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Holy nicompoop, the post looked REALLY weird in my RSS reader (Google Reader). Fix it?

1) I think it's okay, but I reckon it should only look at one thing.

2) I really like it, but I feel it should be placed on the right and featured content on the left. A bit of web design theory: the eye is naturally attracted to the right, so they're more likely to look there. IMO the categories are a more enticing way to look for stuff rather than throwing out, say, a random game.

3) Feeds? Excellent! I'm an avid user of Google Reader. However, I think I feed with everything in it would move too fast and spam my feed reader...

4) Not evaluating any new submissions... I think the all-in-one portal was better. I also liked the top 100 list which I think is a feature that will be much missed. Actually, most of the time I've spent on the site was playing/watching the stuff on the top 100. That should be included somehow.

MAJOR additional request; I'd much prefer featured Flash movies and games to have their descriptions on the front page... they really mean something, right now it could be an art mashup sir really.

Random thing: I've always had your domain whitelisted in Ghostery (after your ad banner called me an arsehole) but ads haven't shown up at all since the update. What's up with that?

I'm of Greek ancestry (no, not Cypriot Greek, I'm actually from ATHENS in GREECE for fuck's sake) but thanks to my parents, I've always used 'Yannis' instead of 'John' here in Britain. I'm native in both Greek and English, with English being my first language. There's no such thing as a Greek community where I live so my parents shed their culture pretty fast, but I was still taught Greek (which is a really fucking hard language, I should mention).

Thankfully, neither is too hard to pronounce. Still, I'm known as 'Yannis' to everyone, while my "official" name is 'Ioannis', the long, official form of Yannis. Most people think I've made up Yannis myself just to make the name easier for English people to pronounce, but really, Yannis is the common short form of Ioannis. No-one calls me Ioannis in Greece. Some people still don't get what I mean though, but everyone's comfortable with Yannis and so am I, having grown up as that.

At 10/31/10 01:52 PM, SoulMaster71 wrote: No way I'm downloading executable code posted by some dude on Newgrounds until it's confirmed both legit and worth the download, though;

-EXE scanned with Microsoft Security Essentials: No malware.
-Here is a link to the VirusTotal scan. Mind you, I had to compress the EXE file to a 7z as VirusTotal only allows uploads of up to 20 megabytes. Due to this, no results were given.

Also, the website seemed legit, clearly not created by a bot. There was even a forum section where there were actually two users communicating with the developer. Spyware creators can be convincing, but I thought it seemed quite clean. I still did not open the EXE file to unpack the game. That is up to the Newgrounds community.

Download at your own risk, then post a screenshot. Who knows, This might just be worth the risk if it is clean!

At 10/28/10 06:53 PM, chubzilla100 wrote: Even I didn't know this one..

I do now

Halo Wars...?
I swear this is on the XBOX along with the computer, but I just cannot remember what it is called...

Wow, you guys know little about what the war was actually like. It would be even worse to play than the many wars preceding it where many guys would stand in a line with muskets, fire them, kill a few hundreds and then run up to each other and get stabbed by bayonets. No tactics, no thinking, just death and discipline until the end, unfortunately. But WW1 was worse

I've been to a few trenches in Belgium myself. Even today the sheer number of cemeteries around the parts of Flanders the war was fought on would make a strong man cringe. You can see kids, even, riding their bicycles happily... outside many, many cemeteries spread all over the area.

Trenches were the worst conditions anyone could live in. Fuck, I can't imagine how people could stand all that mud, the constant smell of smoke, having to keep your head down for so long.

Specifically, I've been to the "Trench of Death" in Diksmuide--by far the most important place for Belgium to hold to stop a German invasion (otherwise the game was up, and Germany could advance into France), but a lot of its original non-charm (horror, rather!) has been lost, as the sandbags and a lot of the floor and what-not have been concreted over.

