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At 2/22/03 08:14 AM, Ted_Easton wrote: Most of the population is white.
Most of the canditates are white.
Most of the population votes for most of the canditates.
This leaves little for the minority canditates.

Yeah, that's probably why they don't get the votes. Does that mean that everyone supports their own race / skin color? I'm not so sure about that. It could be racism, but I think it's because different races could have total different interests, or they may just be good at other things. Does the fact that there are more European-Americans and Europeans (white people) than other races in hockey mean that they're racist? I don't think so. Does the fact that there are more African-Americans than others in soccer mean that they're racist? No.

The topic "White America" wasn't getting making any replies for a day or two... I was afraid that it was dying out... it's my fav topic for the politics section of NGBBS, and I'm glad that people are posting again. Well, I'm gonna start posting again too.

At 2/20/03 12:27 PM, NPL150 wrote: How I makes for upgrade my Batting avarage (the written letter ex;A+ or NEW)??? Thank you for the answer.....

Just make new movies, and if the quality of enough new movies is different from you existing grade - by that I mean a large difference like a few points, your average will change and go closer to the grades of the new movies - if they're worse, your grade goes down, and if it's better, your grade should go up. NEW is just when you don't have enough movies to get an actual grade rating. The grade system should be pretty simple to understand.

At 2/20/03 07:41 PM, Recon_Rebel wrote: Type in all relevant information (I believe if you miss something the program will tell you, it's been awhile). After that scroll to the bottom and click "submit" button. It will tell you if your public profile has been successfully updated. Follow the same steps for personal profile. If you still have trouble try e-mailing Tom or Wade.

Damn I shouldn't have typed my steps - ah well I guess two sets of instructions are better than one, unless if they tell you do to do the exact opposite thing :).

At 2/20/03 07:25 PM, ocularis-inferno wrote: i cant seem to make one can. anyone write down the steps to making a publib and then a personal profile. i would really appreciate it! please help me!

Instructions, Step by Step
1. Log in
2. Click on Public Profile, under Edit menu
3. Fill out info in fields (all info is optional)
4. Click Submit
5. Go back to the main menu (click "View your profile!" under neat stuff to preview)
6. Repeat steps for Personal Profile. Some fields are required.

At 2/21/03 09:58 PM, Recon_Rebel wrote: Ouch. No idea wolfie1985. Have you tried e-mailing Tom or Wade?

Yeah, try E-mailing them. And does NG use cookies to record votes for the daily experience depositing thing? If it does, check if your browser has problems with cookies (are cookies enabled?). Damn, it sure sucks when you can't deposit your points.

At 2/15/03 10:57 PM, Screamer_cs wrote: Would someone please tell me how to compress my movies, so people dont have to wait forever to watch them(not that anyone would watch MY movies but...)
thx

I got some tips - I hope they help.
1. Don't use pasted-on pictures in bitmap format unless if you have to - try to use the tools on flash to draw stuff you don't really need bitmaps for them - e.g. drawing a few lines, circles, and anything simple, and even some complicated stuff that involve straight lines, solid fills, linear & radial gradients, arcs, shapes, etc.
2. Compress sounds by going to their properties and converting them to different formats like mp3.

As long as the movie's less than 5 megs, it's ok on NewGrounds. Good luck on your movies - spend time on them and trust me, a lot of people would want to watch them. And even if they're crappy, people still do watch them to decide if they should be blammed or protected.

Yeah, just sign in as normal and click the "view your profile" under the neat stuff section. Or, you can click on the "view profile" link that should appear next to anything you do in this site. It's that simple.

At 2/19/03 11:29 PM, Homer_x wrote: then go to what would u do if u have one million dollars topic (also mine)

Sure, I'll do it if I remember. Is it alive, like on the recently updated topics in the general section? I'm gonna go check. Homer_x, just to redirect people, post a link here in this topic to link to the million dollar one.

At 1/12/03 02:48 AM, CBS9576 wrote: A sandwich... iam hungry.

Heh heh... This is the least greedy wish ever! Too bad it's only a joke (or is it)... O yeah, speaking of hunger, I'm hungry too.

