At 7/7/09 07:39 PM, Dobica wrote:

At 7/7/09 07:37 PM, Ismael92 wrote: The best thing you can do, is ignore the posts you don't like, and the threads that you consider immature. Just don't pay attention to them and focus on the good ones.

Yeah and the other forums are ghey cause noone is in them. Plus I dont like how this guy is talking shit about my threads, Lube is a reality and the internet is a good place to get real advice to some of your most personal problems and get solutions. If you get 20 replies usually the 2 useful ones are all you need to get on with whatever your trying to figure out.

This is just my opinion, but I hate when I'm going to post a reply to a thread, and when I'm finished and post the "post it!" button, I realize that there are lots of posts before mine that weren't there before. Some of them may even say what I just wrote, making my post useless. Personally, I hate that. I prefer forums which are a bit slower than that, that actually look like a forum and not like a chat. But as I said, this is just my opinion. I also prefer having a few mature people posting than having hundreds of immature users derailing the thread, though this is an "extreme" example.

At 7/7/09 07:45 PM, dx5231 wrote:

At 7/7/09 07:21 PM, MichaelHurst wrote: People come here with a real problem and you guys (assuming its fake, since most of the stuff posted here is) flame the person, not caring if the person is really telling the truth.

Hardly ever real stuff is posted here. And lots of stuff sounds fake. So we assume everything is fake.

I'd also say that's quite a bad problem. As you say, it comes to the point when people will just assume everything is fake, when there may be some posts with cool stories that get ignored because of the high amount of topics that are blatant lies.

While it's true that sometimes people at other forums frown upon General, some users here are not bad. Actually there are some good mature users in this forum, but they are usually outnumbered by the "other people".

The best thing you can do, is ignore the posts you don't like, and the threads that you consider immature. Just don't pay attention to them and focus on the good ones.

Also, note that Flash Player is a free program that is used to reproduce .swf files such as the movies and games on this website. You can download it here.

The program used to make Flash movies and games is called Adobe Flash. That is the program that costs money, and can be bought here.

About a free alternative, I'd say LiveSwif is the best one though I've never tried it myself. Keep in mind that it's not as good as Flash, but at least it's free. You can follow the link in Sir-Nuts' post to download it.

Abusive flashes which pass judgment should be reported to Wade.

If you see a rule-breaking post and you think that the forum moderators have overlooked it, you can PM any BBS Mod (you can find a complete list of moderators here, or in the bottom of every page on the forums). However, don't send a PM to a mod every time you see a post that breaks the rules. Most of these posts will be deleted shortly after they are posted, so only PM a mod when you think that they really overlooked something.

No, that's not possible. Only Admins can edit their posts.

Maybe the mails are going straight to the "spam" folder. Also, for some reason AOL users usually have problems receiving e-mails from Newgrounds.

Check if your problem is not any of these things ;)

At 7/6/09 09:36 AM, liljim wrote:

At 7/5/09 09:58 PM, Ismael92 wrote: It's not new, in fact, it's old. So old that it doesn't exist, though I think I once read that the staff are planning to bring it back.

Actually, it never existed. Maybe you're thinking about NGMag?

Sorry, I think you're right, I was probably thinking about NGMag when I wrote that. But it's weird because I remember reading about Dumping Grounds not long ago. It was on this thread:

At 6/5/09 09:12 PM, TomFulp wrote: Dumping Grounds was one of the many features intended to launch with the 2007 redesign. It is still in partial progress and is still expected to arrive in the coming months. We have lots in the works but we don't discuss it because other sites with greater financial resources can turn the features out faster if we give them the ideas.

It's not new, in fact, it's old. So old that it doesn't exist, though I think I once read that the staff are planning to bring it back.

At 7/5/09 01:56 PM, Ismael92 wrote: Gold whistle, 46x46:

Sorry, the left border is fucked up. Here's a better version:

Gold whistle, 46x46:

At 7/5/09 01:02 PM, WritingPad wrote:

At 7/5/09 12:31 PM, Ismael92 wrote: You should PM Wade, he usually deals with these situations. I also remember someone getting warned by Wade for having links to porn videos.

to add on, someone was deleted once for putting child pornography in their blog.

Well, that's obvious, child pornography is not the same as common porn. It is illegal everywhere and people actually go to jail for putting that on the internet.

Actually, that's not allowed. Read this thread: User pages - Some Ground Rules.

Quoted from Tom:
'However, we aren't interested in seeing pictures from your porn collection. Yeah, if it's something funny that you made, it will most likely slide - much like our threads on the art forum - but you should know the difference between "a funny drawing with boobs in it" and "oh look, a photograph of a vagina."'

You should PM Wade, he usually deals with these situations. I also remember someone getting warned by Wade for having links to porn videos.

