I hate to sound like your dad but have you strategically planned out what you would do in case of a nuclear blast or similar disaster in which you had to evacuate?

Everyone knows that you just have to duck and cover to survive the bomb.

I spent like 30 minutes thinking about it today in the car. I live in Los Angeles which is crazy traffic and nearly 10 million people and if something went wrong it would be seriously crowded on the street and freeways... it's hard enough getting home at 5 pm.

I'm with ya. I remember when hurricane Rita was projected to hit here (Houston)... the interstates out of town were at a stand still. At the time I worked about 5 minutes away from my house, but it took me an hour and a half to get home (around 2 miles on the highway)--I almost ran out of gas. The city eventually started knocking down the medians and allowing traffic to move down the opposite side of the highways, closing off most of those lanes to oncoming traffic.

So in response to your question--no, I hadn't thought about it. I guess I think it's too much of a chaotic situation to have a working plan established. Maybe I'm just a little uneducated on the subject... how big is the 'must evacuate' zone usually? I mean at some point you're too far away for it to matter much, and at some other point you're too close and gonna get fried anyway

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Not as cool as BOLD TEXT, but still pretty sweet.

At 5/19/08 04:14 PM, SuperSkittles wrote: Bodies pile up, though. And supplies run thin. You might want a more secure place to stake out the end of days.

If a virus spreads that reanimates people's bodies to be vicious super strength killers, I think I'll pitch realism to the side.

At 5/19/08 11:25 PM, TheCriminalDuder wrote: Code text pwns all though. Remember the 3+ pages of posting in code? lol :P

I remember the 3+ pages of hollow threats of bans because of everyone posting in code.

At 5/20/08 01:00 AM, Coaly wrote:
I remember the 3+ pages of hollow threats of bans because of everyone posting in code.

Try remembering the fun of it. It'll make you happy if you think positive. Negative thoughts lead to negative emotions. : )

Wasn't suggesting to bring back the trend in case that's what it looked like. :P

At 5/20/08 01:15 AM, TheCriminalDuder wrote: Try remembering the fun of it. It'll make you happy if you think positive. Negative thoughts lead to negative emotions. : )

Eh, we can't all pull off fab I guess.

Looks like someone's been flagging all my positive reviews :s

What do you make of that? Review voting should only be used against negative reviews :P

At 5/20/08 10:01 AM, Paranoia wrote: Looks like someone's been flagging all my positive reviews :s
What do you make of that? Review voting should only be used against negative reviews :P

That's not entirely true, you can mark a review as abusing if it gives the submission a low score and no constructive criticism.

I don't think though that you need to worry about the positive reviews on your game that has been marked abusive. Most likely it's only one person who marked them, and if he marks reviews like those he can't have high whistle power, meaning those reviews probably won't even get in the review mods' radar (and if any of them do, it will probably only result in that the mod lets them be and thereby reduces the whistler's points).

Daily Fifth for 4.14. Newgrounds has certainly gotten better :).

At 5/20/08 11:55 AM, jmtb02 wrote: Daily Fifth for 4.14. Newgrounds has certainly gotten better :).

That's pretty much what mine had before it got FP raped :P Can't argue with improving quality.

At 5/20/08 12:05 PM, Paranoia wrote:

At 5/20/08 11:55 AM, jmtb02 wrote: Daily Fifth for 4.14. Newgrounds has certainly gotten better :).

That's pretty much what mine had before it got FP raped :P Can't argue with improving quality.

That you can't, just pushes us to do better. I had a 3.8x on my last game at the end of the day and didn't get any daily awards, o well, it's the reviews that count.

Some of it is just luck also. I've seen slow days where a 3.8x movie will take the crown. That uncertainty is what makes the portal kinda cool i think. I HATE people who try to take advantage of the system (im lookin at you GranFaloon and your stunt with the pico day thing).

At 5/19/08 06:11 PM, NG-Unit wrote: RE: Credits

I like it when people have bloopers and stuff at the end of the movie because its way better than watching text scroll up...woo

But one thing I hate is bloopers in animated movies, because they can't be bloopers if they are set up, and how can you accidentally animate something?

I don't mind seeing bloopers in animated movies. Monster's Inc is a perfect example, some of them were freaking hillarious. It just adds to the comedy, and thats a good thing in my book.

SAD :( :( :(

That's some serious damage, did you drop it?

At 5/20/08 01:36 PM, Xeptic wrote: That's some serious damage, did you drop it?

Oh! that's NOT meant to look like that, i was going to say that it was a pretty cool desktop!

:O

At 5/20/08 01:42 PM, dELtaluca wrote:

At 5/20/08 01:36 PM, Xeptic wrote: That's some serious damage, did you drop it?

Oh! that's NOT meant to look like that, i was going to say that it was a pretty cool desktop!

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i thought it was cool at first but then i realised :D

And it might be against the grain but like I have said before I would take a Front Page over a daily or weekly award any day. I think exposure is much more important than a 50x50 pixel award.

At 5/20/08 02:04 PM, jmtb02 wrote: And it might be against the grain but like I have said before I would take a Front Page over a daily or weekly award any day. I think exposure is much more important than a 50x50 pixel award.

