At 7/7/08 04:09 AM, Zerok wrote: Speaking of universe behaving like broken records, have you read Stephen King's Dark Tower series? I just got back into it, I still have not read the last two.

Hmm. I don't believe I have. Recommended?

No he's right, folks. Physics is broken. The universe should begin behaving like a broken record any second now.

... oh nevermind, there's no time. That explains why we're not stopping. He must be right.

Many sound effects are recycled. So if you hear a sound effect more than once, it's because it's been around so long that it's now in the public domain and anyone can use it. One famous example is the Wilhelm scream sound effect (look it up on wikipedia).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_scr eam Meh, I did it for you.

You've only proved your misunderstanding of the religion. Buddhists believe that to exist is to suffer. All existence is defined by suffering. That to attain nirvana, one must free oneself from suffering and the only way to do so is to eliminate the extraneous wants of humanity from one's lifestyle. It's actually a really reasonable way to approach life, successful Buddhists are very content people. They're content because they do not harbor hatred or resentment toward others as others may harbor resentment toward them. They are free from the traditional persuit of happiness because their beliefs allow them to attain happiness without the distractions existence offers.

A Buddhist still has wants, they understand that to want is a fundamental of human existence (which you ironically point out as your opening argument against Buddhism) yet they also understand that happiness is not the result of fulfilling such desires. Fulfilling those desires only leads to larger desires, only by abandoning the want in the first place does one find true happiness, and thusly enlightenment. The circle of rebirths is a result of an unenlightened consciousness's continual suffering (existence), which one can only escape through nirvana (non-existence, full elimination of wants, no suffering).

Seriously, read up on Buddhism. It's actually a fascinatingly interesting way to live one's life. I think the Buddhist philosophy has a lot to teach, especially for members of this forum.

Welcome to the world of the hypothetical. Where anything is possible, likely to result in contradiction, and ultimately born of the ponderings of the mortal mind.

At 7/2/08 12:15 PM, TomFulp wrote: I ALMOST passed him over to avoid suspicion, but then I figured mods deserve $100 just as much as everyone else, if not MORE.

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Glad you didn't. I mean... Star_Cleaver. Wut?

Also : D

I like the fact that Newgrounds doesn't make it easier for idiots to disguise themselves as something else. No spell check built in is like a reality filter that makes it easier to identify the reality of who really sucks around here.

Don't even beat around the bush. After a couple shifts working together, "Hey listen, I think you're pretty awesome and I'd like to take you out some time."

I'm sure you could elaborate better than I. Don't hang out with her outside of work unless you've established that you're interested in more than just hanging out. Otherwise you're in for a long and arduous journey of uncertainty, ultimately ending in disappointment.

Oh, make sure you're slipping compliments into your flirty conversation in the meanwhile.

GLHF

We live in an unfortunate reality. A reality where success is measured by an entity's collective will as to its continuation. Humanity is an organism the likes of which this world has never before encountered. We have studied the makeup of our bodies and the world they thrive in so we might be better prepared to prosper in another world of our own construction. We understand that our very being is the end result of molecular communicability between our component cells. In that same way, we communicate with each other. We teach and learn and reproduce, every time teaching our youths up to our current level of discovery with the hopes that they will move beyond mastery over the known and into understanding of the unknown.

Our particular genetic code is well-suited to survive in our universal environment because it builds us with intelligence enough to question that environment. To improve it, to move beyond boundaries so that the human organism may flourish, growing to spread our reach as far as possible.

Our universe is unstable, we know this. Thusly, our humongous sense of spite compels us to avoid such a dismal fate. How to do this? Continuation. Each member of our species believes (rightly so) that their particular genetic traits can be useful in our society's future. So each member of our species finds the task of an equally endowed mate to compliment our favorable genetics, and perhaps negate those that aren't so. People are smart creatures. We are shown something and either immediately or through regular interaction are able to discern the positive and negative traits of the thing. We're shown a potential mate, and looks are the initial reaction. A phenotype, however, does not ensure favorable mating. The initial yes/no of one's interest in another weathers prolonged exposure to the other's personality. At that point, the initial response either remains the same, or is changed.

