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At 10/26/14 04:07 AM, Xiicubed wrote: What if the rest of you aren't people? What if you are bots programmed by the government posing as real people?

What if we are? What would it matter if we appear believable as people to you?

At 10/20/14 05:04 AM, TheComputerHermit wrote:
What if the French never sent their troops and money to help the Americans fight the British? Try to include the effects it would have on the outcome of the Revolutionary War, and how it would change the French Revolution as well.

I think there is a pretty decent chance that the colonies would have lost the American Revolution without France's help. Also, high debt France accumulated helping them was a major cause of the French Revolution. I still think the French Revolution would have happened eventually, but in all likelihood it would have been neither as long nor as bloody. Also the French, English, and other European powers were spending plenty of money on foreign wars at this point, so it's not like the French would have been rolling in cash if not for their support of the American Revolution either.

If the Americans lost the American Revolution to the British I think they would have tried again sometime later. As we see over the course of history, no colonial power is able to hold onto its colonies forever, especially if they really want to become independent. That same applies for the colonies. It may have taken another few decades or longer, but they would have become independent eventually if they continued to want to. Also, the French Revolution may have been put off a little bit.

It's also worth noting that French money added quite a few guns and supplies to the American Revolution along with their own forces, so even if the colonies had managed to win without French help the death toll would have been much higher and the descent to guerrilla warfare tactics much swifter. In all likelihood the war would have lasted much longer and it would be hard to imagine that future relations with Britain would have been patched up quite as quickly as they did. Who knows, maybe we wouldn't have sided with the British and French during WWI if the French hadn't helped us during the war. Anyway, this flight of fancy seems to be going off the deep end quick, so I think I'll stop here.

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So, what if the Japanese had not sued for peace after the dropping of the second nuclear weapon by the Americans on Nagasaki?

So Newgrounds, got any fun plans for Halloween or whatever the equivalent is where you live?

Also, here's a fine piece of Halloween art from liransz, because hey why not. Check her out if you like her style. I sure do.

At 10/26/14 03:01 AM, BigFatKid wrote:

If anyone has more questions about the Newgrounds Barney Bunch, feel free to ask me.

It would be really cool if you added some of that info to the Wikia BigFatKid. The Barney Bunch entry could really use some more useful info added to it.

So, I've been way later getting this out that I intended too for numerous reasons. Sorry everyone, I'll do better next month. Anyway, here's your list.

