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At 12/4/14 12:05 AM, WahyaRanger wrote:

At 12/4/14 12:04 AM, Zhon wrote: Sorry, flashy tv trumps parent sex.

Oh, so now we're being snobby trying to make the rest of us feel poor, eh?

Huh? All I'm saying is TVs are more interesting than your estranged relationship with your parents.

If you're too shy, write a letter. Sounds lame but it gets the job done. No confrontation, and you get to get all your thoughts out without being interrupted. For maximum effect, give it to them while they are having sex.

At 12/4/14 12:00 AM, WahyaRanger wrote:

At 12/3/14 11:57 PM, Zhon wrote:

At 12/3/14 11:49 PM, Monster-64 wrote:

Do you mean AWOL?

Away without leave which has nothing to do with being mean.

Wahya talking about his folks gettin' dirty.

This is a serious issue you dong.

Yeah, it made no sense to begin with, but slightly more sense now than saying that someone was an architectural element.

Sorry, flashy tv trumps parent sex.

I'm too lazy to take a picture of my actual TV, so here's a stock photo (uploaded).

At 12/3/14 11:49 PM, Monster-64 wrote:

At 12/3/14 11:48 PM, poopmcfarts wrote: Have you ever thought of just going to sleep instead of posting threads?

I don't understand NG. People complain our boards aren't active enough, but whenever someone makes a post, people go A-Wall on the OP.
EDIT: No, I'm not singling you out.

Do you mean AWOL?

At 12/3/14 11:53 PM, poopmcfarts wrote: I don't complain about it, but I can understand how you could think that. But I was just talking about how he post threads way too much without any purpose other than to be there.

It's not like the General forum has a particular topic. At least comparing TVs is more interesting than.. *scans the post list*... "i like sluts" and Wahya talking about his folks gettin' dirty.

At 12/3/14 06:50 PM, Cordyceps wrote: <EffectType UNID="&efMainThrusterLarge;"

style: "smooth"
shape: "tapered"

So far I am only impressed by your smooth, tapered, large thruster.

Rules:

1. Hit reply
2. Paste into the box (if you have an image in your buffer, paste it into paint and upload it instead)
3. Post

No changing anything, no copying new sources. Let's see what you've been up to.

I've been working so mine's incredibly boring, but here you go:

Georgia O'Keeffe

I'm really awful at swimming. Like, I understand the physics behind how to swim more efficiently and whatnot, but I just horribly suck at it. I can swim enough to save my life but if I had to like outswim a flesheating toddler I'd be screwed.

At 12/1/14 08:14 PM, TheGamechanger wrote: Thanks to the suggestions and question submission from those who participated correctly from the November Questionnaire, this month's questionnaire can now begin.

Special thanks to everyone whose questions are shown below.

@fieldertiger's question:

1.) What do you love about winter?

The blanket of snow makes everything quiet. Muffled. Sound doesn't travel as far from the roads. Everything is closer to one color. It's kind of peaceful.

@Chocomilk's question:

2.) Do you have any NG christmas movies or games you watch/play every year?

I used to watch Snow Snow every year. I had a tradition going with my friend but he died. It's been a while, I don't really remember what it was any more.

@WahyaRanger's question:

3.) Will you have anybody to kiss New Year's Eve or are you a lonely person who has yet to get a date?

Hells yeah :)

@NekoMika's question:

4.) Do you have snow where you live or is it a rarity?

It snows a bitchton here. I'm in Central NY.

@Radaketor's question (I modified it):

5.) Do you think that elfen girls are hot and sexy?

Meh. Most of them are too skinny. They have a certain appeal I guess.

@Boredy-Mcbored's question:

6.) Have you gone out for Black Friday Holiday Shopping? What's on your BF list this year?

Went black friday shopping for the first time this year. Got a 50" TV for $200. Not a bad deal.

@Zerodecoole's question:

7.) Do you watch Christmas specials of TV shows?

I don't really watch TV. But when I do... Yes. We have Netflix but we only watch a couple of shows.

