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At 9/25/12 11:27 PM, cast wrote:

At 9/25/12 10:26 PM, yurgenburgen wrote: bring back the fucking chickens tom aaaggghghghhaghahga

I miss that banner too..

...and on the Portal page, the swf files to be picked off. I just can't see the new tank being animated for a pre-loader :( It's too damn cutesy to be anything like a tank. Plus it's sqaureish, like it's meant to be yet another icon in the social network dungheap.

If they can animate it or make it do tricks, I can die happy, otherwise this is a step down for a website dedicated to creativity.

At 9/25/12 03:31 PM, GuerrilleroHeroico wrote: I was expecting this thread to be about fuckable robots and not literal "tail".

Well, this isn't the article I saw a few days ago, but, this is what I was thinking, you were thinking of... though it doesn't look too ergonomic, body-wise :(

There HAS to be fuckable robots in Japan. They just don't put out YouTube videos of it. Maybe the Yakuza have cornered the market on those... Eh, lawyers and safety nuts wouldn't allow it, 'cause the servos might get all feisty and crush it's owner/user/'john'.

Maybe the tank needs to be animated... otherwise, smaller isn't better.
This still is an animation site, isn't it? Have teh tank roll across the (supposedly rotating) artwork!

At 9/25/12 12:34 PM, JBK wrote: That is awesome.

I was hoping you'd get a kick out it! Still, the length of the thing is a little short - I was hoping (in the video), to see the tail wagging as she walked forward.... like a dog in heat :3

Really, I have no clue on modern culture. I graduated HS in 1990 and things like being openly gay or wearing Japanese stylings were still a year or two away..... Vive la difference! Infinite diversity in infinite combinations yields the best results.

But as far as tech to promote those things, I'm completely indifferent. It's like the Punk movement - they didn't have the cash for such pretty baubles, so they made their own. Now it's a lost lifestyle, deluded by money and time. Forgive the rantings of an old fart :\

At 9/24/12 09:37 PM, MuyBurrito wrote:

At 9/24/12 09:33 PM, keyword wrote: folding dimension4(time) through dimension 5(spacial time) a 3D creature would be able to move to a nonlinear point in time.

Not really. "Time" as we know it is just a measurement of the accumulation of many different factors with many different relationships. It's nonlinear, so its' not possible to "fold" without accounting for every asset and interaction.

This.

What could be possible is reconstructing matter or sending simple messages through 'time".

This again. Might even explain Christ's miracles, not that I'm religious.
I will say that Carl Sagan was high as a kite, but despite his terrible, monotone voice on so many 20th century PBS specials, he was definitely on to something.

Some company invented a robotic, neurologically activated "shippo" or tail, with a happiness app, apparently. I guess it's a pun, but I thought that was the cat's ass. I've seen girls and a few poofy guys wear tails in my time, but none with batteries.

This is the LA Times article on the product, and this is the YouTube of it. The chick in the video is Japanese... her facial acting alone is worth the peep.

I'm thinking, that if I wanted to hook up with some random, fellow, female product owner, I'd reverse engineer the thing into something far more nefarious..... For some reason, I'm thinking back to an old West coast, erotic comic book called Click!

So, past the above points, I'm lost - is there really a market for this, probably rather expensive, affectation? The only market I can see is for affluent women in college, who only want to mingle with wimpy affluent bisexuals.... which might be an insult to bisexuals, IDK... It'd make one wack Kickstarter pitch.

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This one doesn't sit well with me - brand new account, name doesn't jibe with in-game credits.... and after selecting a slot and hitting play, another ad runs!

At 9/23/12 10:21 PM, mizzjuicyflava wrote: I perfer colder weather, my workouts are more intense.

Used to chop firewood in NE winter weather. After a few minutes, I'd be down to a T-shirt and jeans. Sweating saps energy.

The Sword of The Samurai Cat by Mark E. Rogers. He's probably a better artist than a novelist, but it's damn funny at times, if a bit dated. Plenty of death by swords and conventional arms, in unconventional circumstances.

Miaowara Tomokato and his nephew came from 16th century Japan to a Charlton Heston themed version of late 20th century America, to avenge the death of his master. Yeah they're furries by modern standards, but they seem to be treated as normal in this conflict ridden universe they're in.

What can I say, I'm slumming it - life's too damn serious for serious novels now anyway.

There's something in Clubs and Crews called The Med Thread.....

It's just bacteria, either from the favor pack (if it's chunky instead of powdery, boil it with the noodles), contamination of something in the post-cooking process OR dried dish-soap can give you the brown rain.
You make the call on what it might have been.
Just pray it isn't C-diff.

At 9/22/12 12:54 PM, ZJ wrote: They've been found in Florida!

Pretty neat, right?