1 Zeroasalimit 49,768
2 BananaBreadMuffin 45,230
3 Gagsy 42,954
4 Ozcar 33,266
5 Lost-Chances 33,230
6 Maus 32,149
7 poxpower 30,860
8 Murray 30,262
9 Earfetish 28,221
10 Zerok 27,183
11 CapnCrunchDaPimp 26,752
12 Sensationalism 26,109
13 JohnnyWang 26,026
14 ragnarokia 25,642
15 Bonusstage 24,669
16 Coop 24,604
17 Malachy 24,322
18 yurgenburgen 24,222
19 TheMaster 23,577
20 Loki 23,491
21 SCTE3 23,115
22 Idiot-Finder 22,748
23 Cootie 22,698
24 Cyberdevil 21,644
25 STEM 21,582
26 JackPhantasm 21,553
27 Painbringer 20,962
28 Dobio 20,893
29 bigbadron 20,886
30 HeinousDude 20,767
31 BlueFlameskulls 20,094
32 Rucklo 19,574
33 Gendo 19,484
34 Sekhem 19,192
35 Funkbrs 19,050
36 RacistBassist 18,949
37 Sense-offender 18,873
38 xwaynecoltx 18,744
39 Kirk-Cocaine 18,549
40 citricsquid 18,427
41 Shrapnel 18,192
42 WilliWowza 18,130
43 legionnaire-x 18,124
44 SlipperyMooseCakes 18,003
45 Xenomit 17,773
46 Nev 17,620
47 aviewaskewed 17,390
48 Tony-DarkGrave 17,344
49 Luis 17,266
50 redskunk 16,952
51 Enoll 16,928
52 Entice 16,720
53 antitanner 16,651
54 ramagi 16,599
55 Shaun 16,521
56 JadeTheAssassin 16,453
57 AshfordPride 16,281
58 Daredevilguy 16,280
59 Stafffighter 16,073
60 jonthomson 16,063
61 Denvish 15,980
62 sanity-of-insanity 15,865
63 ViceFullbuster 15,729
64 simon 15,273
65 gumOnShoe 15,236
66 ZJ 15,221
67 Elfer 15,201
68 Canas 14,889
69 madcow 14,818
70 the-great-one 14,688
71 tox 14,670
72 Joe 14,585
73 Gooch 14,549
74 Lagatag 14,548
75 Chumbawamba 14,413
76 shitonastick 14,295
77 goatchrist 14,267
78 liam 14,258
79 purelionheart 14,112
80 fli 14,017
81 Kuro 14,009
82 ghaleonx5z 14,009
83 Slightly-Crazy-Dude 13,963
84 Carmilla 13,940
85 memorize 13,867
86 Viper 13,706
87 Zendra 13,665
88 zen444 13,539
89 iscrulz 13,470
90 Afro-Ninja 13,461
91 Alastor 13,317
92 AlphaCentauri 13,184
93 SteveGuzzi 13,168
94 Rabid-echidna 13,116
95 Auz 13,055
96 sweet21 12,804
97 Minion777 12,761
98 midnyterayne 12,747
99 Dopefish 12,745
100 Slint 12,726
101 Phobotech 12,652
102 HeavenDuff 12,637
103 NEVR 12,532
104 Luxury-Yacht 12,528
105 subpar 12,477
106 WadeFulp 12,416
107 arabfreak 12,350
108 da-pope 12,349
109 life 12,309
110 shadow-xii 12,273
111 scottmale24 12,194
112 mcpaper 12,165
113 pilot-doofy 12,147
114 DevourerJay 12,099
115 jake 11,996
116 format 11,992
117 Evark 11,968
118 Chdonga 11,899
119 wwwyzzerdd 11,891
120 gfoxcook 11,861
121 darksytze 11,834
122 seizuredog 11,738
123 Lorkas 11,681
124 mortifiedpenguins 11,661
125 kharbon 11,574
126 gunter45 11,543
127 quikfox 11,477
128 liljim 11,463
129 Conal 11,446
130 Gimmick 11,415
131 makakaov 11,394
132 wesdood 11,384
133 Prinzy2 11,374
134 olskoo 11,348
135 Kisuke 11,285
136 sirtom93 11,243
137 mr-fluffykins 11,181
138 scarface 11,155
139 StarF68 11,142
140 Jon 11,016
141 Rig 10,929
142 inglor 10,874
143 Asandir 10,841
144 Light 10,786
145 biteme2514 10,771
146 DumbassDude 10,770
147 Sevkat 10,749
148 Frank 10,666
149 Boomstick 10,643
150 bluehippo 10,641
151 morextremist 10,600
152 Timmy 10,582
153 MrPercie 10,539
154 theshrike 10,537
155 kazumazkan 10,469
156 Dean 10,413
157 N-antichrist 10,278
158 Letiger 10,215
159 Gobblemeister 10,194
160 TOEZ 10,162
161 Mogly 10,161
162 Armissea 10,141
163 BumFodder 10,128

Anyway, just two more things before I go.

First, if you see any errors or omissions in this list, please let me know and I'll fix and repost it. I'm inputting the info individually into a spreadsheet, so there's bound to be an error or omission somewhere.

Second, when you make a list like this you realize is stark detail home many posts are being taken out of the forums when people choose to delete all or many of their posts to start over. Not only are all their posts deleted, but all the posts in the threads they create as well. In this way a part of Newgrounds forum history is lost forever, which is a sad thing. I wish there was a better way to satisfy people's right to be forgotten while still saving some of the positive content that is linked to them from others. Alas there is not, at least for now.

At 10/26/14 01:36 AM, Wegra wrote: How different do you think the world would be. Better off or worse off? Hell do you think Newgrounds would be the dominant website instead?

Frankly it'd be a shame I couldnt listen to original video game music and stuff but that's about all I'd really miss. Most of the other youtubers are former NG members anyway :P

Dailymotion.com came out around the same time as Youtube and it remains it's biggest direct competitor. If Youtube hadn't existed they would have occupied the top spot for some time. We would also have a more diverse video sharing landscape of websites, since Dailymotion did not have quite the same level of innovations that made Youtube so dominant so quickly.

