Pets

We got some pet fish a couple of weeks ago down at uni. All but two are dead now though :(

NG downward spiral

At 11/9/07 08:58 PM, Luis wrote:

I hate it when like a movie wins on pico day AND wins the monthly... i know its not the artists fault or whatever but it feels really unfair to anyone who contributed during the month to like have a chance be eaten up by an entry that already basked in glory...

Yeah, competition entries should be excluded from the monthly draw. As for the contests themselves, I think that they stifle creativity more than anything else. People seem more concerned with making something to win a NG T-shirt, rather than follow up their own ideas.

contests
Contests normally result in mass downvoting, which ends up making it a battle of who knows the most people to vote 5.

At 11/9/07 09:30 PM, Vengeance wrote: Contests normally result in mass downvoting, which ends up making it a battle of who knows the most people to vote 5.

Is is really that different from stuff on normal days on Newgrounds?

At 11/9/07 09:31 PM, DFox wrote: Is is really that different from stuff on normal days on Newgrounds?

Good point :P Except the motive to do it is different.

At 11/9/07 08:58 PM, Luis wrote: is it just me or does it seem all these contests are making the scene ugly and cutthroat.. it feels like more and more artists are going at each other's necks over these things and it just feels like the scene is getting less fun to be part of.... Nobody is doing animations for the fuck of it anymore ...

I've been sick of contests since the rock out one, just being in it was way too stressful.

People seem to think that the contests are always based on score, so a lot of downvoting occurs. It's not fair to those in the contests, and not fair to the judges and Tom when they have to deal with loads of twats complaining about why their unnoticed game didn't win.

IMO there should be less contests. The false inspiration causes loads of themed games and movies to be submitted on the same day, which causes the other submissions that day to go unnoticed, not to mention the huge overflow of flashes that didn't make the deadline being submitted the following week.

If people want to make a halloween game or a christmas game, let them, and one or two contests a year is fine. Maybe then they won't feel so overdone.

At 11/9/07 09:30 PM, Vengeance wrote: contests
Contests normally result in mass downvoting, which ends up making it a battle of who knows the most people to vote 5.

Yeah, a friend of mine was one of the contestants who had a great chance of winning the October bonus in MaxGames contest, but his game has been downvoted almost 0.2 in score in about a week while other games have stayed the same or even have a higher score now. My friend was originally on a third place, which would've given him one of the bonuses, but now he's down to 5th or 6th place with no chance of winning.

I have been trying to help him out by voting 5, mostly because I know that he's a victim of such massive downvoting, but I just wont downvote the other games. Even though it's pretty obvious which authors have caused his score to go down, I will never lower myself to their level.

had anyone noticed that the "play this game/watch this movie" thing when viewing a submission flashes a couple times when the page loads?

Has it always been like that? I just noticed...

At 11/9/07 10:49 PM, BoMToons wrote: Has it always been like that? I just noticed...

I think it have been doing that ever since the redesign.. I can't say for sure though.

At 11/9/07 11:04 PM, DreamworX wrote:

At 11/9/07 10:49 PM, BoMToons wrote: Has it always been like that? I just noticed...

I think it have been doing that ever since the redesign.. I can't say for sure though.

It has been. Also, if you try to post while logging, and you click the login link the page will scroll up and the login box will glow. Its pretty cool :)

NG Downard Spiral
Meh.. in the end it all seems to be about the money.. most people I've talked to make games for the money.. I personally can't bring myself to let some guy brand my flash for the sake of money.. I've considered it, it would be pretty easy cash.. but to me money isn't really that important. Every time I say this the person listening wonders what the hell is wrong with me.. I guess if I need money I would do it but otherwise I'd like to keep the flash to myself. I do realize if I do get it sponsored then more people could view it but still... don't want some sponsors name all over my flash :p

Just my opinion about the whole money thing.. which I think has something to do with the whole contest cutthroat thing..

KEITH IS CANARDIAN!!!!!

At 11/9/07 07:56 PM, BoMToons wrote: ARFO NIMJA IS CANADIAN!

