Well.. fuck me. I got featured again! Thanks alot, dudes!

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/1 75868

It's a while since I did trance.

At 9/16/08 11:56 PM, S3C wrote: You are looking at this the wrong way. 0 and 5s have the exact same power. Simple math- you have a 4.30, of course a 0 will have more of an effect that a 5, as will 5 when you have a 2.50.

Most songs that are being zero bombed will have reasonably high scores, which is why 0s are almost always more powerful than 5s in relevant situations.

Zero bombing is lame because you can't prevent it at all or fight back since 0s have a great effect on pretty much all scores and 5s have litte effect. So we just got to accept that it's really fucking easy to be a dick on newgrounds, and that's bitter.

Make it so 0's have less effect on songs that you have recently voted 0 on, with a "cooldown" period where it resets. It'd deter the most common type of zero bombing.

AppleLoops don't equal GarageBand. You can use them in Logic for instance.

Cog posted in the BK thread.

Did get paid.. WILL get paid... :>

I did get paid for my CC music, but the whole thing is that he stole my track and tricked a whole bunch of people into believing it was his own work.

Then these people get pissed at ME because they think I stole my own song.

You can imagine that I feel good about trashing this jerk.

At 9/6/08 04:02 AM, juugo wrote: @ cycerin

another shellshocked bod from brainkiller here.

just to say that i do a regular night in a small club over here in odessa, ukraine.
played your tune out a few times and it kicks on a system, as well as gets a great reaction from people on the dance floor. it's one of those tunes that makes people start trancing out and getting lost in their own world - wicked tune!

That's so cool man. I really don't know what to say. This is all so fucked up.

Well apparently it's a bit more complicated than I thought. Stasz just posted this at Brainkiller:

I got a reply to Erika.

Don't think I'm backstabbing him, because he was the first to do with me.
Before all of this started and cycerin made his way on the forum, I had a conversation with Fifer on MSN.

The guy who flamed you on newgrounds first cycerin.
He felt bad because he found out it wasn't Colin's track after he flamed you.

I knew it already.
I seen the post date of cycerin's track and I immediately was confused but was quite sure Colin ripped the track.

I decided to PM him.

Not telling him what I found out, but just to be honest with me, and get straight to the fucking point, did you stole the vain star or not, be fucking honest with me.

This is probably (but not hopefully, I still hope you get on here and apologize to everybody) his last post ever on the forum:

Cogglesz wrote:
Shocked Shocked i did not fucking steal nothing, it took me ages to do that track and if its that game thing then don't u realise this game came out like this week i made vain star in january

He made me quite felt like an idiot by still lying to me after this confrontation.
I haven't send him anything back and discussed this with Fifer.

We decided to keep cool for now and discuss with Colin about this.
Telling him to apologize, or we would make it public.

But during the conversation cycerin made his reply wich was the nuclear bomb.

I'm not gonna blame him for that, it would probably happen anyway.
Yes, by me. I was planning to do so.

I'm just pissed about the situation too because Colin's been my buddy over the internet for like 2 fucking years, lied to me, and hasn't come online ever since just because he's afraid to face the truth and apologize.

Not for lying to me, but the whole fucking Brainkiller community wich is a great place, believe me Newground members.

This is a great forum, I come in here daily, and I ask you for some respect and not flaming this forum about the situation, this is the cause of one single person, and we're angry too believe me, this hurts the mood of everybody who's been visiting this forum for quite some time.

I hope you people got my message.

Stasz

Oh and Colin if you read this, you can kiss the friendship bye bye if you won't apologize to me and fucking everybody ASAP, lying motherfucker

At 9/5/08 12:58 PM, neorev wrote: i understand why would be pissed off, fuck i would be too if my tune was stolen. it's obvious not the whole community was in on this since it was one of our own who first brought the evidence forward. and as you can see from our fellow members, this is something that will not be tolerated. stealing is stealing.

Initially nobody at BK brought any evidence forward. Indeed, not a single person doubted that Vain Star was Cogglesz' track until I posted in that thread. You could say that it was because of BK posters that justice was served, though. A review and youtube comment by BK forumers brought all of this to my attention.

At 9/5/08 03:25 AM, Rucklo wrote: I'm glad the asshole got busted. Now, just a heads up when something like this happens again:

Do NOT instigate on malicious raids or similiar on other websites, or even myspace profiles or whatever. It's definitley the faulty artist... i mean thieves, that should be punished. I read through the thread, and I think you who posted in there dealt OK with it.
But in other words, I'm 100% behind you cycerin, it's fucking bullshit when users do this.

