13,971 Forum Posts by "gumOnShoe"
Ah satire. Protip: "mod spam"
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At 12/15/08 05:07 AM, NEVR wrote: So I'm in one of the many computer rooms around my university this morning, at 8:20am, printing off my coursework to get it in comfortably within the 1pm deadline today. By sheer chance, I meet a guy I know off my course in the computer room. I ask him how his coursework went.
"Oh, yeah it's not bad, I've just finished the introduction." He replies, well aware of the 1pm deadline, and seemingly without a care in the world.
I'm doing something similarly stupid at the moment. I've got to finish a 8ish page paper by 7pm & be all packed and ready to leave the premisise and I only have the intro which is about a page done, which is why I'm logging off newgrounds now and not logging back on all day!
I'll probably leave aim up, but that's it.
At 12/14/08 11:10 PM, Corky52 wrote: And what I meant to say was that my life has been filled completely with stress since I've been done. Constant working, constant money worries about next semester, hoping that I get my friend from high school as my roommate, my mother is having surgery tomorrow, I found out that I didn't get a job that I applied for down at college, and just the fact that I have to take that class over that I failed is killing me inside.
That's the spirit! Sound down trodden about it all and I won't feel like killing you!
Apologies if that seemed dickish, I wouldn't really ban you for that.
At 12/14/08 10:53 PM, Corky52 wrote: I mean I'm done and I've done nothing, but relax and everything. But not everyone can be as lucky as us. ;)
It can't be helped if you push me into a mental break down and my finger slips while it hovers over my key board and you get banned. It simply can't be helped. I don't want to do it, but if I go crazy I can't be responsible for my actions. Nosireeee.
At 12/14/08 10:40 PM, NimbleElephant wrote: This is why piano is by far the best instrument.
Not the best instrument, just a very versatile one. It's really hard to get dynamics out of a piano for instance or change tone or any of that like you can with a wind or string instrument. Piano is like a string drum or something, though it is cool.
I'm enjoying listening to this.
At 12/14/08 08:17 PM, BananaBreadMuffin wrote:At 12/14/08 07:41 PM, NEVR wrote: I finished my last piece of coursework for this term earlier on today. Feels good not to have any more work to do from now until January.PART-AY!
woop woop woop
Not in yet, I'm still finishing my last chapter, my very last chapter.
All of my finals were cake though, so I guess suffering through this is required.
At 12/14/08 06:47 PM, Zerok wrote:At 12/14/08 06:45 PM, gumOnShoe wrote: If I knew enough maybe I'd swing it by them, but I don't. IScrew higher education then, start learning so you can soon cater to the whimsical needs of internet strangers!
RightafterIfinishmythesis.
Speaking of which... sticks nose on grindstone.
At 12/14/08 06:37 PM, Zerok wrote:At 12/14/08 06:32 PM, gumOnShoe wrote: But that's just me. I plan on building a website like that eventually if I can find the time and learn all of the code that I need to learn behind the site.Bah. They should make you an NG admin and put you in charge of the "fun shit and whirlygigs" department, pay you to code stuff like this and run a testing portion of NG. Our very own R&D centre. Awesome.
If I knew enough maybe I'd swing it by them, but I don't. I've never developed a website or touched CSS before. I just can walk around PHP docs & tutorials to figure little stuff out and make really shitty flash movies. But I can come up with ideas. They could pay me to do that. :P
I'd rather have a polling section on Newgrounds that was like the wii channel. Where everyone could vote as they wanted to, and then there were maps and statistics automatically generated. Boys vs girls all of that stuff.
But that's just me. I plan on building a website like that eventually if I can find the time and learn all of the code that I need to learn behind the site.
But yes, a very limited poll feature might be nice, but I might restrict the poll option for a month after the first bbs post is made. Then no one gets off scott free for having been a memember not having visited the forums before.
TacticalShoe's Entry. He had school stuff that got in the way and he explained the situation to me. His work is to be judged as if it were on time.
