At 5/20/08 07:32 PM, DreamworX wrote: so, but people seems to give away high votes and review scores much more easily now than before.

I agree...

In my '06 account I had way more blams than saves, because there was a lot of worse stuff. Now there is better stuff, but a lot of stuff passes too easy. So now I have a bunch of saves

Its not that theyre all better, its that some people are just voting high on them. My friend only votes 0's and 5's so he either gets a blam or protection. it doesnt matter if he uses a lower number either, too many un needed 5s is what makes all these flashes pass.

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

Collections

Getting your game or movie into a collection is a really good way to get more attention, I noticed myself getting a new review every few days even weeks after I was off the front page, which is why I think the collection system needs a small overhaul. Perhaps upon submitting to the portal you can select which collections you think your project is good for, and an icon representing that could be placed where the "submit to collection" button is and users would notice them more. Personally I don't think many people bother to help games/movies get into collections, for example that puzzle game moonkey made awhile back, hexium I believe never made it into the puzzle games collection, that could have been more views/reviews right there.

Free Photoshop Book

If anyone is interested, sitepoint is giving away free copies of one of their Photoshop books (pdf format).

The Photoshop Anthology: 101 Web Design Tips, Tricks & Techniques

RE: Free Book

One of my lecturers sent me that link a few days ago. I sent the download link, but I've yet actually download the .pdf file. The book covers CS2, but it still looks pretty good.

Free Photoshop Book

Thanks alot man!

At 5/20/08 06:15 PM, Lalo wrote:

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.

That was a crazy day. So much blue/green in the portal. :S
Makes me happy to see lots of talent though. ^^

I got blown right off the fuckin' radar on this one. Didn't even scratch tenth place.

personally i just want to make a game that is blue before it hits 50

I am hoping my next one does

At 5/20/08 08:16 PM, Matt-Porter wrote:

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

Collections

Getting your game or movie into a collection is a really good way to get more attention...

I kinda like the collection system as it is - managed by admins with the occasional nudge from users. It's generally indicative of high quality or enjoyability if you get into one of the main collections, so I'd be cautious about opening the floodgates too much.

That said, the collection system does need a bit of an overhaul. It'd be good to have a tonne more sub-categories on each page (so your thing would appear in the main section if it were good enough, but also in the smaller sub-sections), and maybe options to display submissions in order of date, score, e.t.c.

Why Kayn's been a pretty lousy mod this week
Bike test tommorow. So far the routine for the week has been going to bed at about nine in the evening so I have enough energy to spend seven hours straight on the back of something going sixty miles an hour. Tuesday's training was a pile of rubbish, but today's went well.

Now I need to go to sleep as my test is at 9am and the training center wants me there for quarter past seven.

I'm going bye bye for a while guys.

Toodles. :/

At 5/21/08 03:36 PM, KaynSlamdyke wrote:

I KNOW YOU'VE BEEN BUSY, BUT THAT IS NO EXCUSE FOR NOT HAVING BEEN ON MSN, I WANTED TO SHOW YOU SOMETHING ALL DAY (THAT YOU WOULD LIKE)

oops! caps lock.

Kayn's Bike Test
Good luck on that. I might do that as well when I'm in my twenties, riding a bike would get me from A to B a lot quicker with all the congestion we have here. While we're on the subject of motorized stuff:

To those of you with a driver's license
Do you actually enjoy driving? When I didn't have one I thought it would be great, just driving from here to there with no particular destination, radio playing rock music and all that jazz. Now that I've had my license for half a year I can't say I enjoy driving that much, it's way too crowded here, 50% of the other drivers are plain asshats and we have a serious lack of nice scenery to drive through. On a relaxed sunny day I might enjoy driving, on the other days I couldn't care much less.

At 5/21/08 03:56 PM, Xeptic wrote: To those of you with a driver's license
Do you actually enjoy driving?

RE: Driving
I enjoy it. Its like my alone time when im going home from work and some of my best ideas come from that. You are forced to not have a computer in front of you and its kinda stress relieving i think. Even in traffic, im rarely flustered by people. I hated driving last year cause all of my money from winning ng things went to paying for lawyers and traffic tickets. I've since sold that blasted car and have had stress free driving since :)

Oh and you havent enjoyed driving until you own a convertible :)
I'm on my second one now. Its like doing a black chick, once you go black you neva go back!

