just giving us more fuel to the fire that your whole fucking country should be banned.
you are nothing more than ewoks with pirated copies of photoshop and no design skills.
if we are a community cant name more than two solid designers from there i say the country just gets banned altogether.
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Chaddoesdesign said 10 months ago
agree!
Tom Neal said 10 months ago
CLAP FUCKING CLAP!
at least someone has the guts to say what were all thinking!
dobi said 10 months ago
im out to go get some ice cream, someone hold down the fort.
just recommended to matt that SWH needs to be a moderator.
Mike Gaboury said 10 months ago
Tell it like it is, sick of this garbage.
destroyer said 10 months ago
yeah. ban em.
Sam Montana said 10 months ago
The man has spoken.

You, sir, are too much of a pussy to talk shit like this with your real account.
ibzombieliquorice said 10 months ago
Go for it!
dustinnance said 10 months ago
Mike Gaboury said 10 months ago
Congrats, now grow the fuck up and go do something productive.
OvenRude said 10 months ago
you have to ban the IP of the people making the fake accounts.
nugget said 10 months ago
derekdeal said 10 months ago
word, i guess im on troll patrol till then
OvenRude said 10 months ago
Also, Dobi, please dont curse.
Im very sensitive to what I read and cant handle that kind of negative output in my optical nerves.
litoQ said 10 months ago
Im on here pretty much all the time too... Just sayin.
againstbound said 10 months ago
Im fine with this.
Im also curious as to what was the last straw to reach this point.
Bob Kawa said 10 months ago
byskell said 10 months ago
strong hate in here
cruise said 10 months ago
well spoken
Matt Willmott said 10 months ago
You both missed it?
Lucky bastards.
Bob Kawa said 10 months ago
yeah I was working/ at class all day today. if its not too much trouble what happened?
NinetyOneDesigns said 10 months ago
If these guys rip like they do now...holy hell, wait till Velda Draw is released!
Adhesive Hippo said 10 months ago
Matt Willmott said 10 months ago
I think it revolved around a horrendously nsfw gif being posted dozens of times in single comments in different threads.
FYI, the gif involved man love.
And as Tom Neal found out (he posted a screenshot compilation) it was some indonesians on another website calling for people to spam this site/a specific thread.
8-bit ZOMBIE said 10 months ago
And a ton of spam threads. (which included said GIF)
Typical lame-ass troll stuff.
Bob Kawa said 10 months ago
oh shit. thats pretty fucked up. who does that?
by the way thanks for explaining.
againstbound said 10 months ago
Im sold, fuck the fuckers.
Joey said 10 months ago
cosigned
AetoricDesign said 10 months ago
Less talky more banny. And as for this...
...FML. What ever happened to polite and soft-spoken mods? This shits gonna turn into martial law.
Joey said 10 months ago
just because youre a mod doesnt mean you have to be a wuss
Benjamin Lande said 10 months ago
ibzombieliquorice said 10 months ago
Dont you mean Fuck the fucking fuckers? ;)
Craig Robson said 10 months ago
once, at my old job, a co-worker was angry at a broken machine and actually used the words "the fucking fuckers fucking fucked"
oustanding.
Travis Cook said 10 months ago
This site has given me a hatred for Indonesia as a country. I could never do anything anymore that involves the place altogether.
oss caroch said 10 months ago
please dont,i just can live from emptees
:(
Blake Fathom said 10 months ago
IP ban the whole country.
Travis Cook said 10 months ago
I say if possible, you make it so indonesians have to "apply" for membership here. They have to be approved by moderators with links to their portfolios or something.
Craig Robson said 10 months ago
i vote this too!(if at all possible)
derekdeal said 10 months ago
bandonesia!
Joey said 10 months ago
indobannedya!
derekdeal said 10 months ago
indo-seeya!
Joey said 10 months ago
indo-wouldntwannabeya!
coplet said 10 months ago
Is it fair for Indonesian that really can do design? It has to be wisely to ban other "crappy sh#t" Indonesian. Mod please more concern with those issue.
Sam Montana said 10 months ago
indo-youre all fucked now-esia.
Do it!
Kyle Crawford said 10 months ago
deal with the wit! so good
drewg said 10 months ago
And how about going one step further than bans, and not even allow them to see the site?
Adhesive Hippo said 10 months ago
I think thats what theyre saying.
Sam Montana said 10 months ago
"Were sorry, but because of your own fault, emptees is not available in your country."
And link them to deviantart or something then.
drewg said 10 months ago
Who the fuck are you?
Travis Cook said 10 months ago
why
mikehagstrom said 10 months ago
I think everyone needs to understand the concept of economics. Sure a few people rip off your designs and make money off of it (they could be from anywhere btw, even your next door neighbor).
