It does my heart good to see that @ADR3-N and @Fro have worked out any past issues and are now getting along again. It was handled in a very professional and positive manner, which is consistent with the high level of respect we all give - and receive - here at the Barracks.
Thank you both for that resolution - a perfect example of how to work out differences.
Now, enough of the mushy stuff - time to get back to the front lines!
*Salutes*
A general thank you to everyone who's welcomed me back. Another general thank you to anyone who may welcome me back after this. (That should cover everything)
So a random topic. I'm currently organizing massive lists of icons that still need to be created for newgrounds. I knock a few off the list myself every now and then, but I had hundreds in their place. I'm looking for volunteers to make icons. Anyone have any ideas?
If anyone wants to help you can upload them to a project and add me as a manager. I'll update you with sizes and how-to information if interested.
Even you ADR3-N... you have submissions that need icons! I know you aren't the main author of some of them, but there's at least 1 where you are. If I have to make them they will be of my choosing.
At 10/3/17 12:57 PM, ADR3-N wrote:
Same. To be fair, I was on my period and having a really, reeeeally bad day, and we got off on the wrong foot. Plus I have a very severe personality.
My last couple of weeks could be defined as reeeeallly bad, but later last week and this week I've been feeling good. I was in my foggy state of depression for a little bit there. We just moved, 3,000 miles across the country, and to find out that we hadn't done our finances correctly when figuring in what we could/couldn't afford. We've had massive cutbacks at home. I'm frequently hungry from not eating enough and stressed out scrapping together every single $ I can find to cover bills. So far we've been alright, but this time next month I've used up my life savings.
So I've been searching for a 2nd job, which sucks because for the first time I have a high paying, low stress 7-4 computer job and I've really been enjoying having all of the free time with my family in the evenings/weekends. I really only need to make another $10 a day to cut it so I tried Lyft and Uber, but they have regulations about how my old license just expired and my new one is so new. Apparently I could sign up for one of them if my old one didn't just expire, but because of the timing I don't qualify for another year.
So here's to hoping that I find a part time job that let's me work evenings/weekends.
On one hand, hit and run seems extreme. On the other, depends on how racist.
Probably on the extreme side of things, but I tend to have some pretty radical/extreme ideas. It wasn't a huge huge deal, but it really hit home with the comment they said. Something along of the lines of, "I wish all of those monkey protesters would get locked in cages and shot."
My spouse is a black woman who is very active when it comes to protests and rallies. I took it personal and called them out in front of the entire lunch room. I'd do it again.
My family quietly champions my uncle whenever I shut him down about constantly saying n****r and spouting garbage like 'black people have an average of 85 IQ' and 'Asians are smarter than everyone'. I'm convinced they're two ideological half-steps from Mein Kampf; just replace every instance of Jew with the N word.
It's common knowledge that the more intelligent we perceive something or someone to be, the more humanely we're inclined to treat them. Wish there was mental help for this stuff. All the condemnation and hatred in the world is just making it worse. People are saying, "See? I told you they're out to get us," and they don't see how screwed up their worldview is.
That's a pretty extreme view that I will be happy to see slowly die away as generation move on. I know it won't ever completely go away, but it's got to get better, for my daughters sake and everyone else who has or will be discriminated against it just has to get better.
Ah, but is it? It's the thought, of sorts, that counts. Although, I suppose I should just get it out: I'm sorry for wasting our time, essentially calling you an intolerant hypocrite when things got ugly, blocking you, and then forgetting I blocked you. And I mean that, but it probably is for the best. Gave time for my snowflake emotions to chill, and now that I actually know a little more about your personality than just seeing you in passing and the occasional forum reply, I know what to expect.
I'll bite. I enjoy controversy to a point. That's why I always enjoyed being a manager. We have some different ideas on some stuff, but at the end of the day it was really my fault. (Well at least most of it) Sorry for being a dick munch.
At 10/3/17 01:11 PM, byteslinger wrote:
Now, enough of the mushy stuff - time to get back to the front lines!
