RE: Drinks

At 12/11/06 10:03 PM, Inglor wrote:

Although I hate vodka anyway :P

Dylan Moran sums up vodka so well:

Vodka, it's a deceptive drink. You drink it and think:

"What's the point of this? You can't taste it, you can't smell it... ....why are we on a traffic island??"

RE: Lyrics

At 12/11/06 10:47 PM, ShirtTurtle wrote:

They did the same for him, and now we are both known as the raped two.

Haha, it's fuuny because rape me is more about the "rape" of Kurt's music and privacy then actual rape. Where as "Polly" is cpmpletely abour rape.

Speaking of which, "Polly" is probably the only song ever written from the perspective of a rapist.

I'd also like to mention "Jaked On Green Beers", by Alkaline Trio. It is the best "Fuck You!" song ever. Srsly, these lyrics just scream "Fuck You":

The hope that I never see your face again is anything but questionable.

If they offered a test about being a good friend, I'd put money down that you'd surely flunk.

I hope this is goodbye. I hope this is goodbye. I hope this is goodbye.

I hope this is goodbye.

RE: Kirk-Cocain

Thats like ruined my life. I though you were kirk.

Harry AKA Kirk
My cats name is Harry.

Lyrics
I always loved the image from Alkaline Trio's Radio -
"Shakin' like a dog shittin' razor blades"
Yummy.

Be nice

I'll say something nice about Luis. I was a bit harsh in the Flash Forum Nominations, but seriously, you're a great mod. Besides that angry things I said, you know when to lock something. Also, your flash work is very impressive.

RE: Be nice

Umm...

You're all cool!

Thats a good one. I'm not good at details.

RE: Best lyrics ever

probably something by MeWithoutYou...

gimme a sec...

ah, okay...

"She's like a hot cloth on a fevered head
and like a needle she leads me
well i follow like thread
Tie me up
Untie me
All this wishing I was dead is getting old
It's getting old
It goes on
but it's old"

Motivation

Okay, so i have to make this like, minute and a half collab by before Xmas, and I can't get myself motivated AT ALL. I can, but i just keep putting it off and putting it off. I mean, I love drawing stuff, but animating and lip syncs...blech

So my question is, how do you guys motivate yourself to flash?

At 12/12/06 01:24 AM, ShortMonkey wrote:

At 12/12/06 01:22 AM, HandsomeJake wrote: So my question is, how do you guys motivate yourself to flash?

RE: Agreeing with Glaiel when it comes to header after a quote

well, figuring I'm in college and that hearing my mom ask me to do something makes me want to do it less...eh, i don't think that's for me.

I like to provide puppies with sexy time

yeah, luis is doing a good job, honestly he is doing MUCH better than ANYONE expected :) A pleasent surprise

Lyrics and such

'Why do I call myself a niga, cause i can reach in my dawls and pull out a bigger dick'

NWA - nigaz 4 lyfe.

Emo tyme

I feel so accepted thank you everyone. Im gonna go slice myself up im so happy.

In other news, I'm happy to be more part of the community anyway, Id like to take next year to take it a step further. At some point in your flash career you come to a point where its not so much about you anymore but about sharing in the spotlight with other up and coming artists. I realized that near the end of the year when i worked with mogly, and cheshire, and others.
I hope to continue that trend and work with more new people next year. If you have a project in mind drop me a msg, nothin to lose. Other than the feeling of rejection. Just playin.

And I promise to finally make a game with glaiel, it keeps fading out everytime. FAILURE.

-L

RE: Emo time

Luis, if I wasn't such a cynic about my own scripting ability I'd ask you to make a game with me :)

There's always AS3, anyway.

Don't ever change :P

RE: Be nice :P

years ago at shcool we did this, we had to say one ncie thing about a random person in the class.. when it came to me people struggled, i'm so popular :(

all of you guys rock :P

Snow!

it snowed for about 10 seconds today.. thats just crap!
hows the snow where you guys are at :P?

Re proud
i'd say the 3d house i made using 2 shape tweens in my movie Sasquatch.. thats probs it really :P

RE drinks

i used to drink but gave up for a few reasons, mainly cuz i can't afford it and it doesn't really do anything for me :P

-----Sorry IE7 posted before i was finished----

Fav Tune

At 12/11/06 09:32 PM, ShortMonkey wrote: I also love Boulevard of Broken Songs/Hearts.

Its just 'Boulevard of Broken Songs', and that is a great mashup :P Party Ben & Team9 <a ka, Dean Gray> did a great job there :P

my fav tune.. erm.. don't really have one. Tunes i lvoe at the moment are:

ToToM: Justin Timberlake vs ACDC - Thundersexy
The Knife - Heartbeats (Rex The Dog Mix)
10000 Spoons: B-52's vs The Velvettes - Really Saying Something at the Love Shack

Awesome tunes :P

sorry for 2x post :P

RE: Flash Quality Going Down?

I know this topic's a few pages old, but I think it's a fairly serious issue (even if newgrounds is a place for people to send their content in):

Yes, I see too many submissions scoring below 3 making it through the portal these days, it's getting pretty annoying, either spam crews are becomming a craze, or voters are becoming more casual >_<.

