At 7/5/09 04:09 PM, DevilDog016 wrote: you will see that a ready-built PC is much more expensive, mainly because the manufacturers slap a sizeable tax on it, just because "it's built by us and we know how to snap on a few parts".

It is not a "tax", it is called a profit margin. Do you expect for companies to build computers and sell them to you at cost?

If a phone is not made by Apple, Research in Motion, or Nokia; throw it out.

At 6/28/09 03:57 PM, Bahamut wrote: I'll be going to hospital to have my right eye examined after the opticians telling me I might have Keratoconus. I can't say if I definitely have it, but I'll go in tomorrow and see what the outcome will be. That is what I've been wondering since I got the appointment booked, so hopefully everything will be fine when I go in.

I hope all is well. Eyesight is obviously very serious yet many neglect to visit their eye doctor on a regular basis. Poor eyesight and eye complications run in my family so I visit my eye doctor at least once a year. Again, I hope everything turns out OK!

I would love to see the education stats...

I have been using XP with a Vista shell and OS X dock for two years now. Welcome to the 21st century.

Time for me to catchup on some recently released games and those precious medal points!

At 6/12/09 09:48 PM, JJgamer93 wrote:

At 6/12/09 09:14 PM, LazyPint wrote: 19) I can name all four Beetles.

You spelled the "Beatles" wrong!

Unless you meant like, 4 types of the insect beetles?

Actually there are more beetles than any other type of insect.

At 6/5/09 03:37 PM, SlipperyMooseCakes wrote: Rating System

Minor upgrade but an essential one. I am looking forward to this ala the iTunes store when trying to find good content.

Drive the various cars in the in-door parking garage and mow down some zombies! You can even earn an achievement for 50,000+ "kills" but it must be in one in-game 72 hour session.

At 6/1/09 03:02 PM, DirtySyko wrote: Plus, the whole presentation about it, the games they showed, just looked really fucking lame. College dudes, people my age, they just won't get into it as much as others. But, parents might eat it up and kids may love it.

You just described the market that the 360 already appeals to. Now the 360 will take all of Nintendo's market as well.

Holy crap the real motion sensor is a game changer.

How can people justify using the crappy wii nunchuck after this launches?

METAL GEAR SOLID RISING ON XBOX 360.

CONSOLE WAR OVER.

Anyone who claims that a gamecube or wii version of a zelda game is superior to either of the N64 or SNES versions auto-fails.

At 5/28/09 09:14 AM, TomFulp wrote: We aren't changing the layout for widescreen monitors. NG's current layout was made for 800x600, when just about every website nowadays is made for 1024. Our layout is getting smaller and smaller on most computers, not just people who have widescreen monitors. We would have gone wide with the last redesign but that redesign started in 2005 and there were still enough 800x600 users that we didn't want to alienate. Nowadays, the whole web is geared at 1024 and we're behind the times.

Tom, thanks for the personalized response. I currently use the web "standard" of 1024 and I agree that making the change would be for the best.

At 5/28/09 12:23 AM, Kajenx wrote: The wide layout is great, I don't understand why people would like the old play button better. Now I can send people to flash here and they won't be like "How do I play it?"

If you friends cannot understand what a big button labeled "PLAY THIS GAME!", then its time to get some new, intelligent friends.

At 5/27/09 07:16 PM, TomFulp wrote: For those of you who simply don't like the aesthetic of the skinny header on top of a wide body, consider this a temporary step as we move towards a new wide site layout.

Thank you very much for the option. I hope that I was one of the constructive criticizers rather than another poster coming off as a complainer.

I fall into the camp of not a fan of the skinny header with wide body but I understand that it is temporary. I must ask why do you believe the change to widescreen is so necessary right now? I realize that it would be a nice change but I do not believe that wide screen monitors and submissions are the norm right now.

At 5/27/09 12:31 AM, PsychoGoldfish wrote: But who cares about the facts and research... right? Change is BAD!

I will admit that you made some legitimate (and oft repeated points); however, you presented none of the mentioned "facts [or] research". Instead, you based your entire post off of your personal experiences with friends. If you were to present a factual rational with your research methodology, then I would be much more likely to support this initiative. In its current state, it is an unacceptable attempt to boost ad revenue at the expense of the community.

At 5/26/09 10:39 PM, Gateau wrote:

Oh wow, so I guess you were complaining when the other redesigns were done as well right?

I have been on NG for a LONG TIME and I have seen many different designs but this is the first one that I have adamantly opposed. The new display is both awkward and broken.

It is obvious that NG is trying to drive traffic to the site which is fine, but it needs to do so in a much less obtrusive manner. If you want movies to autoplay ala youtube, there needs to be a way to pause or stop the movies. This is nonnegotiable.

I am sure that it would be automatically deleted if there are an obscenities in the email.

At 5/26/09 09:22 PM, xenonmonkey wrote: when was the last time you ever saw an '02 user on the forums?

<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Today.

Topic solved.

Absolutely hate the changes. This might drive me away from the flash portal if stays like this much longer.

The changes are ugly at best, dysfunctional at worst. Hopefully things are reverted in the next day.

iPhone or no phone.

I just started reading the graphic novel yesterday and I am really enjoying it. The Dr. Manhattan background chapter is amazing. I am looking forward to finishing the novel, then watching the DVD.

I skimmed the last few pages and I did not see that anyone posted this one:

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/49 6147#

Could I be the first to find a new medal? I hope so!

At 5/19/09 07:16 AM, Maxib0y wrote:

At 5/18/09 04:52 PM, zimzap wrote: Pretty obvious photoshop.

That's funny, because it isn't photoshopped. Sir.

Okay, then I wish it were because it is sign that the game will suck.

At 5/21/09 04:13 PM, TB1ZZL3 wrote: A damn fine job on the SF Collab.

Definitely worth the wait.

Agreed 100%. I just finished watching them all and the vast majority were hilarious.

Laptop Gun from Perfect Dark.

At 5/18/09 07:06 PM, The-Omnipresence wrote: So the front page won't be populated by a bunch of Earthbound threads? I never thought I see the day.

Earthbound is infitely better than the majority of the topics on this forum.

Also, I really hate the "i need a free mmropg to play" topics.

Pretty obvious photoshop.

At 5/18/09 04:28 PM, DirtySyko wrote: And I don't mean the video game >:(

I mean I'm going to start deleting a lot more topics than I currently do. It may not seem like it, since I'm sure you guys run into so many shit topics and think "Why the hell hasn't this been deleted yet?" But really, I delete a good amount of crap here on any given day, which is ridiculous since this forum doesn't move very quickly.

I have pretty much stopped visiting this forum because of the utter crap/fanboy posts that are becoming far too frequent so I am happy to hear this. I would have to assume that the topic of video games brings out far too many immature 14 year old children; therefore, the low quality of topics.

I wish you luck, I am sure that you will need it.