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    Image of ShaggE wants to join the Egg Council. ShaggE wants to join the Egg Council.
    02/22/09

    In reply to Stock Photos Capture Gaming at its Most Fail
    Since just about every other comment is saying it, I want in on this bandwagon:


    The TV is blank because it's Photoshopped later by whatever company buys the photo.


    Ah, sweet redundancy.

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    Image of SketchyIndividual SketchyIndividual
    02/22/09

    In reply to Stock Photos Capture Gaming at its Most Fail
    Worst part: someone is actually going to get paid for these.
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    Image of Antiterra Antiterra
    02/22/09

    @SketchyIndividual: No, the worst part is that someone already did.
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    Image of ShadowOdin of dubious snowiness ShadowOdin of dubious snowiness
    02/22/09

    In reply to Stock Photos Capture Gaming at its Most Fail
    Owen, while I consider you my no.1 editor on Kotaku, this shows that you have no clue what good stockphotos are.

    Yes, they are generic and people look wrong, but sadly that is what sell, and when that is usually what these types of photos are for. They are used to sell.

    Like someone else said, the screen is left black for a purpose. It's kinda like an "Attach your own screenshot here"-deal. These photos are going into photoshop, and they are going to get edited in some way.


    However, your post is obviously for the lulz, and for that I forgive you. I will look at this link and laugh at the inaccuracies like everyone else here will.

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    ShadowOdin of dubious snowiness was starred ShadowOdin of dubious snowiness was unstarred
    Image of ShadowOdin of dubious snowiness ShadowOdin of dubious snowiness
    02/22/09

    @ShadowOdin a.k.a. Kinjinson: Finally been able to see them all now, and while all of them are funny, most of them are relevant as far as stocks go.


    But god damnit, that last one was retarded.

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    ShadowOdin of dubious snowiness was starred ShadowOdin of dubious snowiness was unstarred
    Image of Antiterra Antiterra
    02/22/09

    In reply to Stock Photos Capture Gaming at its Most Fail
    Owen, you sexy beast, you never told us you moonlighted as a model: [www.the-minusworld.com] .
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    Image of Owen Good Owen Good
    02/22/09

    @Antiterra: too much hair.
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    Image of fleet fleet
    02/22/09

    In reply to Stock Photos Capture Gaming at its Most Fail
    It is stock photography, of course the screen is black. They can't sell an image with copyrighted material on the screen. Not to mention that if someone is buying this photo to use in a campaign or on a web site they are going to want their own content on the screen. It is a lot easier to rotoscope out a black screen and replace it with what you want then it is to do the same with an image on the screen.


    In this case it seems that we are the ones being ignorant. Setting that aside, it would be funny if in fact it was a mistake and someone forgot to turn on the screen :p, but it's not very likely that that is the case.

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    Image of Chilly Hollow Chilly Hollow
    02/23/09

    @fleet: You are right. These things are sold to be the most generic possible so that more folks will buy.
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    Image of homernoy homernoy
    02/22/09

    In reply to Stock Photos Capture Gaming at its Most Fail
    Just now stopped laughing, but if I even think about the three fat kids with glasses sitting in living technicolor, I will start cracking up again.
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    Image of okenny :) ...building bridges (to hide under) okenny :) ...building bridges (to hide under)
    02/22/09

    In reply to Stock Photos Capture Gaming at its Most Fail
    @Owen:


    Not a big deal... I was just wondering why there was a NSFW tag on this story. The idea of there being smut I'm missing out on because I failed to see it doesn't sit well with my members of me. I myself don't mind but my penis is raising hell!

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    Image of Owen Good Owen Good
    02/22/09

    @okenny :) ...building bridges (to hide under): The dirty secret is, we have to do it every time there's a cuss word in a post.
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    Image of nikolaj nikolaj
    02/22/09

    In reply to Stock Photos Capture Gaming at its Most Fail
    This sounds very amusing, I sure hope kotaku doesn't kill that website!

    oh.
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    Image of ShadowOdin of dubious snowiness ShadowOdin of dubious snowiness
    02/22/09

    @nikolaj: I guess I'll have to wait until post-Kotaku invasion
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    Image of Bialia Bialia
    02/22/09

    In reply to Stock Photos Capture Gaming at its Most Fail
    Hilarious. However, it looks like you've linked to page 2 accidentally. :)
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    Image of Daniel Hinkles Daniel Hinkles
    02/22/09

    In reply to Stock Photos Capture Gaming at its Most Fail
    How about a list of 30 of the cheapest stock photo sites for gamers. More specifically ones where people pose for character modelling.
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    Daniel Hinkles was starred Daniel Hinkles was unstarred
    Image of Daniel Hinkles Daniel Hinkles
    02/22/09

    @Daniel Hinkles: nude or extremely close to nude - preferibly.
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    Image of CustomFirmware CustomFirmware
    02/22/09

    @Daniel Hinkles:


    And female!

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    Image of The_IT_Crone The_IT_Crone
    02/22/09

    @CustomFirmware: I don't know, a nude male doing the Wii Fit/Hula Hoop thing sounds amusing.
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    Image of CustomFirmware CustomFirmware
    02/22/09

    @The_IT_Crone:


    But if it were a female, it'd be bonerific!

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    Image of Daniel Hinkles Daniel Hinkles
    02/22/09

    @CustomFirmware: I was actually hoping someone would post a suggestion. I have to build a character over the next week and need some pics.
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    Image of Chilly Hollow Chilly Hollow
    02/23/09

    @Daniel Hinkles: IStock is said to be pretty cheap but I did find this--


    [www.powstock.com]


    You might browse Flickr.com and see if anyone is doing photos you need and strike a deal with them.

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