At 6/18/09 12:05 PM, SlntCobra1 wrote: WHOOHOO!! ART PORTAL AHOY!!!! I was thinking there would be a button like the Flash and Audio portals have. I wonder why Tom didn't put one up. It would make things easier if you ask me. I'm also submitting something as we speak.

This is probably the beta phase. I'm sure they'll include the button in the next (hopefully soon) redesign, which may (or may not) be launched with the literature portal. Besides, Tom hasn't made a news thread to announce the release of the portal yet.

At 6/17/09 06:51 PM, DumbassDude wrote:

At 6/17/09 06:32 PM, Ismael92 wrote: PS: I know I'm not the first one to see it, but I'd just like to express how impressed I am at the new portal's awesomeness.

I was blown away by the quality submissions submitted by already popular artists, it's great how the team have done things, I don't think it even need's polishing up.

Yeah, me too, there are already a lot of great submissions, and the portal is really active right now. With time things will calm down, but I just love seeing so many good stuff :)

I've already submitted two things to test it out.

I recommended you for the art portal :D

While I feel that just saying "Oh My Fucking God" is enough of a post considering how important and awesome this is, I'm writing a somewhat longer post so people would look at this and think it's a better post than it really is. But really, OMFG

The art portal is here:
http://www.newgrounds.com/art

PS: I know I'm not the first one to see it, but I'd just like to express how impressed I am at the new portal's awesomeness.

At 6/16/09 01:05 PM, Generalissimus wrote:

At 6/16/09 12:55 PM, Ismael92 wrote: About submitting videos, you can submit everything as long as it's .swf format (this means that you can, for example, submit a live action video if the format is .swf).

So long as the video is your own work and not something made by someone else that you thought was cool to upload. Newgrounds does not like stealing.

Thanks, someone could have got me wrong when I said "you can submit everything". Obvously you must always abide the NG rules.
(See rules for flash submissions).

At 6/16/09 12:49 PM, Homer2392 wrote: How do i post content to Newgrounds, and if i wanted to post a video, would it have to be a flash video?

To submit content to NG, you must go to this page. Right now you can submit flashes to the Flash portal, and music to the Audio portal (also, you can post your art in the art forum). In the future, users will be able to submit art and literature to the oncoming portals ;)

About submitting videos, you can submit everything as long as it's .swf format (this means that you can, for example, submit a live action video if the format is .swf).

At 6/15/09 02:36 PM, SlntCobra1 wrote: If you ask me, I think having user page mods is being just a bit invasive and infringes on our rights.

Well, there's nothing wrong if you disagree with this, but honestly, that amendment has nothing to do with this and is not a valid point. Your user page is provided by Newgrounds, and belongs to Newgrounds, and when you sign up you agree to abide certain rules, which you must follow. There is some stuff that you obviously can't post in your user page (as there are things that you can't post in the forums), and I think it's a good idea that now there are people who moderate that.

I don't know if this is true, but before, it was Wade the one who had to delete the news posts, now he'll have less work to do which is a good think. It's the same as before, when Wade was the only one who could delete reviews.

Also, this post is much well written than mine:

At 6/15/09 04:18 PM, MultiCanimefan wrote: Cobra, the Constitution applies to privately owned industries and companies. This website is not a Democracy; we are users who agree to abide by the rules of said website. We as users have limited rights within a given establishment. You've already given up some of your right by signing up in the first place.

And nobody said that you won't be able to post rants anymore. Again, I don't know much about what the staff is planning to do, but posting rants and stupid stuff was allowed before, so my guess is that it will still be allowed now. I'm pretty sure that the rules will be the same, but now there will be more people moderating.

At 6/14/09 08:13 PM, SlntCobra1 wrote: Alright, I got my bronze whistle back, now let's see how long it takes me to either fuck it up all over again, or go up to silver. I hope it's the latter.

You talk about it like it just depended on luck :/

Getting a silver whistle or "fucking up" depends on you and you only.

At 6/13/09 10:22 PM, KrevZabijak wrote: That's exactly what I did, start at the bottom. Hee. :3

Great :D

At 6/14/09 10:59 AM, SlntCobra1 wrote: Here's a challenge for ya, define "normal." lmao

Here's a challenge for Google, define "normal".

Seriously though, idiot-buster was obviously talking about the people he knows, and the people he used to see in this thread regularly, in distinction to the new guys which he doesn't know who they are.

