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.

Hello strategy! >:3
Well If I could changed the icon for The Duders: Weather I'd so totally change it to tits right now... :(

At 1/28/08 08:48 PM, Kanadian-Keith wrote:

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.

watch this, you may like it, you might not:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=nCpmMdOTTP8

he did the same thing to prove a point and that video is him talking about thumbnail using lol

God i can't stand people who do a youtube blog or presentation in front of their camera. 'Oh look at me how well-spoken and charismatic i am, hee hee.. I am the shit here on youtube but once there are more than 2 people in a room and i have to talk i am just a shy little shit who stares at the ground replying only with yes, no and uhuh'
It's probably the number 1 thing that pisses me off most in this world followed closely by using a deodorant spray instead of a roller and losing my luggage on an airport. \

/END RANT

At 1/28/08 08:48 PM, Kanadian-Keith wrote:

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.

watch this, you may like it, you might not:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=nCpmMdOTTP8

he did the same thing to prove a point and that video is him talking about thumbnail using lol

Reminded me of Dr.Cox from Scrubs, but with a British/Australian accent.

Weird rewarding things.
I'm workin' on a game here right, (dang programming gets me confused. :S) anyway I still got a lot to do but after stepping back and checking it out and quite pleased and I just got a nice rewarding feeling about it for some weird reason... ya ever get that guys?

Linky to game demo thing. (Arrow keys move, spacebar shoot) (Would've used Spamtheweb but it's nav bar won't take me to the uploader for some reason. :*()

I just got a nice rewarding feeling about it for some weird reason... ya ever get that guys?

Yes, I know exactly how you feel, that's why I like coding stuff, you can get fairly regular rewards from seeing your work in progress....animation is sooo tedious.

At 1/29/08 12:47 AM, BoMToons wrote:

you can get fairly regular rewards from seeing your work in progress....animation is sooo tedious.

Dang... ya'll you coders are the ones that been getting the better end of the steak. I need to start rethinking my professions... >:(

Man, yesterday from the time i got home (around noon) i watched the entire series 6 of scrubs :P (DVD)

At 1/28/08 12:19 PM, jmtb02 wrote: What did Adobe promise? I am curious about that... I've always been on the wall about switching over or not.

They said the new VM runs code about 10 times faster than the old one, and it actually does, if not even faster. Most of my speed test on large, practical applications (not just setting a variable 10000 times) gives a speed boost of around 8-12 times better than AS2

Tom-

At 1/29/08 04:27 AM, The-Super-Flash-Bros wrote:

At 1/28/08 12:19 PM, jmtb02 wrote: What did Adobe promise? I am curious about that... I've always been on the wall about switching over or not.

They said the new VM runs code about 10 times faster than the old one, and it actually does, if not even faster. Most of my speed test on large, practical applications (not just setting a variable 10000 times) gives a speed boost of around 8-12 times better than AS2

I can also tell you from personal experience that the game I'm developing in it is running a hell of a lot smoother than experience tells me it would in AS2, both in and out of browser.

At 1/29/08 10:08 AM, Paranoia wrote: I can also tell you from personal experience that the game I'm developing in it is running a hell of a lot smoother than experience tells me it would in AS2, both in and out of browser.

That's something to remember by the way: The Debug version of the flash player (the one flash opens when you test, and probably the standalone player you have installed) can run at as bad as half the speed of the release player (browser plugins)

You can tell if you're looking at a debug player by right clicking - if you see "Show Redraw Regions", you're looking at the debug player.

It used to be that browsers ran flash slower. Oh, how times have changed...

Tom-

This is old, but fucking cool.

we were shown a tech demo video for a thing called seadragon in a lecture today. its basically technology which allows an unlimited amount of (ridiculously hi res) images to be displayed on a screen, moved about and zoomed.

It sounds pretty lame, but just watch the video.

Another, perhaps more impressive part of the video shows the same technology being used with photosynth, to sweep flikr for every image of a certain thing and create a 3D model of it from just using the images.

Its hard to explain, so yeah, watch the video, its seriously impressive!

Sorry that this is old, youve probably all seen it anyway :D

Re: Seadragon

At 1/29/08 10:50 AM, J1mp wrote:

Sorry that this is old, youve probably all seen it anyway :D

Oh yeah. Real old. But awesome nonetheless...

Re: Debug Player?

At 1/29/08 10:35 AM, The-Super-Flash-Bros wrote: You can tell if you're looking at a debug player by right clicking - if you see "Show Redraw Regions", you're looking at the debug player.

Thats... interesting... all my browsers have Show Redraw Regions...
... how do I turn it off Debug mode then? And an even better question - how do I ensure all my site users are running it in non-debug mode?

At 1/29/08 11:14 AM, KaynSlamdyke wrote: Thats... interesting... all my browsers have Show Redraw Regions...
... how do I turn it off Debug mode then? And an even better question - how do I ensure all my site users are running it in non-debug mode?