@D-Nightmare's question:

8.) Where do you get your Christmas gift ideas from?

People. I write down ideas all year long as I talk to people and when Christmas comes around I buy them stuff. Sometimes it's just a tiny thing they mentioned once, others it's something they've been wanting for years.

@TaintedLogic's question:

9.) What does your family eat for Christmas/Hanukkah/whatever?

We used to have a big Italian Christmas dinner when I lived with my mother. Too much crap to list. I don't really know what I could say we eat now. Only thing that hasn't changed is pumpkin pie.

@TheComputerHermit's question:

10.) Which do you enjoy doing with your family the most during Christmas- Eating dinner and talking, or receiving and giving presents?

Eating dinner and talking. I can buy shit for myself whenever I want. The exchange of presents is just a shallow trading of money. You buy people what you think they want and they buy you what they think you want. You don't gain or lose anything and it's almost never an affair of emotion. It's just a possibility to be disappointed and waste your money. Talking and sharing a meal is a time when you can just sit down and not worry about the stress of life for a day. Just enjoy each other's company. I find it is the one day of the year that I can feel like my family is a family again.

@Jojo's question:

11.) What do you want for Christmas/other holiday?

New computer. Cintiq 22HD. Giant stuffed chocobo/moogle. That's about it.

@Omegeist's question:

12.) What are you looking forward to giving and getting for Christmas?

Looking forward to giving my mom a classic collection of Christmas movies. Looking forward to getting a shit ton of food.

@Sensationalism's questions:

13.) What is your favorite xmas lights color? (multicolor, white, blue,)

Multicolor. I used to fall asleep in the living room on the couch watching the lights change color at night. I miss it.

14.) Have you ever been in an ice or snow related car accident?

I guess you could say that. I "drove" "off" the "side" of the road during a storm once. More like it was so bad that I tried to pull over and wait it out... I moved about an inch off of the center line and ran my car into snow up to the bumper. Had to call AAA to pull me out.

15.) Ever fall through the ice in water?

Yes. Oh god. When I was a kid one winter we had a huge ice storm that knocked out power for weeks. We had to get water from the creek in our back yard and heat it up on the wood stove. It was kind of magical honestly, some of the best days of my life. Anyway, the creek was frozen so we had to break it with a sledge hammer. One day I stepped out too far and fell in, got super soaked. It was about -5 degrees F outside so I ran my skinny ass back in the house before I got hypothermia. Just glad the creek was REALLY frozen and not flowing underneath.

My own questions:

16.) How much of a Grinch/Scrooge are you?

Not at all.

17.) Have you ever built a gingerbread house?

Once, a long time ago.

18.) The Gingerbread Man from the Shrek franchise, is he badass or wimpy?

Do you know the Muffin Man?

19.) I'm Santa! Have you been good or naughty this year?

Depends. Are you fat and slow, and do you have any good toys on you?

20.) Now, if you have any ideas for questions that you want to be in the January questionnaire, please PM me. I will only accept the questions that are January-specific.

I don't like your attitude.

Majored in Fine Art, BFA degree (basically like a BA in Fine Art with a minor in Fine Art. Just a shit load of art). I'm a freelancer now. I bounce between drawing, graphic design, writing, animation, and very occasionally game dev. My most profitable contracts are writing about art history / critiquing contemporary artists / etc.

Was gonna get a master's in fine art or art history so that I could teach at the college level, but I decided to wait on that.

To the graphic design guy: a business minor is a great complement to a graphic design major, especially if you can focus in copyright law.

At 12/1/14 05:03 PM, Monster-64 wrote:

At 12/1/14 04:59 PM, yurgenburgen wrote:

At 12/1/14 04:36 PM, argile wrote: Changing n64 cartridges.

having a similair icon to me

Being a pretty smart guy

Posting in this thread

Since we're on the topic of toothpaste... If you're using any whitening crap, do some research. Some of the "best" whitening toothpaste actually uses abrasive materials to "clean" your teeth which ends up destroying them within a few months. So you basically have to choose between mostly-white-teeth forever or blazing white teeth for a few months.

