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If you don't feel like reading my nostalgic rant, theres picz at the bottom!!!11
The community is fucking huge these days, but even when I joined in late 2006 (don't really consider myself a 'veteran' tbh) the quality of discussion was much, much better. Also as fans of a 10 year old game, the people who were around then were generally older than the average poster of today.
Honestly TL is losing much of it's identity in my eyes, and so many amazing people have simply... disappeared . The entire SC2 forum section is unknown to me, and not because I don't like the actual game, but because in its current state and with the current community, SC2 is not what Broodwar was in its later years, and that is a test of one's own humbleness.
As a game, Broodwar became a self reflecting mirror to each person striving for the random C rank, a lesson in humility if you will. It surely required at least a small amount of passion and intelligence/maturity in order to be attracted to such a game, and to keep trying and trying. The tight community and the fact that I could read posts by awesome players each day on TL, the fact that these people seemed so close made all my striving to improve in a video game somehow gain a great and immediate sense of purpose despite the absurdly high skill ceiling.
It was like playing tennis for fun with friends, but on the field next to the one you're in Federer comes and trains every now and then. That just makes you feel a thousand times better about your hobby, doesn't it?
BW was surely not just some random time-consumer as SC2 is for a great part of the new posters.
Like most of you, I've played a lot of games and procrastinated for the better part of my conscious life... however BW is just one of those things that you're never done with. Years down the line, I still see myself getting INSTANTLY excited every rare time I meet someone who happens to know the game.
I remember how, as a newbie, I was amazed at the strategy discussions. Nowadays its full of impatient, immature and whiny kids. Sure, the attention to the game/scene and the plethora of sponsors is great, and with a bigger community there is a bigger and more diverse talent pool, but it's just not the same.
So what does the future hold? As I still see some very responsible, hard working and ambitious folks behind the curtains, TL cannot really go to waste in my opinion. This is just a phase, and I think in a few years from now, the community will regain its stability concerning the quality/quantity ratio of posters, and SC2 will slowly crawl it's way in our hearts up next to BW.
It's so strange for me to remind myself to write 'BW' when I mean Starcraft, when I wrote and said 'Starcraft' for the better part of a decade and nobody could have any doubt about what I was talking about.
All hail the mighty Fall. Scientifically proven to be the greatest season of them all. Winter is in a close second spot.
+ Show Spoiler +![[image loading]](http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/293/e/9/up_towards_fall_by_niifantasy-d310q8k.jpg) Make:Canon Model:Canon EOS 400D DIGITAL Shutter Speed:1/400 second Aperture:F/3.2 Focal Length:50 mm ISO Speed:100 Date Taken:Oct 17, 2010, 12:47:45 PM
+ Show Spoiler +![[image loading]](http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/312/6/f/lower_way_by_niifantasy-d3101u1.jpg) Make:Canon Model:Canon EOS 400D DIGITAL Shutter Speed:1/60 second Aperture:F/4.5 Focal Length:80 mm ISO Speed:200 Date Taken:Oct 17, 2010, 12:21:58 PM Software:Adobe Photoshop CS4 Windows
+ Show Spoiler +![[image loading]](http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/313/d/c/i__ve_heard_the_songs_again_by_niifantasy-d30ynno.jpg) Full view on this one please! Make:Canon Model:Canon EOS 400D DIGITAL Shutter Speed:1/2 second Aperture:F/7.1 Focal Length:18 mm ISO Speed:100 Date Taken:Oct 17, 2010, 1:54:51 PM
+ Show Spoiler +![[image loading]](http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/286/7/6/unda_veho_by_niifantasy-d30nr6h.jpg) such fearlessness!
 
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I urge you to open each image in a separate tab, as TL's resizing feature is just retarded (at least it appears so in my browser). This wasn't the case a few months back
EDIT: It think it works properly now.
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Such beautiful pictures! ♥
Come take some of me >w<!!
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Drop me a PM if you ever swing by Transylvania
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That is incredibly far! No wonder it's so much prettier than where I live. =P
Maybe i'll have to make a stop after my trip to South Korea! Haha.
Post more photos ^__________^
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Sorry, skipped the text, but the first, second and third picture are absolutely amazing. Love 'em!
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Skipped the text. Fucking loved the photo's.
