Happy birthday, ThePigeonMaster! Have a nice day :D

Thanks for the thread, interesting reading. I think that in most cases, people who have never tried buying the different parts and putting them together by themselves are afraid of failing. Even if things may be easier than they seem, things can always go wrong. You may break or fuck up something if you don't know how to do it. I think that the best thing these people can do is get an experienced friend to help them to assemble it.

I would like to make my own computer someday this year (since the one I use is getting pretty old), and fortunately I have a friend at school who is really cool and knows a lot about computers and said he would help me if I want to. He kindly answers even the most stupid questions that would make an ignorant person facepalm.

At 7/29/09 07:43 PM, TacoFreak wrote:

At 7/29/09 07:39 PM, citricsquid wrote: you're an elitist fuck. Sure, if you're technically minded then building is the best option but most people aren't. Don't assume that everyone has the patience and skills to build their own.

Learning to and building a computer is like learning how to cook a long meal. You got the recipe and all you have to do is cook it, which is fun.

I would also add that after reading the recipe and doing what it says several times, you end up learning it by heart ;)

At 7/29/09 08:05 PM, Spirosgod wrote: I was 100% sure you were the OP when I saw the thread tittle.

Yes, because his user name was next to it :)

I really hate when cops do things like that without explaining what's happening first. Well, not only cops, but everyone who does something bad to you without letting you know what's going on. If the cops had actually answered your question, maybe you would have been able to explain them that you have nothing to do with the person you're looking for. Anyway, luckily nothing bad happened.

I only stay up all night when I'm staying at a friend's house, or when there is a friend on mine and there's something fun to do. Otherwise I don't like doing it, not because I can't, but because I just get bored and go to sleep. I really can't find anything good to do alone during all night.

I remember when I was a little kid and my parents would make me eat that horrible bean stew. Damn, I despised that food, I just couldn't stand it. It looks bad, I don't like the smell, and it tasted horrible. We didn't use to eat that very often, but I always hated it.

Now I don't find its taste so bad anymore, but I think that I will never like it, because it's like some kind of trauma. Even if now I know on the inside that the taste may be good, I will always hate it.

At 7/28/09 09:30 AM, Calipe wrote:

At 7/28/09 12:02 AM, TheThing wrote: So, anyone got anything besides spam to talk about? My life is kind of boring right now, besides the fact that it's a complete mess.

I got a philosophical question for you all, what came first? The chicken or the egg?...I'm being serious.

God, duh.

I have nothing interesting to talk about. I've just woke up and I have a headache :(

Also, in case someone didn't see it, the 2009 Midyear Bbs Awards: Nomination is up! It's being run by a fellow EGB member, Rohan :)

At 7/27/09 02:30 PM, Bahamut wrote: But hey, if someone thinks I deserve more recognition than I do now, I can't really change their minds on the matter.

You should still get more recognition. I propose we change the website's name to BahamutGrounds.

At 7/27/09 02:40 PM, reverend wrote: I have a quick question.

For the best/worst Moderators, should the recently removed mods during the whole phishing incident be counted?

I'd say yes, since they were mods most of the time this year.

And sirtom93 definitely deserves that 'biggest attention whore' award.

Cool, I was wondering when were you going to post it :)

I can't wait for the results, good luck to all! :D

I've just downloaded the toolbar and I really like it. It looks good and it makes navigation in the site easier. I'm still checking it out, but I'll probably leave it on my browser permanently so yeah, I just came here to thank you.

At 7/19/09 05:37 PM, iscrulz wrote:

At 7/17/09 10:14 AM, kidray76 wrote: I just want to say, I love you guys, with all my heart. And I'm still alive. At least on the outside.

Group hug in the shower

My kind of hugs, This is now a gay orgy, Krev and byte can't join, only watch.

Yay, a gay orgy! Women shouldn't be allowed to enter the list in the first place. Everyone vote Krev and byte out the list.

At 7/21/09 07:47 PM, Bahamut wrote: The voting election for August 2009 has begun!!

I always have the feeling that times goes by too fast. It's like you send the PMs, then I reply, and a couple of days later I get another PM from you.

At 7/1/09 11:58 AM, Lizzardis wrote: Good! I'm glad your getting a PS3. Xbox's are crap (personally) but I have to say though....computers do own them all. Haha, I mean it can do more, have more hard drive space...And if you have the money can be MUCH more powerful!

I can't really agree or disagree with Xboxes being crap as I've never looked hard enough into the consoles. The RROD issues for the 360 is worrying, though. Also, yes there's so much you can do with computers but I like to play games on actual consoles as well. For the current generation, just the Wii isn't really enough and there's now a fair amount of PS3 games.

