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LIBBIE LOST
Enjoy seeing this fucking retarded traced penguin instead of a cute anthro girl every time you start up LibreOffice. The PR guys are going nuts, insisting she didn't get many votes despite being the most popular entry and mass-banning anyone who asks for the vote numbers or questions the narrative.
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▶ No.54030
Wow, it looks like fucking garbage.
▶ No.54031>>54032 >>54033 >>54194
>>54023 (OP)
Libbie looks great as a mascot, but as something used for small things like icons she's not the most serviceable as the pile of triangles make her hard to discern at a glance.
It's even worse with those suggested icons or whatever they're supposed to be.
If it weren't for the colors, it'd be almost impossible to figure out which one is for which program without spending a few seconds trying to make them out at those smaller sizes.
She was just clearly made by an artist and not a designer.
That penguin is utter trash though.
I'd be embarrassed to say I worked on something represented by that.
They should've just simplified Libbie's design instead of resorting to that garbage.
Or hell, most of those birds suggested would work great and be able to easily abuse the color scheming trend for office suite software.
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>>54031
Forgot to add this.
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>>54031
Tyson, the author, surely can edit and rethink Libbie to fit a icon size. Reminder that i'm pretty sure NONE of the author of the current mascot options did ANYTHING more than just one drawing/clipart, while Tyson did a Libbie versions for ALL LibreOffice products.
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>>54033
Like I said, she's definitely had the most effort put into her style-wise.
She just needs some simplifying to make her design more functional, even if it might cost her a bit in form.
▶ No.54036
I remember hearing about this months ago when they first announced the contest, but hadn't kept up with it. This is what it came down to?
▶ No.54038>>54039 >>54041 >>54130
>>54023 (OP)
If this is really traced, people need to bring this up everywhere and everytime.
Tracers do not deserve reward. Tracers should go to gulag.
▶ No.54039>>54040 >>54041 >>54144
>>54038
/tech/ and /g/ have a plan. Keep a lid on this for now.
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>>54039
Oh, I don't need to. I know this will be exposed.
It's only a matter of time.
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>>54039
>>54038
>>54040
It's only getting worse.
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>>54037
It's better.
That constant hard angle on her hair helps retain the angular style, but with something much larger that would likely still be visible at smaller sizes than the tons of small triangles.
Sticking the tail out perpendicular to her body is another neat way of adding to it, even if it's too small to stay relevant for all purposes.
As long as she has the hair to carry the style, the tail can just help whenever it gets the chance.
If nothing else though, just the fact that her form isn't made up of tiny hard angles helps immensely.
Granted, it would've been entirely possible to just use her as a mascot only, stick her on a splash screen and the website, and come up with something else for use as icons or anything else particularly small.
There's really no reason to have resorted to that trash vector penguin that looks like it was plastered on some yellowing computer hardware from the 90's.
▶ No.54044>>54046 >>54048 >>54049
>He's only pissed because it's not a girl
Uh huh.
▶ No.54046>>54048 >>54049
>>54044
Straights are simple people
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>>54046
>>54044
If you like the penguin that much, I can't stop you from fapping to him.
▶ No.54049>>54059
>>54044
>>54046
Give me a fucking break, if it was a cute fox boi logo and they replaced it with this generic Microsoft clip art I would be pissed too.
▶ No.54052>>54071
are there at least any good lewds of Libbie?
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>>54049
>cute fox boi
When you say it like that, it makes it completely obvious that you'd only like it if "he" were a trap anyway.
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>>54051
>not holding pen in gun hand
???
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>>54072
There is something vaguely 80s about this. I like it!
▶ No.54088>>54093 >>54111 >>54147
LIBBIE LIVES! She's more grown up to boot.
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▶ No.54130>>54142
>>54038
ever since DA allowed tracing, nothing has really ever been done about it.
Oh did I say DA? I meant the video game industry from the early 80s onward! You have any idea how many video game covers were traced? Contra, Castlevania, Metal Gear, Final Fight, the list is too long. Doom's Cacodemon was the head of a creature of a D&D book. It's a miracle companies weren't suing each other left and right.
