So this problem clearly isn't solving itself.
Since you're pretty new here, I'll introduce myself. I'm Grent, as you can hopefully tell by the name to the left of this post. Generally I'm regarded as one of the most level-headed users on SPB. It takes a lot to get me riled up, and that's most of the reason I'm in a position of power despite drawing so rarely. Every once in a while, though, someone gets the notion in their head that they're hot shit when they're quite far from it. Sometimes other users will be able to talk sense into them without being rude. Sometimes it takes someone like Krten or Candy being a prick to bring them to reason. If said user is still pretty full of themselves, I start getting a little annoyed, but I still hold my tongue. The vast majority of the egomaniacs are new users, and they tend to bail when they feel like they're not being appreciated. Fine by me. When they stay long enough for me to get really annoyed, or say something
particularly stupid, then I step in. Congratulations, omniamalgam, you've been annoying enough for me to deal with you personally.
Admittedly you showed up on my radar from
your first post in the introduction thread. There's a few things that I took issue with (Nickelback?
Really?), but most prominently was your last line:
I'm one of the most indecisive persons ever. Poetic and idiotic, don't hate me 'cause I'm awesome.
You know what that sounds like? That sounds like a thirteen year old who thinks he's deep and funny, and is desperately trying to convince everyone else that he is. That sounds like you've got a big head and you're going to be a pain in the ass. I filed it away for later, but hoped that you were just a little awkward because you were introducing yourself to a new community. Hell, even I was a little awkward at first. Don't judge a book by its cover and all that.
After a few questions about logging in, you then decided to
post a reply to a rules thread that hadn't seen a response for over 4 years. Not a question about the rules, either (which, by the way, is the only reason that thread hasn't been locked). You were commenting about what programs you were going to use. Again, not something I'd hold against you if it were your only misstep. You might have just been unobservant about the time of the last post. However, combined with your introduction post, I started to think you might be craving attention. That's usually a bad sign. The attention whores almost always cause problems.
After that, literally all of your posts have been confined to this thread. Unlike the previous issues I've mentioned, this is objectively a bad thing. Though we've been pretty slow as of late, SPB is about interacting with the rest of the community. The "Main Arena" is named such because it's supposed to be where you spend most of your time. Posting exclusively in your art thread keeps you excluded from the rest of us, defeating the purpose of this entire forum. Avoiding the contributions of others and simply putting your own stuff on display is basically telling us that you don't think you're better than everyone else, you
know it. From your first couple posts, I had merely suspected that you were an attention whore; making an art thread before literally anything else confirmed this suspicion.
Now, maybe you think you're God's gift to art, and that gracing us with even a glimpse of your incredible works could be seen as the most charitable act any of us will ever witness. If that were true, posting just an art thread would be acceptable. Unfortunately, this is nowhere near the truth. Your submissions have consisted of IMVU screenshots with textures that look like shit because IMVU doesn't anti-alias. I literally groaned when I saw your first three images. The first appears to be what I'm going to assume is your character poorly posed on a low-poly count motorcycle with some kind of horribly ineffective sword coming out of his left nipple, with an awful background. This was the best picture out of the bunch. The next one has a particularly bad demotivational poster in the background, presumably being laughed at by your character (now in an outfit that I can only describe as a cross between stereotypical gay cowboy and goth cowboy) and the main character from the Hitman games designed by someone who could only re-skin a bald model instead of making a model that actually looked like the character. To finish off the set, you have a different, gaudily colored character in an idiotic pose with a stupid phrase in orange Papyrus font (fucking shit,
ORANGE PAPYRUS?!) poorly superimposed. I like to think my vocabulary is fairly substantial, but I could not come up with words that adequately describe the phrase you lazily tossed on top of this image. The closest I could come was "cringe-worthy," but even that fails to truly do justice to it. I felt embarrassed for you and everyone who saw this picture.
And you know what? Even after this atrocity of a post, I was still hoping you'd contribute something meaningful eventually. I was terrified when I saw that Krten was the first person to respond to this thread, as he's traditionally a bit of a dick. I was actually glad when I saw that
his post was sarcastic (yes that was definitely sarcasm, coming from him), because I was pretty sure you were too self-absorbed to realize that it was dripping with contempt.