Allow me to jump in the discussion with a somewhat unrelated thing. I have a friend who got a PS3 when it just came out. Now he sold it for about half the price to get an Xbox 360. I really can't stop thinking how stupid he was to do that.

At 7/2/09 05:53 AM, NEVR wrote: Looks like all our regs are active / in good favour, then. I remember that when I was on the list there was someone getting outvoted every month... but that was only because you'd just revived the list and all that shizzle.

You should see what the pre-2008 updates were like. There was more outvotes casted back then than now and general activity was roughly the same.

To be honest, I've never considered voting someone off the list. I would feel bad if I do it :(

At 7/1/09 07:03 PM, 36Holla wrote: It's interesting to be getting private messages about two separate parts of the website, but I love the diversity in it.

I had someone PM me before I went on holiday asking to delete someone's news post. I think this was around the time that Poozy did his whole "apply to be a userpage mod" thing. ;P

Haha, that User Page Mod idea cracked me up, most especially the reactions.

Ha, Rig must be getting a lot of PM's like that because Poozy says he's a Userpage mod.

At 7/21/09 07:49 PM, Bahamut wrote:

At 7/7/09 08:57 PM, Ismael92 wrote: you receive a PM from God at the end of every month.

Shouldn't my username be God then? *checks*

No, because you would get a lot of PMs with people's prayers. Didn't you watch that movie starring Jim Carrey?

At 9/9/06 03:02 PM, TomFulp wrote: God has been requested a few times, I have decided not to release it. It's too powerful a name for any mere mortal.

Aw. :(

Haha, cool thread.

At 7/25/09 05:12 PM, iscrulz wrote:

At 7/21/09 07:24 PM, KrevZabijak wrote: So I promise to learn the etiquette of this list thread, and I promise to mega-quote whenever possible. :) let me know if I ever make any mistakes.

If you have the patience you can mega-quote whenever you want all you have to do is start. I will quote you good. The others probably not expect for you know who and etc.

Patience is the key. But then again I'm not really patient. Making "mega-quotes" is not really necessary, but I feel embarrassed when I see my small posts next to all the multi-post catch-ups.

At 7/26/09 01:12 PM, Lizzardis wrote:

At 7/21/09 07:47 PM, Bahamut wrote: Note to self: Never skip a catch-up for this thread on the 11th, most especially when gfox recently posted here. ò_ó

Your supposed to be God.....You should deal with these things?!?!

God is a slacker :o

At 6/21/09 08:09 PM, gfoxcook wrote:

...you could always request to be remodded if you're curious about that speedo test. ;P

Nah, he loves his neutralness far too much to do that.

What the hell is a speedo test, if you don't mind me asking....

Relevant information:
Check the first post on this page (made by NEVR). Then look at this.

At 7/25/09 05:12 PM, iscrulz wrote:

At 7/21/09 07:24 PM, KrevZabijak wrote:

At 7/19/09 05:37 PM, iscrulz wrote: This is now a gay orgy, Krev and byte can't join, only watch.

Fine, we'll just go shower by ourselves, thank you very much! :D

Yes go shower by yourself and keep the door shut I don't want to see it.

God dammit Iscrulz. Now you have ruined it for everyone. Now nobody can see what is happening behind (their) closed door. -.-

eww, what's wrong with you?! Are you heterosexual?

So I promise to learn the etiquette of this list thread, and I promise to mega-quote whenever possible. :) let me know if I ever make any mistakes.

If you have the patience you can mega-quote whenever you want all you have to do is start. I will quote you good. The others probably not expect for you know who and etc.

Thats the problem with doing a mega-quote. Whenever its all in the post box, its gets mighty confusing at some times for me and then I really can't be bothered to do it.

I read on the thread page and then I come to the "post reply to..." box. So I go back and forth all time, reading a bit of text, replying to it, etc etc.

Also, like now, this post wont be very long compared to yours because you guys talk about stuff that I either: Don't understand OR have no interest in.

The fact that most of the time it is the first one because I refuse to read back a few pages just to get the storyline. You guys and your mega quotes. *Mumble mumble* Don't make me understand *mumble mumble*

I like to read some of the previous pages sometimes. There are so funny/cool/interesting things there.

Also Lizzardis for fucks sake use the enter key :P

At 7/26/09 10:32 AM, Fro wrote: Another thing that I forgot to throw out there is that you are together for many years and have kids together. Guess that would have been important to say in the first post. O.o

Won't somebody please think of the children?!
If I were married, well, I'd tell the other person to stop it because of them. Or if she wants to leave, that's fine, but she mustn't harm the kids.

