At 5/21/07 10:31 PM, Luis wrote:
Lack of Moto

I think lack of motivation is natural, sometimes you just go on a dry spell and its normal.
Two years though is kind of concerning... i think maybe you've done worthwhile things they just dont register on your radar and you just beat yourself up about it unjustly.
I think you should look at it from a more positive point of view... I find that talking to other artists and sort of taking interests in the stuff others are doing are a good way to get my mojo going again... the hardest thing for me is rebounding from my last movie... i find it so hard to get myself back in productive mode. Right now I'm trying to devise an interesting collab, i see a shitload going on right now, and they are just not that great. I really want to get something interesting and refreshing going on. Was talking to AloneInthedark the other day and he had some really cool ideas for a collab, so you see just mingling with other artists is very therapeutic.

Maybe... I've done a few parts for collabs and I've been doing some digital artwork, but I haven't really taken hold of a paintbrush or really bit in any of my floating Flash projects for ages. I don't know, I'm hoping that getting out of Central New York and living in Denver for awhile might help me out, so that's my plan, for now...

If I do part for the next sketchbook tour (if there is one) I'll have done so in a different city each time. =P

So how is AITD? He hasn't posted, that I am aware of, in quite awhile. I miss a lot of the NGAST regulars that have dissapeared. Particularly I miss AGH, I used to talk to her quite a bit and she inspired a few pieces of art out of me, ones that I'm actually proud of and then she seemed to fall off the face of the Earth. I hope nothing bad happened. =\

Photoshop Coloring

Anybody know of any good tips/tutorials on coloring in photoshop?

Re:Photoshop Coloring

At 5/21/07 11:52 PM, Masterswordman wrote: Photoshop Coloring

Anybody know of any good tips/tutorials on coloring in photoshop?

Well firstly whatever you are colouring in, set it to multiply or one of the other blend modes. Id say multiply for now, then pick another later if you like.

Someone here (i think) linked to this a day or two ago, but I really cant remember who sorry. Colouring the bling King in Photoshop. Sowwi to steal your thunder whoever linked it. :/

And btw, dont be afraid to make a new thread rather than posting here, we could have a grandé discussion on colouring rather than a couple of puny posts washed under here. :)

4K Posts
Ohh yeah baby :D

At 5/22/07 08:07 AM, Vengeance wrote: 4K Posts
Ohh yeah baby :D

I feel obliged to congratulate you because you were the only one to do the same for me on my 1k posts. But this brings up a topic I am interested to know your opinions' on.

Bench Mark Post Counts
Why does everyone celebrate all the thousands post counts? I mean to me it doesn't seem like anything more than a number next to my name that really means very little to anyone I should think. It's just like any other number of posts except it's more rounded, do you guys really feel any different reaching 1000 or 2000 or 3000 etc posts? Does it make you feel like you are better than everyone else.

Don't get the wrong opinion I am not trying to hang shit on anyone, I am just curious to know.

At 5/22/07 10:31 AM, BritishMoose wrote:

At 5/22/07 08:27 AM, Fion wrote: It's just like any other number of posts except it's more rounded, do you guys really feel any different reaching 1000 or 2000 or 3000 etc posts?

Say that to Kirk.

Haha! I was about to go on a rant before I saw your post :P Anyways if you look back at the LUL I only celebrated 4444, 5555, 6666, etc posts. It's only worth celebrating them and the 10,000's

20,000 and 22,222 are so far away though. =(

Also stats are important. ­ ­ ­ ;)

Stats

Its similar to a celebrating birthdays. Birthdays are just a landmark telling us how old we've been, , and posts are just showing how long we've been here. My rule is, if its a good Reg/Member, nice to have them still posting, if its an attention whore whos looking for another stat, its not wroth it.

+1.

Also, happy 4K vengeance :).

Stats

Post count is perhaps the third most important stat next to Level and B.A. It not only shows longevity with the site, but also experience and respect. You're more prone to accept being flamed by a 5,000+ poster than you are to someone at 50 posts. And if you look at Luis, if it weren't for his sign-up date, BA and Post count, people would automatically see him as a n00b because of his low level. Stats are really a powerful means of identifying a user which in turn does grant it a certain amount of importance. So no, maybe not celebrating every thousandth, but celebrating what you feel is significant. I only really felt proud when i realized I hit 4,000. I've never posted that much on any forum, so of course it was to me like, wow, 4,000! And anyways it's up to preference. If you don't want to celebrate stats you don't have to. It's not obligated like anniversaries >:(

Stats

I don't like stats. They tend to give rank to those who don't really deserve it. People try to post on the Flash forum and then get nasty replies, because they just created their account today or posted for the first time.

I guess I don't hate stats so much, but really, the ego and crap people have to put up with.

Stats

Thinking that stats reflect anything other than how long a person have been on a site and how commited they are to the site, is totally bogus. A persons maturity and intelligence are definately NOT reflected in those numbers. I'd rather take advice from someone who is familliar with whatever I need help on than someone who sits around and posts in a forum all day long.

People with higher post counts get away with a lot of shit that n00bs would get in trouble for simply because they have more posts, like having a high post count is a licensee to act irresponsibly.

