Questionable Antiquation
Greetings, crickets and trolls. Welcome back to another edition of the Friday Q&A. Each week, I answer the questions that no one is asking. Hard-hitting journalism at its finest. I'm like that famous reporter, Woodward Bernstein, who used nothing but his wits and probably a tape recorder to uncover one of the greatest scandals in American history, Richard Nixon's presidency. No wonder blowjobs are named after him.
Q: Did you see the 200,000th PSAEF post?
A: I sure did. Like many Fark PSers, I was on hand to witness my favorite Photoshop discussion forum hit 200,000 posts. All the thrills of watching a car's odometer turn over, without the imminent threat of transmission failure. I'm not being sarcastic, either. I genuinely enjoy watching odometers turn over.
Q: How many of those 200,000 posts were about Photoshop?
A: I would estimate about half, if you count discussions centered around the decline of Photoshop. The rest are split between discussing pets and various sundry personal issues, all of which I love reading about. I've been enjoying that forum for as far back as I can clearly remember. Given, that's only a couple of weeks.
Q: What does the future hold for the PSAEF?
A: Only time will tell. But if past events are any indication, a race of hyper-intelligent computers will evolve and attempt to exterminate humanity. It happened in the 80's, and it's bound to happen again. It'll probably be even worse this time, with all the jiggabytes and DVD drives they put in modern computers. But the PSAEF will remain. And the hyper-intelligent AI entities will gather and discuss Photoshopping, whilst sharing cute pictures of their human pets. I know it sounds grim, but we still have a couple of years before all this happens.
That's all for this time, gentle reader. Thanks again for stopping by. I'd like to take some time here to once again thank all the fine PSAEF regulars for providing me with years of entertainment. If anything, that forum proves to me that some things never change.
Stay tuned for more wistful sentiment from the Doctor!
Friday, July 22, 2011
Friday Q&A
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2 comments:
I really didn't want to post in the PSAEF because you are right - it's the same shit over and over. For 7 years I've been reading about the death of Fark photoshop. Ugh. But the last couple years on other sites I've been reading about 'the death of photoshop' on those sites too. So I really felt Farkers needed to know that this wasn't unique to them.
I posted this today:
No matter what outcomes you want, what tools you use, how much time you devote, if the activity and sharing is fun to you, then your participation is above judgement.
The tools and methods may evolve and mainstream popularity may rise and fall, but as long as folk have fun photoshopping and looking at photoshops, it will not die.
Fun never goes out of style.
Thanks for your insight. It's something I've noticed too, though I've always dismissed such talk as our natural human tendency to glamorize the past.
If the rumors are true, and Photoshop truly is dead, I didn't get the memo. I use that program every day, and I'm astonished at how much I'm still learning.
In my opinion, the only thing hurting our community is the self-censorship that takes place when people start asking themselves if their work is good enough to post. In a way, efforts taken to stave off the death of Photoshop only serve to perpetuate the idea.
No group of people, no matter how dedicated, could ever hope to hold back such a tide if it were true. But like you said, we at Fark have been reading about our community's impending death for 7 damn years.
That's longer than these people even considered Fark to be alive for. Which should give you some insight towards the veracity of their claims.
I also agree about fun. I intend to keep having it for as long as I possibly can. Hey, if Photoshop isn't "hip and edgy" any more, we can just say we're doing it for ironic hipster street cred.
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