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ScoobyShooter wrote:Better! Would still prefer it without the bra either.

I would never put a topless lobster on a shirt! That is just wrong.

Re: Shrimp Is the Fruit of The Sea...

I don't get it,

Good effort though

I love Brown...my favorite shirt ever on this site was jackalope, I love this shirt!

kylemittskus wrote:Because you've purchased so many of his previous prints...

no I like ramyb's work cuz its cute. the reason i like this shirt is cuz i love cute things and this catches my eye. also I espically like the kittty.
and btw I actually fell in love with seki's shirts first, when they had the myths derby and was devastated that it didnt win. and throug more derbies i found other artists that i grew a liking to as well, and i think i only have one or 2 of raymb's prints but im still a fan of his work.

Re: Duck Soup

YESSSSSSSS!!!!

MysticVixen13 wrote:wahhh its so cute I love the kitty I totally want to buy this shirt ^.^ I hope you keep on doing what you do Ramyb your shirts have such adorable designs. Im a total fan of yours and Sekiyoku's work. I look forward to seeing more of your work in future derbies

But you have 0 woots...

MysticVixen13 wrote:no I like ramyb's work cuz its cute. the reason i like this shirt is cuz i love cute things and this catches my eye. also I espically like the kittty.
and btw I actually fell in love with seki's shirts first, when they had the myths derby and was devastated that it didnt win. and throug more derbies i found other artists that i grew a liking to as well, and i think i only have one or 2 of raymb's prints but im still a fan of his work.

I'm wondering what part of this is cute. Other than the kittty, but since that was what you espically like, it implies another cute thing.

thatrobert wrote:

• Congratulations on winning a Best Loser Award!
  
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• You've got serious thrill issues, dude.
  

Thanks for the nod Robert! It's always appreciated.

Re: Pierate

Puns are delicious! I can't believe that joke didn't occur to me while you were making this.

Re: Nothing Wasted

LOVE the shirt, the blue really makes the other colors pop

But it would have been nice if his face was more grim (in pain) instead of surprised.

starboardzor wrote:This shirt reminds me in no way of a really awkward looking Nightmare Before Christmas halloween costume.

hahaha agreed

starboardzor wrote:This shirt reminds me in no way of a really awkward looking Nightmare Before Christmas halloween costume.

hahaha agreed

Re: Oops! My Finger!

I would actually wear this.

Re: Nothing Wasted

Poor doughboy. I keep coming back and looking at this and giggling. But I'm not going to say that I like the shirt, because when I say that, I get disappointed.

But if it does print, I'm gonna bake a doughboy bread to match the shirt.

AdderXYU wrote:
They'll all be insurance agents or independently wealthy, but hey, who cares WHY they want it, so long as they're happy, right? I'm sure it's totally fair to everyone so long as someone's getting what they want.

Adder, I never said it was fair. I was just stating that the supporters of this shirt would be happy. Obviously there is no one solution that will make everyone happy so why waste time arguing about it? Save some keystrokes and just let what happens, happen. Plus there's always the chance that ramyb won't place in the top three so hang onto that hope and stop harping on everyone who seems to clash with your views on what's perfectly right and fair.

fleaboy498 wrote:why is he cooking legos?

I thought they were whoopie cushions...

Draug wrote:Adder, I never said it was fair. I was just stating that the supporters of this shirt would be happy. Obviously there is no one solution that will make everyone happy so why waste time arguing about it? Save some keystrokes and just let what happens, happen. Plus there's always the chance that ramyb won't place in the top three so hang onto that hope and stop harping on everyone who seems to clash with your views on what's perfectly right and fair.

Time spent trying to improve something is never time wasted.

Re: Pierate

this one is way more clever, kudos to you

andrewdanger wrote:I think that this is too similar to this



I hope that it doesn't get rejected.

C'mon now. That's not even really trying.

Re: Hot Date (RE-SUB)

just from a design standpoint i hated the underwear... so thanks for the re-sub

AdderXYU wrote:Time spent trying to improve something is never time wasted.