Go here to install the latest player clean on your browsers.

Only users who have the Flash IDE installed would ever have the debug version at all, and then only a few of them would have installed it to their browsers. Most users will have the regular player.

Tom-

At 1/29/08 10:35 AM, The-Super-Flash-Bros wrote: You can tell if you're looking at a debug player by right clicking - if you see "Show Redraw Regions", you're looking at the debug player.

It used to be that browsers ran flash slower. Oh, how times have changed...

Tom-

Wait, really? So, Flash runs slower or about as fast in Test as in Firefox now? If that's the case, then AS3's working out even more efficiently than I thought :P

holografika

pretty cool no? Requires no glasses, no head tracker - also working for any number of people, and gives a perfect 3d projection out of the screen. I wouldn't mind having one if someone payed for it :P they have an openGL wrapper to intercept messages to openGL to render whatever is being rendered on the screen aswell.

At 1/29/08 05:53 PM, dELtaluca wrote: holografika

pretty cool no? Requires no glasses, no head tracker - also working for any number of people, and gives a perfect 3d projection out of the screen. I wouldn't mind having one if someone payed for it :P they have an openGL wrapper to intercept messages to openGL to render whatever is being rendered on the screen aswell.

I found this on Digg the other day..

Link.

At 1/29/08 05:56 PM, SweetSkater wrote: I found this on Digg the other day..

Link.

yeh seen it, but that only allows there to be a single viewer, the one wearing the head-tracker, and having multiple head trackers just doesn't work. This display allows any number of people to view it from whatever angle they want.

not that the wii-headtracker aint cool :P

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.

How do you know it wouldn't have been rated highly without the bewbs icon? I watched it because I got an email saying Swain had submitted a new movie, I rarely look at the front page. We need to visit some parallel universe where it isn't a boobs icon to see what would have happened otherwise :)

Although I'm not denying the icon had a small influence on the score

At 1/29/08 06:14 PM, edit-undo wrote:

Although I'm not denying the icon had a small influence on the score

Go back a few pages. The icon was changed after it made front page and a benchmark number of views was obtained... Even an email to all of Swain's fans wouldn't have provoked the huge leap of views...

I'm sure Tom can get us stats of how many of these click throughs were from the Front Page...

At 1/29/08 06:25 PM, KaynSlamdyke wrote:
Go back a few pages. The icon was changed after it made front page and a benchmark number of views was obtained... Even an email to all of Swain's fans wouldn't have provoked the huge leap of views...

I'm sure Tom can get us stats of how many of these click throughs were from the Front Page...

Yeah the number of views skyrocketed, but i also doubt whether the boobs icon affected the score. A lot of views doesn't really mean a high score. Somehow the stuff on the frontpage gets a high score, but once it's off the score drops rapidly even if it's still watched a lot.

Learning Art

I found this on one of the webcomic sites I read. I thought that some people might be interested by it.

" Unlike mathematics, foreign languages, or chemistry; artistic ability is not a subject that can be "taught" in the strict sense of the word. You might think this is a discussion Trip would be better suited for since he's responsible for more then 99% of the artwork on the site. Unfortunately Trip's incapable of doing so because, you see, he has no fingers. At a young age Trip's hands were lost in a tragic snow cone accident and his digits were replaced with a Wacom tablet and stylus. The reason he seldom posts any text on the site or in the forum is because it is a lengthly and painstaking process with no hands. Thus the task of artistic discussion falls onto my lap. Much like my date last night.

HA! I know, I know, that was a good one; but still...

Contrary to what you may have been indoctrinated with in school, no one can really be *taught* how to be an artist. People can be taught techniques, principles, and practices; but ultimately a "good artist" is classified by their creativity and individuality; and you can't teach either of those.

Between Trip and I, we've attended a grand total of one-semester's worth of art class; and I'll be the one to take responsibility for that. It was a college course and I needed to fulfill my unit requirements to ensure my full-time financial aid package. It was a modest-size class, about 20 of us total and our instructor was a rickety old man who had the unfortunate philosophy that "everyone was beautiful in their own way."

This belief of course influenced his selection of models. He let the other instructors have their choice of the young, nubile, female vixens; our class was forced to derive our inspiration from either (a) the occasional male model; or the majority who were (b) women well into their 40s, unattractive, and even some who were down right unpleasant to look at. The class was composed of 70% men, therefore roughly 70% of the class was already wishing the semester was over after the second week of class. We had been hoping for hot, young, toned, naked chicks with ripe melons and trimmed beavers; woe unto our ignorance.

