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I feel nothing at all.

Just post it here dude. I aint gonna click that shady link.

You're talking like you're some kind of internet hotshot and everyone knows you. Stop doing that and you're on the right path.

PS: everyone is different on the web, that's the beauty of it!

You guys still going to post tumblr stuff on your facebook page? Because I don't really use tumblr and facebook is really my "hub" for all my updates and stuff. So if you could keep that up that'd be great.

At 5/2/13 06:09 PM, BasedBubbus wrote: i rarely vote

i dont care about level icons and have other things on my mind besides how many votes i count for

So you don't take part in making sure a submission gets the vote it deserves, thus increasing its exposure?

At 5/2/13 06:03 PM, Tony-DarkGrave wrote: I vote so I can get more VP so I can 0 BOMB

So edgy.

So guys, I have a question for the BBS and the general NG user in general.
It seems to me that the users on this site has changed a bit over the years, which is understandable. But with the new design and whatnot, it seems like the user levels have gotten a little less important and glorified.

That made me wonder if the people here still vote for experience points and to level up or do most of you simply vote to support the artist and give it a score, that you think it deserves, despite it giving you experience?

I personally still do it to level up and I know a few users with the same motivation. But maybe the rest of you have different motivations?

At 4/30/13 12:04 AM, WadeFulp wrote: I can't believe no one else beat me to it! You guys are slacking! :)

Happy birthday brother!

He gets pico day. Does he really need a thread as well?

Im just kidding, Happy Birthday Tim. I mean tom

Just link to the dump file man. No one is going to steal your cartoon.

I think Tom is the only guy in the world that can organize the biggest gay orgy, where most of the attenders are straight.

At 4/21/13 07:39 PM, NashSu wrote:

At 1/27/13 11:08 PM, Fuoco wrote: Pfft! Ignore everyone comment above me. Trust me, the following link meets your every criteria.

This is what you're looking for.

No offense, but that game is kind of crappy compared to the other zombie games.

IIRC correctly, Dead Frontier has a nice 3D top view and runs pretty smooth. Also your account stays on a persistent server so theres never any progress loss. Plus the multiplayer is pretty sweet.
I mean I'm all pro flash games, but for a decent zombie RPG it's still pretty limited.

At 4/18/13 01:57 PM, AnotherOtto wrote: I'm not that easy, sonny

Yes you are.

At 4/18/13 01:46 PM, Otto wrote:

At 4/17/13 10:57 PM, Damien wrote:

At 4/9/13 09:11 PM, Otto wrote: You're only really cool if you didn't have to ask

Lying on the internet is just sad man.

Yeah you got me

Oh come on man, even my grandmother could do a better job at photo shopping.

At 4/9/13 09:11 PM, Otto wrote: You're only really cool if you didn't have to ask

Lying on the internet is just sad man.

At 4/15/13 02:11 PM, Hyptosis wrote:

At 4/15/13 11:14 AM, RalaiyX3 wrote: Lol? Why is Marmalade of Hobbit gone?

Yeah, just saw that... huh.

Yah what the fuck is going on? Was it like stolen or some shit?

At 2/28/13 10:07 AM, PeterSatera wrote: I think you're completely wrong on so many levels Damien. Sorry, but you are. SWF is extremely awful, and no matter on what level you feel passionate about it, it has to eventually be pushed aside (not taken away), for better formats when it comes to animated films....
I apologize if you find my post a bit offensive, but I've waited for NG's to get raster movie format submission for years, and then people complain about it, not really realizing how it enhances the community and experience here.

I have either explained myself wrongly, or you took it the wrong way. I'm in no way saying that SWF is a superior format. Sure I'm a bit of a fanboy for interactivity, seeing that that is why I am on the web. I enjoy interacting with my information. So I'm a bit biased towards that.
But you seem to think that I am attacking the MP4 format.
I'm not. I'm complaining about the people who use it. Or better yet, not used the SWF portal.

