I checked out the Castle Crashers preview and that game looks really awesome! Is it going to be on the consoles, Flash or both? Either way good luck and I can't wait to play it.

My goal this year is to get EntropicOrder.net back out there with new games in 2008 and to take my Flash abilities to the next level with bigger and better games than I've ever created before.

I think I was supposed to renew the service, but I was never sent an email or mail...

Hopefully I can renew it without any problems.

Hey guys, I changed a few of the things that were requested like an easier level and easier controls. Tell me what you think.

There ARE indeed "cheat" codes. They are actually progress codes that you get for beating levels.

Here are some hints for getting a high score. Get 5 power ups. Then, hit a ramp at max speed (25mph) and go straight up in the air. In the air, pull a Drill Bit with Fred or a Wing Walker with Dave and hold them as long as you can. The tricks that you can hold give you a LOT more points. Also, do a Triple Flip while doing them. If you can, land backwards or in a Seat Spin (press X and Z at the same time) to continue your combo.

I've gotten about 200,000 on the first level, so don't give up!

Use this code in the course editor to test your tricks with:
7,1,1,6,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1;0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0; 2:100:60,2:100:60,2:100:60,2:100:60,2:100:60

...while in the air that is.

Press UP to turn around.

The latest project from PsychoGoldfish and myself, Sik Trix BMX, has finally been released! About a year in the making, this game has awesome graphics and gameplay. It has 13 character selection and customization, 35 unique tricks, 5 levels with power ups, plus a level editor. Play Sik Trix BMX.

Also, to celebrate the occasion, Rooftop Skater 2 (the full version), previously exclusive to SIKids, is now available to play on Newgrounds! Play Rooftop Skater 2.

Good question!

I'm a moralist, humanist, agnostic atheist, compatiblist (soft determinist), masochist? (but not the crazy kind, I just believe some pain is healthy), scientific materialist (which is a prerequisite for determinism as far as I know...), and possibly a moral realist. I also believe in infinite time and the power of optimism (meditation and psychosomatics).

The biggest thing I believe in is the ability of every human being to find happiness and meaning by making a difference in themselves and the world. We can all change our lot in life if we would just believe in ourselves.

I'm looking for people to play Age of Empires 2. I want to play a 6vs6 free for all conquest random map game for moderate players with no cheats.

I tried playing on the MSN Gaming Zone but people keep quitting about half way through which is about 2 or 3 hours and it's really pissing me off.

Reply if you want to organize something.

Sites that do Flash for fun are cool, even if they are very similar to NG and even if they make money. But, when these companies come in and don't even care about having fun or anything and are just trying to make a profit, that's when it pisses me off.

Although I'm sure it pisses you off even more Tom considering you made the original.

At 7/29/02 05:31 PM, Fatboy_69 wrote: These stunts got you nowhere after you ran over PintClock....

At least I those tourists didn't die during this stunt.

(Well... at least not until after the picture was taken...)

(Click here for a bigger version)

Grrr... that link is supposed to be http://www.entropicorder.com/pics/view.php?id=793

We all know that EntropiClock races in his Chrysler Lebaron against HamburgerClock on Saturday's. What you might not have known is that he also likes to ramp his car over tourists in Paris!

(Click here for a bigger version)

At 7/23/02 07:58 AM, dai_kuru wrote: All hail Ken & EO :).

Gracious. :)

When I made this account; it automatically had "GooseberryClock" in the refer thing.. I don't think that should be default. Clock crew = hackers?

If you visited Goosberry's site, then the NG-fan Net flash set a cookie on your computer saying that Gooseberry refered you. I thought there was a problem before too, but I assure you there's not when it comes to that.

At 7/21/02 01:00 PM, WadeFulp wrote: Entropic, I'm very disapointed that you would use our front page to make such statements. How can you accuse the Clock Crew of cheating without proof?

I didn't accuse the Clock Crew of anything, I am suggesting that one or a few of them may be cheating. Also, other people have been thinking the same thing too. I really didn't think it was inappropriate for the front page. I'm sorry that it was.

They have 800 registered members on their site, so if they make a news post telling their members to go to your site, or Newgrounds, and vote on stuff, that's a heck of a lot of votes everday.

