At 1 hour ago, PrettyMuchBryce wrote: I have one gripe with the new layout.
Blue = Information I'm most likely interested in
Red = Information I probably don't care about most of the time.

Yeah... but your user icon is a frying pan with breakfast still in it so...

At 4 hours ago, Blaze wrote:

At 34 minutes ago, Rudy wrote: 2005 reg here.... Hai again. I always pop up and disappear... Maybe I should stick around? I want to do a collab. Who wants in? :)

Oh, I think I remember you still.

I'm down. I'd like to get back to animating.

Alright. Let's get some animating and ideas going then. It's been quite sometime now.

At 11 hours ago, Rudy wrote: 2005 reg here.... Hai again. I always pop up and disappear... Maybe I should stick around? I want to do a collab. Who wants in? :)

Collabs are soooo 2006. Also, hi.

At 11 hours ago, BoMToons wrote: Yeah... but your user icon is a frying pan with breakfast still in it so...

Retweet.

At 11 minutes ago, Kool-Aid wrote:

At 11 hours ago, BoMToons wrote: Yeah... but your user icon is a frying pan with breakfast still in it so...

Retweet.

I think my one observation so far is that the backgrounds are really distracting in some parts. Like on the frontpage where you have so many thumbnails already its like an eyeful. My poor beautiful brown eyes.

At 26 minutes ago, Luis wrote: I think my one observation so far is that the backgrounds are really distracting in some parts. Like on the frontpage where you have so many thumbnails already its like an eyeful. My poor beautiful brown eyes.

Yeah, I just posted the exact same thing in the redesign thread: It would be nice if we could turn off the background art. It looks cool for a couple of hours, and I'm sure lots of people here have fapped to it, but its too uneasy to the eyes imo. And every time I go on NG to do some semi-serious work I feel like I ended up on a site for 13-year olds. Which maybe NG is, I don't know. Anyway, it's even more awkward now when I surf NG when I'm at uni/work.

Being able to turn the background art off is pretty high on my list of redesign things that could be tweaked.

At 6 hours ago, Josh-B wrote:

At 11 hours ago, Rudy wrote: 2005 reg here.... Hai again. I always pop up and disappear... Maybe I should stick around? I want to do a collab. Who wants in? :)

Collabs are soooo 2006. Also, hi.

Can 2012 be the next 2006? Collabs were fun.

At 41 minutes ago, Blaze wrote:

At 6 hours ago, Josh-B wrote:

At 11 hours ago, Rudy wrote: 2005 reg here.... Hai again. I always pop up and disappear... Maybe I should stick around? I want to do a collab. Who wants in? :)

Collabs are soooo 2006. Also, hi.

Can 2012 be the next 2006? Collabs were fun.

Hey man wanna make a game its called not so merry and its about santa :)

At 11 minutes ago, Sam wrote: Hey man wanna make a game its called not so merry and its about santa :)

I'm having a strange case of the dejavú :)
Isn't it a little early for christmas, though?

At 7 hours ago, Blaze wrote:

At 6 hours ago, Josh-B wrote:

At 11 hours ago, Rudy wrote: 2005 reg here.... Hai again. I always pop up and disappear... Maybe I should stick around? I want to do a collab. Who wants in? :)

Collabs are soooo 2006. Also, hi.

Can 2012 be the next 2006? Collabs were fun.

I say we do it. Let's bring collabs back! I wanted to do a time trial to get back into the groove of things. I haven't done a collab in ages!

At 9 hours ago, Xeptic wrote: Being able to turn the background art off is pretty high on my list of redesign things that could be tweaked.

Or at least randomize the artwork or something. I was already sick before of Egoraptor's pseudo-anime chick-oriented artwork.

Although I like how it works with the overall color scheme of each of the areas of the site. Maybe hold a contest for people to make monochromatic art for each of the backgrounds? Then it would rotate through the options and when they get sick of it, hold a new contest.

At 8 hours ago, Josh-B wrote: Or at least randomize the artwork or something. I was already sick before of Egoraptor's pseudo-anime chick-oriented artwork.

Although I like how it works with the overall color scheme of each of the areas of the site. Maybe hold a contest for people to make monochromatic art for each of the backgrounds? Then it would rotate through the options and when they get sick of it, hold a new contest.

I think it'd be better if the staff just changed the background art maybe once or twice a week, to feature other artists' work. So that, just like how your art may get frontpaged, it may also get "backgrounded", acting as another venue to feature talented peoples' work, and another reason to show off the slogan "Everything by Everyone".

Large up the '07 crew.

Everything's all shiny, I want to lick it.

At 5 hours ago, RyanPridgeon wrote: Large up the '07 crew.

Everything's all shiny, I want to lick it.

Something I was thinking on my way back to philadelphia was to try out ideas i've always had for animation collabs but instead use em in a game context. Like one idea of a pass-my-flash i want/wanted to do is make a cartoon using unusual audio genres in the audio portal. So like in a game environment what might be cool is to randomly be assigned something from the other genre (itd have to be an actual song of course, not like a 3 second loop or something) and like youd have to use that song to inspire a 3/4 day game. So like youre working backwards in essence. Usually the music is the very last step in making a game, but in this case itd be the driving force. Like some of the genres in the Other category, are Funk / Goth / Latin / Ska

I dunno it might be a stupid idea but it might also be kind of cool to be thrown a curveball atleast in having to use a music genre thats possibly pretty foreign to you.

Thoughts?

At 10 minutes ago, Luis wrote: So like youre working backwards in essence.

