That thing is pretty cool, but it's weird checking out the old NG designs to me, just doesn't look right anymore.

Well that was a great 3,000th post.. T_T

Isn't it ironic how the original 'Mastermind' on the frontpage suddenly got 100k more views in 2 days (in contrast with the 60k it used to have) after the icon changed from a well drawn guy into a couple of tits. Something i noticed before with mediocre submissions like http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/25 6055 or http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/14 9079 or http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/34 2208

Seriously, it doesn't matter if the animation is porn or hentai, but as long as your icon is a pair of tits you'll get over a million views on here... Interesting...

At 1/28/08 08:27 AM, AloneInTheDark wrote: Seriously, it doesn't matter if the animation is porn or hentai, but as long as your icon is a pair of tits you'll get over a million views on here... Interesting...

It's funny you bring that up... that was actually our little social experiment over the weekend..
Tom originally suggested to swain to use the tits as the icon when he first made mastermind 1.... Swain chose not to because it might defeat the punchline of the gag... but for the sake of kicks Tom replaced the icon ... threw it on the front page and we were looking at if the views would climb dramatically.

At 1/28/08 08:46 AM, Luis wrote: that was actually our little social experiment over the weekend..

Probably wasn't too hard to predict what would happen, was it?

At 1/28/08 09:18 AM, Cheektoghetto wrote:

At 1/28/08 08:46 AM, Luis wrote: that was actually our little social experiment over the weekend..

Probably wasn't too hard to predict what would happen, was it?

In a half hour it jumped 4,000. Then later on in the night it was over 16,000+ views.

Just goes to show what NG members are looking for these days...

Boxes of Peni-corns in the office basement...each box contains 120 of them.

Swain and April in the front, there.

At 1/28/08 11:15 AM, citricsquid wrote:

At 1/28/08 01:41 AM, Luis wrote: so like toms going pretty hardcore on castle crashers.. so much so that he isnt going to shave until he finishes ... lmao.

I hope thats not you Luis, in a girls coat?!

lmao... nah its not a girls coat its a snorkel jacket... i love them. i have them in all sorts of colors... problem is that i can rarely find use for any of them.

It was cold in philly so it was perfect. Swain is from florida and his heavy coat wasnt heavy enough lmao..... i love fur lined hoods.....

At 1/28/08 05:12 AM, The-Super-Flash-Bros wrote: Aww, that didn't work, try again:

http://web.archive.org/web/*/newgrounds.
com

Tom-

Hehe, I like this one:

Concerned parents try to ban the site the first time round.

The text-based games are remarkably well-preserved.

At 1/28/08 01:41 AM, Luis wrote: so like toms going pretty hardcore on castle crashers.. so much so that he isnt going to shave until he finishes ... lmao.

lol Tom looks so rugged with his facial hair. Not to mention, he looks older as well.

I feel bad

So I was just looking through the armorblog and saw a post on AS3 being not quite as fast as Adobe promised. I've been using AS3 at work for a while now, and I know for a fact that in a lot of cases, AS3 is at least 10x faster than AS2.

Anyway, the guy's results were completely miss-interpreted, so I posted a few replies saying as much, in a pretty harsh way I guess.

Then I realised its Tony, aka The-EXP, who I'd met back in London last year. Now I feel bad about being harsh :(

Sorry Tony!

Tom-

At 1/28/08 12:11 PM, The-Super-Flash-Bros wrote: So I was just looking through the armorblog and saw a post on AS3 being not quite as fast as Adobe promised.

What did Adobe promise? I am curious about that... I've always been on the wall about switching over or not.

At 1/28/08 11:35 AM, Luis wrote:
lmao... nah its not a girls coat its a snorkel jacket... i love them. i have them in all sorts of colors... problem is that i can rarely find use for any of them.

It was cold in philly so it was perfect. Swain is from florida and his heavy coat wasnt heavy enough lmao..... i love fur lined hoods.....

It's ok you wear girl's clothing man, nothing to be embarrassed about, we still love you the way you are

At 1/28/08 12:11 PM, The-Super-Flash-Bros wrote: Anyway, the guy's results were completely miss-interpreted, so I posted a few replies saying as much, in a pretty harsh way I guess.

I don't think you were harsh at all.

At 1/28/08 12:11 PM, The-Super-Flash-Bros wrote: I feel bad

So I was just looking through the armorblog and saw a post on AS3 being not quite as fast as Adobe promised. I've been using AS3 at work for a while now, and I know for a fact that in a lot of cases, AS3 is at least 10x faster than AS2.

Anyway, the guy's results were completely miss-interpreted, so I posted a few replies saying as much, in a pretty harsh way I guess.

