling, this include good drawings with low quality and out of place submissions like these :
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=257079990&searchtext=
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=260852167&searchtext=
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=259012137&searchtext=
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=247141037&searchtext=
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=258743349&searchtext=
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=247439236&searchtext=
Of course these examples are incredibly obvious, but i bet that some people and maybe even the artist consider the "Death Prophet T-Shirt" as an actual legit product, and following that line, who knows what else.

Yeah i will be scouting again, recently scouted http://phatypuscomics.newgrounds.com/ and http://docsnipe.newgrounds.com/ who even got front-paged, so who knows what i might find, of course the main problem is that the more i advance the less active the user.

Doomroar 2014-05-21 07:28:01

Yeah he is awesome, and that he is still alive is even better!

Doomroar 2014-05-21 09:08:44

And he is back here too! rejoice!

Yeah i really have no idea how or when they decided to unblock the page, but i am glad they did, however each time i visit and i am not at home i get this feeling of doing something illegal... XD, yeah even the M tag is risky, hell the T tag is risky too! haha.

Oh my point is that there is no variety, they are generic, some artist with totally different backgrounds end making things incredibly similar, and that has happened in art for centuries, yes it is what is known as trends, but since we are in the age of technology more people are able to participate and create more content, so the issue becomes even more apparent, my mind set before encountering Jared Africa was that there was nothing special, nothing at all on digital submissions, once you saw 10 to 15 guys you have seen it all, and he was the one that proved me wrong, so of course the more i searched the more awesome artist i was able to see, but over all, the trends are really living up to their name of being trends XD.

The Death Prophet one was pretty cool, but is nothing special, plus it wont really pass as a product for the main event, because well, we risk more than what we gain, i don't really want to say that it opens a window of opportunity for body pillows... but it opens a window for other things, that are more fitted for events of games like LoL(which heavily uses sex-appeal to attract a player base).

Yeah, it takes mostly luck, and to actually contact them outside NG once you find them, that helps to seal the deal.

Doomroar 2014-05-22 14:13:33

Yeah!

Na since i am already using my own student password to log in on the computer, i may as well log in on my NG account, if i get hacked i can pretty much trace it back, and well if i do get hacked that means my student account got hacked and that is a pretty big deal.
You crazy!? you want me to browse for porn using my student account!? you know that they keep a record of what pages you visit, after all the idea is that you use them for academic research... well i bet some students may have some thesis that involve research related to porn, but i am not one of them plus i would have to specify the nature of my research, and... forget it there is just no way, i risk way too much.

No no, those examples are examples of trolls, so yeah that is not the case.
I like his stuff, but i have to look at most of his work from the conformity and privacy of my home XD.

Haha i actually had to have Wade to go and scout someone else for me since the scouting system was glitching.

Doomroar 2014-05-23 17:30:38

You want me kicked off from university by looking at porn using the campus computers! XD.

Body pillows, B( o )( o )BS shirts, and underwear! wait... no, hell no! man this is not league of lesbians, dignity may be a social construct, but even if it is we have it! for real... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5phl8p3euG4

Yeah the 14 i have (because one decided to leave the internet, he closed his DA, Facebook, Tumblr, everything) are awesome, and if i picked artist that do fan-art, anime, and hentai, then damn that is practically everything else, originally i decided that i would avoid picking still-life and landscape artist, but i realized that the genre is actually not popular inside the net, or better said thanks to conceptual art (character design and all that), it has become part of the minority art, while 20 years ago it was the one controlling the art scene, and at 800 pages in (at the time) there won't be anyone else scouting so i might as well scout them.

Doomroar 2014-05-24 02:59:58

And why would they do that? no, even better why would the be a problem, indeed why would anyone be looking at porn using the university resources for things other than serious research!? XD.

Oh people will buy it, no doubt dem bastards will, but is it worth it? to sell our image just to gain some little money? Valve doesn't need to use such schemes, we have the biggest E-Sport event with a prize pool of over 6 million dollars! and growing, hell it even beats traditional sports.