In case you didn't realize (and most people don't), Eastern Congo is a hot mess. In the provinces of North Kivu and South Kivu , which include around 10 million people, over 50 armed groups compete for control in a constantly shifting landscape. Below is an approximate map from June of this year and it is already hopelessly outdated. These groups are not simply bandits. In general,

"Almost all these groups have committed violent acts against either civilian population or opposed actors. Nonetheless, almost all these groups carry (at least to some extent) a political ideology and motivation. Whether self-defence, grievance over land and/or resources, political participation, or others and whether justified or not, is subject to respective debate." (Christoph Vogel 2014).

This doesn't even include the smaller, newer, or less known groups at work in the area along with the armies of neighboring nations at work in the area. Nobody really knows how many armed groups are at work in the area at any given time. That is how lawless and chaotic it is. Of course, it doesn't help that the area is extremely resource rich so that the risk of operating there outweighs the benefit for many nonstate actors.

Why doesn't the army of the Democratic Republic of Congo come in and route out all the armed groups from the area? How many resources are being illegally mined and shipped out in any given year? What sort of violations go on in the territory on any given day? How can a country claim ownership over a territory that they hardly control at all?

At best we can guess at the answers to some of these questions. It is one of the most complicated political issues in the entire world. Here's an article that can give you a little bit of a taste for the situation going on there.

So, what do you think of what is going on there? Do you hold out any hope for a resolution over control of the area in the future?

My pet peeve is when someone you don't know pokes you to get your attention. It's one thing if they know you or if that's their culture, then I understand. However if none of those things are true then there are literally a million ways to get my attention without poking me. Also, if I don't respond when you've poked me once do not then continue to poke me until you get my attention. I mean christ, I live in a low context culture. If you've lived here your whole life you should have figured that out by now.

At 10/11/14 08:54 PM, Bit wrote: Tit

@Bit

Wait...

@Bit is a Brit Twit who has a mitt full of shit and would never commit to a writ that tells him to use a bit to slit his gitt cousin Pitt's gullet.

At 10/25/14 05:29 PM, Slacker013 wrote:

At 10/25/14 05:17 PM, SentForMe wrote:

At 10/25/14 05:16 PM, Slacker013 wrote: Auctioning off Amaranthus to the sex slave industry...

Hey Hey Hey! We couldn't do that to those poor people.

I was thinking more along the lines of a mail order bride to some Saudia Arabian oil tycoon who has a fetish for white boys...

So what you're saying is we mail Ama this guy at which point he writes himself into his will, murders the guy and then comes back to Belgium and showers Newgrounds with his new found billions. Brilliant if you could pull it off. Devious and highly illegal, but brilliant!

So what is the most you have ever weighed your entire life. Kilos, pounds, or any other standardized measure of weight you feel like listing it in are equally acceptable. Photos are appreciated, but not required. Add some details in two. After all, what good is a number without any context.

At 10/25/14 05:16 PM, Slacker013 wrote: Auctioning off Amaranthus to the sex slave industry...

Hey Hey Hey! We couldn't do that to those poor people.

Could I large country with a very limited government function, sure. Large countries countries with almost no functioning government like the Democratic Republic of Congo function, they just don't function well. I think for a large minarchy to function well you would need large numbers of relatively wealthy and ideologically similar libertarians that would be willing to live together in one spot. Something similar to Peter Thiel's seasteading idea, but on a massive scale. You would also need those members to agree on very limited changes to their government structure over time, since lots of changes tend to trend toward greater government control. If you could maintain that for a few generations this would probably work out.

At 10/25/14 04:23 PM, vixuzar wrote:

At 10/25/14 04:22 PM, fieldertiger wrote:

At 10/25/14 04:19 PM, vixuzar wrote: i blame fieldertiger for stupid icon`s

I blame vixuzar for having inexcusable grammar.

i blame fieldertiger for not knowing that i`m studying english

I blame vizuzar for being a badass and making us all look worse, because of it.

At 10/9/14 06:37 PM, darkjam wrote: You ever look back at your posts and cringe at how bad they are?

Not really. It's not that I haven't posted from pretty stupid stuff, but I just haven't posted anything I could recall that is so awful that it would make me cringe. Anyway, if someone feels like going through all my posts trying to find one to blackmail me with all power to them. Somehow I don't think this is going to happen though.

