At 4/14/08 06:55 AM, Amish wrote: Hey guys, I'm an old school reg. Whats going on these days?

Holy shit, one of the other originals is aliveeeee! It's been just NegativeOne and myself holding out it seems since the old lounge was closes...like what, 2-3 years ago? Glad to see you're still alive and kicking my friend. Are you still into the PK scene?

I like how generation of Regs are defined by which Amish they know :).

At 4/14/08 10:57 AM, GustTheASGuy wrote:

At 4/14/08 07:37 AM, GuyWithHisComp wrote: Wait, Amish Kumar?

Nooo that's like Hashbrown.

I thought Hash was the only Amish here :s What's going on?

At 4/14/08 12:33 PM, jmtb02 wrote: I like how generation of Regs are defined by which Amish they know :).

I'm unfortunately of the cryogenically frozen one that remembers the one who wore the black hat and grew the long beard. And had a cart instead of an automobile

At 4/14/08 04:16 PM, yhar wrote: He was even before this thread :O

This thread isn't old. It's the second/third incarnation of the concept of the Flash Reg thread from what I've heard

At 4/14/08 04:40 PM, BritishMoose wrote: How Reg are you?

This topic comes up constantly, someone should make a list of the reg lounge topics that come up every 20 pages.

I signed up in 04, posted a little, but didn't really start until July 05 so I've been around almost 3 years....woo...

At 4/14/08 04:40 PM, BritishMoose wrote: How Reg are you?

I was here long before the Reg Lounge, but I mostly lurked and wrote in collab threads. It took me a while to post in the lounge though. I've always considered myself a reg of LIam's time - that was my lurking period.

I think I'm more of a reg of the 'Inglor Period'.

I was around in the Senti Period. Times were tough, but the peasants were content.

I was an icantcolourin reg for a while before I signed up to NG, back when stick animations were still ripe.

I'm really reg because I eat a lot of bran and whole grains.

At 4/14/08 05:06 PM, Senti wrote: I was around in the Senti Period. Times were tough, but the peasants were content.

Lies. I heard the peasants led a rebellion >:(

At 4/14/08 04:59 PM, Coaly wrote:

This topic comes up constantly, someone should make a list of the reg lounge topics that come up every 20 pages.

I was about to say the same thing, and I have hereby officially started said list, I expect it to turn out very lenghty.

Back on topic, I'm not very reggy.

At 4/14/08 04:22 PM, KaynSlamdyke wrote:

At 4/14/08 04:16 PM, yhar wrote: He was even before this thread :O

This thread isn't old. It's the second/third incarnation of the concept of the Flash Reg thread from what I've heard

:O

WHAT ELSE HAVEN'T YOU BEEN TELLING ME?

Although the Inglor Collection thread ws pretty reggish while it lasted, as far as I remember.

At 4/14/08 05:01 PM, UnknownFury wrote:

At 4/14/08 04:40 PM, BritishMoose wrote:

I think I'm more of a reg of the 'Inglor Period'.

Ahh, good times. I think I lived through that from near the start to the end. Gotta love the four way bickering between him, liam, Toast and EmoChicken.

At 4/14/08 04:59 PM, Coaly wrote:

This topic comes up constantly, someone should make a list of the reg lounge topics that come up every 20 pages.

I'm willing to make a list from here on out if you want. I'm going back through the previous 1059 pages though >:P

At 4/14/08 05:23 PM, ImpendingRiot wrote: List of Reoccurring Reg Topics
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Anti-collab posts

Can I be a mod?

Declining Quality of Flash Submissions

Cats

Alcohol

"Good Ol' Days"

Crazy Religious Statement

Complex AS problem that animators don't get

Don't forget the school grades man, they are way high up on that list.

At 4/14/08 05:06 PM, yhar wrote: I was around for flashregs.net and the rogues gallery, but nothing more than that :(

I got into the Rogues Gallery.

Oh and if that is you squid, mind doing a reformat on my site at hostsquid? There's a folder I can't write over or delete at the moment...

How Reg Are YOU?
I'm just becoming a reg I think. Well, probably within the past 6 months or so I've been one or have started to be. I mean, I remember having this exact freakin' conversation with a list of types of regs about 200 pages back or so. I think that I've gotten around 2500 or 3000 out of my almost 4000 in the past 1/2 or 3/4ths of a year.