I also had a chance to go to Hill 62, at which is also a memorial to Canadian soldiers. Now that was fucking horrible. I feel very sympathetic to all the poor souls who had to experience trench warfare, and that wasn't even at its worst. Still bloody horrible... and very creepy. I'd recommend for anyone to go there. Entrance is free, and there are also many unique, uncensored photographs you can look at inside old viewmaster types of machine, only there. Oh, and I saw one of the most disgusting things in my life... a head, split in half from the front, place on other parts of a body to make something like a horrible, bloody Frankenstein. And also a number of photographs of soldiers literally in bits blocking up a trench looking like meatballs in a big pile... fuck, it really helps you realise some of the things soldiers there had to see. And the trench has been made to be as much as it possible like it would be back in the day, I'd highly recommend it to anyone interested.

At 10/16/10 05:45 PM, Warforger wrote: I don't think it was like that, the Germans were holding enemy territory even when they 'surrendered', which was actually supposed to be a peace treaty of sorts, not a defeat.

US president Woodrow Wilson presented his proposition which were the 14 points, on where no one would actually lose, and it would prevent another conflict of this nature from rising. The Germans went along with that, but when they actually sat down to discuss it, Britain and France decided to fuck Germany over and make them pay for the war.

The US didn't agree with this and considered it madness (no this isn't Sparta). No wonder they didn't sign the Treaty of Versailles, and even aided Germany after the war.

For one, you are so, so very wrong. Germany had to concede defeat, as did the rest of the Central powers, especially the Ottoman Empire that was absolutely in ruins by the end of it!

Secondly, Wilson's 14 points were all based on ideas that were over 250 years old, which is the concept of what is called "Westphalian sovereignty". This is to signify that larger states and empires, like the Spanish Empire should respect territorial integrity, also starting the concept of a nation--people united by language and culture.

But at the same time, this system was so empires could stay their original size and export troops elsewhere, to less important places, that being the Americas, western and south Asia and the like. It was a system of exclusion of the smaller states from empires. It really favoured empires remaining strong, I believe, just preferring them to grow elsewhere, somewhere without Christians.

It's a shame Wilson pursued a strong Germany. Sure, no problem with the US "world police" not being in what was mainly an organisation for peace in Europe, but actually funding Germany and letting the rest of the empires (and non-empires, like, well, post-WW1 Germany) continue expanding their navies. The US just went with what was best for the Allies, really. All they wanted was to make some quick money and go back to laissez-faire politics, the second of which didn't quite pay off in the end.

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All in all, I'd hate to see a WW1 game being made. It couldn't capture the realities of the war whatsoever, which was to sit around in a trench all day, seeing your unit gradually get killed by an enemy 100 metres away whom you could never fight, but wait for to attack... at which point the enemy would be chopped down by your machine gun. Mostly waiting around, seeing disgusting sights, oh, and of course a great many people dying by disease, either by something like frostbite or trench foot on the Western and Eastern fronts or all sorts of horrible diseases in the Balkans and the Asia Minor.

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On a slightly lighter but still plainly fucked up note, at the most vulnerable sides of the trenches like in Diksmuide had some big open areas at the ends, of about 8 by 10 metres wide at most (huge for a trench), I'd say, with only one small entrance to the rest of the the trenches for which you'd have to duck right down to get in, and it would be quite long and probably flooded.

This was literally so that if the enemy managed to get in the trench (almost impossible), there would be a free for all with spades and clubs and they would be like rats in a trap, unable to move into the trench! So no glory there, guys, just death, death, and more death.

At 10/13/10 04:29 PM, puddinN64 wrote: Sucky game from a great franchise.

Donkey Kong Barrel Blast for the Wii.
By the way, Donkey Kong 64 is easily in my top 5 favourite games of all times and I think it's a disgrace for the franchise, too, to release such a bad game.

At 10/13/10 05:11 PM, Balazeal wrote: Jet Set Radio Future.

Good times, man...

Can anyone guess this game? It's really fun... but I couldn't get into it myself due to its insane difficulty!