They do this for a while la la la dee dooo, first off they are getting second rate customers, if you are decently known, your customers will be shopping at your store, second they are making next to nothing profit margins, which cant be kept up for too long.
Third, BEAT THEM, just make more designs, they wont be able to keep up and will go out of business, especially if they are just copying you. Innovate, dont get mad.
derekdeal said 10 months ago
theyre not next door, they are in indonesia
ChrisW said 10 months ago
why are you calling him out like that? he had a good idea. dont be a dick to him.
EmpireDesigns said 10 months ago
That dudes a dick to everyone.
Ban those fools!
drewg said 10 months ago
Thats not even close.
EmpireDesigns said 10 months ago
To what?
nugget said 10 months ago
NICOLO NIMOR said 10 months ago
I AM NOT INDONESIAN!! check my flag at my profile..... lol
ChrisW said 10 months ago
BAN HIM!
Warning, may contain spoilers!jk
dobi said 10 months ago
might be too late in this thread but here goes...
this site from day one has been fairly community based no matter how drama filled stuff seems to get. i spend more time on here than anywhere else. i have ditched other internet forums because this place takes up too much time.
there are a ton of people on here / connections i never would have made if not for emptees. i know this is the same for the majority of you.
there is no secret that piracy is rampant in indonesia, it has happened to the majority of the designers / brands around here. it seems about a year ago the indos caught wind of this place and have just been sucking the life out of everything and bootlegging it as much as humanly possible.
language barrier aside, very few give anything back to this community, all they do is take. what we do usually get in return is nonsensical designs which are gore for the sake of gore with no meaning / artistic merit whatsoever.
ban indonesia.
ChrisW said 10 months ago
case closed.
drewg said 10 months ago
Emptees veterans to the chat! [even you, dobi]
OvenRude said 10 months ago
That ramp design is PERFECTION.
biotwist said 10 months ago
if the foot has cancer then amputate
ChrisW said 10 months ago
i jsut murdered emptees chat.
mynameismartijn said 10 months ago
Indonesia can suck my shaved balls. what a fucked over country. stay the fuck off emptees.
mynameismartijn said 10 months ago
and yes. I dont give a fuck how drunk I am right now.
coplet said 10 months ago
which one is more effective, prevent the cancer or let it being a beast cancer?? maybe whats Travis Cook suggest is good,need approval from the moderator by reviewing the online portfolio,thats fair IMO.
Michael Partridge said 10 months ago
how often do you shave them?
mynameismartijn said 10 months ago
once a month or so. anyhow, stay on topic man,
bashing Indonesian people > my shaved balls
DanCruzNYC said 10 months ago
close comments too many borderline racist comments... this is not what this site needs
OvenRude said 10 months ago
It simply isnt right to categorically put down a large group of people.
Ban the people who are clearly ripping, but a wide scale denouncement isnt really what a place like this should be.
dobi said 10 months ago
the problem is that those who arent posting are also the ones who are flat out stealing shit and reselling it.
Michael Partridge said 10 months ago
sorry, going for some light relief.
on topic, this does sound like a case of the many (rippers) spoiling things for the few (decent indo designers).
copyright and intellectual property laws are a big deal to any designer, apart from indo are there any other countries that dont have them?
would it be fair to suggest that if a country doesnt have a good grounding with copyright laws then they should be banned to?
Johnny D said 10 months ago
Ive just been workin and playin borderlands, missed all this stuff. Wow.
Alejandro Prez said 10 months ago
youre lucky, it was hell.
i approve of this ban (not that it matters)
GBI™ said 10 months ago
OMG,...
skull with hair said 10 months ago
i wonder if people will think this is subjective though, because i dont think there is any difference bettween this...
and this...
i personally think they both completely awful but i understand other people might not feel that way.
Killer Napkins said 10 months ago
interesting thread... it sucks that i moved to indonesia last week...
Throatpunch! said 10 months ago
I personally, loved the thread title.
Colemadethis said 10 months ago
i agree.
rawkid said 10 months ago
So because an amount of people from that country has done messed up things, makes you hate the country as a whole? Thats narrowmided and generalising if you ask me.
I understand where all the hate is coming from but the comments here are getting close to racial.
DanielAndHisArt said 10 months ago
Hey SWH, i am not trying to be a jerk at all. I am asking this question as someone who wants to learn about design and gain more knowledge so dont think im being sarcastic.
What exactly is wrong with the second one?
I dont prefer either of them, but i would say the second one is the better of the 2, in my eyes anyway.
I think the illustrating in the second one is better than the first for sure but then again i dont illustrate much.
