The old tSR Lounge

[Sengir]

Great, now I'm in that rant-about-tSR mood:

The thing is, almost all of the "good spriters" are at that age where they have to or nearing the age where they have to to earn a living. Some, like Tyvon, as a pixel artist. Others as whatever else. And even then Tyvon doesn't post custom sprites from other people's IP nearly as much as he does his own IP to show to potential contract employers.

Now when a new member posts something that sucks we rip him to shreds, forgetting that we were him once. Occasionally a new member will post something good and we give him a pat on the back and say "welcome to tSR", but why are we being so selective? Instead of ripping the guy whose art sucks to shreds with harsh criticism and defending our assholery with "I ain't sugarcoating shit" why don't we give him help edits, show him examples in other sprites, or tell him exactly what the problem is and even how to fix it.

If we keep being so fucking selective we'll kill tSR. Remember Pixeltendo? Remember when we sucked at spriting? Imagine what would happen if we were bashed to hell and back and stopped returning. Then imagine what would've happened after the good spriters of PT left. There would be no tSR. Now fast-forward to now. We bashed the new guys to hell and back and some of the good spriters aren't as regular as they used to be (see Tyvon's leaving threads, Dex's leaving threads, how often BAB is on, the long break JarJar had, how often Chad is on, etc.). We are destroying the next generation of tSR.

tl;dr: We should make an effort to help new spriters who are very new to this, maybe even make an open sprite project (which would also help with tSR's custom section) with an easier style for beginners to learn, like how I did this.

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dammit koopaul what have you done to me?!?!