At 7/3/09 06:40 PM, SCTE3 wrote: Anyone care to make me an icon?
Similar to hers except with the mouth a little closer to being closed, smae background style but blue and no blushing. I'd really appreciate it, thanks.

Here it is. If you don't like the background, tell me and I can easily change it. For the mouth I just did some resizing and drew the bottom lip.

I'm using Firefox 3.5 since two days ago, and yeah there are no numbers in the portal listings. It's a small glitch and I'm pretty sure the admins will eventually fix it.

At 7/3/09 02:47 PM, Lizzardis wrote: Just a quick update, I have now officially got my deity whistle! Thanks to SlntCobra, SCTE3 and Krev (Even she played a part!) for helping me clear NG of crap reviews AND get my whistle up! Couldn't have done it without you guys!

Congrats man! Use your new deity wisely :D

Thank god they credited Newgrounds and not YouTube!

I also like seeing NG mentioned in other places. It feels like I'm a part of that "cool site everyone's talking about", even if not everyone is talking about it :D

Well, I think that the number of posts doesn't have to be a requirement to join. We are looking for quality, not quantity, and someone may have only a few posts, but if they are good then that's OK.

For example, if I remember correctly, byteslinger only had four posts when he asked to join, and I think that I don't need to say that she deserves to be here. I'm glad we accepted her, and that's a great example of how post count doesn't matter. Just look at her now :D

At 7/2/09 02:03 PM, RyanTime2 wrote: I don't understand. What exactly is this club about?

Basically, we are a club who wants to protect Newgrounds and the portals. We do this by voting fairly, catching all the rule-breaking submissions we can and reporting them if necessary. We want to make NG as good and fair as it can be.

For a more detailed answer, you may want to read The Elite Guard Barracks Manifesto.

At 7/1/09 11:03 PM, Ismael92 wrote: Total Gain for the month = X
That's X points per day, or X per day per member.

Big fucking lol. I wish I could make a flawless update, just for once.

Total Gain for the month = 14,336
That's 477.9 points per day, or 11.9 per day per member.

I hope that makes more sense ;)

Thanks for the update, Bahamut!

At 7/1/09 09:35 AM, Bahamut wrote: 22 -- Lizzardis
26 -- KrevZabijak

Congratulations to KrevZabijak on becoming the newest Wi/Ht? Regular! :)

I was pretty sure one of you two would make it. Congrats to KrevZabizak for entering the list, and I think Lizzardis also deserves a honorable mention after getting so many votes ;) Keep up the good work and I'm pretty sure you'll be a new regular soon (and the same goes to all the potentials. Just keep it up and one month you'll receive a special surprise).

At 7/1/09 09:36 AM, Bahamut wrote: _9.33 | __1.10 | _3.27 | _0.03 | _13.73 | Ismael92

So I missed a deposit? Damn, I need to be more careful.

Comments:

Congrats to byteslinger, Metal-Therapy and ThePigeonMaster for gaining a rank.
Congrats to byteslinger for gaining over 2,000 total points since last month.
Congrats to LegolaSS for reaching 20,000 total points.

Congrats ;)

I forgot to mention this last month, but the list of Regulars now is completely different to what it was like when I made the first regulars update in 17 months. As a result of iscrulz leaving the Regulars List, the oldest regulars now are 36Holla and kidray76.

I wasn't around then, but it must feel pretty weird to see how things change so much. Meh, I'm just a n00b.

At 6/20/09 07:31 PM, Ismael92 wrote:

At 6/20/09 07:12 PM, Bahamut wrote: Well, July's almost here and what that means mostly to me is my birthday. I'll admit, being 19 doesn't feel anything special and as a matter of fact, it's the first birthday that I'm not too excited about. Entering the third decade is where it's at. ;)

At first I didn't get it whether it's your birthday today or it's in July. I had to do a google search to find an older thread just in case.

Ah, apologies for the poor wording.

Don't worry, the fault is probably mine. I'll just go ahead and say the overused excuse that it was late at night so I didn't get what I was reading, even if I posted that at 8:30 PM.

I hope everything turns out alright :( Let us know what happens to your eye.

All was well. :)

Good to know :)

I just filled the survey. This one was shorter however some of the questions required more reasoning, but that made it funnier. I'm glad to help.

Also, while thinking how to answer some of the questions I realized how awesome it would be to have a Shift T-shirt.

Barracks Roster 1st July 2009
The roster was supposed to be posted this morning. Just as I finished it, I had to leave the computer and my dad fucked up the internet connection big time. I'm finally back after configuring everything up. Still with some problems, but I managed to get online.
Remember that Corky52 is now Fro.

