Song of the week

I was thinking about something, and do you guys think it would be cool to have a weekly song download contributed by one of the regs? Like I'll just make a link and replace it every week with a song that someone gives to me. Why? Well i love expanding my music playlist and being open minded about music actually really gets your mojo going creatively so in an abstract way it IS flash related? yay? nay? maybay?
We can just start up a queue list of the people involved and each monday or whatever it will be whoever is on the list turn to contribute a song for the week.. at the end of the week the next person would send their song over to me ill host THAT for the week etc etc... it maybe something to look forward to for once on this thread...

-L

At 4/3/07 08:55 PM, Luis wrote: Song of the week

Sounds like a good idea. Music is a great motivator and listening to different music could spark some new idea's. I support it.

Song of the Week

I love mixing and matching music with my friends, it's interesting to see what different people are into - it's usually stuff I can't imagine them listening to at all. Lord knows I've got loads of music to share so I think it'd be pretty cool if we got a little swap going or something.

At 4/3/07 09:14 PM, BritishMoose wrote:

At 4/3/07 08:55 PM, Luis wrote: Song of the week

What happened to the animator's challenge of the week?

Yeah

And the song of the week sounds good, would this be in a thread of its own then? I assume it would be, don't know why I asked.

At 4/3/07 06:41 PM, jmtb02 wrote: TV
Do you think it desensitizes you to normal life? Do you feel like normal life is too blah now that the mass media is so... mass media?

I think life would be a whole lot different without tv, for sure. People might get things done and live happier and not constantly be subjected to violence, stupid humor, and ads. As far as desensitization, I'm not so sure, I mean if I saw someone kill themselves in real life, or someone get shot, or beat, or something like that, which is actually pretty common to tv, I think it'd still be horrific...if that's what you meant.

Tv

funny that its brought up, earlier today i had my nephew at my house and he was bugging me if he could play my gears of war.. and i told him its not rated for kids his age (hes 7) and to that he responded, so what my mom lets me play rated t games and rated m... i played halo 2 and my mom says its ok.. you have this sniper rifle and this sword and you chop these guys heads off.. lol i found that mildly amusing. I actually think game ratings are bullshit but at the same time you have to sort of think of kids these days and how lifelike games are... back when i was a kid it was shit like mario and zelda which were so fantasy driven that it never even dawned on me to apply it to life.. these days you have stuff like Bully and other games where rather than jumping on goomba's your out trying to get some pussy.

Song of the Week

I'm having some trouble understanding this. So the song would be for inspiration purposes not use in a flash? I thought you were suggesting everyone supplied a song to be used in a flash, like something they made...which seems pretty tough when I'd say most people don't have that kind of ability.

Anyway, it doesn't seem like a half bad idea. But if everyone is just sharing songs they like it sounds like a lot of shitty songs. I mean just look at "pop music". It's all crap.

At 4/3/07 10:02 PM, MethodMinus wrote: Anyway, it doesn't seem like a half bad idea. But if everyone is just sharing songs they like it sounds like a lot of shitty songs. I mean just look at "pop music". It's all crap.

What you might think is crap, someone else might think is good. Also, nobody is forcing you to download it, set it to repeat and listen to it nonstop for the rest of the week. If you don't like it, delete it from your computer and continue listening to what you were listening to before.

Yeah, but pop music has done some pretty nasty things to classic songs. Like, I start looking around for songs like "Mr. Lonely," and I get about 100 results for the Rap Akon version, and 2 for the Bobby Vinton original. Plus, all of it is kinda monotonous. Sex, Drugs, Killing... All I hear from that crap.

At 4/3/07 10:14 PM, Vengeance wrote: What you might think is crap, someone else might think is good.

Doesn't make it any less crappy. I'd feel obliged to educate the less informed on what good music truly is.

At 4/3/07 10:32 PM, MethodMinus wrote: Doesn't make it any less crappy. I'd feel obliged to educate the less informed on what good music truly is.

Music is a completely opinionated topic. What you might think is good music is most likely completely different to what I think is good music.
Anyway, take a look in most of the flash regs profiles, we really don't listen to pop music.

At 4/3/07 10:00 PM, Luis wrote: Tv
found that mildly amusing. I actually think game ratings are bullshit but at the same time you have to sort of think of kids these days and how lifelike games are... back when i was a kid it was shit like mario and zelda which were so fantasy driven that it never even dawned on me to apply it to life.. these days you have stuff like Bully and other games where rather than jumping on goomba's your out trying to get some pussy.

Yeah it's wierd how games are getting more and more into "real life." Like gta and bully, and even the sims(though its not a bad influence. Older games were all about just fantasy. Zelda, Mario, Starfox. And as games become more and more lifelike, it seems more and more immoral for 10 year olds to be blowing people's heads off. But then there's the other side of me that says what the hell its fun.

well the new thread is up... it'll change every tuesday.. some tuesdays youll love it some you wont but thats life.

-L

At 4/3/07 10:42 PM, Luis wrote: well the new thread is up... it'll change every tuesday.. some tuesdays youll love it some you wont but thats life.

