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Artist's Note

My best skin ever (4 me)!! If you download it please send me your suggestion for future release! Enjoy with this beetle look skin!

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Gllen says:

You know how hard it is to find a skin that matches your background scheme perfectly? Awesome.

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bLaCk sUx

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Detritus says:

This certainly is controversial. I like the over all look, which made me download it, but using it is finicky, the buttons are too small, text is poor, BUT the window grafix are very good, and take a step back, it looks out of this world..... However this is a winamp skin, not a painting, and as a skin it falls on its arse. It belongs in a gallery, not on your monitor

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ALieN 01 says:

| |_||<E |)/\r|< s|<i|\|s b|_|t T|-|iS s|_|C|<S.!.!.

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This is GOOD Stuff.

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JazzMidi's right. people work a lot on skins like this. well, i have seen some crappy skins, that i really believe that were made in MS paint. but this skin rocks. nice job Pordey

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goto sleep pordey

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Charybdis says:

very nice, but you made too many like this one, try something totally else!

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I like this skin. I like it alot. But it would be better if the shading weren't so shiny. Maybe tone it down. I think I'm the only one here who doesn't think it's dark enough.

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Cool EQ

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T8boy says:

Nice and Dark without being a dull bore of a thing. Not that great, y'know... but good concept, a fair bit of room for improvement. "Smooth"

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Zap says:

My review rating would have been higher, but I must agree with Indigo's review. Larger buttons would make this skin nicer and more functional.

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Indigo says:

Everything looks great, but the play,stop,pause,ect buttons are way to small.

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tedeo says:

I've never really liked any of the Pordey skins, this just drives that point home. This is just a dull, lacking skin that I find highly over rated.

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its okay - I have nothing much to say about a skin that is mostly black and so therefor I dont think it has much artistic flare !

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KruX says:

Black is good. Love the design.

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very kool

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KineticX says:

It's ok...

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sondberg says:

Good, but it's not Pordey at his best.

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mayshar says:

too dark. too the same. too generic. if i were a lameass metallica fan wannabe i'd probably like this skin. then again, i don't like Crystal Bastard too much either.

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evil666 says:

Seriously smooth 3D effect but the colour suck!! Oh and this skin is either love it or loath it.

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Amel says:

This skin wasn't too bad at all. I haven't seen Pordey's other skins but after having seen Crystal Bastard, I have a greater appreciation of color usage. The etreme gloss on it was a little much, I don't think there are any spotlights in my computer that can cause that kind of glare, and I found it extraordinarily gay how when you went to move it, you got a large moving icon. Keep an arrow with a smaller one next to it next time and I'll gove you five more points. Color usage, like I said, is plain but good, and not boring at all.

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element says:

whats the big deal with pordey, all of his skins get 100's - in my opinion; it blows some serious ass, obviously a few other people have the same feelings or his public rating wouldn't be 61.79

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X FroG says:

Very good but too classic. Try to improve !

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MacDaddy says:

P.H.A.T.

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hobbit says:

i saw better ones..

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it's hard to be original these days isn't it?

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lurk says:

very good skin, but i don't like the fact that the min/max/close buttons disappear - that is annoying

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EHHHHHH UGLY AS HELL

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DaZe9 says:

not my cup of tango!

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subbed says:

I dont like it

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Negatory says:

Excellent skin... Pordey Rulez........I'm using right now an old skin that he has done in winamp and another excelent skin in Sonique.... Keep up the good work

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gWuTeR says:

i think pordey should start designing skins with a different "feel"

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Barta says:

Pordey is one of the best skinners for WinAmp.....People who gave him such orrible review are probably jelous of his talent.

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Guy says:

Just because you don't like Pordey's work and/or the amount of skins he has made, it doesnt mean you have to mark him down. I give him a 100 for his hard work, lets see any of you make some graphics like this. (tip to Pordey: you should change your name so you can get higher scores since people hate you. Just a thought.)

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Stuman says:

The original design was excellent so I must give this a good rating but I also must agree that a designer with your talents should REALLY start a whole new concept. I mean the first couple solor changes were alright, but now it is reminding me of a pager or an IMac (Both overdone!)

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sin 99 says:

been there, done that

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Allways the same!

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BNM says:

the vis looks like something i puked yesterday (pizza if u must know), but all in all and even if it's not my style you gotta c that it's a nice job!

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yakhan says:

I have no problem with recoloring... or pordey... or the color black... I just don't understand the appeal of this one...

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Matic says:

Very nice! No one designs WA-skins like Pordey!

