At 11/13/06 12:57 PM, Silent-G wrote: Can anyone play Misirlou on expert?

I most certainly can. I'm not good enough to get even remotely close to a four or five star score on it, but with enough star power in the right spots I usually don't have too hard of a time making it through.

At 11/12/06 05:08 PM, BlueHippo wrote: finally my friend brought it over. god dammit, damn you thunderhorse. that song is so amazing, i keep playing it over and over again. i cant seem to get anything higher than 80ish on hard on that song. the practice mode is bad ass though! you can slow down songs and whatnot, so i can try to shred like dethklok.

Yes Thunderhorse is easily one of my favorite GHII songs and yes, I have beaten it. Not with a terrific score, but at least I did beat it. In other news I've unlocked Freebird and I can honestly say...FUCK. I thought beating Hanger 18 was a fucking challenge, but goddamn.

For those unfamiliar with the tune just imagine a really slow song that goes on for a while and makes you wonder why it's in expert, then you hit a solo that's tough but managable with the star power you've amassed. You almost want to chuckle at the fact that it's the final song, but then you get hit with the massive unending wall of descending sixteenth notes and in under a minute you're left feeling cold and violated.

I found the remake to be a little too cut-and-paste as a horror film until the ending sequences where it started to pick up. I think overall though the series has enough legs for a sequel. I don't have much faith that it will get done right, but I'll hold out hope on the slight chance that it will.

At 11/11/06 12:56 PM, GSioufi wrote: Isn't M bot an automatic program that removes reviews that have been merked as abusive or unuseful? 3 of my reviews have beem removed, but only 2 i guess desserved it. I dont understand what you mean by spammers.

No, the way the system works regular users can flag abusive reviews which then get priority to be given the once-over by us review moderators who either clear the flags or delete the review. M-bot only sends out PMs to notify users that a review has been deleted and/or they've been banned.

As for this user's reviews, it would have been nice of him to post the actual text so I could see what happened. From what he's posted though I assume he either used the review space to complain about a flash group that he is annoyed with or wrote something along the lines of "Stop spamming Newgrounds, fucking assholes." Both of which are abusive, reviews should be on-topic and we don't judge reviews any differently when they're given to movies that are clearly spam.

At 11/11/06 12:37 PM, ZeroAsALimit wrote:

At 11/11/06 12:35 PM, wwwyzzerdd wrote: Except for Jefferson.

True, but there is still religion expressed in the constitution and in the swearing of the oath to the Republic.

There's actually a lot of debate about the founding fathers. Many of them fell into the category of Deists which was a philosophy based religion that rejected most of the mysticism popular in Christianity. Personally though I'd say that, aside from a few big names like Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and allegedly George Washington, the bulk of who we consider to be our founding fathers were Christian, at least in affilition. Even if they weren't the population of America was so overwhealmingly Christian that it would have been impossible for early politicians to ignore them.

At 11/10/06 05:31 PM, BatDan wrote: So I've finally decided to advance to hard mode. Problem is, I don't know how to hit all those tricky orange notes.

Any suggestions... I know, I know there's practice but I've been doing a lot of that.

That's really all you can do. It's like a real guitar, you keep playing and eventually your fingers start moving across the fret buttons more gracefully, you will stop having to think so hard about where you're placing your hand, and you start to feel the rythm of the songs better. The hard mode (in GHone at least) was pretty nice about not being to heavy on the orange button on the first couple tiers of songs so you could always go back to those for some practice if it got too hard later on.

- Monday: Consider the start of a week a turning point. Do 20 sit-ups as a warm up and promise to get serious tomorrow.

-Tuesday: Get ready to jog at least a mile and then decide that it's kind of cloudy out. I somewhat remember hearing some story on the news about people getting struck by lightining. I think I remember it being about joggers, it might have been in Florida, but then again it's still the East Coast. I think I'll play it safe and push the jogging back to this weekend. I'd do push-ups for a little bit, but now I'm interested in lighting, Wikipedia probably has an article on it...

- Wednesday: Oh shit, I'm late for school! Maybe if I jog in place in the shower it will make up for some of the exercise I'm missing out on.

- Thursday: I fell down jogging in the shower yesterday. The injuries aren't all that bad, just a bump on my elbow, but I better play it safe. I read a story on some website once about a man who died from bruising his elbow. It may have been fiction, but do I really want to take that risk? Shit, what website was that? Oh man, this is going to bother me all day if I don't find that story.

- Friday: Okay, today is the day I get some real exercise in and tomorrow I'll do a mile of running to finish off the week. Hmmm, you know...I don't really have a lot of room here to work out, I better clean up a little. Hey, what's this over here in this box? Holy shit, there's an unopened mystery pen book in here!! Whoa, an unsolved Rubik's Cube! Oh...My...GOD! TEDDY RUXPIN!! There's a fucking goldmine over here. I'll workout tomorrow, I've got to walk down memory lane today.

- Saturday: Oh Teddy Ruxpin, tell me another story....

- Sunday: Fuck it, I'll start exercising regularly next week.