I think most people only trick themselves into not fearing death. Or rather condition themselves. When the moment comes though, almost everyone is terrified of it. Perhaps it's the forethought of pain that keeps you from fearing death. The pain seems much more immediate and physical, whereas the consequences of death are mentally negligible. A lot of people I talk to about this subject say things like "well, what do I care? I'll be dead - I'll have no feeling or thoughts." But these same people never really stop to think about what happens when you die, what it does to the world around you, and what you are really giving up. It's the same reason suicidal people will often change their minds at the last second. When you finally get to the point where death is a reality and the pain is an afterthought, you have a chance to REALLY think about it. And then you realize that you don't want to die.

Of course I'm sure anyone who replies to me will fight their declaration to the end.

I'm just here to say that these posts are half the reason I still visit NG. Love you tomfulp&gang

Rules are simple. Answer the previous question and try to ask one that no one else is brave enough to answer. When the thread dies, you win. You must answer the previous question truthfully. If you lie, an ancient Japanese warrior will decapitate you at dinner unless you copy this post into 32 other threads within 2 hours.

Here's a crappy one to start:

Who was the last person on Newgrounds that you silently forum-stalked out of rage, and why did you do it?

Hmmmm.....

I don't like you.

When I was an art student in college I found a way to buy high quality printmaking paper straight from the manufacturer for about 1/5 the usual price (like $2 a sheet I think). I sold it to my fellow students for a 25c discount to cover shipping and what I used of it.

Umm. Got a PS3 bundle with five games, two controllers, and a month of PS+ for $200 a couple years ago. That's old news though.

At 11/26/14 01:24 PM, SneakyGameBoy wrote: I knew someone was gonna make a thread like this. BBS you never seem to disappoint me with your shallow and back-to-reality topics.

Is this shallow, back to reality, or both?

At 11/26/14 02:33 AM, Ronald-McDonald-LoL wrote: I think Columbus day is the bullshit holiday.

Also, you couldn't have put "bullshit" in your title? You just had to put COMPLETE in there? Your thread is complete

bullshit.

Character limit. It actually stopped me right at the space. And I don't like using shorthand to fit text in titles - it looks sloppy.

Also, don't even get me started on goddamn Columbus day.

Also also, "we" celebrate "our" victory on Independence Day. "We" commemorate "our" veterans on Veteran's Day. "We" as a culture include "our" past as part of "us."

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Nipple: that's actually a great point to bring up. Thanks for that. Why don't we do that any more? We should have a nationwide feast every time we win a war. Government can pay for it. That's a holiday I can get behind.

Cyber: Yay!

At 11/26/14 02:14 AM, someaveragechap wrote: We killed more Natives from diseases then actual war. What the holiday means to history, the nation and you can be different things. If you're bummed about it, you can always skip a meal.

Meh. I have some Native American blood in me, but not enough to give up turkey and string bean casserole.

At 11/25/14 11:16 PM, Bmwd wrote: Nah i think Halloween is more shit. I mean what's the point of celebrating Halloween? Remember when your parents tell you not to go to people's houses except for friends? Well guess what? All you do is trick or treat all day, i mean what's the point!

Halloween is equally bastardized, but at least it wasn't used to justify Holy Genocide. It was just stolen from another culture and appropriated into a night where candy and costume companies make an assload of money, Dentists get more clients, kids get to eat razerblades, adults get to go to parties, and women get to dress up as "Slutty ____"s, get drunk at said parties, probably roofied and raped, then Tweet about how men are slimy sex fiends.

I love Thanksgiving as a day to enjoy a meal with my family. Calling it a celebration of our history is the part that is ridiculous. I guess it's not COMPLETE bullshit, just everything it supposedly stands for. Also, as a white American male, I have every right to hypocritically judge my forefathers for their foul actions. In true American fashion, I'm going to continue to bitch about it for years to come, enjoy a grotesquely overfed turkey with my family every year, and never actually do anything about it.

bullshit.

