At 5/28/10 02:54 PM, jedi-master wrote: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/53 7467
This flash is obviously stolen from here:
http://www.gamedesign.jp/flash/porolith/
porolith.html

GODDAMMIT! I hate it when I give something a passing vote and find out a few minutes later it's stolen! God I just hate it when that happens!

I feel so dirty!

At 5/28/10 12:31 AM, SlntCobra1 wrote:

At 5/27/10 10:35 PM, byteslinger wrote: Yup, I've caught you on AIM a few times.

Speaking of which, when are you on AIM for the most part? Or are you still posing as invisible?

What do you care? You never talk to anyone on AIM. I'm still waiting for some loving from you.

At 5/27/10 10:35 PM, byteslinger wrote: YAY! Unkie Eaggie is back! And he's posting during the day! Wow! I feel so much better. Good to see you're still alive and kicking...

LOL...yeah, I'm around...I've just been too busy during the days lately to post...but I have had a bit of extra time as of late. Hopefully I can keep that trend up.

Yup, I've caught you on AIM a few times. It's always good to chat with you when we do. But the more you chat, the less work you can do on that basement project of yours. I can appreciate that!

Haha...I only keep my basement work to once a week...I can't burn out, now can I?

And, yes, I've read Chapter 8, and commented on it already - for those who haven't read it yet, I highly recommend it (and the entire story) - it's really coming together nicely!

*Salutes*

Thanks... :-) I'm still waiting to see where else you go with yours. I thought we were getting near the end of the story, but you always just seem to add extra levels of complexity that throw a big-ass monkey wrench into the whole deal.

And Chapter 9 I am particularly happy with. I finished my rough draft this morning, so it should be out this weekend. Call it a well-deserved bout of action after a shitload of set-up for the story.

At 5/28/10 02:54 PM, jedi-master wrote: I know I'm not a member here, but I should probably bring this to your attention guys:

Thanks for the heads up! We don't relegate everyone that's a non-Elite Guard from our thread...in fact, we welcome friends to stop by. If you ever come across a stolen flash like that, you're always welcome to drop a line. We sure do appreciate it!

Besides, with a record like yours, you might be a prospective member in the near future... :-)

At 5/28/10 03:25 PM, SlntCobra1 wrote: GODDAMMIT! I hate it when I give something a passing vote and find out a few minutes later it's stolen! God I just hate it when that happens!

What can you do? You didn't know... In fact, unless you are a regular and see a large amount of Flash per day, you would probably miss 9/10 stolen Flash anyway. Even I being less active have trouble spotting the stolen submissions these days...

At 5/28/10 08:52 PM, puddinN64 wrote: What do you care? You never talk to anyone on AIM. I'm still waiting for some loving from you.

LOL...If you really are looking for people to talk to on AIM, I'm usually online most of the day. Hit me up on IM, especially late at night since I'm on the night shift and all...

****STOLEN FLASH ALERT****

Stolen:

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  by <deleted>

  Under Judgment

  (Everyone)

He's submitting it with a gmail account. Shouldn't the actual email be <insert name here>@stickdeath.com? or something?

Original:

http://www.stickdeath.com/frameset.htm

At 5/29/10 03:29 AM, SlntCobra1 wrote: He's submitting it with a gmail account. Shouldn't the actual email be <insert name here>@stickdeath.com? or something?

Looking at it, his website advertises his contact email address as @yahoo.com. Why wouldn't he have a gmail account that he created his Newgrounds account with. I have multiple email addresses and that's the most tenuous link for marking something as stolen that I've ever seen.

At 5/28/10 08:52 PM, puddinN64 wrote:

At 5/28/10 12:31 AM, SlntCobra1 wrote:

At 5/27/10 10:35 PM, byteslinger wrote: Yup, I've caught you on AIM a few times.

Speaking of which, when are you on AIM for the most part? Or are you still posing as invisible?

What do you care? You never talk to anyone on AIM. I'm still waiting for some loving from you.

Huh, he talks to me, he's very cool...

I just wanna more friends to talk on AIM, what' yours, bytes??

At 5/29/10 09:12 AM, RogerBK wrote: I just wanna more friends to talk on AIM, what' yours, bytes??

Now that you're validated in our forums, you have access to the Contact Information thread. All of our AIMs (and in some cases MSNs) are listed there ;)

I just want to comment on all the stolen flashes that are being marked. In a lot of cases I wouldn't be so sure. Ever since I created Pyroscape and had a view of how the whole gaming world exist I've discovered a few things.