*Salutes*
You know how I am right? I'm a very emotional guy. I don't know where it came from because I never had a father figure in my life ever show emotion. Heck, the man never said he loved me before. He did pat me on the back before I moved away. That was the most emotion I ever got from him.
Me on the other hand, I'll cry when something sad happens. I cry at the end of Armageddon when Bruce Willis pushes the other guy back onto the ship sacrificing his own life. I've never been scared to show my emotions even when during battle.
So, uh... does anybody know how to actually vote on this submission? Clicking on the play button takes me to a separate page where I can play the game, but clicking on the Vote/Review link closes the window and nothing else happens. I've never seen this before so it might be something new that Tom is testing.
Unpublished Submission
At 10/3/17 07:36 PM, GUTHRIE wrote: So, uh... does anybody know how to actually vote on this submission? Clicking on the play button takes me to a separate page where I can play the game, but clicking on the Vote/Review link closes the window and nothing else happens. I've never seen this before so it might be something new that Tom is testing.
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/700153
I'm not able to vote either. Game works fine, but it opens in another window, and I can't vote when I get back to the vote/review page, unless the review has now become the vote. I'll check the rest of the portal.
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I have the feeling I won't be done with this reply until that other one is past editing, so sorry in advance for the double post.
At 10/3/17 03:41 PM, Fro wrote: So a random topic. I'm currently organizing massive lists of icons that still need to be created for newgrounds. I knock a few off the list myself every now and then, but I had hundreds in their place. I'm looking for volunteers to make icons. Anyone have any ideas?
You might try some people from NG sigmakers, if that's still going.
If anyone wants to help you can upload them to a project and add me as a manager. I'll update you with sizes and how-to information if interested.
I'd be willing to help out. I've got GIMP and a tablet.
Even you ADR3-N... you have submissions that need icons! I know you aren't the main author of some of them, but there's at least 1 where you are. If I have to make them they will be of my choosing.
I actually have been considering deleting half my catalog because it's terrible and cringey, lol.
At 10/3/17 12:57 PM, ADR3-N wrote:My last couple of weeks could be defined as reeeeallly bad, but later last week and this week I've been feeling good. I was in my foggy state of depression for a little bit there. We just moved, 3,000 miles across the country, and to find out that we hadn't done our finances correctly when figuring in what we could/couldn't afford. We've had massive cutbacks at home. I'm frequently hungry from not eating enough and stressed out scrapping together every single $ I can find to cover bills. So far we've been alright, but this time next month I've used up my life savings.
Jesus. I don't have any money, just a change jar, but do you have a gofundme or something? Anything I could do to lend a hand?
So I've been searching for a 2nd job, which sucks because for the first time I have a high paying, low stress 7-4 computer job and I've really been enjoying having all of the free time with my family in the evenings/weekends. I really only need to make another $10 a day to cut it so I tried Lyft and Uber, but they have regulations about how my old license just expired and my new one is so new. Apparently I could sign up for one of them if my old one didn't just expire, but because of the timing I don't qualify for another year.
I didn't know that. I can't drive until I get a license seen about. I'll keep that in mind. Have you thought about starting up a Patreon or something similar? It's no replacement for an income unless you do something super major, but it can help. YT is my only other source of money aside from odd jobs and the occasional tip on Paypal. I've had a few job interviews but a lot of people don't want to hire me because, ironically, I haven't been able to get a job since graduating college, and I don't have a license.
Something else ironic, in 1999 common sense said not to meet strangers on the internet. 2017, literally get paid to go pick up strangers from the internet with Lyft and Uber, or go on a date with a stranger with Tinder.
So here's to hoping that I find a part time job that let's me work evenings/weekends.
I'll say a prayer for you. Not sure if you believe in that sort of thing, but I can't do much else.
Probably on the extreme side of things, but I tend to have some pretty radical/extreme ideas. It wasn't a huge huge deal, but it really hit home with the comment they said. Something along of the lines of, "I wish all of those monkey protesters would get locked in cages and shot."