Yes, true, but your methods to improve are sometimes questionable. That is not progress, that is a hindrance and thus no better than wasted time.

drkdemon wrote:But you have 0 woots...

A rabid ramy and seki supporter has multiple accounts? I am shocked and amazed.......

renouxa wrote:My feelings are hurt at any rate. As has been stated earlier, if they wanted to reject it for copyright reasons, fine. But that at least leaves the artist another shot to make it more of a parody or more vague. Rejecting TMNT because it became a video game at some point rules that out. I wanted that shirt, and now woot has hurt my feelings. This will likely result in a boycott on my part. Follow consistent rules or have none at all!

I was feeling the same way, I know it is merely a rejection of a design; but through the way it was done, I've lost some faith in this site... I might just be done with it.

AdderXYU wrote:I love how there is so much defense of this entry.

Video Game, Comic, TV show, whatever. It is copyrighted material, and not the intellectual property of the designer here, with slim-at-best parody. Their REASON might be wrong, but woot has every right to reject ANY entry like this. Because if you are using someone else's work, they need to be damn confident it will be unlikely to get them sued.

I have to side with the rest, Adder; I'm irritated about this and I didn't even vote for the design (though I really did like the colors). If they rejected it and said "use of copyrighted characters with insufficient parody", fine, but the videogame rule being invoked stretches credulity.

And yes, I read your KKK analogy in another post. Like most of your analogies, it's needlessly inflammatory and has little to do with the perceived violation of the actual design in question. Of course, nobody wants a KKK entry. That's much less of a no-brainer than whether this design violates IP law.

My main issue is that woot killed this entry for the dumbest possible reason and yet ramy's entry, which has nothing to do with the theme (and will likely print terribly) has escaped the rejectionator's wrath.

IndependentVik wrote:I have to side with the rest, Adder; I'm irritated about this and I didn't even vote for the design (though I really did like the colors). If they rejected it and said "use of copyrighted characters with insufficient parody", fine, but the videogame rule being invoked stretches credulity.

And yes, I read your KKK analogy in another post. Like most of your analogies, it's needlessly inflammatory and has little to do with the perceived violation of the actual design in question. Of course, nobody wants a KKK entry. That's much less of a no-brainer than whether this design violates IP law.

My main issue is that woot killed this entry for the dumbest possible reason and yet ramy's entry, which has nothing to do with the theme (and will likely print terribly) has escaped the rejectionator's wrath.

Leaving out comparisons with other rejections, I'm just a little confused why the reason for this rejection is so controversial. To me, "no video game references" seems pretty cut-and-dried. It doesn't say that if it was a book or movie or cartoon as well as a game it doesn't count -- it just says that if it refers to a game it's rejected.

I could see the argument if the game sold ten copies from the bargain bin in a third-world country, but apparently a lot of people are familiar with the game, so it's not unpopular or obscure. So how would you draw the line on whether the a video game reference exists or not?

And for the record, I'm not arguing, I'm just curious.

IndependentVik wrote:I have to side with the rest, Adder; I'm irritated about this and I didn't even vote for the design (though I really did like the colors). If they rejected it and said "use of copyrighted characters with insufficient parody", fine, but the videogame rule being invoked stretches credulity.

And yes, I read your KKK analogy in another post. Like most of your analogies, it's needlessly inflammatory and has little to do with the perceived violation of the actual design in question. Of course, nobody wants a KKK entry. That's much less of a no-brainer than whether this design violates IP law.

My main issue is that woot killed this entry for the dumbest possible reason and yet ramy's entry, which has nothing to do with the theme (and will likely print terribly) has escaped the rejectionator's wrath.

At woot, everything is a no-brainer.

I think it is a dumb reason for rejection, but I think people are mad because woot doesn't know their Turtles. Which is idiotic. This is not 80sculture.woot.com.