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first... ur pictures are amazing!!!!!! like amazing!! u have flickr or someting?
are u pro?
second... totally agree with your words..
congrats
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No I don't have flickr, and I'm definitely not a pro lol
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the last spoilered pic is amazing
I agree about the SC2 forum being pretty terrible but the last MLG made me really happy and proud to be part of this community, being able to root for "your" team and all.
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On November 09 2010 09:51 7mk wrote:
the last spoilered pic is amazing
I agree about the SC2 forum being pretty terrible but the last MLG made me really happy and proud to be part of this community, being able to root for "your" team and all.
That's one of the best parts. At least now there are big events in the US and Europe to some extent, and the GSL is casted in English - all of which makes everything much more accessible.
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i just happened to glance at these during the middle of class and i completely lost track of what was going on, just stared at them for a while. these are powerful pictures. I put the 4th one as my desktop background and i have a feeling its going to be there for a very, very long time.
i would sincerely like to thank you for posting these. they are amazing
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Beautiful pictures!
<3 the last one
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You have improved so much as photographer! These are truly great pictures (and not just a "pretty" scene).
Maybe smaller apertures will bring out the best in your lens for landscapes?
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minus_human threads: where I have gotten 90% of my backgrounds for the last 3 years.
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I think for a new game, people believe they're amazing themselves, and can, or should, be able to beat the top players. It may be true, but in Brood War no one could even make that assumption. You played against the pros, you would get crushed. So instead of everyone banding together to achieve a C rank, everyone in Starcraft 2 is trying to be the next BoxeR. When and if a pro scene appears for Starcraft 2, the ignorance may die down. Or it may just be society and kits today. We can't be sure.
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And I just read the blog post. Very thoughtful and heartfelt post. Both your pictures and words really "speaks."
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Hong Kong20321 Posts
so pretty :D:D
love your photos as always
the 3rd one seems sooo ssaturated though 
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On November 09 2010 11:35 alffla wrote:so pretty :D:D love your photos as always the 3rd one seems sooo ssaturated though
Yeah it is, That's because my monitor or something is fucked up, and somehow I don't see the colours bright enough. So when they look good to me they're oversaturated in for everyone else. I've been trying to get around this since forever, and I don't even know if the monitor is to blame, because if I open the pic in PS I can see it's oversaturated, but when I upload it it seems to lose half of it's colour intensity. I've tried switching browsers, to no avail
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It does not look oversaturated on my monitor. Looks spot on to me
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On November 09 2010 18:20 minus_human wrote:Show nested quote +On November 09 2010 11:35 alffla wrote:so pretty :D:D love your photos as always the 3rd one seems sooo ssaturated though Yeah it is, That's because my monitor or something is fucked up, and somehow I don't see the colours bright enough. So when they look good to me they're oversaturated in for everyone else. I've been trying to get around this since forever, and I don't even know if the monitor is to blame, because if I open the pic in PS I can see it's oversaturated, but when I upload it it seems to lose half of it's colour intensity. I've tried switching browsers, to no avail
Color profiles.
Or maybe you just didn't caliber your screen properly
btw, none is over saturated but the first one you posted gaga...
also wb seems pretty off to me but I can't tell for sure (they're too warm)
and changing browsers wont do shit
just when converting your raws to jpgs for posting on the internets maybe you shouldu se a webcolor profile.
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Yeah I re-uploaded the third one. I'll definitely look for that webcolor thingy next time I'm converting from RAWs, thanks for the tips
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Nice photos!
To be honest I think some of the change is just the way of the world, we change how we look at things depending on where we're looking from. It's not all though. It can't be all -_-.
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Beautiful photos. Man, I wish DSLRs were cheaper.
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On November 09 2010 21:41 MinoMino wrote:
Beautiful photos. Man, I wish DSLRs were cheaper.
huge +1
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resize is your browser's issue
awesome pics again!
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I totally agree with you. I joined TL a few months before SC2 Beta was announced and released, and I can't even read the strategy forum, as it is full of incorrect information, whiny people, and bad grammar. All people do is get into arguments and point fingers at each other and shout "X IS IMBA". I feel sorry for the moderators.
Great pictures too! I'm not a photographer by any means but I really like your photos. It makes me want to visit Romania now hahaha.