My spouse is a black woman who is very active when it comes to protests and rallies. I took it personal and called them out in front of the entire lunch room. I'd do it again.
Yeah, I can definitely see the reasoning -- especially if they knew your wife was very much into activism. That kind of ideology is poison. I partially blame Darwin's theory of evolution for the surge of black people being called monkeys, people insinuating they are somehow less evolved. We have freedom of speech. Let people demonstrate, as long as they aren't hurting anyone or inciting hurt.
That's a pretty extreme view that I will be happy to see slowly die away as generation move on. I know it won't ever completely go away, but it's got to get better, for my daughters sake and everyone else who has or will be discriminated against it just has to get better.
Likewise. As long as people still think skin color tells you much past medical predispositions, people like my niece, her granddaughter, and my sister will suffer. No one wants to associate with my sister because she's been living with a black guy for almost a decade, and even my own mom didn't talk to her for years. No one except the burger joints want to hire my niece because she was adopted by a black family as a child and had a mixed baby out of wed-lock a few years ago.
I see the side-ways looks when one of us holds her -- or my fiancee's sister's mixed child for that matter -- and at how they're dressed, and how I dress. It's not just the people we typically think as racist. It's tribalism. "They're stealing our women/men. They're against us. I don't care as long as it doesn't happen to me or mine." It's not caring. It's not seeing people as persons. I can see that in their eyes.
I live in a black community and have black friends, and I went to a majority black school as well for 13 years plus college. What did I learn? The racist kids were taught by their parents, and the rest got along fine. I wish they would spend more time at school teaching kids to love their fellow humans.
I'll bite. I enjoy controversy to a point. That's why I always enjoyed being a manager. We have some different ideas on some stuff, but at the end of the day it was really my fault. (Well at least most of it) Sorry for being a dick munch.
Hey, forget about it. As far as I'm concerned, two different personality types, two different worldviews, a lot of tension in America. I'd be surprised if we didn't butt heads every now and then. But you're alright. :)
And we all know I talk too much anyway.
At 10/3/17 01:11 PM, byteslinger wrote: Now, enough of the mushy stuff - time to get back to the front lines!
*Salutes*
B-b-but -- I like frolicking through the flowers and holding hands and rainbows and lollipops and puppies!
You know how I am right? I'm a very emotional guy. I don't know where it came from because I never had a father figure in my life ever show emotion. Heck, the man never said he loved me before. He did pat me on the back before I moved away. That was the most emotion I ever got from him.
That's incredibly depressing. I'd trade you my dad, but he's dead. :s
Me on the other hand, I'll cry when something sad happens. I cry at the end of Armageddon when Bruce Willis pushes the other guy back onto the ship sacrificing his own life. I've never been scared to show my emotions even when during battle.
Same. I cry when I get happy. I cry when I get sad. I cried yesterday over something my mom said, and all those Nicholas Sparks movies I didn't really want to watch, but my ex-girlfriend really like them, sooooo...
And let me wrap up this reply and go check out the portal like I said I would.
*Salute*
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At 10/3/17 10:12 PM, ADR3-N wrote:
I'm not able to vote either. Game works fine, but it opens in another window, and I can't vote when I get back to the vote/review page, unless the review has now become the vote. I'll check the rest of the portal.
Yeah, I'm also unable to do anything on this, seems odd
At 10/3/17 07:36 PM, GUTHRIE wrote: So, uh... does anybody know how to actually vote on this submission? Clicking on the play button takes me to a separate page where I can play the game, but clicking on the Vote/Review link closes the window and nothing else happens. I've never seen this before so it might be something new that Tom is testing.
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/700153
I get that "Your browser doesn't play webGL content" error message either way. I changed it so it doesn't popup in a new window, so voting should work now. Yes, it's something new Tom's trying out as we try to get the older stuff prep'd for the day when nothing plays Flash. I guess that bug will have to be worked out. :)
Umm This is stolen from here!
Unpublished Submission
Lol stealing-ception! This was stolen from here which I think was also stolen from here! Really sorry if false report!
