Epic News Posts

Anyone recently write any epic-news posts. I'm rather interested in reading. I just wrote like some fucking book. You guys should check it out, it's rather interesting. I plugged in a few artists that'd been interesting me recently. I'm trying to be as active as I can. So yeah.

At 9/12/07 08:58 PM, NextToNothing wrote: Dangerous hobbies

Snowboarding isn't TOO dangerous,

Tell that to Steve, my best friend who has broken almost 9 bones (cumulative) while snowboarding now.

used to be into cars... don't really know what happened with taht

Flash happened to that.

RE: Dangerous hobbies
oh boy...for about 2 months I was obsessed with fire.....than I burnt my finger with a match, and then my friend kicks a ball covered and lighter fluid lit on fire at me, then I almost lit his lawn on fire.... so I stopped playing with fire. :)

Re: Epic News Posts

Yours was nice to read, and I really enjoyed Metropolis Circuit as well.

Mine
isn't as much Epic, but a good read

Stick Animating....Hard?!?
I would say yes because I'm like 90% programmer 10%animator. I never really animated before so I decided to start out with sticks (like most people), to my surprise it's taken about 2 hours to get 4 seconds down. It's so freaking hard, I can't believe stick animators can make good animations like that.
What I got so far

Other Hobbies

Me? Do something besides animate/code/go on NG?
...
Bwahahahahahahaha!
You crack me up. :')

No, but seriously.... I don't do anything but go on NG, animate, and code shit I'm workin' on. Been like this for nearlty 10 months now. Mainly because I have no skill in anything really IRL.... Never been interested in anything other in flash, can't stand flippin' burgers, not a big fan of crowds, I'm a hermit I guess. All last summer I left my house and went outside only to bring the garbage to the curve. That's it... But hey before I did nothing but sit on my ass and animate & etc. all I ever did was smoke pot, do some other crap, and go out late at night to do some dealin'.

Since I started workin' with flash and comin' to NG my life I really think has changed for the better. I got actual goals, I'm being productive, layin' off the hard stuff, socializing with poeple, and think I've gained some actual sanity! ^^

Now I'm curious.... How has NG impacted you and your life?

Hobbies

Well, I used to wrestle and do track, but then I got lazy.

I did, however, recently fall in love with doing blind drawings. It's where you draw something, but instead of looking at the aper, you focus solely on the object you're drawing and you never look down at the paper until you think you're done. It's pretty cool when you're done, very abstract at times. :3

AFD6 Update

Not that any of you probably care, but i just took a huge shi... made a big update post in the thread.

Also, I redid my user page, even though i had to take down my hot ass Gina Lynn set-up.

At 9/12/07 09:18 PM, Cheektoghetto wrote:

At 9/12/07 08:58 PM, NextToNothing wrote: Dangerous hobbies

Snowboarding isn't TOO dangerous,

Tell that to Steve, my best friend who has broken almost 9 bones (cumulative) while snowboarding now.

Man I'm only up to 4... I don't consider breaking bones that dangerous though... It's really only painful for the first week in that it takes more than a couple extra strength tylenol or advil. 3 of my bones were fingers though and I just tape those and keep riding.

Flash happened to that.

That's pretty true right there

Ng and Life

My sac time has just transferred from watching tv and being on aim to being on aim and animating/coding... I wouldn't say it's really changed my life just influenced me to do something a bit more productive...

And another distraction from things like homework, I also enjoy my "me" time so I generally check the forums while I'm enjoying it...

Speaking of personal time who else needs a couple hours a week just to be by themselves? outside or inside...

Speaking of personal time who else needs a couple hours a week just to be by themselves? outside or inside...

Hmm.. I like to walk on my own or just lay awake in bed.. thinking.....

pointless post

400 000th submission
only 48 submissions away... too bad i wont be able to pressence this massive event -_-! the flooding hasnt even started yet, people keep waiting :)

Pizza

Little pizza joints in NY that aren't parts of a chain are the best. They're usually just little hole-in-the-wall places, but they kick ass!

Personal Time

I guess you could consider me an introvert. I like parties and shit but afterwards I need time on my own to recuperate.
"For introverts, to be alone with our thoughts is as restorative as sleeping, as nourishing as eating."

dangerous hobbies

I used to like bmx but after I broke my arm and ripped open my stomach I stopped for obvious reasons.
I don't really have any others except maybe snowboarding which can be dangerous at times.

New Year

Happy year 5768 fellow Jews.

or am I the only one?

At 9/12/07 10:49 PM, Radioactive24 wrote: I did, however, recently fall in love with doing blind drawings. It's where you draw something, but instead of looking at the aper, you focus solely on the object you're drawing and you never look down at the paper until you think you're done. It's pretty cool when you're done, very abstract at times. :3

Either abstract or deformed to the point of an unreconisable glob of lines. > : (

Yah, im not a fan, but imma have to keep doing it in the college classes im in. Funs. : (

I've only done blind contours which are pretty fun... try doing a hand turns out hella funny especially if you try to do some forshortening...

Its just like fun

from wuen i was 4 i was skiing, then at 10 i started snowboarding, so cummulatively ive had 6 years of skiing and 6 years of snowboarding, im yet to get anything worse than a bruise ^^

i do climbing, but only at indoor bouldering centres where the worst youll do is pull a muscle or several or maybe fall off a bit dodgily, but i also climb anything i find including trees which ive falling out of quite a few times and hurt my back and tail bone >.>

400000th sumbission

Anyone else noticed that NG has almost had 400000 flash submissions? Kinda sucks that the 400000th will prolly get blammed, there's a ton of blam points going around in the portal atm by "cousin" :P..