At 6/13/09 02:09 PM, KrevZabijak wrote: Starting at 1PM central US, I'm proud to say as of right now, 8 minutes ago, I have started with the Icon Helpers section.

*Sets watch to see how many weeks it takes me to become tired of it. xD*

Yeah, I also make some icons every now on then. Some people may think this does too little help, but at least you're improving NG and it's a good thing to do in your free time :)

Also, while making icons, I usually scroll to the bottom in the icon helpers page, because the flashes at the bottom are the most recent.

And by the way, there's also an icon making club, in case you're interested.

At 6/13/09 11:28 AM, Corky52 wrote: I won't be playing that again until I go to college and I might play with my one friend that also played it. We use to use a strategy where he would build just military and I would just build the economy. He would build next to me so he could easily protect the both of us.

So with his 100 soldiers or so he would protect us and I would feed both of our economies with trade. There were times where I had so many farms and plantations built (infinite source of food and gold) that ever couple of seconds I had another 1,000 gold and food. Works great if one person doesn't mind not destroying things all the time.

That's a good, commonly used strategy, but if the opponent managed to destroy the economy player, the other one would be vulnerable since he would run out of resources. But once that both bases are set up, it can be an easy path to win :D

Usually while playing alone against friends I rush to build military units and catch them without nothing to defend themselves (my friends always end up getting angry, lol). While playing on teams, I sometimes use something similar to the strategy you just mentioned. Especially if I'm in the same team than a certain friend who is kind of a turtling guy who builds impossible-to-destroy fortresses.

And I don't think we've ever built a wall in number 3 while playing. In number 2 I used them all the time. Sometimes in layers of 5 or 6 walls when I had the resources.

Yeah, while playing AoE 3 I usually have the feeling that walls aren't that necessary. However in 2 I usually build them if I see the game will take too long, or if I'm playing against several people.

Also, on an unrelated RTS note, I want to reinstall Starcraft but I can't find the damn cd >:(

Woah, that was fast!

At 6/12/09 06:45 PM, SlntCobra1 wrote: Eh, at least I voted zero on it, so blam point for me, right?

Yes, if you vote 0 on a submission while it's under judgment and it gets deleted later, you get a blam point. It happens when Wade deletes a bunch of spam flashes in a short time, busting everyone's blam points. This also encourages us to keep voting 0 on shit flashes, even if they will be saved.

omg how do you edit a post that flash better have the answer

I just filled it out, though I think that some of the questions were too random. But anyway, I hope it helps you in some way.

Now I'm getting this on every page. Only on the top though. I suppose something is being changed, but I'm saying this just in case.

It's pretty easy, you just type <code> followed by the code you want to write, and then you type </code>

So, basically, you do this:

<code>
Put all your code here.
</code>

Remember than this only works on the Flash and Programming forums.

I haven't tried it on my own, but I've heard that Adobe Flex is pretty good, so you may want to check it out.
(Related link).

Most people use a program called Adobe Flash, you can get it here though it's pretty expensive (it costs US$699, but you can get a discount if you're a student).

Then you need to learn how to use it. For this there are a lot of tutorials out there on then net, but you can start by watching the Newgrounds tutorials.

At 6/8/09 01:33 PM, InsaneBrutality wrote: Sup guys , I got a 34,000 pop city.
http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/86/libe rtycity.jpg

Anyway my problem is that I ran out of space haha , And I can't build on further because of the industrial space, lots of pollution and stuff.
Any solutions?

C-Doodlez-Man's tip was good, but if you just want to expand, you can keep building in a neighbor city (just remember to connect both cities with roads, etc).

At 6/8/09 03:51 PM, C-Doodlez-Man wrote: Make sure every area is covered by health, education, police and fire.

lol, covering your city by fire won't help too much, lol ;)

At 6/8/09 01:10 PM, Ozcar wrote: How do I fix my brain?

I will not play GH today. That's for sure...

Actually, if you play GH a lot and you listen to that song a lot, eventually you'll get bored of listening to it and you won't like it so much anymore. Or at least that always happens to me when I'm obsessed with a song.

At 6/7/09 10:57 PM, byteslinger wrote: I was just messing around with Photoshop and some images I found, and came up with this: - is this too rustic or are we going to go retro (like old-school WW II or Korea?). Not trying to upstage anyone - just had a creative urge, is all...

