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At 1/25/03 11:39 PM, MarChrismer wrote: sure.. don't thank Mr_Y for the time he spent typing out a bunch of crap for you.....

Ah well, it's ok... thanks, MarChrismer - I kinda did feel left out. I just try to help people, and if they don't give a damn, then wtf can I do about it? n e ways, there's no reason for this topic to stay alive now, since his question's been answered.

BTW, it's good synj came and answered his question. Thanks synj. Great job on your artwork - your flash work kicks ass.

At 1/24/03 10:31 PM, Scaletail wrote: I'm reminded of a great quote from that new Andy Richter show, Byrant says something along the lines of...

"I hate racists...I hate their music, I hate their clothes, I hate their stupid culture, I hate the fact that they judge an entire group of people without getting to know the individuals, I hate that they just hate people and won't shut up about how they hate them"...or something like that, I forget how the rant went exactly, but it was really funny, some great irony to it.

But yeah, I'm completely in agreement with the ban the racist pukes ISP idea. But I'd say only if they're a repeat offender, everyone deserves a warning. To some people what is an awful insult is just a mild joke to others. As much as I disapprove of intolerance, I think everyone needs at least one chance to become a better person...I'm not saying repeat offenses, but at least one try at growing.

Maybe people do deserve another chance, unless if they go too far (Hitler). There should be an option on NewGrounds for the author of the topic to delete a topic started by him/her, so the second chance would be like shutting down the topic within a certain amount of time. But then, if they keep reviving the gay topics, and start making more racist comments despite objections from others, for more than once, I say have no mercy on them and ban them for good. Getting banned from NewGrounds for racism for a start, I think, is a good way for someone to learn a lesson.

At 1/24/03 08:12 AM, DarkBlueFlame753 wrote: And whats up with this brown stuff light skin people are still black dude. theres not difference its just a lighter skin tone.

"Brown people" was a name south-central people from countries around Pakistan, India, and Sri Lanka called themselves.

And Ted_Easton was right. To me, the colors of people's skins that are all mentioned are just shades too. We are still all humans, right? There is one superior race. It's the humans.

BTW, about the stereotype thing, didn't you ever see a lot of those racist topics on NewGrounds against? Those topics are just simple proof that there are a lot of widely-spread negative stereotypes aimed toward asians. However, they're not all just about Asians, they're about many other people too. Examples of the names for these gay topics are: "What do YOU hate about Asians", and "I hate black people". It's a good thing that the n word was banned from the NGBBS, along with a lot of racist topics from NewGrounds by the NG Crew. Tom Fulp never created a site for people to be racist on. I'm thinking, however, that racist fags who start those topics should be banned too, from the NGBBS or from the whole site. Noone needs gay racist assholes.

At 1/24/03 08:10 AM, DarkBlueFlame753 wrote: There is no way in hell Asians have it worse than African Americans the only think people can make fun of you about is the way you talk if you wanna see bad go to the ghetto gilliagans ilse movie thats on here thats how some people think we talk. And besides Asians are like the only group of people that have positive sterotypes sucks all asians are good at math or are book worms and they all know kung fu. Ask someone what they think positive sterotypes for African Americans are i dont think you will find one.

Maybe you're right... Probably it's worse for Asians just in my area. I can believe that a lot of people are suffering from racism way more than me in the United States, and that's sad. I'm pretty sure that racism in the United States is pretty much more than Canada. I have to kinda disagree about the stereotypes part though, because I've heard a lot of bad ones about Asians though - "Their eyes are so narrow they CAN'T EVEN SEE", "They are all so fuckin poor and cheap (cept the ones from HongKong)", "They are all racist (definitely not true, I'm not, and many of my other Asian friends are not either, and btw, THAT ITSELF is a racist stereotype)", "Fuckin immigrations - all of them", and the list goes on.

So now, most people don't make fun of black people (unless if they are black). There is some racism still toward them on the media, but a small amount. That's a good thing that not many people are racist toward them, but I've seen a lot of shit, even on TV, against Asian people - so that kinda sucks for me, just because people think it's racist. We're just like another large catagory of people with different skins shades. Maybe a lot of us are doing different things than others, but really, there is also a large part in each race that doesn't want to be really standing out, that just wants to be together with the other races and act like the average people.

