Purple Tentacle Takes Over Linux Desktop [Verdict: Great Start for Desktop Clutter Art Contest] - Gizmodo Comments

Purple Tentacle Takes Over Linux Desktop [Verdict: Great Start for Desktop Clutter Art Contest]

Dave D. — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:54:00 EDT

desktop clutter art? wow, that's pretty funny...whoever was bored enough to come up with that! I think I just might try that on that Vista as well, lol. Dave - MICR toner at discount prices.

Dave D.

Purple Tentacle Takes Over Linux Desktop [Verdict: Great Start for Desktop Clutter Art Contest]

crazypants1 — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:05:48 EDT

LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!

crazypants1

Purple Tentacle Takes Over Linux Desktop [Verdict: Great Start for Desktop Clutter Art Contest]

potohead1 — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:53:40 EDT

@pipper: Hey thank you for the info I really appreciated.

potohead1

Purple Tentacle Takes Over Linux Desktop [Verdict: Great Start for Desktop Clutter Art Contest]

ARK2020 — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:22:08 EDT

Looks great

I tried something like this - was gonna make the helmet worn by the Master Chief, but I got bored after making half the visor.

Who has the patience to make something?

I was getting close to throwing my PC out of the window after 45mins and half a visor.

ARK2020

Purple Tentacle Takes Over Linux Desktop [Verdict: Great Start for Desktop Clutter Art Contest]

pipper — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:03:34 EDT

@potohead1:
Here is the good news for you, if you can get a hold of a copy of "day of tentacle" for PC, you will also get a playable Maniac Mansion.
You will control your character to Fred's(?) room, click on the computer, and Maniac Mansion will come up!!

pipper

Purple Tentacle Takes Over Linux Desktop [Verdict: Great Start for Desktop Clutter Art Contest]

daath — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:51:06 EDT

Incredibly cool! I loved the game(s)! And yes, I am that old :P I started at the university in Copenhagen in '93 :D

daath

Purple Tentacle Takes Over Linux Desktop [Verdict: Great Start for Desktop Clutter Art Contest]

potohead1 — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:45:27 EDT

@tutelary: Sorry buddy didn't mean to make you angry.@pipper: Do you know ifthat game is around anywhere? to play it.

This goes to everyone if anyone could tell me about this game or where to find it.
Also if "Day of the Tentacle" ia maniac mansion2 could anyone tell me what console it came out on?

potohead1

Purple Tentacle Takes Over Linux Desktop [Verdict: Great Start for Desktop Clutter Art Contest]

SneakerFiend — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:43:19 EDT

@Darrone: I think you're dreaming.
If someone has enough time to do a print screen type thing with folders on a desktop of mario they have way too much time on their hands.
That'd have to take atleast an hour.
I like the purple tentacle though its crazy how he put the shade under the green rings as dark purple folders and made it look soo good.
good job.

SneakerFiend

Purple Tentacle Takes Over Linux Desktop [Verdict: Great Start for Desktop Clutter Art Contest]

OMG! Ponies! Amazing Bacon Drinks — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:42:25 EDT

Great a nerd-off. Well, here's my proposed hierarchy:

Sam and Max beats Tom Servo and Crow Jell-O wrestling which beats an accurate Monster Manual illustration of Tiamat which beats the picture of Osama bin Jobs which beats a representation of Woz in a match of Segway polo which beats Wil Wheaton in a Speedo which beats Zap Branigan in his pimparific quarters which beats Luke vs. Vader in the carbon freezing chamber which beats Bill Gates' high school yearbook photo which beats a box of pepperoni Hot Pockets which beats Wayne Knight from Jurassic Park which beats Tentacle which beats Spiderpig

OMG! Ponies! Amazing Bacon Drinks

Purple Tentacle Takes Over Linux Desktop [Verdict: Great Start for Desktop Clutter Art Contest]

Dirk — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:38:14 EDT

I'd pay money to someone do a Rick Astley desktop.

Dirk

Purple Tentacle Takes Over Linux Desktop [Verdict: Great Start for Desktop Clutter Art Contest]

sugardeath — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:33:28 EDT

Also, how do you color folders like that? Is that a Gnome thing, or can I do it in XFCE as well?

sugardeath

Purple Tentacle Takes Over Linux Desktop [Verdict: Great Start for Desktop Clutter Art Contest]

sugardeath — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:33:02 EDT

Also, how do you color folders like that in Linux? Is that a Gnome specific thing? I use XFCE.

sugardeath

Purple Tentacle Takes Over Linux Desktop [Verdict: Great Start for Desktop Clutter Art Contest]

sugardeath — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:32:21 EDT

YES! Purple Tentacle! Ahaha. I just installed ScummVM and DoTT on my DS for some portable puzzle solving action.

