At 9/21/07 11:08 PM, BlackmarketKraig wrote: Newgrounds misses you.

What the Hell is wrong with you? Luis said you liked my shitty sketchbook entry. That thing should be thrown in an active volcano.

Also, those are some nice pieces you have going there. How do you keep inspired?

Well for one, your sketchbook entry is a hell of a lot better looking than my sketchbook entry this year! Your stuff's always cool, don't let yourself believe otherwise. I'd ask you the same question from where you get your inspiration from... I see some of the stuff you do and it gives me my own ideas. I love the paper moon and the broken stucco walls you used! The minimalist face, the reflection... you take the same dark shit I always do and push it up a level by making it disturbingly innocent. That's style!

Inspiration comes and goes unfortunately... I'm actually pretty depressed about my skills at the moment. There's a painting that looks suspiciously like someone shoved a knife through it and moved it up and down to make the hole bigger sitting outside in the dumpster right now that's testament to that...

I'd like to type more, but the lag in this message box is irritating me...

Broke out the oils a couple days ago. Messy and impossible to keep you and your surroundings clean while painting, but I think I like them more than acrylic now... for certain things I guess.

At 9/9/07 10:54 PM, x-factor11 wrote: this thread lives?

I guess I can take some of the blame... I miss Newgrounds.

At 9/2/07 07:10 PM, Cryzabey wrote:

At 9/2/07 07:09 PM, Gorilla-Studios wrote:

At 9/2/07 07:02 PM, Cryzabey wrote: How would I carry out php commands in a .swf file?

You wouldn't.

But...
How do people update/ Change highscores then?

/

Likely through the interaction of Flash and XML. I personally don't know anything about it, but while doing research on other functions, I noticed chapters on XML sockets and the like. I also recently learned that Flash can execute Javascript functions... by calling them in the HTML document (they can client or server based as normal.) Do some more research, I wouldn't be surprised if you found a backdoor solution to your problem if there's no direct method to have flash execute PHP.

At 9/2/07 06:22 PM, hereforrock wrote: that he/she is frustrated with their current knowledge of Flash

Can I suggest you visit your local bookstore and buy some literature on the subject? There's really no substitute to the knowledge you'll gain when you take the initiative and become independent of tutorials and other people's work. Granted, dependence from time to time can be invaluable, using the knowledge of others will limit you severely.

If you want to know Actionscript, there's no better resource than O'Reilly.
Specifically this book here for AS 1.0

And for a simple, easy to understand and follow, but not too watered down book on the more visual aspects of the program like tweening and animation, the Visual Quick Start guides can be pretty useful.

Don't worry too much about them being for older versions of Flash either... less you're absolutely adamant about starting with AS3. All the methodology used in previous versions of Flash typically after and including Flash 5 are applicable to CS3 as well.

At 8/30/07 12:31 AM, El-Presidente wrote: Yeah, I didn't mean it in a mad way or anything. I just meant like could you kind of rephrase what it is that you're talking about. IT sounds really complicated, but I just kind of heard a bunch of different scripting languages in those sentences and didn't really understand what else you were looking for.

Ha, I figured! I hate how the net works like that so often =)
I was at work when I wrote that, and at the end of the day... reading it now with a beer and in front of the TV does seem a little difficult =p You'll have to excuse me, I was totally in my own world!

Turns out, I was being retarded and failed to include a very important keyword in all my online searches. Also turns out it's way more complicated than I was hoping it would be. Oh well.
Thanks guys.
Mixing Flash with Javascript with CSS... what a pain in the ass!

At 8/29/07 09:21 PM, El-Presidente wrote: I really didn't understand what you're asking. Why don't you rephrase that and tell us what you're using rather than saying what you want us to do with it.

I don't want you to do anything with it. I'm hoping someone with might recognize what I'm talking about and be able to share a "lightbulb over the head" moment as I'm sure I'm just not seeing the easy solution at the moment.
Granted, mine is more of a technical question, I'm aiming it a little high as asking here (unlike we're all used to seeing) is a very small portion of my entire search.
Please don't confuse me with someone looking for a handout... unless I'm just misunderstanding your tone (which I could very well be)

I have a Flash banner at work that I need to call an HTML page with, but I also need to be able to include an "rel" and the "class" identifiers with it as well.
I'm using a really cool application called Thickbox that works wonderfully with regular href links but can't for the life of me at the moment figure out how to get it to work with a simple on(release) event.

I'm thinking I may have to create a workaround with some Javascript, but I'd rather not go that route if I don't absolutely have to.

I'm using CS3.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated as I've looked through all my O'Reilly books and every reasonable search of the internet.

Thanks in advance.