At 1/12/03 01:51 AM, Homer_x wrote: I would have all the donuts in the world

Mmm... donuts (drools)...

If I could have anything I want... Hmmm... If it's something that you can actually get in this world... how about an F-22 raptor... or even better, a billion bucks (or 10... heh heh) so I could wait for a lot of interest and then buy the stealth fighter jet. Excellent...

At 2/19/03 10:36 PM, implodinggoat wrote: Its nothing new, I posted a topic with 200 replies once back in the olden days (wait it was just a few months ago) then I ceased nurturing it and it wilted and died.

Well, there are not many large recently updated (within 2 weeks) topics with this many replies in the political section. The largest recent ones here with the exception "Gays should NOT be able to marry." and this topic have only 4 pages maximum - most of them only have 2, which is less than 60 replies. So that's why I think that this one's successful. What I like about the political forums section is that it doesn't have as much crap as the general forums, and most people who post here tend to act nicer.

Anyways, I was wondering about a question that's kind of related to this topic. I'm sure many people have different opinions on this. (This should get a couple of new posts on this topic)

Is it wrong to be racist to yourself and your own race, sometimes, as a joke, as long as you still claim to be part of that race?

Shit.. that last post I posted in this topic was my 250th post and I didn't say anything about that because I was busy congratulating DarkBlueFlame753 on his topic! Damn!

Buttons
Either make something on your frame and go to Insert/Convert to Symbol while selecting it to turn it into a button, or go to Insert/New Symbol (Hotkey: F8) and start from there (you can do the same thing when you make a graphic or movie clip). Everytime you want to add the button you made, go to the library and drag it out onto your frame. It's that simple. Go to the actions window of the button to add actionscript. Some simple commands in actionscript are very easy, and some are very complicated and hard - if you want to know more about actionscript, contact me, because I don't want to fill this topic with all kinds of junk you may not even read - I'll post or E-mail that only when you ask for it. By the way, if you want to make a button work, make sure that you make the frame stop, unless if its a moving button, because if you don't, it could just flash in the movie for a fraction of a second and not give the user enough time to click it.

At 2/19/03 11:58 AM, DarkBlueFlame753 wrote: 200 Replies *~^YAY^~*

Congrats for making history on the POLITICS FORUMS of the NGBBS with this successful topic
Let¡¯s give it for DarkBlueFlame753!

(applause)

Sounds / Music
One of the ways of adding sounds in FLASH 5 is to go to File/Open As Library, change ur "FILE TYPE" drop-down menu in the select file window to "ALL TYPES", select a sound file, and drag it to your library. Then, on the frames where you want the sound to play on, either go to the sound panel and select the sound file in the library from there, or just drag the sound file from the library to the body of the frame you want it to play on.

At 2/19/03 07:04 PM, XxMaGiCxXxNiNjAxX wrote: COME ON!!! FUCKING HELP ME! i'm possibly the most clueless person in flash right now! i'm trying to make a music video right now and i have no idea how to do anything with sound, anything with buttons, and i need to learn how to make things move too! if anybody could PLEASE just help me my email is jakal__zero@hotmail.com and my AIM screen name is XxMaGiCxMuNkYxX, pleeeeaaaaase give me some kind of help with flahs, i'm confused to hell

O music? LOL by this time I already sent 2 Emails toward your inbox and don't want to fill it up so I'm gonna post some help here on the BBS. I didn't read this post before I sent the E-mails, so I forgot to help you in the emails.

I am unfamiliar with MX even though I've already had it for a while - I hardly ever tried to use it, because once I was trying to make the switch from 5 to MX I saw that everything was so different. I donno how I actually managed to switch from FLASH 4 to 5, o yeah, because at that time I was a n00b at this, and didn't know how much anyway.

What I'm gonna post next works on FLASH 5... I'm not sure if it's different on FLASH MX, because I've never tried it.

Dude, I'll gladly help you, if it won't take long, since I'm busy often. I'll just leave my E-mail here for you to contact.. too lazy to email you, and I may forget too, since it's 1:10 AM right now at my place and I'm so tired I just want to go to sleep.