The night is hot and sticky, like a freshly baked cinnamon bun filled with smog and noise and crime; a lot of crime. And although that particular cinnamon bun may sound pretty nasty, it's exactly the kind of cinnamon bun I've been lookin' for.
I'm Damien King, wandering private eye and detective for hire. I've traveled all over the place fighting crime and righting wrongs no matter where they spring up. Ever hear about that kitten smuggling ring in Cedar City? Probably not, but I totally broke it up. How about the Cherry Pie gang? Sure, it may have looked like they were all 90 year old grandmas who were just baking pies, but I swear they were up to no good and I had to stop them. But those cases were nothing compared to what I was about to go up against here in West Pines.
I'd hear talk around the city about a guy who was goin' around and orderin' ice cream without payin' for it. Now, I'm a pretty peaceful guy most of the time, but hearin' about a guy who was getting delicious ice cream and not payin' for it really churned my butter.
I decided to start my search by skulking around the bad neighborhoods and grilling my usual contacts for information. As I walked by Starbucks%u2122 after Starbucks%u2122, I couldn't help but feel sickened by my surroundings; this area was in terrible shape. Every street corner had two or three hippies standing on it passing out flyers for some peace rally or anti-animal torture candlelight vigil, it was disgusting. There was a unique and terrible mix of smells in the air, ranging from the signature overabundance of choking body spray coming from the Hollister stores to the sickeningly sweet scent of Bath and Body Works stores. As a whole, the neighborhood was enough to melt the skin off even the toughest gumshoe; which was lucky for me since I'm tougher than the toughest gumshoe.
After journeying though the horror of suburban clothing stores and coffee shops, I arrived at the residence of Clarence Yerlinger, my first and most reliable contact. Clarence and I had been friends from the time I rescued his sister from the Cootie Boys back in third grade, something that no other 8-year old but me could have ever done.
I knocked on Clarence's door using our signature secret knock that consisted of several beats from Another One Bites the Dust, our shared favorite song. When he didn't knock the door after I had been beating on it for well over 20 minutes, I began to grow suspicious. Remembering that Clarence kept a spare key in the bushes by his front door, I slowly opened the door and entered my friend's home. Once I was inside, I could tell that something was wrong right off the bat. All of the furniture in Clarence's house was all either on fire or turned completely over, something that I hadn't seen in his home since we were in college together. After turning the house completely upside-down for almost 5 minutes, I decided that I needed to take a break and fix myself some tea like the classy sophisticate that I was. As I opened the kitchen cupboard where Clarence kept his teabags, I saw something terrible. It was Clarence's head; just his head. And out of Clarence's lifeless eyes dripped something that looked like.... ice cream. I got some of it on my finger and tasted it; it was rum raisin, that ice-cream stealing prick had gotten to him. I'll get you, you bastard.
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Competition Results should be out no later than Friday.
At 12/14/08 01:15 PM, Yamor wrote: All of these things can be helped, so its your fault you are a nerd and people tease you.
So your argument is that you don't like people because they have acne, don't wear the same clothes as you, and you aren't interested in the same things they are. What?
If you don't like their interests you don't hang out with them, same as the rest, but I'm missing where in all of that you feel you are justified to "pick on a person" or harass them.
Also, what Zerok said.
Already exists here: http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1005 307
Right on the front page.
This one time, I banned a guy for posting about being high. True story.
Video game topics go in the video game forum.
I was invited to join a pirate one once "based on my interests" and neglected to do it. But I know people who LARP (Live Action Role Play) and who do table top role playing. Internet role playing isn't that surprising.
I'm picking the other because it has a spoiler warning I suppose, even though its newer. Quality sometimes trumps timing.
At 12/13/08 04:23 AM, Xorias wrote: Then again are Audio Skits allowed on the Audio Portal?
Yeah, you just have to post them as Voice Acting or give them some sort of beat and put them in miscellaneous. If you check out my favorites you'll see Scribbler, a guy who used to visit this club all the time, did exactly that.
I'd go the voice actor route honestly and try to get popular that way, then maybe pick up an animator later. Radio before TV you know?