In addition to providing unappealing artistic inspiration, the instructor graded the class on a curve; "O" for "two" this guy was a piece of work. If you're not familiar with the term, grading on a curve means that everyone's grade is determined statistically according to the highest and/or lowest scoring students. I've never liked that system but it was especially out of place in an art class. It's one thing to say in a math class that "2 + 2 does not equal 13"; but how do you judge what is "the best" and "the worst" when you're dealing with art produced by twenty or so people with different talents? He didn't grade on how well each *individual* understood a given principle, he graded on how "good" or "bad" someone's drawing was in relation to who he deemed to be the "best" artist. What the hell was that about?

There was one good thing I took away from the class, though it wasn't anything that the instructor taught. It was to give up on trying to draw the perfect illustration in the first attempt. It's just like writing a book, a paper, an essay, or a story. Don't be afraid to let your first ideas come out looking like crap; it's a "first draft" it's not supposed to be perfect! Once you've gotten some ideas out of your brain and onto a page, now you have something that can be worked with and improved upon.

Art - just like math, science, driving, sky diving, video games, and sex - is something that takes practice if anyone wants to get get at it. Art is great because there's no right or wrong way to go about it. Unfortunately, from my experience and the experience of many of my artistic friends, that's not a principle that art classes or instructors often teach. It's very easy to get caught up in the technical and mechanical aspects of art when you have someone teaching you out of a textbook instead of someone who gives you some tools and then gives you room and motivation to create.

If you enjoy art, you just do it; you do it at your own pace, and you do what's enjoyable to you, there is nothing more important. That's how you get good, and it's as simple and basic as that.

I have to agree. I mean, obviously, if you like doing something and you keep doing it, hopefully you get better at it."

I dunno, I just thought it was really an interesting point.

It's from http://www.shreddedmoose.com , btw. Most likely NSFW, seeing as how the guy in charge is not afraid to hit every topic possible.

At 1/29/08 06:43 PM, Radioactive24 wrote: Learning Art

Interesting stuff. I've heard that artsy skills can't be "taught" either.

God Tube

In other news. Broadcast Him.

At 1/29/08 06:50 PM, Senti wrote: God Tube

In other news. Broadcast Him.

there are more vids going against God then for Him:/

At 1/30/08 02:54 AM, Kanadian-Keith wrote:
http://www.newgrounds.com/lit/dare/

I remember watching this. ^^

How could I forget with that special part with Stamper in it. :3

As A Noob

It's surprisingly embarrasing looking back to the very beginnings of my life in the BBS. It's also scary how similar my posts were to the noobs of now. Its not only humbling but upsetting to realize that I'm being a hypocrite with my short temper towards noobs. I see now why so many people carried attitudes when dealing with me back then. The exact role reversal is scary.

Like annoying asteriods it sucks I can't just get it off of my profile. Oh well, we have to come from somewhere.

At 1/30/08 09:37 AM, Deathcon7 wrote: As A Noob

Oh well, we have to come from somewhere.

Speak for yourself. I've always been a fairly well spoken bastard who asked for little in the way of basics and always spoke above thier station...

*looks back*

Oh hell... when did I slag off The_EXP?! o.o'

At 1/30/08 09:43 AM, KaynSlamdyke wrote: Speak for yourself. I've always been a fairly well spoken bastard who asked for little in the way of basics and always spoke above thier station...

*looks back*

Oh hell... when did I slag off The_EXP?! o.o'

I guess it depends at what age you came into the thing and your amount of exposure to flash. I came as a total noob barely into High school. At least you had some programming experience. And to be honest, The_EXP had it coming. He was gloating like a child.

At 1/29/08 06:39 PM, AloneInTheDark wrote: Somehow the stuff on the frontpage gets a high score, but once it's off the score drops rapidly even if it's still watched a lot.

Its because it's an easy deposit. I mean, I admit to sometimes doing this doing this... You quickly click on 5 front page submissions, five em and get your deposit of the day. =O

At 1/30/08 09:37 AM, Deathcon7 wrote: As A Noob
...upsetting to realize that I'm being a hypocrite with my short temper towards noobs. I see now why so many people carried attitudes when dealing with me back then. The exact role reversal is scary.

Well apparently its a system that works out, because noobs eventually become yous, or...not noobs anymore at least. I think everyone has made some 'noob' posts, but real noobs are not just inexperienced people but inexperienced ignorant annoying people, so if you were inexperienced and ignorant and annoying, then that is bad but it's normal for inexperienced people to ask simple questions and make mistakes.

Oh well, we have to come from somewhere.

For real, removing your old stuff would be lame.

n00b Activities
In early 2004 I submitted a Flash called Actionscript Cheat Sheet, which got a 2.5 but had something like 50-100 bookmarks, which is pretty good for something of that caliber. But the most striking thing about that submission was a really, really negative review from Afro-Ninja, who told me I should get the fuck off of Newgrounds and that I was worthless in a 0'd review. I almost gave up Flash because he was so mean in that review.

What's funny is that he probably doesn't even know that it was me who he wrote that review for all those years ago.