At 5/21/08 03:56 PM, Xeptic wrote: To those of you with a driver's license

Failed my test twice so far - first time with three minors and a major, and second with sixteen minors and two majors :D I really can't be arsed with it - I'm putting off lessons until exams are over and I'm pretty tempted to just keep my provisional for ID and scrap the whole thing :s

So long as I'm less than an hour or so's safe walk from where I need to get to it's not really a problem - it gives me a chance to think about stuff. I'm hopelessly incompetent at driving anyway :P

At 5/21/08 03:50 PM, Rudy wrote: Toodles. :/

Buh-Bye!

I wouldn't bother with biking if I didn't enjoy it. It's not just the higher milage or the sense of only transporting myself without four additional empty seats, or the increased acceleration or the sheer ease of jumping onto the saddle and revving the engine. It's like Luis' convertable... only I don't get the wind flowing through my hair since it's locked in a full face masked helmet. I look like the old Stig with all my gear on.

Biking is fun. Biking is unfortunately all about knowing you have a bizarrely high fatality chance since morons driving coffins don't notice something a third of thier size, and having to adjust and take into account driver's moronic tendancies. Today alone I had four white vans pull out from junctions cutting across me. Oh and a bus tried to pull out while I was half way through overtaking it.

My main problems are my last second checks into turns (named 'lifesavers' for a reason) and my lane discipline at roundabouts. Fortunately, I don't need help stopping safely for morons and restraining myself from flipping them off.

Biking's also cheap, but all the money I get from the savings (£700 second hand bike? 100mpg? <£100 road tax? 70mph and looks like a Bat Out of Hell? As old as me but will run until the end of time? Sorted!) will be thrown into my insurance and possibly on private medical insurance...

At 5/21/08 04:23 PM, KaynSlamdyke wrote: I wouldn't bother with biking if I didn't enjoy it.

I am thinking about getting a Vespa or other small bike just to ride to the office. My commute is 7 miles a day and driving a car around seems excessive. The whole getting a separate license thing seems like a lot of hassle though.

At 5/21/08 04:11 PM, Paranoia wrote: Failed my test twice so far - first time with three minors and a major, and second with sixteen minors and two majors :D I really can't be arsed with it - I'm putting off lessons until exams are over and I'm pretty tempted to just keep my provisional for ID and scrap the whole thing :s

I failed the first two times as well, I was way too nervous. Anyway, I don't really mind driving but it doesn't feel like a form of relaxation to me, it's just another way to get from point A to point B. I have to focus too much on my driving so I can't really let my mind wander off too far. I do enjoy riding my bike with my MP3 player on, that's when I get my ideas and inspiration.

Driving

I honestly love driving. I don't care where or when, whether it be in the middle of the country where a straight open road materializes before you and you can put the hammer down, to a nice silent drive through town, it's awesome for me.

Although I should probably cut back on my racing. Some kid got killed last week in the same local street race ring as me :(. He swerved, lost control, and split his car in 2 around a telephone pole. It was actually sad too, all of us in our little racing group knew him, he was a cool guy.

At 5/21/08 04:27 PM, jmtb02 wrote: I am thinking about getting a Vespa or other small bike just to ride to the office. My commute is 7 miles a day and driving a car around seems excessive. The whole getting a separate license thing seems like a lot of hassle though.

Meh. Over here you can drive most scooters after a day of training on a learner license.
I refuse to ride them. Wheels the size of footballs don't sound like fun for braking.

Incidentally, this be the bike I want.

Honda CMX250. Obviously, in black. A few hundred pages back there'd be the design I want on the back of my leathers if anyone can find it.

At 5/21/08 04:31 PM, Cheektoghetto wrote: Driving

I honestly love driving. I don't care where or when, whether it be in the middle of the country where a straight open road materializes before you and you can put the hammer down, to a nice silent drive through town, it's awesome for me.

