At 4/16/09 03:23 AM, penterztwo wrote: Well excuse me if my e-peen isn't as big as yours, mister 5,000+ posts man. :P

Shreddy wasn't trying to show off the fact that he has accumulated a lot of posts at all. He was saying that, due to the fact that you do not have any high stats and are not very well known yet, barely anyone would want to get into your account, and those who do get in wouldn't have much to do.

I usually use Xubuntu, a side project of Ubuntu that is designed to fit in with a different desktop environment, and I love it. It's fast, stable and runs well on almost every computer possible, far better than every version of Windows that I've used.

At 4/16/09 01:58 AM, BlueKoalaClock wrote: The only reason why I stopped using it is because it was nearly impossible for me to install a flash player on it.

I've been using it for about five months, and as soon as I installed it I downloaded the DEB package from Adobe's site. Within seconds Flash was working perfectly.

For putting ads in your submissions for money, we have the Flash API, which also lets you track where your game is placed across the net amongst many other features.

The Revenue Sharing feature allows you to gain part of the Ad Revenue that is gained on your profile, your blog posts and Flash/Audio submissions. For example, if a certain amount of people visited your page and loaded the ads from it, or clicked on it (it's either one of those), you would have whatever amount added to your account. If you reach fifty dollars, you will be sent a check.

At 4/16/09 02:25 AM, SpiffyMasta wrote: Mike, 0 o, you could of had just said you agreed with what I said instead of restating all of my points. LMAO

Sorry for that. I started that post earlier but then started breakfast and posted it just after I had finished breakfast.

At 4/16/09 01:05 AM, piggy123 wrote: can i join???

You meet the statistical requirements, but your post quality is, to be honest, pretty awful. Some of your posts to have length, but those are usually broken scripts that are probably copied from tutorials that you don't understand accompanied by a short plea for a fix to them. As well as post quality and volume, you may want to focus on improving the grammar that you use on Newgrounds. Your posts often seem lazy and like you haven't been bothered to do things like capitalizing letters that add little or no time onto how long you type, if you do so at a high speed.

Try to improve on your posting habits, and then return.

At 4/13/09 07:14 PM, Shreddy wrote: but then again, i prefer coffee and take both without milk

I know what you mean about milk and coffee without milk. About a year ago I wouldn't even think of having coffee without milk, and now I rarely ever have it with any milk at all. I've always preferred tea with no milk towards with some.

At 4/15/09 01:15 PM, Shreddy wrote: just spoke to my dad and said we got the storm this morning

i totally slept though the thunder and lightning ahha!

A storm? It's been boiling over here. Mind you, Derby is far to the north of London, and I live just to the South of it.

Speaking of London, what part of the city are you from, NEVR?

At 4/15/09 09:59 AM, Auz wrote: C-cleaner which can be downloaded for free I believe.

Yes, it can. You can download it from it's FileHippo page here. There are a few alternatives, but CCleaner is often thought of as the best unnessasary file remover and registry updater.

At 4/14/09 11:55 PM, Nelson15 wrote: If you are using Opera:
Right-click on a blank spot on the screen, select "Block content", click the ads and they're gone. :D

The Linux version of Firefox shares this feature. There are addons for the Windows version that do the same, but we're not supposed to discuss blocking Newgrounds ads on the forums.

Is it just me, or are anyone else experiencing popup ads when browsing the Flash Portal? I opened one of them to check if they were ads, and it turns out that they were. In addition to this, the page that the popup was loaded from attempted to open another popup. I'm not experiencing them elsewhere on the site, but I am on submission pages.

Screencap below.

At 4/14/09 06:36 AM, Odyssic wrote: I think the DS is better then the PSP. Also, I see lots of people buying DSi when I go into shops.

If I had to choose a DS Game console, then I'd have to say that it would be the DS Lite. Not only is the DSi nothing more than a DS Lite with a camera stuck onto it, but DRMs are used on the material purchased through them, so you can't play them on any other game consoles (including the original DS and DS Lite).

Personally, I prefer the PSP.

According to EncyclopediaDramatica:

"Trolling is a kind of prank and a lost art form, full of failed attempts and people who don't even know what trolling is.

Most people think that trolling is merely someone getting in an argument, or a fight, or attacking others. However, people do this all the time on the internet when they're not trolling. Trolling that does this is obvious and usually fails. People who think everyone who disagrees with them is troll are so easily trolled that they'll fall for Concerned Mother. A skilled troll can just appear to cause no conflict and agree with people and do it in such a way to provoke everyone else into a shitstorm.