sugardeath

Purple Tentacle Takes Over Linux Desktop [Verdict: Great Start for Desktop Clutter Art Contest]

vinchbr — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:14:16 EDT

day of the tentacle for life!!!
he won
internet fame for 15 minutes!
i wish windows would allow me to color folders...
could make quite good use of my free time at work

vinchbr

Purple Tentacle Takes Over Linux Desktop [Verdict: Great Start for Desktop Clutter Art Contest]

pipper — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:13:20 EDT

Glad someone here still remembers "Maniac Mansion", I played it first on Apple IIe then PC.

pipper

Purple Tentacle Takes Over Linux Desktop [Verdict: Great Start for Desktop Clutter Art Contest]

tutelary — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:07:41 EDT

@potohead1: Yes, many of us aren't 12, and have a very clear memory of this.

tutelary

Purple Tentacle Takes Over Linux Desktop [Verdict: Great Start for Desktop Clutter Art Contest]

kahri — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:47:15 EDT

wow, I'd love to try this, but I have a girlfriend. :)

kahri

Purple Tentacle Takes Over Linux Desktop [Verdict: Great Start for Desktop Clutter Art Contest]

mhlaxp — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:39:20 EDT

All TRUE folder art is done using gnome in Fedora. A++ purple tentacle.

mhlaxp

Purple Tentacle Takes Over Linux Desktop [Verdict: Great Start for Desktop Clutter Art Contest]

.tox — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:31:16 EDT

First pic reminds me of Plankton.

.tox

Purple Tentacle Takes Over Linux Desktop [Verdict: Great Start for Desktop Clutter Art Contest]

jrronimo — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:16:14 EDT

Day of the Tentacle was "Maniac Mansion II". Purple Tentacle appears in both.

jrronimo

Purple Tentacle Takes Over Linux Desktop [Verdict: Great Start for Desktop Clutter Art Contest]

Franklin Comes Alive! — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:06:28 EDT

@Petrogk:

It was also in Maniac Mansion.

Franklin Comes Alive!

Purple Tentacle Takes Over Linux Desktop [Verdict: Great Start for Desktop Clutter Art Contest]

Petrogk — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:05:01 EDT

It's from "Day of the Tentacle" released in 1993.

Petrogk

Purple Tentacle Takes Over Linux Desktop [Verdict: Great Start for Desktop Clutter Art Contest]

potohead1 — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:57:25 EDT

Isn't that the tentacle from a coputer game called Maniac Mansion? it is an old computer game like very early nineties or maybe late eighties is there anyone old enough to remenber this?

potohead1

Purple Tentacle Takes Over Linux Desktop [Verdict: Great Start for Desktop Clutter Art Contest]

Kaiser-Machead's WALL-E fetish — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:38:01 EDT

@James: I know I won't be using any file folders with stuff I want in it, cuz after I'm done, I'm taking a screen shot and putting all of that crap right into the trash bin.

Kaiser-Machead's WALL-E fetish

Purple Tentacle Takes Over Linux Desktop [Verdict: Great Start for Desktop Clutter Art Contest]

DaOtter — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:34:40 EDT

@plinkofrog: Better yet: ANIMATED desktop folder art!

DaOtter

Purple Tentacle Takes Over Linux Desktop [Verdict: Great Start for Desktop Clutter Art Contest]

James — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:30:39 EDT

i'd be more impressed if it wasnt untitled folder 1 through 10000.

James

Purple Tentacle Takes Over Linux Desktop [Verdict: Great Start for Desktop Clutter Art Contest]

plinkofrog — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:15:33 EDT

it's only a matter of time before someone scripts the ability to turn any graphic you can throw out into desktop icon art.

plinkofrog

Purple Tentacle Takes Over Linux Desktop [Verdict: Great Start for Desktop Clutter Art Contest]

Darrone — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:13:28 EDT

I'd like to see that mario image worked in, perhaps in a fully detailed mario world with flying attach ships and those spinners/giant bullets?

Darrone

Purple Tentacle Takes Over Linux Desktop [Verdict: Great Start for Desktop Clutter Art Contest]

tutelary — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:11:49 EDT

@jrronimo: Going to agree here. Theres no outdoing the tentacle.

tutelary

Purple Tentacle Takes Over Linux Desktop [Verdict: Great Start for Desktop Clutter Art Contest]

Kaiser-Machead's WALL-E fetish — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:10:54 EDT

OK I must try making one of these things.

Purple Tentacle is the shit.

Kaiser-Machead's WALL-E fetish

Purple Tentacle Takes Over Linux Desktop [Verdict: Great Start for Desktop Clutter Art Contest]

jrronimo — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:08:35 EDT

CONTEST OVER. Purple Tentacle wins SO. VERY. HARD.

Obviously, since he TAKES ON THE WORLD.

jrronimo