The exampled that I used, shows that there are people who have no knowledge of flash and are too incompetent to pick up a different (and probably cheaper) software to enjoy the art of animation. Which is why I referred to it as the "youtube generation".
It's like every dumbass with a phone/camera can post videos on youtube, has now infected newgrounds; Every person with access to flash is posting videos. And they're so used to the youtube video format that they never even considered using an swf in the first place, let alone upload it to newgrounds. People that have been doing things in flash only NOW started uploading to newgrounds, NOW that there is a video portal. Which baffles me. There was nothing stopping them from uploading their shitty SWF here in the first place.

Anyway, listen. You obviously love animation a lot and all the different mediums for it, and I truly admire and respect that.
The thing is though, I used to dabble in photography and I've seen digital photography and hipsters RUIN that art, and I'm seeing the same happening here now thanks to "the youtube generation". So pleaseunderstand my point of view.

But I digress. I'm not complaining about the video portal. I absolutely love it. The new feature Mike has just launched, which promotes related videos, just proves how great its already doing. But it's the user base that comes flocking with it that frustrates me. People that want nothing but more youtube subscribers and have absolutely no respect for the art.

And by all means, use whatever software you want. I insist! Variation is the spice of life. But if you're going to make a very SIMPLE animation in FLASH, why even bother converting to MP4? From what I can tell, it is because they want to look like the big boys. They want to look like their egoraptors and oneys. And that bothers me. The little kids. Tom used have hope for the 13 year olds on this site, because they inspired hope and they had potential. But I feel that times have changed. People are getting dumber and phones are getting smarter.

....

I also just noticed one of your arguments. The file size one. SWF files are by nature smaller and more compact, usually not going over 10 megabytes, unless you're going really all out.
A 5 minute animation in videoformat can easily go up into the hundreds of megabytes. So that argument is pretty invalid. People are making their swf files bigger by converting them to a movie format on purpose! Which is totally bananas!
When kids are animating in flash, they should use things like Swivel or the video portal when they HAVE to, not for every little tween they made.

Just saying dude, it's never really about what canvas you use, but about the story that's on the canvas.

I know I'm going to deep into this, but I feel that such a big post like yours should be countered with something equal ;)

I love your spirit dude. You really seemed to know your game. Don't be too idealistic though, this website has a history with flash, and the youtube kids need to know about that. CUZ I SAY SO OKAY

At 2/28/13 02:17 PM, TomFulp wrote: Try clearing your cache!

Oh shit that totally worked! Awesome I love it!

The voting starts tomorrow so check back then!

Ooops, I overlooked that I guess. My bad!

At 2/28/13 12:34 PM, TomFulp wrote: Mike and Jim updated the video player so at the end of a video it now promotes more videos by that artist (or other videos if there aren't enough by the artist).

I haven't seen this in action, is this live yet? Or is this feature still coming or does it only apply to stuff that got uploaded after the update?

Monthly voting starts tomorrow so be sure to check your account page to see if you are on the voting panel for the Best of February. And I'll say it every month to not forget, we need to make that a PM invite so people don't have to hunt for it.

Aw I didn't get an invite this month :C
It's been years since I didn't get to do monthly voting. I feel left out now ;___;

At 2/27/13 06:40 PM, GiantPugStudios wrote: .swf can be very limiting in some respects and when you're creating a 5min cartoon with lots of assets and stuff going on and try to keep it in one continuous file, it's going to be a burden to export.

Yeah of course, I get that sometimes an SWF isn't enough for what you want, but the example I gave didn't need the video format in any way, and theres tons of those in the portal.
30 second animations that use the video format and I have no idea why theyre doing it.

Listen, I'm not saying I hate the video player or whatever. It's just, that I don't see any reason why they're using it when there's a perfectly fine swf out there.

Also, the .swf format is weakened by the fact that people can decompile your animation and poke around and steal whatever they like from it.

This is pretty limited though, and I would kind of feel honored if someone would use my artwork for their own. Seriously, that means I'm doing something right you know?
Also, if people are going to steal something, they're going to steal it. Swf or not. People reupload youtube videos all the time. It's not like it being in a video format changes anything....

At 2/27/13 10:15 AM, Max-Vador wrote: tl;dr

too much for a approval basis, not enough server to allow everything. we are in a pickle. but you can't tell them "post whatever you want in any format!...except for you, you, you and you"

Huh? Please elaborate?