So, in conclusion, are we really that different? I mean we're all humans, just with different skin tones. Asians have a shade of yellow, Africans have a shade of black/dark tone, Brown people - a shade of brown, and Europeans - shades of white. So what? People are stuck with waht they have, and if people just won't mind, it won't make the slightest difference.

At 1/23/03 07:43 AM, Ted_Easton wrote: I know it sounds like the easy way out, but hear me out. I think it will go away with time.
Man is naturally afraid of things he is unfamiliar with, the unknown. So over time, people will become more used to living among other races, and eventaully it should just die out.
In some places it may linger a lot longer than most, but I think it will go away eventually on it's own.

Hmmmm... you do have a point there, Ted_Easton. Some people may be afraid of others because maybe when they immigrate to a country and are just seen, or if they're not afraid, they may have strange feelings and reactions. That is the case for many situations involving racism.

However, I also know a lot of people who are racist, but have seen the people they're racist to for their whole lives, like some people in high school right now, or graduated students - they may have seen Asian/African/Brown people for their whole life in Canada if they were born here - I'm not sure about Brown people, but there were already a lot of Asians from Chinatown (it originated from us building many railroads a long time ago), and you know how Africans were here too. So - not everyone that is racist is unfamiliar with they are offending.

At 1/12/03 09:09 PM, whitedragon_my wrote: What is it with all these dark newbies? I mean really, it's like I look at half of the newbies around here and they're dark. WTF?

Well, I guess they just register here, learn about the basics of NewGrounds.com quickly because they're so amazed with this site, and start blamming right away. They also may turn themselves dark when they are just writing things in their profile, because it looks cool from their profile in their point of view(they may not even know what it means). I don't have a big problem with that, but it's kinda confusing if do that because then others won't easily know which side you're on, but then I don't really care people who do that that much.

BTW, gj for promoting your Canadian site, but if you wanted more attention, you could've put the link ad for your site in some topic in the general forums to get more attention - you may get more hate messages too, because a lot of people call this spam, and they'll swear their heads off there just to make a point - to try to stop you, while raising the topic again.

At 1/20/03 03:28 PM, NOSIRS wrote: Yeah! Go Canada! I love in Ottawa, but it gets no fucking recognition, it's always "Toronto this," or "Toronto that," well fuck that! N e wayz, go Canada, go slipknot. Kiss my ass.

I'm Canadian, and I'm from Toronto. Yeah, Canada's a nice country, and Ottawa is a great place to visit. About the "Toronto this, Tornoto that" thing, well, it's kinda like a big city like the comparison between New York City and a smaller, but not less important city, like Washington. Of course, Chicago gets more visitors and crap, but Ottawa - geez, of course it gets recognition. So many Canadians (I'm not sure about people from other countries, like the U.S.), visit Ottawa - it's our capital, our country's pride. Of course it gets attention.

So what I'm trying to get at, is that racism is not up to a person, or even a group to stop. An anti-racism group may reduce it greatly, but it's up to all of us humans to stop it. Every single one of us. I know it sounds really hard to do, but that's the only way it's gonna ever stop. Since staring at someone is not a crime, we can't do anything to stop it, but to walk away, maybe with disgust. Everyone should have a kind part of their brain that should say "stop racism", and when that part takes over in each one of our brains, it's gonna stop. I know it sounds almost impossible. It can be made easier if each one of us just talks to the people we know that can do a little better when it comes to anti-racism, and try to help him/her, but that person's decision is not up to us. It's only up to that one individual.

At 1/22/03 09:35 AM, DarkBlueFlame753 wrote: Anyway does anyone see a way we can reslove this problem is anyone willing to step up to the plate and willingly change?