Yeah I didn't want this to turn into a raid or anything, it's just that the only way to deal with art thieves is discrediting them, unless you can take legal action.

How dare you dismiss the pinnacle of his artistic achievement in such a rude way, Gloudas! He clearly put his heart and soul into butchering that track. He's a DEEJAY after all.

It probably doesn't stop there. I bet most of this work is stolen.

Well his reputation as a musician is irreversably ruined. I have no idea what I'd respond with if I were him.

I hope he'll just admit defeat and take down the song from all of his profiles and sites.

Thanks for the support, everyone!

http://www.brainkiller.it/public/forum/v iewtopic.php?t=3226&postdays=0&postorder =asc&start=15

Looks like the forum will turn against him to preserve "integrity" (lol) and this guy is pretty much fucked.

A few days ago I recieved the following review of :Vain Star, one of my songs that appears in Castle Crashers:

"This guy is a complete fake!"
by: Fifer
date: September 3, 2008
Don't buy this guy's tunes guys. Vain Star isn't even his track! He jacked it from someone else over at the Brainkiller.it forums! You're a disgrace mate, imagine taking credit for someone else's work. I bet none of the stuff on this website is his!

I dismissed it as a troll attempt and just checked the review as abusive. However, later on I decided to check it out anyway and found the following thread at Brainkiller.it (which is a Prodigy fanforum of some sorts):

http://www.brainkiller.it/public/forum/v iewtopic.php?t=3226&postdays=0&postorder =asc&start=0

It basically amounts to this:
"WHHHOOOA our very own Cogglesz' The Vain Star (note how he added a "The" in front of it, simply amazingly creative) has been STOLEN by some guy and USED by a serious game company in their game!"

Nevermind that I submitted Vain Star to NG Dec 20, 2007 and that the first mention of "The Vain Star" on that forum or any of Cogglesz' sites is Mar 08, 2008. Nevermind the fact that I have the project files, the samples, and that I can dissect the song at will and basically do whatever it takes to prove that it's my original work, and he can't do jack shit. Did you really think this through, Cogglesz?

The fact that he won an in-forum music comp using my track is kind of flattering, I guess. Some guy at his forum delivered the following pearl of wisdom:

"Cogglesz - The Vain Star
I saw big improvement here and i'm sure there will be more in the future(offcourse that depends on you).
I have to admit that i wasn't expecting such a big improvement in that period of time... "

... You don't say?

I posted in that Castle Crashers thread on the Brainkiller forums. I'm curious about how he'll respond. He can't do anything to hide the fact that he is the music thief and I'm the original author at this point, so my guess is that he'll simply delete my post. Too bad I have backup:

http://skitch.com/thinaran/ineu/brainkil ler-forum-view-topic-castle-crashers-vai n-star-in-soundtrack-unpermitted

I just had to write this callout to get the word out, since rumors are spreading and I want this asshole to be busted as fast as possible. What a fucking douche.

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/1 69589

Actually I'm pretty satisfied with this thing. Give it a listen!

Booyah, Landfall's on! I expect that all songs in CC made by NG artists will become features in the coming weeks?

Aka Pornopung

Bellfucker's Lullaby

It's general and lets you submit some stuff without having to worry about genre wankery. Who cares if it's a buzzword. But a downtempo subsection wouldn't be a bad idea, actually.

BREAKBEAT or ELECTRONICA as genres. Because it hampers my creativity to risk having a song rot in Miscallenous. :x

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/1 23607

At 1/12/08 09:14 AM, Rucklo wrote:

At 1/12/08 08:36 AM, cycerin wrote: Nominating Synteza.

Dunno if i'd call good old Extracy an underdog, but maybe he've been inactive enough to have slipped away and become one...

That's kinda my impression. :P

Nominating Synteza.

He's a goddamn ambient trance wiz, possibly the best on NG

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/9 5489

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/9 4538

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/4 1328

- Electronica subsection
- Just implement the damn Grounds Gold system for Audio Portal already. We need more votes and reviews.

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/1 12527

Vain Star. A self-absorbed song.

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/1 12101

Be it dangerous and long, this is the path all great men must walk. OOMPH!

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/9 1219

It's such a nice little melody, I always wanted to recreate it.