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Why do people put so much effort into things which detract from work?
strager wrote:
Why do people put so much effort into things which detract from work?
He says on an online community dedicated to just that.strager wrote:
Why do people put so much effort into things which detract from work?
osu! is work. You do things. Hone your skills, develop socially, etc.K2J wrote:
He says on an online community dedicated to just that.strager wrote:
Why do people put so much effort into things which detract from work?
A desktop image is shown when you are doing nothing. Why do you want to do nothing more?
For the same reason people put effort into painting the walls of their house, or putting in some new flooring, or cleaning out that giant pile of papers on a desk. Yes, if you're staring at the color of your wall you're probably doing nothing, but you always see it so you might as well make it look nice.strager wrote:
osu! is work. You do things. Hone your skills, develop socially, etc.strager wrote:
Why do people put so much effort into things which detract from work?
A desktop image is shown when you are doing nothing. Why do you want to do nothing more?
That's not to say wallpapers that people spend time on look nice, but they're at least not 24x16 jpg's compressed to hell then tiled across an HD 1080 monitor.
Those are different cases.Daru wrote:
For the same reason people put effort into painting the walls of their house, or putting in some new flooring, or cleaning out that giant pile of papers on a desk. Yes, if you're staring at the color of your wall you're probably doing nothing, but you always see it so you might as well make it look nice.
That's not to say wallpapers that people spend time on look nice, but they're at least not 24x16 jpg's compressed to hell then tiled across an HD 1080 monitor.
When you are busy working, you don't cover your walls. You look away from them. (Unless you're working with the walls or whatever.)
Walls provide ambient aesthetics and affect emotions because of this. Same with lighting and scent. Your desktop image only shines through parts of your monitor of at all.
Now, if you decorate your desktop with a thousand little utilities, that's fine. Just imagine ten clocks, thermometers, barometers, voltmeters, sound meters, Wi-Fi detectors, etc. on your real wall. Kinda stupid isn't it?
Are huge walls of text really helpful? Do you really need to minimize everything to access your music player? Why not just click the damn icon or bind keyboard keys, or use a remote?
I put about an hour (at most) of effort into every desktop background I make. I often tweak things after using it because e.g. the part behind the task bar or behind title bars is ugly and distracting.
I wasn't trying to make it sound like desktop images are a wasted effort. I just see flaws in a workflow which requires you to interact with your desktop.
TL;DR I'm hungry.
I removed the wall of text immediately after I posted the screenshot, cuz yes, it was unnecessary. It was, perhaps, one of those things where people would go wtf at when they walked by, and it has served its purpose, once and only once. I've had my fun with Rainmeter.
I'm hungry.
I'm hungry.
I need to find a dual screen wallpaper...but I rarely even see my desktop so meh.
IppE
Why do people cut vertical real estate on 16:9 monitors with their task bars? =[
IppE
Rena-chan
Rena-chan
Here's mine:
First non-weeaboo wallpaper of the page!
*claps*
*claps*
Haha, yeah. I rarely use anime wallpapers. I usually use sci-fi or minimalistic ones.Gens wrote:
First non-weeaboo wallpaper of the page!
*claps*
Windows Vista skin:mekadon wrote:
What skin are you using?Exarion wrote:
Here's mine:
http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/1825/desktop160.jpg
http://sweatyfish.deviantart.com/art/Pr ... 2-97131568
Rainmeter skins:
http://freakquency85.deviantart.com/art ... -169183131
http://customize.org/rainmeter/skins/58074
Epic win.sp1ky wrote:
(clicky)
This is my current style~
Wallpaper changes every 30 minutes.
Wallpaper changes every 30 minutes.
Rena-chan
OH GOD THE JPEG + SCALINGra92m wrote:
Rena-chan
OH GOD WHYra92m wrote:
My eyes, they bleed. ;_;ra92m wrote:
IppE
I think someone needs to attend aspect ratios 101.strager wrote:
OH GOD THE JPEG + SCALINGra92m wrote:
1440x900 + 1680x1050
My Desktop 
IppE
I'l two.IppE602 wrote:
I'l refrain from being a dick
IppE602 wrote:
nitpicker
IppE602 wrote:
steam
What happened to spoilerboxes, guise?
strager wrote:
What happened to spoilerboxes, guise?
Then someone needs to fix the forum, don't they?bagnz0r wrote:
> JavaScript
Then someone needs to fix their browser settings, don't they?
bagnz0r
IppE
My desktop does not contain animu, maybe I should stop playing osu!
Rena-chan
It would be pretty cool if my mouse wasn't borked and kept opening/closing spoilerboxes over 9000 times.
I really really really need to get a new mouse.
Also,
I really really really need to get a new mouse.
Also,
IppE
- Shortcut 
IppE
Thats a nice gathering there._ADD wrote:
Mine
mekadon_old
mekadon_old
BSoD+Asahina= >_>Piotrekol wrote:
after not-planned full format -.- (aka hacked comp)
bagnz0r
yes i like Suika
bagnz0r
Why would you ruin a good PC by installing a broken OS
Rena-chan
IppE
You can't have something that doesn't exist.Priestess In Yellow wrote:
I want some.
E-Eh...?? The wallpaper looks a bit stretched/low res ;~;Priestess In Yellow wrote:
You should click this, it's a thumbnail:
Priestess In Yellow wrote:
You should click this, it's a thumbnail:
... it's too big to see XD i can't see all D:
It's not stretched, actually. It's just the look of a panoramic photo. The resolution quality however, aside from the normal compression Priestess used to save the photo in, is just slightly low. The rainbow effect on it hides it a little. Cute wallpaper though.Kitsunemimi wrote:
E-Eh...?? The wallpaper looks a bit stretched/low res ;~;Priestess In Yellow wrote:
You should click this, it's a thumbnail:
Rena-chan
Yarp. I cropped the original picture from 4000x1290 to 3840x1080, actually. I had to compress it an awful lot to get the filesize below 1MB - the actual wallpaper's filesize is 4,20MB as a JPEG.Nekoroll wrote:
It's not stretched, actually. It's just the look of a panoramic photo. The resolution quality however, aside from the normal compression Priestess used to save the photo in, is just slightly low. The rainbow effect on it hides it a little. Cute wallpaper though.
It can be found here if anyone should want it.
here's the link
Here's a compilation of seven wallpapers I have.... Yes, it's huge.
Warning to those with low bandwidth...
from top left down.
Alice Margatroid
Eirin (House M.D. Parody)
S4 League
Remilia Scarlet
Remilia Scarlet
Oz from MapleStory
Medusa from Soul Eater
Here's a compilation of seven wallpapers I have.... Yes, it's huge.
Warning to those with low bandwidth...
from top left down.
Alice Margatroid
Eirin (House M.D. Parody)
S4 League
Remilia Scarlet
Remilia Scarlet
Oz from MapleStory
Medusa from Soul Eater
Shiny *_*Priestess In Yellow wrote:
Yarp. I cropped the original picture from 4000x1290 to 3840x1080, actually. I had to compress it an awful lot to get the filesize below 1MB - the actual wallpaper's filesize is 4,20MB as a JPEG.
It can be found here if anyone should want it.
Rena-chan
Uh guys, if you're using spoilerboxes to save bandwidth for the few people who have limited bandwidth...
Post a link instead.
Seriously, what's the point in "warning" about a picture taking up a lot of space and putting it in a spoilerbox where it'll be loaded regardless of whether you open the spoilerbox or not ?
Post a link instead.
Seriously, what's the point in "warning" about a picture taking up a lot of space and putting it in a spoilerbox where it'll be loaded regardless of whether you open the spoilerbox or not ?