I didn't expect you to post about the trailer I made on the front page of Newgrounds. You're awesome, Tom! Thanks a lot, man.

Also, really looking forward to Castle Crashers, as is everyone on this site (and more), I'm sure. Too bad I'm going to be in Seattle for work while you're showing it off at Comicon, though. :(

Dude, I get paid to make games, and Jazzy Jones is still one of my favorite games on Newgrounds. It has a very 'early classic flash' feel, and reminds me a lot of the Keegan series and the 30 minute flash movie (I forget what it's called, but the ridiculous one with the stick figures blowing up all the time-someone plz tell me kthx), both in look and content. I really wished I had made it, actually.

Keegan: http://www.newgrounds.com/collection/keeganst ruck.html

At 5/22/07 12:31 PM, HeartbreakHoldout wrote: Never, ever, live in regret. Do whatever it takes to stop yourself from sitting on your ass. Sell all your chairs, do whatever.

Well, I need chairs in order to work on the computer to program my games :P.

But seriously, I'm going to have to make some changes in my life in a couple months due to my roommate selling the house I'm living in, so I've been going over all the possibilities and trying to decide which is best for me. Right now I'm leaning towards living a semi-bohemian lifestyle, getting rid of a lot of my crap, move back to my hometown (it's a lot cheaper to live there), find a shitty apartment, and use what little savings I have to tide me over while I get a games business started.

I could start now, but if I wait until the house is sold, I can save up an extra $2k-$3k, which would give me an extra buffer in start-up capital. So in the meantime, I'm kinda just sitting here waiting for the time to pass and trying to get better habits in the meantime, trying to focus on a contest but having lots of issues due to my brain saying "wouldn't you rather play project gotham all night long or watch the whole arrested development series for the 14th time?"

At 5/22/07 12:04 PM, ManiacCop2 wrote: I fucking love my life every bit of it and im not scared of dying because it's inevitable
it's going to happen theres no use crying about it or getting upset.

Okay, that's a pretty healthy way to look at it. Just wait until you have your first midlife crisis, though, it'll be hard to maintain that viewpoint in it's entirety.

At 5/22/07 11:42 AM, lolomfgisuck wrote: That's the stupidest fucking thing I've ever heard anyone ever say in my entire life. Just because you're a pussy who fears the natural order of life doesn't mean that everybody is.

I think we have similar attitudes but we're just arguing over semantics here. You said you don't want to die. That may not exactly be the same thing as fear, but it's pretty close, and more what I meant when I said fear anyway. Yeah, I might have a stronger wish not to die, but it's not like I let it cripple my life and never leave the house or do anything risky. Hell, driving is about the riskiest thing I could do, and I do that every day, and have even been in situations where I nearly got killed due to me or the other party making a dumb decision. The guy who started the topic, though, is almost begging for death, or trying to show he has a big ego because he claims he's not scared of anything, which usually means their trying to hide some huge insecurity they have anyway.

At 5/22/07 11:52 AM, HeartbreakHoldout wrote: It sounds like you have serious inferiority problems there mate. You should spend your life how you want to, not blaming yourself for not doing the things you think you should.
If you live to 120 and regret wasting your life on trying to stay healthy, then you've wasted it more than someone who died at 20 speeding 200 mph down a moterway, because he loved doing it.

I WANT to spend my life creating a bunch of really awesome things for people to enjoy, hell, I even have fun when I'm doing it, but my brain chemistry would rather I sit on my ass and watch movies and play videogames and surf the internet all day because it takes less effort on its part. Yeah, I guess it's inferiority because my psychology is inferior to my ambition, but so what? Really, I wouldn't enjoy myself doing really stupid things like that guy who dies at 20 speeding at 120mph, because it's reckless and could kill other people who don't want to die.

I could be a serial killer and kill a bunch of people for the adrenaline rush it gives me also, but that doesn't mean I SHOULD do it. I'll get a much greater amount of joy over the course of a long life than that guy will get in the 3 people he gets to kill or the 3 joyrides that idiot makes before oversteering once on accident ramming into a telephone pole at 100mph, killing him instantly.

I just need to limit my idle activities a lot more and make myself more productive. I've had periods of that in my past, and I just have to figure it out again.

On my deathbed, I WILL regret spending all this time on idle activities, I can guarantee that. Not all of it, of course. Some is good, really good. But not as much as I've been doing the past year.

The people who aren't afraid of dying don't have interesting or important enough lives to care about it, because dying won't change how they've completely wasted their lives up to this point.

I'm petrified of dying before I make multiple significant contributions to society and culture (and I'd prefer to just live forever, but I know that's not possible). I get pissed off at myself all the time for wasting so much of every day on idle pleasures, like I am now, but at least I do find time to better myself and create things that a lot of people can enjoy.

