Pixactly: a Pixel Quiz

Pixactly is both a game and a quiz that tests your knowledge of graphic space in pixels. You are challenged to draw a box of specified pixel size, both horizontally and vertically. The game keeps track of how many pixels you are off over five attempts.

You’d think I would be good at this after nine years of blogging, but no. My score the first time through was 584. Maybe I can blame that on the fact that I zoom in and out for different websites, depending on the text size. So I tried again and cheated by taking a screenshot, which displays pixel size, before guessing. I got my score down to 136 that way, which is still worse than any graphic artist. You will do better! -via Metafilter


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Err, most swimsuit models today ARE bodybuilders. Maybe not Mr. Olympia material, but they are heavily muscled. Add to that, a model picture is much more carefully orchestrated to impress, and the genital area is always made sure to be impressive, either by photoshop or the infamous ballet dancer's rabbit's foot technique.

But of course roid-shrinkage is a well known fact.
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Or what about Photoshop. How are you to know if the pictures were altered to show less or more genital area.

We know the amount of photoshop that goes into female swimsuit model pictures, I can only imagine what they make bigger or smaller in a mans swimsuit picture.
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K Lawrence is totally on point.

Also, bodybuilders are pictured in a way to enhance their muscles and nothing else, whereas pantymodels are supposed to make the underwear look good; and you need "fullness" (artificial or not) to get that.

Unfortunately, the ones we're forced to see are roided out freaks, who DO get serious shrinkage. I assure you the strongmen types do not have that problem.
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Since the celebrity bodybuilder you feature has FOUR children, I guess his testes function was not affected by airbrush or photoshop. Only Maria would know, eh?
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This whole "Improbable Research" thing is getting way out of hand.

Even when it's obviously tongue-in-cheek, it's tiresome. This one had a few people fooled, and it's not really all that funny. Steroids shrink things - we know that.

Maybe you need a disclaimer to show people "this is not real" before Neatorama has as much credibility as the Onion.
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Upon further review I would like to say:

Miss C.: If you want anyone to take you seriously in the future, stop posting fake articles.

Neatorama: If you want anyone to take you seriously in the future, you should double check anything Miss C. posts.
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