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At 10/7/04 10:22 AM, westtig wrote: from wat ive seen, a majority of the politics ones have been blammed

BTW- I realize that on some systems the sound/picture sync of
the music video i put out isn't quite right. I've asked a few folks
privately if they'd help me correct it, but nobody seems interested
in doing that. If anyone here would care to help me correct the
problem, please let me know.

At 10/7/04 10:22 AM, westtig wrote: from wat ive seen, a majority of the politics ones have been blammed while under judgement, a few might have made it through...(im looking now)

My political music video (Tom Lehrer Music Video http://newgrounds.com/portal/view.php?id=193516) survived
judgement, but with a rather low score. I think it's worth adding
to the politics collection (if i thought it was a waste of time i
wouldn't have bothered to submit it, ya know).

and horror ones, well granfaloon's FEAR is probably one of the best ive ever seen :D

It's certainly one of the better, recent ones out there.

Thanks, Tom.

At 8/23/04 11:43 PM, TomFulp wrote:
I decided to give it a face-lift! It isn't much... I re-categorized all the content, put it on a single page, simplified the layout as much as possible, and tried to link directly to Assassin missions rather than collection pages.

You did a good job of making the layout simpler and easier to
navigate, but i already miss the guy with the shotgun.

What does everyone think? Should we try to revive Assassin, or is it a mean-spirited relic of NGs past? There are lots of new, annoying celebrities who could use some abuse. Should we maintain that duty here at Newgrounds?

I've mixed feelings about this; on the one hand, it's strangely
gratifying to play a flash game that creams a celebrity, but on
the other hand, it's kinda boring to have a truckload of games
that all essentially do the same thing.

At 7/7/04 11:42 PM, night_raider wrote: of course, the content of this site isnt life threatening, But having signs and colors may make a better heads up than just letters.

Well, mebbe. Someone in the U.S. government dreamed up that
color coded terrorism-threat alert system and it's been the
butt of countless jokes since.

I like the GU TU MU AU system since it's similar to what NG users
are familiar with, and it gets away from the acronyms that are
getting ESRB into such a tizzy. If ESRB doesn't like that the
acronyms are similar, that's too bad for them.

At 6/24/04 04:04 AM, Nilm wrote:

[...]

people die every single day, more than you can bother to count in a single day, much more people suicide and die from disease, hunger and murders other than the number of 1. Just because you guys knew him here shouldn't make any difference

Between accidents, suicide, and disease, i've buried more
friends and relatives than you have fingers. If someone you
care about dies, it's painful regardless of the circumstances of
the death, but suicide can be particularly stressful to those
left behind for reasons i've neither the time nor the space on
this forum to explain.

As for calling people 'idiots' and then giving them a mini lecture
on the bible, you might want to take a closer look at the
context in which those commandments were given. It doesn't
mean what you think it means; if the Chosen People weren't
supposed to kill, period, then why were they supposed to
slaughter all those other tribes that were taking up space
in the Promised Land?

At 6/23/04 11:06 PM, fR0ZEN wrote: My father killed himself about 2 months ago

Sorry for your troubles.

At 6/19/04 12:41 PM, Jim_Commie wrote:

[...]

You have to ask your self why was a man with these kinds of neurocese not helped by the system firstly,

What sort of help would you propose?

How do you propose to change a society so that people don't
feel the need to self-medicate with reefer and booze? If the
email account of events is accurate, the violence started with
the neighbor trying to force his way into LC's apartment, not
with LC using his knife, and the escalation of violence was at
least in part made possible by both of them having impaired
judgement.

At 6/18/04 01:29 PM, Jim_Commie wrote: I think this whole thing highlights the fact that violence can spiral out of control, one little jab of a knife started this whole thing.

But couldn't one argue that the whole thing got started when the
two of them decided to get intoxicated? The whole series of
events is sad and it's too bad it happened, but would it have
happened at all if their judgement hadn't been impaired by
getting buzzed the way they did?

At 6/16/04 04:28 PM, TheMeEvan wrote: He is no better then Hitler, but I don't see any "HITLER SUICIDE" threads

You equate the leader of a government that tried to dominate
the entire planet with an animator who, in all likelihood, was
using the medium to let off some steam?

I feel sorry for you. Really.

At 4/1/04 12:48 AM, TomFulp wrote: I'M LOVIN IT!!!!!!!!!

We love to see you smile, Tom.
And a happy 1st of the month to you, too.

At 1/18/04 04:33 PM, WadeFulp wrote: Also if you have been able to view content, can you let us know around what time it started working for you? Thanks!

It started working for me around 9:50am this morning.

At 1/13/04 12:19 PM, Darklilangel23 wrote: is it possible that a movie had a virus or something to effect newgrounds like this????

Quite possibly. I've been seeing a weird trend for the past few
days: whenever i log on, the second time i vote for a movie my
anti-viral ware intercepts and deletes what it identifies as
"Trojan.Win32.SecondThought.c". Has anyone else had a
similar experience?

At 1/7/04 01:18 AM, Ice_mage wrote: newgrounds, no porn... honestly

Thing is, there *is* porn on the site. I can name a couple of
movies that include pictures of live actors that would be considered hard-core porn, which surprised me somewhat since
i thought that sort of thing wasn't welcome here. I don't much
care whether they get taken off the site or not, but a slogan
shouldn't make false claims. The one suggested earlier about
crossing lines would be a good candidate.

newgrounds, where problems are born

This one has potential.

At 1/6/04 10:30 PM, 000King_Nothing000 wrote: How 'bout "Newgrounds - We're not evil! Honestly!"

