Are things slower around here?

[Kriven]

You are all fucking funny.

You will never attract non-spriters if all of your emphasis and site decisions are based on sprites, is my point. You all seem unwilling to understand that because "But everyone sprites."

But I mean, there's a fundamental difference between having sprite projects and insistinng that everything be for the betterment of pixlekind.
Again, I'm talking about tone and mentality over physical effect. KirbyFan's entire post was about "Proving that sprites are still relevant", which isn't really the point.

It's fine if all you want to do is sprites, go back to being a sprite forum. But right now it's not and by thrusting the word "sprite" into every facet of an idea, you are:

A: Prohibiting non-spriters from participating in projects (like comics).
B: Entrenching the idea that this is a spriting website and alienating non-spriters.

It's all terminology and wording and emphasis that needs to change. Not the spriting.

Making sure I'm on the same page as everyone else, so we can continue productively:
I'm pretty sure that the way to breathe life into tSR (or VGR or whatever) and spritework as a whole, as with any other thing, is to introduce it to popular mediums of art/entertainment. More and more games and videos are moving past sprite-oriented graphics. This is happening to the point where even higher-res spritework is considered "nostalgic". So all we have to do (said lightly) is make the sprite-oriented contents of this forum relatable to a newer audience. Whatever people are used to, we would have to show that it can be done at an equal/higher caliber with sprites instead of 3D or vector-based modeling.

That plan is very good for a site that wants to remain exclusively a spriting website.
Not very good for one that intends on attracting non-spriting blood.

You all seem to be hung up on what the current userbase is capable of as opposed to bringing in new members.

Rhyme: I didn't make that comparison, I elaborated on it. Let's not put words in my mouth.

I just feel like saying what you're talking about is kind of like going onto a gun forum and telling them they need to give up their guns lol

You'd be right if this were still a spriting forum.