I don't know if you fixed it already or not, but here's my help....if you still need it.

At 2/22/13 10:58 PM, TheDragonborn79 wrote: Hi NG! I'm new at animation and as I says at the Subject I need some help.

First: I want to know how can i stop a sound that is already playing.

Change your audio to "stream" instead of event. It's somewhere in your properties box.

Second: I was looking for Mario and Fox voices from SSB Brawl and I found some BUT they sound accelerated when I import them into my Flash CS4 <-- I mention that just in case.

Would someone tell me how to fix that, or link me another sounds please?

It probably has different frame rates.

Check out the tutorial section here on NG to learn more.

...and why the fuck are all these fucking kids suddenly posting mp4 movies that were made in flash? Movies that get no benefit whatsoever from being in a video format.

I don't get it. Why are all these people putting in the extra effort for their video format?
I get it if they edited it in after effects or whatever, but most shit is stuff like this, which is just plain flash saved as video format.
I also get that lots of kids have their youtube channels now and they are converting their SWFs into MP4s anyway, but it's like they think that their swf files magically disappear. Like they can't use it anymore.

Then theres this twat that doesn't even know how to export his audio properly in swf. If you go through the reviews you'll see him responding to some guy about how he doesn't know how to change his audio quality.

The thing is. When the movie is over, I would like to check out these peoples stuff. Well...Some of them.
And what they do is, they upload a video file (for god knows what reason) and then put the link to their stuff in the comment section, which Newgrounds then in turn fucks up by putting spaces in the URL.
It would be way easier if they just put links to their stuff IN THEIR SWF.

And it's not like they HAVE to for mobiles. I mean, they can upload BOTH. But something tells me that people who can't even export an SWF properly, don't give a rats ass about being "mobile compatible".

I'm sorry that I'm ranting about this, but I want to know what the fuck happened because I like SWFs. I get to zoom in and click shit.
Also, I hate the youtube generation. So there's that.

eugh. I had to get this off my chest.

At 2/27/13 04:28 AM, TheColourAwesome wrote: har, I only browse /fa/ a couple minutes a day.

Still makes you a giant queer.

real men browse /fit/

OATS AND SQUATS ERRR DAY

At 2/27/13 04:25 AM, TheColourAwesome wrote:

At 2/27/13 04:23 AM, Provoke wrote: why would you want to go there in the first place?

Because /mu/ and /fa/ are nice places to be?

You're such a /fa/g

I actually got paid to make one of those videos. As in...Someone commissioned me to do it. I think the same went for the rest of those videos.
People who see this new thing arise on the internet and think it's a cash cow. It's probably why it's popping up everywhere, and everyone is doing it.
It's like that "Fus Ro Dah" thing from Skyrim.

I mean. I remember reddit being sick of it within the first week, and those people usually end up beating dead horses.

I think that's a dude, man.

At 2/22/13 04:12 PM, Tony-DarkGrave wrote: most users will never get pass level 30.

im trying. But its hard ;___;

At 2/22/13 02:19 PM, Timmy wrote:

At 2/22/13 02:17 PM, Damien wrote: Does anyone have like a png or a link to all the current level icons? Theres that remains of the the previous design's levels, but there doesn't seem to be a collection of the new ones. Which kinda sucks because I like the art and I wanna see them all >(

Here's a cool before-after picture of the level icons provided by Lockesmyth.

http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/5cfd15b2701693525083f6fe fe5e9df9

Neat! Thanks dude.
Any idea who made them? Cuz unless JohnnyUtah got into pixel art they seem very different from his other works.

Does anyone have like a png or a link to all the current level icons? Theres that remains of the the previous design's levels, but there doesn't seem to be a collection of the new ones. Which kinda sucks because I like the art and I wanna see them all >(

At 2/19/13 10:09 PM, BlueHippo wrote:

At 2/19/13 09:39 PM, Viper50 wrote: I could only find the record from before that record ._.

Wow so many people and so many past conversations just came flooding back as I read about half those names..

holy shit i heard you were dead

At 2/15/13 11:38 AM, Spacerock wrote: End of the world came a little late...

Maybe it had a busy schedule.