This made me laugh.
The grammar book in my head sez 'honest!' is more
appropriate than 'honestly!', if that matters.

At 12/23/03 03:35 AM, Some1else wrote: Okay, you people have convinced me that most of humanity is rather ignorant.

You had to come here to discover that?

First off, this person is what I'd call a "troll." This is most likely someone in their late teens trying to piss you guys off to laugh at your reaction. I'm laughing, too.

So am i, though prolly not for the same reasons you are.

Second, you people do realize this person signed as "Broly's Girl," right? So for all of you people who keep saying "He" or "Him," perhaps you should reconsider who is being the idiot, or who is being "redarded."

If the word "bitch" can be applied to an effeminate guy, why
can't a "girl" who babbles repeatedly about killing someone
be referred to as "he"?

At 12/22/03 10:27 PM, A17roolz wrote:
Emails like that are hilarious... just reply to them saying "You know that caps lock button? That stops you from looking like a moron"

The person who sent Tom that letter would have to do more
than that to not look like a moron.

BTW, i like your banner parody.

At 10/31/03 06:27 PM, TomFulp wrote:
You can bet I'll be partying hard tomorrow night if this all works!

Hope it all goes well. Force be with you.

At 10/5/03 07:47 PM, Adept_Omega wrote:
[example of using the search engine for flash]
... No. That would be a complete and thorough waste of time. If you have nothing better to do, then quite frankly... you need a life. NG is not a porn site -- it merely relies on ads for them for upholding the servers.

I think an improvement would be to improve on the
search engine to make it easier to find flash that
a person would be interested in. Something that takes
advantage of the 'rating' a movie or game gets re.
violence/profanity/nudity perhaps?

At 10/4/03 10:24 PM, alienature wrote:
Oh, it's my birthday today. For anyone older than 22, does life get better?

A belated b-day greetings to you. Does it get better?
Depends on what you value. Personally, i think that
(to date) the worst years of my life were from
7 to about 30. Aspects of my life these days i'm not
too keen on, but it sure beats the crap i had to put
up with during the so called 'best years of [my]
life'.

At 10/2/03 01:14 AM, Scaper-X wrote:
Think we could increase the eCard size limit to ~500kb? Stamper's "NG Halloween" was damn nifty and deserves to be included in that collection, methinks.

Stamper's card is quite good; would anyone know if
the reason for the 100kb size limit is because some
mail clients don't handle very large attachments well?

At 9/29/03 11:41 PM, Adept_Omega wrote: It appears as though the movies with the lowest votes are now on the first page of the list instead of the highest number. Any reason for this change?

I think it's a hint...

At 9/25/03 05:52 PM, liljim wrote:

At 9/25/03 05:28 PM, mortalcoil wrote: I seem to be having trouble finding the form.

There's a link to it in Tom's very first post to this thread! Quote: "Check out this form to submit an eCard."

Thanks. Not sure how i missed it the first time.

At 9/25/03 01:21 PM, TomFulp wrote:

:James has programmed a new eCard system from the ground up, complete with a submission system, so you can submit your own! Check out this form to submit an eCard.

I seem to be having trouble finding the form.

:The size requirements are a strict width=300 and height=235. You will be fully credited for your card, so it's a nice way to get some extra publicity!

Would something like this (cropped to the proper size)
be appropriate?

http://magpiebridge.net/pix-mov/mayday.html

At 9/18/03 12:48 AM, miket311 wrote: there should be a link to a refreshed voters needed page after you vote for one.

The list is refreshed every five minutes, and
there are plenty of flash to be voted on still.
Remember, you don't have to pick from the very top of
the list.

You might want to do what i do: i vote on flash that
generally has 180 votes or less and let other people
push the count up to the 200 votes level.

At 9/4/03 10:23 PM, WadeFulp wrote: We switched back, but some entries that had been protected were then blammed, or whistled and removed.

This reminds me of something: wouldn't it be a good
idea to weed out the code that points to movies that
aren't there any longer? A specific example would be:
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view.php?id=37471

The 'movie' that is there is a single frame that sez
the flash that used to be there was removed.

At 9/14/03 08:51 PM, rapstarr wrote: i invent real flash animations and put them on good websites.

And which sites might those be?

At 9/6/03 11:24 AM, TheAce144 wrote: I think there shouldn't be 200 votes to survive. The best idea is to upgrade the SCORE. I think 2.oo/5.oo would be okay. Not 1.61/5.00 cause theres sumtime much crap on the portal that didnt gets deleted

There are many more than 200 people who watch movies
on newgrounds, so i don't think it's unreasonable to
raise the threshold so as to give more people an
opportunity to vote on any given movie. That way,
movies that stay are more likely to better reflect
the tastes of newgrounds users as a group.

It would be nice if only movies that scored 2 or
higher stay on the site, but as has been pointed out
previously, some people blam for reasons that have
little to do with the quality of the movie per se.
Seems to me that raising the threshold number of votes
without changing the score threshold is a reasonable
compromise.

BTW- i don't see any old movies in the portal today.
Does that mean this campaign to raise the # of votes
on old movies has been postponed?

At 8/27/03 09:02 PM, D0GMA wrote:

[Netscape]
:use that or another browser in the interim if IE dying now and again is too much hassle for you.

Thanks for looking into the problem. For me, the
problem with IE is that it's crashing about 9 out of
10 times i try to access the portal index page.
Opera won't do flash, so i'll see if i can scare up a
working copy of Netscrape around here.

The upgrades are great, but i'm wondering about
something; is it just a coincidence that everytime
i've tried to go check out the flash portal today my
web browser has a fatal error and dies?

Anyone else using Internet Exploder having the same
problem?