Then I realised its Tony, aka The-EXP, who I'd met back in London last year. Now I feel bad about being harsh :(

Sorry Tony!

You didn't come across as being that harsh :P Maybe we're all just too used to seeing critique from adolescent American kids, but for a harsh destruction of someone's theory you came across as being quite lovely :)

Besides, nobody should really object to being argued against in an honest and sensible way, especially when it's in all of our interests to learn how to work as efficiently as possible when it comes to coding stuff.

Is it me or does Mr.Fulp in that picture look like a pimp, i think its because of his jacket.

At 1/28/08 02:38 PM, BritishMoose wrote: *coders

Har Har

Pro. Animation

So I showed a professional animator Webcamoose! and he said he'd hire me for any 2D character animation if he ever needed it. Cool or what? I'm working on a 30 second demo reel to send him.

(I'm only telling you this so that I can post my hilarious joke; I quoted too much)

wow congrats
tom's beard and mastermind
Why didn't you tell him that he looks like a terrorist that way ?
Now i am going to watch mastermind...

At 1/28/08 11:35 AM, Luis wrote:

At 1/28/08 11:15 AM, citricsquid wrote:

At 1/28/08 01:41 AM, Luis wrote: so like toms going pretty hardcore on castle crashers.. so much so that he isnt going to shave until he finishes ... lmao.

I hope thats not you Luis, in a girls coat?!

lmao... nah its not a girls coat its a snorkel jacket... i love them. i have them in all sorts of colors... problem is that i can rarely find use for any of them.

So then you have the red patent pumps to go with it, I assume.

Compooter

I got lucky. I managed to pull of the AFD6 main fla and the Menu fla. Those are both safely on my drive.

Anything else... we'll find out.

At 1/28/08 12:11 PM, The-Super-Flash-Bros wrote: Anyway, the guy's results were completely miss-interpreted, so I posted a few replies saying as much, in a pretty harsh way I guess.

You freaking jerk, Tony's a great guy and you really hurt his feelings there. He just MSN'd me saying how he doesn't want to work on flash anymore because of your comments, and said he'll be getting a job at the local starbucks.

You ruined his life. He's probably crying in a cold shower right now.

Needless to say I just went and criticized his blog post too.

Legos
Legos are 50 years old today :). I know everyone here absolutely loves Legos.

MOFG, I LURRRRRRVE LEGOS!

p.s. Level 17 get :3

I should really deposit my points more... or I'll never get to vote again :C

At 1/28/08 05:45 PM, ArthurGhostly wrote: I always thought the plural of Lego was Lego.

"Legos" just sounds ugly.

Yeah, I always say Lego. Legos is a silly word. It sounds like a Greek island.

LEGO

OMFG LEGO :OOOO

I still play with lego(s) to this day and I'm not afraid to say it. Lego are just awesome, It doesn't matter what you're building or why you're building it, it's fun as hell.

so THAT's why google went all blocky on me today

At 1/28/08 06:58 PM, hashbrown wrote: actually down here in california almost all guys have fur on their hoods, its like a fashion. you also gotta have he tight pants so fat people are left out.

I refuse to be a part of that trend. I hate tight pants >:C

For anyone that cares Mastermind 1 has climbed to #13 all time.. purely based on changing the icon to tits..... LMAO.

Coffee
I've started drinking coffee on a more frequent basis, and I find my alertness quite startling. Anyone here a coffee drinker? NO frappacinos don't count.

At 1/28/08 07:26 PM, hashbrown wrote: i like em :3

Hashie I never knew you were such a Socal punk :P. Where do you hail from?

At 1/28/08 07:26 PM, hashbrown wrote:

At 1/28/08 07:00 PM, atomic-noodle wrote:
I refuse to be a part of that trend. I hate tight pants >:C

i like em :3

DUN.. DUN.. DUUNNNNN.......

At 1/28/08 08:20 PM, jmtb02 wrote: Coffee
I've started drinking coffee on a more frequent basis, and I find my alertness quite startling. Anyone here a coffee drinker? NO frappacinos don't count.

I don;t drink it regularly, but a few years ago I taught myself to like it anyway (no sugar, but a lot of cream). I drink decaf when I do, so only for the taste.

I drink caffeinated stuff on purpose only every once and a while. If you gain a dependence for it, that isn't good. But it tastes good so I do drink it on occasion.

At 1/28/08 08:29 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: If you gain a dependence for it, that isn't good. But it tastes good so I do drink it on occasion.

Like heroin!

At 1/28/08 08:20 PM, Luis wrote: For anyone that cares Mastermind 1 has climbed to #13 all time.. purely based on changing the icon to tits..... LMAO.

Maybe we should all change our movie icons to tits.