/wg/, why are you here?

You're sitting there, basking in the radiance of your computer, looking through page after page for that one perfect wallpaper - the one you can leave on your screen for months and be satisfied.

You're searching for The Perfect Wall like Ernest Rutherford searched for the nucleus, firing alpha particles at a thin sheet of gold atoms; most pass on by, unheeded; some graze the target; but none hit the mark perfectly.

And yet, you know it exists. That nucleus. That wallpaper.

Most walls in /wg/ fall under one of the following (non-mutually exclusive) categories: just plain boring, sexy pin-ups, flippant humor, abstract graphics, nostalgiafests, geekgasm, angsty/rebellious, and, of course, those text-overladen, look-at-me-and-how-deep-I-am, pseudo-intellectual 'inspirational' walls.

It is the last category with which I take great issue. No quote, no matter how witty, thoughtful or insightful, will satisfy. A quote is swindled intelligence.

The whole point of a wallpaper is to express your personal identity. You may find something funny and keep it up for a few days, but you'll get tired of it and come back here, looking for the next funny thing. You may have a hot girl up, but she quickly becomes used and ignored. Any quote is a hollow lie - it speaks to someone else's character primarily, and only to yours by proxy.