At 10/25/14 04:10 PM, LittleWashu wrote:

At 10/25/14 01:05 PM, SentForMe wrote:

At 10/10/14 07:46 PM, Ro-May-O wrote: I know one. The guesser gets 1 kajillion dollars

Spongebob. Now where's the 1 kajillion dollars you promised?

Well, while I wait guess this.

That cartoon is rocket power.

Right you are. Alright, give this one a try.

Ever had a website that you loved checking out and then one day it just closed down? Sad isn't it, but that's the dog eat dog quality of the internet for you. Well, here's a place to give them a final fond farewell.

I for one miss Lavabit.com. It was a great little encrypted email service that ran for many years, before eventually being forced to shut down rather then comply with a search warrant from the US government. It really stuck its neck out for its users and I appreciated that. Few other websites would have done the same.

Well it looks like this opening bid from the EU has been met by a no from Cameron. I wonder what happens next and if other countries may decide to do the same.

I purchased a nice layer cake for a friend's birthday with icing that said Happy Birthday on it.

At 10/25/14 03:41 PM, fieldertiger wrote:

At 10/25/14 03:05 PM, ChazDude wrote: I blame fieldertiger for 9/11.

I blame ChazDude for causing the Scottish to lose their independence.

I blame fieldertiger for that paper cut I just got.

They would be kind of like those dogs at the pound or shelter that all bark at the same time and look as cute as possible, because they want you to take them home.

So you would hear a lot of "Take me" or "I'm the best" or "I'll love you forever if you unlock me".

At 10/11/14 10:45 PM, satanbrain wrote: Omit honorifics. Most times you do not know if the person deserves the honor.

Better to lean toward more polite and more formal. The worst you can do is give someone and honor they don't deserve and then they'll probably correct you. The alternative of leaning toward being less formal can be very dangerous depending on what country you happen to find yourself in. Even in countries that lean toward informality there tend to be little pockets of high contest cultures where this doesn't apply.

Also, high context and low context cultures.

Here's one. A jacket with a flexible solar panel on the shoulder so that people can charge their electronics with it. Then people will never have to stop using their smartphones...unless they live in an extreme northern country that doesn't have any sun for weeks on end.

West Ham beats Manchester United.

Time to celebrate with some Sexy Men dancing in front of a fountain!

At 10/11/14 03:55 PM, DoctorStrongbad wrote: Irish Spring is an excellent soap.

Well, apparently the users of Amazon.com agree with you. They gave it 4.7 out of 5 stars. That is unusually high, even for Amazon.

Almost as popular as this weird soap, even though I've never heard of it and never met anyone who has ever tried it.

At 10/24/14 03:10 PM, Amaranthus wrote: Are we talking about Tom Fulp? I love talking about Tom Fulp.

Tom Fulp AND the flag of Australia! Can't get much better than that can it?

Did you know that Tom Fulp lives a double life as a 65+ year old man in Pinnacle, North Carolina?

I'm an expert at cleaning my plate. My great grandmother lived through the great depression and she lost to flip out at me if I wasted food. Ever since then I make sure I clean my plate, sometimes to an absurd degree. Of course, in the grand scheme of things it hardly matters whether I clean my plate or not.

At 10/25/14 09:41 AM, NewgroundsMike wrote:

At 10/24/14 08:43 PM, CiviLies wrote: I heard sent for me has over 300 confirmed kills and can kill a person in over twenty different ways with just one finger.

I heard CiviLies is SentForMe's boss.

I heard that NewgroundsMike enjoys eating a slice of Apple Pie with a Scoop of Ice Cream on it!

At 10/25/14 09:37 AM, NewgroundsMike wrote:

At 10/24/14 02:10 PM, SentForMe wrote: Why are emoticons usually yellow?

Because smileys are usually yellow.

Why don't you ask the guy who invented them?

I suppose I could, even though the first emoticons didn't have a color beyond the color of the page they were posted on as you can see here. He'd probably still have an opinion on it though. Here's his email: sef@cs.cmu.edu

Why does a cup of coffee seem to have a more intense caffeine effect even though a cup of strong tea supposedly has as much or more caffeine than a cup of coffee?

I'd like to see Rushmore and Spaceballs back in theatres. They are much better films than just about anything else that is out at the moment and you could probably replace your two worst performing films with them and not see any drop in profits.