List of Topics
Do you really think we should? I mean, the topics recur because they always change...I mean if I had come in here and said how reg was I a year ago, I'd be like ... I'm definitely not and have 'no idea wat teh flahs iz.' Although that's true, we could get a bit more diversity since Luis probably starts 9/10 good topics.

First Posts

heh, I thought this would be kinda fun. Look back at a couple of your first posts (if you had a file before the one your on now, look at that files posts) and kinda see what you were. A spammer? Picture spammer? Good, but short poster? Or did you start out writing amazing posts and stuffs? I think it's gonna be kinda fun to see the mods first posts at newgrounds, just to see that they are people :p.

Some of my first posts were (and this is on my first account, Noobish-Pineapple)...ahh god, these are embarrassing...remember I was 11 and stuffs:

In the topic: Saddest Video Game Moments:

I almost cried when Tidus finds out Yuna is gonna die after the pilgrimage in FFX, and when i beat FFX in like a week because i thought it was gonna be so hard...and after you beat the game of anything then you probably never feel like playing it again...esspecialy like final fantasy because they don't have any other playing modes...oh yeah and when Jecht voulennteers to be Braskas fayth, so Jecht dies...for some reason that was sad too

And I also almost cried when the guy who looks like Tidus dies...I only almost cried because he looked like Tidus, i didn't relize it wasn't Tidus..that was in FFX-2

and in FF7 when Aeris died...that was sad too....And if you didnt relize already...I LIKE FINAL FANTASY

i'd say that wasn't too bad for a first post

Ok, this is a topic I made: How Do You Get a BBS Pic? (I dunno if I was talking about Sig or a pic in your post..)

I tried, I made a pic in paint and then i tried putting it as my BBS pic but it said it needed to be gif, what do i do?

Genuine noob moment

And this is the last one I'm gonna say (I'm only looking through first page cuz I'm lazy)...I don't believe in much of this stuff anymore but...Topic: DID ya ever think:

huh, I guess I do agree with the last couple of sentences

there has to be a god...or else how did we just appear on this world? huh did we just pop out of no where and then start eating like we've been eating for hundreds of years? if there was no god, then when we appeared on this world we wouldn't know anything we wouldn't have any intellengence, plus the fact that we wouldn't just poof out of no where, so there must be some kind of god but i think that the churchs have no real idea of what god is like except a book probably wrote just to make peace between people or something, a book that probably isn't true, but we have no proof, so i think that the churchs don't know what they're talking about but...for any of you really religious people, i'm sorry

Now lets see yours! Funny, embarrassing...even normal, its all for good fun! Step up and post your first couple posts!

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At 4/14/08 05:23 PM, ImpendingRiot wrote: List of Reoccurring Reg Topics

The 'reg collab' used to come out a lot, until we tried it last year and it.. died, didn't it?

How reg are you?
Well, i'm not as reg as most of you, but i have my moments, mostly on boring periods or vacations, but i ussually dont post if i dont find anything worth it, tho i read what you post, so you can never be truly calm, i could be watching ;)

first posts
I used to be kinda shy (yes, on the internet) and tried to post like, very correctly...
My first two were on a debate about being vegetarian and that peta was evil or something, and i just posted what i thinked and how i tought both vegetarian nad no vegetarian had a point. Then I posted some drawings and also posted about why i didnt like jerryjackson.

RE: First Posts

haha, oh my...i hate my 2003 self. that was back when i was 12. i can't stand to look at my old posts and reviews anymore. i'm so embarrassed :3

"teachers are so stpid, they have no common sense either! the substitues always pronounce my name as "stefan" when it sounds like steven! ppl constantly misspell my name too, the attendance person always write steven on it rather than stephen! i know im a bit picky, but it just annoys me and makes me think theyre stupid! even my cousins do that every once in a while!"

First Posts
Can we not talk about this. It's another recurring topic that we had about a month ago.

At 4/14/08 06:10 PM, NG-Unit wrote: First Posts

Another topic that has come up time and time again. Not even that long ago it came up D:

One of my first posts, that makes me laugh everytime is this:

"Looking for a php expert for web template company (under construction), Fusion Designs, is lookin for a php expert. Will get paid per Template sold - 40% profit if helped an %25 just as a payment. Plus if u set up a interigated bb will get 10% bonus on first 2templates!