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king says:

i don't like this skin. please don't try to make another skin!!!

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This theme looks pretty cool, but i do not like the way that they lock into each other via the bottom, (i do not keep my winamp like that) then it looks dumb. but pretty good skin anyway

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lbounce says:

all u people keep bitching but someone is downloading this. its been downloaded nearly 11,000 times in 2 days.

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Quatrix says:

Glen - eat me

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Neophytos says:

Come on everyone, we all know this is the ultimate, and if this was your first time seeing it you would be tripping over each other just to say how cool it is. Pordey is definitely in the top 5 best skinners.

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gizmo says:

Damn this looks wicked. I like it.

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mkk says:

At first I thought, well just another dark skin that's pretty unusable in the long run. But then I saw that the buttons were excellently lit up. Unfortunately not all of the text is lit up and some parts are just unreadable. Then why is it still there I wonder? Touch it up a little and this will be the first actually usable dark colored skin I've seen with my own eyes. It sure seems to me that there's rnough professionalism behind the skin to make this happen.

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kraken says:

looks like people either love or hate Pordey... why is that? and just what the heck does this mean: "Enjoy with this beetle look skin!"?? either way, this is a great skin. but please -- PLEASE -- release a new skin instead of the same ones!!! ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!

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R ii Ce says:

I really, really, REALLY like this skin. I dont see why you guys dont. And also Pordy, what did you do to get everyone so pissy? I'm new here...

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fresh says:

that ugly bevel is starting to get on my nerves, the vis is terrible and the colors suck. I like the buttons though.

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Come on Pordey.. You had your 15 minutes of fame with the first skin. I like your Sonique skin because it's DIFFERENT. Now try something new for Winamp, these remakes are getting old.

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Khas says:

I'm not biased or anything I just hate this and all of his other work. But that's just me. ... oh wait, it's not...

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GammaX says:

It's okay... and the reason I say that is beacause there are too many dark skins out there already... also it kinda bothers me that the buttons are really small

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SOOPRcow says:

It's not a bad skin only the ones that looks the same but with a color change look bad

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Vadimus says:

Cool. Period.

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Seltsam says:

Only looks good on solid black wallpaper--because it lacks a border.

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DukE says:

heh . thanks for updating, Pordey =)

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Charoot says:

I'm sure i've seen this design before ;)................

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Teatime says:

Hey, i thought all pordey´s skins suck, but this doesn´t!

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TekHed says:

Pordey, what did you do to get so much hate mail? The skin is very good, but doesn't tie in with my LCARS theme. I did use this skin before I went LCARS mad and found it quite functional and it has a good appearance, although I would prefer it if the design wasn't made so the bottom runs into the next part of Winamp, i.e. EQ/Playlist/Browser, it's a bit of an arse when you only want to see the main window.

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bounce says:

am i the only one who actually likes the vis ? heh, i liked it till i found out the bottom of the main window was actually the top of the eq.. that sux

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Jank says:

It's certainly obvious that a lot of work went into this, but the overall effect doesn't quite flow together. The detail level is astounding, however, and I like dark skins.

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JazzMidi says:

If you know anything about graphics then you know a lot of work went into this design. I like this skin, very smooth and a lot of detail. Please keep making winamp skins like this Pordey. They are just Awesome!

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wicked says:

this is nasty, how did this get such a high rating. everything is hard to find and it looks like all the other skins prody makes.

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dot says:

I rate the skin, not the artist :)

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Nobi says:

I changed my rating to 97 because I like what you did to the visualization.. like the aiwa logo thingy. Only problems is that it only looks really good when it's all docked (-1) and I liked the old playlist buttons better. (-2).

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Too dark, bad for the eye's. Looks nice for the first minute though.

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915PZG says:

I give it a 5 for being a dark skin, but other than that it blows. Ugly display Colors... ...smooth but nasty!

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Nerdlife says:

Pordey skins are the best! It's about time a sleek design was produced for a Winamp skin!

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redirect says:

All u fags giving 0`s are just jealous.

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Octavian says:

Prodey! for gods sake try something new i like the stereo thing but it's getting out of hand MOVE ON!

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it's cool but kinda ugly

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Nenad says:

All right people, come on! You might not like Pordey or the fact that he makes ten versions of the same skin, but this one is the first one of the series, and it's not bad at all. I like it a lot, although it looks nice only when docked to the eq and pl.

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cpj05 says:

THEY ARE ALL THE SAME......WE WANT BETTER

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Florin says:

Another Pordey? the differences are similar....