I noticed this since I just released my new game. :P

Someone got it D:

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/40 0000

hopefully it'll pass ? D:

At 9/13/07 04:41 AM, BritishMoose wrote:

At 9/13/07 12:23 AM, mynamewontfitin wrote: Happy year 5768 fellow Jews.

or am I the only one?

Judaism ftw. I'm Jewish through my mother's side. Though I'm not actually Jewish.

I'm mad. Usually our school gives us off for Jewish holidays (even though I'm not Jewish religiously, WAY back on my mom's side I and a teeny bit heeby). My dad who is a teacher has off but I need to go to school >:V

We better fucking get Yom Kippur off >:C

Longpost is Long! :3

Facebook anyone

Had setup an account ages ago and never updated it, and i was bored this morning and had a bunch of photos laying around so i decided to update it. Its suprisingly easy to dump photos into it so im gonna start putting in all the shit i have from all the meetups and stuff... currently HappySheep is my only friend :(

Anyway I thought this would be a cool way to keep tabs with people i care about. (you guys)

I like the idea of only having people on my facebook friends list have access to em.

Facebook

Facebook, Nexopia, MySpace, it's all the same crap to me. Their's hundreds of clones of 'em out there too. I admit I have a nex but I haven't been on it in years. I try to stay away from those things. I see 'em as too addicting. If I want to keep tabs on poeple I either add them to my MSN or my NG contact list.

Plus my sister is way too into facebook. Everytime she comes here it's always "I need to check my facebook!" ergh... I don't know how poeple can be on those things for hours.

In other random news I woke up early at 6:45AM today from one of my cats chasing a rat through the living... I think I'll call my friend Darryl and go bowling after school today. It's been almost a full year. I think I need a lil' break from the house.

Facebook

All these idiots who add a million applications and groups to their profile are ruining it, and it's slowing turning it into myspace. I think it's pretty cool, though - I already have a couple newgrounds buddies.

RE: Facebook

I agree with you I hate these little apps, and ive sworn to never have a myspace. Anyway I thought facebook was useful for the sheer ease of making albums and just dumping it in .. making a fancy page on my website is alot of work. I find it cool to look through HappySheeps pictures and see what hes up to wether it relates to me or not.. maybe im just nosy. oh well

Anyway in other news, I was talking to someone the other day and I thought itd be cool to come up with a NG gang sign to flash in photos.. sounds lame but i think itd be cool to like come up with something that would grow to be the hand signal for ng.. silly but whatever.

RE: Gang Sign

lol badass!!! That actually sounds like a pretty cool idea if someone could come up with an appropriate ng sign

Accept my friend request, dweeb.

Also, you are already throwing up the newgrounds gang sign in your profile picture. Obv.

At 9/13/07 10:32 AM, Luis wrote: Anyway in other news, I was talking to someone the other day and I thought itd be cool to come up with a NG gang sign to flash in photos.. sounds lame but i think itd be cool to like come up with something that would grow to be the hand signal for ng.. silly but whatever.

Not as cool as the Blood's sign... but
Raise the pinky and index finger of your left hand and fold the thumb, ring and middle fingers inwards (so you're throwing the horns). Do the same for the right hand, but curl the pinky inwards slightly. Cross your arms - left arm over right arm with left hand pointing down and right hand pointing to the left. It should spell out NG.

You have way too much time on your hands to figure that out... and so do I for figuring it out from that description. Diagrams!

RE: 400000th submission

It would have been nice if for once, a 'milestone' numbered submission was actually something decent and epic... it just seems like a bit of a waste of time to me.

"Account type thing here"

Anyone noticed this at the bottom of the page next to the search bar? Any idea what it's for? What was there before?

Shoot For the Moon
Quite literally, actually. These challenges are amazing.

At 9/13/07 04:00 PM, BritishMoose wrote:

At 9/13/07 03:54 PM, jmtb02 wrote: Shoot For the Moon
Quite literally, actually. These challenges are amazing.

God I hope Armorgames get their rover up there first.

I heard mochibot stole their plans.

That's pretty amazing, think about it, google is a website, a search engine, and it's throwing up $30 million for a contest to land on the moon. Talk about something no one would believe 50 years ago. I wonder how much money would go into developing a rover to win that contest.

At 9/13/07 04:30 PM, Coaly wrote: That's pretty amazing, think about it, google is a website, a search engine, and it's throwing up $30 million for a contest to land on the moon. Talk about something no one would believe 50 years ago. I wonder how much money would go into developing a rover to win that contest.

it's actually incredibly hard to put it into perspective, i don't think people would even beilieve in google 50 years ago, never mind space exploration. It's an amazing competition though, and hopefully a step forward in private space travel. I never thought google would be the ones to start teh ball rolling though :S.

Music Video

I'm not sure who linked to this music video, but thank you. It has to be one, of the best music video's i've ever seen. It's amazingly animated, with brilliant combination of 3D and 2D. Not only that, but it manages to show the musics 'quirky' rythms and beats, and the story is just amazing. I watched the whole thing, and i'm listening to the song for the 30th time right now :S.

Watch it, if you're stuck for inspiration, it's like a 'honeypot' for ideas.