At 10/10/07 09:17 PM, Radioactive24 wrote:

At 10/10/07 08:23 PM, Nuggs wrote: I made this post on my new iPod touch!!! Its a little slow on newgrounds but its not unbearable

I'd never get one. Fucking have to wipe the screen every time I use it.... it would piss me off so much.

Very true. I don't even have the cash for an iPod, let alone have the patient to look at my own skin oils on my screen.

Big Flash Projects

I am planning two pretty big projects for the next year or so. I already have a script prepared for one, if anybody would like to read and tell me what they think, PM me. That one is just a little thing me and a buddy of mine were talking about once on AIM. Then I decided that flashitizing it would be a nice project.

This one may be put into production first. It is going to be a serious short called 'Cigar'. I have some great ideas, and think it will come out nicely. No definite script as of yet, but I will probably produce a storyboard soon. I have a lot of time in school to do it. I finish all my auto projects like 30 minutes earlier :P. (Yes I am a mechanic).

Earliest Memory Of NG and It's Flashes

I remember when I was about 12 or so, my friend told me about ol' NG. He mainly wanted me to see Dad's Home :P (Go Figure). I watched it, laughed, and really didn't stick too much to NG. I thought it was a site that only consisted of a few people submitting. I didn't know about the automated portal system back then, so I kinda looked at what was on the front page.

At 14, I started to delve deeper in the bowels of NG. It was quite fascinating to find out that ordinary people create these works of art (or spam :P). Of course I had no idea what made flash XD. I wasn't the guy who posted about it though, I googled it XD. Then I looked and all I could see was a seemingly huge piece of writing on it.

$699 USD

I was stunned and left.

Then at 15 I found the BBS and decided to give flash another go. So I got the trial. I liked it, stuck with it, and practiced. I was never the greatest artist, but I never gave up. Today I still am pretty noobish at art and such, but I am trying... studying... practcing... watching...

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At 10/10/07 09:57 PM, ShortMonkey wrote:

At 10/10/07 07:45 PM, Rudy wrote:

I hate lip syncing.

If all the mouthes are drawn, I find lip syncing actually quite easy now... it depends on the technique you use I guess... I use the swap symbol and Scale And Rotate option a lot and make about three frames with the same mouth going smaller or bigger and sometimes squashing it with the free transform tool.

I think if you have the right script, lip syncing is not a big deal at all, if it's funny, who cares if the tongue isn't making the L sound, I think you could get away with scaling a lot to make it look like more stuff is happening, the general viewer is trying to believe it's right rather than looking for how it is wrong, if you know what I mean...

Radiohead

I'm likin' the new album right now, favorites of the moment are probably "Weird Fishes/Arpeggi" and "All I Need" but It'll probably be completely different by the time I give it a thorough listen, always happens with their albums for some reason. I think The Bends is still my favorite though, it's a shame they'll never go back to that kind of style, but whatever, I'm a fan of both since Kid A is probably in the 2nd slot.

Is anyone else pre-ordering their actual album/package thing though? That thing looks damn expensive right now, but there's a lot that comes with it...I'll probably end up getting it for the 2nd CD of music but it's still a little pricey for my tastes.

At 10/10/07 10:06 PM, ConAir wrote: Radiohead

Yeah, I'm pre-ordering the whole disbox package.

I totally agree. The Bends was such a great album. I miss songs like My Iron Lung

..::radiohead and other matters::..

Radiohead is definitely one of the best alternative bands in the history of such things, and only a couple of days ago, when I was listening to NPR, did I learn that they were coming out with a new album on the internet that you buy for whatever you think it's worth. I used to love Radiohead and music...

It's sad how my burning passion for great music is almost completely detached from me now. I never listen to music anymore... I have an awesome ZEN Vision:M where I placed all my music, but I really dislike using a personal music device, everything is better when it's blasting out your jam box. I guess I should order some speakers or something, because I just don't ever feel like plugging my head into something when I'm not commuting via airplane, train, bus or feet. I miss my old, early 90's 5 cd disc changer/stereo thing. I have around 200 CDs of great music just sitting in a drawer (that is very heavy and hard to pull out). I think all of my passions are dying off, art, music, animation.... I never do any of that stuff anymore.

go put it on your livejournal you emo bastard.

Yeah... i used to cycle through phases of doing a lot of painting then animating then being obsessed with something really weird then reading then video games then back to painting... and they usually only lasted a month or so. I feel like theres really something wrong with me right now because the only thing of value that I ever had was creativity...

