At 9/2/08 03:29 AM, Hoeloe wrote: I usually use tilt and pressure sensitivity with about 60-70 smoothing. My hand is rather shaky, so I have to use a higher smoothing setting than most people...

yea 66 is my default smoothness with a mouse, think tilt helps any?

This is very off-topic, but I was just checking in on Newgrounds for the first time in months and months and months, and last time I was here we had to bold our "subject" of the post... what happened? lol

At 9/2/08 07:17 PM, Trunks wrote: This is very off-topic, but I was just checking in on Newgrounds for the first time in months and months and months, and last time I was here we had to bold our "subject" of the post... what happened? lol

I was kind of like that, a while ago when i discovered they dont bold anymore, im still old fashioned and do it.
smoothness
I think i discovered my ideal smoothening was around 40, depending on my computer's mood.
I hate when a line is like, exactly how i want it, and then it smooths and changes, and im like 'aaargh',
but if i set it lower it looks like i drawed in ms paint <.<

Doesnt it happen to you that sometimes you fill something with one color, and some other part of the drawing dissapears or turns another unrelated color, it happens commonly to me and its so annoying..

friends
I'm retro with my bolded titles xD

and cool

I used to be pretty angsty about not having any friends and kind of insecure when it came to talking to people, but i got over it now. I still defend that there's nothing wrong with being alone. About myself, i think i can pretty much relate with any kind of people (nerd, rocker, popular, etc). And well, if you dont enjoy making friends, screw them, live your life, its not like its an obligation or anything, your true friends will come alone, just dont treat them bad.

I think that Adobe should make a Flash 10. Since CS3 had some problems. And so did Flash 8 and MX. In Flash 10, they should fix these. Like Adding a circle tool, in CS3 you had to press C on the rectangle tool to change it to circle. I don't like having to do that. Obviously Flash 10 should have Flp10 Support, lol, and it should also fix the color issues with the .gif formatting, and shouldn't have Vista Aero change to Vista basic when you want to Import a sound, pic or movie.

Should they make Flash 10? DEBATE.

At 9/2/08 11:29 PM, TehBoss wrote: Should they make Flash 10? DEBATE.

Maybe. But if they keep making new flash versions the more flash versions i'll be behind on. :(

You should toss your suggestions at the adobe folks. Maybe they'll actually listen to them.

At 9/2/08 07:17 PM, Trunks wrote: This is very off-topic, but I was just checking in on Newgrounds for the first time in months and months and months, and last time I was here we had to bold our "subject" of the post... what happened? lol

We got bored of it, pretty much. Ever since the bold topics deteriorated theres been increasingly more spam here. Or the mass spam made the bold topics less common, either way is likely.

At 9/2/08 11:45 PM, Masterswordman wrote: Maybe. But if they keep making new flash versions the more flash versions i'll be behind on. :(

Because adobe's going to decide not to make a new version of flash because some random kid is now going to be behind in technology, and might have to save up and buy a new copy.

HELLS YES they need to make flash 10, it's already in development and probably going to be released next year if my predictions are correct.

CONFIRMED FEATURES are pixel bender support (custom filters), more advanced movieclip transformations (3D rotations, sadly no z-buffer), and dynamic sound creation.

Now come on and fix the autoformat adobe!!!!

At 9/3/08 12:16 AM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: advanced movieclip transformations

I think that, this could add some extra fun, and from what I have seen done of this in the previews of diesel it looks pretty cool.

(3D rotations, sadly no z-buffer)

I was really hoping for this... But sadly I shall have to stay with C# and C++ for this.... I am thinking about teaching myself Java because of its accessibility to OpenGL and browsers, and mobile devices for that matter too.

dynamic sound creation.

This is very exciting more and better music games.

Now come on and fix the autoformat adobe!!!!

I thought they already fixed that in one of the updates for flash, I could be wrong though... But I never use the autoformat anyway.

I always used to get awkward when asked about friends when I was in my early teens :P There'd always be an unnecessary silence while I tried to work out which people fit into 'friends', which into 'friends of friends', which into just 'people I'm cool with' and so on... General relationships with people are far too complicated to just fit into categories like 'friends' and 'not friends' IMO There's no need to be so cynical and simplifying about it.

Quick voice acting job!

