RE: Xmas header

At 12/5/06 11:41 AM, Luis wrote: NO. I want filth.

Yeah, i think the site should have less crappy hentai galleries, but it still needs something more adult. If the site is aimed for over 13's, then surely them(we) understand that violence can create humor? Anyway, it's not a great header, but it is reasonably simplistic , which is nice for a change.

RE: Xmas header

At 12/5/06 11:47 AM, Depredation wrote: Yeah, i think the site should have less crappy hentai galleries, but it still needs something more adult. If the site is aimed for over 13's, then surely them(we) understand that violence can create humor? Anyway, it's not a great header, but it is reasonably simplistic , which is nice for a change.

I dunno, I kinda like the header. It's pretty atmospheric :P Nice use of colour...

But yeah, it could have used some dark, twisted humour. Maybe Santa should have a gatling gun or something.

Anyone that has plans to be part of the swap, PM me or forever hold your peace. Randomizing the pool of names later today

Last Call : Flash Reg Xmas gift swap

What's that?

I'm in.

Now tell me what it is that I just agreed to.

RE: Xmas header

But yeah, it could have used some dark, twisted humour. Maybe Santa should have a gatling gun or something.

EXACTLY.

RE: Last Call

Well that ship has sailed, everyone who was in the gift exchange should now have the address of the person they have to send stuff to.. whoever has me better spend alot of money or ill ban you.

RE: Flash Forum Mods

At 12/5/06 07:08 AM, Kirk-Cocaine wrote: Also, is it just me or is all jmtb02 does (mod-wise) is lock topics for having "undescriptive titles"? =P

Seems like a lot of what I have been doing recently. But seriously, the undescriptive title locks are starting to get silly. Every new guy around here posts with the topic "help", which means that every new guy is getting their first topic locked.

Oh well.

But anyway, Neg is on a lot, I think you guys are just oblivious.

At 12/5/06 01:00 PM, jmtb02 wrote: But anyway, Neg is on a lot, I think you guys are just oblivious.

RE: Flash Forum Mods

Yea. Back when I was Uber-active on the Artist Showcase Thread Neg used to frequent there a lot. Then again, so did Luis, but that was also before he became a mod...if I remember correctly. In my few months of absence Luis' post count has gone up quite a bit...if I remember correctly.

I don't even know jmtb02 and had no idea he was a mod until people mentioned him on this post.

Christmas Header

The Christmas header may not be very explicit compared to Halloween but Halloween is all about ghoulish things that may include hardcore gore and violence.

If there is anything I don't understand about the Christmas header is why someone would be camping in the hoods on Christmas...and actually have a Christmas tree up, with a star on top for that matter (unless the star is meant to be in the background, which would just be corny). The only thing that would make things seem somewhat more NG-like is the fact that the background is a ruined city as apposed to the usual cityscape background of the header. Maybe its some sort of nuclear winter thats being alluded to by the banner?

Re: What Made You Start Flash?

I would say what made me start flash was a movie that is still in the portal, It is titled "Night Of The Drugs" It was incredible for it's time. I still remember when it first came out... Then I started taking interest in drawing, I looked at other games, and animations, from mostly Tom & Dans stuff. Dan's artwork, and Tom's knowledge of coding make a great team! I also love the new great stuff comming into the portal! -Luis, your stuff is an inspiration, as well as James Farr, and Adam Phillips.

RE: Bold Tags of Eyebleedy
As if skim reading wasn't already easy enough with this thread. But still, this won't completely reduce this thread's spam counter- What're we going to do, stop people putting gibberish as bold titles?

RE: Starting Flash and all that jazz
Legendary Frog fanboy here.

Saw Newgrounds before it established it's Portal (back in the days where Pico's School was the most impressive Flash game on the net), and completely forgot about its existance until I got linked to LF's old site. Hung around on the forums there, and linked over to here. Re-grappled Flash after leaving it well alone for five years and not managing to great deal out of it, and got invited for a Halo collaberation.

