Do you use a screensaver?

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Edited By sweep  Moderator

Poll Do you use a screensaver? (240 votes)

Yes 14%
No 70%
No, but I would do if I found one I liked... 16%

I'm throwing together some videogame title screens as screensavers and people keep asking me why I bother, as nobody uses screensavers any more. Personally I'm happy to just make them for myself, as I use them at work and I think it's pretty rad to have the window curtains from The Last Of Us blowing all over my screen when I'm not around, but for the sake of argument: who here still actively uses a screensaver?

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@wrecks: I think you just convinced me to use a screensaver again.

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#52  Edited By sweep  Moderator

The screensavers I'm making have dual-screen functionality, so you can have them mirrored across multiple monitors.

I'm into it, anyway.

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@sweep said:

@mattyftm said:

To be fair, I didn't say "why bother". I just asked if people actually use them. I've put time into far dumber and less useful tumblrs than your one. Your video game screensaver tumblr is actually pretty cool.

Wait... did I just say something nice to Sweep? That's not right. I've got to balance out out...

FUCK YOU CUNT!!!!

Yeah, and where did you get the idea for that Tumblr, huh? Ballbear?

Now now, guys. Use your inside violence.

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Stupidly wasteful, just have the screen lock and turn off after 10 minutes of non-use. As mentioned above, screensavers can actually mess with games and apps and whatnot because they themselves are actual things. If you just turn the screen off the game won't know or care, AND you're actually saving your screen.

I used a screensaver throughout the 1990s and the first half of the 2000s.

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Nope. Modern LCD screens are much harder to 'burn in" and given the fluid GUI nature of most programs today the NEED for a screen saver as opposed to just a screen lock is way long past. You don't get DOS commands burned into your screen anymore.

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I checked out your screensaver tumblr and it looks pretty cool. I was wondering if you could release them as .wmv's for Dreamscene use?

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#58  Edited By Corvak

@cmblasko: If I heard that music at the start of my work day, I think i'd get twice as much done.

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