Hmmm... I guess many people (for example, Martin Luther King), have made great contributions toward the reduction of racism, and it's improving really fast. However, racism is obviously much easier to reduce than to kill. It's really not up to one person taking a stand - individuals can do great things, but it's really up to every single person in the world to stop racism. Racism against African-Americans has been reduced over the years, and that's a great thing. The bad thing is, that people get the wrong message. Many people think that it's only about African-Americans (it's a great thing to reduce racism against them, but...) - They never get it through their heads, that being racist to people like Asians and maybe Brown people is just as bad! So I'm glad that racism in my neighborhood agaist blacks is pretty rare, but the sad thing is that racism against Asians (and some brown people) is not! Staring at you for being in a particular race is pretty bad, but people trying to imitate your language or calling you a chink when they try to offend you is just evil!

At 1/21/03 09:13 PM, Soadaman wrote: Hi, I just want to know how did you do your fill for all your character, did you draw lines and fill them up and erase them after...

excuse my english... I'm not good in to it.

Sorry - I'm not synj, but I think I know how he did that, and I'm gonna try to help you, since synj may not have time to answer all of the questions people ask him.

It's likely that he did fill lines, filled it, and erased them after. It's pretty easy to make guide lines like that, and if you want to make frame-by-frame animation like that, you can just use onion skins to get close to the same fill for the objects for each frame if they're rapidly changing, copy and PASTE IN PLACE on another frame and then editing it, or turning them into movie clips / graphics in the insert menu.

Hope you can benefit from this, because if not, I'm sorry, I'm just some Canadian guy on an American website (NewGrounds) who tried to help you.

At 1/21/03 02:09 PM, Kirbyarm wrote: Can someone help me out here? What is the bus terminal for? what is the furniture store for? and where can i purchase cocaine? and what is it used for?

Stick RPG's a pretty good game - too bad you always have to start over because there's no save button! :(

Like mentioned before by other people,
- Bus Terminal is not finished. The author mentioned that. You'll have to check for updates if you're really into the game and want to find out what they're used for. Contact the author and tell him about the updates, if you want to.
- Furniture store is not finished either. The author already mentioned that too
- I don't think you can sell the cocaine.

That's it - everything else works, I think.

I don't exactly know if it's a good idea or not. It can be helpful for authors and viewers, but any movie that is blammed is already too crappy. There are a lot of really crappy movies already that have survived already, and this means that most of the blammed movies must be really shitty, unless if people voted a good movie down, which doesn't happen often. It shouldn't be that useful (there could be a small use to it, but not a big use), when you can't even see the actual flash, and only can see the reviews and the score at death. If you want to learn what makes a movie crappy and what makes it good, either go to fresh crappy entries in the portal, or look at the movies at around a score of 2.00 and compare it to movies like 4.00 and above, or/and ones in the top 50 of all time (e.g. HS2).

At 1/15/03 08:51 AM, DarkBlueFlame753 wrote: Oh and probably the only thing keeping me from living in Canada is that i cant speak my mind openly about the government. I mean what good is having bush in office if you cant make fun of the idiot.

Bush "Fool me once shame shame on you, fool me cant get fooled again" ¿And this guy is president?

Actually, Canada's does have a right of free speech - it was mentioned by other people too. I can make fun of people like Jean Chrétien all day and he can't do anything to me - they have so many shows that do that on TV like the Canadian Air Farce. Some of Canada's laws are even less strict than the U.S.'s - for example, we have no death penalty, and don't have a minimum smoking age - you can be smoking in front of cops at any age and they can't do shit about it. You only get in shit if they catch people supplying the stuff to kids.

He's sure not to win the facelift of the year award.

At 1/15/03 07:20 AM, Bizud wrote: You are right. Racism still exists here, and it must be stopped. However, compared to the US, the level of racial violence is SO MUCH LOWER as to be next to zero. And I mean per capita, obviously there's a population difference.

Yeah... you're a Canadian... Which city do you live in? Your city may have way less racism than my area - my area must have racism that's really above average then. Then, I don't think that I was right about the "less racism in the U.S." then - I got that from my cousin - I asked him if people were racist to him often, and he said that he never remembered receiving racist shit toward him. My cousin's an American living somewhere near (not in) Boston, MA. I guess that his are must have a racism level below the average.