At 10/11/10 08:11 PM, mwmike wrote: Allegiance. That is quite the obscure game, however a friend of mine compiled a list of about sixty freeware games he'd recommend, and that was towards the top of the list, due to it's position early in the alphabet.

Congrats! Can you upload that list somewhere? Once you get into Allegiance and surpass its insane learning curve at over 2 hours long tutorial, it's actually a great game, so your friend is certainly a very wise man!

Can anyone guess this awesome game? One of my favourites, played it to death. Flippin' great times... and the multiplayer (split-screen only, as it were back in the day) made the console it was developed for a must- buy in my opinion.

Multiplayer game...

...taking place in space!

WARNING: There's not a flippin' way someone can get this!

At 10/9/10 10:50 AM, Eddmario wrote: What game is this typo from?

AdventureQuest Worlds?

I was a huge fan of the original AQ and paid (one-time!) for it until they added that Z-token bullshit in and released much superior games like DragonFable and that Mech one, which were almost identical to each other. A shame, really.

Can anyone guess this mod of an already fine free game?

At 9/29/10 12:15 PM, mwmike wrote: I might post yet another picture. :3 I'll fetch my memory stick and rummage through my SNES collection for something nice and obscure for all of you and take a screenshot of it.

Oh, found one. I don't believe that this game was ever too popular:

Hurr durr...

Zero Wing?

At 9/27/10 05:53 PM, mwmike wrote:

At 9/27/10 05:07 PM, Crink wrote:

At 9/27/10 04:31 PM, mwmike wrote:
Another DOS game for you all, an RPG here from a well-established series:

daggerfall? arena?

elder scrolls-eqsue?

Arena indeed. It looks slightly like the opening dungeon of Daggerfall, too, so either way you're pretty much right. While we're on the theme of TES, one free internet goes to whoever can mention the name of this game is. It's a recently developed German Oblivion TC which IMO is even better than the original game, by quite a bit, it has great translations, too.

Unlike the fanmade Terranigma 2, which doesn't even fucking have english translations </3

Ah, yes, Nehrim! I've been eyeing it a lot when I still played Oblivion but I felt it was too big to download. I have a 6 GB cap, you see, and I wouldn't want to approach that any more than I've approached it now.

Can anyone guess the coolest platformer game of all time? Sorry for the low image quality.

At 9/25/10 07:34 PM, Salnax wrote:

At 9/25/10 07:16 PM, BarkingBushbaby wrote: Wow, I honestly didn't know the game was that popular.

Can anyone guess which amazing game this is? It's definitely the most addicting game I've ever played...
Oh, and if you can guess correctly, you're probably from... some website's /int/. And if you know what that means, you win the internet.

Europa Universalis 3?

Congratulations! You an /int/ bernd too? Anyways, let's not get too off topic, but I didn't expect anyone to get that really.

Someone post the next picture, please, as I'm out of ideas!

At 9/25/10 06:41 AM, mwmike wrote:

At 9/24/10 09:51 PM, BarkingBushbaby wrote: Can you guess this fine semi-free game? Clue's in the image, sorta...

Oh, come on, a little more difficult than that. :3 I haven't played a racing game for years (the only one I've ever played more than ten minutes of is a formula 1 game bundled with my PS2 all those years ago), but just from lurking the Steam Store occasionally, I know that that's Trackmania: Nations Forever.

At 9/25/10 10:37 AM, Killerhammer wrote:

At 9/24/10 09:51 PM, BarkingBushbaby wrote: Can you guess this fine semi-free game? Clue's in the image, sorta...

Easy, TrackMania Nations Forever.

Wow, I honestly didn't know the game was that popular.

Can anyone guess which amazing game this is? It's definitely the most addicting game I've ever played...
Oh, and if you can guess correctly, you're probably from... some website's /int/. And if you know what that means, you win the internet.

At 9/24/10 09:23 PM, Retrospective wrote:

At 9/24/10 09:11 PM, sweet21 wrote: Grrrreat!
Okay now here is ANOTHER one you see constantly (especially if you own a PS3) but never have bothered to pick up.