Face it, no one but you cares.
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>>54130
I have to agree that some of the old 80s covers were traced, not all, but some. The only difference today, from emerging gaming studios that didn't have a proper art budget or any and just needed something good to put on the cover, is that we were voluntarily enlisted to select what we want for a logo in an established open source office suite, only to learn it was made moot when the selected picture, disregarding what everyone wanted, was a shitty, traced picture from a Shutterstock, flipped, and ill-colored instead of our cute waifu that had proper time sunk into to be brought to us. We kinda have a right to be pissed.
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>>54039
Link? Want to follow this.
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>>54088
Don't let this be her dirge.
▶ No.54150>>54151
Cheer up guys, Krita was a victory. Libbie was never meant to be.
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>>54150
You realize she's practically been made the mascot for /tech/ right?
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>>54142
>thinking online votes actually care what people want
These are almost always gimmicky fronts for a company to do as they please while giving the illusion the masses made the choice.
This, for example. Hasbro's voting website didn't matter, they were going to release their SJW-bait feminist robot toy regardless of how the votes went. They had the prototype done before voting began. It backfired miserably, of course. The toy was poorly engineered and the plastic was cheap dollar store quality. The SJWs hated it and screamed "cultural appropriation" or some whit over the Japanese makeup it wore
>which may have made some sense in hindsight- why would an alien robot that's never been on Earth wear Japanese kabuki makeup? Not that SJWs argued THAT
This is Hasbro though- they pander to SJWs but do so in such a shit way they tick off customers, piss off the SJWs and fail miserably to make a good product in the process. They do this with ponies, they did it with that shitty failure of a box office bomb that was Jem, they do it with Transformers. Every case of pandering ended up with SJW screaming, low sales and pissed off fans.
But goddamnit they don't give a fuck what you want and will keep trying, because the first 49 times failed but the 50th time is a charm! Just vote in their next poll and pretend your vote matters.
▶ No.54164
If it's free as in freedom, can't you just make a fork and use her as a mascot?
▶ No.54176
New Libbie thread in /tech/ for any interested drawfags:
https://8ch.net/tech/res/820668.html#q820717
▶ No.54194
>>54031
She's a mascot. This is for splash screens and promotional material, not 16x16 program icons. See how Kiki is used for Krita. If you don't like the angularity of her designs then ok, but readability at tiny scale was never part of the design criteria.
▶ No.54197>>54202 >>54223
>>54195
>Libbie is now public domain
Its sad to see someone's hopes get crushed like that, but this is probably for the best.
▶ No.54202>>54205 >>54207
>>54197
>public domain
You mean anyone, anywhere can use her now?
▶ No.54205>>54207 >>54217 >>54221 >>54241
>>54202
It means we could legally add her to the /fur/ cast if we wanted to.
▶ No.54207>>54221 >>54241 >>62140
>>54202
Yep.
>>54205
We should in her memory
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>>54205
She can be Kemo's little sister. Made by Bill to help him with shit in pretty much the exact same way that Jarvis does for Tony Stark.
▶ No.54221>>54225 >>62140
>>54205
Is Tyson a /fur/ regular?
It'd be weird to do if not, plus the cast is more than large enough already.
I like the thought behind >>54207 but we can just NEVER FORGET what the penguin has done instead of shoehorning her into some place she doesn't really fit in.
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YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
>>54195
Mind as well play this now.
>>54197
We should do some type of tribute (or more fanart I guess) for Libbie, just as a way of saying we appreciate the creator's work.
▶ No.54224>>54234 >>54691
They should start recompiling versions of Libreoffice's source replacing the mascot with Libbie just to spite them. Call it "TrueLibreOffice" or something
▶ No.54225>>54227
>>54221
>Is Tyson a /fur/ regular?
Highly doubt it.
I wasn't implying that we should do it, just that anyone can use Libbie for any purpose now.