Major game creators create new account for sites all the time to submit their submissions to gain more ad revenue. I had to create at least 100 new accounts on sites to distribute Pyroscape and they were all with a gmail account.

People buy the rights to others games all the time. When they do this, even though they didn't create the game they buy the rights to put their own ads on and distribute them themselves. It usually costs anywhere from 100 dollars to 1,000 dollars to do this, but they only do it if they feel they will make their money back and the person that they are buying it from doesn't feel they will make the money back.

People take distributing jobs ALL of the time. Every day I see threads will people will distribute others games for them because they themselves don't have enough time. It's a legit and paying job and I've even done it once. (They didn't want it on newgrounds)

So just because it doesn't look like someone made a game doesn't mean they don't have the right to upload it somewhere else. It's quite impossible to tell most of the time, but to me I think it's more important to stop the obviously stolen things instead. (which you guys do a great job at already, but stay away from the small ones) Innocent until PROVEN guilty remember? Some small email addresses and sign up dates have absolutely nothing to do with anything.

Especially when newgrounds is the number 1 portal on the mochiads forum for portals to add your game to. People will be signing up and submitting their games here for the first time.

At 5/29/10 10:21 AM, Fro wrote: So just because it doesn't look like someone made a game doesn't mean they don't have the right to upload it somewhere else. It's quite impossible to tell most of the time, but to me I think it's more important to stop the obviously stolen things instead. (which you guys do a great job at already, but stay away from the small ones) Innocent until PROVEN guilty remember? Some small email addresses and sign up dates have absolutely nothing to do with anything.

Absolutely true, but I very much doubt that any of the stolen Flash that has passed judgment as of late was from a user that took a distribution gig. A little bit of cross-analysis goes a long way, and having that perspective of yours definitely helps clear the fog when determining whether or not a Flash is merely being distributed or just blatantly ripped-off.

And on that note...

STOLEN:

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  by <deleted>

  Under Judgment

  (Everyone)

ORIGINAL:

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  .:The Dream:.

  by goman7

  .:The Dream:. The Story of Cub: The Go-Man

  Movie

  332,819 Views

  (Everyone)

Also, please be sure to check out

my latest piece of news

, in which I address the state of the Portal as of late. It is a good read apparently, and I recommend it for everyone because of it's educational value - especially for the children.

Thanks for the info Fro its helps so many pass but it is so confusing, I do really try to work out what is legit. I read your blog and it has some points about people voting on things just to pass however, I always vote on what I think the flash deserves. Kitty Krew I find make me laugh I like them but do blam if it is bad. But many people don't vote fairy. The portal watch thing you mentioned seems to have die out Wade Fulp did mention about it but sadly it seem to died out. On the link you posted on your page I did think that the this user may be stealing things.http://shadowwalker15.newgrounds.
com/flash/ As to the others I'm not sure i did do some searching ARTDanVal.

At 5/29/10 09:44 AM, Ismael92 wrote:

At 5/29/10 09:12 AM, RogerBK wrote: I just wanna more friends to talk on AIM, what' yours, bytes??

Now that you're validated in our forums, you have access to the Contact Information thread. All of our AIMs (and in some cases MSNs) are listed there ;)

Thank you Ismael, it wasn't so good, since I'll bother everyone of this club on AIM...

Also, 1.200th page!! Congrats!!

To answer your questions about AIM:

My aim ID (and e-mail address you can use) is "x11717@yahoo.com". I'm on and off when I can get the time, so there's never any guarantee unless we discuss when / where.

Along another line, I'm pleased to announce Chapter 24 - Fate Denied. Some questions will be answered - and some hard decisions will need to be made.

Enjoy!

For those of us who know your contact info Byte, it's not the question of "What is your contact info?" it's more of a question of when you're on NG, why can't you be on AIM at the same time? That's what I do.

At 5/30/10 09:36 PM, byteslinger wrote: To answer your questions about AIM:

My aim ID (and e-mail address you can use) is "x11717@yahoo.com". I'm on and off when I can get the time, so there's never any guarantee unless we discuss when / where.

My AIM is displayed on my profile, though I rarely get online. I spend more time on MSN (because all my IRL friends use it), but I don't like revealing it in public places (due to spam and all that shit). However, I still don't spend too much time on MSN (and many of my friends hate me because of that, lol). If you want to get it, you can just PM me :)

Along another line, I'm pleased to announce Chapter 24 - Fate Denied. Some questions will be answered - and some hard decisions will need to be made.

