At 11/22/09 12:09 PM, Zerok wrote:

At 11/22/09 11:59 AM, 749-Pi wrote: what we learn in school is dependent on what the teacher thinks is important, not the curriculum.

Who's to say the curriculum is any better (in this circumstance, or any other)?

Food for thought.

True, the curriculum was written by someone (usually a group of people), so could be just as biased as the lessons. However: where does this road end? Do you just say it's all a conspiracy to be brainwashed with government ideologies? No (at least I hope not); you think for yourself on what you should accept as accurate and/or biased.

There's no source of information you can trust entirely besides doing your own experiments and observations. Since you can't really 'observe' most of what you're taught in schools, it's all a matter of learning which bits of the curriculum are worth remembering beyond the final exam and which were put there just to feed the school's ego and/or vested interests (in which case they should be forgotten as soon as they no longer have exam marks attached to them). Which isn't always easy, but it's worth trying to do at least.

At 11/22/09 11:18 AM, Kaizerwolf wrote: Now, i think the whole issue with stolen flashes is that we're all excited to find one, either because we want to impress someone in the NGPD, or we desperately want whistle points. Now, I'm not pointing fingers at anyone, but this is just what it seems like to me...

I hate to say it, but I'm inclined to agree here. Some people seem to be more interested with flagging SOMETHING (regardless of what) than actually helping get rid of stuff that needs removing. The fact that there's not much to flag in the portal is a GOOD thing, remember?

At S-Hammer (don't remember how to spell the first part!) Nice one. Quite lengthy, and made me laugh to read through it. :P

YUO SPELD MAH NAME RONG RAEGRAEGRAEG!!!!111!!1one!!111 :P
Nah; 's cool. I think I have at least 5 of those types of reviews now. Maybe when I get like 20 or so I'll do something with them. Maybe.

Haven't found a review like that in a long time.

That one was just left on the TOTW, but most of my other ones are in obscure places (art portal, audio portal, deleted flashes etc.).

Oh yeah, about this:

At 11/22/09 12:20 AM, Stretchysumo wrote: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/51 8662
Stolen, rated T. Probably fileswapped after it passed judgement, since it got daily second.

It was indeed fileswapped.... to the Frankie Foster hentai flash that got deleted a while ago. *FACEPALM!*

I'm officially lost for words over this frankie foster crap. It was 30 fucking seconds of utterly shit fap material, and so far it's been the focus of at least two butthurt threads, and now some /b/tard tries to steal it just to give the dumb kids their precious wankfest back? It's not even hard to find on the internet elsewhere anyway!

I swear, if there's one thing NG can do without, it's the moron kids who think NG is a hentai stash and nothing else. Forget the spammers and trolls, THESE are the people wrecking NG!
Think about it: without these dubmass emo skidmarks, there wouldn't be anyone to respond to most of the trolling in the flash portal anyway. Ergo: no morons = no trolls either. Two birds, one stone. Now, not all the people who use NG for jackoff material are this dumb, but (rule number 3 of life) there's always one (and usually several) ruining it for everyone else.

At 11/22/09 01:28 AM, Canas wrote: what you want

isn't it

what you want?

No.

No it isn't.

I'd rather have one genuine sentence of appreciation than a thousand pages of ass-kissing hollow sicophantism wherever I go.

Thanks(?), but no thanks.

Just thought you guys might find the latest addition to my collection of really stupid reviews amusing:

I like to think, one day, that I'll be able to make a flash showcasing all of them in an educational 'how not to write a review' slideshow deal. For now though...

BAWWWWWWW!!!! :P

Total earnings since ad revenue was introduced: 0.00

Fuck ad revenue.

Am I the only one who noticed that Mickey Mouse is 81 years old?

We've all seen them. Those TV ads that do one (or all) of three things:

1. Annoy you with retarded singing and/or music to the point of changing the channel for a minute or two, just to get it away from your brain.
2. Try to tell you that you somehow "need" some inane shite that the world would've been better off without inventing, making you want to slap whoever dreamt the ad up.
3. Continue to baffle you, after 20 times of watching it, with regards to what it's actually tryng to advertise.