I see your point, but on my site that doesn't seem too likely that there would be that many clocks just waiting for me to reset the scores so they can all jump on voting.

I am going to have to talk to Tom about not allowing non-NG staff to post on the front page, because it is being abused.

Wade, if you honestly feel this way, then please block me from posting on the front page. Or, I will know from now on that I can't make any statements like this and I won't.

Just don't punish everyone else for what I said.

If someone is faking their IP, there isn't any easy way to stop them. No matter what we do. You can fake a thousand email addresses as well.

It's way easier to fake a thousand IP's than it is to fake a thousand emails, logging in and out of every single account, with every single password (cuz if all the passwords were the same, you could likely suspect it and block the accounts).

I'm just suggesting members only voting, you don't have to agree.

At 7/21/02 06:02 AM, Tequila wrote: So I guess I'm going to say that EntropicOrder is either being paranoid or jealous. I did see Pesky Eyeball, and have to state the obvious:
good animation and music don't always make for a good flash movie.

That's true. I didn't expect it to be in the top 5 at all. I just didn't think it deserved to be blammed. I just wanted it to be there in my submissions. There's a difference between having a great movie and having a movie that doesn't suck so much that it should be removed.

But, I'm not so much complaining about it being blammed, I just wanted to send people over to see it if they haven't yet.

As for the clocks, the worst clock movie is still 100x better than garbage like the zelda rap or another anti-Osama movie!

That may be true, and I never generalized all clocks.

At 7/21/02 05:38 AM, Acidic_Venom wrote: Can I just point out that if the clock crew are 'cheating,' maybe it's because the majority of NG users, probably those complaining, vote 0 on a clock crew movie as soon as they see that it is realted to the Clock Crew at all. I think Newgrounds may need less cheating, yes, but it also needs less hypocracy.

That's true as well, but we can only enforce what we can. Hypocracy is a hard thing to control.

At 7/21/02 05:29 AM, SolidLiquidSnake wrote: What the fuck is up with this gheylord? and dont just say "hes ghey." or something like that. why is everyone making movies about him and talking about him?

I'm pretty sure he was someone who had a whole bunch of NG names and AIM names. He used to say how he was going to vist the Fulp's house and all this other bologna.

I think (although I'm not sure) that he did something really bad to get himself banned or something.

At 7/21/02 11:28 AM, z3n wrote: I can't stand conspiracy theorist cry-babies. It's soooooooooo common and soooo intellectually deficient to generalize people and groups and whether you are talking about people who do it in racism or people who do it in their conspiracy theories, it always goes back to one thing; Someone is trying to cover their fears and save their egos.

I never made a generalization. All I said was that at least one clock (or clock-lover) is upping his or his fellow clocks' work unfairly (whether by cheating for by 'fifenating'). Also by downing other's work in the same manner.

Not only don't you sound like you have legitimate complaint to me, but you sound a little wacked in the head. So, screw it back on straight and do a little investigation. When you have tangable/reliable proof of what you SUSPECT in your vivid imagination of things, then come back and atleast you will get credit for proposing an organized thesis on your contentions.

I did say that I suspect it, I never said that they indeed were cheating. I said (and I quote): "I believe there are clocks who use IP spoofing to waste everyone's time."

Clearly says "I believe" not "I have proven"

If I am wrong, then show me that I am wrong. If I am right, let's do something to stop it. That's all I'm saying.

At 7/21/02 11:52 AM, SnIpErClOcK wrote: If there's anything that looks fishy its the score of Stephen Seagal 3.... that I do believe was voted down by rabid SimGirl fans.

Cheating is cheating. If it's happening then let's stop it. Maybe it isn't happening at all, I'm just making my observations known so we can do something about them.

That's your opinion ONLY. Don't call them "shitty flash movies" just because YOU didn't like them. I found all three of the to be pretty fucken hilarious.... "shitty flash movies" or not.

You're right, I'm really sorry about that. I shouldn't have said shitty, and that was more an expression of my feelings on this whole issue. I know they probably took some time to make, and they were actually kind of funny. I just don't think they deserve to be above the other great work that was submitted, that's all.

Gooseberry_Clock has a score of 2864 with 2964 votes on a picture at EntropicOrder.com. The next 13 highest rated pics are all by clocks, with at least 200 votes each.

