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19:38 - "We Got It Right This Time, We Swear"
http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=443
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This week's Photoshop Phriday at Something Awful is the best one they've had in a while, following a long streak of mediocre concepts with less-than-stellar execution. This one is "Rejected Software", and it's got some very choice bits.
It starts out kinda slow, but things pick up in the later pages. Particularly amusing are "Microsoft BackAlley", "Windows Type R", and the Ellen Feiss one (which is a masterful piece of Photoshoppery).
Oh, and don't forget the "hidden" Eleventh Page, which consists of something that may be a first: Photoshop jobs whose humor content and/or execution are so inept that the SA admins who put it together felt it was worth breaking the fourth wall of editorialism and posting them just to ridicule them and their creators. CapLion refers to this as the "Photoshop for Windows page".
"phoenix_r" gets the credit for this messy image. I think this is intended to be an OS-movie hybrid, which is a concept that can be funny, but only in the capable hands of someone with capable hands. This just ends up looking like another “Macs are for Nazis” joke, which is neither funny nor fair to Nazis. The curbjob scene from “American History X” isn’t quite known for eliciting laughter either. Bonus negative points go to the fact that phoenix_r must have gotten his front “Mac OS X” text from a tiny 100x96 sized thumbnail image he pulled out of a dead robot’s ass and enlarged to the point it looks like a mangled mess of gigantic blurry pixels.
This is only minorly and tongue-in-cheekily a swipe at Apple, and it's more obviously an example of OS X and other such products having gained widespread acceptance and respect. I like.
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