Yep... P-bot was a pretty good idea so the top entries can be seen more often. :D... GJ, NG Crew. I don't have a big problem with this bot, but I think just making a simple html table that automatically shows the top 5 on the front page is almost the same thing. Ah well, I guess this just makes it more interesting, so it is kinda better.

At 1/15/03 06:58 AM, Bizud wrote: Have you even been to Canada? Other than occasional aboriginal insurgency (and let's face it, our native citizens have a fucking right to be pissed off), racial violence is almost at ZERO. And Canada does not encourage racial segregation, it's called a "multicultural mosaic." It means that Canada is a land of immigrants, and the european ways shouldn't be more dominant than, for example, the asian ways. Don't forget where you come from, you're encouraged to maintain your culture, etc.

I don't like the idea of the melting pot because of the statement it makes that society comes before individual.

Yeah! Multicultural mosaic... melting pot... that's what I was trying to remember from geography class!
Trust me, I'm Canadian, and my region does have many racist people. What city do you live in? It may be different where you live - I live in North York (the norther part of Toronto). You may be right - your area may have less racist people. Mine obviously has more. I'm not sure if the melting pot or the multicultural mosaic is better - they all have advantages and disadvantages. And trust me, there is some racism here, it's not at ZERO in Canada. I've been called a Chink many times before in my neighbourhood when people (some of them don't even know me and just see me on the street and call me that) try to insult me - sometimes even for no reason, and I think that it's kinda racist. How can people tell if I'm Chinese when they just see an Asian kid? I am Chinese, but geez... does that really make me THAT different? And I heard many people make racist jokes about Chinese people, along with other Asian races included at certain times.

Of course that's racist.

At 1/14/03 09:53 AM, DarkBlueFlame753 wrote: Man you guys are awesome I am very intereesed in the goth community and Asians are like my favorite racial group no offense everyone else i just like there culture. Well except for the one child per household thing. Anyway i hope when i move in a few months i get some cool people like you as my neighbors.

Thanks man... I kinda wish for neighbors that are not racist myself - there's some here. I'm not sure, but I think Canada has more racism than the United States, since the U.S. just tells its citizens to fit in as one group without encouraging them to maintain their culture, while Canada just tells everyone to get with the people of their race to preserve traditions, so since people stay with other people in their race, conflicts between racial groups is pretty bad, however, most facilities are totally mixed, like schools, so it's not really hard to make a friend with someone that's not in your race. So we're kinda just like the U.S. - some people say we're copying them, with a few minor differences like the one I just mentioned.

BTW, the one-child thing goes only to Chinese people who have Chinese citizenships. I don't think having more than one child is something the government would disapprove in countries like Korea and Japan. Chinese people who have American or Canadian citizenships can have another child if they want to.

At 1/14/03 03:41 PM, Hang10Fett wrote: It's good, but why does... GODDAMNED POP-UP COKE AD!...but why does Domo-Kun's Rating say that it has "Excessive Nudity" in it?

Yeah, the coke ad pisses me off too - pops out of nowhere and blocks my browser window (some annoying ad just popped up as I was typing it). Domo-Kun has excessive nudity... lol! They fixed that - I just checked minutes ago and it was rated T for TEEN, with only mild violence.

Yeah, and to add to the statements about African-North Americans - I have a lot of African-North American friends who never act like punks. I'm not saying that acting the other way is stupid, but there's punks in every race, and people gotta look at that. You can't just turn a whole race down just because you saw MORE OF THEM acting in a way you didn't like than some other races - there's always people who won't act in that way.

At 1/12/03 09:33 AM, DarkBlueFlame753 wrote: As a black male i feel it is harder to be accepted as a functional member of society. Simple things for most become painfully weird for instance say me a 18 year old black walk into a "Starbucks" I'm looked at all sort of ways its as if time stops. So basically what I'm saying is please White America give us a break we just wanna be accepted.