Milestones:
byteslinger - 30,000 B/P, 25,000 Saves
RohantheBarbarian - 15,000 B/P
DumbassDude - 11,000 B/P
KrevZabijak - 9,000 B/P
Lizzardis - 5,000 B/P
SlntCobra1 - 4,000 B/P

Promotions:
byteslinger - Supreme Commander
idiot-buster - Commander
Sir-Nuts - Brig. General
RohantheBarbarian - Major
DumbassDude - Praporshchik
KrevZabijak - Sgt. First Class
Lizzardis - Sergeant
SlntCobra1 - Corporal

Entering the list:
KingExodus
SupraAddict
SCTE3
KidneyThief (formerly known as stranger14)
Calipe

The List:
No. B/P / Gain / Average / Change / Username
01] 74,553 | 0,167 | 05.6 | --12.23 Phantom Sup. Com.
02] 59,125 | 1,331 | 44.4 | --0.37 Coop83 Sup. Com.
03] 56,641 | 0,514 | 17.1 | --23.07 Sentio Sup. Com.
04] 48,124 | 0,692 | 23.1 | --1.00 Idiot-Finder Sup. Com.
05] 46,987 | 0,416 | 13.9 | --41.53 Little-Rena Sup. Com.
06] 37,793 | 0,000 | 00.0 | + 0.00 EagleRock Sup. Com.
07] 34,390 | 0,022 | 00.7 | + 0.40 SlashFirestorm Sup. Com.
08] 31,792 | 1,945 | 64.8 | --20.00 byteslinger Com. 1
09] 31,459 | 0,129 | 04.3 | --1.00 Shanus Sup. Com. -1
10] 28,473 | 0,721 | 24.0 | + 9.43 Fro Com.
11] 28,435 | 0,716 | 23.9 | --20.63 aldlv Com.
12] 25,768 | 0,325 | 10.8 | + 6.87 idiot-buster Com.
13] 22,548 | 0,111 | 03.7 | + 2.67 lilhunter03 Lt. Gen.
14] 19,625 | 0,270 | 09.0 | --7.47 Sir-Nuts Brg. Gen.
15] 16,492 | 0,107 | 03.6 | --0.27 ever-vigilant Mjr.
16] 15,628 | 0,988 | 32.9 | + 0.63 RohantheBarbarian Mjr.
17] 15,203 | ???? | ???? | ???? SCTE3 Cpt. NEW
18] 13,370 | 0,007 | 00.2 | + 0.20 DarkSoldier Lt.
19] 11,297 | 1,309 | 43.6 | --3.90 DumbassDude Prap. 1
20] 10,677 | 0,000 | 00.0 | + 0.00 PantyWipe Sgt. Mjr. -1
21] 09,575 | 0,001 | 00.0 | + 0.03 Lotus Sgt. Mjr.
22] 09,086 | 1,706 | 56.9 | --5.77 KrevZabijak 1st Sgt.
23] 08,154 | ???? | ???? | ???? Calipe 1st Sgt. NEW
24] 07,369 | 0,002 | 00.1 | + 0.03 PossiblePancakes Mas. Sgt.
25] 07,263 | 0,076 | 02.5 | --0.87 TheNossinator Mas. Sgt.
26] 07,069 | 0,000 | 00.0 | --0.27 Marsupial Mas. Sgt.
27] 06,612 | 0,032 | 01.1 | --0.23 ismael92 Stf. Sgt.
28] 06,542 | 0,081 | 02.7 | + 1.50 sonofkirk Stf. Sgt.
29] 06,227 | 0,001 | 00.0 | --0.10 Shoopufzilla Stf. Sgt.
30] 06,142 | ???? | ???? | ???? SupraAddict Stf. Sgt. NEW
31] 05,856 | 0,007 | 00.2 | + 0.07 TheThing Sgt.
32] 05,815 | 0,003 | 00.1 | --0.97 HeavenDuff Sgt.
33] 05,666 | 0,075 | 02.5 | --1.03 phantomlassuk Sgt.
34] 05,471 | 0,031 | 01.0 | + 0.03 fc-thun-fan Sgt.
35] 05,137 | 0,872 | 29.1 | --1.20 Lizzardis Sgt. 1
36] 04,859 | 0,172 | 05.7 | + 3.17 SoulMaster71 Cpl. -1
37] 04,205 | 0,145 | 04.8 | --1.37 BenwaHakubi Cpl.
38] 04,001 | 1,158 | 38.6 | ???? SlntCobra1 Cpl. 2
39] 03,903 | 0,000 | 00.0 | --0.53 I-Love-Caitlyn 1st Pte. -1
40] 03,449 | ???? | ???? | ???? KingExodus 1st Pte. NEW
41] 03,345 | 0,056 | 01.9 | ???? captain-dickhead 1st Pte. -1
42] 02,802 | 0,024 | 00.8 | --0.40 puddinN64 Pte.
43] 02,797 | 0,124 | 04.1 | ???? Insanimation Pte.
44] 02,701 | ???? | ???? | ???? KidneyThief Pte. NEW

Top 5 Gainers
byteslinger - 1,945
KrevZabijak - 1,706
Coop83 - 1,331
DumbassDude - 1,309
SlntCobra1 - 1,158

Top gainers, repeat offenders: byteslinger (6), Coop83 (5), KrevZabijak (3), DumbassDude (2)

Total Gain for the month = X
That's X points per day, or X per day per member.