I was wondering, if there was a 'room 101' for shit adverts, what would you put in it and why?

My vote goes to that Ford S-Max ad. I honestly had to make a determined effort to concentrate on watching it (after the 100th time of glazing over at it) just to guess what it was about. It relies on text to get its message across, but it puts the (very unassuming) text in the same frames as the irrelevant visual aids of the ad, making you look at the pictures and not the text. Seriously, the portugese version makes just as much of an impact on me here.

Discuss.

alfred meets a black man, by Splatter Type: Movie Rating: Ages 17+

Isn't it annoying when you know something's been deleted before, but you can't find the eulogy for the original?

This one got mass-voted onto the top 50 a little while ago, and a thread was made complaining about the state of the top 50, so Wade deleted it. However, no link = flag at your own risk (which I'm not really expecting anyone to do, all things considered).

Man, we really need a eulogy search feature. :/

1. Bragging rights.
2. E-penis.
3. There's a thread around here somewhere (damned if I can find it) that acts like a top medal point rankings list. Get a lot of medal points to get your name in it.

....And that's about it. No tangible material (or even virtual) effect, besides adorning your userpage with random icons, whatsoever.

At 11/21/09 09:14 PM, FurryDemon wrote: I don't know about you OP, but you could have made it just a littlebit shorter.
Maybe make more straightforward points?

^^This. While I really hate the stupid fanboy one-line 'OMG KEWL' bullshit, there's a limit to how far you can go with being wordy like this. While there were some good points in there, they were effectively buried in a sea of near-irrelevant filler text. You could've used less than half of the space you did and still got the same point across.

Also, madness was never meant to have a plot (it was never even meant to be a series), so pointing out plot weaknesses and the blatancy of the mindless violence isn't exactly useful. Krinkels knows it all already.

As for the useless bombs... well, there's not much you can do besides ignore them (it's just an overly abused fanboy bawwing tool these days anyway).

Pff. Try 12 hours non-stop.

I promise, it ain't fun for that long. Neither is going to the hospital for it.

There's one thing in particular which I think might end up screwing this over: Most forms of energy generation rely on technology that is neither difficult nor illegal to reproduce from home-made materials. People in rural areas without access to gas or electricity just make their own gas fermenters and generators (which are just petrol generators configured to run on the gas instead).

Why turn money in for energy when you can just make energy for free once you've got a few basic components?

For that matter, why pay for it at all? ;)

Hey, at least I'm lookin' for one.

Stupid lack of decent jobs anywhere... :(

Pshhh. Childhood is overrated.

In my old school, the damn kids were doing that all the time (this was a good 5-6 years ago, mind you). If their parents / teachers / friends don't care (which, in my case, they obviously didn't), why should they?

I just wish they'd grow up in a manner that teaches them responsibility for adult actions as well as the actions themselves - something hardly any of them do until they're about 15.

At 11/18/09 11:09 PM, Zerok wrote: Their marketing messages are directly oppositional. Axe promotes sexism and unrealistic standards of beauty while Dove campaigned against that very notion and promoted female empowerment.

That's actually pretty commonplace among big chemical / pharmaceutical companies. They play both sides of the field to get the customers that buy into whatever notion of lifestyle the adverts are selling, regardless of what their opinion is on which is better. If a person finds one ad style displeasing, and then sees the complete opposite in another brand's ads, they'll likely go for the latter instead. Creating this situation is a good way of making sure you'll always have someone buying your stuff regardless.

At 11/18/09 07:26 PM, Bran-Man wrote: I was listening to the NGAP radio searching for music for the game I'm working on and came across this song:

Unfortunately, there's exactly nothing anyone besides admins can do about stolen audio, besides post it in this thread and hope for the best. Audio mods don't have any tools to delete audio tracks, annoyingly.

It's stolen and the person claims it as his own. Burn him! :)

Now now, this thread isn't for mass-downvoting of audio. That's just pointless as well as against everything the NGPD stands for.

...Then again, there's nothing saying we can't hunt people down and kill them for it, is there? :P

Oh right. Stupid international laws!

