At 10/12/08 06:42 PM, citricsquid wrote: You get money (EMA) If your family income is <£32,000 per year. The idea is good, but the execution of the scheme is ridiculous. People who's parents life off benefits and pay for fuckall get £30 a week, whereas peoples who's parents work 50 hours a week just so they can pay off their mortgage and keep their family fed get nothing.

Yeah, i agree with that. You can't make something that would fit perfectly for everyone though :S. Thinking about it, if mctoast did move over here would he be able to get a government funded education? Being foreign and all, can you take a test for citizenship when you're under 18?

At 10/12/08 06:05 PM, Xeptic wrote:

At 10/12/08 05:51 PM, DawnOfDusk wrote:

Games get more views than movies (on average) so it's basically a way to compensate for that.

Ah well that makes sense, plus Newgrounds started with Tom showing off his flash movies (after the web comics and whack a seal games of course XD), so maybe they just never really thought "hey lets put Games first" and are otherwise too lazy to change it?

OH HEY BTW TODAY was nerd convention land day, so because i'm able to replicate the Joker voice quite well, i may have dressed up as him :P

I actually DID have (im not sure if you can see it) Fake scars, see im not a noob who is like "imma paint my face and i'll be done" Nay nay, i had just the right ammount of green in my hair, it was parted better before too, and my purple coat was off cuz i was hot and needed a shower... Either way.. it was pretty fun, ppl were staring on the street it was hilarious, and that was just practice for Halloween.

At 10/12/08 07:01 PM, Duchednier wrote: ppl were staring on the street it was hilarious,

You should've startled one of them by bringing the knife up to their lips... =D

and that was just practice for Halloween.

Hawt.

At 10/12/08 06:47 PM, Depredation wrote: Yeah, i agree with that. You can't make something that would fit perfectly for everyone though :S. Thinking about it, if mctoast did move over here would he be able to get a government funded education? Being foreign and all, can you take a test for citizenship when you're under 18?

Think about the awesomeness of leaving together with someone from the flash forum. Especially if it's a programmer - animator combo, then it just takes game developping to a whole new level. The bad side of it, though, is that you can't avoid your partner on msn when you don't feel like working on his game haha.

"my code's compiling" for u xkcd readers ;)

At 10/12/08 07:50 PM, DawnOfDusk wrote:

At 10/12/08 07:01 PM, Duchednier wrote: ppl were staring on the street it was hilarious,

You should've startled one of them by bringing the knife up to their lips... =D

Well at one point i was at set of lights and there was a guy parked in a car who just got stopped at a red light. So he looks at me and starts laughing, he looks away for a moment. When he looks back i'm holding a Joker card (like a normal playing card) and he just bursts out laughing. I found it funny :P

SUMMARY OF THAT TEXT: I have a card instead of a knife. It works fine :P

if you live in england you can buy this new shirt! shameless plug lmao

At 10/12/08 08:25 PM, Luis wrote: if you live in england you can buy this new shirt! shameless plug lmao

Send me one, typlx.

Also: Post pics of the new NG london meet place thanks =D

Problems

Well, I didn't want to make an entirely new topic about this, sooooo.
Whenever I export my game, and try to put it on SpamTheWeb it always tells me that the URL that my game is at, you know, the extension of SpamTheWeb doesn't exist, so I can't show it to my friend who wants to see it. It's only 24 kb and I'm sorta pissed. Does anyone know how to remedy my situation?

At 10/12/08 08:36 PM, liaaaam wrote:

At 10/12/08 08:25 PM, Luis wrote: if you live in england you can buy this new shirt! shameless plug lmao

Send me one, typlx.

Also: Post pics of the new NG london meet place thanks =D

Here you go

At 10/12/08 09:02 PM, DarkMana wrote:

At 10/12/08 08:06 PM, Toast wrote: "my code's compiling" for u xkcd readers ;)

Completely necessary:

That has to be the absolute most awesome picture I've ever seen.. hurray for xkcd :D

At 10/12/08 09:50 PM, Luis wrote: Here you go

What the hell, that looks awesome! Seriously, must cost a fortune for that O_o I get the riverside room, even if the river is coated in shit (it is england ,riiight).

At 10/12/08 09:56 PM, liaaaam wrote:

At 10/12/08 09:50 PM, Luis wrote: Here you go

What the hell, that looks awesome! Seriously, must cost a fortune for that O_o I get the riverside room, even if the river is coated in shit (it is england ,riiight).

what uni do you go to? and where is it in england?

god i wish i lived in london. I WANNA GO TO A MEET

At 10/12/08 10:29 PM, Blackfang wrote: god i wish i lived in london. I WANNA GO TO A MEET

God so do I. When I'm 18, and if they're still going on, I am so going to one.

