What Sysop/Apotheosis REALLY looks like

We, the LL community, are all too familiar with Sysop/Apotheosis. Unfortunately much of his fame has come from his habitual lying, or at the least, stretching of the truth.

One area in which the prophet, a former (and possibly current?) patient of Dr. Betz, stretches the truth is by claiming that he is completely proportional after lengthening over 20 CM. He posted before and after-LL pictures of himself to "prove" this. Shown first are the pictures he posted, taken straight from the lion's mouth. Notice how, while the waistlines are aligned in both pictures, in the after picture, Sysop's torso is smaller. The picture was taken from farther away and from a different angle! He is also wearing his briefs lower to make his torso look longer and his shoulders are also pushed down compared to the first photo.

To be completely fair in the representation of how Sysop looks following ~21 CM of LL, I took his before photo and added 11 CM to his tibiae and 9.5 CM to his femurs. This way, his shoulder position, and the photograph distance and angle remain constant. The result: the real Sysop.

You be the judge of whether you'd like to look proportionally similar to him or not. At least now the community has an accurate visual representation of what he actually looks like. I chose to post this because I feel that Sysop should have been honest about his proportions from the start if he was going to use them for educational/informative purposes on old forum .

the best thing to judge someone proportion is to put him next to somebody else who is naturally at his height.

You know what?

I actually think he looks fine.

I realise that is perhaps not what some people will want to hear but I don't personally think his proportions are off at all.

I don't think he looks all that bad, but hopefully people don't take what he did and automatically assume it's the right choice for them. He may look okay but he'll never get anywhere close to prior strength or flexibility having lengthened as much as he did. I'm sorry, but no amount of persuading is going to convince me that one can lengthen that extensively and not be met with severe complications later down the line.

Don't sacrifice an absurd amount of function just for that extra height.

The trick is to look at the pictures a bit zoomed out. You'll see it looks like he is standing on stilts. Also then picture him sitting down on a chair or a sofa to reveal his short torso with way too long legs.

Did anyone who met him in India take any pictures?

Quote from: An_Apple_A_Day on December 23, 2013, 11:29:14 PM