Yes, I'll admit it would have been easy to make my own "flash intro" graphics, but I tried to explain that I didn't feel that it was worth my time for the point of the wallpaper.
When I made the wallpaper it was just meant to be something thrown together very quickly that looked decent and I could use as a wallpaper on my own desktop, then I decided to share it because the people on the board were nice to me. There was no plan to enter it into the contest, no claim that it was an awesome or wonderful wallpaper.

You have to understand that I have better things to do with my time than make custom graphics for something that means basically nothing to me. I've made custom graphics for things before when I was helping my friend build his website a few years back, I made donation wallpapers for him and produced a small webcomic with hand-drawn images, but that was different; You see I was getting PAID for doing that, it was worth my time because he brought in about $40 in donations a month and I was paid $0.25 of every dollar donated to help him program and run the site.

I have a life, I'm a college student and just recently got a full-time job. I honestly do not have time to work seriously on a wallpaper that I'm going to be throwing away in a month and that I'm not going to be receiving anything for the time spent on it. I make simple wallpapers out of pre-made graphics because they take ten minutes or less to get everything just perfectly how I want them and they do not interrupt my life. If they're for me and not making me money or earning me anything, why should I be expected to spend so much time on them?

I applaud you for having the time and energy to make so many wallpapers. Unfortunately, I do not. Just because someone isn't able to put as much effort into something as you does not mean you need to argue with them about it or show them up, it's just immature and shows that you are basically incapable of understanding how others function and that it may, in fact, be different than how you function.

In the future, please just try to be more respectful of others. Everyone is different, everyone does things in a different way for a different reason. You just need to be able to see that.


It looks good, by the way.