The internet is full of people that think just being internet trash makes them a real troll. Acting racist for lulz is trolling but simply being a racist is not. Acting as stupid as Chris-chan because you really are that stupid makes you a lulzcow and not a troll. If someone goes and slips razor blades inside the hamburgers of little kids and goes "haha you have been trolled", despite being hilarious, that's not trolling, it's being a psychopath. Even worse than that, there are furries. Common sense would say that no one could seriously be like that, that all furries are trolls, but then again, common sense is often very, very wrong.

Even when someone knows how to troll, they usually fail to be funny and then experience troll's remorse. Such feelings tend to pass once they realize that people who take the Internets seriously enough to get upset by trolling really ought to kill themselves. Once they reach this point, they are said to suffer from Internet troll personality disorder. After long enough, they may even develop Chronic Troll Syndrome.

The most important thing that any troll should remember is not to believe in what you are saying, and be comfortable with telling made up lies whilst avoiding the truth or any factual details about your own life because not only are these boring, they could be used to identify you. To avoid the onset of troll's remorse, follow this technique and just lead them further down the avenue of trolling, swallowing your bait hook, line and sinker.

Only when one is a skilled troll can they pull off trolling IRL, such as Agent Pubeit, Penis Pump Sex Scandal, IRL Harry Potter spoilers, etc."

The whole page.

At 4/13/09 04:29 PM, sammontague wrote: did u lot know the people who made coca cola made dr pepper.

Yep. I'm pretty sure that every single one of us knew that. The Coca-Coca company produce quite a lot of different food and drink products, and Dr Pepper is one of the ones that is the most famous for it.

At 4/13/09 02:21 PM, RKthrilla wrote: I got some Dr Pepper cherry, it's fucking amazing.

It's a pity that we don't have cherry, or any other special flavours over here in Britain. I'm hoping that it will be introduced soon.

At 4/13/09 01:36 PM, Imaku wrote: I dual boot Ubuntu and Vista, and use Pidgin when on Ubuntu, MSN when on Vista. Never had the time or motivation to try AIM.

I use aMSN, since I spend most of my time on Xubuntu. It connects to MSN and shares almost every feature as it's Windows counterpart, much unlike Pidgin. If you have any troubles installing it, then just do so by the command line.

sudo apt-get install amsn, I think.

Mine is definitely Liquid Energy Rush, or just Rush. I've loved it for years, and although my most local shops do not sell it, I drink at least one most days. It's easily the most refreshing and best tasting energy drink that I know of. The cans (pictured below) are probably the best looking out of any energy drink that I know of, too.

I've never used it, but after twenty or so minutes of research I found FlashConv. I don't know if it's legit or not, though.

At 4/13/09 02:05 PM, Strategize wrote: I can't believe you put Politics so low on yours.

It was probably because of the fact that a load of the posts on politics are just people talking shit about things that they know nothing about. Despite the fact that some members are very intelligent, others don't quite hit the mark, no matter how hard they try.

At 4/13/09 01:19 PM, Twilight95 wrote: I use it for sign ups and stuff. I hate IM's, you're so limited to one person.

MSN has a multiple-user conversation feature. AIM probably has it too, so look around the menus and you should find it.

I started using MSN years ago and since then, I've loved it. The most recent release is annoying, and similar to a lot of Microsoft's recent work in the sense that it seems that they've spent more time working on the appearance than the actual program and features, but it's still far better than AIM. Last summer I downloaded AIM, and within minutes of registering I had removed it from my computer.

I'm millwallmike12@hotmail.co.uk, by the way.

M.S.R.E ep.5, by Dusty-Gorilla Type: Movie Rating: Ages 17+

If it isn't that, then I'd recommend checking through the Metal Slug Collection.

At 4/13/09 12:00 PM, dogpup4 wrote: He wouldn't get money from achievements you dumbfuck.

Think about it harder. I'm pretty sure that what he was saying was that people would be more likely to buy from the store, and visit the site more, so there would be more store profits and ad revenue. As long as the ideas for medals were chosen well, the positive would outweigh the negative.

I've never had anyone copying my name, but I have had someone claiming to be me. His username was 'TonaltNMike' and he put in his signature, "I am MwMke and the third member of the TonaltCrew". Since he was breaking a load of rules I asked Rucklo to remove it since I didn't want to be blamed for his idiocy.

I'm not experiencing this, so it's strange that both of your computers are suffering from it. Are you sure that you don't have any Greasemonkey scripts or Browser Addons that act on Newgrounds review pages? If there's an error in them, that could be what's causing the freezing.

At 4/13/09 10:02 AM, Tramps wrote: Mike, your fortune is: LUCK WILL VISIT YOU ON THE NEXT NEW MOON.

I'm suddenly excited. Despite the fact that they're completely random, I am still excited. Thanks for giving me one of the first goes, Jamie.

The next new moon, eh? does that mean the next solar cycle, or the next time the moon appears? Only time will tell, Michael.