Oh also same game submitted twice!
Unpublished Submission
Unpublished Submission
Sorry about the massive quotes. I've been lonely since moving. :P
At 10/3/17 11:05 PM, ADR3-N wrote:
I'd be willing to help out. I've got GIMP and a tablet.
Well if you're interested in helping all you would need to do is check out the Icon Mod thread in the Clubs, check out my last post, pick some iconless submissions and make away. I don't do anything fancy really. Just some basic zooming in to find a good shot that represents the submission, take a screen shot, make sure it follows Tom's general guidelines for size.
"Also keep in mind we upload larger thumbnails now, to be more future proof... Aim for over 600 pixels wide. Thanks in advance to anyone who makes some!"
I actually have been considering deleting half my catalog because it's terrible and cringey, lol.
I personally wouldn't. Whether they are terrible, decent, good, etc... I think you should always keep your history. I sadly deleted like 100 submissions of mine and a bunch of posts because of personal reasons and now I don't have access to those original files anymore and their loss. I think it's neat to look back at your work and see how you've improved.
Jesus. I don't have any money, just a change jar, but do you have a gofundme or something? Anything I could do to lend a hand?
I just need to find the right opportunity. I've had good luck doing so in the past and I can do it again. I forgot about some stocks that I had stashed away and they were at what the professionals called an all time high for the next few years so I withdrew them.
It was enough to take away $3,500 dollars worth of bills paid off and reduced my monthly loss of $320 a month to about $190 a month. It's relaxed me a bit more knowing that the amount of additional hours needing to break even have just dropped quite a bit.
Thinking there is an average of 30 days in a month I just need to make about $6-$7 more a day to break even. I'm sure I can figure it out. Next two rent due dates will still be trying though if I can't figure something out by then.
I couldn't ask for a better job situation right now though. I live in family housing at an University because of my spouse going to grad school. My daughters day care is a 2 minute walk from our apartment, my job is a 15 minute walk from my apartment, and my spouses school is a 5 minute walk.
Something else ironic, in 1999 common sense said not to meet strangers on the internet. 2017, literally get paid to go pick up strangers from the internet with Lyft and Uber, or go on a date with a stranger with Tinder.
I never thought about it haha.
I'll say a prayer for you. Not sure if you believe in that sort of thing, but I can't do much else.
So I'm a Christian. I've just had a falling out with the church or at least all of the churches I've ever tried. We thought we found a keeper and were going there for over a year. I got baptized there and it really felt like family. One mothers day the pastor was out dealing with a family situation and his backup was speaking. He turned his mothers day speech into a gay bashing/anti gay speech. Some of the crowd just got up and left, us included. It was disgusting and as discriminatory as it comes. I called him out on it and he refused to show his face to me in public again.
Racism
Sorry, makes me a little sick to my stomach to get into it too much. :P
That's incredibly depressing. I'd trade you my dad, but he's dead. :s
Mine shall be too I fear. It'll be a sad day, but probably a big sigh of relief. He's a very angry man and has caused a lot of people a lot of hurt. That being said, minus the physical and mental abuse he put me and others through I couldn't have asked for a better teacher of patience, discipline, and dedication.
I'll never forget being in 2nd grade and not being able to eat dinner until I did all of the additional homework my father assigned me so I always got 100% on every spelling test. Or how I was forced to go to work even if I was sick and I never missed a single day of school until my college career.
Now I have to be basically dying to miss something and never learned how to give up. I thank him for that.
Same. I cry when I get happy. I cry when I get sad. I cried yesterday over something my mom said, and all those Nicholas Sparks movies I didn't really want to watch, but my ex-girlfriend really like them, sooooo...
Psh, loser!
At 10/4/17 03:19 AM, Exedor wrote:
I get that "Your browser doesn't play webGL content" error message either way. I changed it so it doesn't popup in a new window, so voting should work now. Yes, it's something new Tom's trying out as we try to get the older stuff prep'd for the day when nothing plays Flash. I guess that bug will have to be worked out. :)
I noticed that yesterday before I left work for the day. I hope they figure out how to make it work. I love when newgrounds updates stuff.