Most templates i have mades (sold a few) prices are around $63 and $1500(unique) i have sold 1 unique,. The website still needs to be finnished

Yours faithly,
Will Steel
Fusion Designs"

I don't think there is any truth in the whole post. Well, from memory, I had sold a template.. for $10. I fail :'(

Topics

You keep complaining about topics popping up that have been done before 20 pages ago, so here's an original prompt. let's see where it ends up, let the conversation develop rather than die out and suddenly start a new topic to 'keep the flow' going, cause usually one topic can flow nicely into another on it's own after a while.

Anyone ever write any really stupid essays for school? I just wrote one for english, where we could pick out own thesis about Macbeth. So I said it was a metaphor for newton's laws of physics, and didn't take the essay seriously at all, and I got a 96 on it.

I got a 96 for not taking it seriously, yet the people that did got lower scores than me.

Fun times, fun times.

RE: Essay

do you still have the essay? you should upload it somewhere if it's digital or scan it and go to step 1 if not. it sounds funny (:

the stupidest essay i've done? haha...my teacher once assigned a paragraph on how to write better essays, and i ended up writing an essay on essentially how it's his fault that our essays suck. i don't think i ever got graded on that. the essays have gotten more interesting over the years from him since then, though.

Stupid essays

Ya, it seems you can still do good while not taking it seriously, as long as the writing and format is good. I once had to write an essay doing a comparison, and I compared rap music to country music, stating how similar they were (in terms of their content and values). As far as I remember, I did pretty good on it.

As for recurring topics, ya, the First Post thing came up just a few weeks ago I think. Not too far back.

At 4/14/08 08:15 PM, Rammer wrote: RE: Essay

do you still have the essay? you should upload it somewhere if it's digital or scan it and go to step 1 if not. it sounds funny (:

Here it is, copy and pasted from the better looking text file. We had to quote both macbeth and the movie scotland p.a. (which was based off of macbeth)

Tyler Glaiel
Mrs. Alves
World Literature II - G Period
5 April, 2008

Macbeth as a Metaphor for Newtonian Physics

William Shakespeare's classic play, Macbeth, can be viewed as a metaphor for Newtonian physics, or more specifically, Newton's three laws of motion. The first law of motion is that an object at rest stays at rest until an unbalanced force acts upon it. In the case of Macbeth, the equilibrium of the lives of the characters is what could be considered the "object at rest". The second law of motion is that an object with an unbalanced force acting upon it will accelerate at a constant rate. In Macbeth, an "accelerating object" is whenever a character's personality, emotional state, or life is changing. The third law of motion is that every action has an equal but opposite reaction, where in the case of Macbeth, an action could be compared to the way a character interacts with another character.
Newton's first law of motion is fairly easy to relate to Macbeth. It states that an object at rest or in constant motion will stay at rest or in constant motion until an unbalanced force acts upon it. In the beginning of Macbeth, the welfare of the kingdom and Macbeth's life were balanced and consistent. Nothing major was changing for the kingdom as a whole, until the unbalanced force of Macbeth killing Duncan was introduced into the plot. At this point, the plot started moving forward at a much faster pace, and the downfall of Macbeth was beginning to take place. This outside action sets the play in motion, and without any other outside forces acting on it the play remains in motion until the very end. After murdering Duncan, Macbeth hears a voice mutter "Macbeth shall sleep no more." (Macbeth 2.2.56). This quote shows that this one action will not allow Macbeth to ever rest again, because murdering Duncan has set Macbeth's previously restful life in motion. An object at rest will only stay at rest if nothing acts upon it.
The second law of motion states that a force acting upon an object will cause acceleration. In Macbeth and Scotland P.A., Billy Morrissette's movie which is based on the play but in a modern time, this is proven because every new action that the Macbeths do compile onto each other, creating more problems and accelerating the rate of their demise. In the movie, Mac only had a little trouble trying to keep himself from saying anything that would reveal the fact that he killed Duncan. However, the more he did wrong, such as killing Banquo and continually lying to Macduff, caused him and his wife to spiral into a state of near insanity. The forces of evil which led Mac to commit more crimes caused the rate of his demise to accelerate to the point where it could not be stopped. Mac seeing his friend ask "Why did you kill me?" is a perfect example of his mental demise. If Mac had never killed Banquo, then his mental state would not have ever reached the point where he was hallucinating his ghost, which proves that those acts caused an accelerated downfall of the Macbeths mental states, in line with Newton's second law of motion.
"Every action has an equal but opposite reaction" is the simple form of Newton's third law. This is very apparent in Macbeth, because the entire play is based on a series of cause and effect relationships. The most important one is the whole plot of the play. If one were to reduce the play to one sentence, it would be "Macbeth kills Duncan, and then Macduff kills Macbeth." This illustrates the action, Macbeth killing Duncan, and the equal but opposite reaction, Macduff killing Macbeth. As Macduff states at the end of the play, "Behold where stands [t]h' usurper's cursèd head. The time is free." (Macbeth 5.8.65) The usurper of the throne, Macbeth, has been usurped. This reaction is equal, because it is the same action of usurping through murder as Macbeth usurping Duncan's throne by murdering him, but opposite because this time Macbeth is the victim of the usurping, rather than the usurper.
These examples show how Macbeth can be viewed as a metaphor for Newtonian physics by comparing the forces which control motion in physics to the events which control the plot in Macbeth. The play stays in equilibrium until an event occurs, the events cause an acceleration of plot intensity and number of problems, and no character was able to do something without an equal and opposite consequence. Newton's laws are used to describe the motion of a physical object, however they also do a good job of describing the plot of this classic play.