At 8/21/07 07:31 PM, TeoFuture wrote: Some other day I was thinking about the world situation, could I do a flash movie to criticize some governs, or bad people, make people Open Their Eyes To Nature, or something like that?

Of course you can! Why would you think otherwise?
Though using a medium like Flash to create something serious often results in some pretty bad results. You might be better off making a commentary on a political situation with the use of comedy as oppose to anything else because of that.

Definitely a 0. This kind of submission has been done to death and I'm tired of looking at it. Besides, it's pretty poorly done.

Would somebody please produce some high def sprites for people like this to use!

I wouldn't really know how to suggest making that any better without completely starting over with something else.
That was horrible. The mouth movements were lazily done and synced with the sound for shit. You didn't even bother recreating the rest of the faces so that when the mouths were open, you just saw a bunch of black shit where you cut it.

The voices for the characters were also inconsistent... if the voice of Hillary Clinton is going to be Joe Pesci, then it should stay that way and not be sampled by a bunch of random movies in each scene.

Lastly, it's a political cartoon that suggests I not vote for Clinton and leaves it at that. Why shouldn't I vote for her? You haven't presented an argument to support your demand, so what's the point?

If I saw this on the Portal at any given time, I'd Blam it in a second.

Suppose you might as well reserve a medium for me. Should I assume they're the standard $20 and you live at the same address?

%u041F%u0435%u0447%u0435%u043D%u044C%u04 35 - %u0441%u0432%u043E%u0431%u043E%u0434%u04 30!

At 7/30/07 05:54 PM, luksy wrote:

That was by far the best Alice ever. She wasn't blonde though.

I agree, that looks like a damn hot Alice if I've ever seen one. I prefer the non-blondes though. They never really did it for me in the first place, and I think it's a nice upgrade to the traditional Alice. Besides, the one in American McGee was brunette, and well... let's say I've an affinity for that genre too.

Yeah, you mean this? :)

Exactly! She looks pretty cute from a few feet away too. It's a real shame.

At 7/30/07 01:32 AM, luksy wrote: Girls of Comic Con: My three favs.

To my great disappointment, there weren't really that many cute Alice's there this year. Good job on getting the single decent looking one there was. Too bad I didn't see her... may be just as well though as I'm sure I'd have probably accosted her if I did.

Word of advice to any of the women reading this though while we're on the subject... if you've got cellulite in your ass, please consider a costume other than the princess Leia slave bikini!

At 7/28/07 11:12 PM, hashbrown wrote:

At 7/28/07 10:40 PM, Puppet-Lord wrote: Orlando Is Back, And Stamper Looks Surprised :O

thats not stamper.... thats bob, he doesnt get much attention. cool guy

Hey, look at that, someone managed to get a pic of me in there. Good job Puppet-Lord.

At 7/25/07 01:22 AM, RobbieSkater wrote: stopAllSounds();

... and make sure you put this on a keyframe on the last frame of your movie (or wherever you want the music to end.)

Backgrounds are generally just static images that are occasionally panned across the stage if there's to be any motion applied to them at all. With Flash especially, animating a BG wastes valuable processing power and diminishes the quality of your overall movie. In that effect, your BG should exist by itself on the lowest layer as a graphic or (unanimated) movie clip. No extra layers or anything.
For the speed lines however, and only because it should be nothing more than a simple looping animation, you could easily nest a FBF movie clip inside one of your backgrounds and use it that way.
If you're wondering how to do it, take a closer look at one of the cartoons you're trying to emulate. On the Japanese ones, they're especially simplified to what looks like maybe a two or three frame loop done on two's.
Hope that helps a little... but to reiterate, BG's should, for the most part, be simple, STATIC images with a lot of time spent on detail.

I'm in the process of doing some research on how to track clickthrough rates and time spent on a website through Flash banners. Basically, I need to generate the same kind of statistics that can be assigned to simple href's, but instead of using Javascript, I need to AS it into the on(release) part of a Flash button.
If anyone well versed on the subject would like to share some information or direct me to any links, I would REALLY appreciate it.
Thanks!

Great satire... or so I think. I'm not too sure this president doesn't believe in giant transforming robots he can send to Iraq, and given his current roster of advisers and his comfort level with fictional things, perhaps Rowling would be a good choice for Bush.

At 7/19/07 11:19 AM, Ramones wrote: What should I [do]?

I would suggest you click the phone activation button to speak with one of their customer service representatives.

At 7/18/07 05:21 AM, cellardoor6 wrote: Part of the reason that it's wrong for a same-sex couple to get married because "marriage" is reserved for a union between a man and a woman exclusively.