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>>54225
>just that anyone can use Libbie for any purpose now.
He's a follower of Stallman so he likes open source software. It's natural he'd allow anyone to use it
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>>54224
Call it "LibbieOffice".
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>>54205
>>54207
She belongs to /tech/ more than she belongs to us. I think we should let them have her. We can still make OC though.
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>>54241
This.
Of course, she can visit from time to time.
Besides, Kemo is our main board figure, and anyone who says otherwise is a cunt.
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If any drawfags are still interested, we're going to pitch Libbie as the official /tech/ mascot. Any concept OC would be very much welcome.
▶ No.54572>>54577
>>54446
F8th came from /fur/
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>>54572
And looks just like a tall, female N8.
It's /furry/-tier cloning trash.
▶ No.54578>>54597
>>54577
you're /furry/-tier trash. fuck off with the tired edgelord act.
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>>54578
>dislike n8 in favor of Kemo
>'UR AN EDGELORD GET OUT OF HERE'
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>>54023 (OP)
Requesting Libre getting fucked by the Hootsuite owl for maximum nerd porn.
▶ No.54748>>54753
>>54577
>F8th trash
What the fuck man!
▶ No.54753>>54756
>>54748
>literally just tall female N8
>good
Into the grinder it goes.
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>>54023 (OP)
Oh, so you're the assholes that keep fucking with FOSS. Please fuck off.
▶ No.54756>>54759
>>54753
You're literally the only piece of shit complaining about F8th. Piss off back to cuckchan. Not fucking welcome here, neither is your autistic thread.
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>>54756
This isn;t my thread. I just like Kemo, and wish she was more popular around here, rather than the n8 clone.
▶ No.54843
So, did we pretty much get a happy ending here?
▶ No.54865>>55194
>>54759
Can't have Kemo without the whole bunch.
You only have the right to complain if you actually contribute. But you dont.
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In case anyone was still curious about the ending to this:
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>>55120
You have no heart, anon.
▶ No.55194>>55213
>>54865
You literally only need Bill Kat for Kemo and that's only if you go with the backstory stuff for her.
Otherwise, she's perfect.
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>>55106
What the fuck were those complaints by the other artists? Disrupting the commision market by making free art for a free contest for the mascot of a free piece of software? Abusing the fanbase? What?
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>>55202
Furry artists are cunts, mate.
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>>55202
Can you imagine how salty Apple execs would be if some guy invented a competitor for the iPhone, and just started giving them out for free? It's exactly like that.
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>>55194
It's a drone dude, what's wrong with you. It's even confirmed she doesn't have a pussy.
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>>55213
When has that ever stopped anyone? Why would you let it?
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>>55106
I'm glad Tyson is doing a little better. I've been dealing with the same types of feelings of betrayal and being alone, so I know how much it sucks.
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>>55106
While the right thing would be for me to rejoice we (yes, I contributed a little) made a cheated artist's day better, all I want to say is............
........ I really love that font. Which one is it?
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>>55403
It kinda looks like the default Ubuntu font. Not sure.
▶ No.55412
>>55410
It's not, I just checked.
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>>55403
Looks like Source Code Pro.
▶ No.57160>>57161
It's okay that libby lost
▶ No.57161>>62140
>>57160
wait i wasn'T DOnt typing yet.
I wanted to say that libbie is not good because every consuMER msut be able to draw the brand or its not really good right? So since Iam classified stupid i am prefect subject to test this theory. here is me trying to draw libbie after i looked at the template for a bunch and then right next to it is clippy (best mascott) which i can draw even if i have not seen IT after 4 yrear,
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>>54195
>>54207
I could see a Transistor/Gravity Rush hybrid game suiting her.
>>54221
Taking the screen cap from above, I say make the penguin a shitty (literally) Clinton meme analogue, like *wildly* incontinent.
You know *exactly* the type of furfag that will bring to their forums.
>>57161
Was that in the contest? She is mostly just triangle. A minimalist version shouldn't be too hard.
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