At 10/4/17 09:08 AM, mrbadazz wrote: Umm This is stolen from here!
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/700176
http://www.kongregate.com/games/0rava/mutilate-a-doll-2
You're on fire. You've kept the portal safe today!
@Fro I helped out a bit with icons back in 2012, when we were prepping for the current wide icons to replace the older square ones. I don't have a massive amount of free time but I do have photoshop, so I might try helping with a few icons again.
Also since we're in a forgiving mood... @Asandir, it was me who ate all your starburst while you were out on patrol. Sorry.
At 10/3/17 07:36 PM, GUTHRIE wrote: So, uh... does anybody know how to actually vote on this submission? Clicking on the play button takes me to a separate page where I can play the game, but clicking on the Vote/Review link closes the window and nothing else happens. I've never seen this before so it might be something new that Tom is testing.
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/700153
I think this is something to do with the site going over to HTTPS. In the most recent news post Tom said something about some games requiring a regular HTTP url, and that's what this pop out window seems to do. The couple of submissions I've seen this on I haven't been able to vote either.
At 10/4/17 07:39 PM, Jackho wrote:At 10/3/17 07:36 PM, GUTHRIE wrote: So, uh... does anybody know how to actually vote on this submission? Clicking on the play button takes me to a separate page where I can play the game, but clicking on the Vote/Review link closes the window and nothing else happens. I've never seen this before so it might be something new that Tom is testing.I think this is something to do with the site going over to HTTPS. In the most recent news post Tom said something about some games requiring a regular HTTP url, and that's what this pop out window seems to do. The couple of submissions I've seen this on I haven't been able to vote either.
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/700153
I have a feeling you're right about that. Here's another one.
Unpublished Submission
At 10/4/17 03:19 AM, Exedor wrote:At 10/3/17 07:36 PM, GUTHRIE wrote: So, uh... does anybody know how to actually vote on this submission? Clicking on the play button takes me to a separate page where I can play the game, but clicking on the Vote/Review link closes the window and nothing else happens. I've never seen this before so it might be something new that Tom is testing.I changed it so it doesn't popup in a new window, so voting should work now. Yes, it's something new Tom's trying out as we try to get the older stuff prep'd for the day when nothing plays Flash. I guess that bug will have to be worked out. :)
I was about to ask about this. It happened when watching (and trying to v0te) on this one :
Not animation, it's video game footage.
Musicians make music , producers make products. * drops mic :D
At 10/5/17 02:58 AM, LexaHergon wrote:At 10/4/17 03:19 AM, Exedor wrote:At 10/3/17 07:36 PM, GUTHRIE wrote: So, uh... does anybody know how to actually vote on this submission? Clicking on the play button takes me to a separate page where I can play the game, but clicking on the Vote/Review link closes the window and nothing else happens. I've never seen this before so it might be something new that Tom is testing.I changed it so it doesn't popup in a new window, so voting should work now. Yes, it's something new Tom's trying out as we try to get the older stuff prep'd for the day when nothing plays Flash. I guess that bug will have to be worked out. :)
Update, yes, they're working on it. There's now a link that should help with the voting situation. However, I've been clearing the popup requirement that the authors have been mistakenly adding to these. They add it without understanding what it's for, so when it's unnecessary, I clear it.
I was about to ask about this. It happened when watching (and trying to v0te) on this one
I changed it. Try again.
Not animation, it's video game footage.
Actually, it's an image from a game. V0te, y0.
At 10/4/17 08:05 PM, GUTHRIE wrote:At 10/4/17 07:39 PM, Jackho wrote:I have a feeling you're right about that. Here's another one.At 10/3/17 07:36 PM, GUTHRIE wrote: So, uh... does anybody know how to actually vote on this submission?I think this is something to do with the site going over to HTTPS. The couple of submissions I've seen this on I haven't been able to vote either.
Unpublished Submission
Yup, try it now.