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This is incredible. Where did you take that second picture? I'm assuming Romania? What a great color.
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that's coz you have no taste
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On November 09 2010 23:56 phosphorylation wrote:that's coz you have no taste
no, that's because of YOUR emo flashy fantasy glowing landscapes fetish rather
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Chill down guys. Boonbag, I guess in the end it's all a matter of taste - while I do appreciate B&W photography quite a lot, I could never give up shooting coloured scenery. Even if I'm bad at it and even if it's hard, it's one of the most expressive types of photography in my eyes.
Fantasy glowing landscapes - that's exactly it! To me it's a refuge, I can hide in there mentally (often times easier than with B/W). Can't you? Colours usually create a more warm and soothing feel. Also, nature is very much about colours, don't you agree? A coloured photography should be ABOUT the colours, or else it doesn't need to be in colour at all. Black and White simply does not come as naturally to me.
By removal of colours, B/W photographs concentrate on the essence, on the physical structure(s) of the subject you're shooting. I often find this hard to accomplish with scenery. I consider Ansel Adams to be an exception that really confirms this rule, as very few can claim to be as talented as he was, after all.
When I get the chance to create a Black and White, I'm really happy about it, but more often than not, by making it B/W my pic loses most of it's expressiveness. This of course is partially because of my own limited abilities, however I wouldn't want to even try and renounce coloured landscapes, no matter how much I could potentially improve in the future.
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On November 10 2010 00:23 Boonbag wrote:Show nested quote +On November 09 2010 23:56 phosphorylation wrote:that's coz you have no taste no, that's because of YOUR emo flashy fantasy glowing landscapes fetish rather
how predictable and childish
i admit my photographs aren't that great (minus_human's are superior by far) but i never claimed they were
the fact stands: you still have no taste
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I wouldn't say he has no taste, rather he's just too quick to make judgements - which, if taken with a grain of salt, can still be useful.
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only the tasteless pass such quick (and misguided) judgement
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youve got good b&w stuffs (i have a boner for b&w shots), but your color landscapes are always sweet
dunno why all the artsy fartsy people are shitting up a thread by being all pretentious! stop stealing his thunder
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He asked for advices in his previous entry about his portrait. I'm merely answering.
I didn't flame nor derailed anything, that phosph thing dude showed up and started it.
Like I'd give a flying fuck.
Besides, I pray the heavens to have 0 taste. Only someone truely tasteless can produce anything out of common consent, aka something vaguely original...
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On November 10 2010 01:54 Boonbag wrote:
Besides, I pray the heavens to have 0 taste. Only someone truely tasteless can produce anything out of common consent, aka something vaguely original...
That is misguided I think. Ignorance does not guarantee quality, and it certainly does't guarantee originality.
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On November 10 2010 01:58 minus_human wrote:Show nested quote +On November 10 2010 01:54 Boonbag wrote:
Besides, I pray the heavens to have 0 taste. Only someone truely tasteless can produce anything out of common consent, aka something vaguely original... That is misguided I think. Ignorance does not guarantee quality, and it certainly does't guarantee originality.
And what exactly do you mean by quality ? Which quality ? What qualities ?
Let me ask you what are the qualities of "begotten" for instance ?
Wouldn't you qualify such thing as tasteless ?
Yet it's a very powerful thing to experience and is labeled "art".
Besides, rejection and ignorance are two different things.
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god, you are so postmodern, you would make baby jesus cry
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On November 10 2010 00:23 Boonbag wrote:Show nested quote +On November 09 2010 23:56 phosphorylation wrote:that's coz you have no taste no, that's because of YOUR emo flashy fantasy glowing landscapes fetish rather
besides, is this the response of a man who does not give a "flying fuck"?
oops double post
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On November 10 2010 03:34 phosphorylation wrote:Show nested quote +On November 10 2010 00:23 Boonbag wrote:On November 09 2010 23:56 phosphorylation wrote:that's coz you have no taste no, that's because of YOUR emo flashy fantasy glowing landscapes fetish rather besides, is this the response of a man who does not give a "flying fuck"? oops double post
given the quality of this one liner, I would assume answer to be "yes"
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Your photography is wonderful, thanks for sharing!
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