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And after some tumultuous turns, and a loss of some notifications, double/triple/quadruple posting, is now a thing of the past!
Big thanks to all the staff for making it happen! But knowing (what bugs remain, including a mangled post or two), is only half the battle!

At 5/22/13 02:35 PM, EventHorizon wrote: Continues the unboxing albeit slowly, I now have 2 brooches and 2 dice that are probably from one casinÃf² in Las Vegas, interesting...

From the late 1980's, I picked up a glass bank mug, filled with stuff from the 'Eldorado Hotel and Casino', in Reno Nevada. It had playing cards, a water-filled glass with a 'bobber and hook inside' type game, pair o' dice (which are all yours now), and plastic playing cards.

The mug itself wasn't much bigger than your fist, but they jammed it all in there. All told and slightly prose, it was part of an old not-so-Mysterious Box I bought before I was out of my 20's :)

At 5/20/13 10:58 PM, silverspecks wrote: I've heard multiple stories about people in their 90s and above who eat things like bacon and drink wine and beer.
Thoughts?

If you feed a cat or a dog, the same kibble year in and year out, they'll live to a ripe old age. Change the kibble too often, they die, likely from having to deal with too many different toxins. Same goes for cigarettes: change your brand more than twice, your risk of cancer increases even more.

They should just give access to all the off-site portals (YouTube, Facebook, etc), to the mods and admin... let them update NG's presence willy-nilly, which is preferable to little or nothing, as it is now :| If they fuck up, it can only be good press.

The whole site now resembles D.C. Cab, and I'm wondering when Adam Baldwin is going to come in and save the day.

I'll be in my bunk :|

At 5/14/13 09:19 PM, WyteNoiz wrote: I have a question but don't want to put it on here and please no ridicule and smartass NG replies. Please message me and give me a how to tutorial on the subject matter. Thank You!

It's highly unlikely anyone would take issue with a legitimate question... we all can't know everything, and generally, the Where is / How to? section of the BBS is quite supportive.

At 5/14/13 06:21 PM, Fisplen wrote: I'm about to post something in it but I'm wondering , what are the norms of it?
Do You post links to Your story or do You write if all up on separate posts or something like that?
Could someone give me some clean what not and what to do in those forums?

Well, I've never submitted to the Writing Forum, but I suppose either option is good. Having a link to your newspage (blog) on NG, is just as good as submitting the whole thing to a thread.

Have a look at what others are doing in the Writing Forum, then decide for yourself :)

Try asking here, and be specific in what you're looking for. It would help if you had uploaded some audio, so the animator knows what he or she is in for, should they accept.

At 5/19/13 05:56 PM, nanocon wrote: hey yall im a stencyl game maker (yet to post ) and i was wandering how do i put the actionscript 3.o stuff into it as i lack any knowlage on it

Try asking in the Flash forum or maybe evenProgramming.
But I think you'll find the answer in the Flash forum, if you look out for other Stencyl posts. Good luck!

Try asking in the Animation forum. If a suitable answer isn't already there, describe the software you are using, and ask what menu/tool steps are needed, to get what you want.

At 5/17/13 02:33 PM, TomFulp wrote: Every entry in the Construct 2 Touch Jam has now been played and tested on an iPhone 5 to provide feedback for developers to keep in mind moving forward.

For all the work that was done to create this post, I sure hope to hell the authors of these works, all come and see this! If you had a secretary, you could get her to PM all those authors about this! I'm very glad you're keeping up with emergent platforms for NG (hope the mobile user votes!)

BTW, there a General uprising. Have Tim start boiling oil and lead in big kettles on the roof, because the gripe-wagon is storming the gates of Newgrounds. I'm on a gripe-break, so I'll have a smoke and watch.

At 5/19/13 08:46 AM, Profanity wrote:

At 5/19/13 01:48 AM, VicariousE wrote: Well, I'm pretty sure Antarctica isn't a continent.

I've never heard any of that. If Antarctica isn't part of the Antarctic Tectonic Plate, then why don't we hear anything about submarine exploration of the underside, rather than drilling through miles of ice to research amcient lakes and study the atmospheric evidence in ice cores?