About ten or twelve years ago my family lived in an old house that had been converted into two seperate apartments. I can still clearly remember waking up one night and detecting a distinct smokey smell in the air and hearing a peircing beeping from somewhere in the house. Now I assume at that point most intelligent individuals would have put two-and-two together and gotten the hell out of Dodge, but I fucking love my sleep and hell, once you flee from a burning house it's really hard to get back into that really deep sleep so I decided to let myself drift back to dream-land.

Fortunately for me my mom has a much stronger sense of survival instincts amd a minute or two later she barged in and got me and my sister outside. Apparantly my neighbor down stairs had gotten drunk and passed out on his bed with a cigarette in his mouth which inevitably fell out setting his matress aflame. Luckily for him my mom was also able to wake him up and the fire department arrived before the fire spread off of his mattress.

At 11/10/06 11:07 AM, Nucksta wrote:

At 11/10/06 11:02 AM, Jercurpac wrote:

Which was invented by square so either way.

Actually no

I know about the Squaresoft and Enix merger, but Dragon Warrior was created by Square proof. Don't say I never proved you wrong.

At approximately the same time, Square designer Hironobu Sakaguchi began work on an ambitious new fantasy role playing game for the cartridge-based Famicom, inspired in part by Enix's popular Dragon Quest (known to some in the United States as Dragon Warrior).

Am I still not allowed to say you never proved me wrong?

At 11/10/06 10:34 AM, Nucksta wrote:

At 11/10/06 09:03 AM, Zen444 wrote:

At 11/10/06 09:00 AM, Zen444 wrote: Dungeon Warrior.

Fuck fuck.

I meant Dragon Warrior.

Which was invented by square so either way.

Actually no, Dragon Warrior came from a company named Enix, which twenty years ago had no affiliation with Squaresoft whatsoever. About three years ago the companies merged and became SquareEnix which now owns both series'.

At 11/9/06 04:31 PM, Backseat-Mod wrote:

At 11/9/06 08:58 AM, Jercurpac wrote: In fact, I actually enjoy career mode's new four regular songs and then a massive anthem for the encore.

What does the anthem consist of? Is it like a medley of all of them?

Nah, instead of having five songs available when you start each level of the career mode there are only four. Once you've completed those you unlock the fifth "encore" song which is generally a popular song like Freebird or Sweet Child of Mine that everyone has fantasized about playing at one point in time which is what I meant by anthem.

Which candidate is for developing a national health care system that benefits all Americans, creating an effective plan for stabalizing and withdrawing from Iraq, reforming an economy that relies far too heavily on imports and outsourcing, and restoring America's public education system and igniting student's interests in the sciences? Whoever that candidate is, they're a nerd, and I'll be goddamned if I'm voting for a fucking nerd. My vote goes to whoever can do the most keg-stands.

At 11/9/06 11:43 AM, ZeroAsALimit wrote: As for writing to my local MP, I doubt it will do much. People in my country are less moral than the people in your country Gum, I doubt anyone I know gives a damn about what is happening, which is a shame.

There is a disturbing discrepancy in America between the few people who can actually grasp the horror that the word genocide entails and give of themselves out of actual empathy for human life and those who've been conditioned to feel guilty of their position and give to charities because they'd hate to look like they took their good fortune for granted.

In the end though I doubt any child who is living in a dirty makeshift village in constant fear of being attacked by militants is really going to care about the motives of those who are making an effort to help them.

I will make my voice heard through the ballot box next year, but nothing more.

Hey, you're not allowed to announce when your own account officially becomes old school. Hell, I wouldn't even consider my account old school. If I had to make an estimation I would go with five year of hanging around Newgrounds before you are and old school user. After that much time you've officiall witnessed a large enough number of events and site changes that 95% of users will never know about.

The sequel is pretty damn good so far, which I didn't really need to tell you. they would have had to do something awful to really fuck up such a great formula.

On the difficulty side I am noticing a lot more challenge. I jumped right into expert mode and unlike the first GH there's really no curve in difficulty where you get hit with easier techniques in the first tiers that prepare you for the final ones. While the first few songs are easier overall you don't get any sympathy when you happen to hit a hard part (for example the little bit of wankage at the end of Sharp dressed man did not reflect all the notes that were actually being played in the recording, GHII has not qualms about throwing all of that at you). I can't speak for how well the challenge curves in the other difficulties so hopefully batdan can enlighten us.

As for the playlist, I'm definetly enjoying it. I've read a few reviews that have complained about the lack of immensely recognizable songs that were in the first, and while they did go deeper into some band's librarys I've yet to have a problem with it. In fact, I actually enjoy career mode's new four regular songs and then a massive anthem for the encore. I'll let time form my fina; opinion on it though.

Goddamn, will everyone stop being a bunch of fucking babies about the site getting a few new features. The fact of the matter is, aside from having a horrible community attatched to it Myspace is actually a pretty cool site. If you look at it from the perspective of the flash artists here on Newgrounds adding the new features is a no-brainer. Previously artists could only reach their fans from the frontpage if they happened to be affiliates or through the NG-mag which rarely got visited and is now clogged with movies that have already been released. Now any artist can keep fans up to date on their films with blogs and images and they can easily find and talk to other authors.