Large soft spot in my heart for everyone with similar backgrounds and for anything that was on the Portal at that time.

RE: Tank Snowmen and the Current Header

At 12/5/06 11:41 AM, Luis wrote: NO. I want filth.

Thought this season was about good will to all men and the spirit of spending loadsa cash on each other? You're less likely to spend loads of cash and feel good about people if we had a decapitated santa on the front page and on the collections page...

Besides. There's only so many Christmas War cliches that we can use, and South Park's pretty much got the mental monopoly on Jesus vs Santa.

The colour balance is also pretty nifty. Because the standard NG colour scheme goes from a yellow to an orange, the blue to purple colour scheme of the new header complements it. Still, would have been better if it was Pico instead of Santa giving out the presents. Then we could all write about just how NG's mascot got a hold of the sleigh in the first place.

Had to refresh a few times. Anyone know how to turn down the cache length on images and media in Firefox?

RE: Secret Santa
Sorry I missed it. Oh well, I'll probably send Lu a card or something anyway.

RE: Mod Sticks in Short Supply?
I'm not noticing any problems in this department it must be said. I'm still not fully behind the "lock the thread with the slightly vague title" procedure though. Makes skimming the topics on this forum every other day a bit depressing. Think there are currently four or so threads all locked by jmtb in a row on the next page all for being vaguetitled.

Other than that, we seem to be doing good for the modships. Not too much spam, not too much dehumanisation, not too much pirate talk... All good.

RE: Xmas Header

I think Utah did a great job on it, and it gives a warm feeling. I don't think you really need humor or violence in a Christmas/holiday themed banner because it's supposed to give the site a warm feeling, which it does.

With that said, I'm still trying to figure out why there's a tent in the picture.

RE: Mod Sticks in Short Supply?

At 12/5/06 02:46 PM, KaynSlamdyke wrote: I'm still not fully behind the "lock the thread with the slightly vague title" procedure though. Makes skimming the topics on this forum every other day a bit depressing.

I'm not so partial to it either, don't worry. It's a never ending battle trying to stop every new guy from saying "help" or "help plz" on every topic, especially with the flow of new people increasing recently. It also scares them away, which I don't really want to be doing. I think a quick fix is to just lower the lock bar down to completely vague topics for now, such as "wtf", and let the "I need help" threads to survive.

RE: Unpacking the wii

At 12/5/06 03:00 AM, ShirtTurtle wrote: sorry about that.
I was wondering why you were sticking up for him.
And then when i read all of your post, i realised he was your friend.
So sorry.
Thats the only problem with the headers.
I saw the Bold, and saw the link, and it was already explained for me.
I had no need to read the rest.

heh, 'tis ok, but you should apologize to Ben, as you most likely mortally offended him.

im so embaressed

fatty.

Re: Mods

I think one lot you should be wary of is locking and the influence it has. Like for example, I think it feels quite robotic here - you gotta lock every thread that fits the requirements, theres a quick fix for everything (same way we all post simillar responses to links etc).

Do you all get what I mean by this?

Something on Telly

(for English people only sorry) there is a program coming on BBC1 at halfpast that looks asif it could be intresting. It's about the internet and how it's developed, and by description, "Who's hanging round there". I'm going to have a shower then watch it, JOIN ME?

RE: Mod predjudice against short titles

At 12/5/06 04:10 PM, jmtb02 wrote: I think a quick fix is to just lower the lock bar down to completely vague topics for now, such as "wtf", and let the "I need help" threads to survive.

Yeah. I can understand and appreciate the job you do here considering it's an unpaid position with a lot of weight on the shoulders and a lot of flak thrown in your direction. Maybe there just needs to be something in the rules about not being a moron with title names.

The Forums rules could use a rewrite now that the Flash forums' developing it's own (nearly unwritten) code, and the Art forum has added a whole new array of considerations into the mix.

RE: 3D Class... or something
Update on the RETARD3D engine I've been working on.