At 10/12/08 10:29 PM, Blackfang wrote: god i wish i lived in london. I WANNA GO TO A MEET

how about we all go to england? luis could buy a huge-ass appartment and we could all live in there together.

At 10/12/08 10:36 PM, Toast wrote:

At 10/12/08 10:29 PM, Blackfang wrote: god i wish i lived in london. I WANNA GO TO A MEET

how about we all go to england? luis could buy a huge-ass appartment and we could all live in there together.

That.. is like.. an epic idea!

Goddamnit.

Enough with this foolishness.

I am moving out in like 2 months so Toast just come to my place. Srsly. But you need to hurry over to England because A levels started over a month ago.

At 10/12/08 08:36 PM, liaaaam wrote: Also: Post pics of the new NG london meet place thanks =D
At 10/12/08 09:50 PM, Luis wrote:

Here you go

Okay. The Gun Wharves are in North London, Wapping.
Assuming that you're taking the picture from inside the building you're staying in, that's south of the river north of Canada Water...

At 10/12/08 09:57 PM, Toast wrote: what uni do you go to? and where is it in england?

University of Teesside, in Middlesbrough, which is in the north. It's about an hour and a half away from Leeds, where I come from.. which is just a lil further south. You should definitely try come to the London meet. I don't know if you'll be able to realistically afford it or be able to because of school or whatever, but it'd be awesome :P

At 10/13/08 07:10 AM, liaaaam wrote: University of Teesside, in Middlesbrough...

My alma mater. As I have told liaaam, it's not a very nice place either from an academic standpoint (as he's already said, the lectures aren't exactly comprehensive) nor from a living in Middlesbrough standpoint.

However, it DOES host an international animation and video games conference around inter-semester break. I suggest people go to that if they can, because it's normally interesting and showcases some nice animation and lectures.

Next year they're getting Ian Livingstone (who's incorrectly stated as having created D&D on the site) and Ernest Adams, again.

At 10/13/08 07:25 AM, KaynSlamdyke wrote: international animation and video games conference

Yeah, I'm unsure if i'm going.. it's either Animex or home.. hmm :P I'll probably go to it though. And everyone from NG should too. Yippee!

I think it only lasts 2-3 days anyway so I could still visit home :P

Lord British In Space
The guy who invented Ultima, and helped kick start that whole massively-multiplayer-online-roleplaying -games-can-be-graphical-and-fun-for-ever y-computer-game-player fad is currently up in LEO. Enough said.

so uhh yep, just got a 360 and castle crashers :P, yeyy..

anyways, uhh, woot @ Columbus day..

At 10/13/08 08:35 AM, KaynSlamdyke wrote: Lord British In Space

Cool, now it's just a matter of time before space buses become reality >:).

I think space trains would be more awesome.

Am I the only one not at all interested in visiting space? I understand how research is important and everything and I am totally behind that, but I personally don't have any interest leaving earth. I have plenty to explore around our own planet before even dreaming about going into space.

At 10/13/08 12:05 PM, jmtb02 wrote: I have plenty to explore around our own planet before even dreaming about going into space.

I'd like to see more research done up there, but I'm more interested in the eventual colonisation, industrialisation and exploration of the big black void and the occasional specks of rock up there than the "look at us, we're upside down, isn't this exciting!" thing that seems to be popular at the moment and the "we can park a rover on Mars and occasionally have it land the right way up" school of thought that seems to have killed off the idea of actual people going up there.

Soon as someone works out how to synthetically bulk manufacture oxygen out of Mars' 95% CO2 atmosphere we'll be set...

At 10/13/08 12:18 PM, KaynSlamdyke wrote: Soon as someone works out how to synthetically bulk manufacture oxygen out of Mars' 95% CO2 atmosphere we'll be set...

Reduce it to separate the carbon and oxygen then dump all the carbon on earth? :P Sounds like a plan. Leave some so we're not breathing pure oxygen and insert all those lovely phosphates and nitrates into the gorund. Sorted!

OP: Sorry can't remember who it was. It's £10 for a highish wage, £20 and then £30 up here at least. :D

My dearest toast. This has pretty much all the information you need about coming to the UK to study. Hope this helps <3

Live under my bed :3

At 10/13/08 02:15 PM, BritishMoose wrote: Oh man...I just woke up...

Tough night last night eh? XD

At 10/13/08 02:15 PM, BritishMoose wrote: Oh man...I just woke up...

You were asleep for a few months there Alex. How's the new Animation Degree?