Pacifier ad girl

robot1122 · Post by **robot1122** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 12:38 am

I have been playing Vega Strike for a long while now, but the girl in the Pacifier ad splash thingy is driving me crazy! who is she?

Post by **loki1950** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 1:22 am

you and several other guys but i have no idea who she is after all the original photo may be ancient

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robot1122 · Post by **robot1122** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 10:29 am

Yea, this is probably bordering on weird, but who cares!!! Anyway, I have armature experience with photoshop so I thought I would do this...

And yes, my life is that sad...

lol.

Dark-Blood-Hound · Post by **Dark-Blood-Hound** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 11:15 pm

Lol, Ive seen her in realife...

AND THAT GUY WITH THE GLASSES ON ONE OF THE ADS DRIVES ME CRAZY!!!

peter · Post by **peter** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 9:36 am

robot1122 wrote:Yea, this is probably bordering on weird, but who cares!!! Anyway, I have armature experience with photoshop so I thought I would do this...

Those texture files don't have square pixels. Their aspect ratio is right only when they're stretched to 4:3, I think. I was looking through the splash screens the other day, and she's not the only thing that looks too skinny with square pixels.

And yeah, she definitely caught my attention. Is she also in the holovid ad?

I assumed someone working on VS took pictures of people they know. Are any of the devs' own pictures in the game? Is the ISO member a dev?

If I was making a game, I'd probably use my own picture for the ISO member or something.

Post by **klauss** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 10:19 am

peter wrote:...and she's not the only thing that looks too skinny with square pixels.
(emphasis added)

Poor girl... already being treated like a plaything.

Though... poor girl? hm...

peter · Post by **peter** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 3:16 am

klauss wrote:
peter wrote:...and she's not the only thing that looks too skinny with square pixels.
(emphasis added)
Poor girl... already being treated like a plaything.

Though... poor girl? hm...

Yeah, I phrased that pretty badly. "her image is not the only thing"?
Pretty girls get me all tongue tied.

Tell her I'm sorry, no chauvinism intended.

micheal_andreas_stahl · Thu Feb 22, 2007 11:14 pm

Hmmm. Tell her to put some more clothes on and then I may think about admiting that she may be pretty.

Shissui · Post by **Shissui** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 2:02 am

Actually, I am with peter on this one.

Peter> and she's not the only {descriptor of preference} that looks too skinny with square pixels.

Every screen in this house is a digital flatscreen & all of the 4:3 ratio splash screens look anorexic. As flat screens are only getting more common, fixing these textures can probably go on the bug heap -- somewhere near the bottom.

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Peter> And yeah, she definitely caught my attention. Is she also in the holovid ad?

Yes, she is also in the holovid ad; same clothes. The holovid splash picture is also on the entertainment/holovid cargo item.

dark-blood-hound> AND THAT GUY WITH THE GLASSES ON ONE OF THE ADS DRIVES ME CRAZY!!!

But he makes a GREAT Luddite !
If he drives you batty enough, you can always go slaughter some more Redeemers.

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Moral of this thread -- people appear to read the splash screens.
Good investment.

Post by **snow_Cat** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 10:42 pm

^ - -^ Does that mean we'll be selling advertising space on our loading screens, like vivand?

Post by **loki1950** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 11:35 pm

they read the splash screen because it's there so long

as for ads other OSS projects we like maybe.

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Shissui · Post by **Shissui** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 6:18 am

snow_Cat wrote:^ - -^ Does that mean we'll be selling advertising space on our loading screens, like vivand?

Among others, . . .

Tripezian Ale
Military recruitment posters
opportunities for vacations on pleasure worlds
holovid promotions
police warrant notices
starship promotion teasers [after all -- we know it really DOES sell starships]

--> That *isn't* advertising !?

Post by **snow_Cat** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 10:39 pm

I man tha ... ^ > < ^ n grr.. freud....

I mean that these other (commercial) game developers are actively selling ad space within their games to corporations outside their control.

Shissui · Post by **Shissui** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 11:12 pm

I knew what you meant & elected to read it to my convenience.

To respond to your earlier post more directly --

I am all in favour of more VS advertising as long as the splash screens are in the context of the game -- these ads serve a real purpose to educate users about the environment in which they are playing.

I (& I suspect many others) would be strongly opposed to using it as a revenue source for the project.

Post by **loki1950** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 11:59 pm

I am all in favour of more VS advertising as long as the splash screens are in the context of the game -- these ads serve a real purpose to educate users about the environment in which they are playing.

and the real reason for splash screens there are few in the Art forum that serve that purpose nicely haven't been approved for inclusion thou.

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