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At 11/3/14 09:57 PM, Sensationalism wrote:
, I will not be told to sit down and shut up by some anti-intellectual slice of Wonderbread.

Did someone say Wonder Bread?

Here he comes to save the day. Making bread that makes you sway. Look up in the sky. It's a bird. It's a plane. No, it's Wonder Bread Baby!

My favorite part is that quote from the Marvel VP on Twitter.

"Not a joke, folks. Attack on Titan and the @Marvel universe are crossing over! In 2 weeks. In Japan. Want a teaser?"

He felt that the first thing he had to say was that it was not a joke. Seriously, after his initial tweet about it there was so much bewilderment that he felt the need to confirm that he wasn't punking his followers. If that isn't a ringing endorsement for the idea I don't know what is.

At 10/22/14 12:43 PM, Splats wrote: This thread is every autist's dream.

Tourette's makes me go Splat!

At 11/3/14 11:09 PM, K1LL80Y wrote: Only on steep hills.

Same with me. I knew someone who drove from Brisbane to Bundaberg with their handbrake on. I still think it was a miracle that they didn't catch their car on fire.

At 11/3/14 03:55 PM, xfrodobagginsx wrote: ARE YOU 100% SURE THAT IF YOU DIED TODAY THAT YOU WOULD GO TO HEAVEN?

You have posted this exact same thread 3 times! In fact, that is the only thread you've ever posted with an account that is over 7 years old.

If there is a hell I am 100% sure you are going to it.

I found this article titled Hong Kong's Leader: Universal Suffrage Threatens Business Interests. I mean it is an article from The Diplomat, so you get their own specific bent on the story, but its still funny. Can you imagine what would happen if a politician said something like this in Australia, Canada, the United States or Western Europe?

At 11/3/14 09:51 PM, RydiaLockheart wrote:
Does Hong Kong filter out any "unintelligent" people to get that stat? I ask because the statement that citizens of Hong Kong have no business electing their own candidates because ignorant people would ruin the government really riled up the protesters over there.

One of my coworkers also took a university class while in China. The professor told everyone that only educated people should vote because ignorant people voting would lead to social disorder. He was reciting what the government told him to. The coworker states that he can't really fault the professor for teaching what he had to (or God knows what would happen to him), but it was a real eye-opening experience.

I suspect they don't, just because most of the stats that rank Hong Kong high in educational attainment or quality are not done by Hong Kong or China. Even though Hong Kong is a relatively wealthy special administrative region, it really isn't large enough to bribe that many groups that rate educational attainment by country.

You do bring up another good point though. Hong Kong and Finland have very different kinds of governments even though they both hold elections. Finland is a representative democracy and Hong Kong is democracy light? It's really unfair to compare the two in this context, since most of the government in Hong Kong isn't even elected, at least not directly. If 66% of your government is elected by less than 1% of your population, what do you even call that? That is not to even mention that Hong Kong is really part of China, which has its own government and China has to ok the leader of Hong Kong, even if everyone actually does get the vote. It's a mess and woefully uninformed about the situation anyway.

At 9/15/14 10:28 AM, Cyberdevil wrote: Though the playlist does have the potential to serve this purpose, I'd be all for an easier interface for grouping images! And having albums on your Art page, rather than a collection of single images. That'd be pretty neat. Grouped by genre or custom folders.

Hate to dig up an old thread like this, but I had to have my say.

I've seen a lot of Webcomic Hosting sites and I have never been particularly impressed. The quality of design on this website is much higher then any of the Webcomic hosting sites I am aware of and we already have a built in userbase that likes webcomics. We already have quite a few top notch people that already upload their webcomics here like WaldFlieger and TheShadling (NSFW). There are also lots of people like TheSwain and Explosm who might upload their webcomics if given sufficient incentive to do so.

Webcomics are relatively light on the servers, since they require limited space to store. Interest in comics are trending up. Even so, webcomic makers find it notoriously hard to make a living, so I'm sure they would appreciate a website that gives them another outlet for their content.

Artists rarely do only one thing and I suspect that there are a lot of Newgrounds creators that also publish a webcomic on the side that we aren't even aware of. As it is, it is not exactly simple to discover those that do upload here. For those that do upload here they are restricted to one upload per day, which really puts a damper on enthusiasm and likely turns quite a few people away.

I think we can do better. I'd like us to do better. For those who would say that this website is a flash site or a movie and game site, would only say that this website has been many things in its time. The users at its inception would barely recognize the website we have today. There have been many changes to it over that time, some quite drastic.