BTW, I'm working on a Flash project already now, so the flash skills I know are fresh and not dusty.

My E-mail: yushanh@hotmail.com

Glad to help, man. Just don't bug me too much, high school life is already hell for me and I'm so busy I can even barely advance on my own flash project.

I'm just answering your first question right now, since it's so late and I just wanna go to sleep. Hmmm... I'd be glad to help you with your preloader, but I'm not sure about your problem just by reading this post. I'd be glad to send you my preloader - it's been tested and it works, so I won't mind if you use it, or you can send your preloader and I'll see (you don't have to send your movie if you don't trust me, but I promise that I won't steal anything. I'm working on a flash movie myself right now...)

Contact me at: yushanh@hotmail.com

And one more thing... about clothes - I wear pants that are considered to be a little baggy (not fall-off-and-show-your-boxers baggy, but baggy), but noone sees me as a "chigger" (Sure, I listen to what they call "black music", but people don't really care) or a white-wannabe that is crazy about punk rock (I listen to "white punk rock music" too - you can never combine these two genres tho and listen to both at once, they just don't go together well, but I like both kinds at differnt times - this is very different from many of my friends - not many like both). They just see me as just an average Asian, and some probably won't even look at my skin color.

I still wonder why people are forced to look at skin colors so much. See, that's the basic problem that we have. It would've been much better if you actually paid more attention to... hair or stuff like that. Skin color is something that you can't change (I'm not gonna get into Michael Jackson and all that stuff - but basically, skin is something you should never change), but hair, well, you can change your hairstyle as often as you buy new clothes. Anyone can choose to have curly hair or punk rock hair. Any male (or almost any male) can grow the same facial hair - like the same beard and same moustache.

At 2/18/03 10:59 AM, DarkBlueFlame753 wrote: I completely agree with this. I don't ask for money from the British government because my anscestors fought in the revolutionary war. I don't ask for money from Mississippi because their soldiers shot one of my ancestors on the battlefields in the Civil War. It would be for the best of the world if everyone could just move on, as difficult as it might be, as that would mean releasing blames and grievances.

Yeah but that didnt go one for a period of 300 years and im quite sure he wanted to go into war and had a choice too go or to stay unlike the millions of slaves that there whole life was slavery people being brought and died enslaved image if you family did a job your entire life and were'nt paid one time.

Yes, the slaves died with much more pain than people in wars, because they were forced to hard labor for their whole lives, without making any single decision on their own. 12 bullets in your leg and waiting for yourself to slowly bleed to death may seem more painfull, but that's just waiting for a short time compared to the time the slaves had to go through with their pain, until they died. The only worse thing that I can think of than this is genocide. I'm glad that Canada has been great to the African-Americans at times during the slave trade to free many slaves.

About the part with wars and soldiers getting shot down while fighting for their country, race, etc., many people are forced into wars - and I'm not talking about the civil war. Even if they're not forced into wars, many brave heroes die in the front lines when they volunteer to take the shells for the ones behind them. Many soldiers also deserve a lot from their country for their courage - like the heroes of World War II who went into a lot to defeat the Nazis and the rest of the Axis.

At 2/18/03 07:24 AM, Ted_Easton wrote: If the slaves were still alive today, I would agree we would need to give them something for their troubles.

But to say that it "honors the memory", or any such thing, by giving money to their ancestors is pure crap. It's not accomplishing anything, and the people never suffered on account of it. All they're doing is milking the government for money.

I'm in total agreement with that.

Yeah, that's true. The current generation of African-Americans was never enslaved, and aren¡¯t refugees from third-world countries (well, at least the ones that were born here and had their roots deep in North American soil). If money is just given out to the current generation, how are the ones that have suffered going to get it? I think the only right way that money should be spent on this is to spend it on special events on remembering the ones who suffered, and the ones who made a difference - e.g. Martin Luther King Jr., "Black History Month" (in some schools).

At 2/18/03 12:19 AM, Vash-The-Stampede wrote: Anime is how I met some of my female friends.

I know that it may mean a lot to people, but your female friends are REAL, right? And they mean more to you than anime, don't they?