At 11/10/07 12:41 AM, BoMToons wrote: KEITH IS CANARDIAN!!!!!

You know, now you have to do that every time you find out someone is Canadian, otherwise it'd be inconsistent.

CANARDIAN

RYAN IS CANARDIAN!

At 11/10/07 12:20 AM, Kanadian-Keith wrote:

One more thing. It's hard to find a good series these days. Paladin is a good one but then you have these short movie series that aren't great, they make no sense or anything yet they still make it into the portal. I could make a series about a guy eating random things, and it wouldnt have to be good and I could still make it in. I just don't get how, stupid series that take no time or effort can make it in and sometimes score higher then they should.

*cough* skater v2 *cough*

to not make this completely negative.
WENT TO CANARDA I DID ONCE!

and as for pets I have a big black dog and a funny looking cat. Little dogs are creapy as fuck I don't feel like I know what they're gonna do

At 11/10/07 02:29 AM, NextToNothing wrote: *cough* skater v2 *cough*

Please tell me that you are joking.

Pets!
I have a loveable dog named Bowser/Beefcake. I first named him Bowser but me and friends started calling him Beefcake for fun. Anyway onto touching story...
5 years back I was going to get a dog because my mother suggested I do to help me to deal with recent problems of the time like my parents divorce. So eventually I found this place up in the farmland that was selling boxer puppies for only $300. I was lookin' at 'em all tryin' to decide which one I wanted. Then I notice this one pupeye runnin' around but, differently then the others. This one was actually running full force into the walls of their little kenel. I thought it was funny and asked the guy why that dog was doing that. He told me that puppy was both a runt and retarded. He also told me that he was planning to put the puppy to sleep since know one wants a small retarded boxer.
So what did I do? I bought this lil' guy! He bucked off $100 due to the retardedness and junk. So it came to $200. On Oct. 31st 2002 I brought 'em home with me and my mother still is laughing about it.
He would run into the tables and smash into furniture, he thinks he's more of a dog then a cat, he'll try layin' on the window sil and everything. lol
He's not all that small for a boxer too actually. Most boxers are 'bout 3-6 inches taller. I did get him checked out and found out he really was retarded, but only mildly. Ya could tell 'cause It was harder to teach him stuff. But yeah... Main reason I bought him was, "Hey, killing somethin' just 'cause it's different ain't right. So what if he's small and retarded... He's cute!" Plus I could relate to the lil' guy 'cause I'm somewhat of an idiot and wouldn't want to be killed just because I'm not up to par.

So yeah... I love this dog!

At 11/10/07 03:54 AM, citricsquid wrote:

It's cruel to keep your dog on your head.

lolmullet

He was taking a nap until my friend whiped out the cam to take a pic.
The mullet is awesome. :3 But were not allowed to talk about it so shhhhhhhh. 0.0

Criminal duder, your pics are all EPIC.

Please make a website with pics and youtube videos of just you.

Make a game FAQs walkthrough on being you.

Release a console game on xbocks live arcade about your epicness.

Invent a Wii controller movement dedicated to duder-osity.

Write a haiku about you.

Invent a dessert called "The Custard-al Duder"

At 11/10/07 04:18 AM, BoMToons wrote: Criminal duder, your pics are all EPIC.

Your sarcasm makes me lol. :3
I demand more smexy BoMToons pics!

At 11/10/07 04:31 AM, TheCriminalDuder wrote:

At 11/10/07 04:18 AM, BoMToons wrote: Criminal duder, your pics are all EPIC.

Your sarcasm makes me lol. :3
I demand more smexy BoMToons pics!

I'm not being sactrastic.

At 11/10/07 04:42 AM, BoMToons wrote:

At 11/10/07 04:31 AM, TheCriminalDuder wrote:

At 11/10/07 04:18 AM, BoMToons wrote: Criminal duder, your pics are all EPIC.

Your sarcasm makes me lol. :3
I demand more smexy BoMToons pics!

I'm not being sactrastic.

....You can't be serious.

At 11/10/07 04:53 AM, BritishMoose wrote:

At 11/10/07 04:50 AM, TheCriminalDuder wrote: ....You can't be serious.

