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It's the Communist new year, right? Oh boy, Obama partying like it's 1917 in Moscow, whoo-hoo!

At 4/30/14 04:25 PM, Morthagg wrote:

At 4/27/14 05:56 AM, Amaranthus wrote: NG Belgium Meet already.
@Breaktroll, @Damien, @Morthagg, @Splats, @Tribal.

Holy crap, you people still remember me?

Well sure, I do! I love your work, and would love it if came by here more often! NG's a nice clearinghouse for art and artists, so I kinda stay put here :\

At 4/29/14 09:04 PM, deathink wrote: PICO DAY WAS AMAZING! I honestly can't express how great a time I had there. Thank you TOM!! <3 <3 <3

Did you grab a stogie like Grub-Xer0? After talking to Stamper about smoking, I thought it better not to indulge. Dude, you're a hoot in real life, was a genuine pleasure to meet you... and to steady the ladder, but you were cool. Some of us were quite swizzled by that time in the party, and I pictured the bloodiest brainsplats I've seen in the Art Portal, should peril befall our drunken selves...

If you want a good and incident free party, invite smart people! I read about a guy who had a party, where something unpreventable happened, and set a sagebrush fire on a farm in Texas. The closest firetruck was 45 minutes away and the wind was starting to pick up. A neighbor had a broken dryer outside his house, one of attendees brought his truck over, ran a chain from the dryer to the hitch, and dragged it around the edges of the fire, smothering it.

At 4/29/14 07:03 PM, yetanotherjohn wrote: Got something in the works, Tom?

Certainly there's a backlog of features and improvements, that need to be made to the site. I had no idea our thumbnails were too small to be seen by the other mainstream sites, so I'd say Tom and liljim are prioritizing what few resources they have, rather well.

Unfortunately, Tom and I didn't speak at length, so I never brought up the possibility of bringing in telecommuting NG members, qualified to tackle some of the sites' outstanding issues. But for the most part, it's all about the little guy getting his stuff out. In the military, the men on the ground come first, and NG is no different. The staff of NG are on the ground, not sitting in an office... well, they are in an office, but they're members of the site too, not just admins.

At 4/29/14 02:14 PM, Loki wrote: Wish I could've come!!

Kept looking for you, anytime a new group huddled in....

RIP NG Office, happy B-day Tom!

And to http://sabtastic.newgrounds.com/ as well. I guess we don't need to make a B-day thread for Tom, since all of last weekend kinda qualifies. Sabsy doesn't usually frequent the BBS (except in matters Pokemon)... and should be touching down in Philly soon to make her merriment. Happy birthday you two :3

At 4/25/14 03:30 PM, TomFulp wrote: celx-requin creates dark visual stories:
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/628686

Ah, now was he there? If so, no one said, and I forgot to ask! It's been almost a year since I've heard anything from him.

And what about that guy who came really late to the party (kinda uninvited, I think), the one with the short beard, curly hair and 3 flash movies? We must've acted like total snobs to him, when he walked up to us on the sidewalk.... I led him upstairs, kinda worried and cautious. He was too skinny to be packing heat, at least. What was his username?!

At 4/28/14 10:47 AM, TomFulp wrote: I swear, I have never desired cake more in my life. I just never made it to the cake in time and then it was all gone, and someone had left out an unfinished piece that looked SO GOOD I almost ate some before dropping it in the trash. At like 4am Sunday morning you mentioned the fourth cake was still in the fridge, then Sunday afternoon I confirmed there was a bag that looked like the cake in the fridge... Late Sunday night I finally hit the fridge to break out that cake, but it was someone's diner leftovers. Sorry for meming but THE CAKE WAS A LIE.

Nooooo! See, this is why I wanted to bring 6 cakes instead of 4, but transportation and refrigeration was such a bitch. Ah well, I didn't have any either. Next visit, I'll bring another :)

Now I'm starting to worry 4 Asterix 'albums' aren't enough, they should be there by the end of the week. I put my phone number on your office address, since I can't find the office number on NG anymore. I left out 'Asterix in Switzerland' because I'm not entirely sure they cut the 'orgy' word from it, though it is one of the top 10 albums published.

Had a grand old time, and I thank you for driving me to the hotel, and being such a great host! If you need a heavy pickup truck to haul or tow stuff, don't hesitate to contact me.

At 4/24/14 03:46 PM, TomFulp wrote: Hmmm I'll try to remember to grab some pickles!

Yeah... and despite what I said, I didn't get a pickle! I meant to get the jar from the counter (I was blindsided by two jars), but I was going somewhere, and when I came back, I didn't see them... ah well , they don't go bad. Also didn't get a piece of any of the cake (just a sliver of chocolate from the top of the last piece), or even the krispy tank! Too much schmoozing.

At 4/20/14 11:15 PM, Pokemonpoeguygcn wrote: You passed 18,000 Blams. Impressive!

Congrats man, that's a damn good stat to have.

"Thanks for voting, VicariousE! Your experience has been automatically deposited! With that vote, you now have 10,000 experience points." The first 10K is the roughest, IMO

At 4/24/14 08:26 PM, Grub-Xer0 wrote: Can I crash the party?

