At 3/6/09 03:33 AM, Rudy wrote:

At 3/6/09 03:33 AM, Araelyn wrote: Tankies today, you guysssssss.

Yeah, I know. Pretty excited to see the outcome of it :)

I knoooooow. Y'know what's funny is that I didn't even watch the Oscars and frankly, I'm WAY more excited about the outcome of these awards.
:3

have a smoke!!

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At 3/6/09 03:36 AM, Araelyn wrote: I knoooooow. Y'know what's funny is that I didn't even watch the Oscars and frankly, I'm WAY more excited about the outcome of these awards.

3

Same here except I wasn't up for an oscar...

At 3/6/09 05:03 AM, yhar wrote: The portal has gone down hill recently, or peoples ratings have gone up. Remember when bitey would pass through the portal, it'd have 4.20 and that'd be an amazing score? I remember in 2006 aspiring to get a 3.0, because that was moderately hard to attain, but in the last year I've submitted spam and managed 3.50+, whereas before it'd have been blammed. This isn't aimed at rudy, or anyone who took part, but this IMO was good, sure, but 4.35? That's .2 less than bitey, which is a ridiculously good animation. It seems people will vote 5 on anything nowadays, it used to be a blessing to get 3.5+ and now it's ridiculously easy.

I've seen stuff pass today that wouldn't have got close to 1 back in 2006, shame :(

On the one hand stuff is getting inflated and that's bad, but on the other hand, really think about the scores. The top flash on NG atm is Portal Defenders, sitting at 4.55. If you bring this to a percentage scale, it's a 91%.

Now that means that if you were to grade the flashes, that flash would get an A (really an A-), but every single other flash on the top 50 would only get a B/B+. Does that really seem fair when you look at the quality of some of the flashes in the top 50?

Imo people are too harsh, but it depends on the situation. People are too harsh with good animations because either they're jealous or they don't think it should be #1 (and thus the flashes are voted on based on their score relative to other flashes rather than their overall quality), and yet as you've said, people are too easy on shitty flashes sometimes.

At 3/6/09 11:23 AM, orb wrote: The top flash on NG atm is Portal Defenders, sitting at 4.55. If you bring this to a percentage scale, it's a 91%.

Now that means that if you were to grade the flashes, that flash would get an A (really an A-)

I thought an A was 80% upwards :/

What's weird about the portal is that the difficulty of getting above a 4.3 gets tremendously hard due to the top 50 list. Once your title hits around a 4.30 it'll appear on that list and get smacked pretty hard down to a score that drops it off. I've watched content get swat off that list in less than a day and then sit around 4.29 with all the other flash submissions around that range.

At 3/6/09 05:03 AM, yhar wrote: The portal has gone down hill recently.

The good ones stand the test of time though. Many animations/games pass with insanely high scores, but it takes awhile for them to drop.

On the top highest scored movies and games, what if 2 movies/games have the same score exactly?

How is it sorted then, by name of movie, name of author?

At 3/6/09 01:20 PM, yhar wrote: I'd say that's impossible, in fact, it is. I think I remember liljim mentioning that the scores go way beyond what we see, however they cut them down to 2 decimals for us to see, we don't want to see 4.43534435345353456682662 now, do we?

I think that'd look like Emily-Youci's userpage, I wonder how the hell was that possible, have you seen it?

Seriously, what the hell?

At 3/5/09 07:07 PM, Rudy wrote: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/48 5929
It's in the portal, and I'm proud of the outcome (:

Jeinu really blew that shit away. At his part I was =O. Overall a very enjoyable collaboration, nice whole production, good job.

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So did you win?

At 3/6/09 01:36 PM, jmtb02 wrote: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/48 6001
So did you win?

Grats to the winning Movie, Game, Musician, and User of the year! you're now as cool as Luis! :D

At 3/6/09 02:06 PM, yhar wrote: As hilarious as it was; Low quality, no pause button and lack of 'seriousness' made it seem more of a Joke than the real thing, is it the real thing?

Clearly you don't know tom at all :P

even serious things can be jokes

Congrats to people who won!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY.

Pico 2 plz

At 3/6/09 02:14 PM, yhar wrote: I don't, but there's silly, very silly, then too silly to be serious. I must be confused by the latter 2. Also, didn't tom shave his beard off a while back, has he grown it back?