I'm not denying Antarctica is connected to the tectonic plate, but it's mostly fresh water ice that's keeping it in place. Not just a few structures of icicles, but square miles of it... that's why the Russians and others are drilling own from the surface (with many gallons of anti-freeze, to prevent refreezing of the hole), to get at some of the fresh water lakes that are inside of Antarcticas base. Some of the perimeter underwater structures, have already been videoed by submarines, and have shots of the miniscule life that survive there (which I saw on TV about a decade ago, fascinating stuff!)

Well, I'm pretty sure Antarctica isn't a continent. It's just a floating mass of porous sandstone (in the distant past, from India and Australia) and ice, fixed in place, by frozen fresh water, stalagmiting to the bottom of the ocean. Calling Antarctica a continent, is one of the biggest lies of modern times (or so my old science teacher said). Probably, to keep people from fleeing coastal cities, in favor of the high ground....
Are there any ancient cities near the ocean.. at all? Where did the water from the Dead Sea come from? History suggests, that this floating demon, occasionally falls apart, and wreaks havoc on our planets surface (water displacement from large sections breaking off, and either bobbing around or sinking).
The the rotation of the Earth, carries these undulations, deep into the Eastern shores of our world (given enough time, and depth to build the wave). It's not unlike cannon balling into the shallow end of a large Olympic sized pool. The quick violent action at one end, travels along the bottom of the ever deepening pool, where it crashes in high waves, at the deep end. This scares the hell out of me :|

I'm from the 1980's so, this. John Lithgow was teh man.

At 5/17/13 08:02 AM, ragnkinson wrote:

At 5/17/13 07:54 AM, VicariousE wrote:
That's the wonder of existence, isn't it? The real joy in life, is the limitless possibilities.

That is why we as human beings need both logic with imagination and reason with creativity (or whatever you would put in) in the way we think and see the world

And that'll be the one (of the many you listed) thing(s) that saves us meek folk, from tyranny and their long standing plans. Nature provides great lessons for us, have we the wit to observe them logically, and take understanding of it to heart.

At 5/17/13 07:48 AM, ragnkinson wrote:

At 5/17/13 07:40 AM, VicariousE wrote:
Oh hell yeah! I never revered Kennedy like the Baby Boomer kids did, but can appreciate the presence he had on the government and the people of his day. Plus Forrest Gump made him look good in the cinematic mock-ups. And big kudos to him for making the space-race a thing we could win.

I can still imagine how my children and grandchildren would ask me how in the world it would be possible.

That's the wonder of existence, isn't it? The real joy in life, is the limitless possibilities.

At 5/17/13 07:27 AM, ragnkinson wrote:

At 5/17/13 04:05 AM, VicariousE wrote:

At 5/16/13 07:51 AM, ragnkinson wrote: I'd go back to Kennedy's time were he held speeches on tv and stand behind him doing silly things

Please.... Kennedy's assassination was THE watershed moment of the 20th century. Too bad he died a few months after making this speech. Some people believe he was referring to the forces behind Federal Reserve.

It would still be funny to be able to tell stories about when you were on tv during one of Kennedy's speeches.

Oh hell yeah! I never revered Kennedy like the Baby Boomer kids did, but can appreciate the presence he had on the government and the people of his day. Plus Forrest Gump made him look good in the cinematic mock-ups. And big kudos to him for making the space-race a thing we could win.

At 5/17/13 03:09 AM, Tony-DarkGrave wrote: this whole liberal administration is anti-gun Holder with Fast and Furious trying to "Make people not like guns", the 2 attempts in congress to pass intrusive gun laws on citizens. and the State Department fucking with more shit.

if anyone is interested I have all of the 3D Gun Plans on file before the State Department pulled this shit and I am More than happy to share them!

PM me a link or something. Ammo might be hard to come by, but information is power. I've never shot anything bigger than a deer, and don't plan to. If you want to make something cheap and deadly, well, necessity is the mother of all invention, isn't it. And Americans have been at the forefront of innovation for quite some time.

Gun violence has dropped since the 90's (while the population has increased), pharmaceutical drug use has sky rocketed (along with cancer, mortgage failure and many civil rights). Pick a bigger threat. The world went nuts when moveable type was invented. 3d printers have been around for a while, thanks to electronic lathe machines. Don't fear freedom, fear the architects of society.

At 5/16/13 04:14 AM, Kwing wrote: I wouldn't mind going back to 1990 and re-experiencing the golden age of pinball machines (especially '95) and video games (especially '97).

Man after my own heart, but you'd have to visit a museum to hit all the truly great classics. I shitted out of a decent job, just to work at an arcade, not that long ago. Pinball games actually did well with big names: Star Trek, Kiss, Robocop.....