They could probably get a collection of James the Zebra minigames and make that an XBLA (Xbox Live Arcade) title, I'm guessing. The guy who's making the Ball Revamped series is trying to make an XBLA game, also.

I'm also working on recoding Proximity DX to XNA for Microsoft's contest, which if I win, would mean I'd get a publishing contract for XBLA, and even if I don't get it, there's been a few inquiries into making different versions of it for mobile and possibly XBLA already, just none of the deals ever got anywhere, so far. Eventually something will work out, though. It might help if I went ahead and finished up the demo and released the damn thing, too, but I'll focus on that once the contest is over.

Well, now that playing Flash games on the Wii has gotten pretty damn popular, you need to downgrade all of your games to Flash 7 to be supported on the Wii anyway, so that's sort of a disincentive to bother upgrading in the first place.

I've been behind the curve anyway. I'm only just now starting to upgrade to using AS 2.0 (kinda wish I did it sooner, though), although my code has been Flash 8 compatible for about a year now (and thus some of my games can't be played on the Wii until I downgrade it :/).

Yeah, that pretty much sums up the whole bickering experience on every forum out there.

Also, using self-reference of the level of "meta" involved in your thread is just as cliche, which adds yet another layer to it because you were probably aware of that also. Aren't you so clever? You were probably aware of threads trying to be clever is pretty cliche now also. That just makes you even MORE cleverer!

I had that problem when I was little, and my parents fought it by breaking it up and putting it on applesauce. Then a few years later I could take it with water. Now, over a decade later, and I can swallow them without water if I need to, although I know it's better to swallow most with water (some pills need to be flushed through the kidneys so it doesn't damage them) so I usually still try to take them with water.

You just have to take the plunge and keep trying until you can do it without even thinking about it, and in the meantime trick yourself with other methods.

I don't know...I just picked up Hocus Pocus on impulse last week and that's been pretty lame so far, and judging by the reviews, doesn't get much better. Slaughterhouse Five is good, yeah, and so are a few of his others, but not everything he writes is gold.

Personally, I like Phillip K. Dick a lot more than Vonnegut, although it's nice to know that Vonnegut didn't get any novels published until he turned 30, and nearly gave up writing altogether at the age of 40. Gives me comfort that even someone considered one of the greats struggled with his writing as well.

Sorry, for the DP, but since there's no way to edit...

12/26/06 is when it'll be released. In America, at least.

If it's wireless, if you can hold out for a month or two (supposed to be out already, I thought), they're releasing a wireless receiver for your computer for $20 which will support 4 wireless controllers plus headsets:

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/hardware/x/xbox360w irelessgamingreceiver/

At 12/13/06 08:31 PM, b3nnic3 wrote: Seeing as how you started posting in 2003, no. We are on the same level.

Heh, while we're throwing out our e-penises, I have posts on the archived NG BBS version 1 that probably none of you guys aren't even aware exists, which had its last post in Feb 2001 (I know because I just looked it up)..

Uh guys, he's serious. I'm in the staff at Clockcrew.cc. I'm SageClock.

Thanks Tom!

Pretty cool site. And the format should do pretty well, considering the success of jayisgames.com.

It's also nice to know my Proximity game was the 4th game to be reviewed on the site. Makes me feel a little warm and cozy inside (thanks Altr!). Although I guess I should step it up and start releasing some of these other games that have been in development for forever.

If you guys decide you could use some extra help reviewing games, I might be interested. It's been a bit of a hobby of mine, obviously, and I've played and reviewed (albeit just on Newgrounds) my fair share of web games. I probably know quite a few you guys aren't aware of, also.

I promise I wouldn't review my own games, if that's a concern. I'd rather see what other people have to say about them anyway.

A couple favorites that I think might fit the bill:

The Cooool Steve Show

Great Job, Terry

The first one in particular is a classic. Anything that guy made was great, though I think a couple of his other things were front paged, but it's hard to tell how much traffic front page stuff got back then. I'm really sad he hasn't made anything in years :/

What's SIH stand for? I do not have them yet, and they must be in my collection :P.

Er, I mean... porn, what's that?

....what's sad is I'm pretty sure what most of those girls look like just by seeing their names.

I think the only logical, rational statement is if you reversed it. (Hate Numa, Love Newgrounds).

My favorite is the one that hires me :P.

I'll say Microsoft Game Studios since that encompasses most of my faves, but I also like Nintendo (for a very small number of franchises and the DS), Capcom (for Mega Man only), Treasure (for everything...<3 <3), and Behemoth (for being so independent and since it's so easy to chat with the developers).