At 10/4/17 03:13 PM, Fro wrote: Sorry about the massive quotes. :P
Lies!
Thinking there is an average of 30 days in a month I just need to make about $6-$7 more a day to break even. I'm sure I can figure it out. Next two rent due dates will still be trying though if I can't figure something out by then.
Try donating blood plasma. That's what I do. Unlike blood donating, plasma donating can be done twice a week, and they pay. Not everyplace pays for blood, and you can only donate blood every 6 weeks or so.
I've made over $2800 this year. They usually pay bonus amounts for the first 3-5 donations so that new donors come in, and keep coming back enough to get over the initial shock of 'what the hell am I doing?!' My center currently gives $75 for each of the first 3 donations, then $45 for the 4th and 5th. It can change After that, it's $25 for the first of the week, and $5 for the second. That's $70 a week and $280 a month, but there are also bonuses and drawings every month. I've won a $250 gift card and lots of smaller bonuses and things in my time. The last several month, they've had an increasing amount as you do more donations. I made $440 last month.
If you plan on going, let me know beforehand and I'll give you advice on how to make it as best as possible. It can be crummy if you don't prepare correctly the first time(s). :\ I wasn't sure I'd return after the first time, but I've been going for 2 1/2 years now. :)
At 10/4/17 03:13 PM, Fro wrote: You're on fire. You've kept the portal safe today!
Thanks bro! That means alot, I appreciate it!
Reporting in.
Lot's of hentai in the portal lately. Is there a way to toggle adult submission like that off? I do most of my browsing from an office computer. I've been getting a decent amount of blams overall though.
At 10/4/17 05:02 PM, Jackho wrote: @Fro I helped out a bit with icons back in 2012, when we were prepping for the current wide icons to replace the older square ones. I don't have a massive amount of free time but I do have photoshop, so I might try helping with a few icons again.
Later today or this week I'll make a post in the icon mod thread and tag you in it with some instructions/examples. If we could, collectively as a team, just do like 10 icons a day we would move through the rest of them fairly quickly. I only do like 3-4 a day so I'm not claiming to be making leaps and bounds. These 3-4 only take 5-10 minutes though.
Also since we're in a forgiving mood... @Asandir, it was me who ate all your starburst while you were out on patrol. Sorry.
Was... it... all.. the pink ones?
At 10/5/17 03:23 AM, Exedor wrote:
If you plan on going, let me know beforehand and I'll give you advice on how to make it as best as possible. It can be crummy if you don't prepare correctly the first time(s). :\ I wasn't sure I'd return after the first time, but I've been going for 2 1/2 years now. :)
That sounds like a decent opportunity. If I can find a center nearby the misses and I could make a date of it. Drop our daughter off at grandmas and go together. I did a quick search and it looks like the closest center to me is about 20 miles away. That's about an hour where I live, but if we can go frequently and get paid for it then it would be better than working a 2nd job.
I'll message you later about it.
Does this movie work for anyone?It opened on my first try in another link but I couldn't vote on it.It was a Madness test:
Unpublished Submission
I think Pacman clones aren't allowed! Really Sorry if false report!
At 10/5/17 11:00 AM, MchectorII wrote: Does this movie work for anyone?It opened on my first try in another link but I couldn't vote on it.It was a Madness test:
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/700217
Yessir lol, it works fine for me!
Yessir lol, it works fine for me!
Great,is it a test animation?
Haha,you don't have to call me 'sir',any name would do.
At 10/5/17 11:49 AM, MchectorII wrote:Yessir lol, it works fine for me!Great,is it a test animation?
Haha,you don't have to call me 'sir',any name would do.
Try again, it should work fine for you now.
Warning, gigantor reply incoming, plus a salute. I meant to reply to all this yesterday but social anxiety happened and I spent it working on a remix of @Ultramartyr's awesome song, Honor.
Sorry for the crappy quotes. Had to gut some stuff for space.
At 10/4/17 03:13 PM, Fro wrote: "Also keep in mind we upload larger thumbnails now, to be more future proof... Aim for over 600 pixels wide. Thanks in advance to anyone who makes some!"