My personal opinion is: If a submission is under judgement, you either vote 5 or 0, only when it passes should you start voting accurately.

Either that, or they should start doing something to make sure newgrounds gets the quality entries coming back, there were only 6 greens and 3 blues around when I was on the portal sending my game in the other day (7 greens including the game I sent in), everything else was either colour-less or gray :s.

I think we should do more to get the portal's quality entries back, we could either start attempting to blam the UJ entries that really suck, or we could start working on sending waves or quality entries to the portal (My 07Wave plan might just help me out with that idea).

/lecture on e-quality

Flash forum awards

Around this time last year, authorblues made a flash forum awards thread. I think someone should start this up agan.

Place your votes for who should start the thread:

I vote Jmtb in congratulations for being a new mod.

RE: Flash forum awards

At 12/12/06 12:08 PM, Cybex wrote:

Around this time last year, authorblues made a flash forum awards thread. I think someone should start this up agan.

You win the award for "User living under a rock"

At 12/12/06 12:03 PM, Jindo wrote: RE: Flash Quality Going Down?

I know this topic's a few pages old, but I think it's a fairly serious issue (even if newgrounds is a place for people to send their content in):

Yes, I see too many submissions scoring below 3 making it through the portal these days, it's getting pretty annoying, either spam crews are becomming a craze, or voters are becoming more casual >_<.

At the moment, it's almost like flash is only being used for commercial purposes (sponsored games) or as a program to just fuck around with. Maybe the novelty is kinda disappeared or something. Alot has been done with it and perhaps that makes it less exciting for good artists to further explore the program. Meh, who cares. It's still one of the very few accessible programs that you can make movies with.

Lyrical Quotes
"I'm just so sick of wasting my time...love and death are always on my mind..." Its from Love and Death by The Stills. I'm not a big Stills fan but it was in my head all of yesterday after listening to the album and so it comes to mind. Another line in my head is: "We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl..." from Wish You Were Here, by Pink Floyd of course. There are plenty of good Pink Floyd quotes out there but Wish You Were Here is a favorite song of mind and that quote sticks in my mind.
Nirvana
I love that people here appreciate Nirvana, for some reason some people find them overrated. I was Kurt Cobain for Halloween. All I did was wear my nirvana shirt, some ripped jeans...and that was it. People even walked up to me and were like: "You're Kurt Cobain right? I could tell from the long hair and jeans. The Nirvana shirt helped." It was hilarious because guys I went to the party with thought I couldn't even get in with my shitty costume.
And Kirk did not invent Kirk Cocaine...Well at least Kurt Cocaine is well known. Its a logical progession.
Red Bull and Vodka
I can honestly say I've never heard of combining the two. Around here its usually combining Jagermeister with Redbull. I'm not a big fan, cause I'm not a big fan of Redbull but I'll drink straight shots of Jagermeister and love it.

RE: Nirvana

At 12/12/06 01:04 PM, MethodMinus wrote:

And Kirk did not invent Kirk Cocaine...

What? Lies and slander! Other people may have said it before me, but I genuinely never heard anyone say it before I made it my Alias. =)

RE: Be Proud
Out of all the things I've done, the intro picture for Monkeyduck is the thing I am most proud of. Second to the textures I did for my 3d Effects for Games module.

RE: Be Nice
Thanks to everyone on the forums for making me feel welcome here. This has been the longest and most active I've been on any BBS on the entire web, and I'd like to say thanks for giving me something to procrastinate on.

At 12/11/06 08:54 PM, Luis wrote: So yeah thanks to everyone who made this feel like a family and made me feel like the grumpy dad.

RE: Banner Ads
Anyone notice some of the new ones are *REALLY* cutting into Flash's running speeds? It's bad enough we have Flash adverts on those banners at the best of times, but some of them are making it almost impossible to view stuff coming into the Portal.

Best Lyric Ever / Favorite Song
Lyric: "The Only Time" by Nine Inch Nails for "My moral standing is lying down".
Song: This is a tough one for me now that my tastes in music have reverted to being "anything with a baseline that I can nod my head to works for me" mode - my ten desert island discs would more likely be ten desert island four gig i-pods. Guessing it'd probably end up being "No Brakes" by the Offspring at the end of the day.

RE: Alcohol
I'm teetotal. I've found better things to waste my money on.

Quality Debate
The attentive may have noticed I changed my avatar to the Dark side about half way through the year. It's not because I'm voting everything down, but more because my standards have increased. I've seen too many good Flash animations in the past year, and the overall quality of them increase, to let the stuff that would have kept me rolling on the floor two years ago through.

Maybe people woke up one day and noticed just how many people were relying on Flash and figured that it's about time to invest seriously in it. Ask someone six years ago what thier thoughts on Flash were and they'd more than likely tell you "bandwidth wasting annoying piece of rubbish I installed an auto-blocker for". Heck, that was the general feel of the matter in a first year Digital Media Design class I was in at University back when I was starting to learn Flash again because I just got linked back to Newgrounds after a five year hiatus.

