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At 1/16/14 11:20 PM, Sense-Offender wrote:

At 1/16/14 07:42 PM, Prinzy2 wrote: not sure what side effects that eating human flesh regularly would result in.

It's the brain that's the most dangerous to eat, plenty of nasty things up there.

Tuberculosis? Vanished. As did the headaches and the black thoughts.

Oh man, what's the name of that flick? It was awesome; civil war squad rides with cannibal who gets stronger the more he eats people, real solid film!

At 1/16/14 07:39 PM, Painbringer wrote: Like, can the whole thing just be put in a blender, bones and all, and just eaten raw?

Have you gone completely sideways? The further up the food chain you go, the more likely it is to be tainted with chemicals and disease. Read this and check out the stats http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Donner_Party

At 1/16/14 04:06 PM, WadeFulp wrote: Verizon FIOS users will hopefully notice the largest imrpovement. I pay for a 75/25mbps connection and as we get later into the day (EST) the site would slow down to a crawl for me. I would literally watch images in the art portal load in like I was back on a 14.4k modem. Did anyone else experience this as we went into the evening? If so, how is it now?

I'm on Verizon, and while certain files flew like shit through a goose yesterday, the stuff from the Art Portal ran about the same... now, everything runs nice and fast! You should've tried overclocking those modem cards, back in the day...

This is a big win for Newgrounds, thanks to the staff for all the hard work! As Tom says, it might take another few hours for the planet to adjust to the change of service :)

I've only animated on paper, and long ago. However, here's a sketch segment for anyone without one.
It's got promise. If someone does use it, just credit me, I don't need no ad-rev.

A long stick enters screen left, a few feet above the ground. Eventually, you see a guy walking the very long stick/pole over to the gap. He throws it up in the air, and it lands at the bottom of the gap, with a few feet to spare at the top, as it eventually leans against the left bank (after banging against the right bank wall).
The guy picks up the stick and bangs it on the gap's bottom, to test its sturdiness. The guy runs off screen to the left, then runs even faster to the pole, grabbing it and vaulting towards the other side, with enough momentum to get there. Halfway across, the pole falls straight down, as if caught in a bottomless golf ball hole.

It might have been done already. Maybe I saw it in a cartoon like the Pink Panther, or the Rocky and Bullwinkle Show.... or Tom and Jerry for that matter.

I was so damn anxious to make an account, after about a year of lurking... all the names I had in mind were taken! Sure didn't want to add numbers to my username... at the time, this was playing on cable. The movie itself had a wild, free spirit that totally reminded me of this site.

Vicarious: Experienced or gained by the loss or to the consequence of another, such as through watching or reading. People experience vicarious pleasures through watching television.

At 1/15/14 01:04 PM, TomFulp wrote: The whole Net Neutrality thing is scary, the problems we've been having for the past six months are because companies like Verizon want to double-dip - get paid by their customers but also by the companies from who their customers are pulling data. Brendon is trying something today though with a CDN (content delivery network) to speed up performance... Seems to be working. How's NG running on your end?

Strange! The swf's and streaming mp4's seem to blast straight through, no problem (fuckin' yay!), but the pictures in the Art Portal are almost as slow as they were before.

I still can't understand why the IP's can't charge Netflix more, or bump them into a premium corporate/commercial account...

At 1/14/14 12:41 PM, kkots wrote: Sorry for off-topic.

Don't be! We're all trying to pull together here. Unfortunately @tomfulp has a limited staff with which to maintain and document the site properly. Since this is his post, and sending a PM is kinda pushy, listing questions and concerns here is (seems) welcome enough.

For my part, I was a bit thrown by this article on Net Neutrality, though I suspect Tom's read the same news... At least I won a medal the other day, thanks to Verizon's purposely slow connection to Newgrounds (along with Netflix, the crux of the crisis).

At 1/13/14 05:54 PM, ash wrote: I DO NOT support wind turbines.

I don't either, but a good windmill with a small generator's cool. Those sky mulchers make plenty of noise.

I'm saving my money, just because. The because part, is due to: adulthood, no safety net, no car or landownership (just waiting to make my move). There's so many uncertainties in life, you just can't afford not to save!

At 1/13/14 07:00 PM, Addict wrote: where is this at?

Here and now, apparently. Just have to have a tab with the BBS open is all it takes.

i may come & bring cheesecake for everybody :o

Promises, promises....