Objectively, what is so great about this shirt that requires such outrage? What is so special and original? How is it more than just using someone else's intellectual property? While I completely agree that Ramy's garbage should be rejected for being offtheme and unprintable, Ramy usually only plagiarizes himself and unknown "how to draw desu" guides. And occasionally the guy who did Staring contest.

That one person's trash isn't rejected is a pretty weak reason to defend a piece that is pretty clearly not parody. I agree that woot doesn't know their Turtle history. But when I care about them knowing their turtle history more than I care about them rejecting pop-culture without commentary or strong parody, that is when I'll complain that they goofed up which came first.

The video game excuse is simply to get rid of a shirt they wanted nothing to do with. When they can find a good excuse to do the same with Ramy, I'm sure they will. But until then, we all know they're a double edged sword. We need to be mad at what they don't do, but happy for the good decisions they make, few as they are. And axing this design was an excellent decision.

Re: revenge. better than lollipops

if you have seen this commercial a couple times, it would make perfect sense. i like it a lot.

Re: Nothing Wasted

Cool stuff as always.

Stormink wrote:Wow. Good thing I quit even commenting on Woot or I probably would have killed myself a long time ago.

Hmm. Contradiction. Regardless, that oughta get you a lotta votes.

AdderXYU wrote:At woot, everything is a no-brainer.

I think it is a dumb reason for rejection, but I think people are mad because woot doesn't know their Turtles. Which is idiotic. This is not 80sculture.woot.com.

Objectively, what is so great about this shirt that requires such outrage? What is so special and original? How is it more than just using someone else's intellectual property? While I completely agree that Ramy's garbage should be rejected for being offtheme and unprintable, Ramy usually only plagiarizes himself and unknown "how to draw desu" guides. And occasionally the guy who did Staring contest.

That one person's trash isn't rejected is a pretty weak reason to defend a piece that is pretty clearly not parody. I agree that woot doesn't know their Turtle history. But when I care about them knowing their turtle history more than I care about them rejecting pop-culture without commentary or strong parody, that is when I'll complain that they goofed up which came first.

The video game excuse is simply to get rid of a shirt they wanted nothing to do with. When they can find a good excuse to do the same with Ramy, I'm sure they will. But until then, we all know they're a double edged sword. We need to be mad at what they don't do, but happy for the good decisions they make, few as they are. And axing this design was an excellent decision.

Well said.

Radscoolian wrote:I would never put a topless lobster on a shirt! That is just wrong.

I'd never put a shirt on a lobster, but a lobster on shirt (or a plate) is fine.

Re: Let's bake a cake!

I can't believe I only just noticed this one. Can't stop looking at the cheering butter; he just really makes me smile.

It's a shame that so many people think cartoony has to be cancellation and hack, because this is great. GMV for sure.

ChefRAZ wrote:the border around the pie is too straight(like it was cut out), it's good that people vote for designs because of spite. usaual woot crowd. pies aren't that good.

I like pie, and I like this design. No spite, just love.

DMLK64 wrote:Treat your cooking utensils properly - or else!!!

Love it.

Re: Almost Too Complicated

This is beautiful, when it wins I'm sending it as a cookbook to my brother at NCSU!

Jaiyla wrote:yes...its an onion...

Strangely, I think this is hilarious.

zekeus wrote:GMV, this is awesome. me=chem major, this shirt=perfect.

Agreed!!!

Re: Here I Come Warhol!!!

Fantastic. Would have liked it better on white, but love it nonetheless.

Leahbh wrote:Reminds me a little of dr horrible.

It's the lab coat... that's not a common style outside the universe of Joss Whedon. You can't really buy them, actually, I had to make my own when I was Dr. Horrible for last Halloween.

And he definitely rockin' those goggles!

Re: A Dangerous Concoction

Wow, this is apparently a very controversial shirt. Who knew.

I like it, except for if I were actually wearing this shirt, the cauldron would be on my stomach. And I wouldn't want to invite to comparison to a pot belly, ya know?? Awkward.