Oh and remember a good way of handling cheating doesn't mean that you are still with the person or that you forgive the person. You may still kick them out of the house, but there is a difference between a bad way of handling it and a good way. Many people just don't know how to do it.

Yeah if I had kids I honestly wouldn't know how to handle the situation. It depends on their age and if they are old enough to understand it. If they are, maybe I would try to tell them and divorce would be the best option (assuming I want to break up with my wife). And if I don't want to break up, then I wouldn't tell them (even if I know I should).

Or if they aren't old enough to understand it, well... Shit happens, same as above, it's either divorce without them founding out what really happens or keeping the relation as if nothing happened if we don't want to break up.

Honestly I couldn't come up with anything too god... As that's one of those situations in which you don't know how you would react until it happens to you.

But yeah, probably I'd feel pretty sad. Because if my wife/husband was cheating on my with someone else, I would ask myself what can that other person give him that I can't. So I could have myself to blame for it too (even if it was him/her the one who cheated).

It also depends how long he/she has been cheating on me. If it started recently, well, we could talk about it. If it has been going for a long time, then I would be mad about it. But yeah, picking a good moment to talk about it, and what to say would be really difficult. If I was really angry about it, I'd probably do it straight away, as soon as I can. Then if I wasn't so angry, and I though that we could actually work on it, I would probably start asking questions about it (pretending that I don't know), to get the other person to confess. And if she doesn't, well, there will get the point when she won't want to answer anymore and ask "what's up with all the questions?" Then I would tell her that I found out. And then there are endless possibilities depending on how the other person reacts, etc, and I don't know if I would forgive her (I probably wouldn't), but as I said, I don't know how I would react.

I hope this was the kind of answer you were looking for :)

I love water too. I only drink coke or the like on special occasions (such as birthdays, etc) or if someone else buys it (I wouldn't spend my money on it). I drink lots of water every day, and there is always one glass of water on my desk.

In my opinion, it's much better than any drink, and it's even healthier.

At 7/25/09 05:22 PM, FBIpolux wrote: 1 : What's your real name?

Ismael

2 : When is your birthday?

21st October

3 : What would be your ideal job?

I wish I knew :(

4 : Who's is your idol?

Actually, I don't have any.

5 : Who's your favorite Newgrounds user (only name one)?

I like several people, I wouldn't be able to name one only.

6 : What's your favorite meal?

Again, there are too many to choose from.

7 : What's your favourite type of car?

I'm not into cars.

8 : which Newgrounds user of the opposite sex would you date?

Well, Jade has a penis.

9 : Would you like to found a family later? / Do you currently have a wife / husband and child(s)?

I don't have a wife, and currently I'm not planning to get one. But I'm too young anyway.

10 : What's your opinion on Barak Obama?

I don't actually care about him.

11 : If god could eradicate the idiots from the General Forum and spam from Newgrounds, would you be happy?

Yes, to an extent. Though we need some idiots and spammers, otherwise intelligent people wouldn't be intelligent, and cool people wouldn't be cool.

12 : What's your favorite video game?

Again several ones, but I can play Metal Gear Solid 3 infinite times without getting bored so I'd say it's that one.

13 : Which console do you prefer?

PS3.

14 : Have you bought Alien Hominid or Castle Crasher? If yes, how do you find it? If no, why don't you buy it??

No, and I don't know why.

15 : Would your buy a NG T-Shirt, NG Stickers or any other NG merchandise?

Yes, I will buy a T-Shirt sooner or later.

16 : How much time do you spend on Newgrounds every day?

It depends, but I always spend several hours here per day. It's the only website I visit daily.

17 : What are you proud about your Newgrounds account? (That can be everything if you think you are so awesome...)

Meh, there's nothing cool about my account to be proud of.

18 : Do you have a goal on Newgrounds (example, doing 40K b/p in one year, making 10K posts, becoming mod, etc.)?

Not really, I decided that having goals (such as getting medal points) take too much job and aren't really funny. I just try to have a good time. Well... Actually I would like to be a Supreme Commander, but that doesn't mean I spend countless hours in the Flash portal.

19 : After two years, what do you think about the new layout, and all the new stuff that has been implemented in Newgrounds since the re-design?

I came here short after the redesign, so I can't really say I like this more than the old one. But I do think it looks better (maybe my opinion would be different if I had got used to the old layout).

20 : What is the most important thing on the BBS according to you?