In summation: why do we find someone beautiful? Because our instinctual mind believes that certain phenotypes are more worthwhile than others to pursue. Why does society place beauty in such high regard? Because society is little more than the current human gene pool's phenotype, and our collective instinctual mind believes that a successful human appears a certain way. Just as we want that same look for ourselves, it follows that we want a better look for our progeny. And just as society understands that it wishes to expand its boundaries limitlessly, it also understands that such a task becomes easier if each member is striving for perfection. So the interest in the discovery and exploitation of perfection is promoted, not because of any particular man's agenda, but because of every particular man's agenda.

I hope the few of you capable of thought required to read this post in its entirety enjoy any thought it might provoke.

Like, less than level 30 'lower level users', or what? Clarification.

At 5/9/08 11:33 PM, Stonehell wrote: Buzz Killington to the rescue.

It's cool. The sort of moronic bottom-feeders that'd actually get excited over the prospect of correctly guessing the right moderator's name wouldn't read the entire topic before they spooged their guess all over our faces anyway.

At 5/9/08 11:25 PM, Captain-Jack wrote: Previous comment withdrawn.

Like the phallus during intercourse when babies aren't preferred, or like the entirety of your post history?

CHOOSE WISELY.

Also: I'm in a fun-ruining mood. It was mighy-potato. Although he didn't, just allegedly.

At 5/9/08 11:09 PM, Captain-Jack wrote:

At 5/9/08 10:59 PM, JoS wrote:

At 5/9/08 10:51 PM, Captain-Jack wrote: HOLY CRAP JOS YOU ARE SO FREAKING FUNNY

Is that a pun I hear?

In order for something to be a "pun", it has to be a play on words.

In JoS's defense, "holy crap" is a pun. The play here is the fact that there's a pre-existing expression for surprise, and that the subject of the thread concerns a Moderator having shat himself.

I took several AP tests years ago and passed every one. Which are you referring to?

Just be an all-around decent poster for a consistent period of time (1+ years) and if eventually the administrators and current moderators decide that we need more moderators and you seem like a decent candidate to everyone, you're in.

Asking or constantly bothering the moderators won't help.

Except: we don't want every thread on the front page of the forums to ALWAYS be every single fucking noob-assed fag who just discovered Numa Numa on youtube for the first time linking us with "LOL THIS IS HILARIOUS." No description, no screenshot, nothing at all to indicate that we're wasting our time when we click on their link.

Because it's difficult to keep a character consistent when they're embodying competing ideals. Like, how do you write a character that is both experienced and innocent? You can't really, it just automatically sounds cliche, foolish, or makes your character unbelievable in some way. Why do you need to have competing ideals? Because without competing ideals there's no basis for a story. Morals present in novels are there so that the author might persuade the reader using the logic of the metaphorical to behave similarly or differently from the characters in the story because they've understood the lessons learned from the main characters' plight. A truly persuasive piece always includes the concepts it's trying to disprove, if only to discredit the validity of those ideas.

So basically: it's a formula that works. It works because it panders to the believability people need in order to appreciate a story's message.

It's also the reason why 99% of the stories here on Newgrounds suck. The authors are so interested in pandering to a like-minded crowd of story-loving readers with nearly identical personalities that they don't write in any more dynamic characters to balance it out. It's not realistic to have situations where everyone would always agree based on their character, nor is it realistic to have situations where characters with near identical characteristics disagree just for the sake of it.

ITT: I write too much to explain my thoughts on a simple question.

Suicide shouldn't be illegal and it's not a morality issue, it's a health issue. A normal, healthy human being is genetically wired to self-preserve.

So while I don't agree with suicide, I do think that everyone has an inherent right to die. I wouldn't condone someone's decision to kill themself, but I would respect the choice and their conviction.

The happiest I'd ever felt was in a dream when I was young at a sleepover at Boston's Museum of Science. The only problem was that I was awakened from it prematurely, and as a result could not remember anything about the dream other than the resounding pleasantness from having had it. I'd enjoy dreaming that dream again, both for the contentment it provided and to sate my curiosity as to what it was that provided such happiness.

Otherwise, I want to spend time in my dreams on Earth BC. To see the unpolluted night sky, enjoy the fresh air and billions of acres of never deforested land.

... sex with hot women is lame. People can and already DO dream about that. You guys should challenge yourselves to come up with something that you haven't dreamt about or can't.

It makes more sense to put the numbers in order of maximum possible value.

12 possible months, 31 possible days, 99 possible years.

