Thanks for the bit of clarification on the Choco Break situation. Personally, I find breakout to be boring unless the author really thinks outside of the box. Many of the Choco Breaks move too fast, have no pause when you lose a life, and are overall, very dull -- I always vote low if they've done nothing to improve the original design.

They do have some differences: some authors put in extra modes, which is good for them. I've seen a lot of crappy ones too. It's the lack of variety that really bores me. What really gets me is the fact that they always pass.

Just received a PM back from Tom.

At 34 minutes ago, TomFulp wrote:

At 5 hours ago, SeeD419 wrote: Should we be flagging these 'Choco-break' submissions? I've seen probably about 10 of them come through now and I'm not sure if these are considered stolen or not.

Yeah, people should't submit their finished tutorials as their own work.

These are to be flagged just as we've been doing all along.

Hey, does anybody else see this submission as being stolen?

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I seem to remember playing it a very long time ago, when

Assassin

had its own special page on Newgrounds. The

guy

has a sign-up date of 2003, yet I don't think they made any Assassin games beyond 2006...

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  K-FED: Dancing with Fire

  by TomFulp

  Stop K-Fed in his tracks before he can bring more harm to this world!

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Even then, Assassin has been around since at least 1996 (if the blurb is to be believed), and the Taco Bell Chihuahua was retired from commercials in 2000. The latter information came after a bit of sleuthing, but I think that anyone who watches TV long enough (myself excluded) would have already forgotten about the little runt.

So, the verdict is...?

At 12/8/10 04:49 PM, ArtDanVal wrote: Hey, does anybody else see this submission as being stolen?
I seem to remember playing it a very long time ago, when Assassin had its own special page on Newgrounds. The guy has a sign-up date of 2003, yet I don't think they made any Assassin games beyond 2006...

I played that game before I even signed up. I remember it so much. It has got to be stolen, but I can't find an actual link anywhere on Newgrounds.

The best link off-site is this. A little bit of snooping with Google comes up with this Wi/Ht? thread... It looks like the Taco Bell dog assassin game has been gone for a while, but I'm absolutely certain that it was NOT submitted on Dec 8, 2010.

At 12/8/10 03:28 PM, SeeD419 wrote: Just received a PM back from Tom.

At 34 minutes ago, TomFulp wrote:

At 5 hours ago, SeeD419 wrote: Should we be flagging these 'Choco-break' submissions? I've seen probably about 10 of them come through now and I'm not sure if these are considered stolen or not.

Yeah, people should't submit their finished tutorials as their own work.

These are to be flagged just as we've been doing all along.

I stand corrected then. I knew that he didn't want them to be submitted, but I just didn't see "stolen" as a proper label. I see stolen as not making the piece, but I see where he's coming from. I do suggest making sure you know what the original looks like though so if you run into a situation where they made one a lot different just using the tutorial as a guide that it should be ok. For example, the one that I plan on making with my own graphics and whatnot.

Also, check out on Clickteam's profile to see other tutorials that shouldn't be submitted!

I see the medals on your page are gone I wondered where they had gone ,turns out it is happening to lots of people. I'm not as bothered as I don't really play many games with medals still annoying for people. I see the crying face has replaced it hopefully it will be fixed shortly.

At 12/9/10 10:04 AM, phantomlassuk wrote: I see the medals on your page are gone I wondered where they had gone ,turns out it is happening to lots of people. I'm not as bothered as I don't really play many games with medals still annoying for people. I see the crying face has replaced it hopefully it will be fixed shortly.

Yea hopefully it's a quick fix, people have been freaking out about it. All you have to do is get a new medal, and poof! all your other medals reappear. Simple fix right thur.

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This has what I think is stolen music from one of the epic battle fanasy games. Can someone have a listen and make sure I am not going coocoo?

At 12/9/10 11:03 PM, BenwaHakubi wrote: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/55 5811
This has what I think is stolen music from one of the epic battle fanasy games. Can someone have a listen and make sure I am not going coocoo?

Why does it matter if the music is "stolen"?

Hey guys, I think you should check this out.

...

Remember that little rant I went on a few pages back about hentai galleries and such submissions getting through? Although that Flash was eventually removed after winning a daily award, I did not foresee the recent porno-geddon in the Portal. Looks like the powers that be got fed up with all that trite polluting the place, or perhaps all the gallery creators finally came to their senses in one way or another and asked to have their subs deleted (as unlikely as it seems). It's an odd feeling - i'm relieved that these half-assed things are off the site, but at the same time I have a terrible feeling of loss.

Aside from that, nothing else to report at the moment. I am also not B/P'ing as frequently as I once have. Seeing so many stolen Flash entries pass, as well as poor subs that receive rapidly decreasing scores and would have been BLAMmed if they had gotten 8 or more votes to do so - it has really been a wall-banger for me.

The standards have seemingly fallen through the floor and I feel that it is only appropriate to make them tighter to ensure better quality. My solution: an extended judgment period if a Flash is "Borderline" - a new category between Under Judgment and Near Death that is reserved for Flashes that are borderline BLAM or passing.