But what about it do you not like / disagree with?
GBI™ said 10 months ago
i agree.
Colemadethis said 10 months ago
KILL EM ALL!!
quakerninja said 10 months ago
I missed what happened,
-Emptees made original art.
-Some not all Indonesians stole the art obviously from Emptees
-Emptees retaliated with multiple manticoreings, and thus began a hatred for not only the individual rippers but a whole region of the world.
-Feeling a sense of national pride, Indonesians defended their country mates.
with a counter manticoreing.
-Emptees now hates indonesians more then ever?
Is that about right.
skull with hair said 10 months ago
@Daniel, to answer your question, quality of work is subjective for a number of reasons.
example: if someone were to trace a keaton henson piece you might think it was cool, until you realized that person was just copying someone else, then its just dumb.
i am not saying everything GBI does is a rip, but his/her style is all over the place and he/she has been caught tracing other artists work before. all that aside i personally think the style of illustration is corny and the skills are average at best, but with the knowledge of the rips it just kinda makes it all bleh to me, might as well be a boxing glove panda. i hope that answers your question.
DanielAndHisArt said 10 months ago
I gotcha man. Thanks for replying and i completely get what you are saying.
:)
dcbeatty said 10 months ago
Does Emptees store IP addresses at registration? Cause if so, you could always make it so that you couldnt see anything without being logged in, and then ban all members from Indonesian IP ranges, and then block the registration page so they cant see it, but instead get something saying if theyre really interested to submit their portfolio to some email so they could be manually added to the database or something. Wouldnt really be extremely code intensive, and this way the few Indonesians that are okay artists would still be able to see the site and the rest would be banned.
Colemadethis said 10 months ago
also, then i wouldnt get facebook requests that look like this:
(Oli Sykes face RIP)
uzi said 10 months ago
Bwahaha that fourth one is pure gold, Cole
The Shadow Puppet said 10 months ago
and yet oss carochs shit is TOTD
even SWH and dobi cant make like that...
ironic
PrimatePrecious said 10 months ago
Wow, Indonesia seems like such a magical land.
bleet said 10 months ago
ricojulian said 10 months ago
allow me to post this comment before indonesia get banned.
heartache.
Betraydan said 10 months ago
tired of the facebook requests from indo kids aswell.
whatever it takes , do it.
Chykalophia said 10 months ago
Agreed to the thread. Agreed to banned those people/designers who copied others artwork, but please guys, be wise even just a bit. NOT ALL of them should be banned. Admit that most of them are, but there are minor great artist from Indo here too. You might not see them but they have their own originality. Isnt that all great designers have respect to other original designers here as well? Or may be I was wrong about it? Your choice guys. Just letting you know what I have in mind :)
rullyallen said 10 months ago
hey, im indonesian...
whats wrong with my country? or maybe whats wrong with me as an Indonesian people?
please dont hate the country just because of few people from my country has screwed up here...
yea, im a passive member in this group, but im very sad to see something like this should happened here..
quakerninja said 10 months ago
I agree, you can ban a whole country because of some douche bags, I mean America has New Jersey right. zing
rullyallen said 10 months ago
I also hate peoples who steal and screw up what I have done... but just only their personal... not their family, religion, or their country...
The Shadow Puppet said 10 months ago
@Colemadethis: pleaseeee.... just ignore them then..
@Betraydan: Ure not helping.. shut up..
chris666 said 10 months ago
GBI has been borrowing styles from the start her profile looks like a collection of emptees.
it mite seem like a bad thing to do banning Indonesia but the alternative is that you all stop posting because they will continue to steal ideas, styles, whole images and so on.
a_mar_illo said 10 months ago
You missed nothing, most of those who commented on this thread should be banned and removed from the internet;)
Betraydan said 10 months ago
i am not trying to help...i am just in support of this thread.
mynameismartijn said 10 months ago
dude seriously. Youre saying that shit to probably two of the guys that stand out the most here on emptees. If it wasnt in style then it is in the way they are honest with people.
Im sick of every fucking 'splatter-skull-swords-gore-drips-kill-m-all-zombie' designs that have been going around here. So then you come up with this well crafted piece of art, no doubt, but with the right drawing skills everyone could make that piece, theres a shit ton of original work over here and you pick that shit as the example. Way to go man!
dobi said 10 months ago
anybody can make a zombie / skull tee and let the mindless droves love it. in fact every zombie / gore related tee ive made has gotten totd, doesnt mean they are my best work at all.
#1 song in the country is by owl city, ill let that speak for itself.
Sam Montana said 10 months ago
Have a nice day.
dobi said 10 months ago
btw, this is going nowhere. locked.
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