It'll be another 25 or so days until the next full moon, so if it does mean that then I'll have to wait quite a while to find out. I'll be looking out for signs of luck tonight.

Thanks again.

I have to say, that in my experience, it has to go in the following order:

General < Videogames < Art < C&C < Audio < Flash < Politics < Wi/Ht? < Programming

General gets filled with thoughtless +1 posts and a lot of spam, and many of the regulars even join in with this, so (despite the fact that some of the members are amongst the most intelligent on the site) the average intelligence is pretty low.

Videogames is, despite being what you'd think should attract the most idiocy, generally made up of intelligent regulars. Many members drag it down a lot, though.

Art is where the BBS starts to get into the intelligent side, but due to the fact that most posts are spacefillers for images it's hard to rate their intelligence.

Clubs and Crews is extremely hard to describe, as it contains some of the most intelligent, and least intelligent, posters on the site. Even the intelligent seeming clubs can often attract unintelligent members, as I have seen, and the unintelligent seeming clubs can attract intelligent users.

I've never really visited Audio, so I'm going to place it beside the other creative forum, the Flash forum.

I started off my time on the BBS as a Flash Forum user. Although I rarely ever visit there anymore, I enjoyed my time there and most of the users there were far more intelligent than your average BBS users, and were very helpful in every situation that they could be, even when faced with the type of questions that they had about six times every single day (literally). These constant posts are what drags the Flash Forum down, but it's still one of the most intelligent forums in my opinion.

Politics contains a large amount of the most intelligent users on the site, but amongst them are a lot of the least intelligent users on the site. I don't visit there frequently, but when I do I often see threads created to convey a purpose, but the user who creates them does not provide any evidence at all, and is little more than a line long. Usually one of the more intelligent users provides some reasons for their point or asks them for some, but there are still a lot of people trying to convey a purpose with a point and nothing else, which takes it down slightly.

Where is/How to? is where a lot of the oldest (in both age and time on Newgrounds), most mature and most intelligent users on the site congregate. The regulars consist of helpful users who are avid B/Pers, posters and have a long no-missed deposits chain, which shows that they spent a lot of time on Newgrounds and are therefore very well accustomed to it. When I look through the Members and Regulars lists you always see intelligent users who obviously put a lot of thought into their posts, despite what it's about. I hang around in the Regs/Members lounge chatroom, and there's always interesting discussion going on there, as well. Maybe I'm ranking it high because it's where I spend most of my time, but I definitely know that there's a lot of intelligence in there.

Programming is probably one of the forums that I lurk the most, but due to the fact that the discussion is usually very technical, I rarely ever write posts in here. I'm pretty good with computing, especially for my age, but the regulars here are extraordinarily intelligent and are on another level of intelligence to most of the users of other forums on the figurative and mathematical side.

At 4/13/09 12:17 AM, Twilight95 wrote: First off, we'd get so many useless posts it'll look like NG is raiding NG.

A lot of the time when I browse General I think that it looks like that anyway. The store items idea would definitely be good, since if statwhores wanted Medals enough, it could be the tipping point for many people to purchase items from the NG store. There will be more spam, but there already is a lot, and the moderators have it more than under control. Hell, it could be the cause for mods to remove more +1 posts than ever before due to suspicion of postwhoring due to medals.

At 4/12/09 09:08 PM, TheNossinator wrote: For the three medals Survivalist, Olympian and Drunken Deity, do you have to beat the game without dying or without taking damage?

I've never gotten any of them (much to my dismay, after spending about five hours attempting Survivalist), but from the Medal description ('Beat the game without dying on _ mode"), it seems that it almost definitely is without dying, not without taking damage.

At 4/12/09 08:04 PM, NEVR wrote: You seem to have changed tack mid-sentence, but it'll do, yes.

I don't know what I was meaning to say after the 'because' in my first sentence. I must've pressed the delete button just as I was clicking on 'Post it!'.

At 4/12/09 08:04 PM, NEVR wrote: I actually am... listening to some live drum and bass DJ's online, and my friend got one of them to give me a shout out (although I missed it because I was in the kitchen making a cup of tea, lol).

It's a shame that you missed your shout-out. Was the tea worth it?

At 4/12/09 08:56 PM, Shreddy wrote: you're like 13, no beer for you laddie! Grubbins, fetch this man a tonic water, extra lemon!

I may be physically under the legal age for alcohol provision, but mentally... I'm below the legal age for alcohol provision. I'll just settle for the tonic water. Oh, and Grubbins is a great name for a butler.

I'm not quite sure why, but I quite like the idea of meeting Rucklo. The mod that I'd be the most likely to meet would be NEVR since we both live in London, but I'm pretty sure that I've heard that he's from the North side, whereas I'm to the very south (about a ten minute walk away from one of the Southernmost points of Greenwich. Also, I'd probably piss myself if I saw Poozy talking to me unarranged, and I'm guessing that quite a few of the people that have mentioned him would do the same, too.