If I want a condom here at school I can get them:
- Free from health services (if I'm planning on getting laid)
- Free from any Residential Assistant (If I wasn't planning on getting laid, but happen to have some girl rearin' and ready to go in my dorm) by just knocking on their door at any hour of the day.
- Free from any STD awareness event, anti-AIDS event, or whatever else that happen here on campus pretty regularly.

Or I can buy them from the store. But the point here is that most college campuses have the resources to provide them pretty easily. Does your university have a health services or campus nurse or anything? I bet she's got a budget for providing condoms.

Traditionally, since forums are media intended to provoke continued discussion in relation to title's topics, you should be returning to every post you make that got someone else interested in responding and responding in kind. Even if it's days or a few weeks later. Newgrounds is only different because it moves so fast that you can't really do this just by keeping on top of the topics listing, you've got to go through your personal post history and look that way.

Except, nobody does because you guys are mostly fags.

If it's deleted, it's because it's so obviously an unacceptable topic that we shouldn't even have to bother leaving a reason why in the first place.

Based on the topic title you gave your other topic, I can tell that the base picture was terrible (face partially cut off, low resolution, excessively poorly lit, low quality, etc.) and that of the replies:
-1/3 were people who posted something without photoshopping the image
-1/3 were people who quickly used MSPaint to shoop da woop, get a cock in there, write something stupid, etc.
-1/3 were being wet-blanket douchebags, either by posting the same image with "I made him gay!" or saying something like "this topic sucks" or "ANOTHER photoshop topic?" or "fail" and posting an unrelated picture, either lolcats, fail pictures, orly owls, or something otherwise mind-numbingly stupid and unfunny that's based off one of 12 derivative jokes that have been circulating the internet plaguing it since it's creation.

But yea, if your thread's deleted, that's how you learn what you're doing wrong. When a thread of yours gets deleted, abandon the idea that you should be making threads in the first place. Learn by lurking around and seeing what we let slide and why. We do post normally as moderators, too.

You want to start by moving your fingers gently but firmly down the neck and towards the opening. Once you're in position, a couple quick twangs will have her singin' her tune in no time.

Don't let me spoil the fun... but seeing as how both of them work for Newgrounds.com inc. full-time as the two staff members most involved with the community, perhaps it's just a coincidence in keeping with the site's interests that they happen to be browsing the forums simultaneously.

I was raised to understand that swearing is the result of an inability to express oneself using better terms.

I've never felt comfortable swearing in front of my parents, really. When I was at the age where I was most likely to fly off the handle and start cursing them out, I knew that it was much better to just avoid communication at all instead. I mean, I COULD curse out my parents if I really wanted to, but now-a-days the desire just isn't there. They pretty much only want to help me out and be helped in return. When your parents treat you as a peer instead of a child, you basically don't resent them anymore.

It's popular and increases their ratings which allows them to shove higher-paying advertisements down the listener's throat.

<3 commercial radio.

It's not a bad song, you guys just love to hate music, is all. If it's a problem, change the station. Or give your opinion to the offending radio stations. As one of the customers they're trying to keep listening, they'd probably value your input that they play something too much. If there's enough people saying they don't want to hear Nickelback as often, then maybe they'll stop playing it.

But when you're coming to Newgrounds to find a common hatred of Nickelback among the userbase, you're pretty much doing the exact same thing you decry the radio stations for doing--sounding like a broken record.

Your network administrator set it up when they set up your home network. You can't 'find it' unless you wrote it down.

If it's WEP, though, there's plenty of tutorials online that'll teach you how to crack the encryption. If you cannot find the key and nobody knows it, your router has a 'reset' button that you need to push with a paperclip or a pen or something that'll reset your router to all the defaults and you'll be able to set a new WEP/WPA passcode.

Also: sometimes the passphrase itself doesn't work when you're putting it into different computers with different NIC cards. If you encounter this problem, just put in the corresponding 64 or 128 bit Hex code and it should work perfectly.

If you guys were learned or even mildly interested in medicine, you'd know they've been researching for years the way that Salamanders and other limb-regenerating animals regrow lost tissue. It's known that humans have the potential to regenerate lost body parts, with the fingers being already particularly prone to the ability to regenerate in children. It's basically a matter of being able to instruct the cells around the site of the cut to regenerate tissue instead of forming a scar.

It would appear as if there's, at least minimally, some way devised to do this already for the fingertips. Seriously though, this is all in a recent issue of Scientific American, probably April or March's.

Happy old man day, old man.