A bit late to ask, huh? You've never done the office party before?

I wouldn't rat you out if you showed up!

At 4/24/14 01:06 PM, TomFulp wrote: Pico Day is this Saturday and I'll post a link to a live stream from the NG office, where a bunch of NG people will be hanging out.

Good looking guest list! Will there be pickles at Pico Day? What's a nosh without a pickle, know what I'm sayin'?

At 4/24/14 02:16 AM, DoctorStrongbad wrote: Why did it take 13 years to achieve?

In 2003 I dumped my ISP (along with my email address), then I starting using my cousin's computer. The problem? NG went through a redesign. After the transition, my long password was necessary to log on. I used to be able to enter 8-10 characters of my original, submitted password, and that would work! Half a dozen years later, I found my old password sheet, and remembered the whole string of characters and numbers...

I really did not want to make another NG account, especially since it took me over a year to make it! I eventually saw that Tom was an upstanding citizen, and wouldn't let my email get hacked, sold or scammed. Back then (pre-2000) your ISP gave you one email address. If you wanted another one, it cost, just like all the other mail services out there. Then the free accounts showed up, but there was a catch: they owned the content your email. Now all web-based, free email is subject to whoever runs the business.

Level 31, which took 13 years to achieve. At least there's a number symmetry in there...

At 4/21/14 03:45 PM, DoctorStrongbad wrote: Watch out, the medals will haunt your dreams. Before you know it, the years will fly by.

Lol, what d'ya mean 'the years will fly by'? I'm not as old as gamejunkie, but it sure seems like I've been here longer! Ah, it's life; the older you get, the faster the years pass :p I'm just pissed when I clear the cache on big games, without backing up first... gotta have some priorities, and my 1/2Gb of RAM laptop needs constant flushing.

At 4/21/14 05:22 AM, Cyberdevil wrote:

112. 092315 | ====== | ====== | ====== | VicariousE *NEW*

@VicariousE what a jump in! Welcome.

Tanks man! Gotta catch 'em all!

At 4/20/14 01:19 AM, Sevkat wrote:

At 4/20/14 01:12 AM, VicariousE wrote:

happy 1k post to me

nice1 only took 13 years

You motherfuckers in here are crazy, that's why I hid in the back for so long. Well, not you personally so much, you've got your own BBS to lord over now, right? Big respect for that. You ever meet Wade?

At 4/20/14 01:22 AM, Piggler wrote: Fill up a glass of water, submerge the pipe in the glass, and boil it in the microwave. The resin will just fall off and float to the top of the water.

It shouldn't crack, so long as the auto-lazy-susan thing keeps spinning.

The pipe will be just like new and you can sell it.

Exactly, mo money, mo money, mo money.

At 4/19/14 06:56 PM, arnold547 wrote:

Hey kid, you're alright! I like your enthusiasm, but it has to be tempered with knowledge. Show your buddy how to disable Ad-Block for sites that he likes. Supporting the little guy is how this country was made; the modern phrase is 'pay it forward', the old phrase was 'the common cause'. All we can do now, is vote with our wallet, since the US has become an oligarchy.

I'm glad you're enjoying the site @arnold547 Happy Easter and Happy Newgrounds Birthday!

At 4/20/14 12:55 AM, solamander wrote:

At 4/20/14 12:29 AM, PotHeadParadise wrote: dont use it pipes are for pussies. use paper like a real man

pipes are more convenient, and they are just nice looking too

Yeah, only mainstream kids got the dough to let that smoke go :| That looks like a 30-40$ pipe at least!

In Canada (I think) they have a vending machine that spits out crack pipes, supposedly to keep the addicts from using more dangerous (and less healthy) pipe-like devices... socialism man.

happy 1k post to me

At 4/20/14 12:48 AM, Clamstuffer wrote: Is there like a "gold" support package maybe? One that costs more than $25 and includes Tom's dick in my mouth?

(I think my thousandth post, is a double post :p)

I asked Tom about how much a lifetime supporter tag would cost, he didn't answer the question. I guess it goes back to when he was debating private capital, over austerity measures/supporter upgrades (he chose the latter)... It's more democratic to have an even playing field, so no one feels left out. I'd much rather donate to an ad fund, to get the word out... MORE ADS!!

I figure my crotch supporter upgrade (the red highlight to the left) offsets a certain percentage of ad-block users. And for the folks who get a limited amount of bandwidth each month, I'd say it's a smart move. A lot of ppl in the US get an unlimited amount of data from their ISP, but the trend everywhere else, is to charge a set amount of GB's per month.

