At 1/8/08 02:46 PM, Luis wrote: Damn I forgot to vote on monthlies ... s'ok nothing i vote for ever winzorz

I think there should be a 'vote not to win' button... like its so hard to find 10 things i liked in a month.. its easier to find 10 things i definately dont like.

/rant

how do youet to vote does it sum up things from eternity or if i voted on a lot of stuff this month i would be able to vote ?

At 1/8/08 04:31 PM, patu1 wrote:

/rant

how do youet to vote does it sum up things from eternity or if i voted on a lot of stuff this month i would be able to vote ?

Need to be in the top 2000 active exp users, or recieve an award in the month.
Currently it's around the 3200 mark for top exp users. So if on your profile it says "Exp rank : >3200" then you're probably able to vote. It depends on who's active, but it's around the 3500ish mark.

At 1/8/08 04:33 PM, edoty2812 wrote: Need to be in the top 2000 active exp users, or recieve an award in the month.
Currently it's around the 3200 mark for top exp users. So if on your profile it says "Exp rank : >3200" then you're probably able to vote. It depends on who's active, but it's around the 3500ish mark.

To add to that;
"Exp. Rank #: 36,336"
That's yours, so you're going to need to get an award to be able to, as to get from where you are to top couple of thousand will take about 2 years, give or take.

I voted this month, for the first time as far as I can recall. My rank is 6,700ish and I haven't submitted anything for months. I voted every day though, so I guess it has to do with being active. None of the movies I've given a high vote seemed to have made the top 10 however :/

At 1/8/08 04:35 PM, edoty2812 wrote: lot of helpful stuff

oh =[ well i am such a perfectionist that's why you have seen anything from me but i shall get award for my first submission or not
shame newgrounds doesn't know who is really active i don't deposit it is a waste of my time i get to watch about 3 movies a day..

At 1/8/08 04:39 PM, patu1 wrote:

At 1/8/08 04:35 PM, edoty2812 wrote: lot of helpful stuff

shame newgrounds doesn't know who is really active i don't deposit it is a waste of my time i get to watch about 3 movies a day..

If you don't deposit, you're not active in the portal, it's simple.
Voting 5 times in a day is nothing, if you don't do that then how can you see all the submissions which end up in the running?

..::monthly vote::..

I don't vote on monthlies anymore. The first two monthly votes that we ever had I tried to be objective and I forced myself to watch every one of those fucking Flash submissions, I figured that that was the only way to be totally fair. It was like four days of constantly watching Flash movies and playing Flash games, and it was not fun, especially on a rockin' 56k modem. I was satisfied with the votes I made, but obviously the most popular stuff wins and the little gems that I unearthed remained overlooked...

At 1/8/08 05:29 PM, BritishMoose wrote: Feel free to vote for Webcamoose! :D

Voting's over chief. But I did vote for Webcamoose!

At 1/8/08 04:39 PM, patu1 wrote: oh =[ well i am such a perfectionist that's why you have seen anything from me but i shall get award for my first submission or not

You're such a perfectionist that almost every sentence you type doesn't make sense.

shame newgrounds doesn't know who is really active i don't deposit it is a waste of my time i get to watch about 3 movies a day..

What a stupid statement "doesn't know who's really active.... I get to watch about 3 movies a day". You're just proving you're inactive!

Monthly's
I stopped voting for them a couple of months ago, it's pretty much turned into a popularity contest. Like BMK said, if you go through and watch all of them, you discover a load of great submissions that wont even get recognised.

Eek.
I'm an educated buyer. I do my homework before jumping into buying something. So after a bit of research, I got an HD-DVD Player thinking that Toshiba had a much better chance of making an HD brand over Sony. Look at Sony's track record for formats:

Betamax: Failed after VHS overtook with the porn industry
UMD: Failed to become the "Universal" Media Disk it was named for, now just a PSP disk.
Minidisk: Made for their minidisk players, never took off as well.
SDDS: Sony's main competition with Dolby as a sound standard, never took off.
MMCD and SACD: Both were failed CD formats.
Memory Stick: SD Cards and CompactFlash are all the rave, pretty much.

And Toshiba was responsible for the DVD, so they had that brand established. So everything seemed right to buy the HD-DVD, right?... But noooooooooooooo Warner Bros, New Line, and Paramount all signed on for Blue Ray Exclusive this week... meaning that Bluray has finally, pretty much won. No white flag yet, but it is slightly depressing knowing that 4/6 major media companies have signed to Blu ray.

Goes to show, you can't look at a track record and expect the same every time. Too bad that it cost me $200.

Or maybe a miracle will jump-start HD-DVD, you never know... my faith is dwindling though.

At 1/8/08 06:35 PM, jmtb02 wrote: Or maybe a miracle will jump-start HD-DVD, you never know... my faith is dwindling though.

Well, in Australia all the TV channels are converting to HD. Who knows, it might drift over to US shores and take over there too (if it already hasn't).

