We could do a post of nice ones in amongst the tits. Graham: I wouldn't want the music but I like this Life Is Strange school garden one. John: Some of these wallpapers are really nice! I'm using it! (Not anime, I should probably add.)Īlice: Right John, because TECHNICALLY it's manga Pip: Alice, have you been hanging out with young folk?Īlice: Dragonball. It's another Hatsune Miku doodad, the Japanese virtual pop star. Pip: what is MMD? There is a lot of lingerie in that one.Īlice: Men Mineapple Dappleden. Do the wallpapers actually play the music? Asking for a friend. Pip: maybe I should just write this up from the perspective of a person from the non-porn animation desktop generation. There's also a few nice abstracty patterny ones. Here's some bacon cooking for an eternity, for example. Pip: The top rated - one of these things is not like the others.Īlec: Looking at what's included in the app itself I don't think they realised that would happen, bless 'em. Like, if you want to watch porn you watch porn - what's the point of having it playing in the background like it's Radio 4?Īlice: Because you can combine it WITH Radio 4 and have the bodies on your desktop jiggle in real time with an Archers conversation about drainage in the upper field. I think I'm just not the target demographic for this. Which mean moar weeaboo wallpaper obviously' 'I set a pornographic movie for my wallpaper Looks like the big draw is that you can download a gazillion user-made animated wallpapers from the Steam Workshop, or upload your own. Pip: What's that screensaver tool you mentioned? The one that's in the Steam charts, I meanĪlec: Something called Wallpaper Engine. So, what is this thing, and why would an estimated ( via SteamSpy not necessarily accurate, of course) three quarters of a million people be using it instead of just, y'know, setting a desktop wallpaper? And, of course, is this £3/$4 application any good? The finest minds in Christendom gathered to investigate - and to show off the best and worst animated wallpapers they found for it. It's a desktop wallpaper tool, and it's outselling almost everything else on Steam. This week brought a true oddity, however: Wallpaper Engine. The Steam charts are reliably staid much of the time - ever-present Counter-Strikes and GTAs, whatever the multiplayer survival flavour of the month is, and a big new release if there was one.

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