I don't even have Flash activated, I only unblock it for NG, and streaming TV shows off dubious servers. I'm running a 11 y/o laptop with 1/2 GB of RAM :\ I have to right click like crazy, to get a low CPU playback, and if there's ads, I just set FF's CPU priority to below normal, so the Flash plugin can bypass running ads and gifs in the background. Improvise, overcome, adapt, is the Marine way :|

'It's a free country... only there's no guarantees, it's the law of the jungle.' -- Hippie in the original Robocop flick

At 4/19/14 07:30 PM, Natick wrote: i always imagined you having a thin beard or something

In HS I had a mustache, then I grew a goatee, shaved it off when my Ma complained... could never grow another one that looked as good, but kept the mustache for many years... I looked too much like a cop or Mexican :\

At 4/19/14 01:26 PM, StrapOnFetus wrote: With a corrupt USA government, do you think that action is required against, money wanting politician/senators and would a, civilians storming the white house in a 10 million man march to take the white house change things over the corrupt current goverment change things.

Nah, the Senate and House have to want to change. If we start rolling towards DC, the army would lock it down... they have satellites, and keep tabs of what's said online. No mass protest would happen without DC girding it's loins :| Would a mass march on DC work? Good question. Could turn into an awful bloodbath though.

I only ask, that you take this question seriously, think about it. Our freedom and constitutional rights have be in question before and more so since the patriot act for a small example.

It's those presidential executive orders that's the problem - they can lock anyone up for any reason, if the establishment should feel threatened. Constitutionally, we the people have the right to put down our current government and start over again, but it seems unlikely, considering the massive oligarchy we have now.

Do you own a car? How's it been running? Had it long?

Part of the reason for getting so many, was the cool icon you'd get, and a spot on the leaderboard, one of the few ways to buy yourself up the ranks...

I lurked all the pages in this thread. You can tell can't you? Just rolled out of bed and decided to post whatever. Damn sunlight killed all the stray hairs near my forehead. Guess I better wear a hat to next weeks' party...

Anyone know who's doing the graphic for Pico Day 2014, or when it's likely due? Just looking back at the Collection pages of prior events, it'd be kinda nice to see each years' picture on the page.

At 4/14/14 01:01 AM, gamejunkie wrote: Please add VicariousE to the next list. He should have been on here for a while now. 90,480 at last count should jump him up the list a bit.

Thanks for the endorsement, I won't be striding up the list as fast as I'd like, but we'll see!

At 4/17/14 06:04 PM, UNDERNATION wrote: Keruoac resembles more a entitled college drop-out than most traveling kids I think, though to there are college drop-outs and plenty of entitlement. Kerouac never had punks hustles, Punks do a lot of labour sometimes, harvesting, and med studies. I've done a small bit of labour, but it's not a necessity.

Boy you nailed Kerouac down pat! That's why I suggested the OP read a bit of Studs Terkel's stuff, at least he was down in the dirt, getting it from the horses' mouth, so to speak. Eating apple pie and ice cream isn't exactly roughing it.

Getting spots to clean-up depends entirely on where you are. There are shelters, or places that proved food and a shower, churches, I've gone door to door before with mixed results, not to mention punk houses and all the things that subculture provides.

I wouldn't recommend bathing in irrigation ditches, like the ones out in California; way too much chemical fertilizer run off. You'd look like the guy from the original Robocop, that had toxic waste dumped on him. Thanks for weighing in dude, sucks you can't be up here for Pico Day. Next time you're in the area, I'm gonna swing by!

At 4/17/14 02:18 PM, Whirlguy wrote: Wow, just another Psycho. I remember back in the day that made quite an impression on me. It's still awesome.

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  Just Another Psycho by Evil-Dog

  A little movie about Mike the psycho dude and Peter his annoying "friend"..

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  4.28 / 5.00

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  Movie

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  128,751 Views

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  Ages 17+

Yup, 10 years ago to the day! It's fun to go back and check out the beginnings of all the mainstream producers here.

At 4/17/14 01:46 PM, Ass-Crumb wrote: Never actually been to pinkerton, in all honesty. Mobile's the current worst trainyard to find yourself in.
Sidenote, I've met people who hopped aRound playing starcitygames opens (competitive magic the gathering tournaments for money) and made decent money. Something kind of random and cool, also met traveling comic authors and artists and bands and whatnot.

In my lifetime, the only gypsy type bands out there were biker clubs, migrant workers... and the Deadheads, do they ride the rails and follow bands?

Not really, I've only had to go to free clinics for the most part, they get the job done.

So you have somekinda smartphone with wifi access that gets you around? Must be hard navigating at times, unless you just stop and ask (how primitive!)

Never read it, never had to work alongside immigrants or anything, I've actually gotten two 'real jobs' since I left my hometown. Busking generally does the trick though, alongside food stamps (I am fucking lazy w/e)

It's worth a look. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studs_terkel authored a lot of books on the Depression and the indigent lifestyle, very compelling stuff.
Thanks for telling us of your experiences!

At 4/17/14 12:11 PM, Vinnyy wrote: Damn. I didn't know anyone this old comes to this site. You might just be the oldest member here. I think I'll call you the elder of NG.

Speaking for myself, I don't think I was that old when I joined up here.... I am now though |: Oddly enough, we share some of the same prescriptions, and if the mail wasn't x-rayed and scanned, I'd have sent him a few dozen transdermal back patches! Hopefully, I won't need them; they take almost a week of wear before they start affecting the muscles.