At 1/8/08 06:40 PM, Vengeance wrote:

At 1/8/08 06:35 PM, jmtb02 wrote: Or maybe a miracle will jump-start HD-DVD, you never know... my faith is dwindling though.

Well, in Australia all the TV channels are converting to HD. Who knows, it might drift over to US shores and take over there too (if it already hasn't).

In the United States, many television stations are broadcast high definition. Blu-ray is just another format for high definition DVDs. I personally thought that HD-DVD, which is the other format for high definition DVDs, was going to overtake Blu-ray. However, that was a month ago. It is amazing how much can change in a month in the electronic industry. Also, in the United States, next year the broadcasts of network television will be switched from analog to pure digital, which is currently being broadcast along with analog. That means I will have to get a new piece of equipment for my television.

At 1/8/08 06:40 PM, Vengeance wrote:

At 1/8/08 06:35 PM, jmtb02 wrote: Or maybe a miracle will jump-start HD-DVD, you never know... my faith is dwindling though.

Well, in Australia all the TV channels are converting to HD. Who knows, it might drift over to US shores and take over there too (if it already hasn't).

We have a lot of TV Channels in HD, but what BMK was talking about was DVD players. HD and Blu-ray are each pretty above then normal DVD, but Blu-ray is only a smidge above HD. So, since BMK is leery of Sony, he got an HD player. But, now that every company has just signed with Sony to start cranking out Blu-ray discs, he is essentially fucked for finding his movies now.

And here's li'l ol' me with my PS3 and I have no Blu-ray discs :C

Eek

I saw my first Blu-Ray movie (POC3) last week, and it was phenomenal. But I assure you, even though they signed onto Blu-Ray. many movies are still made for HD. HD is much more compatible and popular than Blu-Ray... I'm not even sure they make Blu-Ray Players (I watched it on a PS3), so in the end I think you pretty much won, the HD selection is huge.

Guilty Pleasures

My women whips me and I enjoy everyone moment of her insane torture.
Also I enjoying shooting squirrels on warm days. ^^

AS3
AS2 took me long enouph to learn, AS3 hurts my mind just looking at it, I'll take a few more weeks/months before I get into it.

Now I return to puking and drinking apple juice as I lay on my couch watching Oprah reruns. HURRAY flu/colds!

Monthly's
Once you've gotten it or are a mod do you constantly get it. It seems like you guys are mentioning that you keep having it. Do you just vote enough that you keep getting the option, or do you get it specially?

20
One more day of DEPOSITING!

Finalvania
Somethings got to be done about / to this guy. In his two and a half days on Newgrounds he's made four locked topics and two others that were lockable (but just died quickly). It's really crazy how many he can make in just TWO DAYS!

I honestly thought that HD-DVD would have won... not only because of sony's track record, but because of name recognition.

"Blu-Ray" means nothing, and someone uneducated about these type of things wouldn't know what it was supposed to do without looking it up.

"HD-DVD" has DVD in it, which is pretty much a household term right now, and HD clearly states that it's better than regular DVD.

Who knows though, that's why I'm still holding off buying an HD or blu-ray player.

At 1/8/08 08:35 PM, El-Presidente wrote: Monthly's
Once you've gotten it or are a mod do you constantly get it. It seems like you guys are mentioning that you keep having it. Do you just vote enough that you keep getting the option, or do you get it specially?

Nope. I've only been able to vote once.

Luis' and My Relationship Problems

I just don't know what to do anymore.

He doesn't talk to me, he doesn't return my calls, he barely even looks at me when we see each other.

I gave him my viriginity, he could at least pay SOME attention to me.

Jesus, is that cool now? Fuck someone and drop them like they're hot?

I HAVE FEELINGS TOO! I AM NOT JUST SOME PIECE OF MEAT LUIS!

God, I feel so used... and alone...

I think he may have gotten me pregnant. I told him to wear a condom, but no, Sr.Manly-man had to go bareback.

FUCKING TALK TO ME LUIS! I FUCKING LOVE YOU! </3 :'C

Parents: Nasty Fights and Possibly a Rough Divorce

So yeah, my parents have been split up for about 3 years now, but, uh, the shit has been hitting the fan pretty recently for the past couple of months. I mean, tonight, my mom was yelling at my dad for completely stupid shit.

Gah. I understand some of it, but half of the shit is so stupid. Like I can understand wanting me to spend even time with both of them (even though it's hard when my mom is home like every other day or 2) and everything connecting me to society is at my Dad's house.

Honestly, I just find myself being frustrated with my parents in general, but I can feel myself getting slowly sucked towards my father because I see how petty and ridiculous my mother can be.

She just rode my ass for a solid half hour about my D in Physics, which is my worst class and I am never going to need it. it's also because I don't do my homework. I get 100% grades on most of my tests.

Gah, I'm fucking sick of them , if not her.

At 1/8/08 09:36 PM, Radioactive24 wrote: gave him my viriginity, he could at least pay SOME attention to me.

You obviously weren't good enough for your first time.