At 5/16/13 07:51 AM, ragnkinson wrote: I'd go back to Kennedy's time were he held speeches on tv and stand behind him doing silly things

Please.... Kennedy's assassination was THE watershed moment of the 20th century. Too bad he died a few months after making this speech. Some people believe he was referring to the forces behind Federal Reserve.

At 5/16/13 09:28 PM, CosmicRainbow wrote: I'd go back to the 30s and become good friends with Huey P. Long (Former Louisiana Governor). I wouldn't save him from being shot, though. God knows what kind of shit would happen if he was president, which was likely to happen....

You must live down South, or have a very unique perspective of history indeed!

Myself, I'd go back to the American Revolution, just to observe... up till Cornwallis was captured in Yorktown, thanks to double-agent James Armistead, an enlightened slave. Everything up to that point was pure, luck/magic/divine providence.
Then I'd go, full-on, 21st century techno-mage on dat time-period, and support the better angels of those who birthed a nation.... Jefferson was a right prick (politically) :| Ben Franklin was the ultimate wild-card character :)

World came down

At 5/16/13 08:21 PM, DarkMatter wrote: I was in 6th grade. The night before I had a bad dream, woke up to my mom turning on the TV and being alarmed.

Actually, I remember the night before 9/11/01. I read an article, which I can't find, saying that the Pentagon had over 2 trillion dollars of spending, unaccounted for. "There's gotta be some significant fallout over this...", I thought.

Too bad the Pentagon servers, which contained its accountancy records, got hit by, a still undocumented/unseen, aircraft. Better still, the 'airplane' hit the single un-reinforced wall of the 5 sided building, that housed these financial servers.

Many years before 9/11, I had read an article about how they couldn't get the matching marble/stone, to complete the renovation/reinforcement. So they held off... then they lost the funds to complete the upgrade, or some other bullshit. Then they said they wouldn't upgrade that wall, because of a lack of crucial assets on that side of the building. This has been brewing for a very long time, by the unelected, ungoverned elements, of the United States government.

I'm 40 years old, and did read the newspaper, before many of you were born.

I was awoken by my brother calling from the West coast. He said turn on the TV, which I blearily did. I had just scrapped cable, which had bumped up their rates for the third time in one year. The reception on the tube was less than average. I did pick up channel 9, out of Secaucus, NJ. I saw a smoking slender building, then a big explosion (the second plane hitting, in real time). My brother spoke of war. On who... over a building? How many non-Americans have we killed in the past 10 years, in undeclared wars, for our governments interests?

I went up to my parents house, to get a clearer picture. It looked like bullshit. The shots of the second aircraft, didn't look like a normal commercial passenger jet. It looked smaller and colored a light OD green.... I took a trip up the road, where I once saw a huge fire plume from a gas line rupture, at night almost 30 miles away. There I saw the smoke, some 60 miles away to the North, on that pristine, warm day.

And the New City in the New World went mad, and never recovered again, the end.

Considering the quite evil statements (and actions) made by the leaders of Google, perhaps Bing or Yahoo would be a better alternative for logistic support :| Still, pursuing Google +1, or whatever it is, would seem a reasonable course (as I'm sure Wade would agree), to maximize our presence on the Web, and provide an alternate information stream.

Is there a way users pages can show how many views (and replies) it receives? is there a way for the review protocols be implemented into blogs, so double/triple/quadruple posts can finally be a thing of the past? I caught you (Tom) double posting (and properly apologizing).... who's responsible for fixing this?

Still (sometimes) getting a 504, "Newgrounds is down at the moment..", when I check the bbs/blog updates, right below your newspost on the Front Page. This concludes my griping :)

At 5/14/13 11:38 PM, EVanimations wrote: I just want to get a kind of general consensus.

Jordan's post got you thinking?
Of course there's more out there that we're not aware of. There's no way the universe can exist and operate based on our limited perceptions. Even with science, we're still a few centuries away from getting a handle on the nature of existence.

I'd even like to think, the 'future humans' in your work, still have certain unanswered questions... without questions to ask, obstacles to overcome and new vistas to explore, what are we (as a race)? To seek, to strive, to find, is humanities lot in life.