"A black man can steal your stero but he can't be christ" Chris Rock "Dogma"

Geez... that sux... yeah, it is unfair - and people like you should be treated more fairly - there should be a large reduction in racism. I'm Asian, and I see all those people saying shit to me cuz I'm Asian - some stuff like that is probably just jokes, but people who hate me use the fact that I'm Asian against me too. Racism against African-North Americans has been reduced - but it's still not enough - and racism against Asian-North Americans, in my opinion, is kinda worse needs to take that step. I mean havn't you seen an Asian guy walk down some street and other people immitating Asian accents or calling him a chink even if they don't even know if he's really Chinese?

BTW, I'm not even American. I'm Canadian.

At 1/12/03 07:06 PM, RedPIumClock wrote: heh your lucky cause i came to ng like in 2000 a friend showed me it but i signed up for gold in the summer of 01 cause wade told me to i wish he told me earlier

I'm not really that lucky, cuz I really didn't get to do that much on the site. You knew about NewGrounds in 2000, and it's about the same thing. It doesn't make that much of a difference if the sign-up date is earlier - the only thing that does is that it gives you a reason to show off and say "n00b" to a guy with a later sign-up date, which I never do just because a guy's new and I feel like teasing him for no reason. That also decreases your NGBBS posts/day ratio, but that's not that important either - I'm not that lucky at all.

At 1/12/03 06:42 PM, RedPIumClock wrote: Heh, I have been on ng for like a while now since 01 and the sad thing is I havent watched some of the biggest movies like keeblur and heros of cybertron and some other big movies but im doing that now:)

I knew about NewGrounds sometime in 1999, or 2000 (I don't quite remember), and signed up for NewGrounds Gold in 2000, just for fun, but I left my account and never felt like depositing gold, leaving messages on the BBS, starting to make movies for the site, reviewing movies, and doing a lot of other stuff until a couple of months ago. Before I went back to managing my NG account, I just came here to play games and stuff - rarely to watch movies. Now NewGrounds has changed so much - even though there are a lot more crappy movies, there still are really good ones worth watching.

At 1/12/03 03:25 PM, AlPacino wrote: a few days before tricky was taken off the tank it has only been loading half way down,all i can see is the guy and the top of the tank.and it ends with some blurry line,is that happening with anyone else?

Yeah, it happened to me too for a while after Tricky the Clown was removed off the NewGrounds tank logo pic at the top right of the NG pages - They must've tried to put the winter logo of NG back on (the blue/purple one with the snow, I can't remember exactly what color it was), but there was a problem with it, so they removed it and put back the normal NG TANK LOGO. It's already been there for a while now.

I was just wondering if my flash file is corrupted, I think it is. My friend sent this one on his account - without my permission, but he still gave me the credit, so it's not exactly stealing - I wasn't too pissed by that - don't ban him off NewGrounds.

Here's the link:
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view.php?id=69568

At 1/7/03 06:17 PM, LAMMP wrote: can some one help me with a preloader i use swish and i cant make a preloader

Sure, people can help you with a preloader, if you post a message on the FLASH FORUMS of NewGrounds.com - just go there and post a message for help or read other posts on preloaders - I don't feel like wasting too much of this topic's space, so I'm not gonna help you here - but I've helped many people with flash on the flash forums.

At 1/7/03 08:28 AM, RedPIumClock wrote:

At 1/7/03 03:29 AM, Turf wrote: The normal NG tank's back!!!
TRICKY's GONE 4ever!!!

this is the normal tank?

No, that is not the normal tank, and I saw that too. LoL... Now they fixed that one too - the christmas one was ruined, so they just put the original one back. Here it is: (of you can just look at the top-left corner, it's probably still there.

O yeah, Tom Fulp should really ask Zhu to update the old Xiaoxiao movies on NewGrounds.com - the old third one has a bug, and the new one has it fixed with extra movie playing buttons. If Tom Fulp got it on NewGrounds without notifying Zhu, he should do it, but that is stealing, in a way.

At 1/7/03 09:11 AM, MikMan wrote: Da link does not fkin work...

Hey MikMan, thanks for pointing that out. Here, I fixed the link. It should work now.

CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE OFFICIAL XX WEBSITE! The site features updated XX movies, and zips for the improved XiaoXiao movies are also available for download, so you don't have to get through the trouble of looking at the name of the movie in the HTML code, and locating these movies as temp. files on your computer.