THat would be Bionic Commando, the 3D remake that no-one liked.

Yeah... it forced poor GRIN to shut down, yet another casualty among European developers...

Can you guess this fine semi-free game? Clue's in the image, sorta...

At 9/23/10 02:34 AM, Samen wrote:

At 9/21/10 06:40 PM, Trystlions wrote: This should be fairly simple:

Is this the Star Wars mod for Sins of A Solar Empire?

Wow, all of you are idiots. Anyone remember Star Wars: Empire at War? Yeah, that's the one...

NEXT!

An honestly funny game released... in the early 2000s (the decade).

At 9/20/10 09:38 PM, BenelliM4 wrote:

At 9/20/10 09:28 PM, JustinB6 wrote:
im gonna take a wild guess and say final fantasy.....2?

It's a Final Fantasy, but it's not 2.

Hurr durr, obviously it's Secret of Mana...
(need this to be confirmed by someone though...)

In the meantime, have a guess what this is!

The most fun multiplayer game of all time!

(PS: Guys, when you know you are correct, post the next image. Let's not let this great post die!)

At 9/15/10 10:55 PM, Salnax wrote:

At 9/15/10 10:43 PM, puddinN64 wrote: Guess!

Donkey Kong 64?

Lulz, that was my favourite game of all time actually!

NEXT!
My favourite shooter game of all time!

At 9/15/10 09:34 AM, ToastedCupcake wrote:

At 9/13/10 11:55 AM, argile wrote:

At 9/13/10 11:53 AM, ToastedCupcake wrote: MMO, class-based. Been around for a while.

Everquest 2

No, it's not an RPG.

OH SHI-

It's Infinity Online, isn't it?
Great game, that one.

At 9/13/10 09:25 PM, Salnax wrote:

At 9/13/10 09:16 PM, BarkingBushbaby wrote: Does anyone know of this game, then?

This is real.

Bad Dudes Vs. Dragon Ninja?

You win!

This got me into RTS gaming, and is probably the best and most innovative RTS games of all time. A shame it has been forgotten by all but a few...

Does anyone know of this game, then?

:This is real.

"7-11s" don't exist in Europe.

At 9/11/10 04:57 PM, ToastedCupcake wrote: Can anyone guess this? For the N64.

It's Rocket: Robot on Wheels. It was made by Sucker Punch actually, the same chaps who made the Sly games!

Here another N64 game which is slightly obscure, but it's today recognised as inventing a now [perhaps] over-used game mechanic... can you guess which one it is?

At 9/10/10 01:55 AM, metalgearray wrote: Ok this one is an easy one...

"Metal Gear... it can't be!"

Yeah, it's from the MGS2 Subsistence bonus DVD or something rather, isn't it?

NEXT!

Is anyone old enough to remember what great game (at least it was back then) these sprites are from?

Let's scrap the previous ones because they were too hard.

At 9/4/10 02:40 PM, WaterBurn wrote: I bet you guys don't know what game this is.

I AM ALIVE (is what the game is called-in all capitals, mind you).

I bet you wouldn't know what this is!

At 9/4/10 05:37 PM, Trystlions wrote: What could this be?

Stronghold Crusader! I was such a big fan of it back then but I played it so much I no longer find fun in it. I'm probably the only person in the world who has managed to beat ALL of the game's campaign and its maps, but there you go, it's so damn fun but deep too...

Can anyone guess this gem's name?

At 8/30/10 09:40 PM, Salnax wrote:

At 8/30/10 09:16 PM, Eddmario wrote: bump

One of the GC Pokemon games. Gales of Darkness?

Damn right, you got to it before I did though!

Please, do post the next image - you deserve it!

Easy guess as this topic is going nowhere.

Coooooool. Will buy.

Also, isn't it time the U.S. switched to the metric system? Seriously, use of the imperial system limits certain parts of this website to a single audience, which is total balls (enjoyment of certain comedies included). Also, it's a terrible system. Come, on, now, just bite the bullet and convert...