Stats
I don't care to much about stats, which explains my low level and post count, I normally only post in 'help threads' and such.

Electric-Freak
I was looking at my sig and I realised I haven't seen Electric-Freak for a long while (he made my sig). Is he still around (did he change his name or something)? Or did he leave as well?

Dynamic Gameplay

I really don't like GTA. And I equally dislike Oblivion. Is there something wrong with me? For whatever reason I can't wrap my head around dynamic, open ended gameplay. I need my scripted, triggered, events and linear gameplay. I'm gay aren't I?

:'(

Re:Photoshop Coloring

At 5/22/07 07:41 AM, Mogly wrote: Someone here (i think) linked to this a day or two ago, but I really cant remember who sorry. Colouring the bling King in Photoshop. Sowwi to steal your thunder whoever linked it. :/

It was ME! kekeke X3

Stats

Fuck 'em. Levels mean that you care enough to donate your points like EVERY DAY, Posting means you spend too much time on the forums (ex. ZeroAsALimit), and then your Blam/Saves means you spend too much time in the portal voting on useless shit.

Like BMK said, levels and post counts don't reflect anything. Luis is a level 1, has a shit load of good advice, a good amount of posts, and some great moves. Pimp is level 30, has almost no posts, and no movies. Then you have the more average, non-mod users, like Me, who have lower post counts, moderate levels, and a decent amount of advice.

Re: Stats
Doesn't really matter too much.
Theres always some way of telling how mature or respected a user is.
I obviously don't care about post count.

If anything, obviously sign up date shows how long you've been here, not post count.

Stats!

In the end stats don't matter, however they do pose as a social enhancement. With a higher post count I am expected to know something about posting on the BBS, and especially with level people know for sure I've been here for a while and I am mildly dedicated. Thus those stats enhance peoples views on posts automatically. Take for example a suit, a man wearing a nice suit is more repectable then one wearing jeans and a tank top. The suit says he has paid more money thus he has more money and is worth more to society. Or why we are to respect our elders, these stats state that we in a way are elders and pertain more knowledge on the BBS, so nooblets come to us seeking answers. However as I may be inclined here to recite a piece from spiderman "with great power comes great responsibility" and some of these elders here on newgrounds can abuse the nooblets and thus flaming comes in.

Ultimately, stats assertain no real value, however they allocate and social enhancement to improve peoples first reaction to you.

At 5/22/07 03:22 PM, pixelz wrote:

Stats!

Ultimately, stats assertain no real value, however they allocate and social enhancement to improve peoples first reaction to you.

Why is everyone getting so philisophical about stats...?

SPidERmaN 3

If this was already brought up then go shove your head in the ground. The new spiderman took on a funnier side than the others. The beginning with Jameson was hilarious and other parts tried to be funny, the only funny part I didn't really like was the walking around town to the music...cause that's just unrealistic. And the action was also completely awesome, the chase scene in the beginning was so great. Someone said they thought it was too choppy but I thought it was pretty easy to follow, considering the manuvers. And it had a romantic side, which was whatever.

So I thought it was a good movie, other people I know said it wasn't and I told them they were dumb.

SPidERmaN 3

At 5/22/07 03:37 PM, Coaly wrote: So I thought it was a good movie, other people I know said it wasn't and I told them they were dumb.

Except that Peter cried 11 times. And that they completely neglected Venom.

I'm a philosopher by nature, as we all are. The human mind thirsts for knowledge and when it can't eat, it eats itself causing you to think up things. Immagination!!!

Spider-Man Trois (french for 3)

I thought the whole walking around with the music and mackin on the ladies was hilarious, especially when he came out of the store and did a pelvic thrust!

At 5/22/07 04:18 PM, pixelz wrote: I thought the whole walking around with the music and mackin on the ladies was hilarious, especially when he came out of the store and did a pelvic thrust!

At that moment, I seriously just wanted to die.
Funniest moment was "Where do these guys come from?" <pours sand from his boot>

At 5/22/07 04:29 PM, TheHappySheep wrote:

At 5/22/07 04:18 PM, pixelz wrote: I thought the whole walking around with the music and mackin on the ladies was hilarious, especially when he came out of the store and did a pelvic thrust!

At that moment, I seriously just wanted to die.
Funniest moment was "Where do these guys come from?" <pours sand from his boot>

Aw man how can you not enjoy spiderman mackin on any female that moves! His hand gestures were so awsome too, like they were executed so perfectly and in perfect form!

Venom seriously wasn't given any justice in the movie though, he deserved his own entire movie and heck he could've been in 2 movies and that'd be cool.

At 5/22/07 04:36 PM, pixelz wrote: Venom seriously wasn't given any justice in the movie though, he deserved his own entire movie and heck he could've been in 2 movies and that'd be cool.

Agree. He is too awesome to be destroyed, hope he returns, tho i wonder how they will mak ehim return, because in the cartoon he firstly arrives sticking to a spaceship and returns as a meteotite that fell from the sky... so if in the movie he came as a meteorite.. maybe he returns sticking to a spaceship =D..... i guess he didn't appear much because the whole movie was how venom started and spidey being emo...