I love being able to drive, but I'm not a big fan of driving. Sure, it's nice to not have to rely on busses and parents and friends to drive you around places (I can't rely on friends cause all of my friends are on the other side of town, and it's a big town land wise).

But there's a lot of stress driving. I'm still relatively new at it (been driving for almost 2 years), so I mess up a bit. I hate switching lanes downtown and not knowing if when I have a green light I can safely make a left hand turn (sometimes it's only my green light but sometimes the other side gets one too, almost got me another accident yesterday), etc. Plus I crashed my car around christmastime, and even though it wasn't serious (didn't get injured but did $4000 of damage to it) it's still a scary experience.

At 5/21/08 04:47 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: But there's a lot of stress driving. I'm still relatively new at it (been driving for almost 2 years), so I mess up a bit. I hate switching lanes downtown and not knowing if when I have a green light I can safely make a left hand turn (sometimes it's only my green light but sometimes the other side gets one too, almost got me another accident yesterday)

Don't know if it's the same in the 'States, but surely you can just move into the junction and wait until you've got a space?

At 5/21/08 04:47 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote:
But there's a lot of stress driving. I'm still relatively new at it (been driving for almost 2 years), so I mess up a bit. I hate switching lanes downtown and not knowing if when I have a green light I can safely make a left hand turn (sometimes it's only my green light but sometimes the other side gets one too, almost got me another accident yesterday), etc.

Yeah, if you are talking about what I think you are just pull out and wait for an opening.

If its like a single-green (no two-side left arrow thing), you can pull out, but the other cars have the right of way. Same if it is that double-thing and you have no green arrow. If you have an arrow, you can go without worrying.

Champians League Final

Well Played Man United!

Driving
Huh. I've never driven a car, and I can't say I'm too thrilled to start :/ Kinda funny in a way. People in my school are ever so excited on their sixteenth birthday because they will get their licenses and such. Then I go and say I don't even haev a permit nor do I really want to get one (Or a license for that matter). Then they look at me like I'm stupid or something which is kinda funny, kinda annoying :p. This also reminds me of my school and the people at my school.

Your Class/Grade
I pretty much hate my grade (obviously with the exception of my friends). They're all so spoiled it's not even funny. This one kid in one of my classes just brags about how he gets out of school any day he wants because he asks his parents. Things like that are ever so common, and the ever special 16th birthday where little Johny gets the whole day off to do whatever he wants, and parents will pay for anything. And with that comes the whining because so and so did that or they got a "bad grade" on a test or other petty reasons.. people like this annoy me to tears and I get to deal with them everyday :( Then again I'm probably over exaggerating this, but eh. There really aren't that many people in my grade that are "normal"... I bet I sound rather self-centered now <__<

At 5/21/08 05:38 PM, adman1993 wrote: Champians League Final

Well Played Man United!

We got to watch that game in school =)

Sadly I had to go to band at about 70', and instead of watching that in band, we had to watch something about jews (Jumangji or something) :D

Biking

Well, I don't really ride my bike to get places, I ride it for shits and giggles. Last summer me and my friend went tubing and biking almost every day. Its just like the freedom you have, being alone in town, no parents, and you can do whatever (even though thats not what you guys are talking about.) Anyway, I love biking

At 5/21/08 06:05 PM, Wurmy1029 wrote:

Your Class/Grade

That's nothing. My school is full of nerds. You will CONSTANTLY see people saying "OMFG I DID SO BAD ON THAT TEST IM GONNA FAIL" and it's extremely frustrating when A FAIL is not and actual fail, and like an 80. They also waste like no time and do hwk all the time. I swear...its like there is no such thing as hobbies anymore.

Driving

I liked it until I realized i was spending all my money on gas just to get to and from school each day plus some other places around here. I'm pretty much broke now and I hate asking my parents for money, i feel really bad. I plan on either getting a job for the summer or doing websites... or does anyone want to make a game with me? haha... seriously.
Anyway, I'm looking forward to never having to drive when I go to college in the city this Fall. Maybe I'll invest in a new longboard or something.

Actual Flash Question

Ehh how do you change lines to fills...I used to know but I forgot because I never use it :'(