Stupid Ass Essays
Are you kidding? I love doing essays that teachers just find funny and give you good grades on. I read the Odyssey earlier this year and our teacher made us "write an essay that is about another one of Odysseus' adventures", because that's basically all he does in the book [tell about adventures]. I decided that I'd be my jackass self and write a whole story about how they went to an island and the beginning I took seriously, but then just started getting crazier and crazier. Basically here's an overview: I started out with a nice, creative introduction of them storming an island with no civilization on it. It progressively becomes ridiculous where a giant hole in the ground appear and the people start forming into waves [literally] and are just being crushed by this monster. Odysseus is the only one who survives and he prays...but not only does he pray, but he prays to none other than the God of Rock...Queen [yes the band]. They use their might guitar skillz and vanquish the big-ass dragon which was written actually beautifully.

Jackass Interpretations
Speaking of things like that, have you ever been told to do something like a book report or project which you just took so stupidly on purpose and made a joke out of it. My English teacher [again] told us we had to do a presentation on a book we read during the year. Instead of doing any book, I was an asshole and chose I Am America, And So Can You, Stephen Colbert's book. It was awesome and I aced it!

At 4/14/08 08:28 PM, El-Presidente wrote: Jackass Interpretations
Speaking of things like that, have you ever been told to do something like a book report or project which you just took so stupidly on purpose and made a joke out of it. My English teacher [again] told us we had to do a presentation on a book we read during the year. Instead of doing any book, I was an asshole and chose I Am America, And So Can You, Stephen Colbert's book. It was awesome and I aced it!

I tried to last year, but my teacher said that "Fox in Socks" wasn't a difficult enough reading level for me.

I told her to read it out loud then without messing up, but she didn't and told me to pick something else. So I didn't do it, cause it was just an extra credit assignment anyway.

I once wrote a book report about the Catcher in the Rye which consisted entirely of:

"OMG, I tink Holden is KEWT, lol"

My teacher graded it in l337sp33k and told me I was not 1337 enough to write my paper like that. :(

At 4/14/08 08:27 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: Macbeth as a Metaphor for Newtonian Physics
-Essay

Although my English teacher would kill me for some of the repetitiveness and structure [he just likes brief to the point essays], I have to say it's probably one of the most genius things I've ever read. Next time I get something about creative writing I'm definitely going to actually spend time to bullshit my way through it and I'll post it up here when I'm done.

At 4/14/08 08:32 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: I tried to last year, but my teacher said that "Fox in Socks" wasn't a difficult enough reading level for me.

Aw damn, that would've been a freaky deaky dutch essay

By the way, I'm having fun doing campaign posters running for class president, so if anyone has any genius ideas please tell me.