At 12/11/08 12:22 PM, 36Holla wrote:At 12/11/08 10:03 AM, life wrote: Anyone here majoring in psychology?I used to be, and then I realized that I couldn't afford Grad school and that you can't do anything with out at least a Masters in Psychology anyways so that was out.
My girlfriend did a Masters in Psychology and then went into social work and got the hell out of it. Now she's getting her masters in teaching, but she's doing it the right way. Sure, masters are expensive, but if you can get a job with the school or get high enough grades they will pay you to go the school. You'll get a stipend and the education will be free. It will be just enough money to live in a dorm and acquire food, books & other supplies you may need, but not enough for other activities. Beats loans though.
The main thing is writing really good applications, keeping your grades up and getting that job at the school.
Yeah, workshops are fine. We do those too, but the last professor I had moderating them assigned a novel to read a week and we rarely workshopped eachother's work. Plus there were 12 of us, so it was really only 2 chances to get workshopped. Kind of lame.
And yeah, I know how you feel about writing. I remember being in 3rd or 4th grade and reading about people who knew what they wanted to do their entire lives and I was trying to write a novel all the way back there (woo! 3 pages). Also, I thought it was silly to know what you wanted to do your entire life because I hadn't wanted to write before that age. But now, looking back it is kind of like I've always known, but unfortunately I've also realised I'm not the best writer out there. Recognizing good writing is easy, writing it is difficult and I'm better with computers.
So I went the Comp Sci degree and Creative Writing as a minor. Worst comes to worse and I just write anyways on the side and try to publish something by doing most of my writing on the weekend for years at a time. Then if I become famous or something? great, I can retire and write books. Otherwise I've got something else I enjoy that I can do.
Eh, not tonight guys.
[[Lock Reason]] - Flame war
[[Precidence]]
- Topic not set up with a lot of potential
- A balanced argument was not presented
- Topic has been created before to the effect of having a 5+ page flame war
- Not new or informative
- Belongs in blog.
If you wanted submit and didn't have time PM your case to me. CONTEST CLOSED
Bethel Park, Pennsylvania. Just south of Pittsburgh.
Their high school is known as "Heroine High" and was the top importer of Heroine a few years ago.
Your athletes should do less drugs. Yeah, I know where Bethel is.
At 12/13/08 10:59 PM, D3NTATUS wrote: HOLY SHIT A DICTIONARY
reticulate
verb
divide or mark (something) in such a way as to resemble a net or network : the numerous canals and branches of the river reticulate the flat alluvial plain.
spline
noun
3 (also spline curve) Mathematics a continuous curve constructed so as to pass through a given set of points and have a certain number of continuous derivatives.
the same thing bothered me too, i don't blame your curiosity hahaha
Solved.
Anyways, its the lines that are used to generate 3-d images. Pixar movies use B-Splines which avoid having seams. Cool shit, but the question has been answered.
At 12/13/08 05:41 PM, Ass-Crumb wrote:At 12/13/08 05:29 PM, gumOnShoe wrote: 6 hours left till the competition closes.It doesn't really matter how much you bump this, at best you'll get maybe 1 or 2 more storiesout of this before you inevitably lock the thread.
1 hour left till the competition closes. If you'd like to submit 1 or 2 stories that aren't in the thread, this is your last chance!!!
At 12/13/08 10:44 PM, IblameLeoforthis wrote: Discuss the positive and negative side of dating a fat person. And/or post pics of sexy robust people.
Your picture will be deleted if you don't discuss the topic or if it shows TOO much or is NSFW.
At 12/13/08 10:36 PM, Minion777 wrote: Well well , this is a surprise.
How so?
Cause its right on the first page and all... not locked due to content, but due to replication.
At 12/13/08 07:23 PM, Jarvid wrote: So sigs have a pretty terrible aspect ratio?
And can't be animated. They are fine though once you get used to them.
Flash forum and have a specific question in mind. Try to use the debugger to isolate the problem (for instance).
23rd you say. I'm getting my girlfriend back for the 3rd night of hannukah. An evil city with things like "education" and "work" stole her away for a while.