This means that anything within a score of 1.5-1.65 after the standard voting period can be ensured a better chance of either survival or deletion. To prevent the "Borderline" from being a quick mass-vote period to pass or BLAM a Flash, the status will be kept hidden to everyone, including the author. Turd of the Week won't be affected at all by this, at least I don't think it will affect legit 'winners', so I think it will support the Portal ecosystem without affecting too much.

Does anyone have a thought on this?

NOW, the statwhoring loss the battle guys. Yeah

Too bad I just got 5 or 6 saves, just enterd once in the Portal yesterday...

Thx for showing that Art, I wouldn't have noticed. :P

Hey guys, we got a nice Rick Roll video.

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Stolen

from Youtube.

Also, there is a game in judgement right now, it pops up an youtube video...

I think it's already blammed.

At 12/10/10 08:09 AM, RogerBK wrote: Also, there is a game in judgement right now, it pops up an youtube video...

Yeah it contains the Rick Roll material. But really should not last long in the portal considering it's clearly stolen from YouTube.

At 12/10/10 08:54 AM, Pandamir wrote:

At 12/10/10 08:09 AM, RogerBK wrote: Also, there is a game in judgement right now, it pops up an youtube video...

Yeah it contains the Rick Roll material. But really should not last long in the portal considering it's clearly stolen from YouTube.

Yeah right. People will blindly vote to protect anything with a filesize over 2 mb. This is a fucking joke, I can't believe it passed.
What is going on here? This is alarming!

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Copyrighted by Intel, clearly not this guy's property.

Google Intel Rocket Man, don't know what the original source is, but here's a link

http://www.gamesquat.com/en/games/free-o nline-games/intel-rocket-man/

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  Magus Tower Defebse

  by XweaselX

  Basic Challenging Tower defense game with upgrade towers

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I have strong suspicions with this flash. The submitter looks legit, he has a email address from a website called

badge games

but the game isn't even submitted on there.

The game originates from Wolferion Entertainment, and can be seen on that website. These guys have submitted the game to kongregate and it's legitimately through their own account.

I would personally be inclined to flag this. Opinions?

Hey Spiffy, I think exactly like you... The game is very suspicious... I think you're right when you flagged it.

Imma Genre Mod now! Yeah, awesome to help Newrounds directly!!

At 12/10/10 02:31 PM, SpiffyMasta wrote: Opinions?

I'm not too sure. Taking a look at the guy's other submissions, it looks like some may be stolen as well.

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  Farm Tower Defense

  by XweaselX

  Blast farm animals to there death

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the links in the .swf go to different websites than the one he's trying to get you to go to in the author comments as well. Perhaps pm Tom and ask him to take a look at the guy to see if he has some sort of agreement worked out with the original authors, or if he made them originally for the websites in the flash, but didn't bother to change them before submitting?

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This claims to flood websites...

At 12/11/10 07:19 AM, SeeD419 wrote: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/55 5944
This claims to flood websites...

It just adds random numbers to the boxes, it doesn't actually do anything.

Stolen Flash Alert

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Extremely well-known game, I remember playing it years ago. It's all across the internet, on many different sites, all can be used as evidence. Submitter claims he made it before he discovered Newgrounds, which is obvious shit. According to BubbleBox's own website, it was created by the site's owner, in addition to being sponsored by them.

Blow my whistle, baby.

Evidence:

http://www.bubblebox.com/play/action/495 .htm

http://www.kongregate.com/games/BubbleBo x/elite-base-jump

It causes your server to freeze

I played it twice to make sure and it happened twice.

At 12/12/10 07:21 PM, LittleWashu wrote: It causes your server to freeze

I played it twice to make sure and it happened twice.

I don't really think that's flaggable.

At 12/12/10 07:26 PM, Jolly wrote:

At 12/12/10 07:21 PM, LittleWashu wrote: It causes your server to freeze

I played it twice to make sure and it happened twice.

I don't really think that's flaggable.

Any game that causes your server to freeze on purpose is flaggable.

At 12/12/10 07:38 PM, LittleWashu wrote:

At 12/12/10 07:26 PM, Jolly wrote:

At 12/12/10 07:21 PM, LittleWashu wrote: It causes your server to freeze

I played it twice to make sure and it happened twice.

I don't really think that's flaggable.

Any game that causes your server to freeze on purpose is flaggable.

It looks like it just has a lot on the screen at one time..

At 12/12/10 08:25 PM, Jolly wrote:

At 12/12/10 07:38 PM, LittleWashu wrote:

At 12/12/10 07:26 PM, Jolly wrote:

At 12/12/10 07:21 PM, LittleWashu wrote: It causes your server to freeze

I played it twice to make sure and it happened twice.

I don't really think that's flaggable.

Any game that causes your server to freeze on purpose is flaggable.

It looks like it just has a lot on the screen at one time..

When the flash loads there is a button you push and when you push it your server will crash. Having something like this in a flash is illegal meaning it is up for flags.

Stolen/inappropriate?

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What do we do about voiceovers/dubs? This is a Spongebob dub.

Also, racism.

STOLEN:

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Stolen from

here

Keep your eyes open peeps ;)