We all understand that every holiday is either bastardized or commercialized in modern society, but Thanksgiving is the dumbest of them all.

It's not about giving thanks. We didn't make friends with the nice cuddly natives and share a big happy meal. There is no underlying moral lesson.

We stumbled upon America on accident, used the generosity of the natives to stay alive, invited a couple of them to dinner one night and tracked them back to their tribes to slaughter the entire fucking continent. Killed their children. Raped their women. Took their land.

If you are going to give thanks for anything, give thanks for 9th century Chinese military tacticians who popularized the use of gunpowder in warfare. Thanksgiving is a patriotic holiday that stands for everything America is: we find shit on accident, we take everything we want, we stuff our faces, and we kill people who don't agree with us; then to top it all off, we cover up the truth in our textbooks and society to make us look like friendly loving Godspreaders.

Have a happy Thanksgiving, Newgrounds.

This thread makes me want to vomit out mashed potatoes and bile all over all of you.

At 11/24/14 04:54 PM, Sword-of-Kings wrote: My first name, Alexander, sounds retarded. Alex is fine, so I go by that. My middle name is so fucking cringe inducing. My last name sucks too.

Dude, Alexander is a bamf name. You are a guardian and an ancient warlord. Hella dope son. I'd love to be named Alexander.

At 11/24/14 12:23 AM, xXSp1cyN1njaXx wrote: I think Brendon is a pretty cool name. the problem with it is that too many people will deliberately pronounce it Brandon despite how its spelled.

In the near future after gender lines have been completely blurred, I see forward thinking parents naming their sons Branndynne or Breindun to counteract all of the Ashliis and Brittniis.

Anyone in this thread have a retarded alternate spelling for a name? Not saying all of them are stupid. Just most of them.

At 11/23/14 11:19 PM, WahyaRanger wrote: Lol. My coworkers name is DJ.

Tonight is making me want to jump off a bridge.

Almost unrelated, but... I have a client named Dragan. How badass of a name is that?

At 11/23/14 10:59 PM, WahyaRanger wrote: Oh, you're named Joseph too?

We're named after a man that was cheated on and fucked over in life.

Ask me again how I feel about that.

It was all just an elaborate cover story. "I didn't cheat on you, I swear! I... I got pregnant from MAGIC."

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@aListers - For some reason I HATE the nickname DJ. Especially when people say "deej" - just pisses me off for some reason.

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Lots of biblings in here.

How do you feel about your name?

I don't mean your handle - I mean your real name. No need to post your name here, I'm just curious.

A lot of people hate their first name for whatever reason. Last names obviously carry familial associations. Middle names are usually random and never used. Do you like your name? Do you have any special feelings about it? Any other names you wish you had instead? Any interesting/stupid stories surrounding your name?

I'll start:

My first name is biblical. Growing up I hated that. I'm an atheist and I grew up in a heavily Christian family/area. But as I got older it started to sound nice, professional, mature. I like it now, but when I was little I wished that I had my father's name - Vincent.

My middle name is stupid and I never use it.

I'm actually changing my last name soon, because I was given the same name as my siblings but I have a different father. It's going to be weird since I'll share the same first and last name with my grandfather who I am not very fond of... But I'll get over it.

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Bonus points: list one famous/infamous person you share a first name with.

JOSEPH STALIN

When I was 11, my step brother shot a BB gun at our tin roof while I was looking out the window on the 2nd floor. It ricocheted and hit me. It was lodged in my neck. If I had been leaning a couple of inches further or if my head was tilted even slightly up I would have been in critical condition. Luckily I just had to take a trip to the hospital and have it removed. No danger, just a long care process to prevent infection.

In short - yeah, I was about 50 feet away and it bounced off of something. If that much reduction in force could have killed me, I'm pretty sure a BB gun should be considered dangerous.

The "Would Have Been" Chronicles