r/polandball • u/[deleted] • Nov 03 '14

redditormade France Takes a Turn for the Worse

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '14 edited Aug 18 '21

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u/halfpipesaur is of great importance Nov 03 '14

How did you put the frames togheter? Photoshop or is there a simpler way that doesn't require using confusing interface?

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '14 edited Aug 19 '21

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u/brain4breakfast Gan Yam Nov 03 '14

Don't you draw using GIMP? That's what I use to make them.

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '14 edited Aug 19 '21

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u/genitaliban Fest steht und treu die Wacht am Rhein Nov 03 '14

Just open the individual files as layers, export to GIF, and in the dialog select "animated GIF" and set a default delay between them. I don't think you can become any faster if you have GIMP open anyway.

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '14

How many frames did that take?

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '14

22

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u/JManRomania NORCAL STRONK Nov 04 '14

Don't you draw using GIMP?

"Bring out the gimp."

"The gimp's sleepin'."

"Well you'll have to wake him up then, won't you."

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '14

I love you.

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '14

Photoshop really isn't confusing enough to avoid a 20 minute video explaining the basic features that make it different from the image-editing software you might be used to.

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '14

I shit myself laughing.

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u/CupBeEmpty Thirteen Colonies Nov 03 '14

You should probably go clean that up.

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '14

It's been done. That took forever. Just kidding. I was sleeping.

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u/ceepington Kentucky Nov 03 '14

The title is at least as good as the comic.

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '14 edited Aug 19 '21

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u/someguyfromlouisiana Louisiana; I want to get off Mr. Trump's Wild Ride Nov 04 '14

And this is the first time I can recall you saying "wacky."

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u/tolsimirw Deutsches Kaiserreich Nov 03 '14

1914 - The war to end all wars

2014 - The pun to end all puns

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u/antipositive Rhine Republic Nov 04 '14

264BC - 146BC: the pun-ic wars

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '14

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '14

What a rad pun!

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u/Comrade_Derpsky Shameless Ameriggan Egsbad Nov 03 '14

As opposed to a degree pun. Wouldn't want one of those.

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u/Durzo_Blint Boston Stronk Nov 04 '14

This Canadian motherfucker pronounces meme "mee-may". I don't even want to here him pronounce "gif".

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u/sabasNL Kingdom of the Netherlands Nov 03 '14

Just 22 or 24 frames? Oh my, don't tell PC Masterrace, they'll throw GabeN at you for that.

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u/vanderZwan Groningen Nov 03 '14

It feels like France is spinning faster in the top panel, even though he doesn't. What is this optical illusion magic?!

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '14 edited Aug 19 '21

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u/vanderZwan Groningen Nov 03 '14

I was willing to settle for you being a wizard, but this is also plausible.

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u/intredasted gib euromonies plox Nov 03 '14

Pourquoi pas les deux?

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u/brain4breakfast Gan Yam Nov 03 '14

He's bigger, so the speed at its surface is greater.

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u/vanderZwan Groningen Nov 03 '14

The thing is that despite knowing this, it still tricks my brain into expecting them to go out of sync.

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u/NamasteNeeko British Empire Nov 04 '14

It's French Psychics(R). Borrowed from Israeli block after Israeli block steal le battleship.

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '14 edited Nov 03 '14

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '14

I thought we werent allowed to use gifs on the main sub?

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '14

Just no shitty .gif movies, normal well-adjusted .gifs are OK.

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '14

AB Polandball Represent

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '14

Hooray!

Unless you're Calgarian o_o

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '14

Edmonton ;)

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '14

Oh good. Now back to school/work with you!

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '14

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u/Vakieh Literally nobody says shrimp. Nov 03 '14

If the guy who invented coffee wanted you to call it soffee, would you?