At 1/13/14 05:53 PM, Hoeloe wrote:

At 1/13/14 05:38 PM, Sword-of-Kings wrote:

At 1/13/14 05:35 PM, ModernMudkip wrote: I got a reply from Wade, apparently security was compromised and the account locked down for that reason.

Is it possible for you to get it back?

Yes, apparently!

That's still strange as hell. I'm just wondering if yours was the only account 'compromised'... No specifics, huh? Possible someone was writing bad reviews or other mischief while you were away from this account?

The number of BBS users and new members, are two completely different things. Not everyone who joins up posts in the BBS, I sure didn't when I joined. The asshole per capita back then was through the roof! Still, I got such a thrill seeing Mods cussing the holy hell out of annoying little kids.

At 1/13/14 01:54 PM, Viper50 wrote: Yeah it does suck....though when I get him there there aren't that many kids driving around so I don't have to worry about it as much. Now picking him up from school on the other hand. THAT is a nightmare.

Can imagine. I've seen the local HS when they open the cell doors....

He is friends with a couple people who have access to wheels.

Hmm, maybe give him a few singles for gas money; far easier for him to catch a ride home, when the vehicle's already there.

I noticed the OP isn't here, or at least left his computer on |:

Looks like something a kid would love to get in the mail each month. I used to do the Columbia House mail order CD's and cassette tapes, and proof sets from the US Mint. So, before I was even 18, my credit score was high enough to get credit card offers in the mail :\

Wouldn't get anything like that nowadays... except for Omaha Steakhouse, vacuum packed pieces of meat, yay!

At 1/12/14 03:27 PM, supergandhi64 wrote: If Americans Don't Know About It Then It's Probably Not Very Interesting

This comment smacks of trolling, rather than sarcasm.

--supergandhi64

Signing, now capitalizing every word, certainly doesn't make your posts any easier to read.

Yes, I've watched Red Dwarf in the distant past, and got a kick out of it's setting and premise. A show with writing like that, probably wouldn't make it on air these days, and it just goes to show how things have changed in the mainstream media.

At 1/13/14 01:24 PM, Viper50 wrote: Nah not really. I just had to get used to waking up at a different time in the morning than what I was used to.
Also the school isn't super far away so it's not like I'm driving a really long distance or something.

Yeah, still, it sucks rolling out of bed and driving amongst the worst demographic of drivers.... still hope you 'run into' a nice chick tho.

Can't he use one of those battery powered scooters? I think they have them at Pep Boys...

He can hardly ride a bike let alone a regular scooter. I don't think I'd be able to trust him to NOT crash on one of those things.
Also I have no idea where the nearest Pep Boys is around here.....

:\ Hopefully he'll make some friends that have access to wheels soon.

Happy Birthday mah man!
So you're over 21 now, huh? Wait... better stop before I say anything negative on this festive occasion ;) Hope today is full of pleasant surprises!

Facebook is like New Jersey, it's better to get out while you're young. Don't they track other sites you've been to while on Facebook? Play around online long enough, those algorithms can probably psychoanalyze you...

At 1/12/14 09:34 PM, Viper50 wrote: Same here. Though I will have already been up for like 4 hours beforehand because I have to take my brother to school in the morning.

That school run you've been doing lately must be a real kick in the plums |: Can't he use one of those battery powered scooters? I think they have them at Pep Boys...

At 1/12/14 01:46 AM, sonicfangirl01 wrote: So, I asked my mom, "Mom, why doesn't dad use condoms?" "Because, I'm... Uh, allergic to them." I was pretty shocked. What's your thoughts on why your mom or dad didn't use condoms?

Because there is a psychological and physiological need for women to have sperm in their vagina... adjusts brain chemistry, makes them more content and less scatter brained. There's plenty of articles on the subject (women semen)... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/2067223.stm Perhaps that's why there's still an issue with teenage pregnancy.

At 1/11/14 05:43 PM, Viper50 wrote: Welcome to the site.
Be sure to check the rules to see what will and what may result in your being banned and all that fun stuff,

Don't be such a killjoy mon, it's reacting to trolling that's liable to cause troubles...

Welcome bud, look forward to seeing your artistry in the Art Portal someday!

At 1/3/14 10:06 PM, Tykwa wrote: What is a computer?

Electronic abacus, basically.

The computer has always had a lot of "Nerd" Negativity in the old times, However today the term is technically abolished among a simple acquisition of even non-computer related basic skills, Did you ever grow through the old times?, Did you ever notice the transition?