If you've got enough, then please add me onto the list. If it turns out that a lot of people are requesting and you don't have enough cookies, then just skip me out, though.

11th April 2009 Roster (just imagine that that was the date)

Since I'm inexperienced with roster-crafting, there is bound to be a lot of fuckups in this, despite the fact that I've spent several hours on it. Since it's gone 1AM where I am, I won't have much time for fixing the errors. Since I did it on the Sunday, rather than the Saturday, the figures will be slightly fucked up, though.

Rank-Ups

Captain - Spartan204, SpiffyMasta

Lieutenant - Ninja-Without-Sight

Sergeant - The-Song-Salad

Entering the List:

bdash1990

Leaving the List:

MrCrawford (Resignation), Lizzardis (Honourable Discharge).

Top 5 Gainers:

TheSongSalad: 136
Lizzardis: 103
SlntCobra1: 83
Spartan204: 76
SpiffyMasta: 34

Some low top-gainers this week. With Lizzardis and Insanimation being away it's quite a lot further down than it was before.

Random Wiki Article of the Week:

Second Battle of (Word removed due to Newgrounds not reacting well to foreign characters).

Roster

No. ## ] [ Tot. B/P ][ Gain ][ G/D ][ Name, Rank]
>>>01 ][ ][ 2582---- ][ 103 ][ 14.7 ][ Lizzardis Police Captain (Honorably Discharged)
>>>02 ][ ][ 2367---- ][ 20 ][ 2.85 ][ eroth221 Police Captain
>>>03 ][ ][ 2285---- ][ 0 ][ 0.00 ][ Insanimation Police Captain
>>>04 ][ ][ 2201---- ][ 22 ][ 3.14 ][ sinskae Police Captain
>>>05 ][ ][ 2052---- ][ 9 ][ 1.28 ][ Crusher117 Police Captain
>>>06 ][ ][ 2031---- ][ 31 ][ 4.42 ][ MwMike Police Captain
>>>07 ][ ][ 2010---- ][ 34 ][ 4.85 ][ SpiffyMasta Police Captain
>>>08 ][ ][ 2001---- ][ 76 ][ 10.8 ][ Spartan204 Police Captain
>>>09 ][ ][ 1823---- ][ 1 ][ 0.14 ][ Phobotech Police Lieutenant (Resigned. +1)
>>>10 ][ ][ 1690---- ][ 0 ][ 0.00 ][ MrAngel Police Lieutenant
>>>11 ][ ][ 1675---- ][ 12 ][ 1.71 ][ TailsPrower Police Lieutenant
>>>12 ][ ][ 1588---- ][ 4 ][ 0.57 ][ NeonFlame126 Police Lieutenant
>>>13 ][ ][ 1507---- ][ 14 ][ 2.00 ][ Ninja-Without-Sight Police Sergeant
>>>14 ][ ][ 1420---- ][ 0 ][ 0.00 ][ Gu-rrilla Police Sergeant
>>>15 ][ ][ 1420---- ][ 88 ][ 12.5 ][ SlntCobra1 Police Sergeant
>>>16 ][ ][ 1227---- ][ 0 ][ 0.00 ][ PowerPrower Police Sergeant
>>>17 ][ ][ 1075---- ][ 136 ][ 19.4 ][ TheSongSalad Police Sergeant 1
>>>18 ][ ][ 1065---- ][ 8 ][ 0.00 ][ Brick-top Police Sergeant -1
>>>19 ][ ][ 0852---- ][ 33 ][ 4.71 ][ xthesnarfx Police Officer
>>>20 ][ ][ 0796---- ][ 0 ][ 0.00 ][ JimmyDimples Police Officer
>>>21 ][ ][ 0644---- ][ 24 ][ 3.42 ][ Elder500 Police Officer +1
>>>22 ][ ][ 0623---- ][ 0 ][ 0.00 ][ TheOriginalReference Police Officer -1
>>>23 ][ ][ 0609---- ][ 0 ][ 0.00 ][ Lebastic Police Officer
>>>24 ][ ][ 0599---- ][ 0 ][ 0.00 ][ SonicSheep Police Officer
>>>25 ][ ][ 0599---- ][ 0 ][ 0.00 ][ bdash1990 Police Officer
>>>26 ][ ][ 0557---- ][ 0 ][ 0.00 ][ RS200 Police Officer
>>>27 ][ ][ 0522---- ][ 2 ][ 0.28 ][ TheDeathReaperIsBack Police Officer
>>>28 ][ ][ 0464---- ][ 0 ][ 0.00 ][ Dejanus Portal Security

Apprentices:

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