*Salutes*

Cool pic, but yeah I think it may be too rustic (as Coop says, I'd expect some sort of bigger establishment). Nice try though!

At 6/8/09 12:42 AM, Andrea364 wrote:

At 6/7/09 05:58 PM, Ismael92 wrote: Uhmm... But whether the EGB is active or not has nothing to do with we being online.

Actually, it does, because if you're constantly checking the EGB to see the latest activity, you will probably read the thread and be online a lot longer than you would if you had nothing to read here.

I didn't thought about it, but I have to admit that you may be right. While on NG, I would probably spend much more time in the EGB thread (though still it doesn't mean I would be online for more time).

Mainly, it's there for aesthetic reasons. Also, when you're logged off it changes and reads "you need an account to post in the forums" (or something along those lines).

At 6/7/09 04:06 PM, SlntCobra1 wrote: Maybe because the EGB has almost all the mods within it? That tends to keep the chit chat down. That's why I liked the NGPD, we were lively as hell.

All the mods? Who are you talking about?

At 6/7/09 04:23 PM, Andrea364 wrote: It'd keep the place active, and people would be online in the case of stolen flashes and the like.

Uhmm... But whether the EGB is active or not has nothing to do with we being online.

At 6/7/09 05:43 PM, SlntCobra1 wrote: Also, how come no one has commented on my pic I posted a while ago?

T_T I feel ignored.

A couple of things:
- The lines aren't too straight.
- Why does it say all that? After all, it's a roof :/
- Even if it said something, the letters should be aligned to the roof's borders.

For me, it's difficult to think about that. Not that I don't do it (I think about it all the time), but after some time I just forget about what I was thinking moments ago. It's weird.

But yeah, sometimes the thought comes to my mind... "Is it really worth it?" Living the whole life, no matter how good it is, knowing it's going to end and nothing will happen later.

At 6/6/09 12:11 PM, Phantom wrote: the wide layout is still in the "meh" range until the ads are properly alligned and so on and so forth.

Hopefully it will get much better in the oncoming redesign :D Anyway I also like it the way it is now.

At 6/6/09 03:11 PM, KrevZabijak wrote: Also, due to some.. um... medical reasons...

I hope you get better soon :)

At 6/6/09 05:32 PM, phantomlassuk wrote: A brand new Mastermind I have not watched it yet but it looks good

I watched it earlier today and I love it. Everything made by The Swain is awesome.

At 6/6/09 08:40 AM, Rucklo wrote: good updates and stuff, but RAAAAAAAAAAAAGEEEEEEEEEEEEE, I accidently, for the quadrillionth time, accidently clicked "popup" instead of "widescreen" - and was of course in the middle of a game.

Doing this = RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE , dunno if I'm the only one stupid enough to do this though? oh well, separating the two buttons with the "dim" button most likley would do the trick...

yes, i click before i've read the text, and i cant seem to remember the symbols lololool. lol :(

Lol it has happened to me a few times, but I never do it in the middle of the game (usually before starting) so it's not a problem for me. But yeah, the icon can be a bit confusing until you get used to it.

At 6/5/09 08:21 PM, SlashFirestorm wrote: Also, I love the banners you get if you're using adblock. XD

BUY OUR SHIRTS YOU DAFT COCK :-D

I don't use adblock anymore, but I'll check it out for a while. I'm afraid that too many people may start using adblock just to see those funny ads :/

Cool changes, nice to see the wide layout getting better every day. I noticed NG loading faster, and I'm sure that those with slower connections will appreciate it a lot.

BTW, I can't wait for the art portal :O

Also, where it says Audio Moderators - The audio mods are in charge of audio artist approvals and judging whether audio flagged as stolen gets removed from the stie.

Apparently we'll be able to flag stolen audio.

Note to admins: "site" is misspelled.

Whoa guys, have you seen this thread already?

If not, take a look at the FAQ! It now includes an art portal section listing rules and cool stuff for audio portal! It also says that I-Bot will be the audio portal bot. There are moderators as well, not all of them are moderators in other parts of the site already, there are new people such as BoMToons and Egoraptor.

OMFG

Woah, sooner than I thought, things are changing :D I can't wait for this. All the art moderators are good choices (though I don't know who deadspread is, he must be an art forum regular).