Nice! I'll read it tomorrow. Now I'm off to bed :D

Again I haven't been active. I'm sorry guys, especially to you, Cobra. First it's my comp, now my connection. I'm still here, making the occasional post from my buddy's laptop. Hopefully I'll get this straightened out soon.

*salutes*

Ah, that explains your extremely sporadic posting, being on AIM, etc. as of late. It's no big deal Canime. We all have computer troubles now and then. Speaking of which, when I finally get my computer sent to be repaired, I'll need someone to deposit for me.

At 5/29/10 06:53 PM, RogerBK wrote: Thank you Ismael, it wasn't so good, since I'll bother everyone of this club on AIM...

I'm sure none of us would mind. I sure don't. Usually at night I'm at work, and unless I'm busy, I could use someone to chat with :-)

Also, 1.200th page!! Congrats!!

Yep! Check off another milestone for the Barracks!

At 5/30/10 10:00 PM, SlntCobra1 wrote: For those of us who know your contact info Byte, it's not the question of "What is your contact info?" it's more of a question of when you're on NG, why can't you be on AIM at the same time? That's what I do.

Well, speaking from my own perspective, sometimes you might be able to browse and post on a forum but not necessarily get involved in an AIM conversation. Forums are a bit more Laissez-faire when it comes to time, so somebody that might be multitasking at work can find forums easier to handle.

Anyhoo, here's some more story for y'all to read: Back in the Barracks - Chapter 9

At 5/31/10 01:09 AM, EagleRock wrote:

Anyhoo, here's some more story for y'all to read: Back in the Barracks - Chapter 9

Ha, I haven't been keeping up with the series for a while. I see that I'm on a couple of list, but have I had a major role in any of the new chapters?

At 5/30/10 11:21 PM, MultiCanimefan wrote: Again I haven't been active.

Don't worry, it's OK. However I should remind you that the next rollcall will be tomorrow: I'll be sending PMs to all the members (even to those who post here daily), and everyone should respond with their current situation regarding their activity on this place. The roster will be updated accordingly.

At 5/30/10 11:33 PM, SlntCobra1 wrote: Speaking of which, when I finally get my computer sent to be repaired, I'll need someone to deposit for me.

If you want to, I can do it for you. I never miss deposits and I could easily deposit for someone else.

At 5/31/10 01:09 AM, EagleRock wrote: Anyhoo, here's some more story for y'all to read: Back in the Barracks - Chapter 9

Great! It looks like both of our writers are on a roll!

At 5/31/10 12:48 PM, Ismael92 wrote: If you want to, I can do it for you. I never miss deposits and I could easily deposit for someone else.

Well sure. I'll PM you the details and when I will get my laptop in for repair.

Great! It looks like both of our writers are on a roll!

You forget, I'm also writing a fanfic as well, which is linked in my sig. Though I really need to get back to working on it.

Or a more appropriate alert would look like this:

****STOLEN FLASH ALERT****

Stolen:

• 

  by <deleted>

  Under Judgment

  (Everyone)

Original:

http://www.bobblebrook.com/games/coign-o f-vantage

At 5/31/10 12:56 PM, SlntCobra1 wrote: Well sure. I'll PM you the details and when I will get my laptop in for repair.

OK :D

At 5/31/10 12:48 PM, Ismael92 wrote: Great! It looks like both of our writers are on a roll!

You forget, I'm also writing a fanfic as well, which is linked in my sig. Though I really need to get back to working on it.

I didn't forget about you! I know that Eagle and Byte aren't our only writers, but I said "both of our writers" because they both are writing EGB-related fanfics. But yeah, there are other EGB members who are writers too, like you or Idiot-Finder.

At 5/31/10 05:12 PM, jedi-master wrote: What more proof do you guys need that this is stolen? Just take a look at the game.

Well, it's always nice to link to the original flash despite how obvious the theft is, but I guess that in this case it's unnecessary because the link is inside the flash, lol

Thanks for stopping by! It's always nice to see foreigners taking care of the portal too :)

I would say so, His first game says the programing was done by Berto while this second one is from someone completely different.

At 5/31/10 05:21 PM, jedi-master wrote: Just...Come on!

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
That's the biggest fail I've seen for a while now. Thanks for the laugh!

Also: I RANKED UP YAY!
For the first time in ages, I se myself a B/P challenge that I actually managed to stick to (read: get the rank up before next roster comes out). Me = happy now.