I'm not unaware that there are lots of changes, modifications and update in the pipeline. We also don't have the resources we once did when the website was at is apex, so any new idea will likely take a long time to implement, but that's ok. I'd still like to see it happen, some day. I suspect a lot of other people would like to see it happen too.

At 11/3/14 08:59 PM, DalexJ1337 wrote: its amazing how little spam ng gets compared to 2002 there were hundreds of them blammed back then but now only 3.
do any of u ngers think the website is becoming more 1337?

You know its funny, but I was actually checking this out yesterday and noticed the same thing. Then again I wasn't even here back in 2002, so its not like it was something I experienced or anything. I think of it as "The Golden Age of Blamming", when you could blam more submissions in one day then you could do in several months now.

I do think the average quality of submissions have increased, but the quantity of submissions have also decreased. We used to have far more users and the average age of each user was much younger, so our proportion of trolls were a whole lot higher. As for what happened to those spammers of old, I imagine some of them went to more fertile pastures (4Chan, Youtube) and the rest just ran out of steam and decided to do something else.

I use Firefox most of the time. Then I use SRWare Iron (based on Chromium) for things that Firefox has trouble with I can't be bothered to fix. Last I use IE, for the things that won't work with either of the above examples. Every so often I switch over from one to another as my main browser when an update screws one of them up and I need immediate functionality.

By the way, lots of nice suggestions and interesting examples. I'll have to try some of them.

I would pm a forum moderators. If they can't do it themselves they will know who can. I've seen plenty of people get their posts deleted, so it shouldn't be too difficult of a process.

At 11/3/14 07:28 PM, Tony-DarkGrave wrote:

At 11/3/14 07:14 PM, Feoric wrote:

At 11/3/14 12:30 PM, Tony-DarkGrave wrote: oh god why?! you really want the inbred hicks of the Bible Belt voting? with the Jesus Saves! and the MUH GUNS AND PICKUP TRUCK!

Like I keep saying, these people already vote.

but do we really need more of these people voting? I think not.

As far as I know there have been no public, published studies comparing the intelligence of voters vs. non-voters in terms of intelligence anywhere. The closest we have is something like this, which links IQ to wealth. However, there has been heavy criticism of their method and conclusions.

It would follow that the highest IQ countries with elected governments also have the most well run countries, but I would challenge you to reach that conclusion when comparing the top 25 countries by IQ to each other (according to the above study). Finland is on the bottom of this group and Hong Kong is at the top, so let's compare them.

GDP per capita: Hong Kong ($37,955), Finland ($49,055)
Average Life Expectancy: Hong Kong (83.48), Finland (80.63)
Education Ranking Hong Kong (3), Finland (1)

I could go on with other stats where effective governments can effect the outcome, but the result would not be any more clear. Finland and Hong Kong are both nice countries to live in and they both seem to have fairly effective governments.

The only practical way I could think of doing that would be to survey a certain amount of randomly selected voters from whatever country you are surveying and give them all an IQ test, Even that has problems associated with it.

Since people can't point to surveys or graphs, I would imagine that people just make judgments based on their own experiences and biases. If you like what is being done by elected officials right now, you probably believe that voters are a little smarter. If you don't like what is being done by elected officials, you probably think they're a little dumber.

In general, I suspect that the average voter isn't all that different from the average citizen. Even in the US, where voter turnout is unusually low, a fairly large percent of the registered voters turn out anyway, so I imagine their average IQ is fairly close to the national average.

At 11/3/14 07:28 PM, Viper wrote:
How much is "almost all" though?

Well, you're going to have to wait for me to post it up to see that.

At 11/3/14 07:08 PM, SCTE3 wrote:

At 11/3/14 05:27 PM, SentForMe wrote:

NGPulp, and last time I checked he was 29 posts behind you.

He only has around 4,200 posts.

Yes, but they were almost all made this year. He was referring to the Top Posters of 2014 list I haven't posted yet.

Here are my Top 10 Webcomics (in no particular order):

1.)Bearmageddon
2.)Lackadaisy
3.)Powernap
4.)The Meek
5.)Transient
6.)Turtles: Dawn of the Ninja
7.)Derelict
8.)The Dreamer
9.)Battlepug
10.)Romantically Apocalyptic

I read webcomics the way some people read regular comics, but posting them all here would have been a bit overkill. If anyone's looking for a genre specific suggestion though, feel free to ask.

At 11/3/14 05:12 PM, Viper wrote:
Shaweet. Who is #2? And how far behind me are they?