Calling anyone with a microphone! I need a sort of old, wise sounding voice (the sort which absolutely will not work in a Lancashire accent) for the opening of a game. Not necessarily that old and wise, just so long as it doesn't sound like middle-management at a mill somewhere. It's only five minutes or so work, but I can still throw you fifteen quid or so when the game gets published.

Here's the more-or-less script - feel free to pick it apart :/

In this world, there are many tracks - courses which exist solely to test the ability of competitors. Where they came from is unknown, but the exploits of previous competitors are etched into the minds of the world's population.

There are no prizes. No rewards for first place. Nothing physical is given to those who have completed the trials. Nontheless, every so often a challenger comes who is willing to put his life on the line for the sake of a chance to prove himself...

Chess

I only know one Luis on the internet (or at least the one who would recognize my SN). Yesterday I was playing chess (briefly) with that same one at Yahoo Chess.

Either way, it's time for a rematch of the century. xD

lmao, i tried adding corn to my home-made pizza but i accidently spilled loads of corn juice on it (it's not fresh corn, i dont know how u call it in those tin boxes) so i quickly grabbed a tissue to wipe it off then i realised i had already sneezed on that tissue

chess
that's cool. i used to be in a chess team when i was young, i should really get back to playing it.

Friends
Friends? What the hell are those? I say, live life alone with a clenched fist. You don't need other people, other people just need you. If you can survive alone, then do it. You don't have to slump everywhere because you've got noone to bore with stories of how you drank 19 bottles of vodka last night and avoided a hangover.
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Starting topic of meaningless chatting
Burgers
What burgers do you like? Spamburger, no jokes >:(

At 9/3/08 07:59 AM, Skaijo wrote: Chess

Either way, it's time for a rematch of the century. xD

aka: you lost and are now ashamed =3

me believes in you!

Castle Crashers Post Launch Gossip

This was kind of an interesting article... you begin to sorta think about the game business in a different light more from a number crunching spectrum. Looks like Tom and his goons put on a good show.

At 9/3/08 10:12 AM, Luis wrote: Castle Crashers Post Launch Gossip

This was kind of an interesting article... you begin to sorta think about the game business in a different light more from a number crunching spectrum. Looks like Tom and his goons put on a good show.

that's a lot of money. i don't know anything about castle crashers so you'll have to inform me, did tom and dan paladin make the game alone? it would be cool to get 50% share of a million dollars :P

My question is that is the games popularity because it's a good game, or just because they have newgrounds as their own giant advertisement ?

That's what I find interesting about this stuff. These games I see these guys producing. They're very good games, but they're not the best. There are much better Flash games out there, with better graphics and done to a higher standard. But the sheer advertising power of newgrounds for them is overwhelming.

I'd like to see those guys make a game and upload it under another account on newgrounds. So it's just the game, not the influence behind it. If the game succeeds, well there you go. If it fails... well... there you go.

At 9/3/08 10:33 AM, Toast wrote: that's a lot of money. i don't know anything about castle crashers so you'll have to inform me, did tom and dan paladin make the game alone? it would be cool to get 50% share of a million dollars :P

I was looking down the list at classic names like Pac Man and shit and how they have still managed to be strong performers after all these years.. Its kind of amazing how an idea could be so valuable and profitable even after being reintroduced so many times. actually alien hominid isnt doing too shabby as it nears the 2 mill mark.

Anywho I'm back. I've been tentative about posting here, I'm just not that excited about the forum scene for some reason. Maybe I'm still not off my meeting people in the flesh high or maybe I've come to realize that we really do talk about nothing all day but its not terribly engaging lately.
I was at the airport and noticed the forum was under a flood attack, i didnt really feel like i had the energy or desire to come back and be babysitter. So i just left myself invisible and kindly dropped a not for wade to deal with it.

Taking breaks from the forum scene is good. I recommend it. And by breaks I mean REAL breaks not just overhyped ones like zrb who just comes back like the next day anyway...

it's hard to come up with a truly successful idea that doesn't involve amazing coding skills or futuristic technology. millions of people have been trying to come up with those ideas for years but we've become completely subjective to the gaming scene. you know how when you make a game you always kinda classify it into something, like this is a platformer and this is a sidescroll shooter and this is a defence game. we're not gonna come up with new original ideas unless we think outside the box, which is very hard.

gah i hate when it happens. i have this idea for a post and then i start posting it and halfway through I don't even know wtf im talking about and my post loses sense.