Amature. >:[

Threadless

I finally decided to submit something to threadless. I have no idea how good or bad it is, so I'm gonna show you before they approve my submission. Any critique would be awesome, and would you wear it?

http://www.helnet.org/ngup/uploads/58181 8_sadman.swf

At 1/8/08 09:57 PM, Rudy wrote:

At 1/8/08 09:36 PM, Radioactive24 wrote: gave him my viriginity, he could at least pay SOME attention to me.

You obviously weren't good enough for your first time.

Amature. >:[

:'C

You cut me deep Rudy, real deep...

He said I was the best he'd ever had...

At 1/8/08 10:43 PM, ImpendingRiot wrote: Haha, that's a sweet design! I'd honestly probably buy one if I had the money.

My only two suggestions would be up the contrast, and I think that its a handkerchief or something on our right side, but it's ambiguous enough that its confusing as to whether its a hand. I'd axe that aspect, but beyond that, I think you got a really cool design. I'm not sure what that black puddle is, but if it was filled with television static, that could be neat, but it's your design.

Yeah, you're right, it's a bandanna, I thought it added more personality to the character. I was planning on filling it with static, but I can only have 8 unique colors (which was hard enough as is), so I'm just gonna role with a black puddle, left for the customer to interpret on their own.

RE: Monthly Vote

I used to not vote for a while. But the thought of the monthly voting has intruged me, so I'm just voting on every flash I see, and maybe in 6 months i'll finally get the chance. I don't even bother with B/P anymore.

Monthlies

By saying "What I vote for never wins, so I'm not going to vote anymore" is the complete wrong way to go about things. Sure your generic popular NG movie will take top picks, but that doesn't mean your vote isn't being heard. There is a reason only the top 2,000 and some users get to vote, rather than the entire community, that is because we know this site and we generally know about Flash and the work that is put into it. There is a fine line between a 'fun flash' and one made incredibly well. It's hard to judge them together but every month 2,000 users do it.

I know if I had a submission that was in contest to win a Monthly and I got in place somewhere between 6th and 10th and no money was offered, I would be just as nearly excited about actually winning the money! Being recognized by so many people as being in the top ten BEST Flash movies ever made?! I mean that's huge! Isn't it? With that boost of ego and encouragement I'd only try harder to continue to impress my peers and go for gold and make something to blow away the competition.

Thinking along those lines is why the United States has one of the lowest voting percentages per registered voter out of nearly all of the worlds democratic establishments. That's pathetic.

Rock the vote. On the off chance something obscure that you like actually gets some recognition by the community or we are even lucky enough to have one of our OWN (BritishMoose) be in the runnings, do your thang and vote it up. Make someones day.

Monthlies

I rarely like what wins, and when I get a chance, I'll vote and try and make a difference, but voting for the stuff I like is practically throwing my vote away at this point. I really dislike almost all of the popular submissions these days. I'm really getting more into the experimental, or just weird, shit. Plus I HATE parodies or anything that features video game characters and their fucking ridiculous exploits. Though that AwesomeMan or whatever in Awesome Compilation was just a dick joke, so it's slightly better. I'm pretty Jeff has a copyright on dick jokes though.

Guilty Pleasure

Oh God, ahah! I love walking at like midnight or one in the morning alone, especially in the rain. Like so much. I get all my best ideas then, and it really helps me think.

I also masturbate very frequently. It's quite calming. It's meditation in it's own right. In fact, I'm about to go beat off right now!

Guilty Pleasure

At 1/9/08 03:03 AM, MRat wrote: Guilty Pleasure

Oh God, ahah! I love walking at like midnight or one in the morning alone, especially in the rain. Like so much. I get all my best ideas then, and it really helps me think.

Heh, I'm a bit like that. I love walking home late at night, after having a bit to to drink. It's one of the best feelings in the world. You get the added element of fun and mystery too if you get so drunk that you forget where you are (as happened to me on one occasion). It's probably not worth the risk of getting raped, but I live in a fairly middle-class area anyway.

At 1/9/08 03:03 AM, MRat wrote:

Guilty Pleasure

I love to do that, but rarely do I get the occasion with school, plus it's winter. Another thing similar to that is I love to come home from school, open my huge window in my kitchen, and just put my elbows on the window sill and stare outside. The fresh air and the scene of nature really helps me relax, and it's when I get some of my best ideas.

.:monthly vote:.

Like some others, the first couple of months I was all excited about it, spent days watching the animations twice each and trying to complete all the games to give everything a fair shake.

I think I've voted maybe once since. Maybe 5 times I tried checking all the submissions, but often come to vote on the 7th day, when Liljim closes the votes anyway.

Enh. I'm probably not really that much of a portal viewer at this moment in time. Too many things annoy me and there's shit that I've grown to know I probably won't enjoy (all the parodies and fight-centric movies) yet feel compelled to give a chance or else appear closed-minded or whatever.

RE: Blu-ray / HD-DVD
Personally i want them both to flop, and DVD to lead the way for many a year to come :)