-L

Oh hey I just had a completely awesome idea! You know what else would be good to do weekly?

...and animation challenge. I know you put them on hold, but come on please, they're fun and not that hard to make.

TV

At 4/3/07 06:41 PM, jmtb02 wrote: Do you think it desensitizes you to normal life? Do you feel like normal life is too blah now that the mass media is so... mass media?

YES! I don't have cable in my house anymore. I feel that too many people put too much time into their tv's.

At 4/3/07 07:25 PM, MethodMinus wrote: In Russia

At 4/3/07 05:02 PM, DonutMaster wrote: First time I ever saw it was on family guy, "In Soviet Russia, car drives you!"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Soviet_Russia

No. I knew it was a parody of Yakov Smirnoff. But I know I've heard "In Russia rocket rides you" from somewhere specifically.

Perhaps from the Super Soviet Missile Mastar game that is part of AH or something?

At 4/3/07 10:54 PM, BritishMoose wrote: New Cartoon

I'm not whoring it off or anything, but check out my new cartoon (it's right here) .

Quite a few regs are in the special thanks :)

Haha, the last oine is by far the best. Great job.

At 4/3/07 10:54 PM, BritishMoose wrote: New Cartoon

I'm not whoring it off or anything, but check out my new cartoon (it's right here) .

RE: New Cartoon

Lol. Seriously, I enjoyed myself while watching that and actually laughed.

I never laugh.

:(

Mona Lisa in MS Paint

At first I thought it was going to be some joke, but this is awesome.

Go Watch it

Its just amazing to see ms paint used to its full potential.

Games

At 4/3/07 10:00 PM, Luis wrote: these days you have stuff like Bully and other games where rather than jumping on goomba's your out trying to get some pussy.

Well it certainly isn't what the media was making it out to be, Bully that is. If anything, I think Bully would be a positive influence on kids, not that kids should even be playing it. Though whether they should or shouldn't they do. You'll notice most posts having to do with GTA are swarming with 12-14 year olds.

At least with Bully the under lying message is fight the system, or something along those lines. Think for yourself, go against cliques. All good messages. And if some pasty face kid decides that he should get his ass off the couch and start chasing some tail then all the better.

At 4/3/07 10:41 PM, Coaly wrote: Yeah it's wierd how games are getting more and more into "real life." Like gta and bully, and even the sims(though its not a bad influence.

First, you never closed your parenthesis, for shame. Second, it's not the games that influence the player it is the other way around. These games only puts the power in your hands. For me, if I got bored trying to get my Sims to climb the corporate ladder I would make them have dramatic lesbian love affairs(that heart-shape bed left little to the imagination) and sometimes I would have my Sims commit suicide(sometimes murder and suicide).

Yielding any responsibility to the video games is pretty much like agreeing with Hilary and the other political nuts. Anything to take the responsibility away from the parents. It is the parents job to regulate what their kids see, or at least develop them into stable human beings who can handle these concepts. GTA did not invent the idea of killing hookers and stealing their money(which for some reason the media will focus on) they just put the power in your hands to do so.

At 4/3/07 11:44 PM, MethodMinus wrote:

At 4/3/07 10:41 PM, Coaly wrote: Yeah it's wierd how games are getting more and more into "real life." Like gta and bully, and even the sims(though its not a bad influence.

First, you never closed your parenthesis, for shame.

Are you that grammar freak I remember from previous threads? Its retarded to correct grammar on a forum, especially the newgrounds bbs.

Second, it's not the games that influence the player it is the other way around.

I think its a combination of both. I mean little ass of a kid would love to beat kids with a bat in bully, but wouldn't it at least put the idea, the image, the feel into the head of any kid that did it in a game? Yes, the answer is yes.

Da Vinci in Drag

At 4/4/07 12:05 AM, ShirtTurtle wrote: wow...
my hats off to the artist.
He used a very different technique in paint. lots of layers.
interesting....

I wasn't too impressed. People will talk about MSPaint like it's completely awful but once you get used to it, with a steady hand, you can do just about as much as any other problem, it's just a hassle.

Remind me of AGH and he crazy layered flash paintings. With a good eye and enough time on your hands these things are not hard to make.

At 4/4/07 12:16 AM, Coaly wrote: Are you that grammar freak I remember from previous threads? Its retarded to correct grammar on a forum, especially the newgrounds bbs.

I don't think so. If you wouldn't tell from my "for shame" I was being very light-hearted. Besides, parenthesis are punctuation not grammar.

I think its a combination of both. I mean little ass of a kid would love to beat kids with a bat in bully, but wouldn't it at least put the idea, the image, the feel into the head of any kid that did it in a game? Yes, the answer is yes.

Now this is where I would school you on grammar. Half of that is one very hard to understand sentence. I have next to no idea what you're trying to say. All I can say is that you can't come out and say "this is how it is and that's all there is to it". You just come off as either ignorant or arrogant. Even if you busted out a list of source material you can't really say something anything is for sure. I would analyze the rest of your statement if I had any idea about what you were getting at.

