At 9/27/09 09:49 PM, EagleRock wrote: Owl Orchard...lol. I guess they're running out of alliterative group names...what's next: Marmoset Menagerie?

No, that'll be the Meerkat Market, obviously.

You probably have to be English to get this joke ;)

So I was thinking about one of the roles involved with the barracks and it focuses on the whistle. I was wondering if people here are whistling reviews without writing their own reviews up to a certain standard.

I remember back in the day, Slash had some sort of initiative going where people wrote reviews for certain submissions. I think that people should gravitate more towards submissions like the daily 5th place winner - these are the submissions that don't get too many reviews. Perhaps we should get users to review them and meet a certain quality, as reviewing is a neglected part of portal life, as there are people out there complaining about the state of the speed of the portal.

Perhaps they could take up their time by writing a review or two?

Well speaking of reviews, I only review if I feel the need to do so or if there is something that the author might have overlooked or if something has not already been said. If something has already been said and I cannot delve further into that certain something, then I feel no need to review. Granted I may only have 343 reviews, but that's a little over a year of actual active activity. My sign up date was 10/25/06. I think that's a nice chunk of reviews in about a year and 4 months, I stated posting in the BBS about mid April 2008.

At 9/28/09 09:21 AM, Coop83 wrote: Perhaps they could take up their time by writing a review or two?

I was considering it, but you know how hard it is to write a good review sometimes. Especially for a submission that isn't particularly good, or that the reviewer doesn't really like. Like, I don't particularly like Madness tributes or sprite movies, at least not compared to the seemingly insatiable appetite of the Newgrounds community for Mario parodies and nondescript characters engaging in senseless violence (referring to the tributes, of course, not to Krinkels' original which apparently has some kind of storyline tacked on for superficial justification). It would be hard for me to review a Flash like that without turning into a criticism of the genre, and even if I managed it the fanboys wouldn't react well. As in, "RAAAAAEG HOW DARE HE GIVE SMBZ A 5/10 IM GOING 2 KILL HIM RAAAAR!" At the very least they'd flag it as useless, possibly even abusive, for a disagreement.

I hear what you're saying Soul. If a flash that is not looking like it's going to pass, why bother wasting the time, energy, and effort writing a review? I myself particularly enjoy the sprite parodies. Mainly the ones by Jeremy Simms. He is a freaking comedy genius. Also, what is it about the Mario parodies and sprite movies you don't particularly care for Soul?

Reason I ask, is because I've seen a fair amount of people either leaving abusive reviews on sprite movies and/or just badmouthing them for no reason other than "I don't like them. *goes and leaves an abusive review out of hatred for sprite movies* RAAR!"

Private Winstonw43 requesting permission to join sir!

At 9/28/09 01:57 PM, Winstonw43 wrote: Private Winstonw43 requesting permission to join sir!

Before you may join you will have to have a Bronze Whistle. After you join and if the whistle is downgraded you can still stay in the Barracks but the first thing that you need is to be a Private and have a Bronze Whistle just to be clear.

*salute*

At 9/28/09 02:07 PM, KingExodus wrote:

At 9/28/09 01:57 PM, Winstonw43 wrote: Private Winstonw43 requesting permission to join sir!

Before you may join you will have to have a Bronze Whistle. After you join and if the whistle is downgraded you can still stay in the Barracks but the first thing that you need is to be a Private and have a Bronze Whistle just to be clear.

*salute*

Also, just to be clear, you'll need to reach a B/P rank of Private in order to qualify as well. Look like you're still of Civilian rank, but have figured out how to Blam and Protect. Refer to here if you're confused about the ranks.

Good luck on reaching Private rank!

At 9/28/09 01:15 PM, SlntCobra1 wrote: Also, what is it about the Mario parodies and sprite movies you don't particularly care for Soul?

I hope I don't need to tell you how many times I've seen "Random Mario Bloopers", and it's the same exact set every time, or close enough. Thwomp out of nowhere, Mario sits on a spiked enemy, same old shit! Same with a lot of the Madness tributes: I like the original just fine, Krinkels is as close as I can think of to the "quintessential NG artist" (it's simple enough at the core, the man makes regular NG blog posts, and the heavy violent themes ring true with the "fuck you" attitude NG once gave, and should still give, the Moral Guardians), but a lot of the tributes have nothing to set them apart from one another. In the beginning it was fun, but it's just gotten so damn boring.

You may think it's gotten boring, but in actuality, you may have have just grown apathetic to the whole idea. That's my opinion. Now let's talk about something else before this turns into a full-fledged flame war.