Cool people. This place would be nothing without them.

21 : If you could change your user name again, what would you change it to?

I would change it, but I can't come up with anything original. That's why I got an unoriginal name on the first place.

22 : If you would say one thing to Tom to get a better Newgrounds, what would you say?

Keep up the good work!

Thanks for taking the time to respond at this.

No problem! I had fun doing it, and I was pretty bored so thank you for posting this.

Well, I know you're in the EGB, but I don't really now anything else about you. I've also seen your name on the forums a couple of times.

http://www.newgrounds.com/lit/faq/#ap_ar t_submissions

Q: Why doesn't my art appear instantly in the Art Portal like it does in the Flash Portal?

A: Art will appear instantly on your user page, but you will need to be scouted by an approved artist before your art appears in the Art Portal. These "approved artists" aren't necessarily moderators, merely fellow artists who are already members of the Art Portal themselves.

Q: How do I get scouted?

A: Do NOT ask to be scouted! Do not ask in the Forums or send the staff a Private Message about being scouted as these will only hurt your chances. Just submit at least four pieces of quality art and be patient, someone will find you! Every single person with art in the Art Portal has the ability to scout others, so there will be a lot of people with their eyes peeled for great submissions.

At 7/25/09 06:44 AM, Cybersief wrote: 1. Locking your own threads.

About this one, if you want a thread of yours locked, then you can request a lock to any mod. Contacting any BBS mod and asking them nicely to lock your thread should be enough. Then the moderator would lock the thread saying "locked by request" or something by the style.

At 7/24/09 08:08 PM, idiot-buster wrote: Elite Guard Commander Idiot-Buster reporting in.

Yet another person comes back :) Welcome!

New York sounds so cool, it must be a great place to be at. I'd love to visit it one day, even if it's pretty expensive ($30 each dish is a lot, but at least the food was good). Anyway, it's good to know you had a good time :D

At 7/24/09 11:28 PM, Idiot-Finder wrote: http://idiot-finder.newgrounds.com/news/
post/349378

A side story regarding the event

lol, cool story.

At 7/23/09 07:50 PM, ultros3 wrote: 1. If the term "n i g g e r" appears or is said in a flash, should I blow the whistle?

While it depends on the context and how it's used, most times it's a flag-able offense. So yes, you should blow the whistle if it's used as an insult or in an offensive way.

2. If I see some sort of pornographic spam, should I blow the whistle?

Yes, that kind of stuff is not allowed.

Please help. I don't want to get a garbage whistle, but I still want to get whistle points.

You should worry more about helping Newgrounds instead of thinking about the whistle points.

For extra information, read this.

At 7/23/09 04:18 PM, KidneyThief wrote:

At 7/23/09 03:58 PM, SlntCobra1 wrote: Well I'm pretty sure it is, just ask Krev. She's a blood spatter analyst.

Something about the title "blood spatter analyst" is just absolutely bad ass.

Yeah, she's our Dexter.

That and you need to be a scientific minded person. Which I am. I didn't take 5 science courses for nothing ya know. Nor did I graduate high school with a 3.0 GPA for nothing either.

And that is why I am not a science major! Haha. My biggest problem in high school was always my foreign language class, which is why I dropped my Spanish course after the 2 year requirement and took a semester of Flash animation and delved into the world of art. Science had never been my strong point, but holy shit chem nearly killed me. It was mostly because of my teacher since he was such a tough grader, but I'm not one for memorization. I got 60's on every single lab except for the bottle rocket which I naturally got a 100 on haha! Fortunately I pulled off a (miracle) 70 for the year and my average was balanced by the 100 I got for my semester grade in animation. I still want to learn Spanish, I just can't do it in a graded environment, but I hope to never take a chem class again as long as I live.

Well, I'm pretty good at science, and maths. The only science which is somewhat difficult for me is Physics, and that's mostly due to the Physics teachers I've had in the past. Anyway I'm not in College/University yet, and I have no idea of what I'm going to do when I'm older. Maybe something related to science, but I'd also like to study programming and even some web design.

At 7/23/09 05:01 PM, Lizzardis wrote: Well I'm back from Florida and Miami

Welcome back ;)

At 7/18/09 09:05 AM, Fro wrote: Well guys since we have been doing art related things here such as finding stolen/hateful art I thought it would be a good idea to do it in the official club now. I'm sure some of you will be up to it as I've seen you post multiply art pieces here that have been deserving of deletion.