Us regular non-contributing users should feel fucing lucky that we get to use these features, especially fucking WAH-WAH babies like yourself. If you really intend to be a whiney douche and boycott them, then fine, just ignore them. It's still the same exact site for fucks sake.

At 11/7/06 04:58 PM, Backseat-Mod wrote: GAH!!! It's out, it's out!!

Anyone get it?!?! I AM BROKE AS SHIT so I have to save my money.

ANYONE GET IT??!?!? LET ME KNOW HOW ORGASMIC IT IS!!

Everything you ever dreamed of and more. That's all I'll tell you though, I wouldn't want to say anything that would get you too exicted.

Oh man, this reminds me of this one time I was in a mall and as I walked past a group of women one of them commented that she was hungry. They then began to discuss which fast-food restaurant they were going to eat at.

Women, AMIRITE?

It depends on where you are in the US. Local laws vary state-by-state and even town-by-town. I used to live in Bergen County in New Jersey and on sundays everything aside from stores that sold essentials (such as grocery stores) were shut down on Sundays. All I had to do though was take a 15 minute drive up into New York and everything was open.

There's a fancy word for laws which force stores to stay closed on Sundays and I really wanted to use it to sound smart, but it escapes me at the moment. :(

I'll be picking it up tomorrow.

I need to find some more talented friends though. I'm not trying to come off like I'm great at the game because I've seen some videos on Youtube that have doubled or even tripled some of my best Expert scores. Still, I've yet to legitimately lose to any of my friends at it, ever. The ability for each player to play seperate difficulties in multiplayer will be cool, but I'd still like to go head-to-head in Expert with some one and have a real challenge.

At 11/5/06 04:04 PM, BoomMan wrote:

At 11/5/06 04:01 PM, BoomMan wrote: i can't get past some spikes when i've got the larva sack.or when i have'nt got it

on teh cliff

The spikes are not an obstacle to get around, they're only a barrier to keep you from walking off of the map. As far as I can tell there's no way to get around them so don't even bother.

Yeah, it's a cheap, but effective way to get around the voting-panel load time. Is it really that hard to watch a movie before you vote though? The only reason anyone would have for using it is to try and accumulate an ass-load of blam/protect points in a relatively short amount of time to raise their status in the rankings. Which, in my opinion, is just sad on so many levels.

I found a few havens for awful reviews and I'm in quite the charitable mood tonight so I figured I'd share them.

Who let the dogs out
Cottor55

Do I get bonus points for being the first person to crack the Marvin Spectrum achievements?

Pfft, that article is stupid. I'm not addicted to the internet. I can turn off my computer at anytime it's just that I choose not to. No seriously, it's not like I need the internet to be happy, or that any activity not revolving around the internet is rendered unenjoyable and meaningless due to an unquenchable desire to return to the warm, inviting glow of my monitor beaming out an endless stream of forums, games, movies, pornography and e-friendships and other forms of entertainment to tempt the senses and occupy the mind.

Because that would be super-lame of me.

At 11/3/06 03:15 PM, DanMalo wrote: "Rapper" Myspace page

Listen to the song "Fuck a Ho and Fuck..." on that page.

The reverb on that track is just horrendous, it's almost as if he was taking a shit, came up with the idea to record a freestyle over a Barney song and having a laptop with cheap recording software he decided to record it right there in the bathroom. Plus I've never heard a rap song that I would describe as mumbling. Annunciate for fucks sake!

Not bad, when I had heard there was going to be a new Smash Bros. trailer I assumed we would see a little bit more of the game. Everything I saw was pretty details that I had already assumed would be in the game. It was nice to get a look at some of the stages and see that they look a lot more "reactive" than previous SSB games. Everything else was pretty much a given. Did anyone really doubt that Fox would be in the game?

At 11/3/06 11:02 AM, Placebo wrote: Is it possible to jump in that game? I played it for a bit yesterday but I was kind of disappointed because I couldn't jump and the guy walked so slow.

Nah no jumping, although I wouldn't consider it a necessary move in the game. Personally I didn't feel like the walking speed was an issue, although I'd assume you'd find it less of a problem a few levels in when you're constantly swarmed by enemies and don't have to move much to get from one baddie to the next.

At 11/3/06 09:37 AM, Zen444 wrote:

At 11/3/06 09:36 AM, Jercurpac wrote: Going arounds the BBS and constantly trying to find every flaw in every thread so you can "tell it like it is," is LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAME!

You're doing it wrong!

Oh shit! Did I forget to regurgitate a five month old YTMND fad!?

Zen444 is like jello pudding. No, actually he's more like kodak film. No Zen444 is like the New Coke, He'll be around forever. Ghurrr hurr hurr.

At 11/3/06 09:19 AM, Zen444 wrote: Lame bumpings of your own thread is LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAME!

Going arounds the BBS and constantly trying to find every flaw in every thread so you can "tell it like it is," is LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAME!