Ben wasn't just one of us, he was the best of us. Look, I know that overdosing on drugs is a dumb way to go; but the nasty attitude of certain people's views on this is just unconscienable. He along with Mindchamber, Tom, Wade, Dan Paladin, Em Kaah (whereabouts unknown), McFretN, Doomhammr, Clark Lybek, Randy Solem, Sirkowski, Edmund McMillen, and many others shaped this site into what it is today.

Congratulations, now you have caught up with your brother Wade. Plus, celebrate Human Achievement Hour while you're at it.

No offense Stamper, but I think that these mega collabs are dull and overrated. It's usually boils down to this: Quantity of Shorts and High-grade animation with boring content (Both the MGS collab and Nin10doh! are examples of this). I think instead of making collabs bigger and bigger, we should be making them smaller with more thought in the jokes while animation goes in the passenger seat. Plus, I'm tired of seeing shitty internet gags used as joke material (Examples: Rick Roll, Over 9000, etc.) over something that had actual thought in it.

Second entry: Go Go Ackman 3

Here's my take on Takky from Baraduke 2.

Here's my contribution.

Here's a few links I found:
http://www.petakillsanimals.com
P.E.T.A. is human abuse

I would take number Four as my choice.

I agree because they are unfortunately run on greed much like the fast food industry. Puerile chodes like them need to be dealt with immediately.

At 10/18/01 03:54 PM, TomFulp wrote:

The original version of Pico 2 (which most of you have never seen) has pretty much been scrapped... the version you may have seen on the site was from April Fools and it is a joke (some people still haven't realized that). I may at some point release the scrapped version for fun, but for now I want to focus on plans for the NEW version of PICO 2.

I am having a hard time deciding on the control scheme.

In the scrapped version of Pico 2, the controls worked like this - you ran around using the A, S, D and W keys (in the same way as using the arrow keys, but with your left hand on the left side of the keyboard). The mouse was used to point... So wherever your mouse was, that is where Pico was looking. You could click on stuff to interact with it, or draw your weapon and click on stuff to shoot it.

The awkward part was that since Pico would look in the direction of the mouse, he was always facing difference ways than he was running. It just looked goofy.

So I have been thinking that I want to make it ALL keyboard, and not use the mouse. So the controls will be more like a traditional video game. But what game will they be like?

I was originally thinking you could face 8 different directions, and shoot in eight different directions. Then I was wondering if maybe you could just face either right or left - ala Disorderly. Both formats have their ups and downs.

I'm thinking of a system where you can face in 8 directions, and when you start shooting, you stay locked in that direction. So if you are running diagonally up and to the right and start firing your weapon, as long as you hold down the action key (probably the 'a' key), Pico will stay in that direction... So you can run up, down, left and right and Pico will keep shooting to the upper right of the screen. I remember some old games that did it this way... Last Alert for the Turbo Grafx CD... Maybe Rambo for the Genesis - my memory is foggy.

Something about this whole thing makes me feel uneasy, though... A part of me is thinking that maybe you should just face the right or left, no matter if you are running up or down at the time (ala Disorderly). Then, if you are firing your gun, you would lock to either the right or the left... So you could fire to the right while running backwards. The downside is that you can't shoot enemies above or diagonal from you - you always have to be horizontally across from them. But there is still something about this that I am ok with.

I think the playing field isn't big enough for Smash TV-style multi-directional firing. If it was a straight top-view perspective, that might work - but Pico plays from more of a Disorderly (Final Fight / Double Dragon) perspective... I haven't seen games like that pull off multidirectional firing, although I have seen plenty that use guns and work from the left/right perspective.

Does anyone remember the Aliens vs. Predator arcade game? Did that have multidirectional firing from the shoulder cannon? I gotta find a ROM of that one...

Anyway... I am rambling...

KEY QUESTION:
1) How should the control scheme for Pico 2 work? How do you want to control the character and what abilities should he have?

*NOTE: There are TONS of abilities for Pico that I haven't mentioned in this post, so don't get crazy if you think your idea is 'stolen'. :)

Me,I'd make the controls where'd you point at an enemy
and use like an automatic lock like on mega man 64.That
surely help when fighting bosses but not when fighting
mobs of enemies.Since you got your ideas as well as
everyone else,choose what's best.

At 10/6/01 04:36 PM, Perfect-Dom wrote:

That's right folks! After months of sitting in the corner and collecting dust, I have decided to continue work on the long awaited Mobiusfighter! I have decided to scrap the previous version of mobiusfighter in favor of one done in all vectors! This will dramatically cut down the file size from the original 20 Megabytes to a mere 4 Megabytes, meaning I will be able to upload this baby to the Portal. This is good news because it solves the problem of finding webspace. (At least for the online version) What's so great about this new version? Well, for starters, the graphics are all vectors, which makes them much, much, smoother. This is good for me because I can now manipulate the graphics more easily than I previously could, meaning better quality and craftsmanship. Secondly, the programming behind the AI and controls has been totally redone. The new engine runs much faster than the old one, this new engine also allows me to manipulate each character's attributes ( i.e. Strength, Speed, Punching Range, Evasion, and Accuracy or Hits), meaning, that unlike before, the characters now have pros and cons, making the game more enjoyable and challenging, since no two characters will be alike. Also, since the character's data now exists within the main movie, I will NOT have to include them as separate movies. This also means reduced file size since sounds and graphic instances are recycled by the timeline. I have also gathered a more "loopable" soundtrack from Audiogalaxy. (Mostly stuff from Street Fighter Alpha 2) This means a sound clip will be no more than 1 minute along. (This means reduced file size, Again...)
The first release will have about 10 playable characters, and the difficulty of the game and order of bouts depends on which character you choose. For instance, if you chose Brian (From the Mobiusfactor Staff, a big and husky guy), you would have difficulty beating most of the players, because of his slow speed, however you do more damage because of his strength. Get it now?
I don't want to give too much away, just watch for a demo in the near future (Actually I have one finished, but its not up yet, It needs better sound).

In Other Words, I have reopened the shop at Mobiusfactor to include more items. I get money from CD now every time a user buys something through me, so if you decide to buy something from them anyway, please do it through us so that we can make a little cash for better software. You can also search for something right off our site if you don't like our selection!

Check It Out!

We have also added a new section to Mobiusfactor Lit, where we pick on stupid and irritating sites like Bible Man and Icy Hot Stuntaz. If you have a review of your own Send it In!

Check It Out!

That's it for now, Don't forget to stop by Mobiusfactor!

And now straight from the NG chatroom, your moment of Zen...
model3224 says: HOT GAY MAN LOVE WITH DONKEYS!

~Thank You

Mobius Fighter rules,And anyone who disses it is stupid.

At 10/2/01 01:17 AM, rsdig wrote:

I agree With you,they are just a bunch of pussies who
are trying to screw us over.They need to Lighten up,
that's all they need to do.

At 9/8/01 11:46 AM, TomFulp wrote: Just some quick reminders:
Disorderly launched this week and you must play it!
Disorderly Merchandise is available and it is HOT! Buy today!
Newgrounds Messenger Bags are only available until the end of the month!

Every once in a while I get the urge to post funny emails on the front page, and I don't know why I never do. Yesterday I got a real zinger, so I thought everyone would get a kick out of it. Anyone who frequents The Portal is familiar with the "Clock Crew" - a bunch of names beginning with fruits and ending with "Clock". They submit movies that tick everyone off, and I get TONS and TONS of emails asking me to ban them. Well, yesterday I got an email from the Clock Crew themselves. Have a look!

Subject: "Clock" situation

Dear Mr. Tom Fulp,
I would first like to state that going to Newgrounds.com over the past few days has been a burden rather than the fun, entertaining place it is meant to be. This is due mainly to the fact that the
so-called "Clock Crew" has been dealt a gross injustice by fellow users of the web site. Not only have numerous users of Newgrounds.com offended us several times on the BBS and in movie reviews, but they have also taken the liberty of making and submitting degrading Flash movies using our likeness to convey hatred, anger, and downright bigotry toward us. The following is a list of movies that we feel break the Newgrounds.com rules and therefore should result in account deletion or, in extreme cases, a ban to the users listed.

Provided are links to the movies in question along with the title and user whom submitted it:

anti strawberry_clock - by user "raxar"
anti strawberry_clock II - by user "raxar"
Clock Subliminal Messages - by user "GrandmasterJ"
Life of Strawberry Clock - by user "GrandmasterJ"
Kill strawberry clock - by user "kl0ne"
StrawberryClock: TheTruth - by user "kl0ne"
Madman v Strawberry_Clock - by user "ZidaneX"
Strawberry_Clock Speech - by user "ZidaneX"
Biggest Asshole Winner - by user "Mr_Congeniality"
Die Strawberry clock!!! - by user "Thepoombas"
Strawberry - Orange Clock - by user "Sir_Pizzaman"
StrawberryClock Testimony - by user "waf"
Strawberry_Clock's Fucks - by user "FUCK_YOU_ZILLA"

Not only are the movies both offensive and extremely inappropriate for the content of Newgrounds.com, but the authors make numerous threats to the so-called "Clock Crew," including death threats, threats to our family and friends, and talk of violent or homosexual
acts directed toward us. This harassment is not limited to Flash movies, however, it can also be found in the reviews for the aforementioned movies, and on the BBS chat.

If that is not shocking enough, users tend to vote "X" or "0" without even watching our movies or giving them a score that they really deserve. Several users (Pants01, Mr_Congeniality, GrandmasterJ, ChronoBasher, MrLicky, Quirion_Dryad, and VdIbV, to name a few)
search for our movies and specifically vote "X" or "0" to get them deleted so we cannot be a part of the Newgrounds.com community. These users have not been provoked by us in any way, they simply do not like us because they think the movies we make are "stupid" and
have "no effort" put into them, despite the fact that these people create movies of poor quality themselves or do not create movies at all.

This aggravation has led to a disliking of our visits to Newgrounds.com when having to face the humility of being called a "faggot," among other disheartening words, reading users' posts describing various acts of violence which they would like to act upon us, and having our quality movies deleted for no good reason day after day.

We feel that these users should be dealt with immediately seeing as they are trying to get our accounts deleted and/or banned because they believe that we are somehow violating our Newgrounds.com agreement as well. With the exception of one movie made by StrawberryClock in retaliation for the 13 or so "anti-StrawberryClock" movies, we have not crossed any lines or broken any rules set by the good folks at Newgrounds.com. All we want is fair treatment and justice served for those whom segregate the Portal.

Thank You.

So, what does everyone think of this? :)

Why don't you dickheads teach him flash because banning
him ain't the solution.Razoric may be right but,you can
just vote his shit off and teach him instead of calling
him a fag.How would you like it if he called you a fag?
You wouldn't like that,so I suggest you bastards get to
teaching starting NOW?