Now, now boys - let's all calm down - and instead of squabbling, I invite you to read the next chapter of my fanfic, Chapter 6 - Deja Vue All Over Again Warning: this chapter is very intense, and will NOT leave you with a warm and fuzzy feeling. You want warm and fuzzy - go get yourself a puppy. You want some hardcore action that'll make you mad - well, what are you waiting for?!?!

http://davidzx.newgrounds.com/news/post/
370327

After being notified by Poozy regarding the message I supposedly typed, I may have to change the password to be safe.

Holy rubber duckies. I wanted to be in this series but after this episode nuh-uh. Lol I liked Lizzardis' death best. But how did Byte know where everybody was in the dark? And poor IB to being the first one to go... Anyways can I be in the next episode as a bounty hunter in the portal HURMMMM? Anyways cheers and great job with chapter six and hoping to see number seven soon.

At 9/28/09 04:50 PM, Lizzardis wrote: It will only turn into a flame war if you let it go that way. There is nothing wrong with expressing your opinions. Both of you have your own, and very well thought out opinions. There is nothing wrong with that!

I agree with Lizz on this one. While some things tend to generate flame wars quite easily (e.g. poltiics, etc.), it all depends on the people that are talking. Hell, I have a coworker that livesin Boston and is a die-hard Red Sox fan. He and I can joke around all day about the rivalry between them and the Yanks and not get mad. Depends on the people and their maturity level, really.

At 9/28/09 05:05 PM, byteslinger wrote: Now, now boys - let's all calm down - and instead of squabbling, I invite you to read the next chapter of my fanfic, Chapter 6 - Deja Vue All Over Again Warning: this chapter is very intense, and will NOT leave you with a warm and fuzzy feeling. You want warm and fuzzy - go get yourself a puppy. You want some hardcore action that'll make you mad - well, what are you waiting for?!?!

Awesome chapter! Your best one yet!

At 9/28/09 05:19 PM, Lizzardis wrote: Anyway, you guys should really check this out....Like....now! Because its Byte and all....it was very VERY well written and now I want the next chapter. Oooh, your lucky your not on AIM much Byte. Otherwise I would be bugging you about the next chapter like I do with Eagle! Haha.

He really does bug me...it's funny. Though, bug me no longer, Chapter 34 is out!: Barracks Under Fire - Chapter 34

Also, great news is Chapter 35 is already written and I'm half done with Chapter 36! I should have at least 35 done tonight!

MY RANT IS IN THE DISCUSSION THREAD IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT. I FEEL LIKE GETTING IT OUT HERE AS WELL.

Why you gotta kill me?! I like to think I'm in amongst the popular EGB members. Lizz, Porkchop, Mich, and I are all good chums. And why the hell did I not have any night-vision goggles?! Shouldn't those be standard issue!?!

/rant

*massive sigh* I better come back. >_>

Just got to chapter 11 on The Barracks Under Fire what a cool story, I'm getting into it now its so interesting. I remember lots of those former mods now sadly no longer mods, Maus, BigBadRon, Ozcar, Canas etc. Its like going back over the last few years, seeing people come and go. Reading about former members of EGB is kinda sad like Sentio ,and other members such a history EGB has. Anyway I wish I had seen some of those members in my time. But you have got such good skills at writing fiction. Off topic yes ScaryMovieGuy many flashes got removed he was a nuisance when it comes to stealing and using alts. But I did not know OO had been spamming the portal.

At 9/28/09 08:31 PM, SlntCobra1 wrote: MY RANT IS IN THE DISCUSSION THREAD IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT. I FEEL LIKE GETTING IT OUT HERE AS WELL.

Why you gotta kill me?! I like to think I'm in amongst the popular EGB members. Lizz, Porkchop, Mich, and I are all good chums. And why the hell did I not have any night-vision goggles?! Shouldn't those be standard issue!?!

/rant

*massive sigh* I better come back. >_>

Hey, my friend, please don't take it personally. You are among the best - and in that chapter, you all met an untimely death at the hands of a psychopath who you wanted to believe was your friend. As for the night vision goggles, from the time the lights went out to the time your character was shot was only a few seconds - and remember, you guys had set up a trap to trank Byte - you weren't expecting warfare. That's why you had a trank rifle, but only a pair of pistols with live ammo. Did you really expect the lights to go out and all Hell to break loose?

So, for the time being, in that particular continuum, you are deceased. From a quantum standpoint, that's just a minor inconvenience. But your presence will be felt in the future... and that will be part of getting this continuum back to "normal" - or something like it.

All will be revealed in time....

I'm still indifferent either way. Yet still more than a bit pissed.

Also, you don't spell trankuilizer or trank with a "K". You spell it like this: Tranquilizer. And the abbreviation is tranq.

