Civ V stock image Scavenger hunt
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In Danish we have two words for that, those roughly translate to illegal and punishable.
Minor offences, like crossing a red light, is illegal but you can't get punished for it.
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It is also interesting that this is also very akin to sports, where you are actually supposed to cheat... just don't get caught!
Most teams in the US hardly have players that were born or either lived in the towns they play for. Better yet, they will move to another city (shamelessly) if sales are low. Today most sport matches are more like tv shows than an actual sporting events, to the point that most games are within hours that have high ratings (and have generous commercial breaks). This is specially true for world cup events in sports like soccer, were the matches are then arranged to ungodly hot afternoon hours so that people in Europe can watch the matches (as it happened with the world cup in Mexico 86').
Soccer is perhaps the worst sport in cheating matters, we are all quite aware of the roll and cries of pain by soccer players when grazed lightly by a member of the oposite team. Players are also encouraged to cheat by kicking, spiting and grabbing, so long as they don't get caught. Most fans will be upset when a foul occurs, specially if penalized right. This creates a culture of lets cheat to get ahead, just like in sports. Studies have found that sport players have higher rates of cheating through school than other students.
My favorite type of cheating in sports is when whole goverments will try to use sports to their advantage by manipulating them. Hitler did this with the 1936 olympics (creating many traditions we still use today in the olympics) and Musolini with the 1934 World Cup (Italy won). Other dictators are more savvy and will support the most popular teams to whitewash some of their harsh methods. Among those who have done this sleight of hand we can find Pinochet, Franco, Nicolai Ceausecu and Jorge Rafael Videla.
But it doesn't matter to the public, so long as their team wins. Most fans of a certain videogame that shall remain nameless seem to be ok with a complex and unethical copyright violation situation, so long as said gaming company keeps bringing the patches or downloadable content, then it's all forgiven.
I think this is a bit difficult to support, but it's obvious a few don't care. What can you do? We all have our own battles.
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Some changes to this one, but I'm confident this is the image used. It's weird that almost all of the people in the icons seem to be original.
Yeah, they even kept the reflections on the glass, and the view of the palace through the pyramid.
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Ahh, the good ol' fashioned thread about originality.
How about I say... John Cage and...
Yup. Doesn't ring a bell.
I'm glad Firaxis decided to use google art. It's actually more original then being unique.
How about I say... John Cage and...
Yup. Doesn't ring a bell.
I'm glad Firaxis decided to use google art. It's actually more original then being unique.
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Yup, noticed that. It's not that hard to draw people if they are doing somewhat mundane things at a boring angle (nothing too fancy there). However other changes to make the images original are bizarre, check out the little faux wheels on the bottom. Not only they make no sense, their angle is all wrong.
The point of this thread is not to incriminate Firaxis, it is to find out what source images they used to make their icons. This is completely fair.
Given a very tiny budget increase, they could have paid for the rights to use certain images as well. Something is hardly fair though, I agree.
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Tiny increase as in 1 dollar per picture tiny...
http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-3563960-cinnamon-sticks.php
...and as in "free but you must credit it" tiny
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:FortRoss-chapel-reconstructed.jpg
This doesn't apply to all images, some are public domain (free pass), some were just used as inspiration and have little to no trace of their original sources (free pass too) and others are neither for sale or under creative commons.
That was how it started, but then the discussion spiraled.
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The Coral Reef seems to be based on a screen saver.
http://forum.esoft.in/desktop-enhancements/10277-coral-reef-3d-screensaver.html
The screensaver in question also seems to use the same stock image tactic as Firaxis.
http://forum.esoft.in/desktop-enhancements/10277-coral-reef-3d-screensaver.html
The screensaver in question also seems to use the same stock image tactic as Firaxis.
Not Civ 5, but since there's some discussion of the history of the practice, here's one from Firaxis that I noticed a long long time ago:
Aki Zeta 5 from Alpha Centauri: Alien Crossfire:
German supermodel Nadja Auermann:
Good catch.
Also, welcome to the forums.
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Likely match, fits in numerous places (although there are numerous pictures of Stonehenge, yet the image is based on a real reference).
And now a weird one:
1.- Not the Kremlim (it's Saint Basil's Cathedral)
2.- There was significant modification from any reference used (really, there was)
3.- Why is it flipped then?
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