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At 8/10/12 06:47 PM, FUNKbrs wrote:

At 8/10/12 06:09 PM, psychopathy wrote:
funkbrs why do you still make these kinds of threads they're not funny please stop

Threads like these are a tradition, and traditions are something you should respect because you should have FAITH that the old days of the BBS were GOOD days for the BBS, and not just as filled with idiots as they are today, but also with more vicious and hateful users who occasionally actually shot/stabbed people and/or themselves (livecorpse, regret).

If the old days were bad days, then that would mean that the BBS is still somewhat bad even it has improved, and I refuse to believe there is one single stain on the history of this BBS because I was there for it, thus making me older than you (probably) and therefore you should respect me as your elder and do everything I say exactly as I say it.

When I first glimpsed this site 12 years ago, the BBS was a scary, scatterbrained place of insane concepts and equally insane promises. The extremes in (un)intelligent discourse was great, the talk, REAL randomness, before the word was spoiled.

There's nothing like getting offended at a detailed and personal level (personal for the offended of course) - it puts you on the spot to show your true colors, and NOT some politically correct, e-version of yourself.

While you're enjoying Reaganomics (which is so helpfully included in my Firefox's dictionary) and and the fresh media whore Madonna, please do me a favor and gut the living bejesits out of the Political Correctness movement? And have a smoke and a beer in the arcade for me, will ya bud? And get some Quaaludes from the local college too - I never did get a chance to try that :3

At 8/9/12 12:36 PM, Wanion wrote: Here's a video I recently did with some friends. No dialogue, experimental, and a mock on all the bath salt cannibalism in the media:
BATHSALTS

Wow. That came out nice! You can get so much work done when you got another guy you can trust behind the lens, and this piece sure shows it :3 Everyone onscreen looked well motivated, and that's more than half the battle right there.
Nice progression of events - looked like the first few minutes of a good movie (so many cuts).
Also great tight shots, to press the issue.

Good gravy, I thought this account was deleted. An igirlgames dress-up.

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  Princess Dream Dance by igirlgames

  princess dressup games, kids games, games for girls

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  Something... par1 by 24thebluesky

  Humanity looks at itself 3,000 years in the future

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This will likely pass, since it's a video file, but there's no original content in it. It's all 20th century WWi and WWII footage with 2 or 3 classical music pieces over it. I like the guy who submitted this, but there's only 2 or 3 original stills in it, and no text or voice.

Sup man? Happy Birthday! You're one of the good posters here :3

At 8/9/12 12:01 AM, liljim wrote:

:YouBoob link to AAAAAAHHHHHH!
Insanity: When you do something over and over again the same way, and expecting different results each time :3
-- Ben Franklin

At 8/8/12 01:00 PM, Decky wrote: Dress up game
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/600552

Awww, some little girl did this! At least check the authors page to see if there's a person behind the upload..... still, it is of blammable quality - I posted a message explaining things to her, so, no harm done. We all strive through adversity.

At 8/7/12 03:58 PM, J-Rex wrote: Anyone have any tips on thinking of low budget ideas for a film, sketch, etc?

I have a ton of ideas but I need some dough that I can't get to make it even below average quality.

Necessity is the mother of all invention, my friend. Cheap props and effects are secondary to good script writing though. When I wrote skits, I really tried to push the "what I can't do" to the background as much as possible, and focus on what I could do on the cheap. Watch enough B movies from the past century carefully, and shortcuts will avail themselves.

I have 2 books from the mid 20th century which has some excellent optical tricks that can reduce or eliminate the need for fancy videographic software, so I'll scan n post some helpful pics here soon.

Good luck with the script and pre-production. Keep us up on your progress :3

At 8/7/12 05:17 AM, Snuff wrote: This is the short film I made as a final project for my college course, the idea started off as an advert for Rock Band, but it turned into just a music video really. Still, I'm very proud of it and it helped me get onto the next level of my course, so I should be making more films in the near future.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcZAAJvaBcg&list=UUlwSa8ANtWd PNl6_C7eKuMw&index=1&feature=plcp

Not bad ;) I noticed the composition of the shots improved in the last quarter of the piece (difficult 'cause the drummer is set so far back). Never easy shooting a band while they're jammin' with only one camera (or am I wrong). Everything was audio synched very well too, and the camera angles (in the beginning) lead the action well.

At 8/4/12 11:17 AM, Wanion wrote: Never turn away from a hobby or dream, we all share a unique interest that can be hard to achieve sometimes. There is lots of competition, but this is a site of creativity.

I dunno - this site actually saps my creativity. Maybe if I took a break from it, I could get something put together script and planning wise. You gotta wear sooo many hats to make a video by yourself, and acting during all of it is the hardest. I used to act for a few cable TV shows and it makes it so much easier doing one thing at a time, as opposed to running the whole show.
Just glad non-linear video editing has finally been made affordable enough. Still boggles my mind that the graphics in Babylon 5 were done on an Amiga running Video Toaster in the early 90's (Tom put up a post about that setup a year or so ago, but my partner backed out of the deal).