Same here. I don't think it's worth worrying about. If it was a case of someone getting into your account, they wouldn't just change the layout (giving away the fact that you'd been hacked) and leave it at that.

If you look, there's one extra userpage modding option on the comments; there's now a 'delete all by this user' button (or something like that). Probably as a response to comment spam on admin pages which Tom decided to give everyone.

Ergo: new userpage feature, and admins need to mess around with settings and such to implement new features, so stuff might get a little rearranged in the process. No biggie; just a new button or two.

Anyone else get something like this? I'm having a hard time seeing why it would be sent to just me and no-one else:

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From: Box-Killa
Sent: 11/17/09 23:46
Subject: hey sheizen

Hey I was just wondering if you would like to take a look at this really cool song I been working on.

It's called calm sky, Its a really nice ambient piece. I think you might like it

:D Well Rate and review :D

Calm_Sky [Box-Killa] (<= is a link in the original PM)

Hey and if you ever need anything rated or reviewed, just give me a message.

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Yes, he managed to personalise the title, but all I've got in the audio portal is 2 reviews. I get the feeling he's sent this to loads of people and just changed the title every time.

Or maybe he just thinks I'm awesome. In which case his family has my deepest sympathy. :P

A Bugatti Veyron for £160? Why the fuck not!?

Also, no. They're far too much of a distraction on the road, and they're too much of a target for thieves. You'll only end up having it stolen or crashing your car while fiddling with it.

At 11/16/09 08:28 AM, citricsquid wrote: I have a question, what's claiming JSA Like? I intend to do to the job centre tomorrow, but I've been told that they don't really give a shit about you getting a job. If possible I'd like to get a job over claiming JSA, but I really don't know what to expect. What's your experience with the job centre been like? Do they try and help you to get a job?

It's a major fanny on, depending on which jobcentre you go to. Most of them want proof that you're trying to find a job or at least reasons why you can't get one right now. I'm glad I don't really need the money, because I'd just end up killing one of the fuckers after a while.

I know they want to discourage lazy-asses, but this is just sadistic. It's like holding a fish just out of a bear's reach for three hours, just to make it jump. >:(

Nah, I'm good for mod revenge. I've been good for random petty shit like that since the London meet.

Ploughing a dodgem into Coop and poking Kirk-Cocaine in the face with a feather duster. >:D

Anyways, have fun trying to stem the BAWWWWWing in there!

At 11/16/09 06:45 AM, Coop83 wrote: Yet there's more people out there today than there used to be B/Ping. The problem is that there are less people making flash ;)

Not at all - lots of the stuff that passes judgement would not necessarily have passed a few years ago. I think the problem is down to people who think that it's going to pass, so they vote 2-5 on it. Dickheads that vote 5 on a flash that's barely worth 2 should have something nasty happen to them in my opinion.

^^This. I was thinking of the old portal mods idea a little while ago, and it came to me that if you could have a team of mods who could see who voted what on which flash (coupled with the ability to vote-ban people), it would make a lot of lazy statwhores think about their actions here.

Don't know why we have audio mods and art mods while not having flash mods, but the idea must've been brought up before, so there must be a reason why it's not a feature (yet).

The main problem there is that it is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Perhaps if we could convince more people to think a flash was going to be blammed, they would change their minds and their votes. Not that I'm encouraging people to vote to Blam stuff, more to vote for what it deserves.

Unfortunately, there's no real way of sending that message to everyone who doesn't realise / care. Reviews aren't for that, and mass-PMing people would just cause annoyance and little else (especially when you don't know who would benefit from such a PM).

Well, there's got to be strings attached, when you have sex, while snowboarding. Too hazardous, otherwise. It's bad enough, with the potential for frostbite.

GAH STUPID MENTAL PICTURES!! FUCK OFF OUT OF MY BRAIN ALREADY!!

.....It wouldn't be so bad if I wasn't 100% certain there'll be a video of that (strings and all) on the internet somewhere. -__-

At 11/15/09 03:51 AM, SlashFirestorm wrote: I'm resigning as the Chief Barracks Officer of the Elite Guard Barracks.

Change happens. Sorry to see it happen, but thanks for all of your hard work.

