Superficial Digging into The Tax Man
Rejoice... I think I've worked it out...

If you live in the UK, you are not required to pay income tax on your Flash contest winnings... provided that it's unconnected to your skill and trade. So effectively, if you keep Flash a hobby and follow a career completely unconnected to Web, Games and Design, you're in the clear. Otherwise, by law you've got to send off a Self Assessment form if you earn a total of £6035 or more from all sources in a year (there are higher limits if you're past retirement age... as far as I can tell though, minors are NOT exempted from Income Tax...)

If you live in the US you pay income tax on all contest winnings regardless.

At 9/11/08 10:55 AM, KaynSlamdyke wrote: If you live in the US you pay income tax on all contest winnings regardless.

Not all, you have to earn enough in winnings to become a target for the IRS.

Usually you'll get W2's from companies your've freelanced/won substantial amounts from... come tax time.

At 9/11/08 11:01 AM, Luis wrote: Usually you'll get W2's from companies your've freelanced/won substantial amounts from... come tax time.

Even so, it's something everyone needs to bear in mind. Especially with the worldwide economy the way it is (England and Germany are predicted, by the EU, to enter a full blown recession this quarter), the last thing we need are students and kids dicking about with Flash, making money, and then getting shafted because they forgot they need to give 30% over to Uncle Sam and Mr Darling.

At 9/10/08 04:10 PM, Coaly wrote: Math..s?

Is saying "maths" a joke I missed or is it some strange euro way of saying math...?

British say maths because it's better.

Get over it.

I think it is bullshit having to pay taxes on small winnings. Most of the shit people do here is only for fun, and don't really think about doing it for a living. Plus if people have full time jobs, they already pay out a shitload of money for the income taxes. It would be better to get winnings "under the table" and have no paper trail to lead back to that money and where it came from.

At 9/11/08 09:32 AM, patu1 wrote: liam if you didn't live i am pretty sure that you would have been modded long ago..

I doubt he'd be a very good mod if he's 6 feet under.

At 9/11/08 11:18 AM, RyanPridgeon wrote: British say maths because it's better.

I never heard anything more true, well I've seen things a lot more true but, well... I don't know.

At 9/11/08 12:09 PM, CybexALT wrote: I doubt he'd be a very good mod if he's 6 feet under.

I'm 9 feet under!

Religion
I too was brought up "catholic", although my parents are both agnostic and don't go to church I did go to a Catholic primary school, high school and even college (they're all "connected" administratively if that is a word). I thus had to have R.E. lessons, which isn't too bad, because they near the end of high school and in college it was more philosophic.. still a waste of my time but not OMG GOD IS TRUEEE. Although my college "PTE" (philosophy, theology and ethics.. a.k.a. R.E.) teacher did get suspended for 2 weeks for telling a fellow student they were going to hell because he was a gay. She was freaky. Anyway, with the insight of the Religious world.. I can further understand how much bull it is :X

At 9/11/08 12:09 PM, CybexALT wrote: I doubt he'd be a very good mod if he's 6 feet under.

R.I.P. liam :(

At 9/11/08 10:46 AM, Toast wrote: Paranoia
Again with the identical double posts so u can get to 10k faster? Seriously, I thought you've matured.

I don't even get how it's possible :/ Surely the anti-double post system is designed to stop this exact kind of glitch...

At 9/11/08 12:44 PM, Paranoia wrote: I don't even get how it's possible :/ Surely the anti-double post system is designed to stop this exact kind of glitch...

HOW ARE YOU HACKING THE SYSTEM YOU BASTARD

"Error you're posting too quickly, slow down"

:(

At 9/11/08 12:46 PM, liaaaam wrote:

At 9/11/08 12:44 PM, Paranoia wrote: I don't even get how it's possible :/ Surely the anti-double post system is designed to stop this exact kind of glitch...

HOW ARE YOU HACKING THE SYSTEM YOU BASTARD

The only thing I can guess is that Firefox is managing to send two or three posts all at once before the system has a chance to register my last post :/

In theory someone could get something to post hundreds of times in one batch. Before they got their account deleted.

Toast ive added Depredation on steam, now whats yours?!! >:(

At 9/11/08 12:50 PM, Paranoia wrote: In theory someone could get something to post hundreds of times in one batch. Before they got their account deleted.

I guess you could just create a clone page without the button changing, so you could CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK. Or something. Uh what?

i only double posted because ITS MY 2300 POST OHMGADNOWAI

People that believe in God are the new black.

Collab Splits
It's hard to be fair when coders don't understand what goes into good art, and artists don't understand what goes into good code...and neither can be judged strictly by hours because often, the better you are in both fields, the less time it takes to make something awesome.

But, my experience has been that people are generally pretty fair when it comes down to deciding the split at the end of a project. Even though I haven't done the "decide at the end" thing on many projects, I agree that the end of the project is the best time to make that judgement, though sometimes knowing how much $ is coming your way early on can be motivating.