They been doing that for decades in Florida and at sea parks the world over. I'm sure that makes a great story for college girls to talk about, when they're old and wrinkly (and not from the water).

Now how about we talk about Japanese pearl diving girls - they can hold their breath for a very long time... Here's teh Wiki quote, "Japanese tradition holds that the practice of ama may be 2,000 years old. Traditionally, and even as recently as the 1960s, ama dove wearing only a loincloth. Even in modern times, ama dive without scuba gear or air tanks, making them a traditional sort of free-diver."

At 9/11/12 01:21 AM, Aigis wrote:

At 9/11/12 01:08 AM, VicariousE wrote: Hell, if I was gonna commit myself to something like this... how about 'The Best Of 1995-2000, 01-06, 07-12 [Three Volumes] with the new submissions dispersed throughout (maybe even three concepts a volume... three worms?). Hmm, every six years... has a bent appeal to it :3

In only one of those time periods was there even an art portal/art forum.

True, but how many artists were and still on board with NG from that time period? Enough to fill a book. The first volume can include NG webpages, history... the later two volumes could be patterned the same way, only with newer things to see...

As for the Art Book thing, I don't think there would be much incentive to buy an art book that was just "the stuff you can already find on the Art Portal, only now on paper!" There's already a section in the art portal to show off the best art from over the years, and I don't think that a book would enhance that at all.

I agree. but the artists whose work would be showcased have improved - plus having a new AND old classics from various Artists, would be a record I would like to own.

The art being made specifically for the book enhances its appeal, I think, from a consumer perspective.

Precisely. This can work!

This YouTube page seems to be the 21st century remnants of that old chestnut we love so much. But is it an expired Crunchy Frog? Or a nice fresh Dutch choco?

And what's this book? Many years ago, a friend of mine had read it and never loaned it to me :( Who knew?

At 9/17/12 03:15 PM, TomFulp wrote: Which brings us to our current reality: expenses have grown while our traffic has stayed the same and ad revenue has gone down.

Location, location, location... of where to put NG ads on the net. Try and find sites that have increasing traffic with the demography you're looking for. It might seem like trickle-down economics, but you have to keep up with population growth. The unholy YouTube alliance (of sorts) has helped, but there are plenty of fringe sites (4chan?) that have future NG members just waiting to be told "We're here!"

Can I mail you a personal check for the Supporter service, or am I making a 20th century gaffe here?

At 9/12/12 06:27 PM, Glides wrote: My good friend Mr. Neutron has agreed to locate your shrubbery in exchange for a spoon and a large container of ice cream. He's got a strange obsession with the stuff. I hereby dub thee Sir Vicarious the French (you have a pic of Asterix, so yeah). Ride now to Camelot (or at least the model).
Sir Glides

Surprised you know of this little Gaulish warrior! As for my wayward shrubbery, it's a deal, though, what passes for real ice cream these days is sad.

In the mid to late 90's, I fiended for MPFC online (no mean feat). Do they even air it on TV anymore? I think, other than PBS, MTV had run it a while back then, but just stopped.... I think it's time to try and find a few 3 season episodes (thanks to my neighbor's WiFi) - they were the best!

At 9/12/12 02:37 AM, WorldOutkast wrote: I don't know, going into the clinic on Friday to have my dressings/sutures checked out and possibly removed. The main incision is covered with a dressing, which has actually been sutured to me, I did some reading before I went in, and was kinda hoping they wouldn't go with that, but it is better than having to have it re-dressed every day I suppose. More annoying than anything, haha.

They sewed a bandage to you :P? Sounds like my ma's 83' Ford LTD.... they stapled wires to the radiator hose :| Hope it goes okay Friday.

The main annoyance was that they didn't give me any painkillers on discharge, and the only painkiller I knew worked for certain was oxycodone, which my aunt (a nurse) told me was contraindicated by my current desvenlafaxine/mirtazapine combo. Thankfully I managed to see a doctor about that though, and apparently oxy is safe in therapeutic doses. Thank God for drugs!

Yeah, but these new drugs scare me. Granted, once I got up enough cash for the Vicodin I got 'em. I was in need of it, even days later. I never slept so good since the car accident; I guess the pain's been fucking witth me a lot since then... but another day or two I gotta stop taking the pain meds - it's just too damn easy to get hooked.

At 9/11/12 06:04 AM, WorldOutkast wrote: Oh yeah, the main thing that worried me about going into surgery wasn't the surgery itself, it was how I was going to feel when I woke up. I don't know if anyone here's ever had a pilonidal sinus before, but it's basically a butt-abscess.

So I don't remember a thing, AND I woke up with a really sore bottom.

My friends, as you can imagine, aren't letting me forget this.