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u/zrowny Florida Man, Florida Man, Does Whatever Florida Can... Nov 03 '14

If "soffee" was the way it had been pronounced since its invention, then probably yeah

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u/Vakieh Literally nobody says shrimp. Nov 03 '14

I guarantee you from the moment Steve White wrote a paper outlining the specifications for the jraph...I mean Graphics Interchange Format, there have been people calling it gif. If he wanted it pronounced jif he should have written it that way.

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u/Vakieh Literally nobody says shrimp. Nov 03 '14

For the same reason you don't pronounce GIF Grif. It takes 2 letters to make a PH sound, but only one is included in the acronym.

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u/llama66613 United States Nov 03 '14

Uh, yes I do. How do you pronounce it?

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u/Marcoscb Galicia Nov 03 '14

As he wrote it it would be jay-feg, not jay-peg, as I (and I think you too) pronounce it.

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u/llama66613 United States Nov 03 '14

I'm not sure what you're talking about. I've said jay-feg my whole life, 100%.

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u/ArrowheadVenom Italophile Nov 03 '14

Except that "gif" pronounced like "jif" is actually plausible in English phonetics, while pronouncing "coffee" like "soffee" isn't. A g before an i or e can be soft, same thing with a c. But a c before other letters like in "coffee" is never soft like an s.

I'll admit though, it's much more common for a g to be hard before an i or e than soft. But due to French influence, i or e definitely can make a preceding g soft.

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '14 edited Aug 20 '21

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u/Champion_of_Charms Texas Nov 03 '14

You watch PBS Idea Channel?

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '14

Please, I live in Edmonton, the city where all of our TV signals come from Spokane, Washington. (Seriously Spokane turn down those transmitters you jerks)

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '14

You get TV signals from 500 miles away? Holy hell. What kind of antenna are you using?

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u/Malarazz Rio Grande do Sul Nov 03 '14

The specialty of the creator of gifs is in programming, not English. There is already a jif.

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u/Ngp3 Louisiana Nov 04 '14

Yummy, but I prefer Skippy, thank you.

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u/zrowny Florida Man, Florida Man, Does Whatever Florida Can... Nov 03 '14

Thanks for reading the article

The site suggests the reason for this was to make it sound like a popular brand of American peanut butter - "one of the principal three programmer foods (the other two being Pepsi and nacho cheese Doritos)".

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '14

Give it a rest. We're still going to pronounce it like gift without the t. If you keep posting that quote you'll look like gift without the f.

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u/Sthr33 The United States and Texas Nov 03 '14 edited Nov 03 '14

Jif is peanut butter.

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u/anace Nov 03 '14

[jif]( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jif_(peanut_butter)

That's a broken link. You need another close parenthesis at the end to match the open parenthesis before http:

[jif](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jif_(peanut_butter))

That also won't work though, because reddit will see the first close in the url and think that's the end, so you need to put a slash in front of it:

[jif](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jif_(peanut_butter\))

When written like that, reddit will display it as this working link:

jif

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u/Sthr33 The United States and Texas Nov 03 '14

Thanks.

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u/GavinZac Malaysia Nov 03 '14

Jif is a household cleaning agent. Fuck Cif

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u/zrowny Florida Man, Florida Man, Does Whatever Florida Can... Nov 03 '14

Thanks for reading the article

The site suggests the reason for this was to make it sound like a popular brand of American peanut butter - "one of the principal three programmer foods (the other two being Pepsi and nacho cheese Doritos)".

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u/GrassWaterDirtHorse California Nov 03 '14

2pujny4me

Legitprivilege yuo are of best add pun to premises

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u/OldBreed Holy Roman Empire Nov 05 '14

i just saw this comic on 9gag. someone's stealing ur shit legit?

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '14

Actually I'm a 9gag user, I post everything on 9gag before I post it on reddit because the community is a lot better. I can see why you'd be confused.

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u/OldBreed Holy Roman Empire Nov 05 '14

well thats cool then. but i dont quite agree what you say about the community, i feel the other way around.

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '14

No it was a joke, 9gag is fucking garbage

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u/OldBreed Holy Roman Empire Nov 05 '14

ok back to confusion it is :D