At 5/10/13 04:41 PM, Cyberdevil wrote: Alternatively, combining the UJ page with Latest; making it harder for people to evade voting decisively should make the UJ period significantly shorter. As I see it, there are two groups of users now, those who view new submissions solely through the UJ/Portal section, or those who view new submissions solely through Latest. Other than protecting a chunk of users from malicious entries, the split content view seems a bit needless IMHO.

It's a contentious problem, has been since Tom split the movies and games up.. but I can understand why: to compete with YouTube and YouPron type layouts. Other user submitted content sites, have ridden the coat-tails of Newgrounds success easily, but at the cost of the human touch. What makes Newgrounds special, is the vetting of content, by it's users... and that's a tough sell considering the competition (which new users are most familiar with).

Just this year, there has been a paradigm shift in the internet as a whole. WOW has lost over a million subscribers to free online games, portable/phone apps are outpacing 4:3 or 16:9 PC monitor usage, McDonalds is reporting no growth; "...it's the economy, stupid!" Plus the internet is more fun when you can just show someone IRL, "Look at this video/game/app/picture", instead of inviting them home to do so.

At 5/8/13 01:58 PM, TomFulp wrote: Please check out A Small Favor on Kickstarter. Newgrounds sponsored the web versions of this series and would love to see it go all the way as a big PC / Mac / Mobile game.

It still looks like a longshot, but I pray they make it!! A quality game that's fun and safe for all ages is worthy goal indeed!

Voting is really important because our judgment process has been moving pretty slow lately. Thank you everyone who contributes to the voting process; your votes have a big impact on not just where new entries place, but how efficiently our judgment process runs!

Yyyyeah, the people who need to hear this, aren't listening (or reading the newsposts). They're just posting content, and scurrying back to YouTube or wherever, to see how many more followers they can get. I don't think it would be unreasonable for you to mass PM a short statement, say, once a month, to any and all contributors/uploaders. Or just add a statement right before the user can submit the content, to vote on other peoples stuff.. since their submission also depends on votes to pass the Under Judgement phase, dammit.
Maybe if the drop down menu for games and movies were ordered differently, linearly (UJ, latest, greatest..), it might have an impact. For a good long while, the "Classic" Portal, was the main area of activity here. By side-lining that page, new and old users alike can't get a grip of the incoming action, unless they go to that page. Maybe by reordering the drop-down menus, and lowering the amount of views/votes, we can deal with the overly casual user.... those dabblers of already rated content ._.

At 5/7/13 08:12 AM, ForNoReason wrote:

At 5/6/13 02:38 PM, Luis wrote: I enjoyed pico day, thanks to everyone that came out. I'll try not to kiss so many men next time. it was the booty juice.

also first post.

I missed out on booty juice AND Luis' kisses?

Can't get enough o' that stuff....

At 5/6/13 03:30 PM, homersimpson102 wrote: tom fulp fix the portal my flash took 34 hours to pass i counted

Did it pass? Or did you delete it? The Portal gets swamped, just like the internet does. After 5PM, especially Friday, there's a glut of content uploaded here. If you're a producer of content, you have to submit your work when there are few games and movies still under judgement.

When your car's due for inspection, do you wait the last few days of the month, when everyone else is on line? Take a look at the Classic Portal before you upload your work, or face the wait!

At 4/29/13 09:58 AM, TomFulp wrote:

Voting for the Best of April will begin on Wednesday as well!

Whoops, almost forgot, since the ballot wasn't there waiting for me, after I read this news post 2 days ago.

At 4/28/13 01:34 PM, paulmcdonald wrote: I noticed, no ads play when people upload movies that aren't .swfs. What's up with that? Is there a way to put ads in regular video files when uploaded to this site? Or only through the NPI stuff on swfs?

There does seem to be an unequal ad-favoritism towards Flash... but even in-game Flash ads have to approved by staff here (or so I was told). PM Tom about this. Do you already have the ad-rev application page filled out and submitted?

At 4/30/13 11:48 AM, Sentoryu wrote: I'm really sorry if you find this topic not interesting. It just bothers me to see unfaved submissions going in the fave list.
I hope you'll understand.

From the screencap you put up.. it looks like submissions Tom approved for html5, or had Tom listed in the clickable credits..
I had a similar problem with some of the submissions you received, and relayed my info to the Elite Guard Barracks, and that's what they told me was going on.... but if you never faved Tom Fulp.. then how are you getting these submissions on your list?
NG staff really need to meet more often, to stay on the same page...