NGPulp, and last time I checked he was 29 posts behind you.

Ebola Cure Delayed by Drug Industry’s Drive for Profit, W.H.O. Leader Says

According to Dr. Margaret Chan, the director General of the WHO, “A profit-driven industry does not invest in products for markets that cannot pay."

Hard to argue with that one, but I imagine the sentiment will fall on deaf ears at the largest Pharmaceutical countries. Here's the whole text of the speech. I suppose the alternative would be to put more money in government R&D targeted toward less profitable diseases but I hardly see much enthusiasm behind that idea.

At 11/3/14 04:24 PM, Viper wrote:

At 11/3/14 04:14 PM, Cyberdevil wrote: There are tools to view xls files online too if you don't want to download anything. Yupp, you are on it. :P

Oh. Okay. And sweet. Where am I on it?

You're #1, for now.

At 11/3/14 01:31 PM, Luke wrote: I'm missing.

Thanks for telling me. I'll be sure to add you on the next update.

At 11/3/14 12:51 PM, SCTE3 wrote: Curious SentForMe if you could make a slight few changes to how the list works:

- Link to each username, I could try sending my Review Request Club list so you can have an idea of how to do it up so you don't have to type out links for every username

That would be helpful. I'm not quite sure what the formatting is that is going one, which makes that work.

- +/- 1 or how many ever ranks a user has gained or lost since the last update
- - to that extent, how many posts a user has gained or lost since posting previously, would be neat since it would let us know who the most active posters are

and could potentially help us forum mods find out who might be shitposting

Aside from that, not much else I ask of, list looks decent but could use a few touches to make it look better.

just my 2 cents

At 11/3/14 12:51 PM, SCTE3 wrote:

I'll try to add that information in the next update, sometime after I put the Top Forum Posters for 2014 list.

I've been watching Black Dynamite, but I think I'll give Tim and Eric's Bedtime Stories a try too. It seems like the type of show I might like.

At 11/2/14 01:18 AM, DoctorStrongbad wrote: Tonight's Black Dynamite was all about gays and cross dressing.

Yeah, it wasn't bad but I don't think it was as strong as the first episode of the season. Then again I think they followed roughly the same pattern last season. Do you think this season is better or worse than last season so far?

For sure the hype is dying. It was really hot when they first started releasing the tv series episodes and has settled down ever since. it will probably jump up again once they start releasing the second season. Also there's bound to be some related stuff released in the interim.

If they really time it right they may be able to release season 2 and the live action movie on the same week. That would really bump up interest.

Also, this is a bit of weird, related news.

At 11/3/14 02:15 PM, NewgroundsMike wrote:

At 11/3/14 01:35 PM, SentForMe wrote: What that make all these places, in a way, Hell as well?

Is your keyboard in hell?

It sure seems like it sometimes, doesn't it?

At 11/3/14 10:54 AM, Bit wrote: 9/9 (lives)

Not very pretty, but a great message. 7/10.

I'm proud that there might actually be some competition in the flying car market.

At 11/3/14 03:05 AM, TheGamechanger wrote:

At 11/2/14 11:11 PM, fieldertiger wrote:

I blame fieldertiger for the wicked witch of the west.

I blame TheGameChanger for all those birds that have disappeared from Europe. What did you do with them?

At 11/3/14 07:11 AM, omega88x wrote:
A madness character for both, assuming that he's original madness character. 6/10 for both since they're both the same picture

6/10 for the icon and profile image. They're definitely unique, but they're not very pretty. It is very stark color on color without any shading, blur, or nuance.

At 11/3/14 06:46 AM, VJF wrote:

At 11/2/14 09:54 PM, ecwrulesbad wrote:

At 11/2/14 09:08 PM, cga-999 wrote:

At 11/2/14 08:57 PM, VJF wrote:

Isn't Hell supposed to be in New York City, not Norway?

Isn't New York City in Hell?

Do you mean it's filled with lava, or is it terrible in there?

Can't it be both?

What that make all these places, in a way, Hell as well?

At 11/3/14 12:12 PM, Viper wrote:

At 11/1/14 01:23 PM, SentForMe wrote: Here's what I have so far, if you're curious. It's an Excel file though, so you'll need some way to open it.

Do I "need" a certain program or something to open this? Just asking before I click on it and find out I can't see it.

You need one of these programs to be able to open it.

Anita Sarkeesian was on Colbert. Was kind of hoping for an extended interview, but no such luck.

Don't forget to include a link.

Also, this is relevant.

Sucks to be you Montana.