Burgers

Krabby Patties

Waterloo

Waterloo, anybody here? There's gotta be some programmers here =P

At 9/3/08 06:16 AM, Paranoia wrote: Calling anyone with a microphone! I need a sort of old, wise sounding voice (the sort which absolutely will not work in a Lancashire accent) for the opening of a game. Not necessarily that old and wise, just so long as it doesn't sound like middle-management at a mill somewhere. It's only five minutes or so work, but I can still throw you fifteen quid or so when the game gets published.

Cool you live quite closish to me. Sorry if a lancastrian accent won't do then I sincerely doubt a Cumbrian one will. How far north are you. Feel free to paint on some random map. :)

At 9/3/08 12:55 PM, tommattox wrote: Cool you live quite closish to me. Sorry if a lancastrian accent won't do then I sincerely doubt a Cumbrian one will. How far north are you. Feel free to paint on some random map. :)

In the Fylde, which is basically the lumpy bit by the sea. I'm just outside Blackpool in one of those middle-class bits which inexplicably has a Tory council.

5000th post ;D

AND UnknownFury.com belongs to ME.

At 9/3/08 02:00 PM, UnknownFury wrote: 5000th post ;D

AND UnknownFury.com belongs to ME.

Nice one on both accounts.

Paranoia that's cool. I used to go to Blackpool at least twice a year. Not sure how far it actually is timewise. 2 hours I'd say from where I am since I live only a few miles off Carlisle (I'm sure you can find that)

At 9/3/08 02:03 PM, tommattox wrote: Nice one on both accounts.

Thanks :)
Unfortunately Paranoia is about to up show me with 9000 :P

At 9/3/08 02:04 PM, UnknownFury wrote: Unfortunately Paranoia is about to up show me with 9000 :P

I noticed. I should probably make this post special somehow...

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Wow milestones here there and everywhere.

Anyways if any of you heard about the family of southerners falling off a mountain (sharp edge, blencathra) then hear me. Grown men find it dangerous when it's sunny. They took a 6 year old up there when it was rainy! Sadly one (I think it's the mother) is dead however I believe the other two have survived.

Also I'm PREDICTED A*-A in all of my GCSE's :D

At 9/3/08 02:36 PM, Toast wrote: IT'S OVER NINE THOUSAAAAAND !!!!!!!!!!!

Goddam it paranoia, this is the Internet. When you reach the number 9000, you have to use that quote :P. Anyhow, happy posting :).

At 9/3/08 02:36 PM, Toast wrote: IT'S OVER NINE THOUSAAAAAND !!!!!!!!!!!

Goddam it paranoia, this is the Internet. When you reach the number 9000, you have to use that quote :P. Anyhow, happy posting :).

At 9/3/08 02:21 PM, tommattox wrote: Wow milestones here there and everywhere.

I aint had any big milestones yet. I'm approaching a thousand, maybe in this month

Anyways if any of you heard about the family of southerners falling off a mountain

As a southerner that sucks.
z Sadly one (I think it's the mother) is dead however I believe the other two have survived.
That's sad, good that some of them have survived.

Also I'm PREDICTED A*-A in all of my GCSE's :D

Same here, my group, and a few lower are taking year 9 SATs in year 8. It's a good idea because it gives more time for practicing GCSE's.

At 9/3/08 08:15 AM, Toast wrote: lmao, i tried adding corn to my home-made pizza but i accidently spilled loads of corn juice on it

I like putting corn on pizza, the juice wouldn't be too bad
(it's not fresh corn, i dont know how u call it in those tin boxes)
I know what you mean.

so i quickly grabbed a tissue to wipe it off then i realised i had already sneezed on that tissue

Ahh, shit.

Chess
I'm alright at it. Not good but alright.

At 9/3/08 02:42 PM, Depredation wrote:

At 9/3/08 02:36 PM, Toast wrote: IT'S OVER NINE THOUSAAAAAND !!!!!!!!!!!

Goddam it paranoia, this is the Internet. When you reach the number 9000, you have to use that quote :P. Anyhow, happy posting :).

Technically, I'd have to use it for this post (9,001). Otherwise the quote would be "It's greater than or equal to NINE THOUSAAAAAND!!!!!!!"

Anyway, for the sake of you guys I'll give up my mature high ground for a second :P:

hey, what does the scanner say about his post count?

IT'S OVER NINE THOUSAAAAAAAAAAND!!!!!!!