Phoon Phoon

Enough Already...

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Enough Already...

just STOP IT!

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Ok, so Vista is out.
Can people PLEASE stop capitalizing on the name when doing themes, walls, etc.
It's like nails on a chalkboard seeing people use the word Vista in something when it has absolutely NOTHING to do with Vista at all. It's called Popularity Whoring. It's distasteful, vile, putrid, disgusting and could be considered a felony in several states!!   
How about a new category called "This crap has nothing to do with Vista" and put all of this PWWare in there!!!   

Somewhere, there's a semi-transparent Turtle rolling over in his grave!   
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Reply #26 from WinCustomize Forums Top
nd yes i agree maybe times for many of us to find an other inspiration not?



Past time....

Vista skins were worse than the evening news cast...Way overdone..

People were slapping "Vista" on anything and everything so they could collect download numbers... That really is the root of the skin title in allot of cases, really quite pathetic...
Reply #27 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Yep but don't forget what's skinning. At this time people want "VISTA...all you want"
Thus some people who want a better rank here post work called "Vista...".

But Some others People just has get inspiration on Vista world and share their vision of it.
Elemental: Reforged
Reply #28 from WinCustomize Forums Top
so your saying the WB i downloaded, that was made 6 years ago is not a vista ???


I suppose this isnt a vista mech either !!!!

gah ive been robbed !!!!!






Reply #29 from WinCustomize Forums Top
so your saying the WB i downloaded, that was made 6 years ago is not a vista ???



Well HG thats the beauty of being the Author...That skin is whatever you wish it to be... Although there may be a few ( Or a Helluva lot!) of people that would disagree...

If you say it's Vista..then, well..Thats what it is...LoL

If you fell for it..
Reply #30 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I hope you realize my previous post was dripping with sarcasm..
Reply #31 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Ill make a wallpaper just for this and name it Atsiv.
Reply #32 from WinCustomize Forums Top
well nutz .. and i was going to change my nick to HG_Vistanator....
Reply #33 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I hope you realize my previous post was dripping with sarcasm.



LoL..Yeah HG...I have been here awhile..I know that you *Know better, if anybody does...
Reply #34 from WinCustomize Forums Top
hehe coo.. ya had me worried that my attempt at sarcasm, was badly implemented...
Reply #35 from WinCustomize Forums Top
didn't the same thing happen with XP when everyone was running win98 or win2k,


Yup. I hated it then, too.

Seeing 'Vista', 'XP', or any logo, right down to that little freakin' apple on the start button is enough to keep me from downloading it. (Then again, I did an anti-vista/longhorn wall about a year or so ago) <<<< shameless plug!

But I really do hate it. Especially 'poor' renderings of the logo's or 'style'.

I knew a guy, way back in the 70's when people still used matches to light their cig's. He would buy matches by the box, but they had to be plain white covers. His theory was that if he was going to advertise for someone else, he should get paid for it. He drove a Pontiac Catalina, and even pulled off all of the Pontiac logo's and stuff. he would say "I have already given up my hard earned money for the product. If I am to advertise further, I should get something." He also used to go around repeating some stupid limerick about 'Doo-I-Ditty' and would go berserk if you used one of his matches. (20 matches-20 cigarette's)

Reply #37 from WinCustomize Forums Top

The phrase is more commonly 'Trend Whoring'...

Just ask Misery [Deaddreamer]...

Reply #38 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Phoon, you are right on..

When I see low qual Vista 'named" skins being downloaded at 3x the rate of well executed non-Vista named skins it really says a lot about the state of affairs as it pertains to the communty's collective psyche.

I personally refuse however to compormise my artisic integrity in lieu of higher download counts.   

That's not saying I wont design for Vista, I just won't masquerade as it.
Reply #39 from WinCustomize Forums Top
yes we need less vista stuff.... we need more dolphins,spheres and brittany stuff
Reply #40 from WinCustomize Forums Top
OY VAY!!!

or should I say OY VISTA!!!
Reply #41 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Flaming Aero of Death (in case you missed it earlier)
Reply #42 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I personally refuse however to compormise my artisic integrity in lieu of higher download counts.

That's not saying I wont design for Vista, I just won't masquerade as it.


Well Said (oh my poor english but quote is a good thing when you find what exactly you think)
Reply #43 from WinCustomize Forums Top
You want inspiration...a long time ago, in DC comics,there existed a world called Bizzaro. It was a square world, people drove cars with square wheels. Almost everything was opposite to our more 'conventional' world. Why not start a trend along those lines. Any takers?
Reply #44 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Almost everything was opposite to our more 'conventional' world. Why not start a trend along those lines. Any takers?


Been done.  Anything by I.R. Brainiac!    
Reply #45 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Any takers?


  
Reply #46 from WinCustomize Forums Top
My phone company is called "Vista". Lousy damn vista whores.

Been done. Anything by I.R. Brainiac!

Brainiac is the "Anti Vista". Long live I.R. Brainiac!!!

Reply #47 from WinCustomize Forums Top
People were slapping "Vista" on anything and everything so they could collect download numbers


Last Aug. when the the whole vista thing was starting to become a bit manic, I uploaded 2 identical pics/logons on the same day, with slightly different presentation, one plain, Dusk....the other with Vista splathered all over it and called Bridge Vista, to compare which would be the most sought after......
plain downloads = 1150
vista downloads = 519
so much for that theory for me.....

keep 'em plain...surrounded by too may logos already......

to take it one step further.....I have a problem with places being called "Bella Vista"....I have never actually come across one of those places (or houses!) that is a "beautiful sight"...the latest is an industrial estate here......bella vista my ....!  
Reply #48 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I did do ONE XP skin(tore-up XP)  ...but I was vindicated in my naming choice.  
Reply #49 from WinCustomize Forums Top
bummer now i can't look outside at the glorious vista confronting me
Reply #50 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I did do ONE XP skin(tore-up XP) ...but I was vindicated in my naming choice.



LoL..Thats a great skin I.R, one of my personal fav's..