Now suddenly with the widespread success of broadband internet, and with sites like MySpace and Youtube relying on the technology, everyone wants a piece of the Flash pie - especially now that it more than likely hits more web and accessability standards than Internet Explorer. Who doesn't want a cross-platform backwards-AND-forwards-compatable wysiwyg authoring tool whose plugin is reckoned to be installed on NINETY-EIGHT percent of all computers connected to the net in the USA, with a fairly powerful and secure scripting technology with a worrying efficiency rating and tiny download speeds in this day and age of advanced web design?

Same with AJAX I guess...

So much money's in Web Applications today it's not funny. I'm not joking when I say that most of the people on this thread should be making comfortable salaries from what they do here. And people can smell that potential even over the fibre optic cables. Lord knows how everyone gets a hold of Flash to submit stuff to the Portal, but if they can get thier foot in the door and get thier name out on the net people will do it.

And even for the non-mercenary minded, it's a powerful medium of expression - no other animation format can boast the swf's popularity on the net. Even AVI's getting a run for it's money now that the FLV's the converted medium of choice for major sites. And Flash's vector drawing nuances and features mean that even novices can create smooth looking peices better than they could in alternatives.

Flash is godly and for many people a viable subsititute or supplement to Photoshop. And naturally, everyone who's anyone hears that Newgrounds is the defacto place to submit your kewl flashzor animations. Maybe Youtube will steal that thunder if Adobe makes the AVI exporting functions include movie clip animations...

RE: Alcohol

At 12/12/06 02:16 PM, KaynSlamdyke wrote:

I'm teetotal. I've found better things to waste my money on.

Tell me more?

RE: Better Things

At 12/12/06 02:16 PM, KaynSlamdyke wrote: I'm teetotal. I've found better things to waste my money on.

At 12/12/06 02:19 PM, Kirk-Cocaine wrote: Tell me more?

Lets see... recent purchases are as follows (in pints costing the UK Average of £2.20 each)
- PS2 Repair (Estimate) = 22 Pints and a Packet of Crisps
- Animex 2007 Tickets. = 68 Pints
- Flash 8 = 220 Pints

And as part of my grand scheme I'm trying to save up to fund my masters degree next year. Teesside is giving £2400 to every student who signs up for thier £3700 MA / MSc courses (in the form of cutting the latter by the former). Then add to that essentials (like food, water, shelter, broadband) and a small slush fund for luxuries...

And I think I'll do without the fifteen hundred pints for now.

We got quite a bit of snow last week. probably like, 5 inches? I dunno, main point is, it's gone now... :( I talked a lot of hype about making a snowman, but I fail...

Ambitious Project or Personal Laziness?

Anytime I have something due I wait till I can't possibly start any later. Sometimes, I don't even have an idea of what I'm doing to do for the project. At this point I've had many stressful hours to get a vague idea of what I am going to do and have decided. The assignment is to come up with an alphabet, not necessarily traditional, which does not need to be even readable just ascetically pleasing. Once I've established that, I need to find a way to present it tastefully some how. Having little to no means to find materials I have decided to make a tome that will have my letters in it. The cover will be cardboard, from a box, wrapped in black construction paper, perhaps with napkins stuffed inside to give it depths, and pages made of white construction paper. To avoid having to put in many pages, I will likely just put two pages on top and put more cardboard underneath so it has that generic open book look.
I have a feeling that it may turn out awful. Or I won't have enough time to do a good job...comments?

Re:Alcohol

At 12/12/06 05:27 PM, ShortMonkey wrote: -Bourbon and coke

My friend made one of those for herself with my dad's bourbon (when I invited people over to help raid his liquor cabinet while my parents were away) and I ended up finishing it, while still drinking a beer, after everyone left...quote good.

-Beer (unless its very hot)

Ew. Hot beer!? Beer is an acquired taste, not for younglings. Sadly, most people my age don't appreciate good beer. They drink all the cheap shit like Budweiser, Coors, Miller, and the like. I'll drink that shit when its free or I'm desperate, meaning damn near always, but give me a yuengling any day.

At 12/12/06 12:16 PM, Kirk-Cocaine wrote: RE: Flash forum awards

At 12/12/06 12:08 PM, Cybex wrote:

Around this time last year, authorblues made a flash forum awards thread. I think someone should start this up agan.

You win the award for "User living under a rock"

How is it that someone who's 'left' the flash forum knows more about it than me :(

This is what i get for doing 5 a levels and 15 hours a week at tescos.

RE: Awards

At 12/12/06 05:36 PM, Cybex wrote:

How is it that someone who's 'left' the flash forum knows more about it than me :(

Haha, because I brought up the awards back on page 179 which promted AB to make the awards thread. ;)

aww how cute :3
http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/g3/bells.h tm

At 12/12/06 06:34 PM, ShirtTurtle wrote: Beer wise, i like dutch and german beers.
Anything of any less quality, i just cant drink.
I love coke and rum.
Delish.

RE: alcohol

You're 14. Do they not have drinking restrictions in Australia?