At 9/28/09 09:05 PM, phantomlassuk wrote: Just got to chapter 11 on The Barracks Under Fire what a cool story, I'm getting into it now its so interesting. I remember lots of those former mods now sadly no longer mods, Maus, BigBadRon, Ozcar, Canas etc. Its like going back over the last few years, seeing people come and go. Reading about former members of EGB is kinda sad like Sentio ,and other members such a history EGB has. Anyway I wish I had seen some of those members in my time. But you have got such good skills at writing fiction.

Thanks for your good vote on my story! Yes, I consider this little novel my tribute to all the members of the Barracks that have come and gone, and a nice tribute to all they did for it.

As for the current members currently making it thrive, consider my sequel my little tribute to those that kept the Barracks as great as it is today. :-)

At 9/28/09 09:38 PM, SlntCobra1 wrote: I'm still indifferent either way. Yet still more than a bit pissed.

Also, you don't spell trankuilizer or trank with a "K". You spell it like this: Tranquilizer. And the abbreviation is tranq.

Someone isn't thinking fourth dimensionally, just like Marty McFly! :-P

I'm glad my story was so criticially acclaimed! I'm continuting on with the story and hope to get anothe chapter out tonight!

At 9/28/09 09:38 PM, SlntCobra1 wrote: I'm still indifferent either way. Yet still more than a bit pissed.

Also, you don't spell trankuilizer or trank with a "K". You spell it like this: Tranquilizer. And the abbreviation is tranq.

Yeah, I know how to spell tranquilizer, and yes, technically "tranq" is the shortened form. But in other variations and phonetic spellings, "trank" has become slang for "tranquilizer" - just like "pwned" was derived from "owned", which means "badly beatened".

My guess is that you're probably not into my style of writing, and that the subject matter is not as close to you as you'd like. That's okay - I don't expect everyone to love it or hate it - each person has their own opinions, and there's no problem with that. If I portrayed you in a way that doesn't make you happy, it was only for literary license, and nothing more. Hey, EagleRock is a crazy hermit, my alter ego is a psychopath; Lizz's was a hired henchman (now deceased)- and Idiot-Buster is a power-crazed madame of the EGB brothel.

But realize that this story is just that, and does not portray any one in this reality completely.

IRL, we're all still friends, right?

It's not that I don't like your writing style, I enjoy it quite a lot. I'm just still pissed that I got taken out that easily. I should've at least had a flash bang handy or a flare gun. I mean really. To be honest, I'm just a little bit put off by that.

Yes we're still friends IRL.

Hey Cobra, I have an idea. Let's have a story with no dramatic tension, no losses of the material or physical kind... No tragedy, no heroic acts-- hell, why don't we all just write 85 chapters of one continuous round of Kumbaya.

Also, for your information there are 54,900,00 Google results for "trank gun." Wanna know how many "tranq gun" gets? 448,000. Do the math, and chillax. Be glad she's writing to include everyone, she could have easily done this with four or five characters and had that be that. But she's unleashes her awesome writing prowess to include more people and even tertiary characters.
Booyah.

At 9/28/09 10:26 PM, SlntCobra1 wrote: It's not that I don't like your writing style, I enjoy it quite a lot. I'm just still pissed that I got taken out that easily. I should've at least had a flash bang handy or a flare gun. I mean really. To be honest, I'm just a little bit put off by that.

Yes we're still friends IRL.

Hey, even Chuck Norris gets sucker-punched once in a while! But never from the same person twice, hehehehe...

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  by <deleted>

  Under Judgment

  (Everyone)

Just a hate flash. For obvious reasons, it's unsuitable.

At 9/28/09 11:29 AM, SlntCobra1 wrote: Well speaking of reviews, I only review if I feel the need to do so or if there is something that the author might have overlooked or if something has not already been said. If something has already been said and I cannot delve further into that certain something, then I feel no need to review.

An interesting standpoint, but if the submission does not need improving, then it is perfect. Personally, I feel that perfection is a state of being that is impossible for anything, due to the overtly chaotic nature of the universe.

Ergo, there is always something to say ;)

At 9/28/09 12:41 PM, SoulMaster71 wrote:

At 9/28/09 09:21 AM, Coop83 wrote: Perhaps they could take up their time by writing a review or two?

I was considering it, but you know how hard it is to write a good review sometimes.

No, I really don't. It's harder for me sometime to write a good post, as you can almost go through a standard checklist for reviews, picking off points about how people could improve and what you enjoyed the most about a submission.

Especially for a submission that isn't particularly good, or that the reviewer doesn't really like.

No-one's forcing you to review those submissions. Perhaps you should find one you do like and review it?