(And now I slip back into the abyss of slow-ass B/Ping....)

http://www.maniacworld.com/flygirl-game.
htm

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  by <deleted>

  Under Judgment

  (Everyone)

Stolen.

At 5/31/10 07:06 PM, Sheizenhammer wrote: Also: I RANKED UP YAY!

Congrats! Just on time for the roster :D

By the way, Lizzardis, be sure to fix the rank climbs when you update the roster tomorrow. For example, ArtDanVal is new to the roster, so people below him shouldn't have a -1 (because it's not like somebody else passed them). Also, Cobra and I each climbed a rank, but because we're behind ADV the roster doesn't show it. When I used to manage the roster, I could easily fix this adding a +1 to the equation that automatically calculated each person's rank climb, but I'm not too sure of how you work (especially now that Byte kindly designed an automatically-updated method).

At 5/31/10 07:46 PM, Lizzardis wrote:

At 5/31/10 07:41 PM, Ismael92 wrote: When I used to manage the roster, I could easily fix this adding a +1 to the equation that automatically calculated each person's rank climb, but I'm not too sure of how you work (especially now that Byte kindly designed an automatically-updated method).

I would calculate it the same way as you, but since Byte's web page calculates it a different way, unfortunately the -1's occurred by the adding of ArtDanVal will have to stay, because I do not know how to work around them without the roster, and the rankings looking strange.

I see... It could be fixed manually but that would take some work :(

Also, for the roll call could you do two things for me?

1) Could the roll call go on for a whole 2 weeks?

Since the past rollcalls started at the 23rd, they always lasted a week (because there were 7 days left until the next roster). But this time it starts tomorrow and we have a full month, so 2 weeks is OK :)

2) Could you please PM me the results on the 15th of June so I can edit the NGPD and EGB rosters accordingly please?

As in previous years, a thread will be created in our private forums, and I will update it each time a member responds. But I can still send you a PM with the results if you want to ;)

At 5/31/10 07:41 PM, Ismael92 wrote:

At 5/31/10 07:06 PM, Sheizenhammer wrote: Also: I RANKED UP YAY!

Congrats! Just on time for the roster :D

By the way, Lizzardis, be sure to fix the rank climbs when you update the roster tomorrow. For example, ArtDanVal is new to the roster, so people below him shouldn't have a -1 (because it's not like somebody else passed them). Also, Cobra and I each climbed a rank, but because we're behind ADV the roster doesn't show it. When I used to manage the roster, I could easily fix this adding a +1 to the equation that automatically calculated each person's rank climb, but I'm not too sure of how you work (especially now that Byte kindly designed an automatically-updated method).

Well, in one way, I can understand your reasoning, Ismael. If these new recruits weren't added, those change in positions would indeed be as you described. However, mathemagically speaking, by adding new recruits into the roster, wherever they are inserted, those below do, in fact, lose a position. Think of it this way: if someone is at rank 30 with 20,000 points, and rank 29 is at 23,000, they need 3001 to push past rank 29. But, if in the middle of the month, we add a new recruit at 21,500, they would become rank 30, and our member at 21,000 (and all below them) drop a rank. This is reported in the next roster update, and is technically more accurate than doing the "+1" logic you describe. It also means that the person now at 31 needs to worry about an additional person "above them" when jockeying for rank.

IMHO, since all the ranking really shows is a sorted list (largest to smallest) of B/P, and we, as the EGB, shouldn't be concerned about B/P points just for the sake of counting them, the fact that someone "drops a rank" when a new recruit is added really is just for lulz.

BUT... if you really want to discount "new members" from the rank level calcs, I can modify the program to do that. There are a few calculation steps I use that will need to be tweaked, but it shouldn't be too crazy.

Think about it, and if you guys really want it changed, I will be glad to oblige.

*Salutes*

At 5/31/10 12:56 PM, SlntCobra1 wrote:

At 5/31/10 12:48 PM, Ismael92 wrote: If you want to, I can do it for you. I never miss deposits and I could easily deposit for someone else.

Well sure. I'll PM you the details and when I will get my laptop in for repair.

Great! It looks like both of our writers are on a roll!

You forget, I'm also writing a fanfic as well, which is linked in my sig. Though I really need to get back to working on it.

Yes, and it's a very interesting fan-fic at that. Speaking of your sig, this is what I came up with based on your notes. How close am I? Hope you like it!

*Salutes*

This club has reached 1200 pages. The sheer length of this club is giving me quite the boner.

Not that I actually have a BONE there, of course; it functions through blood-pressure hydraulics!

Yohohoho!