I guess a few years after desktop publishing, and video games got past the 4 bit stage, it became more mainstream. Computers used to take jobs, screw up personal information, and send bills (still do!), so there was a definite hatred for his machine early on. The stigma of 'solid state' devices, that were anything but, also took time to refine, then accept.

The computer has existed for us almost throughout our entire lives, constantly changing just as everything else, What do you think would be the biggest change to come?

Quantum (entanglement) speeds and connectivity, coupled with an escalation of the e-war now underway... IDK. But as I used to say last century, we'll be programming 'this' device for centuries and millennium to come, with stranger and more useful purposes.

At 1/10/14 10:09 PM, PyroGreg wrote: There's a movie where a guy frauds money from his work at some office by stealing the small amount of money that's rounded off by the computer or something so it goes unnoticed,

I love Office Space, but the idea was ganked from Superman 3 |: Richard Pryor lands a hard won job in data entry, and somehow becomes this super-hacker, who does the same thing... think he drove a Ferrari to work. Of course his boss doesn't freak out, in fact he makes Pryor his henchman, and he constructs a supercomputer to seize all world assets...

At 1/11/14 01:43 AM, poxpower wrote: Since when do fans of any specific thing refer to their community with a special word? In the rare instances that people do ( Juggalos, Trekkies ) it's entirely negative and mocked ( for good reason ).

There's some good Trekkies and Browncoats (Firefly/Serenity) out there; they organize into charity groups, perform public service, and socialize out IRL. Plus a good portion of them are either serving in the armed forces, or are vets.

But yeah.... ugly. Before the internet rules, there was rule #1: everything's for sale.

I never played Pokemon, but this seems like it may have something to do with the franchise. Or Mario, maybe...
*hits upload, then post..... and runs away, not looking back*

At 1/9/14 06:23 PM, ZJ wrote: I wonder what we will see from @WadeFulp this year?!?! Hopefully more weather porn!

You know, I almost forgot about that! I should've said something to him about it last year, Oh well, plenty more opportunities for wx pron this year, but I doubt he'll be as creative as this....

Got the date marked on my lame/free calendar. It's just a rough time, because it's during school hours for the most part. I guess the whole day counts as a BBS sit-in then.

At 1/9/14 12:03 PM, BoMToons wrote: I wonder about the NG "image" problem. There are plenty of sites with nsfw stuff that still have mainstream appeal (tumblr for example), but they seem to have cracked the egg of "sharing" their content easily. It's still fairly hard to share my NG stuff outside of linking directly to NG.

Tom kinda covered this last year, but I'm with you - there has to be a way to get more and better advertisers on board, as well as making the 18+ thing legit, without having to split the whole site up.

Are you opposed to asking people to make things NG exclusive? Possibly even focusing on the smaller "up and comers" to make some exclusive stuff in a series or something to build their name on NG before branching out?

I'm wondering if Tom could ask us to send some nasty email to Verizon and Cogent, so they can resolve this Netflix/bandwidth throttling issue, so my connection to NG doesn't resemble what it was, when I first joined up here |: It really is that bad. Whose doorstep do I have to poop on to get results?

At 1/9/14 12:44 PM, i-am-ghey wrote: i say random things too when i am bored.

Yeah, exactly. You never really know someone, until you fuck with their brain a little, and asking or saying weird shit is a good way to find out. Besides, to a heterosexually married guy (who might be thinking about having kids one day), maybe the OP was cute. Or a latent homo, or tweaked on liquid rush (do they still even make that stuff anymore?).

At 1/9/14 12:35 PM, Cyberdevil wrote: It started out relatively regular, but then one fateful day... I stumbled upon a mystery box in stock! Now it's rocking a lots.

Good news.

Awe snap, it's rare one of those things are available! I'd like to get one, but I'm worried some of the things I left behind at NG HQ last year, will be sent straight back to me! Make a post in General after it shows up, yeah?

At 1/8/14 06:27 PM, BumFodder wrote: dying or dead graphics card

That's what I think. Could be the fan on the graphics card took a poop (or a knock to the computer means the board isn't seated properly). Best unplug the thing all the way, take the cover off, take it outside, and blow all the dust out of it. If the fans can't cool the chips, bad and weird things can happen.

I found this place in my late 20's, not long before Tom hooked up with Troma Films as a major sponsor. And those little 13 year olds the OP was talking about, were severely trounced in the BBS at the time; it was like watching high school freshmen, play football against college seniors. And there was blood. And lulz at the blood.