Don't sweat it.... I checked it out on Wiki before I commented and figured I'd let the question of which variety it was slide (but guessed right). Best trick is to use a small tube from a tire, like from a wheelbarrow or something to sit on... the one's they sell in the store look a tad shabby.
Yeah, my shit hurt too - they had to find out, by needle, which areas hurt. Kinda barbaric, but later, when they laser the blown out bits of spinal disk, it will minimize how much cutting happens later on. So, 6 days on, only where the needles ended and began (very near spine and near the skin surface) hurts now.... couldn't take it easy like they said, so I should be okay soon.
How ya healing up? Thank God for antibiotic gel. You have any stitches that have to be removed later?

At 9/11/12 11:02 PM, Glides wrote: Honestly never heard of it, my good sir. Still, if you want to join, the castle doors are wide open.
Sir Glides of the Knights Who Say Ni

I humbly accept your invitation kind sir, and I do have an shrubbery.... around here somewhere.
Actually there isn't anything quite that posh at my place :( We had a rash of car eating cats barrel though here last year and the ol' spread hasn't quite recovered. The larch tree is holding it's own though - the ablative Spam-Can armor's been doing quite nicely.

Ha, ha! Anyone old enough to remember this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Python%27s_Complete_Waste _of_Time

It was an insane waste of time, but every bit as ludicrous and delightful as the TV series! I got halfway through and got stuck, and since it was before the internet came to my town, I had no walkthrough :( It's really worth a look if you can find it, and aren't squeamish about ancient DOS/WIN software.

Here's the aggregated review page at mobygames http://www.mobygames.com/game/monty-pythons-complete-waste-o f-time

At 9/11/12 01:55 AM, Xenomit wrote: When I was 11, I had an arrhythmia

My BPM got up to 153, and I never got my blood pressure officially checked. After 2 minutes of sitting in the emergency room and waiting for a room to open up, my heart shut down completely and I was legally dead for about a minute and a half. 2 nurses and a cardiovascular specialist rushed into the ER with a mat and a defibrillator, started my heart back up, and moved me into a room with 2 other people.

It was a pretty..... tragic, event.

When I was little younger than that, I had that... or palpit... no, I think they call it tachycardia; when the heart speeds up, then usually slows down. Only the attacks got longer and longer in my case :P
No one was gonna spend money on me, so I learned, through sheer force of will it seemed, to control the attacks when they came on. After awhile they stopped completely, though once or twice a year, I have a very mild attack. Sighing a lot.... that's kept it in check O__o Strange, huh?

How you been since then? They tell you to take drugs for a while or what?

Also, I think I might be very lucky, but my Sony Vegas Pro 11 trial edition never exactly ended. I trialed it once and it ended in 30 days as it said, then I just did it again and I've had no issue with it. Pretty happy with that.

Good info to know!
This time of year is perfect for Halloween shorts - a good chance to do angles, craft some nice leading shots, get into the ol' stream of consciousness stuff (properly voiced over).... don't mind me, just reminiscing over the little segments to fill a half hour time slot :P It's good to make your own genres, and shorts are a good way to flesh 'em out.

At 9/7/12 12:29 AM, WorldOutkast wrote:

At 9/4/12 07:30 AM, incursion wrote: balls being tripped

That, sadly, didn't happen :(

However, my anesthetist did have a German accent, and the last thing I remember hearing before I went under was "I'm going to give you something to help you relax...". That was rather disconcerting.

Feh - my anesthesiologist didn't say a word, it was the PA who said, "Just gonna lower your underwear here....". I said sure, that's near enough the area you gotta work on, so... I got knocked out while they were putting cold iodine type stuff on me - very ultra super fast. And from the pain I'm feeling, 3 days later, I'm glad they zonked me as much as they did :(

We were thinking that making a book with a selection of art to showcase Newgrounds artists might be a good idea.
Like Spectrum books, Illustration 101 books, etc. ... and run in a similar manner as the Writing Anthology.

Okay, so you're thinking something under 20$ to produce at... what volume? Remember, these are full color pages, for the most part, it ain't gonna be cheap.

Naturally the project would be open to all artists, possibly with some PMs to certain popular illustrators and animators.
The submissions could be brand-spanking new pics for the book (like the Worm project), or simply highlighted pics from the portal, all grouped together by similar styles.

Hell, if I was gonna commit myself to something like this... how about 'The Best Of 1995-2000, 01-06, 07-12 [Three Volumes] with the new submissions dispersed throughout (maybe even three concepts a volume... three worms?). Hmm, every six years... has a bent appeal to it :3

... and that's all I'm going to say for the time being. I'm hoping the following discussion could flesh-out the idea more, and help decide whether such a project is feasible, and whether the community would like to take part/shell out some cash.