I knew it would only be a matter of time until a club like that was made. I may have to bob in there a few times because I hope to be more active in the Art section, looking out for some stuff. However I can't view the scouting section which is a real bummer because my art (well, picture) hasn't been scouted yet. It did do, but then I lost my abilities thanks to my scouter.

You need to have 4 submissions in the art portal in order to get scouted. Yeah, that's kinda a new thing.

At 7/18/09 12:30 PM, Calipe wrote: I contacted a mod and asked her to delete those comments because they are like 350 and to delete them all manually would take a long time.

May I ask which mod you asked? Only because if it happens again to myself or any other user I would like to redirect them to her because it looks like the comments were deleted.

You should better PM Wade, he is the one who handles that stuff. When you tell a mod, he/she contacts Wade who proceeds to delete the abusive stuff.

At 7/18/09 07:33 PM, Porkchop wrote: So guys, who had any bets about when the Regs lounge in General would be locked?

Jeez, about time! I hope that place gets deleted. Too many convis going on at once and to be honest....General is just one big regulars lounge. Most of the users in there were not even regulars! I wonder when its going to be unlocked....It was like that when i went away to Florida 5 days ago!

Yeah, that forum is pretty much a lounge itself. Though gumOnShoe's intention was good, to bring people together, it was a nice attempt to make the General forum better.

At 7/23/09 06:11 PM, Idiot-Finder wrote: I hate FUI2!

Seriously it's ridiculously difficult.

Haha, I laughed just when I saw the title.

At 7/23/09 03:11 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote:

At 7/23/09 01:31 PM, Ismael92 wrote:

At 7/23/09 01:25 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: Brigadier General Nuts reporting in!

Welcome back, sir!

Thanks!

No problem!

Oh, it has certainly been a while. And you haven't caught up in Where is/How to yet? You lazy guy :)

Hahaha, yeah. I still have three or four threads to catch-up on. But I'll try to post in all of them by the end of this month. Then, I won't have to worry about catching-up anymore. =)

Actually, I can't complain. I haven't been really involved in the Wi/Ht lately. I mean, I've been helpful posting in threads and asking questions when I can, but I don't really post in the other threads.

Also, congrats for your promotion!

Thanks again!

Oh, I'm such a nice guy!

By the way, does this mean that you'll get more active, or is it a " I'm still around, see ya all later in the next 100 pages"?

Nah, I'll actually become active this time around. Too much slacking recently, now it's time to come back to my old form, heh. I'll try to post every day, once again.

If slacking was a school subject, I would get a 10, but oh well...

At 7/23/09 01:25 PM, Sir-Nuts wrote: Brigadier General Nuts reporting in!

Welcome back, sir!

Oh, it has certainly been a while. And you haven't caught up in Where is/How to yet? You lazy guy :) Also, congrats for your promotion!

By the way, does this mean that you'll get more active, or is it a " I'm still around, see ya all later in the next 100 pages"?

No, it's not allowed. I've seen Wade warning users because of that in the past.

I don't know why your art was deleted since I didn't see it, but the best thing you can do is contacting an art moderator. You can find a list of all moderators here.

Also, did you use art that was not yours? Like pictures you got from the internet, or things that you didn't draw by yourself? Because that kind of stuff is not allowed. That may be the reason.

It's the flash with the highest score by the end of the day. Also, a flash submitted yesterday (or before) can't get the daily award today (they must get the highest score the day it is submitted).

About the best time to submit it, well, the time doesn't make a big difference. It's all up to you.

Happy birthday!

Actually, I just came here for the cake. It looks damn tasty!

At 7/20/09 01:54 PM, SlntCobra1 wrote: How does this happen?!

Not enough votes. It doesn't matter who many people watch it, I remember where Charlie the unicorn had over 2,000 views and was still under judgment.

I've been getting this on the Flash portal (on the under judgment submissions), where I can't vote because of this.

I use Firefox 3.5.1 (I also tried it on Google chrome) on Windows XP

OK I just flagged one submission, where he even says that he usually grabs screenshots or stuff and then uses Photoshop filters until it looks different. I wasn't sure of how to flag it so I just chose "inappropriate".

:D

Hi, since this thread is specifically about the art portal, I thought it was best to ask this here :)

The thing is, I've come across a person whose submissions are just pictures modified with Photoshop filters. And that's it. While the final result might look "cool" to some people, all the author is doing is grabbing pictures and modifying them with filters, so his work is not really original.

I don't think this is really artistic, and in my opinion this stuff should remain in his userpage only (if they remain at all), instead of being in the art portal.

Should content like this be flagged? Or do I post it here instead? Or maybe there's nothing wrong with it, I don't know.