People respond well to your weirdness. GET OVER IT.

^o^

It's a lil' embarrassing sometime's though.....

Haiku out of boredum.

Mullet-Man I am.
Pickles I enjoy eating.
...Hentai games are neat.

Dill Smoking!

Ding Ding!

Yeah... I'm a horrible friend.
Anyway now I take him to 7/11 to make up for it.... by him buying me stuff. :)

/Double post sorries.

At 11/9/07 08:58 PM, Cheektoghetto wrote: Ok, lets all drop the topic of my problems...

No, you bought them up, its obvious you want to talk about them. You were just hoping they'd get a better response.

I was fucked up in the head as a child because I was teased so much growing up I almost killed myself a few times, so I took out my anger on others.

Fair enough

I've gone through therapy, grown up and feel really bad about the things I've done, OK, I don't need people telling me, I've had people doing that my whole life.

You said you felt only a little bad, and obviously you're still proud of what you've done because otherwise you wouldn't've boasted about it on a topic about epic things you've done. If you think these things are in anyway epic, you need to get your therapy money back.

If I were you and i truly felt really bad about that, I would never bring it up in a forum topic, let alone one trying to big yourself up.

Grow up.

non-linear thinking

What is the three mistackes in this question?

At 11/10/07 08:40 AM, dELtaluca wrote: non-linear thinking

What is the three mistackes in this question?

What are the three mistakes in this question?

The third is that there's only two mistakes!

Am I right?

At 11/10/07 05:51 AM, TheCriminalDuder wrote: Ding Ding!

Meh, for some reason Youtube isn't loading the video for me :(

Non-linear thinking

I might be wrong, seeing that my English isn't the best and this is the kind of things I usually do wrong, but I think that it should be 'are' instead of 'is'. Also, 'mistakes' is spelled wrong.. I think that what this riddle is about is that you should only be able to find two mistakes, but if there only is two then it means that there still is another as you said there would be three mistakes. But now there is three mistakes, which means that the third mistake doesn't really exist.. I'm just gonna stop here, I don't know what I'm saying anymore ^^

yeh you were right ^^

vedo che non rabbrividivano solo al pensiero dei cose strane ;)

' i see that you dont shudder at just the thought of strange things '

RE: Pet

At one point, we had 2 cats, a fish and a rabbit. Now we just have one cat left, called Boo. He's awesome!

Wow! Really, that's pretty funny. Although I have one cat, and probably twenty fish, it's pretty funny that my cat's name is: Boo-Boo. Haha, I don't know where we got that name, but yours is probably in some British accent. Ours is pretty paranoid but awesome too.

BoMToons Recap

At 11/10/07 04:18 AM, BoMToons wrote: Criminal duder, your pics are all EPIC.

They are, keep them up.

Please make a website with pics and youtube videos of just you.

No, there would be just too much CriminalDuder on one page. That would just ruin the whole awesome part of you get them slowly and have to go looking for older ones :P.

Make a game FAQs walkthrough on being you.

That'd be so sick! "Mullet Theif!" and some guy comes over and steals your mullet right off the top of your head. I was actually thinking of making a Stephen Colbert game is the truth of the matter. I might try it later. I'll call it "Freedom Fighter" or something.

Release a console game on xbocks live arcade about your epicness.

XBox, damn, stop insulting my heritage...

Invent a dessert called "The Custard-al Duder"

1. One pound of hot fudge (beard)
2. One scoop of ice cream on top (face)
3. Fourteen pounds of hot fudge, slightly dripping on a side to form I don't know....A MULLET! (mullet)

At 11/9/07 07:56 PM, BoMToons wrote: ARFO NIMJA IS CANADIAN!
At 11/10/07 12:41 AM, BoMToons wrote: KEITH IS CANARDIAN!!!!!

I just thought I'd point this out...you have some fascination with Canadians...and you have another with spelling have of the words wrong in a sentence. Arfo Nimja is a Canardian? I don't know why I remembered that you did this nor why I went back a page to reply to it, but It's pretty funny.