Will do.
I think it's neat to look back at your work and see how you've improved.
True, true. Although, I never really intend to go back to flash unless something major happens. I've gone full speed into music and there are just some things I'm naturally better at than others. Once or twice a year I knock out a portrait for a friend though. Like I mentioned, there was a holiday dedicated to mocking me years past. It's not something I want to revisit too badly, haha. Unless someone has a copy of Flash MX or Flash 8 to play with. That'd be fun. I can't afford the new software anymore though.
Financial stuff that requires intelligence and fore-planning.
Quite a haul, and good on you. I've never considered investing in the stock market, not after Mom's 401k got rekt in the 2000's.
Thinking there is an average of 30 days in a month I just need to make about $6-$7 more a day to break even. I'm sure I can figure it out. Next two rent due dates will still be trying though if I can't figure something out by then.
I'll keep praying for you. I could do something more helpful like mailing you my change, but something tells me my mom would look at me sideways. >.> If you do come up with a GoFundMe, I'll save up a front page post for ya.
I couldn't ask for a better job situation right now though. I live in family housing at an University because of my spouse going to grad school. My daughters day care is a 2 minute walk from our apartment, my job is a 15 minute walk from my apartment, and my spouses school is a 5 minute walk.
That's not bad at all, aside from expenses. I can remember my mom talking about how tight money was for her back in the day, working 12 hours a day and then some and having to pay extra if she was held over and picked me up late. Also, I'm always happy to hear about happily married couples with kids. My mom and dad split when I was 6 weeks old. Lot of hardship.
So I'm a Christian. I've just had a falling out with the church
I actually haven't been going to church, for a lot of the same reasons you mentioned. Plus, I celebrate Shabbat by the luni-solar calendar, and most of them think I'm crazy because Shabbat can land on any day of the week depending on the conjunction of the moon. Besides that, no one wants to hear that the institution of the Gregorian calendar got tons of Jews and Christians killed, like Constantine's continuous week cycle.
Some of the crowd just got up and left, us included. It was disgusting and as discriminatory as it comes. I called him out on it and he refused to show his face to me in public again.
Unfortunately, that's usually how it goes. People don't get that every one of us has a pet sin. No one is worse than the other, and we aren't to go around insulting people and calling them fags. If you hate anyone, including gays, the love of the Father is not in you. I'm sorry you guys had to deal with that.
Sorry, makes me a little sick to my stomach to get into it too much. :P
No need. People can be sea urchins, and sometimes it gets the stomach lurchin'. ;P
I'll never forget being in 2nd grade and not being able to eat dinner until I did all of the additional homework my father assigned me so I always got 100% on every spelling test. Or how I was forced to go to work even if I was sick and I never missed a single day of school until my college career.
That sounds insane, and I hope you didn't end up ridiculed for it by other kids. My dad was the total opposite. I can remember one day in the first grade, I wasn't feeling so hot, and my dad turned to me and said, "Well hey babe, you think you'd feel better if we took a break from school and went on down to Pensacola?" And 7 hours later, we were sitting on the beach in Pensacola, bellies full of Red Diamond Tea and PB&J's, I kid you not. I remember Dad was on the beach looking after this hispanic girl's drunked out father while she and I played with a pink floatie, and every time the waves would come in, she'd yell, "Hubba hubba!" I still remember the sound of her voice and her little hands. She was right pretty to me, I have to say.
From then on, we went to Pensacola every year around the same time, sometimes on the weekend, sometimes not, haha. That being said, I never had to worry about my grades. I was just a natural inquisitive. I was reading encyclopedias before I was in school.
Now I have to be basically dying to miss something and never learned how to give up. I thank him for that.
There's always a silver lining. Sometimes I wish I'd been pushed harder when I was younger. Although, my band directors did enough of that in college. I can remember one exhibition we did, I'd had a sore throat for weeks, and I really felt like crap that day, but I knew I had a solo to perform on one hand and a scholarship to lose on the other, not that the thought ever entered my mind of not performing.
