Trim pass complete. I ended up tossing Prism Ark, and Kaze no Stigma, and a couple of others because there weren't very many good pictures, and the ones I did have looked like crap. So here's the current score:

Total: 665. Which translates to 27 days and 17 hours. Which is just right. I try to come up with a total such that it phase shifts about 8 hours on every cycle.

However, there are a few pictures which I want to use which are borderline. I've got nine of them below the fold, which represent maybe 20 or so total. I solicit opinions: are these OK to use?

UPDATE: Just for the record, it's actually 664. There were two shots from Saki which were virtually identical, so I deleted one of them.

Hinako is obviously a problem. Mostly I've managed to find pictures I think are OK, but a few of them involve camera shots which are pretty tasteless.

This babe from Kenichi is swimming. And that's her underwear, as far as I can tell. OK? There were six shots like this.

Falche is something of a problem just by existing. Is her unclothed cleavage acceptable? I'd hate to have to toss all the images of her.

And the succubus is a problem, too.

So is Nodoka. There are about five pictures of her in her bikini, plus a couple of others which are equally revealing. OK?

And Yomiko, too. She's gorgeous, but that's her standard dress. Too revealing?

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1 I really really want to use that picture of Hinako at the refrigerator, but I bet you meanies won't let me.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at March 01, 2010 12:30 PM (+rSRq)

2 I have no objections, but I do all my surfing from home, where I do not have to worry about what other people see. (Also, work computers are for work. Surfing is for when I am not on someone else's clock.)

My main concern whenever you switch the rotation is that I've missed something nice in the current and previous rotations. I assume sticking an archive of them on the internet somewhere would not be worth it in terms of time and bandwidth?

Posted by: PatBuckman at March 01, 2010 12:52 PM (agn77)

3 Sorry, I can't see doing that.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at March 01, 2010 01:30 PM (+rSRq)

4 IMHO (the standard opening for someone about to be opinionated but not humble), The Macademi & Rosario & (maybe) Saki pics are a bit out of line. Those don't look like "outside clothes". Saki might be OK given the two obvious swimsuits next to the frilly maybe-swimsuit/maybe-undies. The others look like (or are) lingerie.

If "cleavage" in the workplace is a problem, you probably can't have J.-Random-24-hour-news-channel playing at work either, the way some of the anchorwomen are dressed. (And that rule would totally outlaw the Kirameki Project pic at the top of the page right now... she even has a nipple showing through.)

The worst part about the Hinako pictures, in a co-worker-spotting-them situation, is the "Sleeping" with Hinako text on them. "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

Posted by: Mikeski at March 01, 2010 03:19 PM (GbSQF)

5 Yomiko is a-okay, I think.  Macademi and Rosario are a real stretch.  Kenichi would be fine if she had something other than a loincloth.  The Hinakos are acceptable, except maybe for the floor-level shot.  YMMV on that. 

The Saki shots are... mm... pedobear approved, let's say, but not overly horrible.  I don't mind 'em, but I can see some workplaces having problems.  I'd put them on The Pond.

Posted by: Wonderduck at March 01, 2010 03:50 PM (mfPs/)

6

I've had a couple of people mail me to point out that these pictures are no worse than many I already have in the top rotation. For instance, right now it's this:

And that's just as much cleavage as any of the ones in this post -- with the added advantage that Nene is supposed to be 12 years old.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at March 01, 2010 03:53 PM (+rSRq)

7 I want to get back to work on this, so I'm going to make a decision now to include these all. Sorry, Mike; them's the breaks.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at March 01, 2010 03:55 PM (+rSRq)

8 Enh, I was going to post a comment about a couple of them, but the truth is, I've been reading GS Mikami at work occasionally, and it throws topless shots at me sometimes.  I'm lucky that my monitor is in such a place it can't be seen without entering the cubicle though. And I have had to minimize screens quickly before.... Pushing my luck, I am. 

Posted by: ubu at March 01, 2010 04:08 PM (pDxPC)

9 If you use Firefox at work and you're really worried, right-click the rotation banner and select "Block images from denbeste.nu". Since the host is kind enough to have those on a separate site Firefox will cleanly block just that image (and possible the other images he posts) but leave the bulk of the site alone, no extension required. IE probably has something equivalent but it might take more work.

My workplace is already a generally "not safe for work" environment so I'm not too worried. Spam classification occurs on site, anything may be on their screens at any time. YMMV in difficult-to-predict ways.

Posted by: Jeremy Bowers at March 01, 2010 05:43 PM (QUR0g)

10 That would also block all the images which are part of my reviews.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at March 01, 2010 05:57 PM (+rSRq)

11

"Sorry, Mike; them's the breaks."

No worries; none of those would stop me from looking at the site from work (I'm a fellow EE; 97% of my cubicle visitors would be male anyway, and a good number of those know I'm an anime geek.)  I was just considering what might have been defensible at past places of employment.

Posted by: Mikeski at March 02, 2010 12:45 AM (GbSQF)

12 You could just do what I do: Write a GreaseMonkey script that forwards previously unseen images to a back-end running Xapian and ImgSeek to perform a 46-dimensional Bayesian similarity search against a historical database of previous images and automatically replace any SFW images with NSFW ones.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 02, 2010 02:55 AM (PiXy!)

13 Wait.  Other way 'round.  Other way 'round!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 02, 2010 02:55 AM (PiXy!)

14 New rotation is hilarious. All those dresses!

BTW, some captions are completely unreadable. For example, the one with Nanoha in other of those goofy dresses and grey letters looks like a licence plate imaged by a Kobalt satellite.

Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at March 02, 2010 09:36 AM (/ppBw)

15

I put the captions onto the images using a batch file with Paint Shop Pro 8.1. The color mode for the text is "invert" over the background. Which works pretty well, unless the background is neutral gray or close to it.

But the idea of manually captioning 650 images doesn't appeal to me.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at March 02, 2010 09:40 AM (+rSRq)

16

The last time someone commented about the text being unreadable, I made this to show how the color mode works. The problem with it is when the inverted color and the original color are nearly the same, then the foreground text doesn't really stand out very well -- especially since the JPG compression algorithm tries to erase the edges if they're not very steep.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at March 02, 2010 01:24 PM (+rSRq)

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