I'm sure standing infront of a green screen with other workers around while making stupid jokes would make most people act silly :P
I wouldn't be able to keep a straight face

At 3/6/09 02:19 PM, yhar wrote:

At 3/6/09 02:17 PM, Zuggz wrote: I'm sure standing infront of a green screen with other workers around while making stupid jokes would make most people act silly :P
I wouldn't be able to keep a straight face

It'd have been better if he was in speedos with a snorkle.

Everything would be better if we were all like that.

At 3/6/09 02:20 PM, Saza wrote:

It'd have been better if he was in speedos with a snorkle.

Everything would be better if we were all like that.

Women wouldn't.

At 3/6/09 12:04 PM, jmtb02 wrote: What's weird about the portal is that the difficulty of getting above a 4.3 gets tremendously hard due to the top 50 list. Once your title hits around a 4.30

It's actually 4.35ish

Talking of high scores, Saturday Morning Watchmen by HappyHarry has a 4.63 right now O_O I'm about to watch it, but, well.. he's obviously a great animator (best of the year ^_^) and it has Hans and Tomamoto as voice actors.. yay.

Grats renaeae for being user of the year :]

I seem to have fallen in love with whiskey. I fear this will not be a cheap relationship. Discuss.

At 3/6/09 04:26 PM, Xeptic wrote: I seem to have fallen in love with whiskey. I fear this will not be a cheap relationship. Discuss.

i hate whiskey, im more of a rum man.

Im loving Sailer Jerrys at the moment.

Flashes used to barely ever go past 4.24, then one day Tankmen came out and I saw a 4.3+ sub for the first time.

We're seeing some kind of voter evolution here...

At 3/6/09 04:34 PM, crushy wrote: Flashes used to barely ever go past 4.24, then one day Tankmen came out and I saw a 4.3+ sub for the first time.

We're seeing some kind of voter evolution here...

Heh. What's new? This has been going on for ages. It's the people who go "OHHH, This is good. *5*" or "THIS SUCKS *0*", completely ignoring those other 4 buttons.

At 3/6/09 04:26 PM, Xeptic wrote: I seem to have fallen in love with whiskey. I fear this will not be a cheap relationship. Discuss.

Depends on the whiskey. Jack daniels is pretty good, but i prefer an older malt, something really deep, not painful :P.

At 3/6/09 04:52 PM, UnknownFury wrote:

At 3/6/09 04:34 PM, crushy wrote: Flashes used to barely ever go past 4.24, then one day Tankmen came out and I saw a 4.3+ sub for the first time.

We're seeing some kind of voter evolution here...

Heh. What's new? This has been going on for ages. It's the people who go "OHHH, This is good. *5*" or "THIS SUCKS *0*", completely ignoring those other 4 buttons.

It's a shame the system doesn't encourage variety in voting, not sure how you would solve that though.

At 3/6/09 05:01 PM, Depredation wrote: Depends on the whiskey. Jack daniels is pretty good, but i prefer an older malt, something really deep, not painful :P.

I had this really small bottle of Johnny Walker's Blue Label, that was the best I've had so far. There's something about whiskey which I can't lay my finger on, it just feels classy, I dunno...

Obviously, drink responsibly and all that.

At 3/6/09 04:52 PM, UnknownFury wrote:
Heh. What's new? This has been going on for ages. It's the people who go "OHHH, This is good. *5*" or "THIS SUCKS *0*", completely ignoring those other 4 buttons.

3 buttons.

At 3/6/09 01:36 PM, jmtb02 wrote: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/48 6001
So did you win?

Now you're as cool as Luis. *snort*
Best part.

At 3/6/09 05:15 PM, WhoknowsmeaUdiO wrote:

At 3/6/09 04:52 PM, UnknownFury wrote:
Heh. What's new? This has been going on for ages. It's the people who go "OHHH, This is good. *5*" or "THIS SUCKS *0*", completely ignoring those other 4 buttons.

3 buttons.

You should update your browser.. or, if that doesn't help, learn math :)

At 3/6/09 05:13 PM, crushy wrote: It's a shame the system doesn't encourage variety in voting, not sure how you would solve that though.

Yeah. Wade, I think it was Wade anyway, started a thread a while ago trying to encourage people to vote more reasonably but it clearly didn't have a massive effect.

At 3/6/09 05:15 PM, WhoknowsmeaUdiO wrote:

At 3/6/09 04:52 PM, UnknownFury wrote:
Heh. What's new? This has been going on for ages. It's the people who go "OHHH, This is good. *5*" or "THIS SUCKS *0*", completely ignoring those other 4 buttons.

3 buttons.

No... 1,2,3,4... That's 4 buttons...