At 6/18/08 10:27 AM, KaynSlamdyke wrote:

At 6/18/08 09:59 AM, patu1 wrote: how many times have you been banned and why ?

Never, and so long as I have this yellow aura, forever never. It freaked all the other mods out that I had a perfect record and nearly 4000 posts...

Oh ive never been banned either and ive been around longer so shush.

At 6/18/08 09:49 AM, Xeptic wrote: Anybody seen this trailer yet? The art direction in that movie, from what I can tell so far, is brilliant. I like the idea behind the movie, it's kind of surreal, almost like some sort of dark fairy-tale. It's my most anticipated film of 08.

It seems like a strange film and I've never heard of it before. Isn't the song in the trailer also used as the theme for The Beauty and the Beast?

At 6/18/08 10:27 AM, KaynSlamdyke wrote:

At 6/18/08 09:59 AM, patu1 wrote: how many times have you been banned and why ?

Never, and so long as I have this yellow aura, forever never. It freaked all the other mods out that I had a perfect record and nearly 4000 posts...

Oh wow, you have 3,999 posts now.

At 6/18/08 10:27 AM, KaynSlamdyke wrote: Never, and so long as I have this yellow aura, forever never. It freaked all the other mods out that I had a perfect record and nearly 4000 posts...

One more post till 4000...Make it here Kayn, make it here!

Well...I've gotten quiet a few bans, some 1 days and 3 days when I was still lurkin the general forum

And I got a 30 day ban from BigBadRon (de-modded now, yusss) while I was in the flash forum? He went out of his way and came into the flash forum to ban me. Oh yeah, I got that because I made an alt the day I got banned, but it was before I got banned, and then I got banned for 1 day, and I used the alt so I got a 30 day.

Yup, I doubt you can read that last sentence

Sorry for double post...but no new submissions in the portal?

At 6/18/08 10:27 AM, KaynSlamdyke wrote:

At 6/18/08 09:59 AM, patu1 wrote: how many times have you been banned and why ?

Never, and so long as I have this yellow aura, forever never. It freaked all the other mods out that I had a perfect record and nearly 4000 posts...

I was banned quite a few times before becoming an affiliate.

Most of the time it was cause I ventured into the general forum. Man that place was like a mine field, post anywhere, if the thread gets deleted, BAN!

How successful you are on Newgrounds reflects how successful you are in real life.

True or false?

I don't think I've been banned on this account but I was banned a few times on my old '03 account Gutya-1.

I have been banned for a week once and three times for 16 hours or something. What's the point of a soft lock anyway?

RE: Success, Newgrounds, and real life

I think it depends... I can say that some of my success in newgrounds has spilled over into my real life. Same with other artists who've had opportunities open up as a result of their success on the site. On the other hand I find that I'm more vocal here on the site than i am in real life so in that respect, NG hasnt really affected how I really am outside of the site. I still like being very low key and secretive about what I do amongst my friend. Meh I've never been the braggy type. I'd like to think my work speaks for itself and if it doesnt then it probably wasnt very good anyway :P

NG Success
NG is a good barometer, but like any site it's a specific audience. If you compare gaming on different sites things change dramatically. For example Newgrounds tends to be more receptive towards violent genres (shooters, zombie killing, etc) while Kongregate leans towards casual/strategy/rpg (Tower Defense, etc).

At 6/18/08 11:39 AM, GuyWithHisComp wrote: How successful you are on Newgrounds reflects how successful you are in real life.

I believe false, just because you can be whoever you want here on the internet, but be demolished for it in the outside world. For instance, you can make movies and do your hobby, but a lot of people that you'll find in the real world won't accept that. That's why I like NG as a congregation of people who all like doing the same thing.

Success on NG vs. Real Life:

I think a lot of the same fundamental principles apply, like creativity, ambition, hard work, obsessive compulsion, and talent. As much as we'd like to think our "e-personality" matters in our flash's success, I think it plays a pretty small part, whereas in real-life, your personality and people skills are often what help you advance or hold you back.

So, maybe success on NG boils down to your core traits a lot more than real life where a good personality can offset a lack of skill.

At 6/18/08 12:34 PM, BoMToons wrote: Success on NG vs. Real Life:

I think a lot of the same fundamental principles apply, like creativity, ambition, hard work, obsessive compulsion, and talent. As much as we'd like to think our "e-personality" matters in our flash's success, I think it plays a pretty small part, whereas in real-life, your personality and people skills are often what help you advance or hold you back.

So, maybe success on NG boils down to your core traits a lot more than real life where a good personality can offset a lack of skill.

Sometimes the most successful people have crappy personalities, they just know how to hide it when talking to the public.

I really doubt the CEO of exxonmobil is a fun guy to hang with for instance.

At 6/18/08 12:45 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: I really doubt the CEO of exxonmobil is a fun guy to hang with for instance.

Hes very fun.. me him and richard branson went skydiving last weekend. Girls night out.

At 6/18/08 12:45 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: Sometimes the most successful people have crappy personalities, they just know how to hide it when talking to the public.

But the thing you can't say, is that they ALL have crappy personalities. I know a few of the people who are those donators of everything ever made in this world pretty personally, and I have to say that they really can be good people.

I was banned once by oscar :[ I hated him.

I was banned once, by Luis, for making a topic with a non descriptive topic title.

I was so proud of my zero bans status and you ruined it! You ruined it...

Yeah, Oscar gets a little banny sometimes. RIP schorhr :(

I don't remember last time I was baned even. I think it was durring like the first 3-5 months when I was here... that was a while ago.

I feel old now.

NG Success
IRL I'm not sure if I'm successful or not. I got my family, my friends, and a good girl so I feel like I've done pretty well. On NG I've archieved many goals and have many more to fulfill. I've gotten FP a few times, won an award at least once, got more then 40,000 views on something, got a high score around the 3.70's, met some real cool poeples, got my website up, have more then 30 flashes, and most of all found my home on the NG forums - here. :3
Doing good on NG gave me some needed confidence for some things and shut up all my critics IRL that called me a lazy-ass and crap.

Unsuccess on NG
I died... that was pretty unsuccessful, but hey they say an artist work doubles when hes dead right?

And now for randomness... here's a motivational poster made by my friend Johnny a few months ago. The pic was a screen shot of my webcam when we were chatting on MSN. He took the pic at the exact moment I opened the browser to see my first award.

NG Success vs 'Real Life'

lol, the only time I use irl, is when its next to a/s/l..muhahahaha >:)

Oh..I went thare

:P

At 6/18/08 03:58 PM, x-factor11 wrote: Oh..I went thare

P

whoops, looks like I missed the animation thread..

fuck!

At 6/18/08 04:35 PM, GuyWithHisComp wrote: fuck!

Yes?

woah.. who read all 34,628 posts? ok.. now 34,629 ..
i read 3

At 6/18/08 04:35 PM, GuyWithHisComp wrote: fuck!

Poor Swedes...

POKEMON SANDWICH!

At 6/18/08 04:41 PM, Xeptic wrote:

At 6/18/08 04:35 PM, GuyWithHisComp wrote: fuck!

Poor Swedes...

Damn Dirty Russians!

At 6/18/08 04:35 PM, GuyWithHisComp wrote: fuck!

F*** indeed.

When the match ended I felt a strong urge to shoot the brains out of some spetsnaz in COD4 ^^