N E ways, yeah, anime is a great thing. I like it. I can't see why people hate it just because it's fake - not because they think it looks bad, but just because it's fake. Kinda stupid, right? For me, anime is a great thing, but the real girls are the ones that look the best. (Even though I can't draw chicks myself, cuz I always worry about messing up and making them look ugly once I do mess up)

Holy shit... I just typed a load of meaningless crap there... excuse me.

(This was originally part of the previous post, but I separated it because it's another long paragraph, and I felt that the reader would be bored if I didn't)

What I'm saying is, that the best thing we can actually do for the ones who have suffered, and who are not alive right now, is to show them a better future for Earth. I'm sure that if many African-Americans who had been suffering from slavery in the past are watching us, they would be glad that the conditions for African-Americans now are much better than their conditions in the past.

At 2/17/03 09:00 AM, DarkBlueFlame753 wrote: Hm this topic is staying strong (and welcome bak Mr Y). Well when i posted that i rather be another nationality thing i was expecially pissed looking back i would like to retract that statement if possible. I was wondering what you guys think of slavery reperations.

Slavery reparations? Yeah, I do think that African-American slaves from back then did deserve more than just freedom, but something to make up for the mistakes that the European-Americans made, and the shit that they suffered for no reason. (The Asians were in really dangerous labor in North America before, while working on the railroads - many did die, but that's nothing compared to living your whole life as a slave - that's hard, and sometimes highly dangerous labor, 24/7. Being a slave is the next worst thing from being a victim to a genocide. The government back then did deserve a large punishment, but then, now everything has changed, and I guess that since we're just born in this more equal generation, we can't blame people that are in this generation for what has been done by people a long time ago by their grandparents - people they had no control over. And the African-Americans of this generation - they never passed through the slavery, so if they get anything (I'm not exactly saying that they shouldn't, but), they didn't earn it. Their grandparents did.

At 2/17/03 11:56 PM, Vash-The-Stampede wrote: You really shouldn't be listening to rpj, he's just pissed because even animated girls reject him.

LOL that is kinda sad. Anime isn't everything though - some people just have to remember that. If you get a really hot girl in real life, you don't really have to care about virtual life, do you? Well anime is not a bad thing, and u can still keep on liking it, but for all of us, the real girls are the real gold out there :D.

At 2/17/03 11:57 PM, Shaunt wrote: If you buy that game, you're just an idiot.

Pay $50 for a dumass volleyball game with anime girls with bouncing boobs.

Stupidest shit ever.

Well, the price is kinda high, and many people were complaining about that. The gameplay is not so good either, like i mentioned before. Well, good I saved my $$$ and didn't buy it. I just played it at a friend's house. But it is still worth playing, in my opinion, and if you think the price is a ripoff, but still want to try it, rent it, or borrow it.

At 2/17/03 08:37 PM, War_Striker wrote: Tha chiks are good,but the game itself is very simple and get boring very quickly

Exactly... that's what I was saying. Graphics are excellent - they're the winning thing about the game, but the gameplay is very simple and many people do get bored of this kind of game very fast. But yeah, you have to give credit for their graphics (chicks, backgrounds, etc.) - the graphics is exactly what lots of people admire in this game. That's what makes those girls hot (well, compared with other 3d anime, anyway), and that's what makes so many people drool and say "I want this game".

At 2/17/03 08:39 PM, el_foka wrote:

At 2/17/03 12:37 AM, Mr_Y wrote:

While I can admit that the girls are attractive, They're as sexy as they are not real. So just get over it, it's just a fantasy.

You mean it's not real? The people at WalMart said that if I played it for hours, then the women would love me... *reality shattering*

LOL... but dude, I didn't write that. RaNcIdPsYcHoJoSh did. That's a bad job of quoting, man. Ah well, no big deal. I think that just cuz they're not real, doesn't mean that it's that dumb to play it. I don't recall seeing many games on consoles that had photos instead of 2d or 3d animation, (most of the sport games do have sprites that represent real people, but most of them still using drawn details), so if we take out all the games that don't have REAL LIFE PHOTOS, then we basically would only have a handfull of games left, right?