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:laugh: if you look at "Engel.jpg" in the preview (at 58%), it looks like the building is a naked dude, the roof overhang is the dude's arm and the drain pipe is the dude's "drain pipe", and the girl's happily receiving whatever's coming down the pipe.

Is it just me? :laugh:

The VS is nice enough, if a bit bland, which I supose is hard to avoid with a theme like "ashen". (Y)

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:laugh: if you look at "Engel.jpg" in the preview (at 58%), it looks like the building is a naked dude, the roof overhang is the dude's arm and the drain pipe is the dude's "drain pipe", and the girl's happily receiving whatever's coming down the pipe.

Is it just me? :laugh:

It's just you. Ass.
The VS is nice enough, if a bit bland, which I supose is hard to avoid with a theme like "ashen". (Y)
Thank you. To each his own choice.
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:laugh: if you look at "Engel.jpg" in the preview (at 58%), it looks like the building is a naked dude, the roof overhang is the dude's arm and the drain pipe is the dude's "drain pipe", and the girl's happily receiving whatever's coming down the pipe.

Is it just me? :laugh:

The VS is nice enough, if a bit bland, which I supose is hard to avoid with a theme like "ashen". (Y)

not just u i saw the same :p

so i had to make it bigger just to make sure lol!!!

VS nice work, keep it up.

~X

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Didn't mean to be harsh, but I didnt appreciate the comment.

It was a joke about the picture, nothing else. Internet can be harsh.

Anyway, the theme looks great but why the name Ashen? If I remember correctly the first Ashen theme was made by Bant and this one doesn't look like it. Nonetheless, the theme looks great.

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It was a joke about the picture, nothing else. Internet can be harsh.

Anyway, the theme looks great but why the name Ashen? If I remember correctly the first Ashen theme was made by Bant and this one doesn't look like it. Nonetheless, the theme looks great.

No comment.

Thanks, glad you liked it. Somebody else asked me about the name too. Didn't know the other Ashen existed. Named it Ashen because of the dark grayish appearance. This is version II, check my gallery for version I, you'll see what I mean.

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This is the skin i'm using.

I love it, but I can't set the shutdown image :(

Glad ya like it.

The shutdown program pictured in the preview is an external software which I use called "Gehrunnerjunge" and is included in the pack. However, if you want your normal windows shutdown dialog to look the same as the Ashen theme, then there is a link on the download page to help you with that.

Hope that helps.

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