...and then it's gone

At 10/10/07 11:39 PM, BlackmarketKraig wrote: emo shit

just find sumtin to stick with, even if you don't find it right away you'll find it sooner or later.

Musics
Live shows is where its at... just came home from a show with Dark Funeral, i never heard of em nor am i much of a dark metal guy but it was actually pretty damn good...

i think just wandering into a live show that you know nothing about is very captivating.. i forgot to take some newgrounds stickers to stick above the urinal :(

RE: iPod Touch

i like the idea of paying $100 less (plus $60 per month) for losing the talking capability of the iPhone, but the lack of storage really turned me off from it. i was actually considering getting one of the new ones. well, not the nano or shuffle. fuck that.

Ben-the-Jew sent me a modded orange Zune, and i am quite content with it.

i must say, though, that my favorite MP3 player by far is the Creative Zen Touch. it's durable, reliable, and functions perfectly. i dropped it in a toilet, and the only ill effect was that the previous song button no longer works.

RE: Old memories of Newgrounds

ah, June, 2003. those were the good ol' days of Newgrounds (these days certainly aren't bad by comparison, though :P).

i found Newgrounds because i looked in some random guy's profile on Starcraft. he had a link to albinoblacksheep.com, and i thought the name was funny, so i went there. after breaking my flash-viewing cherry, i was amazed, not to mention hooked. i saw links to newgrounds, and i went there, but i was put-off by the porn ads that infested Newgrounds back then. a few months later, i came back, and i haven't really left since. (:

RE: Halloween Animations

i might be making a game with Blaze again this year. hopefully it won't turn out as shitty as last year's :P

Reunions.

A close friend of mine moved away 'bout a year and a half ago. A month ago he moved back near here. What I didn't know is how close he was. Not even 2 minutes of walking away from my house. XD So today me and him hung and we talked flash and played a lil' NGR, talked 'bout business, careers, life, caught up pretty much. It was pretty sweet. :)
Can't believe how much poeple change over the years though. He's the taller one now and he's got a goatie too! :O
Go say hai! ^^ <3

At 10/11/07 01:59 AM, TheCriminalDuder wrote: Reunions.
Can't believe how much poeple change over the years though. He's the taller one now and he's got a goatie too! :O
Go say hai! ^^ <3

I lolled at his one and only post:

I walked in on my brother's girlfriend's 58 year old heavy-set mother... with a foot long hand dildo. GAH. Bad times.

haha he sounds cool :)

Movie Taim!

Yimou Zhang, one of the best non american/english directors. Ever. I watched 'Hero' the other night, after having seen 'the Curse of the Golden Flower' and 'the House of the Flying Daggers' earlier, and it's simply amazing how that man uses settings, colors and camera angles. I've never really been into asian cinema, but these movies are pretty interesting. Discuss movies and directors. Now.

RE: Halloween stuff
I've been trying to make a game, but every time I open Flash, I look at how much I have left to do, i think "gahhhh... later" and I close it down again :(

So then I compiled a big list of every word in the English language, put it into alphabetical arrays in Flash, and I'm trying to work out what to do next.

Someone please tell me these guys aren't serious...
New Wii game maybe?

New Avatars?

Eh, I just got on Newgrounds, and I noticed that the Notice Front Page posts by Tom has various images of himself. Anyone have an idea on what's going on?

Hm, maybe other NG Staff Members will have other avatars as well? Hm.
Discuss.

Sorry if discussed already.

At 10/11/07 03:04 PM, Rudy wrote: New Avatars?

Johnny's response:

"we realized since tom obviously posts the most if he posted 3 times in a row - that was 3 of the same icon. so now there's 4 that randomize.

not a big deal"

At 10/11/07 03:04 PM, Rudy wrote: Hm, maybe other NG Staff Members will have other avatars as well? Hm.
Discuss.

Sorry if discussed already.

I was just about to post that, it seems only tom has it :S.

Air Sex

That is one of the funniest things i've seen from japan :P, I can imagine it being the first 18+ wii game ;).

Wade Fulp 3D Ragdoll

I was browsing around i came upon this :P. A wade fulp ragdoll for Garrysmod, i just downloaded, wade is now imaled by my wired auto turret :P.

At 10/11/07 03:11 PM, Rudy wrote:

At 10/11/07 03:04 PM, Rudy wrote: New Avatars?

not a big deal

I find it amusing that you brought up and wrapped up the same topic.