It would be hard for me to review a Flash like that without turning into a criticism of the genre, and even if I managed it the fanboys wouldn't react well. As in, "RAAAAAEG HOW DARE HE GIVE SMBZ A 5/10 IM GOING 2 KILL HIM RAAAAR!" At the very least they'd flag it as useless, possibly even abusive, for a disagreement.

Does it really matter if they flag a review as useless? It does nothing for the whole review at all. If they mark it as abusive, then I'm sure that it would be them who have the knock on effect of having a downgrade in their whistle status.

At 9/28/09 02:37 PM, SoulMaster71 wrote: I hope I don't need to tell you how many times I've seen "Random Mario Bloopers", and it's the same exact set every time, or close enough.

I really hope you're not being shallow by thinking that those movies are the only ones that ever get submitted by Newgrounders.

At 9/28/09 10:26 PM, SlntCobra1 wrote: It's not that I don't like your writing style, I enjoy it quite a lot. I'm just still pissed that I got taken out that easily. I should've at least had a flash bang handy or a flare gun. I mean really. To be honest, I'm just a little bit put off by that.

Yes we're still friends IRL.

That's nothing compared to what I did to BigBadRon in the early portion of my story abck when it was mostly exclusive in b/p 51+ thread. He was shot in the face by a Somali warlord after trying to ban him in real life.

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  by <deleted>

  Under Judgment

  (Everyone)

Stolen from South Park.

At 9/29/09 02:35 AM, Lizzardis wrote:

At 9/28/09 07:16 PM, EagleRock wrote: He really does bug me...it's funny. Though, bug me no longer, Chapter 34 is out!: Barracks Under Fire - Chapter 34

Oh your good.....Your very good.

:-)

Also, great news is Chapter 35 is already written and I'm half done with Chapter 36! I should have at least 35 done tonight!

Dangit! That means I can't bug you....You win this round Eagle! -.-

Well, you can leave it to my Internet connection to make a liar out of me...I lost connectivity all night and wasn't able to post it! So, without further ado, here's chapter 35: Barracks Under Fire - Chapter 35

At 9/29/09 04:35 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 9/28/09 11:29 AM, SlntCobra1 wrote: Well speaking of reviews, I only review if I feel the need to do so or if there is something that the author might have overlooked or if something has not already been said. If something has already been said and I cannot delve further into that certain something, then I feel no need to review.

This is basically my take on it too. Unless there's something in particular to say about the flash, like if one area was significantly worse than the others, or if I have an idea for what could make it better overall, I probably won't review it.

An interesting standpoint, but if the submission does not need improving, then it is perfect. Personally, I feel that perfection is a state of being that is impossible for anything, due to the overtly chaotic nature of the universe.

Ergo, there is always something to say ;)

I have to disagree with this. Yes, there's always something stopping a flash from being 'perfect' (bear in mind that the definition of 'perfect' is entirely dependant on who's doing the judging of it), but there's a difference between something that's flawless and something that needs improvement. So what if Brackenwood doesn't have a plot? So what if There She Is is annoyingly Japanese at times? I still don't see why it's worth criticising them for what they could've been, given what they already are. Good enough is just that. Especially given that there is no such thing as a completely perfect flash (ergo, there's a point beyond which picking at problems will no longer be constructive, more just petty pedanticism).

Does it really matter if they flag a review as useless? It does nothing for the whole review at all. If they mark it as abusive, then I'm sure that it would be them who have the knock on effect of having a downgrade in their whistle status.

Haha; I really think there should be some restrictions on using those buttons, or some punishment for abusing the helpful / useless ones. I've been useless bombed before (fuck knows why), and it's just pathetic seeing what people will mark as helpful or useless these days.

I really hope you're not being shallow by thinking that those movies are the only ones that ever get submitted by Newgrounders.

They're not the only thing in the portal by any stretch of imagination, but their sheer lack of originality makes them stand out more than they should. I remember reviewing one such generic sprite movie a while ago, and after I took a look at it, I realised that it could've been written for pretty much every damn one of them ever submitted. I haven't had the inclination to review another one since.

Alright, I apologize to all whom I might've offended by going off on a multi-post rant, I'm calmer now. Lizz and Krev, thanks for smacking me back down to earth. I guess I just get a little worked up sometimes and I really need to control my outbursts. Still can't wait for the next chapter though. BTW, I'm still holding at chapter 14 of BUF. It's sad that there are 35 chapters, and here I am 21 chapters behind. I've read part of Buster's fanfic and I had an awesome idea for the next chapter of "Duel Academy -- A Romantic Comedy."

Basically, you could say that my anger was more anxiety taking over for a short while.

That's great Slnt and anyways when is the next part coming out? Anyways portal is going pretty slow right about now.