At 8/5/12 10:21 AM, VicariousE wrote: This looks stolen: new account and this is the only thing listed.
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/600372
http://www.maxgames.com/play/magic-defender.html Game AND description stolen from maxgames... has to be, 'cause maxgames has their own account here.

So this game got Daily Third..... I'd email the production company and ask, but WTF, why bother? The company got it's game exposed, and I didn't recall any ads running, other than the page itself.
Feel like I'm guilty of stop, frisk and slander O_o

This looks stolen: new account and this is the only thing listed.

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  Magic Defender by magicdefende44

  tower defense

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http://www.maxgames.com/play/magic-defender.html Game AND description stolen from maxgames... has to be, 'cause maxgames has their own account here.

Ugh. Two more gamesgrow turkeys.

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  Jump Jump Rabbit by rabbitgames

  Jump Jump Rabbit receives a letter from her mother who is far away.

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  Rabbit Eats Carrot by rabbitgames

  This is a classic cut-rope game. Use you brain and scissors to feed the baby rabbit!

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I know I should shove a link in here, but anyone ever hear of "public access" (as opposed to "community access" where the local tin plated dictators show what they want) cable TV? In the 80's, a law was passed to make 1 out of every 30 channels, open to the public. Franchisees would make a deal with the area they serve, so a studio or and/or equipment is set up somewhere. Usually 1/2 hour to 2 hour blocks are open to the local public to produce their own stuff; no commercial stuff though, unless you were showing off yoga, martial arts, religion, sports.
If you got cable, it's the channel with the weird stuff on it, and not too sharp lookin' either. Another tell-tale sign: crappy little studio, with carpet on the walls and crappy lighting. Great place to learn production.
It's also called PA-TV, though it's on cable... should be PA-CATV.
Best satire of a PATV show.
Public Access TV.

At 8/3/12 03:48 PM, gamejunkie wrote: Here's something you don't see every day. A '0' KB submission. A whole lot of nothing.
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/600285

I caught 3 in one day! Glad I didn't catch this one though - I usually PM the author with the usual reasons why it didn't work: didn't convert fla to swf, and maybe why.....
Sucks to vote zero on 'em otherwise. How can you rate something that you can't see or play? I made that mistake in a review not so long ago, and got a nasty little bot message saying it had been deleted - can't vote zero in a review if there's no content to observe.

I have very little video in a digital format which can be transferred - most of the stuff I did was on U-Matic 3/4", VHS, SVHS and Hi-8 (a lot of it was work-for-hire, so I don;t have it anyway). I tried a Digital 8 camera from Sony to get the stuff digital, but it was a joke and a waste of money.
When YouTube first hit the scene, I was immediately grossed out. Now that Google owns it, I guess have to find another site (like Vimeo) to post what little scraps I do have.

Really hope this club takes off - there are a lot of nice analog tricks and tips I'd love to share. Computers are a fine thing, but the stuff that hits the camera lens and mic is 90% of it.

At 8/1/12 05:25 PM, Spretznaz wrote:

At 8/1/12 05:01 PM, VicariousE wrote: So I was wrong in calling out this flash? Or do the majority of users have it wrong?
Kinda on a tight schedule and don't usually bother with the games in the Portal, 'cause most of them are shovelware crap.
Any advice to a prospective Elite Guard member is appreciated.

No, you're absolutely right. They're only passing because of the savewhores and people who don't bother to read tags.

Uuuh - I didn't even notice the tags on that one! Usually when something looks suspect, I check the author for activity. I'd think anyone who worked on code for hours would at least say something other than "Press the spacebar to continue."
Tom's gotta make a bigger fuss about this if anything's going to change with regard to member's voting habits.
The only change I think would help (and there's been more than enough talk on the vote subject) would be a wider vote spread (0-10) or the ability to vote in tenths or quarters, like 2.6 or 2.75. It'd be a nice middle of the road approach.

At 8/1/12 04:19 PM, MistyEntertainment wrote:

At 7/31/12 11:59 PM, VicariousE wrote: Another GamesGrow turd has hit the portal.....
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/600123

Despite your best efforts to blam this Flash, a majority of users have disagreed. This Flash has reached protected status.

So I was wrong in calling out this flash? Or do the majority of users have it wrong?
Kinda on a tight schedule and don't usually bother with the games in the Portal, 'cause most of them are shovelware crap.
Any advice to a prospective Elite Guard member is appreciated.

Another GamesGrow turd has hit the portal.....

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  Midway 1942 V2 by BarbaraMagic

  WASD/Arrow keys to move,J/1 to shoot.