It would be really hard to bring Venom back into the movie. Because A: The space ship he came on was that of the Fantastic Four's space ship and B: Spiderman blew him up in the movie. You just can't live after being blown up...

I'd have to say thats a huge dissapointment and a big mistake they've done, venom has always been one of the coolest villians EVER and he doesn't even get his own movie...

See, they spent too much time with that gay prancing around the streets as an emo and not enough time making venom as awesome as he could have been.

I hate ignorant mother fuckers

So this little assclown, Brycearoni i, made a thread asking people to beta test his game.

So I did. Honestly, I saw the 46x46 gif, and I knew that the game was most likely going to be horrible.

Guess what? I was right.

So I left him the C&C, just like he asked.

At 5/21/07 10:14 PM, Radioactive24 wrote: Not very good I'm afraid.

choppy movement, bad graphics, and in general, shitty gameplay as well as bad story.

Sounds fair enough, right?

Well, today I check my inbox only to find that this little shit muncher sent me a message entitled "wow, thanks let me see you do bettr" (quoted for supreme justice). The contents were as follows:

At 5/21/07 10:26 PM, Brycearoni wrote: wow, thanks let me see you do bettr

ELL EMM EFF AY OH (or EAUX French speaking people)

I seriously laughed. Then I sent him back a fiery PM telling him, amongst other things, to

1. Go fuck himself
2. That he wanted people's opinions and that what I fucking gave him
3. His game was, in fact, shit
4. I have movies in the portal and awards
5. I'm making a game for the Rock Out contest which will own the fuck out of his shitty little wanna-be cool OMFGIMANINJALETSGOKILLPEOPLE game.
6. He needs to hit puberty.

The only thing that kept me from killing him was Sonx's not-so-subtle sexual propositions for penance and use of my Sin City DVD.

I fucking hate 12 year olds. And I fucking hate Ignorant people. And I fucking hate ignorant 12 year olds who think that the internet really gives a fuck about they're shitty games and then they get defensive when someone calls their "hard wark" a complete pile of shit that I would rather eat (or fellate) rather than ever play again.

Fucking N00bs.

n00bs

At 5/22/07 05:44 PM, Radioactive24 wrote: Fucking N00bs.

the worst are the one's who post threads asking for people to help them by doing the animation,art,sound,AS and everythign ... *sigh*

if only it was possible to punch people through the internet...

Snox is angrery!

Yeah, they ask for opinions and even if your polite they get testy and start swearing away at you. I think the problem is that they haven't hit puberty and thus are angry that they're not men like I am!

At 5/22/07 05:56 PM, pixelz wrote: Snox is angrery!

Yeah, they ask for opinions and even if your polite they get testy and start swearing away at you. I think the problem is that they haven't hit puberty and thus are angry that they're not men like I am!

Ummmm... who's "Snox"...

And as far as I know, I was the angry one. Sonx was just agreeing with me.

Perplexing Problem

So, I've been going out with my gf for roughhly 2 months and I do love her (which is quite rare, seeing as I have a whole slew of trust, closeness, and communication issues, not to mention saying "I love you", which I have said to her.) and she loves me. But that's not the problem.

I've had a crush on this girl in my German class since the beginning of the year. I'm shit at communication, let alone with girls, so I haven't really tried. But in the last 2weeks or so, we had our seats re-arranged, and of course, I end up sitting right next to her. So, we've been talking and getting to know each other and I FUCKING LIKE HER AGAIN >.<

I really love my gf, but I barely see her and I'm really tired of jerking off (at least by myself). I'm not going to get to see my gf for another 2 weeks.

So what is your standing Ng, what do you think of my shitty predicament?

Post 7777

Since we are on about stats.. this post is post 7777.. therfore it is awesome..

so i'd like to take this otime to say..

its LORD SONX!!!

not lord sonics, not lord snox and never lordy sonxy!

Advice

At 5/22/07 06:07 PM, Radioactive24 wrote: So what is your standing Ng, what do you think of my shitty predicament?

3some...

At 5/22/07 06:07 PM, Radioactive24 wrote: I really love my gf, but I barely see her and I'm really tired of jerking off (at least by myself). I'm not going to get to see my gf for another 2 weeks.

I say jerk off for another two weeks.. switch technique hump your pillow or whatever... i hate people who cheat on others... its almost as bad as stealing from friends which i actually found more repulsive than anything in the world.

Anyway lack of sex is no excuse to cheat on someone...

Nothing like a Handy in a closet

Because its the internet I have to say you should go for it, but since I'm not an idiot, don't. Not really worth ruining a relationship that could last a while by listening to your head that's closest to the ground

And with anyone knew always use the famous Family Guy compliment sandwhich, other wise they just throw bitch fits.

Finished my history term paper which I put off way to much so a huge weight is off my shoulders in terms of school, It's C work but my world civ teacher loves me so I'll get a B- to B on it, which I'm totally find with.

Time to do a one night English paper, see you guys in twelve hours. =P

I feel I'm late in the game on this but I'm just starting to watch stuff on youtube, like shovelhead and unforgiveable, i never found them funny until now.