At 4/4/07 12:17 AM, MethodMinus wrote: Da Vinci in Drag
I wasn't too impressed

Come on, I don't even believe you weren't impressed.

With a good eye and enough time on your hands these things are not hard to make.

...yeah so he has a good eye and he took two and a half hours to make an awesome replica of the mona lisa...in MS paint, which is notoriously a lacking program...that's impressive...

At 4/4/07 12:24 AM, MethodMinus wrote:

At 4/4/07 12:16 AM, Coaly wrote:

I think its a combination of both. A mean little kid would love to beat kids with a bat in the video game Bully (the person effecting the game), but wouldn't it at least put the idea, the image, or the feel into the head of any kid that did anything violent in a game(the game effecting the person)? Yes, the answer is yes.

there, is that more understandable?

All I can say is that you can't come out and say "this is how it is and that's all there is to it".

well I don't think that the statement that 'an image would be left in a child's brain of killing someone if that child did it in a video game' is disputable...

I would analyze the rest of your statement if I had any idea about what you were getting at.

Well feel free to not analyze anything I say, whether you get it or not.

At 4/4/07 12:34 AM, Coaly wrote:

At 4/4/07 12:24 AM, MethodMinus wrote:

At 4/4/07 12:16 AM, Coaly wrote:

I think its a combination of both. A mean little kid would love to beat kids with a bat in the video game Bully (the person effecting the game), but wouldn't it at least put the idea, the image, or the feel into the head of any kid that did anything violent in a game(the game effecting the person)? Yes, the answer is yes.

there, is that more understandable?

Sadly, not really. If I'm getting this right, you're saying a mean kid would love to beat kids with a bat in a game and the same kid who would love to do that only got the idea put in his head after playing the game. If he wanted to do it already then how was the idea put in his head by the game?

Either way, you're pretty much describing two different kids. Kid A is the kid who is already disturbed and gets off to infliction pain on others and vents his frustration with not being able to do so with video games. Then Kid B, who is sheltered and extremely impressionable who sees something in a video game that somehow scars his consciousness, which is ridiculous. It's not like he was playing Resident Evil 4 and sees Leon Kennedy get his head cut off. He controls the actions. If he didn't want to see a person get beat up with a bat, he could've run away...the player has the choice.

well I don't think that the statement that 'an image would be left in a child's brain of killing someone if that child did it in a video game' is disputable...

Everything is disputable. Now THAT'S a fact. I think that may be the fundamental problem with your arguments. I mean, I can only assume you are basing your assumption on your own personal experiences, which could be greatly different from another's.

Well feel free to not analyze anything I say, whether you get it or not.

Wouldn't make it much of a discussion. It's just friendly criticism. You're free to take it as a grain of salt.

At 4/4/07 01:01 AM, MethodMinus wrote: said a lot of stuff about what I said

but you still didn't understand what I said...
Any ordinary kid playing a video game and making someone hit another person with a baseball bat will have that image or feeling or whatever in his head.

I said

well I don't think that the statement that 'an image would be left in a child's brain of killing someone if that child did it in a video game' is disputable...

Everything is disputable. Now THAT'S a fact. I think that may be the fundamental problem with your arguments. I mean, I can only assume you are basing your assumption on your own personal experiences, which could be greatly different from another's.

If a child saw someone get killed in a game that image would be in his head. What part of that is disputable?

Well feel free to not analyze anything I say, whether you get it or not.

Wouldn't make it much of a discussion. It's just friendly criticism. You're free to take it as a grain of salt.

yeah I was going to delete that last line, cause its pretty mean, but i forgot and hit post.

My point is that violence children see in games stays with them, whether it makes them violent or to what degree i'm not going to try to comment on.

Just to back up Coaly, I haven't read this arguement or anything.

But watching someone do something, activates the same sensors in the brain as if you were actually doing it (I watch nova sometimes sue me)
Its why when you're with someone, and they watch basketball, they want to go play basketball.

They've basically been playing basketball in their head, and want to continue it this time through their muscles.
And like, if you watch first decent, you want to be up at the mountains, your brain has been doing what you've been watching.

This is also what makes people with autism so odd, they don't have this brain activity

So now I'm not saying that after a child kills someone in a videogame, they want to go kill someone, but they've had the activity in the brain that they've actually done it, leaving muscle memory and more than likely an image of it.

Holy shit I knew something relevant to a subject. Also if this is about cencorship I'm not down with that

At 4/4/07 12:55 AM, ShirtTurtle wrote: You will be dearly missed.
<3

Ahahaha, noob.
Also both you and vengeance have just leveled up, or at least i only just noticed vengeance. cause the day after he leveled up he went straight back down a level. Doncha hate it when you need 1 exp to level up?

At 4/4/07 05:54 AM, fuzz wrote: Doncha hate it when you need 1 exp to level up?

Yes :( I went to level 13, then down to 12 in a matter of 10 minutes. DAMN YOU PIMP! DAMN YOU!!!

I'm back to 13 now though :D