I'm a bit of a hoarder. I spend a decent amount of my time in front of my computer, so I feel that I should have an expansive collection of backgrounds to look at while I'm masturbating to goat porn and listening to Insane Clown Posse in Winamp. As a result of my collection, I have a folder almost a gigabyte in size, which I import into Wallpaper Master and set on random. It's a handy program that puts an icon in the system tray that you can click on to cycle through your collection, or set it to change at a time interval of your choosing.
So that everyone can expand their collections in an efficient way, there are a few rules if you plan to contribute to the thread which I have no way of enforcing:
- If you're going to post your collection, you have to post all of it at once. This can be done by making multiple .rar or .zip archives under 200MB and uploading them to Rapidshare one by one.
- Include the dimensions of your archive in the description. This is to ensure that people don't waste their time downloading massive files from a site that requires you to wait 15 minutes after each download only to find that it's full of wallpapers too small for their monitor.
- If your collection is larger than 200MB and requires you to upload multiple parts, make them standalone archives. Downloading archives where you need all the parts before you can extract the files take a long time to piece together and could end in a lot of time spent on disappointment.
- Along with your post, shrink down what you consider to be your favorite background and attach it to your post. This is to demonstrate your taste as a human being; if you attach a picture of Naruto, I can safely assume that I can ignore your post.
- If you only have one that you use all the time, upload it to in image hosting site (Imageshack.us or elsewhere) and provide a link as well as a resized picture.
Feel free to discuss why these rules are stupid, why I'm stupid, why my thread sucks, whatever you want as long as it relates to the topic. These rules are more like guidelines and are only intended to apply to the people that are contributing new material to the topic and not just discussing things.
As an example and to get things started, here is my collection. It consists mostly of 1920x1080/1200, though there are a few variations that will still look good on any 1920x**** resolution monitor if you add black borders and center it. Part 5 has the last of the high res images in it, as well as a folder of my old wallpapers for my old monitor that ran at 1280x1024 resolution.
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
And my personal favorite of the collection:
