NEW SUBJECT.

i dreamt one night in a beautiful gossamer dream that there was such a device that took the form of a drawing tablet, but was entirely self-contained with a real screen and the ability to use photoshop with no external laptop/computer needed so i could take it and draw anywhere. and without the extra 8 lbs of a cruddy notebook book built into it.

is there such a tablet IN THIS MORTAL REALM? i've been reading about the macpad but its steered to be more of a glorified itouch than a dedicated drawing tablet. my productivity would skyrocket if there was such a tablet that didn't need a host to plug into and feed off of...

after 2012, if man is still alive.

At 10/26/09 04:38 PM, Occluded wrote:

Sucho: so after 'Tell Tale Heart'? Next year are you going to do 'The Raven' or move on from Poe to Lovecraft?

if i find calamari in my happy meal, i'll be sure to let you know

fun fact: today, in the leftovers of my fried chicken, i found that the right lung hadn't been removed in the piece of i was eating. it looked like a miniature brain and it took me a half-second to realize what it was. in my horror i immediately threw it in the trash of course, and washed my hands repeatedly to get off the smell of the deadness and ate a whole bag of sweet synthetic multi-coloured halloween candy to forget all about it.

to no avail.

i kept thinking about it, and realized that the trash truck was delayed this week and it'd be until next tuesday before it would be picked up, and i swear i could actually hear it! it was just barely exhaling faintly in the kitchen. i couldnt leave it in the bag all week. to my shame, i rummaged through and found it, walked onto the porch and thought about throwing it in the woods, but what if the cats brought it back in? my poor mother, her heart is already so weak. my mind sprinted furiously through different methods of disposal, before settling on the most idiotic. in my panic i began tearing up the carpet in my room, there's a spot where the floorboards were dampened and weak, and i buried it under the slats. the dampness set back in, and i couldn't hear it anymore. all was well i thought. surely it'll rot even faster and leave me alone.

unfortunately the neighbors heard my ruckus. since it was past midnight, and since neighbor is a policeman for the adjacent county (weird, i know) that old intuition must not have let him rest. he knocked pleasantly. i let him in, pleasantly. i didnt want to let on that i was being driven in a fit of madness all because of a chicken lung.

we were soon talking politics over a drink or two (he was off today but he works nights so the lateness of the hour didn't bother him) but i started hearing it. the wheezing. i must have started talking pretty loud, his face seemed to grow puzzled at my demeaner. but how couldn't he hear it? i cracked some crude jokes hoping in vain that maybe i could get his laughter to drown out the sound, i even told the good joke i knew about the aborted fetus - but that sound was beating about in my head. i could smell it! i could feel the breath of those horrible exhales sliding over my face! THAT HORRIBLE SMELL OF ROTTING FOWL. i spasmed and began to quake out coughs as if to shake off the breath.....then the sound stopped.... was it over?.....my friend looked at me in worry but a faint smile of reassurance returned to my haggard face.

thats when i heard it crow.

all in an instant i leapt from my chair like a wildman and tore at the floor, my poor guest fell back in horror at my madness, as i screamed:

THERE!!! THERE IT IS!! CAN YOU NOT HEAR IT?!? THERE IS THE WHEEZING LUNG FROM THE BIRD OF SATAN HIMSELF, THERE UNDER THE FLOORBOARDS!!!!!

so yea, you can use that luis if you want.

i love newgrounds' sense of community. the rise and downfall of many a artist is documented with these posts, where anyone can add their two cents, usually in either blind support or senseless indignation. its a continual reminder that real people run this site through and through, and in the end we're all just flitting by to get a bid of attention.

that sounds really bitter, but i'm genuinely pleased that the site is the way it is, and that its not cold and aloof enough to not care about mentioning the people that make/have made it what it is.

a memorial page of sorts, despite how i'm sure people will figure out how to take a digital piss on digital graves, still sounds like a good idea.

i'm actually writing up a goodbye doc for someone to post on my page when i'm gone

At 10/21/09 06:45 PM, AwesomeSaurus wrote: Mine was JohanL! Yay!

^ ^ vylent is pictured above, I believe :p

Have any of you spotted this guy?

hint: I don't even know if this is what he looks like.

lmao

thats going into my file.

At 10/16/09 12:18 AM, Lundsfryd wrote: Low score rant.. C'mon.. Does my work suck this much??

1.67... That is insulting..

visible penis that isn't attached to a chick somehow.

if this collab is still around till the end of the month i'll make something. i think...

probably...

......most likely....?

i land late in the day on the 18th, so i'd like to catch up with you NGger's for a drink if its at all possible. Luis, you still have my number? i still have yours :O

i can get emails through my mobile as well

At 10/6/09 03:17 AM, Captain-Ben wrote:

At 10/6/09 03:07 AM, sucho wrote: not true, i'm busy looking up porn.

And you haven't shared with me yet?!

NOT UNTIL YOU GIVE ME WHATS MINE. YOU KNOW THE ONES I"M TALKING ABOUT

At 10/6/09 02:48 AM, JoeTheToucan wrote: Here I am, up at 07:47 doing English that is due today, while you Americans sleep snugly in your bastard beds.

not true, i'm busy looking up porn.

At 9/30/09 08:30 PM, thelittleemo wrote:

At 9/30/09 06:51 PM, Lundsfryd wrote: STFU little emo fag..

But..I wasn't even doing anything.

haha. cute.

its ben's time of the month. just give him some ibuprofen and nod

At 9/29/09 08:49 AM, JoeTheToucan wrote:

At 9/28/09 05:19 PM, big-jonny-13 wrote:
<3 is less than three

But he gone dun put more than 3. He put 5 in fact- or if you're referring to how many dots are in an ellipse, there are 3 are there not? No less.

go back to math class man, i'm severely mentally handicapped in all forms of mathematics and even i got the joke

that Ansel. he's so hot right now.

At 9/22/09 06:43 PM, big-jonny-13 wrote: Fixed the discontinuity.

thanks man, i had to find another computer just to submit it as fast as i did

WHO ARE YOU

At 9/21/09 03:51 PM, tmkunt wrote: I'm fairly interested in hearing the reasoning the judges had for including or excluding entries, if only for future reference

how about it?

yeh, that was something they did last year. i thought it was pretty constructive as well, and it gave us an insight into how to pander to the judges about penises and gore. always helpful.

my apologies

At 9/20/09 07:22 PM, tmkunt wrote: wooo party

wish bryce and matt's entries were included tho!

i concur. bryce's second entry was a thing of beauty, i hope it gets in the portal

16th to 18th? cant make it, i'll be in san francisco for all of the duration.

HEARTBROKEN

At 9/20/09 02:11 AM, Jonas wrote: Let me know when I can delete the art thread.

Haha :X

oh yoooouu lovable scamp

At 9/19/09 10:03 PM, ReNaeNae wrote:

At 9/19/09 09:59 PM, BoMToons wrote: Or renaenae will beat me to the punch...

KA-POW!!!

THAT METAL FIST AINT JUST FOR SHOW

At 9/19/09 09:45 PM, ReNaeNae wrote: yeah, sorry about that... they never got the permissions things sorted!

TWO HOURS, FIFTEEN MINUTES, AND COUNTING!!! NO PRESSURE!!!!

...sucho?? ...SUCHO!?!??!

fux still needs to submit our collab piece too. but he's AFK out in THE REAL WORLD. LIKE THAT EVEN EXISTS ANYMORE

i feel old. am i the only one noticed that ya misspelled hustle? its like YOU"VE NEVER DONE THE DANCE AT ALL.

is it a beast of pain. or pleasure?

At 9/19/09 02:47 PM, J-qb wrote:

At 9/19/09 12:17 PM, tmkunt wrote: delete that please thanks
colors need tweaked but otherwise I'm done I think
any problems before I submit this?

Hmm, this turned out not quite as good as I expected it to be.... I think there could be quite some more contrast. Still looks great though, dont get me wrong, just that the wips seemed to become a full out "WOUAUAHA... BEST ONE WITHOUT A DOUBT"-piece, wich it wasnt quite.

i thought that for a split second or two because the WIP colours were a bit brighter, but the more i looked at it the more i really came to appreciate the muted style, i think it'd be a good change for a month because everyone tends to use the same kind of intense colours that the NG cast is normally painted in, and this gives it alot more variety. i do agree with the thought on the tankman though, i think he looks especially flat compared to the rest of the crew.

i think any improvements i'd like to see on it, are making the highlights a bit hotter, just to bring out the shadows JUST A LITTLE - because i know it's supposed to be very muted and blurry, but i think something as simple as a soft dodge brush on the cast to the right side will really bring it together. its quite fantastic, and i really want to see it get in.

At 9/17/09 03:17 PM, ReNaeNae wrote:

I'll take that link please... and sucho, I think you posted earlier in this [talk] thread... won't that one work in the art thread too? or wasn't that the final version?!

its wholly bizarre, i accidentally uploaded it here, but then when i tried to upload the screencap to the art thread WITH THE SAME FILE, it wouldnt take. tried it again today. didnt work. newgrounds hates me, even though i love it so :C

oops... wrong topic. i'm still groggy from my food coma...

if you need the high res, just pm me. you know how prompt i am.

At 9/14/09 11:13 PM, CosmicDeath wrote:

Thank Renae! Do you know a good place to upload our artwork on line that won't compress the image? I've been using Photobucket, but I'm worried that it compresses it down to web-res.

does imageshack do the same thing? it always seems to be the same size after it's uploaded. i noticed the 4-bajillion size exceedance as well when i tried to upload.