Okay... yeah, so do a Kickstarter asking a modest amount for the first volume! But don't put it up till you get the range of covers, layout... the first volume's selections, all settled :3

Best wishes - I do so love the Art Portal... 'cause the dA alternative to too horrible to speak of :P

You know, back in the day, any flash that said 'Vote 5' in it's content or description, was usually blammed.... So what's the modern consensus on this? Are we past the stage where the gullibility of the public should be protected at all costs?

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When I see "Vote 5" lately, I tend to just ignore it and vote based on production values and/or concept.
Nowadays, the number of new submissions are fewer.... IDK. Just feelin' mean in my old age :P

At 9/5/12 04:09 PM, Tarah wrote: I wonder if they'll go around trying to find the garage it opens.

Well, I don't think they'll have to look too long - where I come from, ppl usually put their registration and insurance card in the glove box :| OP: It's time to figure out if you can reprogram your garage door opener, post haste.

How'd they get in? If one of the windows looks vertically scratched, your car is susceptible to a slim jim :P

A trick my brother uses: If you get an aftermarket radio, put part of a razor blade up in the bottom seam - it probably won't prevent them stealing the radio, but it'll bleed the mofo for the nonce >:) Also consider putting a button somewhere up under the dash that'll start the car.... might be harder to do now than when I did it for my 82' Civic.

Walk around, massage your legs... sitting still for too long in a pressurized cabin can lead to blood clots forming in your extremities... also a good excuse in case yer caught wanking under the blanket :3
But, yeah, the blood clots are rare but serious.
If you're still stuck for suggestions, maybe take a sleeping pill? Seems contradictory considering what I said, but by lowering your heart rate and blood pressure, you should be okay... but will will feel very stiff and hungover feeling after you get up. Then you gotta stretch and walk around.
Maybe you'll get lucky and find a girl yer age to sit next to... mmm, stretching :)

...or you could just ask an admin, who at NG has more than one post and has posted within the past year. Then you'll have your number. There are plenty of content providers and members who don't bother with the BBS
Either way, some dufuses will post more than once and your count will go down the crapper.

At 9/5/12 08:20 AM, FattyWhale wrote:

At 9/4/12 08:01 PM, chiefindomer wrote: Since my last post in this thread I've finished the Bachman Books, Blaze, and It. With It, I was pleasantly surprised with just how much better the book was than the TV mini series. Granted it was a long time ago when I saw the mini series but it seemed like 90% of the good stuff from the book was cut. I understand that a lot needed to be cut because a lot of the stuff in the book would be deemed too graphic for TV but in the book you also get to know the characters so much better.

The Stephen King movies/miniseries never do the books justice. Usually they are pretty atrocious in my opinion. The only one that came close was Misery, but even then there were some psychological aspects missing and the ending of the movie was changed from the book, even though it would have been just as easy to do the book ending, which was so much better.

Awww, you didn't like Maximum Overdrive (based on the short story Trucks)? Granted that movie was kinda meant to be campish... "Fuckin' truck's supposed to be depot-ed... dat was depot-ed fo sho!"

Yeah, I do your see your point unfortunately. I agree with you on your analysis of Misery, but how was the author's thoughts supposed to have been done/portayed?

King has mentioned this problem in the past... one good example of crap book/movie translation was The Mist. Good gravy, I had such high hopes for that flick :| Even the audioplay I found years ago beat the pants outta that flick. Maybe it was the perfectly metrosexually shaped eyebrows on the 'actor' who played the Army guy or the slipshot translation from story to screenplay.... either way, that movie just sucked donkey dong.

At 9/3/12 05:58 PM, Ptero wrote: http://www.tmz.com/2012/09/03/michael-clarke-duncan-dead/

Damn shame, especially at just 54. RIP.

Aw, that just sucks! I've seen interviews he's done, and he seemed a real sweetie.... Think I would've felt less affected if I saw it on Drudge Report instead of here :(

At 8/25/12 01:00 PM, The-Great-One wrote: I am looking to go into some video production. However I am a bit hesitant to do so, because the only editing programs I have are Windows Movie Maker and Pinnacle VideoSpin. I don't exactly have the proper funds to get better editing programs and finding free ones that are any good is just about impossible.

Guess you already got a video camera... what type? Will it export to your current computer setup? If you answered Yes to the last question, than you should have no worries (as long as you got enough HD and RAM to process things - good time to figure out what doesn't need to run in the background.

If you have subjects willing to play their roles well, or subjects worth shooting, then yer better than halfway there. Spend time with the camera: learn to white balance and focus (they never seem to make cameras with an 'on demand' focus button anymore, so the auto focus doesn't keep twitching around).

Frequent experimentation is key. The onboard mic (and definitely light, if there is one) are usually limited - if you happen to have a favorite microphone(s), it might be worth plugging into the camera (if you can and have the right adapter(s) that won't pick up electronic noise)... handling the camera, even on a good tripod, can sometimes pick up you handling it.