I was wondering about that myself. Gooseberry is pretty much non-affiliated with the ClockCrew... most of us dont even wat the clock part in his name.

If that's true, then fine. I only said clock because he calls himself a clock. I'm not generalizing. Whoever is doing it, if there is cheating going on, then I just want to make an effort to stop it.

After all... how many people around here actually vote 1-4 for a movie??

I do.

At 7/21/02 04:13 AM, Doomhammr wrote: under 200 k to give good work more attention? what the fuck? thats exactly how big the shitty movies are. unless your name is tom fulp it is IN-FUCKING-POSSIBLE to make good work that size.

Most of my work is under 200k, and it's because I know how to optimize Flash. It challenges people to learn how to do so.

Besides, as of right now I'm not making any money off of my site, so I really can't afford to give people huge amounts of space.

At 7/21/02 03:50 AM, MisterEd wrote: My personal feelings about "clock this" or "clock that"?
I think it's kind of sad. I think the "creative media circles" basically have 3 types of souls: those who can do, those who try to exploit the former, and those who can't do much but try to put themselves off as gifted, anyway. But I guess when you're young, even if you're talented you feel the need to have some dumbass label stuck on your forehead to help you fit in. That's your vanity. After takes you through hell and back, maybe you learn better.

Just once, I'd like to see someone stand up and say, "My name is no longer MarlboroClock, or UtilityKnifeClock, or VenusClock - my name is Douglass and here is, my honest to god, best Flash." Mean it. Make it original.

I'm going to take a stab at something else, here. I think - pretty sure, anyway - what this site is about is you make yourself at least one real friend, here, and then, when you're doing things in the future - making full length movies, or games, or a syndicated cartoon or whatever - you're actually doing it for the memory of that friend. I mean, may look like you're doing it for an audience of 300,000, or 30 million, but as you go through life, generally everything wears away except the people who were important.

Wears away like you wouldn't believe, hoss.

MisterEd, that was so insightful. What sucks is most people will merely glance over what you said and not take it to heart.

I guess it's a little different for me because I'm not just doing it for popularity. I would like to think that I can make a living off of my site someday, as opposed to programming applications in an office somewhere. I have to work either way, and I would like to do what I love.

I'm not trying to start a fight about my fair chance for popularity. I'm more so just trying to make these sites a fair and fun place to be. Although, sometimes it is easy to get caught up in all that meaninglessness with everyone else being that way, not that it is an excuse.

I'm not trying to make any generalizations about anyone here, clocks or not. I am just trying to address the issue of cheating so that maybe people will be a bit more encouraged to submit good quality work.

At 7/21/02 03:45 AM, uhoh_spagettio wrote: Im braking away from the cheating and i feel i should say some positive words about your game Demonic Goat! The Name is funny as hell. The game is just pure Great! And I get very far on it so im gonna keep on trying! Buhu.

Thank you for the kind words!

At 7/21/02 02:58 AM, dirtymonkey wrote: im not sure if that submitting thing is in effect right now but my eo account is dirtymonk and a good game i have(i can do better but ya) is here:
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view.php?id=50414

The game has potential, but is pretty bugged. Keep working and I'll think about it.

At 7/21/02 03:25 AM, Septimus wrote: And you don't really have to make people jump through hoops to validate an account, just make sure the e-mail address is unique against all other e-mail addresses on the site, and auto-mail them the initial password to access the site. A little PHP/mySQL magic can do the trick.

I just recently switched to that way (even though mail() seems to not want to work a lot).

But on the general topic- I don't think that making people log in to vote is a bad idea. But I'm sure that the people doing this have multiple accounts to increase their voting power- so it wouldn't help anyway. It is a shame that some people have such boring lives that this seems like a good idea.

Well, even if a person has 100 accounts (like someone else said their friend had), they would first have to create 100 emails, then validate every one of them, and then login and logout of every single one of them each time they want to vote. And in the end, they only acheived 100 votes that day, as opposed to 1000. At least this effort would discourage people from doing it. I can't imagine anyone doing that over and over and over again.

Plus, if I suspect duplicate accounts, I can quickly, easily, and efficiently block any of those accounts. I just set most of these scripts up recently, so that's why I'm thinking about switching to membership only voting.

Also, Pic of the Moment has vote up or down system. I'm thinking about switching to only voting up.