At 9/11/08 01:03 PM, Blackfang wrote: i only double posted because ITS MY 2300 POST OHMGADNOWAI

Congratulations :)

Paranoia: Sort it out or Luis will spank you >:(

More essays to write and still no maths homework >:( (I'm not sad I just find maths easy.

Also I love philosophy it's basically arguing and looking at things. No effort is required :D)

At 9/11/08 01:15 PM, BoMToons wrote: Collab Splits
It's hard to be fair when coders don't understand what goes into good art, and artists don't understand what goes into good code...and neither can be judged strictly by hours because often, the better you are in both fields, the less time it takes to make something awesome.

I'd go with the 'a game's worth of coding' = 'a game's worth of drawing' rule myself. When I'm multitasking, I usually spend a fair bit more time drawing than coding, but the coding is pretty intensive, full-concentration work, whereas drawing and animating (especially fbf 'tweening and shading) can be handled alongside some TV or a radio show, so I'd say it more or less evens out. Also, I'm a slow drawer to begin with.

At 9/11/08 01:03 PM, Blackfang wrote: i only double posted because ITS MY 2300 POST OHMGADNOWAI

You can't double post when liaaaam is around, fucking lightning suckaaa.

At 9/11/08 01:15 PM, BoMToons wrote: People that believe in God are the new black.

You tell em bomtoons, everyone needs to stop being religist. And the way I see it anyway, ultimately religion, belief, or lack of belief is a personal choice, it's like arguing with someone that likes to wear tighty whities, it's not really affecting me, so why would I care. Of course there are religious extremists who blow themselves up and hate other people because of god...in those cases I feel like we're obligated to persuade them that 50 virgins are not waiting for them in heaven if they murder us. But my point is it's a personal belief and when you die and nothing happens, it doesn't really matter.

if I die and there actually is a hell, I will be pissed =p

that's a weak argument coaly. religion attempts to stop and slow down science all the time. every time there's some significant scientific / medical advance, religion says that it's against jesus or whatnot. i read an interesting article that listed all the times that religion slowed science down. If it were only a simple belief in a god, without anything more than that I would be fine with that. but for 2000 years they are only doing bad to the world.

leave...lol the spelling police...(i think that i will dounload googletoolbar to this computer..)

CC credits
I went to the credits to cheak why Coaly is in them but he was in special thanks...and then i saw that luis is there two..
why are they in the crdits

At 9/11/08 02:44 PM, patu1 wrote: why are they in the crdits

Bomtoons, Luis and Coaly got credited for Castle Crashing The Beard.

10 minute spur-of-the-moment-crappy-flash-drawing. See if you can guess...
~The drawing style on running guy
~What the speech bubble with a scribble in is meant to mean
~What the huge scribble on the right is
~Why I used these things.

At 9/11/08 02:53 PM, Wolfears2 wrote: 10 minute spur-of-the-moment-crappy-flash-drawing. See if you can guess...
~The drawing style on running guy
~What the speech bubble with a scribble in is meant to mean
~What the huge scribble on the right is
~Why I used these things.

forgot pic. Giffylicious.

that is extremely artistic and inspiring thanks for sharing.

At 9/11/08 01:51 PM, Toast wrote: that's a weak argument coaly. religion attempts to stop and slow down science all the time. every time there's some significant scientific / medical advance, religion says that it's against jesus or whatnot. i read an interesting article that listed all the times that religion slowed science down. If it were only a simple belief in a god, without anything more than that I would be fine with that. but for 2000 years they are only doing bad to the world.

That's a good point... it just seems pompous and futile to try to convince someone god isn't real, or whatever their belief isn't real, because no one really knows what is real or true and what isn't, you know?

Also patu... Nick Pasto is bomtoons, we're all listed because we made castle crashing the beard, and tom is a swell guy, so he put us in the special thanks...

At 9/11/08 02:57 PM, Coaly wrote: Also patu... Nick Pasto is bomtoons, we're all listed because we made castle crashing the beard, and tom is a swell guy, so he put us in the special thanks...

and because they use newgrounds weapons in the game, unlockable anyway.... i hope they sneak in a pink knight and ill be happy.

At 9/11/08 02:53 PM, Wolfears2 wrote: 10 minute spur-of-the-moment-crappy-flash-drawing. See if you can guess...
~The drawing style on running guy

I believe that style is called "limbs all different sizes"ism

~What the speech bubble with a scribble in is meant to mean

It's meant to mean that what ever the guy has to say is not worth knowing.

~What the huge scribble on the right is

The black hole that will inevitably kill us all in a few days.

~Why I used these things.

What things? Words?

I would give someone a game on castle crashers but it's really messed up the online play. I can never find a game, and when i do it is laggy and sometimes just crashes :S FIX IT TOM.

But it is a really, really awesome game.

My New Game

My new game im making with Cryzabey is juuuuuuust about done. I talked about it in userpage if anybody saw. i cant wait for the release and i think all of you will like it.

btw if your lookin in my userpage you have to click the news post before this newest one.