You've said that before and I agree. Its, generally, going to do get your game/movie a lot more hits than the awards are.

But after frontpage how do you keep people playing your game/watching your movie?

At 5/20/08 02:47 PM, adman1993 wrote: But after frontpage how do you keep people playing your game/watching your movie?

After awards, how do you keep people playing your game?

People telling others about it - thats where a lot of exposure for games comes from.

At 5/20/08 01:36 PM, Xeptic wrote: That's some serious damage, did you drop it?

Nah, I had a friend using it and he was messing around and somehow this was the result.

:( :( :(

RE: Senti's screen

Commiserations on your screen Senti, but is that that Daft Punk film you were watching? Is it actually any good?

At 5/20/08 03:04 PM, Senti wrote:

At 5/20/08 01:36 PM, Xeptic wrote: That's some serious damage, did you drop it?

Nah, I had a friend using it and he was messing around and somehow this was the result.

( :( :(

So it's software related? Might not be fatal then if you're lucky.

At 5/20/08 03:06 PM, Kirk-Cocaine wrote: RE: Senti's screen

Commiserations on your screen Senti, but is that that Daft Punk film you were watching? Is it actually any good?

Thanks Kirk. I wasn't actually watching it, it's just a frame from the movie as my background. I've never sen it either, and from what I've heard it seems more artsy and experimental than entertaining anyways. Also, there's no original music from Daft Punk either in the film, so I'm not looking THAT forward to it. But, the stills from the movie are very pretty.

At 5/20/08 03:08 PM, Xeptic wrote: So it's software related? Might not be fatal then if you're lucky.

No, that picture shos a clear shattering of the screen in the upper left hand corner. I'm going to have to get the screen replaces most definitely. I've heard prices can range from $400 - $700, so I'm REAL looking forward to that.

At 5/20/08 12:59 PM, Luis wrote: Some of it is just luck also. I've seen slow days where a 3.8x movie will take the crown. That uncertainty is what makes the portal kinda cool i think. I HATE people who try to take advantage of the system (im lookin at you GranFaloon and your stunt with the pico day thing).

On that subject, it's annoying that a preview which was essentially just the first half of the eventual submission picked up a daily second. My opinion's probably a little biased since the guy knocked me back on the dailies, and it's really not my thing in any case, but it still seems a little cheeky.

Maybe the guy wasn't trying to abuse the system, but given the extra exposure that otherwise unnoticed artists get from dailies, as well as vastly increased chances of getting Front Paged (unless Tom sifts through every submission submitted every day, it seems like there should be some kind of moderation for them.

At 5/20/08 02:04 PM, jmtb02 wrote: And it might be against the grain but like I have said before I would take a Front Page over a daily or weekly award any day. I think exposure is much more important than a 50x50 pixel award.

Yeah, but you've got all the reputation you need. For smaller time guys, awards to give a quick impression that you've got some skills can mean a lot. That's why I think user pages should give bigger award cases, and acknowledgements of time on the front page.

It'd be pretty cool to have a 'trophy cabinet' page with an interactive .swf representing all the different awards you have. The cabinet could get extra shelves and a shinier background if you had more awards, and you could mouse-over them to get details of the submissions they were for. If it's not on the five mile long 'to do' list, it should be already.

At 5/20/08 02:04 PM, jmtb02 wrote: And it might be against the grain but like I have said before I would take a Front Page over a daily or weekly award any day. I think exposure is much more important than a 50x50 pixel award.

I agree. Only reason I ever care if I get an award is that there's a larger chance I can get exposure on the FP. Much more important to me as well.

At 5/20/08 04:23 PM, Coolio-Niato wrote:

At 5/20/08 02:04 PM, jmtb02 wrote: And it might be against the grain but like I have said before I would take a Front Page over a daily or weekly award any day. I think exposure is much more important than a 50x50 pixel award.

I agree. Only reason I ever care if I get an award is that there's a larger chance I can get exposure on the FP. Much more important to me as well.

Awards are important for your newgrounds morale. You could hypothetically beg tom enough and he'd put you on the front page because hed feel sorry for you. He's too much of a hero.

Awards are like proving yourself to your father(the portal) that hates you and wants you to fail. They are a tough crowd if you think about it... NG is one of the only sites where users have the abilitiy to punish your shit and delete it from the site. Thats different from a youtube or something where they will take anything and everything no matter how little effort you put into it.

At 5/20/08 11:55 AM, jmtb02 wrote: Daily Fifth for 4.14. Newgrounds has certainly gotten better :).

That, or people now tend to vote higher on good flashes. Same thing for the reviews.

At 5/20/08 06:12 PM, Luis wrote: Awards are like proving yourself to your father(the portal) that hates you and wants you to fail.

Oh wow Luis, I love that metaphor

At 5/20/08 06:15 PM, Lalo wrote: That, or people now tend to vote higher on good flashes. Same thing for the reviews.

I think it's a little of both. The standard of submissions have definitely been raised in the last year or so, but people seems to give away high votes and review scores much more easily now than before.