I noticed them right away too...

At 10/11/07 04:38 PM, Coaly wrote: I find it amusing that you brought up and wrapped up the same topic.

I noticed them right away too...

Within like 8 minutes too.

i mean, done.

fuck >:C

At 10/11/07 05:18 PM, ShortMonkey wrote:

At 10/11/07 05:12 PM, Rammer wrote: i mean, done.

Ok, will he work with you or did he quit flash? I used to have him on my list but I deleted all the NG contacts I never talk to but I didn't block them just in case...

yeah, i've talked to him and he seems interested.

At 10/11/07 05:12 PM, Rammer wrote: i mean, done.

fuck >:C

whos your other msn contacts.. they are blury i want to contact themmmm

At 10/11/07 05:18 PM, ShortMonkey wrote:

At 10/11/07 05:12 PM, Rammer wrote: i mean, done.

Ok, will he work with you or did he quit flash? I used to have him on my list but I deleted all the NG contacts I never talk to but I didn't block them just in case...

Blaze didn't quit flash, I was talking to him the other day. He's just loaded up with school and work right now.I've been meaning to team up with him to make a game now that I'm back into AS; he said it was cool but I have to wait a while cause he's so busy, with other projects I think.

Hm...I just realized that most of my newgrounds contacts for msn/aim are '04-'05 regs most of whom aren't active on the site atm. I need some of the current regs to talk to!

At 10/11/07 06:33 PM, Siggy0501 wrote:

:. I need some of the current regs to talk to!

Derek_Vandenberg@hotmail.com
Loooooooove Pooooooooower! :3

At 10/11/07 06:03 PM, Luis wrote:

At 10/11/07 05:12 PM, Rammer wrote: i mean, done.

fuck >:C

whos your other msn contacts.. they are blury i want to contact themmmm

one is Hornby, methinks, and the other is a nerd at my school who's obsessed with his DS, Linux, and programming his calculator. probably the last person you want to talk to, lulu.

At 10/11/07 06:50 PM, TheCriminalDuder wrote:

At 10/11/07 06:33 PM, Siggy0501 wrote:

. I need some of the current regs to talk to!

Derek_Vandenberg@hotmail.com
Loooooooove Pooooooooower! :3

i think i've posted my msn address about three times in this thread :P

clan2kroolz@msn.com

At 10/11/07 06:55 PM, Rammer wrote: clan2kroolz@msn.com

Eh. I posted it like twice.
dragonballsr@hotmail.com

old school email from 1999 dawgg.

IGF 2008

So we finally got round to entering into the IGF this year, just before the deadline too. Here's a list of all the entrants:

http://www.igf.com/php-bin/entries2008_1 .html

Some pretty cool stuff there. I guess I'm not expecting to win any major awards, but a finalist place would be nice, or even just a passing mention in some popular gaming press :D

Tom-

Some pretty cool stuff there. I guess I'm not expecting to win any major awards, but a finalist place would be nice, or even just a passing mention in some popular gaming press :D

Tom-

congrats!

At 10/11/07 08:08 PM, The-Super-Flash-Bros wrote: http://www.igf.com/php-bin/entries2008_1 .html

You got some pretty tough competition!

D:

At 10/11/07 08:08 PM, The-Super-Flash-Bros wrote: I'm not expecting to win any major awards,

Rubbish! You'll be in the top 3. If ya don't I'll get a Tattoo of the NG Tank on my left ass cheek.

Anyway... I'm happy because today is almost over. Been running on 2 hours of sleep and been bummed out all day. The main reason is today is the first anniversary of my ol' mans death. I was goin' to visit his grave today with my sis but she decided we shouldn't. Figure I'd go up there later this month.
'Kay moving onto non-depressing topics.

Goths
Never realized it. I've always hung out with lots of goth/gothic poeple but never considered myself one. I don't really where all black but a few of my school friends were explaining how I was gothic and didn't know it. They explained how I should dye my hair blue agian and get spikey jewelry and etc.
I got know problem with goths obviously. I don't stereotype and I've always been a strong believer of "Do whatever the fuck ya want." But I do admit when I'm sitting beside a person with the skin under their eye peirced or somethin' that's considered odd like that I do feel a lil' uncomfortable.
However when I see someone with an awesome hairstyle, wearing a good 30 pounds of spikey metal, having a few evil lookin' tattoos, and green lip stick. I find that totally awesome!
Your opinions on poeples of the "dark"/"different" nature.