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Happy Birthday Timmy, and good luck on the exam.... summer exam?
Yup, that Timmy is a hard worker and stellar student :3

Technically, this. Aside from the 9 year old Dell POS (piece of shit, not point of sale) which I'm currently using, I have a HP Pavillion w/ a very early Pentium III chip.
I started with a PI 200 Mhz Pro, which thankfully had a real nice MB attached to it - the "Pro" only meant it was a factory overclocked 166, so I got ripped off :( One things for certain, AMD processors kick ass at a lower price, and they've never conned anyone or stolen technology, unlike Intel.

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  Little Gardener Girl Dres by meimei123

  This cute little gardener girl promised

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Yeah, Tom said all commercial, shovelware Dress-Ups are blammable and bannable.

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  Victorias New Blonde Look by kayla1992

  Victoria justice is appearing with new blonde style in Victorious

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No ads on this one either, but damn, that BG music is loud and annoying!

Are we getting our whistles back? Or multiple pictures for our userpages (or at least a larger filesize)? Seems like the past month or so, not a lot's been upgraded. Even the BG on the portal pages are unchanged since the redesign.... thought they were going to get rotated every so often.

At 7/1/12 07:24 PM, byteslinger wrote: No new members this month; no members retired

So, I guess rank and seniority aren't enough?
I formally request permission for a Private to join the Elite Guard Barracks. I don't vote "2" on everything and move on, I genuinely care about the content of NG. Granted, I don't have a photographic memory, but after 11 years, I'm sure I have something useful to contribute.

VicariousE, reporting for duty. Rank: Private, as of a few hours ago. My b/p is something like 400 / 2000.
I'm not overly active on the BBS, but after seeing a few pages of the posts here, I'm sure I can learn to be a better member.

At 6/14/12 05:40 PM, dlxrevolution wrote: This place is starting to get more politically correct since my time here.

It's getting disgusting.

This, the heart of the matter. As an old fart from the 80's, I can verify this as the cause. It takes all kinds to make a world, and we are conditioned to be of 'one mind'... to self police ourselves into absolute copies of one another, so one's feeling's get hurt.

At 6/5/12 01:52 AM, FatKidWitAJetPak wrote: This man just turned his dead cat into a helicopter and chased cows with it.

Now I know how to keep the deer outta garden at night. The Petrified Predator Cat Drone will do my bidding - awesome idea for Halloween too.
The techno goons at DARPA already have a fake hummingbird drone, we as citizens should use the cat as a counter to this threat, as seen pictured here http://www.newgrounds.com/cat/ in it's ground based model.

At 5/23/12 10:29 PM, Bungled wrote: I somehow remembered my password after years of inactivity. What are the odds that there's anyone still hanging around from like 7-10 years ago?

STOP HOUNDING ME!
My password got shrunken by 10 characters during an absence and isp change, I couldn't logon for over 5 years! But did I give up? Did I just "break down" and make a new account?
Na-ah.
I came here during those years, feeling like an employee accidentally locked out of work. I voted my one vote and scampered on. And yeah, 2004-5 were damn good years.
Haven't dug into the NG Log stat-whore website to guesstulate, but I'm guessing about a hundred or better - the site's been registerable for 12-13 years!

At 5/21/12 01:47 PM, liljim wrote:

At 5/16/12 01:39 AM, VicariousE wrote: Well, it's been a month since liljim has bothered to respond to his thread - so much for posting things in appropriate threads.

What does responding have to do with reading and acting on the issues reported? The only reason I'm so late to reply to this particular comment is because this is my first day back at work since last Tuesday and I haven't bothered responding to others because many of them have been resolved.

Ok, I can see that the issues posted were resolved, and the other issues were resolved in other posts as well.

You are misunderstanding the reason for your recent stats not showing. Some of your pages might have had a couple of thousand impressions, but the stats won't show until those impressions generate any revenue. Clearly, they haven't.

CPMstar has taken this subject completely out of your hands (my own fault for thinking you had any control or extra data, above and beyond what's on my screen). This company is weird, and was taken over 2 years ago.
About the same time as the placeholder ads went, the lack of ANY info to my ad-rev page started. I'm guessing CPMstar had a different company come in with their own ads and pay scheme (with relation to them, not us).
I'm still trying to figure this out on my own. Since pay-to-click came along, some people have gotten heavily into it, and there are threads about the subject and companies involved. Without any info, I still have the same problem with the same amount of perceived traffic (yeah, I know it's the sign-ups that get the dough, but that looks like all were getting!) Can you get income based on impressions alone?

At 5/21/12 09:08 PM, jjjkuk wrote: I've seen that many of you have posted here and there that you don't watch TV anymore, and neither do I very much. Did we grow out of it, or are we just feeling that it's a waste of our time and rather be doing something "productive", or everything that's on these days shit. I think the last two for me. I have it on (sometimes) for background noise and if there's a really good episode of something I like, then I'll watch that. What about you?

Nah, not since 9/11. Cable jumoed price 3x in one year... that was enough. I had 2-13 okay and sometimes something was on. Then they ditched the old signal, I never redeemed my congressional 50$ coupon for a digital converter... so now, nothing.
Nothing but what I choose.