Competition GOG celebrates RPG Week, MS Paint your way to a copy of Tyranny or Pillars of Eternity

[ArchAngel]

Spend 1 hour coming up with something funny (but not really). Spend 1+ hour dicking around in MS Paint trying to make it also cool looking in addition to funny (but not really). Then waiting until June 8th has passed and have a 0.01% chance of actually winning something (it will probably going to go to family and friends of GoG staff like it is done in any self respecting East Europe/Balkan country)
Or
Spend 5 minutes finding the right torrent and clicking the button to download it. Waiting few hours for it to download.
Or
Spend 5 minutes shitposting in this topic.

Hmm, what to do, what to do...

 

[J_C]

Then waiting until June 8th has passed and have a 0.01% chance of actually winning something (it will probably going to go to family and friends of GoG staff like it is done in any self respecting East Europe/Balkan country)

What? I thought it is up to DarkUnderlord to decide about the winner. These keys were given to the Codex afterall.

 

[ArchAngel]

Then waiting until June 8th has passed and have a 0.01% chance of actually winning something (it will probably going to go to family and friends of GoG staff like it is done in any self respecting East Europe/Balkan country)

What? I thought it is up to DarkUnderlord to decide about the winner. These keys were given to the Codex afterall.

Haha, you are right. I only read 2/3 of first post and missed the part where we submit it here :D
Still, option one is still not the one worth doing.

 

[Zorba the Hutt]

Dex competitions are usually just an excuse for targeted shitposting man, no need for a cost-benefit analysis if you're not interested.

Best example was back in 2013 when the offer of a Wasteland (abandonware original, not WL2) key was enough to provoke a long thread packed with raeptastic short stories

 

[thesheeep]

I call this "Josh Sawyer Ascending a Staircase":

Spoiler

This shows a true genius in a most masterful way

Too much white, not balanced enough.

Cretin!
He is ascending the staircase. He did not arrive at the top yet.
True art inspires thought.

 

[Alex]

Cretin!
He is ascending the staircase. He did not arrive at the top yet.
True art inspires thought.

You are right, of course. Then this is my contribution, Josh Sawyer at the top of the stairs.

(note: not really my image and not really a contestant).

 

[vortex]

Too much white, not balanced enough.

The Balance

 

[IncendiaryDevice]

 

[ArchAngel]

Too much white, not balanced enough.

The Balance

Not really. Since we write from left to right it is easy to assume left is then 1st and black is second. Since 1st means before 2nd, white is before black and it is not balanced.

 

[vortex]

Not really. Since we write from left to right it is easy to assume left is then 1st and black is second. Since 1st means before 2nd, white is before black and it is not balanced.

Proto-Canaanite alphabet does the opposite. That's not a point. If I've put white up and black down or black up and white down, somebody could say for my hierarchy prejudice.

 

[Cudgel]

Are we allowed multiple entries ?

Also aren't some of these lazy ass photoshops ?

 

[ArchAngel]

Not really. Since we write from left to right it is easy to assume left is then 1st and black is second. Since 1st means before 2nd, white is before black and it is not balanced.

Proto-Canaanite alphabet does the opposite. That's not a point. If I've put white up and black down or black up and white down, somebody could say for my hierarchy prejudice.

So you accept that picture or a small variation does not represent balance. So do better.

 

[IncendiaryDevice]

Oh do shut up and let people post funnies for heaven's sake Archangel. Go be autistic on RPGWatch for a bit.

 

[Lady_Error]

Nothing describes as accurately what happens after Grimoire release, as the actual leaked title screen of the game:

 

[Plane Escapee]

POST-GRIMOIRIC FUTURE EARTH

(please give me free game Tyranny)

 

[Crichton]

Balance in all Things

I would *know* if Tyranny is equally balanced.

 

[Bumvelcrow]

POST-GRIMOIRIC FUTURE EARTH

Did you mean Whales? Or has the master race finally conquered what remains of the Earth?

My entry is a thought experiment since my arms have been gnawed off at the elbows thanks to the stress of Waiting for Grimoire. I can only transmit words to my custom computer through the power of my mind, to be interpreted by perfectly functioning code of unalloyed genius (only runs on Linux).

Imagine, if you will, a blank canvas, 320x200 pixels. It is white. As you gaze at it you think you see patterns of colour, twisting at the edge of your vision, always slightly out of reach. It touches your soul in a way nothing has ever done so before, and you move closer, pleading for more. Curiosity quickly leads to frustration and you try and grasp one of these patterns, only for it to fade into nothing when you turn your eye directly upon it. You weep for what has been lost, for it was beautiful.

Time passes...

You wake, alone in your home, the curtains drawn against the darkness outside. The canvas is still there, taunting you with memories of a borrowed life. You try to recreate these visions on a now unresponsive background. It is no good - the hope has gone. You weep.

Time passes...

A movement. You drag yourself from the bed that has been your home for as long as you can remember. Your parched throat demands water, your shrunken stomach growls in pain, but it is only the taste of that vision you crave. Another movement. Hope?

Silence. You bow your head.

Thus do the dreams of the Believers turn to silent dust.

 

[Fireblade]

Too much white, not balanced enough.

The Balance

The white is 430 pixels wide, the black is 470 pixels wide. Only a SJW would call this balance.

 

[Dr Skeleton]

Depicts the day Cleve actually releases Grimoire.

Why, it's

Spoiler

That took a lot longer to make than I thought.

 

[vortex]

The white is 430 pixels wide, the black is 470 pixels wide. Only a SJW would call this balance.

It's optical illusion.

 

[Bumvelcrow]

The white is 430 pixels wide, the black is 470 pixels wide. Only a SJW would call this balance.

Surely white pixels weigh more than black ones due to the increased mass-energy?

 

[Zorba the Hutt]

You wake, alone in your home, the curtains drawn against the darkness outside. The canvas is still there, taunting you with memories of a borrowed life. You try to recreate these visions on a now unresponsive background. It is no good - the hope has gone. You weep.

Time passes...

A movement. You drag yourself from the bed that has been your home for as long as you can remember. Your parched throat demands water, your shrunken stomach growls in pain, but it is only the taste of that vision you crave. Another movement. Hope?

Silence. You bow your head.

Thus do the dreams of the Believers turn to silent dust.

 

[J_C]

Edit: Oh, if I win by any chance, I'd like Tyranny.

 

[Don Peste]

You love Pillars of Eternity..

http://imgur.com/P3sRv17
Tyranny, please. I have PoE, which I love.

 

[covr]

I like that, can we make Codex look like above?