Yes but i don't really feel like i have to scout them, i can leave them to someone else, it saves me time and effort since i don't have to contact them and stuff, oh sure if i find them i can send you a message, i actually have passed a few of them, however i ignored them here because i want this page to be more pure (i know too late for that XD), so long story short i have ignored quite a few already (mostly fan art, and original characters makers, my fear is that they will eventually end making only porn like Shadman or Spazkid, and then i have to live knowing that i was the one scouting them...), and that number can grow a lot if we include already A+ rated art (are you ok with porn because i find a lot of those too).

Doomroar 2014-05-24 12:01:25

And that is why we have that restriction so those unserious persons won't go around wasting the resources and time of the library, and other computer rooms!
Go fulfill your desire somewhere more private dammit!
Oh we have "open" WiFi and that stuff, but we still block pages there, but yeah that can get you some anonymity (why you using the university's WiFi to look at porn you bastard!?).

Worth it for the company (valve) to start selling body pillows, i am not talking about the artist or the customer (well the other costumers may be guilty by association), also these are to be sold at the main event of The International 4 the most important E-Sport event, if there is a time to start thinking about image is at that moment.

Ok i will make sure to send a lot of dicks your way XD.

Doomroar 2014-05-25 03:13:22

The students account is to identify yourself as well an student... and under the context of the net use the student account grants you access to the academic resources, while also restricting your access to distractions, maximizing productivity, that is the whole idea behind it (probably some members of the arts/design/etc. institute argued that NG may have some educational value so they allowed the page, and i don't want to know if that was the case, because maybe it is a bug and i am connecting just by luck, maybe if i ask them they go and block the page again XD).

But the products would still end being sold at the main event... so is kinda pointless to associate with a sub-branch that will in the end still be using your installations to sell such kinky apparel... and these are all submission that seek approval to attain just that, the privilege of being sold at the IT4, and that is what makes it special that all those products become seasonal and collection worthy, which raises their value.

So you want dem sausages? XD, all juicy and stuffy? hahaha.

Doomroar 2014-05-25 04:36:02

Sadly FB and G+ aren't blocked, but that's it because they are under the assuption that people use it as a platform for "work" and "study" and not just friendly socializing.

Yeah!

But the whole point of the products is to sell them at the event, to increase profit and value around the IT, if they are in the web store then they lose part of the attractiveness to it.

I will make sure that they come extra meaty haha (no song comeback here, i don't know one that could be gay enough to cope with the joke XD)

Doomroar 2014-05-25 05:56:17

Yeah it "could" be used like that haha.

I think that they can do that already without the interference of valve, i think that you can sell user created content from outside the stores of Valve, is one of those cool types of copyright.

Oh that's a good one, but i had a recent question, should i send you old and new dongs or just the old and you can search for the fresh ones? haha.

Doomroar 2014-05-25 11:42:15

Cool indeed.

All types of sausages? from the wrinkly old to the smooth brand new? ok, XD.

Doomroar 2014-05-27 05:56:00

Yes sir you are correct in your assumption! the "dorms" assigned to students are not really within the parameters of the campus, they were repurposed in the early 90's(probably before that) and now the buildings serve as classrooms and offices, so the actual dorms are outside the university, i actually live with my mom (is really advantageous all things considered!) so i never got to pay attention to where the actual dorms are, they probably are somewhere in the middle of the 2 main branches which are kinda far away from each other, but the city is not really that big so it must be ok.

Doomroar 2014-05-27 19:20:20

I waste about an hour in transportation, but i don't really see it as that much of a waste (i use the hour reading and the like), having less involvement is indeed a thing that i should be taking more seriously, and as for academic resources i haven't encountered that problem yet. So i think that i am doing just fine, even more i don't have to worry about getting a job (with a real wage) before i have to, so there is that, for example this year and the previous one i didn't worked, that has to be plus.

Doomroar 2014-05-29 02:38:55

!! Oh i see so that is what it's called, but i don't think that i have ever had my eyes popped by hard thinking.

Doomroar 2014-05-31 20:10:27

I see, well in that case i would need to try that next time i go to the toilet, just in case that something else ends popping out XD.

Doomroar 2014-06-12 00:30:40

I don't think that anyone can help zorboig anymore.

Doomroar 2014-06-13 18:29:19

I know right!? is just too damn weird and unusual, and bizarre and just fucking awesome!