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Re: what ugly mascots
by reldruh on Sunday 20/Jan/2008, @11:03

Those costumes actually took months to put together; I know because I'm wearing one of them in that picture. Just a funny (strange) observation: I didn't really feel like part of the community until I walked in wearing that costume and now I understand at least some of what it must have been like for the developers when people who hadn't used KDE4.0 for very long, if at all were constantly saying really negative things. You are, of course, entitled to your opinions and I'm actually not upset (anymore) that you have such a low one. The only thing I want to ask is that before you start trashing somebody elses work (mine, the KDE developers, anybodys), especially when all you've seen is a single picture (I'm assuming you weren't at the release event, correct me if I'm wrong), try to remember that these things that look simple often aren't (I'm almost positive you've never made anything like them yourselves; if you had, you would know just how much work goes into them) and be a little bit more polite. "Rather ugly" and "look like some child put them together" isn't the best way to start a productive conversation.

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Re: what ugly mascots
by Beat Wolf on Sunday 20/Jan/2008, @14:08

hey, i found the costumes cool. sure, on the first look i was, uh.. ok. but then i saw all the detailed work that had to be done for this costumes, and i was remembering myself that the person who did it, probably did it we nearly no budget, and thats why i think your costume is great, it's realy authentic.

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Re: what ugly mascots
by Aaron J. Seigo on Sunday 20/Jan/2008, @20:29

dude, those costume rocked my world. seriously. the fact that you actually *made* them yourselves blew me away; i mean, katie even had the right necklace! they were awesome, they made the event feel even more KDE than it already did and i don't think there was a single person who wasn't smiling ear-to-ear when we saw you guys in costume. heck, that's why we stood outside for 20 minutes taking pictures of konqi and katie in various poses with various people there =)

rock on!

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Re: what ugly mascots
by Max on Monday 21/Jan/2008, @11:39

I think your costumes were really cute. I don't know why people are so hard on you.
If you'd want to, I'd like to invite you to Baycon '08 to come with that costume and show it off at the costume contest. I think people there would really like it/appreciate it.

Also a great promo opportunity for KDE fans.. :)

Who knows, maybe one of the writers there will take a liking to the image and start a KDE themed Scifi/Fantasy book series?

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Re: what ugly mascots
by bersl2 on Tuesday 22/Jan/2008, @13:53

I for one think they look awesome. While I don't have first-hand experience, I know how much time, effort, and money such costumes can require.

Of course, there are things that could have made it even better: it would have been more "true" to have padded out the arms and body more. However, this is not at all trivial to do, so I can't exactly blame you. I also think the head looks like it has sharp edges (at least with Konqi, though not so much Katie).

Still, they are very nice.

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