I would like to point out a major flaw in your argument here and make it clear that the above statement reflects only your opinion and general misunderstanding of the people's rights in the United States. I would suggest anyone who believes this take a look at Section 1 of the 14th Amendment:

<blockquote>
Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.</blockquote>

As such, to deprive a homosexual citizen the same privledge of marriage that a heterosexual citizen enjoys can be clearly interpreted as a gross injustice on that citizen's rights.

Marriage is beautiful and sacred because it's as both God and nature devised it. A marriage is between a man and woman, two procreating partners, the head of a natural family unit, being bound together... Therefore it is morally and spiritually wrong for gays to be married, because it's not a true marriage in the spiritual sense.

Again, this argument can also be rendered moot by the First Amendment. Not of free speech (which is mentioned nowhere therein, by the way) but by the equally popular interpretation of the separation of church and state:

<blockquote>Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.</blockquote>

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion..."

This was written by people wishing to escape the oppression of their own values by those of a disagreeable people with different beliefs. Meaning, your own morality and values may be at odds with another's, but unless their actions infringe on the rights of others, directly effecting the quality of life on the surrounding people, NO ONE should have the audacity to impose their will on any other person.

"... or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."

You have the right to believe ANYTHING you want and to declare it to the world without fear of oppression or persecution... and so does everybody else in this country. Think of the hypocrisy of someone to use their own values to discount those of another. Even worse, to have that same person actually feel justified in FORCING those values on another.

If you put a glove on your head, it doesn't make it a hat.

Sure it does. A dollar bill is only capable of buying something because enough people simply say it is.
If I cup my hands in a stream and use them to bring water to my lips, does that not make them a glass for as long as I choose to use them that way?

So the conclusion is, in my mind, that gay marriage is wrong morally, spiritually, rationally, naturally, biologically, and even literally.

I respect your beliefs that gay marriage is morally and spiritually wrong because you have the unalienable right to feel that way without having to defend yourself, but I challenge you and anybody else to prove their case against its literal offense by use of the People's Law.

The Constitution exists to provide equal rights to everybody, regardless of their conflicting beliefs so that no one or group of people should ever suffer the injustices of oppression.

At 7/2/07 02:36 AM, Supperdude9 wrote: Now if you excuse me, I'm gonna fire up the original Tetris on my gameboy. THAT is a challenge.

You're not a true gamer unless you can beat Blaster Master without dying. No saves, takes a good three hours, and level 5 is a bitch.
It saddens me to see so much put on graphics these days while things like playability and an actual storyline go unnoticed. *sniff*
It all started going downhill when they took the steel merry go rounds out of the playgrounds...

At 7/2/07 01:43 AM, Chad-T wrote: ...Check out my curves.

Everyone knows horizontal stripes make your hips look HUGE! What are you thinking in that?!

At 7/2/07 01:02 AM, SUPA-SAMOAN000 wrote: let me just give you guys a little run down on how today went.

I'll give you a concurrent list of solutions, as well...

i went to my refrigerator, looked for some food, well im shit out of luck. every one is at work and im broke (take note i havent eaten since the morning before)

You can fix this by getting a job which you can use to produce the capital necessary to buy food for yourself in situations like that.

after that i jumped on WoW and leveled my druid to 61...

Perhaps this is why you DON'T have a job. You were wasting valuable time you could have been using otherwise to fill out some applications down at the mall.

:...and immedeatly after, this girl i like and i (and for the sake of discretion ill call this girl annie) get into an awkward phase. she doesnt want to talk to me and shes sort of annoyed. ( take note again that she likes me as well) so then i think shell feel better later and so will i.

It's a little known fact that there's nothing girls like more than a guy with a steady income. Once she knows that money's the last thing you have to worry about, a switch flips in a girl's head and they soon start to disregard more and more of your personality flaws to the point that you can get away with being a total asshole to her all of the time, and she'll love you forever for it.
You have to take the first step in getting to that point though... and you can do that by what? Say it... yes, that's right: Getting a job.

now me and her arent talking and i havent eaten for 2 days nearly. i think god hates me for some reason and im in my dark room with no one there for me, and the world is mad at me.. maybe you guys at newgrounds can make me feel better, yet i know there is a 50% chance ill be flamed and banned. and thats the story of my life at the moment...

Now this last part makes it sound like you just have too much time on your hands and not enough to occupy yourself with, and as a result have no other choice but to dwell on the things that are making you feel bad.
Luckily, there's a solution.
Instead of having nothing to do all day and thus wallowing in depression, you can take all that wasted time and use it for work at your new job!
Then you'll be too busy to think about anything else, you'll have enough money to buy yourself some food so you don't have to go starving for the next 2 days, AND you'll be able to flash the cash necessary to attract some even BETTER girls your way.
Good times!

For the love of god, please don't this seriously.

At 7/2/07 12:25 AM, Icecry0 wrote:

BUT WHICH SILENT HILL HMM?