June update.

It's just a coincidence. Then people started struggling to find it and now they see "sex" everywhere. It's like a Rorschach test.

At 6/30/09 11:19 PM, SlntCobra1 wrote: That's an almost contradictory statement, you're on AIM now Ismael. DUH! lmao I just watched TheWeebl's spoof of CSI: MIAMI, funny as hell. And for some reason, I ended up listening to the Narwhals Tune for like 3-5 minutes. It's so catchy it's scary as hell.

That doesn't mean I'm not on MSN. I can be on both at the same time. But yeah, actually right now I'm only logged in to AIM, but oh well.

And yeah, TheWebbl's songs are addictive.

At 6/30/09 10:21 PM, SCTE3 wrote:

At 6/30/09 09:45 PM, SlntCobra1 wrote: Sorry SCT3, I don't have MSN, I only use AIM and yahoo messenger. But for the most part, I'm on AIM.

I have yahoo messenger but I haven't used it in ages, we can still chat via MSN to yahoo IM just so you know lol.

MSN FTW! I use MSN daily to chat with friends and sometimes family. Then I also have AIM but I get on it much less often. Well, lately I've been quite inactive on both.

At 6/30/09 07:49 PM, WadeFulp wrote: I have it set for 5 modes. Max low, low, medium, medium high, high beacon, low beacon. A single tap on the tail button turns it on. I have it set to always come on in mode 1, so it always start at the max low. This is nice because if you're in the dark and your eyes are adjusted to the dark you don't want the thing coming on real bright and hurt your eyes, ruin your night adapted eyes, etc. The min output is plenty of light to navigate around a dark room, etc. Two quick taps will bump it to the next mode. So I can double tap for a little more light, double tap for even more. If I need the full output all I have to do is press and hold the button and it will go to full output as long as I hold it down. Once I let go it returns to whatever mode I was previously in, such as max low. If I tap then press and hold I get a random strobe which can be used to disorient someone or get someone's attention, or rave.

There is another mode which lets you dim the light up and down to adjust the amount of light you want. You can also have it blink out the current battery voltage, like 3 blinks followed by 8 blinks would be 3.8v. It has circuitry to prevent rechargeable batteries from being over discharged. You can program a variety of strobes, SOS, and beacons, varying their output and frequency.

I didn't know there were flashlights as advanced as that. Some of the features sound cool and they can come in handy, like having several modes, as you mentioned. But it makes me think if such a complex flashlight is actually fully used. I mean, of course they are used, but do people really use and take advantage of all of its features?

I've always thought a flashlight is such a simple object, I wouldn't need so many modes and stuff like that as long as it can light a room when the power goes off. But anyway I'm not into flashlights and I rarely use them, but do you consider all of these features necessary? I would just think that most of them are there to "show off".

There are some things that could be better, but it's hard to find one flashlight that is perfect in every way, but so far this comes the closest for what I want. Everyone has their own preferences like anything else.

What would you consider to be a perfect flashlight? You already said what you look for (size, features and UI), but which is the perfect combination? Also, how much would you be willing to pay for a good flashlight?

Sorry for so many questions, but it's what came to my mind after reading your posts :/

Here it is:

http://www.newgrounds.com/lit/pico2

So as I expected, I couldn't resist so I HAD to play UNO. I've been playing it here, it's pretty cool but you need to use IE to play. You can play against the computer, human people or even invite your MSN friends to play.

At 6/30/09 01:13 AM, Gooch wrote: But anyways, does anyone else play UNO?

Currently, I don't, but I used to play it years ago when I was a kid. I loved playing it, now I can't even remember the rules or how to play it. I know you can switch colors and shit like that but I don't remember what the game was about. If there was a place to play it online, I'd definitely play it :D

At 6/30/09 02:03 PM, Ismael92 wrote:

At 6/30/09 01:55 PM, Lizzardis wrote:

At 6/30/09 01:33 PM, KidneyThief wrote: **Stolen Flash**

Blammed. Nice find though!

It says "Score at Death: 2.57/5.00", so it was deleted by the staff (there's no way a submission with that score can get blammed by normal means) :D

By the way, note that the author was deleted too.

(I forgot to say this in my last post).

At 6/30/09 01:55 PM, Lizzardis wrote:

At 6/30/09 01:33 PM, KidneyThief wrote: **Stolen Flash**

Blammed. Nice find though!

It says "Score at Death: 2.57/5.00", so it was deleted by the staff (there's no way a submission with that score can get blammed by normal means) :D