Not only does it now do bitmaps (I love you Flash 8). Now it includes culling for everything not touching the V-CAM bar the actual grid (run the glet.swf in a window on its own and you can resize the window to silly dimensions to see the V-CAM doing it's job in all its glory).

Most of the maths runs on that link someone posted by Keith Peter (or somesuch). Would have been nice to know that existed *before* I did it this way, but no problems. I'm enjoying learning API as I go along...

New Topic: Armor Games X-Mas
So I'm looking through the entries on the AG Christmas Challenge and I can count them all on a hand with two fingers missing despite us being three and a half weeks into this one. Is it just a matter of the site not being updated or are people storing thier entries for the last minute? There's only about two weeks left until the deadline...

To Kaynslamsdykes

Kayn what are you planning with that Glet thing you just showed? It's looking cool but I can't see what kinda game it is. I think, from an angle like that I just get ideas like puzzle games or whatever, like that cube game that came out earlier this year. I'd like to see something with graphics and characters that you control.

Armorgames xmas (whats up with these headlines anyway?)

At 12/5/06 05:03 PM, KaynSlamdyke wrote: New Topic: Armor Games X-Mas
So I'm looking through the entries on the AG Christmas Challenge and I can count them all on a hand with two fingers missing despite us being three and a half weeks into this one. Is it just a matter of the site not being updated or are people storing thier entries for the last minute? There's only about two weeks left until the deadline...

I guess partly it's lack of update, since every contest I've joined (3 I think), I submitted when there were like 3 games. The next game, there was 30 :P

Also, since december just came, people are probably waiting to submit

Re: To Kayn

At 12/5/06 05:26 PM, Mogly wrote: Kayn what are you planning with that Glet thing you just showed? It's looking cool but I can't see what kinda game it is.

The engine doesn't currently have a game behind it. It's pure graphic at the moment.

Whilst it's being based on stuff I've found on the net (and full credit's going to the various authors of tile based game tutorials who have saved my life with this), the 3D stuff is all my own. And I've got a lot of games I want to make using this.

The current plans are the two games I've got to finish in the next two weeks - a game with Blaze and a game with Wonchop, both for the AG XMas contest. Probably going to annoy Blaze to no end saying that the game I'm making with him is a Gauntlet-like (hence why it's named glet) and the one with Won will be a platformer Metroid-like using the character he brought out for Hallowe'en, Cap'n Zappy. Both will be about saving Christmas, and both in very unconventional ways.

Afterwards I want to flip my brain completely out and work out how to make Starfox. And I'll be making a tutorial in Flash about it, because I feel it's only fair pushing all the information I've assimilated out into a complete whole for someone else to use and learn from.

A current problem I'm running on is I've got no faith in my ability to use custom AS classes, so all the code is currently in the FLA file - and the code's already over two hundred lines long just for graphics. Not looking forward to adding more to it...

Re: AG's Xmas

At 12/5/06 05:30 PM, Claxor wrote: Also, since december just came, people are probably waiting to submit

Since this will be the first I want to compete in, I'm not familiar with the updating schedule of AG, nor do I know when the majority of submissions are uploaded. My guess is there's a tonne of entries around the day before the contest ends...

Re: Mods

At 12/5/06 05:03 PM, Mogly wrote: Do you all get what I mean by this?

Yeah, but to be fair, we have to be equal to everyone. We can't lock some but not all and say that's fair. We relax a lot of rules around here, so it's not like we are locking down the entire forum.

At 12/5/06 05:03 PM, KaynSlamdyke wrote: RE: Mod predjudice against short titles

It's the same as saying we are a prejudice against piracy topics. It's the rules, whether we like it or not. We are also obligated to the rules.

At 12/5/06 05:45 PM, jmtb02 wrote: Re: Mods

At 12/5/06 05:03 PM, Mogly wrote: Do you all get what I mean by this?

Yeah, but to be fair, we have to be equal to everyone. We can't lock some but not all and say that's fair. We relax a lot of rules around here, so it's not like we are locking down the entire forum.

Whoops my post above came out a little confusing as I was rushing. I wasn't so much making a suggestion for a change or whatever just bringing it up and seeing what people's opinions are.

