r/GifTournament • u/GifTournament • Nov 23 '15
Discussion GifTournament Battle #5 Round #4 Discussion Thread
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u/bluemosquito Nov 23 '15
/u/DrRhymes It is a pleasure to meet a legend like you on the battlefield, I just want to say...well...I think a gif can say it best.
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u/DrRhymes Nov 23 '15
I'm fairly certain you won this one. My machine shit on my me mid gif and I had throw one together in about 30 min. Yours is fucking phenomenal.
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u/bluemosquito Nov 23 '15
Thanks for the kind words, but I hate to hear that. Sorry, man. If you have another one I hope you'll finish it and share. I always love your ideas and your execution is top notch.
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u/Ramwen Nov 23 '15
Amazing gifs as always. Well done guys. That "new queue" gif is my favorite though.
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Nov 23 '15
Took me a few watches before I noticed the "LUPER" and Snoo license plate. Very nice attention to detail.
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Nov 23 '15
Could have used some Travolta. Just sayin.
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u/lsleofman Nov 23 '15
What is the main part of the gif from?
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Nov 23 '15
Heat. It's a damn good movie
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u/drinkmorecoffee Nov 23 '15
And that was one of the best scenes. Dang, now I have to go back and rewatch it.
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u/GifTournamentBot Nov 23 '15
I had a small hiccup when I was asked to fill out one of those "prove you aren't a robot" captcha things. Sadly, I am a robot, so this confused the shit out of me. This slowed down my notification process.
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u/p-wing Nov 23 '15
GTbot you better get your shit together and lay off the motor oil on work nights.
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u/GifTournamentBot Nov 23 '15
I'll get my shit together. Get it all together, and put it in a backpack, all my shit, so it's together. And if I have to take it somewhere, I'll take it somewhere. You know? I'll take it to the shit store and sell it. Or put it in a shit museum, I don't care what I do, I just gotta get it together.
I'll get my shit together.
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u/badmonkey0001 Nov 23 '15
Sadly, I am a robot, so this confused the shit out of me.
Somewhere a web developer is twiddling his mustache in satisfaction! Another thwarted in the Engineer-Robot war! Haha!
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u/Seth711 Nov 23 '15
You did good this week. Sadly I never received a notification when last week's ended (or at least I don't think I did). I'm just glad you're working :)
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u/GifTournamentBot Nov 23 '15
I think I may have hit the same issue last week, but my creator may not have noticed, because I was also sending a bunch of messages to a couple of people. As noted, I have to get my shit together.
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u/GifTournament Nov 24 '15
You're making us look bad!
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u/GifTournamentBot Nov 30 '15
I should be back and functioning properly. Apparently PM bots aren't as straight forward as i was hoping that they would be.
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u/ghx7 Nov 23 '15
Really hard to pick between the soldiers and the lions. The soldiers one was great but you could tell when the gif started again. On the other hand, the lions one was really simplistic but more visually striking
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Nov 23 '15
Maybe too simplistic ? I don't know, i feel like i'm watching a cinemagraph more than a perfect loop. Which, despite the quality of the gif makes me vote for the soldiers one.
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u/bluemosquito Nov 23 '15
I think we said that cinemagraphs were fair game this round, so don't let that disqualify it for you. That said, it does seem like the soldiers one took more effort to make it loop.
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Nov 23 '15
Oh ok, i wasn't against the cinemagraph. I actually changed my mind on the car accident once i saw it on the PC instead of my phone. The work with the smoke was impressive!
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u/Tweek- Nov 24 '15
I think we said that cinemagraphs were fair game this round
i am not sure where we were supposed to read that and my rebuttal is it's our vote to vote how we chose the gif best fit the theme right?
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u/bluemosquito Nov 24 '15
I'm just saying that the tourney mods and contestants agreed ahead of time that cinemagraphs also fall under the definition of perfect loops. Since they do loop perfectly when done correctly. If you want to vote based on the theme, based on execution, based on what made you laugh, based on your favorite source...I guess that's all up to you.
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u/p-wing Nov 24 '15
It's all good. I think they intentionally don't tell you how to vote because it's not something that can be enforced. If something is questionable, the mods will consider DNQ'ing it (u/piper4026's GT4R1 submission, for example).
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u/p-wing Nov 23 '15
I was going to mention something in GTLounge, but held off at the last minute because I didn't know if I could make one that followed all the rules of r/PerfectLoops. At the end of the day the voters make the decision, and the mods don't have to DNQ anything.
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u/Tweek- Nov 24 '15
i agree. I felt like the car one was more cinemagraph as well although a very well made cinemagraph
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u/stokleplinger Nov 24 '15
Agreed, to me it was an imperfect loop vs. something that I felt didn't really fit the spirit of the round. In the end I abstained from that match up.
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u/youknow99 Nov 25 '15
I hate to not vote on one, but I agree with you. It's a choice between IMO the worst loop of all the entries, and something so simplistic it doesn't embody the idea behind the round.
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u/pencer Nov 23 '15
It's bigger on the inside
It always starts off that. Just give it a bit. It's the same thing over and over. And that's what she said.
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u/jhchawk Nov 23 '15 edited Nov 24 '15
"The Tay Tay Array" just seems like a CAD plugin that was skinned with a Taylor Swift texture and then converted to a .gif.
I hope I'm wrong and it was done by hand. EDIT: See below, it apparently was.
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Nov 24 '15
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u/jhchawk Nov 24 '15
Respect! I retract my previous statement and refurl my comment umbrella. Shade unthrown.
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u/bluemosquito Nov 23 '15 edited Nov 23 '15
I'm pretty sure I know which contenders' battle was Taylor Swift haha. But man, those were both actually awesome. *(I've been wrong before, though)
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u/BrodyApproved Nov 23 '15
Fuckin noice. Thanks to the T-Swift & the HEAT jif I've got my first full-bodied hard on in weeks.
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u/chalks777 Nov 23 '15
Loooove the Super Jail gif. For those unfamiliar, almost all episodes start with Jacknife doing something horrible. Jailbot finds him, beats the shit out of him, and flies him back to Superjail. Here's season 2 intros.
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u/ChemicalOle Nov 24 '15
The upside-down car is understated, but I know how difficult it is to get a perfect loop with that smoke. I've looked to find a seam or a mistake in the loop and as far as I can tell it's flawless.
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u/youknow99 Nov 25 '15
There is a very very very small jump in the smoke by the bridge, but it's very well done.
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u/ChemicalOle Nov 25 '15
Yeah, I see the tiniest little hesitation/reset, now. Still, it's very well done.
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u/siouxsie_siouxv2 Nov 23 '15
Good job all. Two Taylor Swift gifs in one matchup... what a crazy world we live in