This is pretty forwards for me :)

Thoughts?

I am down. Making a game in a day is a good time frame. Would we pair artists and programmers ? Would they get to choose their own song? So that song inspires both the game and the artwork? I would like to hear what other devs think about this idea.

At 17 minutes ago, Luis wrote: stuff that sounds cool

That's a pretty cool idea. Only thing is that certain genres of music make my ears bleed, and very few people like loud-ass heavy metal while they're playing a game. Could work in theory; the results would be pretty neat to play, I'd bet.

We finally got to conditionals and iteration in MATLAB class. Free at last to do as I please :)
I also learned that we have game design, AI, etc classes in the later years, so I might take Java next semester to start heading towards those while also picking up a minor in CS.

At 55 minutes ago, MSGhero wrote:

At 17 minutes ago, Luis wrote: stuff that sounds cool

That's a pretty cool idea. Only thing is that certain genres of music make my ears bleed, and very few people like loud-ass heavy metal while they're playing a game. Could work in theory; the results would be pretty neat to play, I'd bet.

True. Maybe we could first find a 'pool' of songs and then just randomize the team to a song based on the pool. As for the actual teams, i dunno. I guess it depends on who all is interested. In a perfect world everyone would magically have a team come together.

Something else on my mind was, what if... we collated the jams. I guess it depends on how many possible teams there actually are, but i never liked the idea of everyone bumping heads in the portal, so i was thinking about the idea of like ok my team does the challenge from Feb x-x, and then team 2 is x-x and team 3 x-x... the idea being that we are able to release shit on different days and you can have the focus of the whole lounge in giving you feedback and support?

I'm thinking out loud here so feel free to shoot me down.

At 17 minutes ago, Luis wrote: stuff that sounds cool

forgot to logout of my alt...

At 2 days ago, Blaze wrote:

At 13 minutes ago, Kool-Aid wrote: I remember you, DarkFireBlaze...

My old name was Blackfang

Oh snap, I remember you too. How sweet, you even remember my old username.

How times change, eh?

Wait... we can change our usernames??

At 22 minutes ago, DannyDaNinja wrote:

At 2 days ago, Blaze wrote:

At 13 minutes ago, Kool-Aid wrote: I remember you, DarkFireBlaze...

My old name was Blackfang

Oh snap, I remember you too. How sweet, you even remember my old username.

How times change, eh?

Wait... we can change our usernames??

Sorta, some of the admins can do it. Its unfortunate when people rename themselves into popular powdered sugar drinks tho.

Wow, haven't been here for a while, recognise some names still, though i wasn't that much of a regular.

Luis' idea sounds good, I would happily join up.

On a semi related note, whens the next game jam? I tried to look it up on the calendar but couldn't find one in the next two months, I thought they were meant to be happening every month or something?

Also I need a coder? :)
http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1293109

At 1 hour ago, Luis wrote:

Wait... we can change our usernames??

Sorta, some of the admins can do it. Its unfortunate when people rename themselves into popular powdered sugar drinks tho.

Lol low blow Luis, low blow.

In my mind newgrounds only just got the last redesign! Looks so different now.

Anyway, came here because I recognised glaiel from a reddit post. I was like hey... he's on newgrounds! And now I'm here and it's all weird now.

At 2 days ago, crushy wrote: In my mind newgrounds only just got the last redesign! Looks so different now.

Anyway, came here because I recognised glaiel from a reddit post. I was like hey... he's on newgrounds! And now I'm here and it's all weird now.

That reddit post creeps me out. I've had 400,000 views on a flash submission... but not on a photograph of me

the new emotes are kool (aid) too

At 5 minutes ago, Starogre wrote: That reddit post creeps me out. I've had 400,000 views on a flash submission... but not on a photograph of me

the new emotes are kool (aid) too

That single 960x450 image contains one hundred..thousand dollars.

Someone needs to create a song where the lyrics are maybe one or two pages of the reg lounge talks, and then the animators among us can animate stuff to it.

Holy crap its been forever.

Anyone remember this?

"Duder with his mullet
Without he looks like Rick Astley"

I haven't a clue why - it's especially odd as I'm sober too, so being high is no excuse but, I was listening to old favs from the audio portal and when I heard the Rick Astley line I looked at my current facebook pics and that of Astley to much shock.

And I miss this place. I plan to try to pop by every now and then.

At 9 hours ago, TheCriminalDuder wrote: Holy crap its been forever.

Anyone remember this?

"Duder with his mullet
Without he looks like Rick Astley"

I haven't a clue why - it's especially odd as I'm sober too, so being high is no excuse but, I was listening to old favs from the audio portal and when I heard the Rick Astley line I looked at my current facebook pics and that of Astley to much shock.

And I miss this place. I plan to try to pop by every now and then.

Fuck man, it's been a long time. I used to come here all the time before the forums were broken down with the inclusion of the Animation board. Eventually I migrated to Animation and then just generally left the site as a whole. That was in my old account. I don't know why I decided to come here again today, but I can still recognize a lot of signatures and usernames. This is actually my first time posting in the Forums in forever. Wow, there are a lot of new Response Moods.

TO ALL FLASH ANIMATORS:

-My freind and I have made an animating website where you can upload and comment animations. Please join.

http://newshapeshifter.webs.com/

At 13 hours ago, hashbrown wrote: I still remember you dont worry

Oh man Hash, it's been a while.
I remember when we were drawing pictures of regs and I drew you as a brown hash symbol. Good times, good times.

I ended up spending about half of the time posting this message on choosing a response mood, yet I still go for an old one