David Firth

David Firth was just on tely. Isn't that cool? He was sat in his attic, wearing a mask looking scary and talking about Salad Fingers. Isn't it fucked up that some guy from Leeds or whever can just go do that, and become insanely popular. It's pretty fucked up thinking about all this shit, and how you no that in a ten or so years it could all change.

At 12/5/06 05:03 PM, KaynSlamdyke wrote: So I'm looking through the entries on the AG Christmas Challenge and I can count them all on a hand with two fingers missing despite us being three and a half weeks into this one. Is it just a matter of the site not being updated or are people storing thier entries for the last minute? There's only about two weeks left until the deadline..

RE: Armor Games X-Mas

Actually its three weeks. I'm currently working on a game for it with DarkMana. Its going to be cool.

RE: Mod Sticks in Short Supply?

At 12/5/06 04:10 PM, jmtb02 wrote:

I'm not so partial to it either, don't worry. It's a never ending battle trying to stop every new guy from saying "help" or "help plz" on every topic, especially with the flow of new people increasing recently.

Yeah I've noticed a lot of new people recently. It's annoying how new people always tend to give bad advice, like "lok up a tut" or "lolerz got to ASmain n00b" without providing a link. Worst of all is when they just post "I don't know lol". It gives the whole board a negative feel.

RE david firth.
when and where was he on tv?

Re: David Firth

What would there be talk about David Firth around your school in the first place? But I highly doubt that if such rumors had an basis in reality you wouldn't have heard them.

Low Scoring Daily First

I feel that ever since earlier in the year the number of quality submissions have been ever decreasing. Either that or people are generally giving submissions lower scores.

Re: me

Child Molestation Charges? Hahahah

According to wikipedia I'm openly gay and I hold the world record for the largest forehead in Britain.

I don't like rumours.

Re: David Firth

At 12/5/06 08:09 PM, Doki wrote:

According to wikipedia I hold the world record for the largest forehead in Britain.

That'd be a great record to hold.

The guy who wants to start flash.

At 12/5/06 08:19 PM, ShirtTurtle wrote:

2. Create a new thread if you must

He's alread made a thread....

RE: I want to start a flash

At 12/5/06 08:37 PM, ShirtTurtle wrote:

then why is he posting here?

Because, he's an impatient noob of course! ;)

Kinda a on-topic flash topic but with zelda

Ok after I have now just got the mastersword in twilight princess(and began pwning everything in sight, accidentally hit epona..) I came to wonder this up comming year is 2007, that marks 20 years of Zelda, thus a 20th annaversery(spelt that completely wrong) I know theres like a Mario one, but we should have a Zelda one! Has anyone else thought of this or is gonna do anything?

Re: Kinda off topic FLASH zelda etc

That's actually a good idea, because I like Zelda loads more than I like Mario (I make no zelda movies because... well... erm... leave me alone, k?)

I'd hit it. ;D

that's two for, one against, let's see how this turns out

At 12/5/06 08:59 PM, ShirtTurtle wrote: video game anniversaries are unimportant to me.
They shouldnt be allowed to control your life like that.
Just live with them, wether you love them or hate them.

Fancy smart-ass response to shirt turtle

Well! I'll have you know that just because Zelda controls my life doesn't mean I don't have free will! I could quit any time I want to... I just don't want to. lol, but c'mon its the internet we should celebrate video games on the internet since virtually everything else possible is celebrated on the internet, especially this thing called flash, wtf that is I don't know nor care. lol.

Relatable flash question

Now in your opinions and however you work on flash (I haven't seen anyone ask this myself so sorry if its been asked) when you start a new flash do you start on the menu or say screw the menu till the end? And if so do you set up the frames for the menu? I've tried not doing the menu first but liked doing it first best. Or just slap the newgrounds loader on the first frame and your done with the menu. And do you think a fancy menu adds to a flash? I don't know whether or not its actually a waste of time, if I should just slap on the ng pre-loader.