Well, it was about noon when we performed, 105 degrees on the turf. We get about halfway through the show, and I start noticing, "Hey, is that grass... turning yellow? Why is the whole sky white? Why are the black people also white, and our black pants grey, and the white people -- they look like angels!" Of course when you're in marching band, you just keep pushing through the show as your mind wanders. No matter how bad you feel, it's just second nature to keep going. But on "Dream On" as I was performing my solo, I really started feeling it. Everything was turning white. I just closed my eyes and focused on the instrument. Opening my eyes was like looking upon a thousand stars.
When we finally circled up and went off the field, which was a long ordeal, I made it to the sideline, took a knee with the last of my strength and passed out for who knows how long. Woke up, went to my room and slept until the 2nd performance. I thought I was fine afterward, but that night I had to go to the hospital. I almost went into convulsions. They ended up realizing I had an abscessed tonsil the size of a 50 cent piece, necrosing. A biopsy came back inconclusive, and they gave me a huge shot in the butt, which I don't even remember. I was going in and out of consciousness.
I'm just a little amazed, looking back. I performed that whole show while having some kind of heat stroke, and I didn't even realize, but I was dying. That's what dedication can do to you if you don't watch yourself.
At 10/5/17 10:20 AM, Fro wrote: Lot's of hentai in the portal lately. Is there a way to toggle adult submission like that off?
You can stop it from auto-playing in your settings, but I think you can only uncheck it in the Game and Movie sections, not UJ. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Later today or this week I'll make a post in the icon mod thread and tag you in it with some instructions/examples.
I will say the snip tool on Windows does a great job of helping cut the process short. Snip, blow up as needed, crop, done. Please do tag me when you get around to making a post. Right now I'm working on commissions and answering my inbox. :)
At 10/5/17 03:23 AM, Exedor wrote: Try donating blood plasma. That's what I do. Unlike blood donating, plasma donating can be done twice a week, and they pay. Not everyplace pays for blood, and you can only donate blood every 6 weeks or so.
I will say, this is extremely painful from what I've heard, but it does help people, and it might be worth it. There's also donating sperm/eggs if you and your wife want to talk that out. Egg donation is invasive but if you've had all the kids you want, hey. I've been considering it since I don't know whether I really want kids or not, and I'm not sure if I'll ever not be celibate.
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At 10/5/17 10:20 AM, Fro wrote: Lot's of hentai in the portal lately. Is there a way to toggle adult submission like that off?
Yes and no. If you go thru the Portal, then no. If you see a big red A, that means it's Admin approved for showing at meetings. ...or something like that. If you go thru the Game or Movies Page, or the Art Portal, then you'll have E, T, M, A buttons. Now, ETMA (pronounced ET-MUH) is greek, and usually translates as "ooh, I can click it," or in some tongues, "I can fap to this." However, for Newgrounds purposes, it's an easter egg that makes little X's show up and shuffles the content. It's cool. What was the question again?
At 10/6/17 02:11 AM, ADR3-N wrote:At 10/5/17 03:23 AM, Exedor wrote: Try donating blood plasma. That's what I do. Unlike blood donating, plasma donating can be done twice a week, and they pay. Not everyplace pays for blood, and you can only donate blood every 6 weeks or so.I will say, this is extremely painful from what I've heard, but it does help people, and it might be worth it.
It depends. Many times, I feel next to nothing. Most times go off without a hitch, but nothing's perfect, and I have had some times that were not as good as normal.
Uhh same game submitted twice!
This is stolen from here!
Its one of these games, really sorry I have no idea what you call them! Shovelware I think!
Uhh this is screenshots from Roblox so it's not an animation! Sorry if false report!
Unpublished Submission
At 10/6/17 08:40 AM, mrbadazz wrote: Uhh this is screenshots from Roblox so it's not an animation! Sorry if false report!
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/700259
Yes, Slideshows are against the rules. Submissions that only show Gameplay of any sort (including Roblox) would be against the rules too. Thanks for the report.