The show is still fun to watch, even after what, 10 years and me being an adult now, so musta done something right. If nothing else, it helps show how strange your characters could be and still have a hit TV show.

Wow. Those are some quality and rare gifts. And I'm being completely serious.

Wish I still had it in me to make a movie in what, two days?

...the audio actually predates the Summoner video, though.

Thanks for the support, guys. I'm currently working on an update to Clock Tournament to make it a bit easier and implement several suggestions people have made.

I want to participate, but I'm a little too burnt out from my Clock Day game.

Cuz Lord knows I hate 'dem pesky Clocks :D

I'm too poor to afford any for probably a good year or so, partially why I'm hoping I win won of the Clock Day 360's.

But if I could afford whatever? I'd get the 360 and the Wii. 360 for Live Arcade and get my next-gen fix, and Wii for its novelty.

At 6/13/06 04:29 PM, Cutlery wrote: You know how we in england eat with forks on the left hand and the knives on the right? well, they eat with the fork on the right and the knife on the left!!!

Probably because they're right handed.

As far as I knew, the fork is the most common eating utensil. Knives aren't needed for like half your meals, and even then are only used sparingly. So it would make sense that you would use the dominant utensil with your dominant hand, and the secondary utensil with the weaker hand.

I'm left handed, and I eat with a fork in my left hand and a knife in my right. And I'm an American.

What's the Brits' reason for always eating with a fork in the right hand, no matter which is your preferred hand?

Everyone younger than me don't have any...

...Bloody respect they all act like they actually have some kind of concept of real life …they don’t

Annoying little bastards......

Whos with me? ...I'm 24 by the way. Once I turn 25, 24 year olds won't have any bloody respect either.

I've been on both ends of the scale, skinny and fat. At the moment I'm fat, and it's kinda hard to establish good habits for losing weight when you get stressed out at work. Forget your lunch once, and a sandwich from Jimmy John's or Taco Bell or something starts sounding appealing. Give in (which isn't hard to do, since your choice is basically either not eat for 8+ hours or pick up something), and bam, you've fucked yourself over psychologically (maybe even physically... your body starts craving that horrible shit), and it'll be a good two or three days before you can even THINK of eating right again.

However, it's really hard to lose weight when you have such a low metabolism you have to starve yourself as well as work out for an hour a day for months at a time to lose any significant weight. Especially when both your work and your hobbies require you being in front of the computer for 10+ hours a day. I mean, when its nice out, I probably go for 2-3 miles worth of walks every day, and I rarely eat more than 2500 cals a day (supposedly I burn 3500 cals a day just to maintain my inner systems for my weight, but I don't believe it, or else I'd constantly be losing weight), but that doesn't stop me from being a big guy.

In fact, I bet I have a healthier lifestyle than you (topic creator) do. Hell, if you eat like that on a regular basis, I KNOW I do. And yet I should be ashamed? How about you and your lack of tolerance?

For the record, I'm not huge, but according to those fat charts, I'm "off the charts" for obesity, so I felt qualified to respond to this guy. It doesn't really effect my life too much except for borderline-high cholesterol causing some discomfort and poorer circulation every once in awhile. I can still jog for a mile or two or play a couple sets of tennis, so its not too bad. It DEFINITELY gives me less energy and makes me more lethargic than when I was skinnier, though.

Heh, excuse me for coming in late. I haven't really kept up on NG politics for a couple years, though, anyway.

You know, for my Clock Legends game, I credited someone as co-author just for helping me make a couple animations and coding a couple things for a single night, the night before I submitted it to NG. Without him, I wouldn't have released it by the deadline, so I felt that alone was enough for a co-author.

Co-authoring really isn't that big of a deal to NOT give to someone (besides having limited slots) that contributed to its production. It just gives them proper credit and gives their site/skills a little extra exposure. It still doesn't take away from the first guy, at all, since everyone who's interested will check that profile/site first anyway (just the people who are more interested might check the 2nd guy out also).

Not that I ever really cared for Ryan K.'s works much anyway, but I'll definitely never work with this guy now. I have a feeling he's going to have a difficult time finding someone to program his next game for him (especially since he got paid for it and didn't offer any of it to the coder...geez...I realize Neg agreed to do it without pay, but he was more than likely under the impression Ryan wasn't getting paid for it either.)

Neg, my site doesn't get a TON of hits (like 2k impressions a month), but I'd be willing to throw up an affiliate button or banner or something on there for a few months. I don't have one up there for anyone else, so you'd be getting a special exception. Plus I'm getting ready to release some games here pretty soon anyway, so that number might jump significantly pretty soon.

Luis, PG, Mindchamber, its cool to see you guys sticking up for the people on this site when they get shafted. I've always liked you guys before, but I have even more respect for you now.