Yeah, no-one's here forever. He'll be back eventually, I bet.

At 11/14/09 08:22 PM, knightsofthecircle wrote: Ng is a NSFW site.

^^^^This!^^^^^

Seriously, I don't even get why we're supposed to put NSFW tags on stuff. If you're at work / around family, why the fuck are you on NG in the first place!? Everyone knows this is not a family-friendly site, and anyone on the BBS at work is probably gonna get disciplined for laziness anyway, gross pictures or not.

At 11/14/09 02:09 PM, Coop83 wrote: we're seeing a lot less movement on the Blams list, as there's not many blammers in the top 150 that are still active.

Out of the 1.9 million accounts registered on NG, I'd guess that all of 1% are currently active with regards to ANY activity, let alone B/P (only about 250,000 accounts have any B/P values to their names at all). I get why the saves list would go faster than the blams list (it's just plain easier to find save-worthy stuff), but there's bound to be a lot of redundancy in most, if not all, the lists you could make involving NG accounts while making no mention of sign-up dates or any signs of life from them.

Then again, I don't spend anywhere near enough time on NG to ever be on any of those lists, so what do I know. Meh.

By that theory, going to sleep is time travel. You don't remember most of the time between when you went to bed and when you wake up, so where's the difference?

All that would do is create the illusion of time travel. It would carry none of the benefits of real time travel and serve only to cause confusion and amnesia. Although memories CAN be comprehensively (albeit accidentally) erased from certain periods in a person's life, I highly doubt any victim of memory loss feels like a time traveller for it (more just baffled as to where the hell his / her life went).

At 11/14/09 10:36 AM, Lizzardis wrote: Saturday 14rd November 2009
Welcome one, welcome all to the first roster of this new era.

Is... that it? Damn... :(

Oh yeah: Who's going to take over from mwmike now that he's gone? That is, if the job needs filling anyway (Tails seems to be doing fine on his own.

Speaking of Tails:

At 11/14/09 11:29 AM, TailsPrower wrote: Yay! It's great to see our roster back where it should be, cheers for Liz! :) But I'm pretty sure I gained at least ONE point this week since I voted on a handful of UJ's yesterday to level up. It's no biggie really though.

Haha, so you're actually bothering with the B/Ping now? I know you're not going for any more rank-ups, but the race for the 2499 top-spot is still on.
Then again, you've practically lost that to NeonFlame already, so meh.

Also, I haven't seen figter around lately and his apprenticeship is halfway through -__-

Curious. He waited a month for Poozy to unlock the thread, only to disappear after 3 days? Very weird. Well, either he's actin' weird or some shit's happened with him or his computer. Given the month-long wait (and effort to up his post quality), I'd guess the latter.

Thank you Sanjay. I was SO tempted to dig out my alt and post this exact sentiment in all the stupid 'no mods' threads. Then I'd be sad when my little alt inevitably got banned for it.

BAWWWWW!!!

Seriously though: even without the blatant invitations to spam and retardedness these threads bring, they are at the very best doomed to become pointless the second a mod comes online. Now I know there weren't any mods online for a while earlier today, but that doesn't mean there never will be any coming back.

Until someone comes up with a photograph and witness testimony of a big pile of dead mods, and proof that they're not being replaced ever, don't bother posting 'no mods are online now!!!', cause you're only making an idiot of yourself.

At 11/14/09 08:08 AM, Haggard wrote: reverend already answerd that in his post. Only your first vote counts.

*Bangs head on keyboard in an attempt to wake self up*

Shit, my bad. Ta for making it clear anyway.

Another random question:

If you vote to save something before midnight, and vote to blam it when it's still under judgement immediately after midnight, what happens?

At 11/13/09 01:11 AM, Jercurpac wrote: Welcome to the demod club. We meet at Fridays once a week for half off mozzarella sticks during happy hour.

Indeed, Jade, you're now an official member.

Lol blog-whoring.

I suppose now you can show tits without having much to lose... >:P
Seriously, though, you were a nice mod, and I hope you'll keep being a nice person in general. We really need more Jades around here.

Get the cloning kit!