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I'm assuming you have no qualifications, and are not going to go to uni. Well, I don't really know enough about you. I wouldn't try drawing for a living. You're simply not going to make money. As a Flash artist? Hell no. It's incredibly difficult to make enough money for basic food by working in Flash.

So get a real job. Something like dumpster man, McDonalds worker, etc.

Must suck to have a country where you need to buy your way into University.

You know, there are perfectly good grills for under $600.

First off, the problem with NG certainly should not be you having too much work to do. Once the redesign comes out, what is there to do? The site, as said, is self sufficient. It runs itself! Your only job should be making in-house content and handig out monthly prizes. I can't actually understand what else there is in your work life.

So just leave NG on its own to rake in the cash, whilst you work on Behemoth games.

As for becoming dominant on the Internet, you've made mistakes in the past and I'm not sure what you can really do to make a "comeback" now. The biggest reasons why Newgrounds in its current state will not excel is the fact that you only host Flash, and a lot of the content is tailored towards the nerdy part of society - the gaming oriented crowd.

For example, you have a game on the home page that boasts some form of "physics". Even console release games don't talk about the game engine. People are simply going to see the word "physics" and make numerous assumptions about the site, and why it doesn't mean anything to them.

Also, YouTube and some of the other sites are owned by HUGE corporations - Google, News Corp - they can hire a million times the specialst staff that you can.

With that said, you're going to have to focus on strengths that cannot be copied or immitated on other sites. Right now, you can boast the fact that you have the most Flash content on the web. A site like YouTube SIMPLY CANNOT COPY ALL YOUR CONTENT, since they're a corporation. They have strict copyright restrictions. They're simply not going to be able to get copyright permission from the hundreds of successful Flash designers on this site.

And while you're at it, why not hop on the casual game bandwagon. Have daily sudoku, brain training, simple games. Not many people want to play a full length adventure game on the net. They want quick simply stuff to pass time. That content should be pushed to the forefront of the home page. and for God's sake, advertise it in an appealing manner.

And from a technical standpoint, make the icons on the home page bigger, have more big pictures and less words, use a white background.

I don't know about you Tom, but I think it's pretty much time to hire some new staff members.

In the Flash realm, NG has no competition. Otherwise, competition is basically any video site, which supports proper videos, and not just Flash.

The only real advantage having a Flash-only site is that there are games. But when you look at NG, it's more often than not the movies which are most successful.

People who use anything other than the browser that comes with their computers simply care too much about something so insignificant.

At 6/13/07 05:21 PM, eaglewing wrote: if you really don't think donating is smart then just don't do it.

Is this what you call adding to the topic?

A nice rack, in real tennis, might persuade the judges to give you the benefit of the doubt when serving or whatever.

Why are people so deluded by accepted conventions? You are considered a good person if you donate money to charity. Look at Bill Gates. He donated half of his billions to charity, but where is the world at now? We still suffer hugely from hunger, suicide, diseases (AIDS) and pure human stupidity.

Since the beginning of mankind illnesses have existed. One generation it's the plague, and today AIDs, and in the future bird flu. It doesn't matter how much money we donate to charity. New illnesses always exist.

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Now, that was my main argument. Focus on that. The following is what I think needs to be done, apart from banning charity.

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Surely the only thing we can do to prevent further suffering is DECREASE THE POPULATION. I'm not talking Hitler-escque inhumane killing of the handicapped, black and Jewish. That is immoral, and will never prevail in our society. Anyone with influence in our world simply cannot back such a scheme.

My idea is the pure efficiency we have seen from countries like China. I'm talking one baby per family, absolutely no exceptions. This is guaranteed to decrease the population in the long haul. Yep, it's not going to be a quick process, but it can be done.

Society corrupts. We are all born a "blank slate" onto which sensations are created, which later become conscious experience.

We are all the same blank slate, simply sugarcoated from events of pure coincidences. Coincidences decide what we become. Our life's outcome is determined by a series of coincidences.

There is no changing that. What we really need to consider is who is the MOST superficial, counterfeit and fake. That's all the matters. None of are completely pure, otherwise we would have no facial expressions or emotions whatsoever.

Wait to see if the iPhone is proven, eg does it break etc. Once it is proven, get it.

That quiz really does NOT judge your intelilgence. It's just fucking stupid. Half of it is general knowledge, which is NOTHING to do with intelligence.

IQ is the only real intelligence test. I do also class abstract thinking as intelligence.

For the record, I got 64%, not that it matters.

At 6/12/07 05:35 PM, wonderland-hatter wrote: they're delicious

So you like eating them?

Teaches you to live in a poor neighbourhood with a high crime record..

Now all I need is to find out why it's called the "COMIC-con"

In my own class.

So my mom found this little cum on the side of her bed about a month ago, and she adopted it, kuz it was so "cuuuuuuuute" (and sticky)

I hate the damn thing, it stains everywhere, and it never stops smelling of cum. Anyway it's with me in my computer room, while my mom and 2 little brothers are out shopping (she told me to take care of it, so I ate some of it) . so I'm jerking off and when I'm done. I of course have cum all over my chest. which I usually clean up with a rag that I take with me for gismopping duty.

Which I am about to do, when suddenly, my demented brain goes "hey, this damn cum eats everything...why not....feed it some ducks?" so I do. And the little fucker goes crazy for those ducks, it not only gobbles down my baby duckling, but it pecks at my fingers for more!

I think I could lose my sanity for being such a retard

At 8/30/05 11:31 PM, StarF68 wrote: You will get a disease, much, MUCH worse than AIDS.

You will get...

WAIDS.

That's the kind of joke that would get you killed if the people around you were in a bad mood.

Wow, so I'm really gonna mark that down in my calendar.

At 6/11/07 04:24 PM, DemonsRemorse wrote: Ok? She bought a bible, she was probably taking it home to have sex with it.

Bibles are not sold.

At 6/11/07 04:25 PM, ZelloMesh wrote: Iraq invented Bin Landen, Suddame and Nuclear Weapons....

Aussies have only invented Kangeroo's which are boring....

So the moral of the topic is, Bush wins!

So what has Bush invented, except for a new definition of "Worst leader ever"

Penicorn actually owns.

At 6/11/07 03:05 PM, Lazyfeet wrote: Hey everyone. This is my weird hat party and you're all invited, on one condition. You wear a weird hat! No weird hat no entry >:(

Now who's bringing the booze...?

So how come that hat is behind your head, and looks like hair??

They're hardly even emo.

Only in America can you become a celebrity by being born into a rich family, making a sex tape, drinking and getting put into jail

Just use WiiCR.

Don't use orb, though. It's a system resource hog.

Unreal Tournment 2004.
Call of Duty.

At 6/11/07 04:19 PM, Champigne wrote:

At 6/11/07 04:16 PM, Mr-Money wrote: So you bought a bunch of old DVDs because you're poor and living in the past.

Oh yeah, Sin-City and Shaun of the Dead are ANCIENT...........

They're still very old.

What kind of reaction do you really expect this thread to get, with an opening line explaining that you're only just 14? Seriously..

You're not a girl. And I don't want your advice.