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MaraZ says:

AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!
! HELLLLLLLPPPPPPP IT'S HAPPENING AGAINNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!! =)

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Nice looking skin, except for the eq sucks.

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Exmitris says:

For design I give a 50 but for actually looking good... 0!

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Karmacoma says:

Just the same with all Pordey skins. On the one hand they are just perfect in detail, but on the other hand graphically overloaded...boy, keep it clean and simple!

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Do we judge the skin or the author? I don't give a sh*t if it's Pordey or not. It's the skin who counts, isn't it?

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SpaceMan says:

This is a good skin. Pordey should have worked a little bit more on some details. I don't like the Vis display, and I couldn't use it cause it's too black. A little more silver would do the trick! Oh yea, I also agree that Pordey makes too many clones of his skins.

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GreenHell says:

too dark, looks like other ones.... pordey, we want quality, not quantity, and asshole, if we want different colors, we can change them ourselves....

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null says:

asshole is right

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MOcwieja says:

This is why Gllen does the ratings. Compare this skin to other skins in the 64-rating-range. It clearly doesn't fit there. Alright, it doesn't work well unless it is docked in the full configuration, but when it is, it looks better than any other skin out there. So it's not perfect, but it's pretty damn good. (v 2.22): Hey Pordey, thanks for doing this upgrade. When this skin first came out, it was immediately my favorite, and I had it as my default for a long time. Now that it's fully updated, maybe I'll go back to it!

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Onyxrend says:

Its a nice skin, not quit a 100, But almost

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Dude says:

Again, much like his other skins.. Great job! The various colors give different users a chance to pick their colors!! This is another example of a person with talent and the courage to use it!!! Great job! For those of you that have nothing better to do than give bad reviews... Get a life.

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Woodstock says:

While I like dark skins, and this has nice form, it's too damn dark. It's not pleasantly dark, it's just too dark. I like the EQ sliders tho, very nice.

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Maddmax says:

I like dark skins and this certainly is one. The problem with this skin is the fact that it only looks good docked which takes up too much room. Another problem is the visibility. What is it with Pordey and visibilty anyways??

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RPMoonick says:

Too dark, IMO, although the name suggests that's intentional :) I don't like the top down shading used on the buttons at all. I don't like the shaded font very much either. Also, the seemingly random color of a few characters in the font - red parentheses, yellow stars, green dashes - looks too weird. Finally, everything much too hard to see in winshade mode.

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Mr. Burns says:

Nice 3d effect, something that a lot of skins don't have. A little dark for my personal taste. Make your next skin Pordey plaid! Seriously, do you own customize.org?

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Demize says:

I like dark skins. There aren't too many, and those that do exist really suck. I think this is the best skin I've ever seen. I think it's a shame that people rate this skin badly because they don't like the author. If you don't like his others, that's fine, but no reason to mark this perfectly good skin down. I think this skin should be #1, because I have about 20 other skins on my HD that look like Beatforge v.2.0 I think they should've kept to their original format.

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analogue says:

another 0 - too many skins which are the same ... and all are ugly

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phule says:

it's a bit dark, but it's a heck of a lot better than anything i could ever do. i got to respect that.

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DoorinD says:

this skin is really rather amazing- one of the most creative winamp skins by far, and a departure from his normal skins, however its kind of difficult to use.

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madripper says:

why arent there more happy skins?

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I'll be honest...I'm not too sure what to think about this one.

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Charlie says:

This skin should be higher than that whack ass beat forge... Kick ass skin... I love Pordey's stuff.

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Seifer says:

This skins is good, but I don't like how part of the main window makes up the top part of the equalizer and stuff (If you've downloaded it, you'd know what I meant)

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Genghis says:

This skin is nice looking and functional, except the vis on the numbers and name. Massacre, 90 is being generous for that major flaw.

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Anyone who gave this skin 90 or below doesn't know what a real skin is when they see one. This is the ultimate skin. It is the only skin I have seen that is worthy of #1. I use this skin all the time. Everything about this skin rocks! *<:)

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Grug1999 says:

Well I used to love this skin, and now I realise why I liked it...i liked it how it all fit together nicely, but now that I look at it...it ain't so great...the eq sux and the visualisation is just plain awful...I liked the styling though...and one more thing, please stop releasing them in 16,777,216 different colour schemes....

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bubber says:

it's pretty nice.

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$teven says:

I like this skin, but I can not use it for long. And it only looks good when it is docked. Which takes up too muck space.

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L20 says:

I really don't like this skin, it has a distinct lack of functionality..also, the vis on this is terrible..and its just plain ugly.



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