Silent Hill 3 by far. It was a beautiful, disturbing, and totally fulfilling sequel to SH1. The fourth one however definitely had some of the best enemy AI and having to constantly face the ghosts god knowing where they decided to pop up throughout the game scared the shit out of me.

Haven't played RE4... for some reason, I don't find it even remotely interesting. I'm just a fan of old school zombie hordes that shamble slowly towards you from the other end of the hallway, street, alley, corner of the room, etc. Everyone tells me it's a great game though, so I figure I've got to pick it up someday and give it a shot. I'll probably enjoy the hell out of it for what it is, but I think I'm going to be disappointed for what I expect a RE to be.
That said, the ones I have played, I really thought RE2 playing as Leon was the most fun for me. Especially when he got the shotgun upgrade... that thing was so damn POWERFUL! I specifically went out of my way to go find zombie infestations to go blast away on once I got it. RE3 was cool, but even then it started moving away from the good old fashioned zombie stuff I love and a little too much into the high tech/conspiracy thing that I just can't seem to show any love for.

Damn, lots of hate going around for the iPhone.
It's a pretty fucking cool little device, like something out of a sci-fi movie and it's definitely living up to the hype.
$600 is $600 though... well, $650 with tax it turns out. Some lady told us we should spend all that money to buy food for poor people. I take it she was probably poor.

It's a big luxury item for sure, and no doubt pretty god damn wasteful on everyone's part who has one, but you know what? If you've got the money, then fuck it. Why not? Why go around hating on everyone because of it?

At 6/30/07 02:26 PM, Crue wrote:

Drug tunnel

That's kind of like a normal thing around here, man. Not really too newsworthy.
Did you have a comment about it, or are you just being informative?

At 6/28/07 03:01 AM, Sanity-of-Insanity wrote: Listen, the iPhone is an over priced peice of nerd candy its simple as that.

I suppose my opening invited that kind of response, but "nerd candy" is hardly a description that makes it sound like you're worth listening to.
I'm trying to be a lot more objective than I am insulting.

My Phone

My Phone:
... everything everyone else's phone has.

I really don't need all the stuff the iPhone has, and 600 bucks for a phone and 59.99 a month minimum? I have 200 minutes a month for 30 bucks and thats more than enough for me. Even using my Cell as a home phone.

Well, that's good for you, but for those of us who only wish we were paying $60 a month and are already trying miserably to get our phones to do what the iPhone promises, like access to EBSuite and our CRM's without the asinine keypad design and bulk of existing smartphones, then no, it's not more than enough. It's exactly what we've been waiting for.

I find it funny how people with no money can only find menial bullshit reasons to dislike things they can't afford, especially given the fact that it hasn't even been released for them to review intelligently yet.
Happens with everything new that comes out, and you know what? No one with an iPhone is going to give a rat's ass about your disdain for them. Find something better to complain about, or at least form a comprehensive, well thought out argument about it.

On to the subject then,
Someone asked if there was insurance. I looked on ATT's site and they're NOT offering insurance. Just the standard 14 day Apple return policy and comparable warranty, which is enough to make me reconsider buying one in the next week as I was planning to.

What really disturbs me though is that Apple is REQUIRING iPhones to be activated through an iTunes account, giving some convoluded reasoning that we won't have to wait in the stores while activating. I don't know about you guys, but I've always been amazed at how fast Cingular/ATT have activated my phones in their stores. Hell, with the promised complexity of the iPhone, I'd almost rather someone trained on the thing activate it for me anyway. But that's a digression. I don't like Apple latching that proverbial ball and chain around my ankle. While I do use iTunes as my primary music player on my laptops and desktop, as well as my SLVR, I don't have an account, active or otherwise with Apple, and up until this point (where I can see no other way around it) never planned to.
I can only imagine some dumb ass anti piracy rules being applied (and discovered AFTER throwing down 600 bucks) like Microsoft's genius "can only play P2P songs 3 times on my Zune" idea.
I know we're all legal music buying good citizens here and wouldn't ever think of downloading songs via underground P2P communities (or otherwise), but if my iPhone isn't going to play EVERY MP3 I put into it for whatever reason it feels fit, then I'm not even remotely interested in buying one. Kind of like how you wouldn't buy a car that couldn't go over 65, right?
That's too much integration for my liking, and I don't think it's required for full functionality as much as it is a tool to reign in and control file sharing.
I'm almost positive something like that is going to happen at this point. Nothing huge or anything, but it'll be enough to turn off would be buyers like me, at least for a little while.

How does everybody else (who are realistically) thinking about getting an iPhone feel about that? I want one BAD, and it won't hurt my pocket in the least to get one, but 600 bucks is 600 bucks and for that price, it better not have even the most remote of limitations.