At 7/21/02 02:47 AM, Frank2982 wrote: Clocks (this is if you can prove it... and saying Bacon's score went up really fast with alot of votes) aren't the only ones cheating.

Just so everyone knows, I never made a generalization about all clocks are cheaters or anything. I simply said that some clocks (or clock) is obviously cheating. Now, I suppose it's possible that here on NG there are other instances of cheating. But this is the only one that has come to my attention, and for the sake of logic, this person seems to either love clocks or be a clock himself. If there are other cheaters, let's do this membership requirement to block all of them. I'm sorry if I slandered all clocks' name, that was not my intention.

I have known that there has been cheating on my site for a little while now, and I just thought I would let NG know about it, as it seems likely to be happening here too (although I'm not as familiar with NG's happenings and methods).

The movie Steven Seagal Episode 3, was in first place over all for a little while. [snip] And yet, crappier flash is above it. So why fight the small battles of Daily Feature, when bigger battles of Top spot of ALL TIME is being cheated out of too.

Don't you see? I am only pointing out one instance of cheating. If cheating is going on in more places than what I have pointed out, then this only more supports my suggestion. Fixing cheating will win both the small and big battle Frank.

At 7/21/02 02:14 AM, RandomHeroDunn wrote: All you have to remember is the more restrictions you place, the less likley you are to get new users.

Well, the thing is I don't think people would want to join anyway if they see that there's no chance in hell of getting on the top lists. As far as just users without memberships, I'm not too worried about that. They can still come and look at the pictures, they just can't vote.

I used to personally validate every account, and i think a lot of people got sick of waiting for me to send the confirmation email. Its a tough call.

Yeah, I guess it sucks because there really is no real way to effectively validate other than email and IP.

Either way, we've come a long way from cookie voting, eh?
;)

Hehe, yeah. :)

At 7/21/02 01:27 AM, rev_duo_maxwell wrote: dude, you really need to read Wade Fulp's "Play Nice" topic right below this one becuase it deals with stealing and demeaning reviews... take a look at it if you have time

I have read it, but my point is not about people being mean or stealing, it's about cheating. They cannot properly track votes or block someone who is being mean or stealing if that person is using fake IP addresses.

That is the issue I am trying to address.

Some clock is using IP spoofing to vote insane amounts of both EO and NG. I even made a front page post that includes some info on this so hopefully Wade and Tom do something about this. I know I plan to.

It's unfortunate but I think I have to restrict voting to members only, which may result in further membership restrictions.

What up NG? I've been doing a lot of work since I got my computer fixed about a month ago.

First off, I just released a game Kenshino and I have been working on called Demonic Goat. It's a fun side scrolling game. Check it.

Second, I released Flash submissions on my site experimentally. We'll see how it works out. You have to be an approved submitter, and your work must be under 200k. These restrictions will hopefully give good work more attention. Show me some good flash and an EO membership and I'll consider approving you.

Third, EO has a new layout. So far people seem to like it.

I also made a movie called The Pesky Eyeball that got blammed at 50 votes that really wasn't bad enough to be blammed (in my opinion), so please watch that so I don't feel so much like I wasted all the time making it.

See all this new stuff at EntropicOrder.com

Check this puzzle game out (Virus Game). I thought it was a pretty novel idea.

And now for a bit about cheating:
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"mistary man steils cadny1" has 1,697 votes in only 4 days.

BaconBurgerClock has taken daily feature 3 of the last 4 days with shitty flash movies.

Gooseberry_Clock has a score of 2864 with 2964 votes on a picture at EntropicOrder.com. The next 13 highest rated pics are all by clocks, with at least 200 votes each.

The top 2 member sites on EntropicOrder.com are clock sites, with thousands of votes each, the next site having approximately 40 votes.

Both NG and EO don't require memberships to vote, but use IP addresses (I'm assuming) instead. I believe there are clocks who use IP spoofing to waste everyone's time.

Voting honestly becomes pointless. Submittions to portals based on rank become pointless. The portal loses quality submissions and features nothing but cheater's work, which is bound to be worthless.

Should voting be restricted to only email verified members, so that those members who obviously cheat can be more efficiently banned? Should accounts be verified by more than email? I recommend NG does something, because I plan to do something myself.