Your following post showed I wasn't wrong. It did worry me, though. You said you had twenty more images. Shit, twenty more pics like that? I wasn't sure if I could take it. I kept my mouth shut, though. We need more active members, and maybe you'd get bored of posting this garbage and actually contribute without me having to step in. I don't have time to discuss every single problem I had with your next series of images, but I will say it was exactly as bad as I was expecting. Since I was expecting it, though, it was easier to ignore when it came up. Life moved on.
Following this abundance of trash, Swordkill posted what I thought was a
very generous review of the material presented. The only truly negative thing he said was to make fun of you for your distinctly preteen subject matter (something I'm sure we were all thinking). You promptly
flew off the handle, but in a way that was still supposed to get attention in a horribly childish way. I actually
do have time to dissect this one:
okay *cracks knucks* Lets get some records and set 'em straight pal.
"Cracks knucks"? This is off to a poor start.
Making excuses right off the bat. It's almost like you know your pictures are horrible and overreact to the slightest amount of criticism to keep your fragile ego intact. I have a feeling this will be a theme.
So... you basically admitted to producing no meaningful amount of the content. That breaks rule number 4 of
the rules for this subforum, which I know you read because you
fucking commented on them for no reason.
"OMG I AM SOOOOO RANDOM. HAHAHA. BUBBLES! <<me bein random again XDXDXD"
(Since I know the subject is hard for you to grasp, the above was me showing contempt.)
*Fourth.
There may be a difference in your head, but when I see characters with faces that look suspiciously like skulls, bat wings, and/or characters who are entirely black with the exception of their eyes, I jump to "demons" too. You may call them something different, but they're still just as unoriginal.
You missed fifth. I can't decide if you did this intentionally to be RaNdOm LOLZ or if you just forgot to count. The fact that I can't tell speaks volumes.
Oh you stuck up little cunt. This one got me more than anything else. By implying that we wouldn't understand, you are directly insulting my intelligence and that of everyone else on the forum. Guess what? We're a pretty goddamned knowledgeable bunch, especially when it comes to creative content. In fact, I jumped over to
the wikipedia article about IMVU and was able to guess that all you did was re-skin the models. Hey, look! I explained that in
three fucking words. Even if that wasn't exactly what you did (which I doubt, considering you apparently have no computer and thus lack the time to make models), the wikipedia page described basically everything you could do with IMVU in fewer characters than I've typed so far in this post, while sounding like an advertisement. Maybe you're the stupid one for not being able to describe it?
This has literally nothing to do with anything Swordkill said. Hell, the first half of the sentence has virtually nothing to do with the second half of the sentence.
Hey look, a semi-relevant point! It's been a while.
...and you killed it. By the way, if you're that short on time, maybe you should
stop fucking around on IMVU.
Oh man, back to the random hahahaha! Also, "arguing" implies that there were points you discussed that had anything to do with the original points Swordkill raised.
After all that, I was shocked that PM managed to contain himself as well as he did in
his response. Which, by the way, you responded to by
doing that idiotic attempt at being clever by being "random". Then you did it
again.
And then you did the thing that got me. The reason I'm typing any of this up. You'll note that I had a lot of things I managed to keep quiet about regarding literally everything you posted before
this post. I would hope that this is a good illustration of my patience, and an indication of how bad the post I just linked to actually was. I have a feeling this is more of your "trying to be deep" shit, but by trying to sound dark and edgy and shit, you've trivialized real people's problems. You think you know darkness? Try not being able to get out of bed for weeks because you just don't have the motivation. Try having pills that you're terrified of taking daily because they could give you a seizure if you take too many, but utterly fail to help you if you take too few. Try not being able to trust your own mind because it's part of the problem. You want to talk about "nasty time"?
I FUCKING LIVE IT. And you know what? I'm thankful that's
all I have. There are people out there who are so far gone they can't even come back. So don't talk about your bullshit problems. People like you are the reason people with
real problems aren't taken seriously.
Also your "ghost rider" sucks as bad as any of your other pics.
Oh yeah, and Nitro:
Yep, that's Omni(2) for you.
You ever insult the real Omni like that again and I will ban you.
Can you tell? No? Deal with it.
